Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/September 2008

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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 1

1. Downloading from MyBloop.com
2. Photo
3. Super High-Rez Maps.Google imagery?
4. c programming
5. Google
6. Keyboard Locks Up
7. Data structures
8. Data structures
9. TWO FIREFOX
10. New Keyboard
11. IT qualifications

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 2

1. Audio Fix
2. McBSP I2S interface
3. uTorrent
4. goat skull in motherboard
5. Torrents
6. I'm Confused
7. Blender (software) as CAD tool
8. Want the URL link for C-programming which contains the sample programmes
9. php file uploads
10. Ndiswrapper on Kubuntu

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 3

1. Backing up .wav Files on DVD-R
2. Mobile applications and plug-ins
3. E-mail
4. mobile phones
5. Technology...grr...
6. Mounted filesystem going read-only
7. Default "home page" when opening a browser?
8. webcomic

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 4

1. As Root
2. D:/ doesn't read discs
3. Google Chrome
4. advanced Perl help!
5. Webpage update monitoring
6. Delete Sarah Palin as non-notable!
7. Java
8. 2 YouTube questions
9. How to develop a WIKI portal
10. firewall log
11. Firefox 3 Closing Randomly
12. Uploading files to Google Sites

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 5

1. Online survey websites
2. Proxy server
3. Graphing one variable against another in Open/NeoOffice Calc
4. Code samples when job interviewing?
5. usb hubs
6. Need Advice on buying a laptop!
7. Software glitch; not sure who's responsible
8. Need a javascript bookmark for downforeveryoneorjustme.com please
9. Copy files in Windows
10. How do you track a website visitor's IP range in IPv6 so if they change their IP you can track who uses the same range?
11. Linux dual boot
12. Google chrome and videos
13. Typing vowels with macrons in Linux

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 6

1. OS Kernels
2. iTunes problem
3. Firmware engineering.
4. Typing in Devnagari Alphabet
5. RAZR's water-resistance
6. Rollover images
7. Interview coding tests
8. Dropdown menu coding

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 7

1. Ubuntu problems
2. forgotten phone unlocking code
3. cell phone calls
4. Mozilla 3.0: Switch off search for keywords?
5. PocketPC Unzip Program
6. Google Earth and Ubuntu
7. Microsoft Word 2003 formatting problem
8. Head delay and Firefox bookmarks.
9. Programming for beginers
10. Please help
11. Kerberos on Windows XP
12. IP addresses in DNS servers
13. Uninstalling Windows XP

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 8

1. In firefox (or windows, really), how do I set the option to only have 1 window of a program open at once?
2. Reactivate Windows?
3. File Compression....or Expansion?
4. Firefox version 3.0.1
5. Malwarebytes.org?
6. Google Maps and GPS
7. TIME ZONES ON THE COMPUTER
8. Does Gears of War for PC have copy protection?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 9

1. Linus without login
2. Installation went wrong, it stopped halfway, now I have only 50 % of the files installed and it is impossible both to uninstall AND re-install !
3. Anon proxy with POST & HTTPS
4. Encyclopedia Dramatica hosts file entry
5. Plain text in Eudora
6. Computer Lock (physical)
7. Need advice buying on a laptop
8. Image search
9. Technicolor Effect
10. Squeezing the last from a dying HD
11. Showing owner's name on photo shooting info

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 10

1. graphic design, etc.
2. New computer?
3. E-mail verification
4. Function return array in C?
5. Linpus Linux, Aspire One, etc.
6. WEBSENSE
7. LAN
8. Outlook Express
9. Loading images
10. Virtual CD burner - free
11. Ladder logic diagram software

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 11

1. boot screen gone
2. C library for hash tables and automatically resized arrays
3. Digital Mirror
4. Videos in Firefox 3 without audio
5. Default Language of Microsoft-Word under Window-XP-Professional
6. Need advice buying a laptop part 3
7. virtual machines and operating systems
8. Text in Windows Vista
9. Windows Live HotMail

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 12

1. 64-bit OS compability
2. mouse
3. IE 6 vs. 5
4. Monetize open source software development
5. Help with source code and compiling (bash)
6. What are some words that I could easily type with one hand?
7. Serious looking free web-page
8. Splitting commands in Python
9. Website help
10. Linux recognition of wireless card
11. QBasic
12. What should I learn when I outgrow MS Excel?

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 13

1. Wireless in Linux
2. Testing Question
3. pluggin
4. Firefox/Minefield browser version
5. Foreign languages in office
6. Chrome source code size - why so huge?
7. PHP from the command line (CLI)
8. OS equivalent of mathematica
9. How Can I FAX?
10. Storage

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 14

1. Videos from Picasa2
2. Dragging Messages in Windows Live Mail
3. Flickr "all sizes" option
4. Bar (form factor)
5. microprocessor
6. Harddrive Crashing?
7. Hard drive capacity corruption
8. Upload

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 15

1. Opening a file via the context menu in Windows Vista
2. Webdesign for dummies
3. Line spacing in CSS
4. Roxio Streamer
5. Perl
6. vista directory explorer loses IE icon for .htm files
7. Computer Woes
8. Compression by generating sequences of data?
9. Wireless network control
10. The CAPTCHA problem
11. XML comment trick

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 16

1. Processes on start up
2. Can't install an important Vista update
3. where do i buy kudzu?
4. internet history
5. BIOS with embedded OS
6. Camera / memory card
7. html help for tables
8. JPG Fullscreen, quick!
9. Syncing
10. Sorting a text file by line length, linux
11. Gaming laptop
12. Mobile MSN doesn't show contacts as online
13. Sign-in secure for this online banking?
14. Dynamic Controls - Ideas please :)

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 17

1. LAN/WAN Engineer
2. Huge security problem in Linux
3. Excel 2007 and formatted values
4. windows jingles
5. windows xp
6. Using a Bluetooth headset as output for windows media player
7. iTunes album splitting problem
8. AcroRd32Info.exe
9. Upgrading MS Office on a new PC
10. Are zipfile passwords effective anymore?
11. Multiple classes

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 18

1. Help
2. Security of email password
3. Looking for a right-click upload to ftp server
4. Boot Ferrari 4000 from USB?
5. simple OO question
6. programs at start up
7. HP LaserJet 3500n

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 19

1. YouTube
2. MS Access Database Issue
3. Overhead cost of get and set methods
4. C++ compiler
5. Silent Laptop
6. sun solaris os
7. Video Streaming Rates

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 20

1. css html....noob's question.
2. Google Pages - Google Sites transition
3. Punctuation and Accent Marks on PC

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 21

1. Highest PageRank?
2. What's a good PC oscilloscope?
3. Enabling only minimal features in an OS
4. BEST PROXY SITES

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 22

1. Itunes MP4
2. An  question
3. Blackberry service
4. Keepvidtubezoiding guardian.co.uk videos
5. How to prevent router from getting computer name?
6. Subnotebook
7. Q(t+1) ?
8. Debian unstable packages in sources.list
9. Computer Hardware
10. Deeper blue
11. myspace
12. Align a mediawiki infobox to the right

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 23

1. Getting three installed OS's to boot correctly
2. ?
3. Firefox download warning
4. PCs used only few days every month
5. Firefox bookmarks
6. Hotmail's secret question and answer
7. Free video editing program
8. How to add on wireless as an extra to an existing computer with an external modem
9. Making MSN and Outlook contacts merge in WM6
10. typing tabs in textareas?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 24

1. Abuse contact
2. Find and replace multiple files, but only between <title> tags (Mac OS X)
3. data management
4. Microsoft office word - Text-type
5. Extreme content control
6. Can't get scroll wheel to work
7. Monitor clock/phase reset
8. Dealing with a dead laptop
9. Computer TV appliances on Linux?
10. Wikipedia template help on :Template:User BRUIN ALUM
11. Fedora - Keyboard - Noob
12. Connecting to the Internet

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 25

1. Temporarily disabling Spotlight
2. Cat5 to fiber optic to cat5
3. problem in running a software
4. Replacing long string of if/thens in VB.Net?
5. xbox 360
6. Encryption on Windows XP
7. Laptop Issues
8. Using print screen to create screenshots
9. Firefox: Inheriting history in new tabs?
10. MATLAB: Solving system with unknowns in multiple matrices
11. Download to Pdf
12. Wikipedia icon
13. A site I can't remember
14. Pro cons of java, c++ og assembly language
15. Fingerprint Reader
16. How to download FreeBSD?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 26

1. Qbasic Programming Question
2. 16:9 monitor
3. Telephones ringing
4. Music metadata
5. Can you block email via iGoogle
6. Ripping data off unfinalized disks
7. Using OpenID to post comments on WordPress blogs
8. Adding text via css
9. Linux GUI -- Fragile? Anyway to uninstall updates?
10. google blogger
11. keep getting "Acquiring network access" on my laptop

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 27

1. Windows XP: Keywords Column in Windows Explorer
2. KbdEdit
3. Saving downloadings
4. How do I compile Live USB system creator?
5. <embed>

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 28

1. U3 Password Enable
2. Rails question
3. PDF to HTML
4. where is winamp's media library database ?
5. two thrones
6. Upgrading Laptop RAM
7. wifi turns itself off
8. cookbook curve fit
9. firefox/php/require statment
10. Hardware Java

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 29

1. Presentation Maps
2. Creating a webcomic...need help with programming and CMS ideas
3. Hacked AIM Account
4. Building A Computer: Processor Type
5. Any practical difference between Cat 5e and Cat 6?
6. Mac conversion MOV to GIF
7. Phone infrastructure?
8. Metalink and local files?

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 September 30

1. Help understanding SSH command
2. Run a command at startup
3. Error message
4. Itunes