Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/October 2008

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 1


 * 1) Reconstructor and Graphical Chroot?
 * 2) Winamp tags
 * 3) A Template Metaprogram for the Ackermann Function
 * 4) Regular Expression for...
 * 5) IP subnet mask
 * 6) to write a complex program on multiplication
 * 7) Edit "Open With" context menu in Windows Explorer
 * 8) games in laptop
 * 9) Tablet  PC
 * 10) Wikipedia on iPod
 * 11) Which Linux distro should I install on Parallels?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 2


 * 1) monitor driver issues after reformat
 * 2) Windows ME
 * 3) Excel VBA question
 * 4) Dual booting linux and windows
 * 5) Is there a street atlas with municipal borders on the web?
 * 6) Norton 360

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 3


 * 1) Virtualization
 * 2) Forwarding in Firefox and IExplorer
 * 3) about array in VB
 * 4) Wrong Address on Google
 * 5) Just curious about website domain names

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 4


 * 1) Where's that picture of the Mac-laptop-filled auditorium-style classroom?
 * 2) Ancient Computer...Ancient Games?
 * 3) Youtube access
 * 4) GoogleTalk Error - The Handle is Invalid
 * 5) Uninstall

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 5


 * 1) Searching Process Memory
 * 2) Yahoo Answers
 * 3) Changing colours
 * 4) SQL plus 8.0

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 6


 * 1) Graphing Equations on Office
 * 2) CD-R Disks
 * 3) error codes
 * 4) Possible data sharing problems within a homework
 * 5) Easiest route JPEG to PDF
 * 6) Slashes
 * 7) Too lazy to experiment ....
 * 8) un-sudo?
 * 9) Virus destroying hard disk
 * 10) IM spam

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 7


 * 1) Connecting to my port 8080
 * 2) Locking
 * 3) Attack of the Undead boot.ini file!
 * 4) Office 2007 instalation issues
 * 5) From Live CD to real life
 * 6) Saving iPhone SMS messages?
 * 7) High-gloss laptop screen
 * 8) Playing certain CDs on my stereo causes them to have a vinyl-esque crackling and pop
 * 9) e-paper
 * 10) Cell phone/mobile phone.
 * 11) Server issues
 * 12) First cable companies
 * 13) Language Bar changing languages
 * 14) Add startup programs on Ubuntu

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 8


 * 1) I have seup my own wiki, but I cannot edit any page (solved)
 * 2) Finding all IPs affected by a range block
 * 3) Java Hashset look up
 * 4) Tor
 * 5) Controllable animations...?
 * 6) Thunderbird On Mac
 * 7) five advantages of open loop control system
 * 8) Making ringtones
 * 9) InvisionFree or phpBB3?
 * 10) Fast DVD copier
 * 11) Online shopping project
 * 12) RealPlayer 11 on Ubuntu 8.10?

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 9


 * 1) Shipping
 * 2) New file system on Windows
 * 3) Help installing LinuxMCE
 * 4) global village
 * 5) graphic cards
 * 6) .net Framework
 * 7) CR-RW problems
 * 8) Writing CDs and DVDs on a MacBook

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 10


 * 1) Spyware
 * 2) how to change from alphabet to ascii code?
 * 3) Converting ClearSpace markup to MediaWiki
 * 4) Scanning banknotes
 * 5) Laptop Downloading Woes
 * 6) Ubuntu download as VMware virtual machine, VMware tools preinstalled
 * 7) Why memory segmentation?
 * 8) Self-Replicating Program
 * 9) "See what I did there?"

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 11


 * 1) Web Programming Question
 * 2) Mouse problems.
 * 3) Markup language for desktop frontend ?
 * 4) Linux kernel
 * 5) Strange symbols on webpages
 * 6) JAVA PROGRAM(Test1 of  Computer Science)
 * 7) MHTML
 * 8) Auto-Refresh?

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 12


 * 1) Cryptographic hash in less than O(n)
 * 2) Google 2001 and phrases
 * 3) Firefox: Predict my URL please, but not a whole bunch of nonsense
 * 4) ASP.NET: <%# %>
 * 5) gnome 2.24
 * 6) Linux: inline text editing
 * 7) Versatile Flash Animation Software
 * 8) Vista track number help
 * 9) Weird browser glitch?
 * 10) Keyboard Problem
 * 11) Is Wikipedia Having a MELT-DOWN?!
 * 12) Ignoring Users on YouTube

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 13


 * 1) Is Windows 7 being released so soon because of the criticisms about Windows Vista?
 * 2) What file types benefit most from defragmentation?
 * 3) Qwerty vs Dvorak: why no scientific evaluation?
 * 4) Free web hosting request
 * 5) Is there a place to request features for Windows?
 * 6) Good Proxy?
 * 7) Make Live USB image with Mondo Rescue

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 14


 * 1) Making a different email client the default in IE
 * 2) Excel VBA query
 * 3) Secure Password
 * 4) Extracting *.rar files in Mac OSX
 * 5) directional ethernet cable?
 * 6) SMS services that support Primus Canada?
 * 7) What would be the best WiFi technology for a very busy and large house/office?
 * 8) Is there a relative to Flash in GNU & Linux?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 15


 * 1) Power Supply
 * 2) OS X Finder: just one window at a time
 * 3) Anti-Aliasing in XP Service Pack 3
 * 4) Cpython and Jython?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 16


 * 1) Youtube
 * 2) Wireless Network w/o Modem
 * 3) Executable Jar File
 * 4) using vista
 * 5) website
 * 6) Canon scanner functionality with Windows XP embedded
 * 7) USB
 * 8) EXCEL MACROS
 * 9) Build my own laptop/desktop
 * 10) alternatives to COLSPAN
 * 11) Scatterplots in Excel
 * 12) True Transperency - Linux
 * 13) Tunneling usb traffic on Linux

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 17


 * 1) Error
 * 2) HTML question
 * 3) Mediawiki template problem
 * 4) assigning variables in class declaration (outside methods)
 * 5) HTML form: unchecked value
 * 6) moving websites
 * 7) Skype
 * 8) Thunderbird Junk
 * 9) Is the open source Java spelling API "Jazzy" dead? What about the alternatives?
 * 10) Sync phone with Google Calendar
 * 11) Youtube Insight demographic and gender identification
 * 12) scjp1.5 certification
 * 13) Java problem
 * 14) Home Network - Extension from question above
 * 15) previewing pages in Internet Explorer
 * 16) Location of Mac system updates when downloading/Privilege problems in System Update

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 18


 * 1) protocol
 * 2) Computer language difficulty
 * 3) Heat sink
 * 4) Power Supply, Part 2
 * 5) Mirror my Routers
 * 6) security expert
 * 7) Neo Office Help (Question Change)
 * 8) Semantic web
 * 9) Font is different on wikipedia only
 * 10) Wireless Connection Troubleshooting
 * 11) Domain problem
 * 12) Performance Comparison between single core and dual core processors
 * 13) pow in c

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 19


 * 1) Research Project
 * 2) How to make a glossy computer screen matte?
 * 3) New phone, crap battery life
 * 4) Modem Problems
 * 5) "Ask your network administrator"?
 * 6) Using an AirPort Express as a wireless bridge for a NAS-device
 * 7) Blown-Up Screen Display
 * 8) Defination of diffrent words
 * 9) Adblock Plus
 * 10) Steve Jobs
 * 11) Privacy: do emails reveal my IP address?
 * 12) transient in Java

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 20


 * 1) Xbox 360-Ubuntu tethering
 * 2) data compression
 * 3) Shareware
 * 4) Can you subscribe by email to a RSS Wordpress blog?
 * 5) Hotmail account possibly hacked?
 * 6) Nero 8 Cover Designer
 * 7) Virus
 * 8) Big O notation

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 21


 * 1) Booting Windows XP off of ext
 * 2) Help finding Adobe software
 * 3) .rar file
 * 4) IE Keeps crashing/ Hanging when loading into Wikipedia
 * 5) 8800 GS not working in Bootcamp (iMac).
 * 6) Excel 2007
 * 7) Opinions on keyboard w/o separate number pads?
 * 8) Different web addresses with same target
 * 9) Floppy drive necessary these days?
 * 10) Neo Office Help
 * 11) Collision detection
 * 12) design and logo,s
 * 13) Dual pointers in windows
 * 14) communicating between two windows with Javascript

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 22


 * 1) Semantic web again!
 * 2) Stata plugins
 * 3) Driver installation problem
 * 4) Time Machine
 * 5) Syncing my iPod
 * 6) I got a blue flashing screen
 * 7) Scrolling news display
 * 8) Free software
 * 9) Restoring order of Microsoft Excel Database
 * 10) Tables in Neo Office

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 23


 * 1) Anyone know of any free software that will actually clone a hard from from one to another, not just create an image file?
 * 2) Quicker way to add placemarks on Google Earth
 * 3) phones
 * 4) 64-bit Rootkits
 * 5) IP Address
 * 6) Thunderbird is lying to me!
 * 7) .ck
 * 8) aac audio codec
 * 9) PayRoll Problem
 * 10) uservalidation in c
 * 11) Quicker way to add placemarks on Google Earth
 * 12) Backup Hardware suggestions
 * 13) Laptop issue
 * 14) Free/open source DXF / DWG to SVG converter?

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 24


 * 1) IRC block
 * 2) Anyone know of any free software that will actually clone a hard from from one to another, not just create an image file?
 * 3) Find parent folder of Windows Vista programs?
 * 4) Question about modems and Internet problems
 * 5) A simple, free and easy to use program for video conversion to Ipod compatibilty?
 * 6) Nuked permissions in XP Pro SP3

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 25


 * 1) There is any computer program that finds the Least common multiple and Greatest common divisor???
 * 2) USB cord and iPod problems
 * 3) Text Messages AUTOMATICALLY FORWARDED to email
 * 4) files between each compuetsr
 * 5) OpenOffice.org 3 repository?
 * 6) Scalability of Linux
 * 7) teachnology and communication world
 * 8) Java IO
 * 9) Downloading a Perl Script
 * 10) Clicking "Safely Remove Hardware" disconnects from Internet

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 26


 * 1) Work and privacy
 * 2) Firefox Favorites
 * 3) Computer mouse
 * 4) Laptop LCD Problem
 * 5) Bridging routers with a cable
 * 6) iPod without iTunes
 * 7) Evil WMP 11 and monitored folders
 * 8) XP - Programs crash on startup
 * 9) cd stuck in macbook

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 27


 * 1) Program to stitch PNG files (frames) into a movie.
 * 2) Search engine indexing
 * 3) A PROBLEM IN C++ [COMPUTER PROGRAM]
 * 4) Logging Program
 * 5) Norton Antivirus question
 * 6) Video and audio editing
 * 7) MSN on outlook
 * 8) Converting .SWF video into h264 .M4V or Quicktime?
 * 9) Recommendations for a good Mac forum to join
 * 10) I disabled services I shouldn't have and can't start them again...
 * 11) Startup prob on Mac!

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 28


 * 1) How to do this in the command line...? (Ubuntu)
 * 2) Dumb question re: MacBook hard drives
 * 3) D Programming Language
 * 4) Stopping Excel from minimizing sheets
 * 5) Roaring Fan on Dell XPS
 * 6) trapping a generic keydown event in C#
 * 7) CAD and 3D softwares
 * 8) Team Communication
 * 9) TI-89 Assembly-Language Programming
 * 10) BlackBerry SIM cards (solved)
 * 11) Linux keyboard logger
 * 12) Mutation in computer viruses

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 29


 * 1) about wikipedia
 * 2) what is strategic procurement ?
 * 3) Mac Installation
 * 4) Network printers compatible with PS3
 * 5) Stacking transparent GIFs using CSS
 * 6) changing motherboard on dell vostro 1400 laptop
 * 7) BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD OMGWTFBBQ!!!!
 * 8) SFRIO600.DLL
 * 9) Search for one type of Wikipedia templates
 * 10) should I make an old swap partition fat32 or ntfs?
 * 11) help desk assignment

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 30


 * 1) Completely copying hdd
 * 2) Singularity functions in Ti-89/84+
 * 3) Multi touch in XP
 * 4) Computer Won't Even Turn On!
 * 5) WEBSPHERE DEVELOPER
 * 6) Visual .net remotely asess user

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 31


 * 1) Headphones
 * 2) fstab permissions
 * 3) USB
 * 4) Open office writer problems!
 * 5) crappy keyboard probs
 * 6) Help! Can't log onto Internet on my laptop.
 * 7) Finding Errors in Excel
 * 8) iPlayer
 * 9) Reaching localhost when I am offline
 * 10) Phantom Drive Labels in Vista
 * 11) suppressing a page with nothing on it
 * 12) Is it possible with XUL?
 * 13) Random counting/picking
 * 14) Google question
 * 15) where do people learn Oracle?
 * 16) Google