Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/September 2009

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 1


 * 1) Browsers loading blank pages
 * 2) Capturing music.
 * 3) How to turn off automatic numbering of lists of paragraphs in Open Office Writer
 * 4) GUI Design
 * 5) What is the current gold-standard text for Windows C programming?
 * 6) Flash player on IE
 * 7) Setting background picture in Windows
 * 8) Mobile Phone Security
 * 9) Visual C++ Runtime Library Error

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 2


 * 1) Question (Hacking, legality, private_website)
 * 2) Annoying browser issue
 * 3) Cheapest cell-phone/PDA with keyboard, mp3 player, UMTS and wi-fi
 * 4) Changing video resolution under programmatic control (C/C++) via Windows API
 * 5) mobilephonebased learning
 * 6) using cassettes for data?
 * 7) If I click on the X in the upper right corner can I get my work back?
 * 8) How to determine a website's service provider
 * 9) USB over ethernet, or other soultion that will work as a window service.
 * 10) Manipulating the console in Python...

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 3


 * 1) iPod launching iTunes
 * 2) I didn't send these emails.
 * 3) XFX Nvidia Geforce or XFX ATI Radeon
 * 4) Testing something on IE6
 * 5) Languages of the Internet
 * 6) Freeware to manually sort a large group of photos
 * 7) 3g mobile dongle top up...hidden costs in uk?
 * 8) Slow loading websites

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 4


 * 1) Alpha on Mac OS X keyboard
 * 2) RTMP streams and VLC
 * 3) Debian Kernel Help
 * 4) how to make the best of out of USB stick?
 * 5) Graphics card choice
 * 6) Post-fuse insertion?
 * 7) Static discharge and electronic devices
 * 8) Minesweeper
 * 9) AT&T ad
 * 10) Converting Win98 program to Windows Vista 64-bit compatibility
 * 11) Graphics card on motherboard

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 5


 * 1) E-mail
 * 2) Importing bookmarks from Firefox into Opera
 * 3) Excel 2007 being absolutely dense
 * 4) Importing sound files to Scratch
 * 5) Windows Problems
 * 6) Linux cp of home directories
 * 7) three way merge sort
 * 8) Tracing travel route on map
 * 9) home networking, what equipment do i need?
 * 10) Writing Guidelines
 * 11) Searching in Google - what is "clients1.google.co.uk"?

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 6


 * 1) SQL server problem
 * 2) Intel E4300 vs. Intel T3400
 * 3) What redirects here?
 * 4) Copying text from an Acrobat Reader PDF document
 * 5) Microsoft Excel Mode function
 * 6) MPEG-2 and AVCHD Video Files
 * 7) Sites - copyright

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 7


 * 1) Fonts
 * 2) Mac on PC
 * 3) int in C++
 * 4) DV handycam
 * 5) Can Wikipedia please add a 'share' facility for Facebook and myspace users etc?
 * 6) Binding application window to a particular monitor
 * 7) GIMP/PSD text layer problem
 * 8) powerpoint
 * 9) System freezes with nvidia geforce 9800
 * 10) Symptoms of processor overheating
 * 11) Ubuntu
 * 12) External drives that appear to be internal

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 8


 * 1) Algorithmns to measure how closely two short sections of text match
 * 2) Wikipedia
 * 3) Turn the Windows search index off
 * 4) Vision client
 * 5) php html
 * 6) Screenshots From Games
 * 7) Processor comparison

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 9


 * 1) help me make my keyboard quiet please?
 * 2) Installing Minitab
 * 3) Software to make image of contours from grid of data
 * 4) Overlaying semi-transparantly on another image to make final image
 * 5) Archive request script
 * 6) Live Player
 * 7) Make a touch screen using a webcam.
 * 8) Delete file - access denied windows XP
 * 9) Torrent problem
 * 10) Blue area moving
 * 11) Boolean addition/subtraction in C++
 * 12) Replacing a macbook hard drive
 * 13) Mac v. PC
 * 14) Web emails
 * 15) Back up my computer

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 10


 * 1) Youtube
 * 2) realistic images
 * 3) Mobile dictionary
 * 4) Website Hosting Provider
 * 5) Looking for a paper forms designer
 * 6) Which side of printer paper best to print on - shiny side or matt side?
 * 7) BASIC-like languages to use on a PDA and a PC
 * 8) Cheap and safe batteries for my TI_89 Titanium
 * 9) PC  problems
 * 10) TVs as Monitors
 * 11) Darkening a PDF file
 * 12) Partitioning and dual-booting
 * 13) Software diversity and the spread of malware
 * 14) Spinning and spinning

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 11


 * 1) Camera Angles on Company Of Heroes
 * 2) Win on Mac is ok, Mac on PC = lawsuit, why?
 * 3) Yahoo homepage
 * 4) DNS servers needed
 * 5) Mobile phone colour
 * 6) cmmi level 3
 * 7) Matlab function input query
 * 8) Excel printing problem
 * 9) MIDs, tablets, android...
 * 10) All Keys
 * 11) about absolute decoding technique
 * 12) Is there anyway to get Google to do a literal search?
 * 13) CAD-TV channels
 * 14) Intel Pentium Dual Core compared to  Intel Core 2 ?
 * 15) BIOS Password
 * 16) Windows 7
 * 17) Copying large files without overloading the processor

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 12


 * 1) Producing an optimal route on Google Maps
 * 2) Country Specific Versions of MSN
 * 3) MIDI playback in Python with real time MIDI events?
 * 4) What does writing 'this' mean?
 * 5) Disc CleanUp

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 13


 * 1) Combat Flight Simulator
 * 2) Make a sound play every time a key is pressed.
 * 3) Easy Itertive Fractals For Windows
 * 4) MacBook Pro Charging
 * 5) MyWebSearch - how to get rid of it?
 * 6) Displaying sound
 * 7) Name of PCB material?
 * 8) Financial functions in excel
 * 9) CSS Image Fade

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 14


 * 1) FRACTALS
 * 2) Is a really old Webroot Spy Sweeper of any use?
 * 3) Printing Hotmail emails: tiny text, no word wrapping
 * 4) Single character key doesn't work
 * 5) Cursor turns into spinning circle on top of Geejo's name
 * 6) Java References

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 15


 * 1) Scalability of two-tier versus three-tier architectures
 * 2) Installing Pygame on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
 * 3) Escrow for virtual items either items from games or computer code?
 * 4) Converting between SVY21 and WGS84 Coordination system
 * 5) db2 and sql
 * 6) The history and architecture of the ARM microprocessors
 * 7) History glitch in Internet Explorer 8?
 * 8) JAVA repaint problem
 * 9) Websites That Will Translate Letters -- Not Just Text From The Internet

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 16


 * 1) Quick Java question
 * 2) Google Chrome: Recent Bookmarks bar
 * 3) Remote Desktop Server
 * 4) norton vs avast
 * 5) Computerisation of the Nigerian Judicial System
 * 6) Learning the R statistical language - any statistical textbooks that use R?
 * 7) System freezing because of RAM ?

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 17


 * 1) Editing MIMEs in Firefox 3.5?
 * 2) Mouse Focus & Installing Software Under Security Measures
 * 3) Firefox Plug to Download Every Web Page Visited?
 * 4) Automatic switch on
 * 5) Browser 3d
 * 6) memtest86 on CD
 * 7) Command promt
 * 8) document.getElementsBy
 * 9) Minitab Learning?
 * 10) RAM question
 * 11) How much does it cost to start a wiki?
 * 12) AJAX vs. jQuery?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 18


 * 1) Where did my question go?
 * 2) CAESAR piping software
 * 3) Reference desk talk page
 * 4) Itunes
 * 5) Telephone/Voice Mail Oddity
 * 6) Why is C++ faster than MATLAB?
 * 7) Appscene
 * 8) Contributors sued, assaulted?
 * 9) Problem sending e-mails after Verizon blocked port 25
 * 10) 4 gb ram but showing 3 gb ram
 * 11) Compatible Board(s) for Processor "Q9400"
 * 12) Diagrams on TCP/IP and IMPs/TIPs
 * 13) Geejo strikes again!
 * 14) Downloading fonts

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 19


 * 1) Hacking a registry that isn't running
 * 2) BIOS password
 * 3) No. of notebooks in Pakistan (How Many?)
 * 4) Tiled images
 * 5) Pingler
 * 6) Algorithmn to space cars along road segments?
 * 7) Facebook moble texts
 * 8) Ship of Theseus
 * 9) "Beep" command makes my computer case beep!

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 20


 * 1) Visual basic express edition coundown program
 * 2) Problem with external hard drive
 * 3) Interet keeps crashing...
 * 4) Java hacking book?
 * 5) Add a new application
 * 6) The Bank of England has got MUMPS
 * 7) Very easy to learn english-like and other computer languages
 * 8) Programming Lanuage Selection
 * 9) Using the speed of USB 2.0 to record several audio tracks separately
 * 10) Is my University using a NAT network

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 21


 * 1) Vista sidebar and a blue tint
 * 2) Trouble with Java
 * 3) Many windows opening very fast, screen flickering very fast
 * 4) Change the page title in firefox, with greasemonkey
 * 5) Extract WAV sound from AVI video
 * 6) Windows Vista hijacks my programs
 * 7) File times changes when copying between hard drives
 * 8) S3 as file backup
 * 9) PS2 to USB adapter for keyboard
 * 10) Direct communication between PCs

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 22


 * 1) twilight/ vampire tales in byron bay refuge?
 * 2) Mozilla Firefox
 * 3) Lockerz.com, what's the deal?
 * 4) GPGPU and integer performance

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 23


 * 1) How do you quickly familiarize yourself with code written by someone else?
 * 2) Charging Li-on batteries
 * 3) HELP with my rogers phone to a new one im supposed to get!!
 * 4) MathML support in Mozilla Firefox
 * 5) EasyCap 2.0 USB problem
 * 6) Charging my laptop
 * 7) Is this code unbreakable?
 * 8) Commodore 64 to a modern TV?
 * 9) VPN, certificates, and CAs
 * 10) open modem
 * 11) On the economics of free software
 * 12) Removing "Personal Antivirus" trojan

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 24


 * 1) Does Microsoft Office 2007 product activation keep track of uninstallations?
 * 2) UNIX dd command
 * 3) Password vault for OS X
 * 4) Apple filing system; changing search sort parameters from last opened to date modified
 * 5) How To Find Out When A User Last Logged In To A PC On Win XP?
 * 6) Choise of motherboard (ASUS P5Q-EM Motherboard)
 * 7) Download some pages, links and content from Wikipedia
 * 8) Espon P-4000 and Linux?
 * 9) Processor failure or something more benign?

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 25


 * 1) Dual Quad Core i7 possible?
 * 2) True Crime nyc  ps2 - editing
 * 3) Macbook broken screen, please help
 * 4) recovery shutdown
 * 5) Recovering Last Session After a Crash on Firefox and a Dumb Mistake
 * 6) replace only new and updated files
 * 7) Inkspace
 * 8) How did they disable the back button?
 * 9) UDP and throttling
 * 10) More about accessing a 1541 from a modern PC

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 26


 * 1) Strange things happening to Windows XP clock.
 * 2) Two fold laptop question - struggling m9750 Alienware laptop
 * 3) How to stop OpenOffice writer from splitting words at the ends of lines?
 * 4) Best way to create small simple single-user no-frills database by non-programmer?
 * 5) Looking for imageSorter2004V1.3.zip

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 27


 * 1) Emulator for running Windows Mobile apps on PC
 * 2) MIDI interface
 * 3) Google tracking my web visits
 * 4) Windows Resetting Defaults
 * 5) New speakers
 * 6) Internet
 * 7) Bridge connection question
 * 8) Vista sidebar gadget
 * 9) "Wirelessness" with Dell Inspiron 1545
 * 10) Basic Java Question
 * 11) Adobe Flash Player/Firefox timeout setting
 * 12) Update script
 * 13) Study Question
 * 14) indenting on word 2002

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 28


 * 1) Safari vs. Google Chrome
 * 2) Old Microsoft Attempt At Making Their Products More Reliable
 * 3) Window/ Dialog box cut off at right side and bottom
 * 4) Recording Yahoo Messenger Voice calls / conversations
 * 5) There is any web search engine that let me search more than 32 words??
 * 6) Software for side notes
 * 7) Turing test for virtual reality
 * 8) Search term request
 * 9) History glitch in Internet Explorer 8?
 * 10) Purchasing an Ethernet cable
 * 11) Making a video
 * 12) Studies of WP vandalism
 * 13) My Yahoo email nightmare continues
 * 14) String as linked list in .NET
 * 15) A good web-application builder?
 * 16) computer -- suggestion
 * 17) Look for a FIRST-GLANCE CLEAR SET bytes CONVERTING  TABLE KB-MB-GB-TB    [computer -- suggestion]
 * 18) share of CMOS  in computer booting119.152.28.135 (talk) 22:46, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 19) Can Python do database things easily?
 * 20) Which mainstream languages are the most compact?

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 29


 * 1) Cannot edit in K-Meleon?
 * 2) Be it resolved...
 * 3) How To Get Google Search Results To Only Show Results Which Include Every Word In The Search Terms....
 * 4) Flaming
 * 5) Video of computer monitor
 * 6) Memtest working too fast
 * 7) Other messengers?
 * 8) iPod Touch Current Location Malfunction

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 30


 * 1) Mindspark search engine
 * 2) Quick C question
 * 3) Why is license agreement popping up every time I start Photoshop or other adobe programs???
 * 4) Update script, part 2
 * 5) ln -s not supported
 * 6) Parallel ports and Linux kernel drivers
 * 7) Software To Find Out What's Hogging All The Space On My Disk.
 * 8) memorex mini traveldrive MS-DOS boot problem
 * 9) Blackberry Daylight Saving Time problem
 * 10) XFX or Gigabyte (motherboard)