Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/September 2011

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 1


 * 1) Acrobat bug or feature?
 * 2) Can't add a font on a Mac
 * 3) Nice programming language to play with?
 * 4) Is Microsoft Office shareware?
 * 5) HTPC servers
 * 6) Excel Macro
 * 7) Where to start with creating graphics?
 * 8) Searching files

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 2


 * 1) XPS to Text
 * 2) Twitter widget search tweets from specific account
 * 3) Recent Activity on Your Facebook Wall
 * 4) please help (frame capture from video)
 * 5) formatted mistaken
 * 6) Is there a way to give a program administrator privillages in Windows (like sudo)

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 3


 * 1) Change IE default download folder?
 * 2) Digital Reader
 * 3) removing scratches
 * 4) IP Address and Using a Generic Text Only Printer Over Network
 * 5) Using/converting m2ts files from a camcorder
 * 6) Firefox 4
 * 7) Multiple approximate string matches against a large dictionary

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 4


 * 1) Surge protector for WiFi hub
 * 2) html5 web sockets and wirewalls?
 * 3) Why most of the time the voltage indicator remains on in Fridge?
 * 4) Chess app in IPad 2 ad "Learn"

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 5


 * 1) Maxon MX-2450
 * 2) searching the internet
 * 3) My computer is sluggish in the morning
 * 4) Test my linux computer hardware
 * 5) batch files
 * 6) Windows reinstall disc scratched

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 6


 * 1) Reordering the context menu
 * 2) Firefox 6 freezes
 * 3) Has eBay gotten any better for their users since summer 2007?
 * 4) Why is the C programming language called a middle level language?
 * 5) Snow Leopard Virtual Machine on OS X Lion?
 * 6) Google bombing?
 * 7) Programming an EEPROM
 * 8) Wikipedia article on Google Maps

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 7


 * 1) apt-get
 * 2) FTP Server
 * 3) Why does it take so long for this page to start to scroll?
 * 4) free video editing
 * 5) Getting a profile into search results
 * 6) Are DOIs temporary?
 * 7) Wireless
 * 8) User space article drafts
 * 9) Hitwise data collection
 * 10) phone

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 8


 * 1) How can you help me find my lost phone: A black-cased Sony Ericsson Xperia Play under Verizon's service?
 * 2) Office Professional Plus 2010
 * 3) Financial news formatted to be read by computers
 * 4) How programming languages work
 * 5) How to use a 'Combo box' value as a 'Colmumn name' in a query?
 * 6) S/MIME with ECC
 * 7) This mainboard
 * 8) Firefox 6.02 message
 * 9) Three tower problems
 * 10) Removing mark-up in Linux
 * 11) Free online (no downloading anything) test to see how good one's graphics card is

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 9


 * 1) did will wright design sim city on his own?
 * 2) Aglets - Installation
 * 3) HTML Code cleanup
 * 4) VirtualBox
 * 5) Firefox/Gmail log-in oddness
 * 6) MemoriesOnTV
 * 7) Turning T9 off on a Nokia 1800

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 10


 * 1) Game Programmed in Ruby Over the Internet/Network
 * 2) ram-backed ssd
 * 3) exposed financial information
 * 4) finding a blog post
 * 5) Problem with Gateway LX6810-01 Desktop PC and tuner card

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 11


 * 1) HTML Scrubbed
 * 2) Problem with Whirled website
 * 3) blocked web pages
 * 4) What exactly is an "atomic move"?
 * 5) Malware in link

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 12


 * 1) Support Vector Machine time complexity
 * 2) Skylight Illumination references
 * 3) DVD
 * 4) Best way to extend WiFi signal range in a home
 * 5) image sent from iphone
 * 6) Strange, very old encoding
 * 7) Freezing and hanging of desktop shortcuts

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 13


 * 1) Buying a Kindle Wifi (NOT 3G)
 * 2) ABOUT C,C++ IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING.
 * 3) computer hardware
 * 4) QBasic
 * 5) Windows 7
 * 6) Yabasic
 * 7) PSVita
 * 8) PS3 HDD
 * 9) DDR2
 * 10) Computer Hardware
 * 11) Mind Reading
 * 12) javascript help: after copypasting data from excel/calc into a html textarea
 * 13) sap mm
 * 14) Downloading all Dropbox files and their revisions
 * 15) Broadband

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 14


 * 1) Cable TV
 * 2) Hard Drives
 * 3) Disks the same?
 * 4) Flash drives are going to replace traditional hard drives in about 3 years?
 * 5) What format should I save a C.V. as to make it compatible with XP?
 * 6) RAM
 * 7) free service to monitor a page for changes and e-mail you
 * 8) Returning inverses of time intervals in SQL?
 * 9) InterGlobe Technologies Logo
 * 10) cross platform line breaks
 * 11) Which Linux rescue disc and which prompt?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 15


 * 1) Character entity reference for brackets
 * 2) Warm computers
 * 3) Cross platform shared libraries
 * 4) How to you add support for new video formats to an HTML5-enabled broswer?
 * 5) Partition unallocated unformatted after merging
 * 6) Excel 2007 - Numbers in Cells
 * 7) help me in text speech
 * 8) Remote computer
 * 9) Capturing video from VCR
 * 10) Re-installing Office 2007
 * 11) iPhone
 * 12) Why does a WoW city appear to slow down around me, but not a real-world city?
 * 13) Use HP recovery disk on a Gateway computer?
 * 14) Grabbing graphic images from within a PDF file

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 16


 * 1) rotate an image
 * 2) Analog And Digital Signals
 * 3) Google is getting too "smart"---what can I do about it?
 * 4) Program to activate Hibernation in Windows7
 * 5) Win7 recently opened programs
 * 6) Apartment Door Openers

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 17


 * 1) Signature tracing
 * 2) Lithium-ion battery charger
 * 3) Win7 Behaving Oddly
 * 4) Protecting BIOS flash against modification
 * 5) HTML and Java Plug-ins
 * 6) Magnet in floppy disk drive
 * 7) Free 3D CAD program
 * 8) Trying to play or convert .ogg files?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 18


 * 1) Google alerts and Google Books
 * 2) computer languages
 * 3) Free Windows HTTP server for learning
 * 4) youtube and networks
 * 5) Problem getting PS3 to recognize external HD
 * 6) Wireless Printer
 * 7) Windows 7 explorers jumping back pages

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 19


 * 1) Why HTML content and CSS presentation rather than XML content and XSLT+HTML+CSS presentation?
 * 2) Advice on Upgrading PC for Gaming
 * 3) why do domain registry fees differ so widely?
 * 4) Variable number of nested loops
 * 5) Letterboxing at Lower Resolutions (Win7)
 * 6) Google query
 * 7) video editing
 * 8) computing: python
 * 9) Google Chrome as a CPU hog

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 20


 * 1) Python matrix module
 * 2) Net access for Ubuntu in a virtual box
 * 3) foreign characters when I want English
 * 4) Tax Calculation For An Employee(male/female) in c programming.
 * 5) Computer Age

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 21


 * 1) cable modem problems
 * 2) Administrator rights at my own PC
 * 3) Google's new option
 * 4) best way to create 1080p videos in iMovie
 * 5) Limiting memory usage
 * 6) Visual Basic Express & AVG
 * 7) Printing is a disaster

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 22


 * 1) Making money off game solvers
 * 2) Job scheduler algorithm
 * 3) Command line in Ubuntu without pressing enter
 * 4) Changing appearance of the screen
 * 5) Matlab 'function'
 * 6) cable internet question
 * 7) Video Editing Software

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 23


 * 1) How to write an abstract in LaTeX
 * 2) javascript help: variable of radio button selection
 * 3) Downloading Gmail from corporate account
 * 4) Printing JPEG files in MS Word
 * 5) Machine-assisted translation?

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 24


 * 1) forward slash in filename
 * 2) Downgrading from W7 64-bit to 32-bit
 * 3) transagent font?web pages and fonts...

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 25


 * 1) SQL injection
 * 2) How do one set UTF-8 as default encoding in Notepad (in Windows7)
 * 3) Something's wrong: Deleting texts doesn't free up memory?
 * 4) Learning Web design.
 * 5) How to view folder directory of my Android phone on PC without rooting it?
 * 6) Computing
 * 7) Question Resolved - Webcam video quality
 * 8) Add comments to pictures
 * 9) MBR, fdisk, and other types of boot sectors
 * 10) Chess Word Processing

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 26


 * 1) GNU Octave: Sum of Iterations in for Loop
 * 2) How many UPC bar codes are there?
 * 3) Swreg Problem Please help me
 * 4) network connetion sends packets / receives no packets on hp pavillon windows xp
 * 5) C programming error trouble
 * 6) Windows 7 image deployment
 * 7) Excel
 * 8) Telephone call from "Microsoft support" - Scam or real?
 * 9) Font Wanted
 * 10) WD 31600
 * 11) How do I get Dell Webcam's console to show the special effects again, please?
 * 12) Hyperlinks not opening in Microsoft Excel 2010 for Windows Vista?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 27


 * 1) Javascript on the server side
 * 2) Wireless network on Win 2000 PC
 * 3) query
 * 4) iPod Touch Problem
 * 5) File system to optimize SSD/HDD combo?
 * 6) 2000.00 investment in Roth IRA

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 28


 * 1) dropbox problems
 * 2) dd and /dev/random
 * 3) Ghost spaces
 * 4) Sixteen-segment displays
 * 5) More C programming, different problem
 * 6) Variable number of nested loops in BASIC
 * 7) Font Problem

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 29


 * 1) clip pages from a PDF
 * 2) .com domain names of countries
 * 3) Iteration over an infinite grid
 * 4) are computer font formats vectors?
 * 5) Photo sharing website
 * 6) Dynamic online polling system?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 30


 * 1) How do I edit a template?
 * 2) multiple user e-mail account
 * 3) Wall St. Tickers
 * 4) Privacy and Encryption