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April 1
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- Seeing entire Facebook wall at once
- Large Text File Viewer
- Has Firefox split into two versions?
- Virus-free, except not!
- How login super user
- Distributed computing projects
- php
- Connection detection in Windows 7
- Can I send people a URL that will cause a google doc to be downloaded as a pdf?
- No smoking
- Downloading videos off of YouTube
April 2
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- ripping from cd
- Saving files in Firefox
- Are these download sites legit?
- Using the Statistical Test Suite from NIST
- Free Flash Clone
- Another php question
- Computer language for text documents
- How do i type the infinity symbol? It's not num lock, hold alt 236 on my computer
- moving video taken with Ipod mini from ipod to computer
- Scanning old B&W photographs
- Uploading PDF/Word Files With HTTPUnit
- Need Windows API opinion
April 3
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- Repair Of a Laptop Screen
- RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
- What's the term for a code file?
- Network issues
- Scan specific folder
- Alternatives to "solid compression"
- Office with frontpage
- Password-only Joomla resources
- Firefox will not print all of webpage
- can't burn file to CD-R
April 4
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- Semi-unresponsive key
- Ugly DOS charset
- Making a laptop a wi-fi hotspot
- Finding accurate phone numbers online
- VirtualDubMod (abandonware)
- Changing colours to a standard grey
- Bluetooth and WiFi
- My CRT monitor has gone green.
- Domino toppling in Blender
- Mechanicaal engg
- Lost Picture
April 5
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- Converting formula into Javascript... help.
- Windows XP activation
- Building a new box
- KDE sftp
- Print screen
- Limiting SSL/TLS chain-of-trust length
- Video Encoding issue
- USA customs rates
April 6
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- Does information posted on the Internet remain forever?
- Are there any websites that explain how google indexes wikipedia?
- Macbook rapid ticking noise
- Google UK
- Subversion wanting access
- From normal laptop into touchscreen
- GoogleMaps - scale overlaps copyright notice and is therefore unreadable
April 7
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- HandyRecovery Help
- Wrongful Article Content Change.
- Placing captions beside figures in LaTeX (beamer)
- Internet
- KDE on Windows--Plasma Desktop won't launch apps
- Copying from a pdf file
- Why must ads cause so much misery?
April 8
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- USB 3.0
- Signal a program when Internet connection made
- do Huawei wireless broadband dongles support voice?
- How to merge bookmarks files in Firefox?
- Firefox does not load websites after computer left unattended for a long time
- atanfull
- Quantum Computer Data Transfers
- gmail vs yahoo mail
- Enforcing strong passwords in Active Directory
- Consequences of misusing Mac OS X Terminal
- iPhone question...
April 9
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- Hard Drive Cleaner
- laptop power brick going eeeeeeeeeee
- Question About Artificial Intelligence Programs
- I want to have my own bussines but i don't have much money, which is easier and cheaper?
- Wanting to run a Servlet locally with little prior experience
- Online computer
- iPhone OS 4.0 with multitasking
- Wiki edit tags
- I couldn't edit
- What's still running?
- Bioshock stability issue
April 10
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- Excel
- Google Street View
- Memory leak (or something similar)
- iTunes is sentient?
- transfer files from old to new computer
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8600493.stm - What computer?
April 11
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- Make your own movie by hacking
- c program
- My 1440x900 has decided it's a 1280x720
- Gmail in Mail (Mac)
- VB v6, Excel reference and components, server-side program
- "Floating server"
- Adobe Reader
April 12
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- Touchscreen technology and human health
- Whats the best website where i can learn Javascript language fully?
- non profit association / donations
- Is there something like snapshot.debian.org for Ubuntu releases?
- Thoes Small Icons What Are In Line With The Title
- Disappearing Ink(jet)
- Config file keeps "vanishing"
- Benchmarking AWB's typo fixing
- Excel to VBA to VBScript
April 13
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- Traveling salesman problem and taxicab geometry
- Windows XP Pro doesn't boot
- information technology
- Question about editing PHP and javascript files
- Opera Mini proxy for other browsers?
- XP Pro SP2 Blue screen
April 14
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- Setting up an external image editor
- Latex: 2 Questions
- Disown child processes without forking
- Python: Filtering with inequalities
- Can using a laptop on a bumpy road damage it?
- VBScript and JavaScript
- Cryptography: Password entry method
- Internet Connections window crashes
- Getting Quicktime onto my Mac
- Linux group root?
- vpython related error
- Python/TI-BASIC: indirections
- Purchasing a Motherboard
- Misplaced Wikipedia Logo
- Pings
- Download games on iPad?
April 15
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April 16
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- Previously selected links
- Internet searches for non-linear notations
- Quality loss in rotated compressed images
- External hard drives
- dvd/vcr recorder
- Laptop trouble (part 4)
- PATH in Ubuntu
- Firefox live bookmarks
- WMV to MP4 converter
- Font display issue in Word
- Formatting your hard disk
- .txt mess
- can any netbooks continue running while shut?
April 17
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- Touchpad
- What determines if something is saved in the cache?
- email bounce
- Zaped.info
- Printer problem
- c program
- Internet
- Setting up an online casino in the UK
- printout of output of a c program
April 18
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- P4SD Motherboard
- JVM memory allocation
- DOS (running on windows XP)
- Using a SOCKS proxy in Windows Live Messenger ("Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8089.726)")
- Router/Internet Problems
- Netbeans tutorial
- sockscap
- Symbols to identify
- samba share
April 19
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- Choice of calculator
- advanced format
- How to improve this ERD for a Mysql database
- What makes a CD bootable?
- bug fixing
- Mediawiki - automatic content for a new page
- NES/SNES
- delete irc channel?
- Malicious popups
April 20
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- Laptop hard drives
- Regular expressions to manipulate a text file
- E-mail account not retrieving mail
- Is Facebook or wikipedia an example of cloud computing?
- www
- PDF exploits -- is there a non-vulnerable reader?
- DOS
- posting information
- Virtual Harvard architecture and the C language
- Lag/Ping/Latency, Online Gaming, & Graphics Settings
- Arrays
- Can't scroll .svgs
- Laptop hardware upgrade or new laptop
April 21
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- how does apple keep flash from running?
- Googlebot indexing
- Editing MS Word dictionary
- Win XP language and keyboard
- Is there a way to determine the default gateway in JavaScript, similar to myIpAddress() for the IP?
- torrent proxy
- What happened to Yahoo mail?
- Create CD-Audio from DVD soundtrack
April 22
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- Running Mac OS X software on Windows
- wiki markup
- server services
- Learning to write a compiler (or at least a language parser)?
- c program (English dictionary)
- Shortcut
- GraphViz + Doxygen
- Download countdown timer
- Some TLDs are valid DNS names by themselves, but Mozilla Firefox doesn't know it
- What do you call the yellow triangle?
- Kenny Kerr
April 23
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- Writing my own programs for iPhone
- lossless ogg vorbis editing?
- Mac OS X Updates Download
- Deploying software through Active directory
- Motorola Milestone and Android 2.1 update
- Does this exist?
- MSN plugin Logitech G-19 keyboard
April 24
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- Forget password and not getting E-mail
- How's my motherboard look?
- HDTV stuck blue pixel
- Mr. Do's Wild Ride
- fast xml processing?
- removing grub from Windows machine
- Saving only the Google cookie when exiting Firefox
- Layers in PDFs
- Defining a vague business project
- What is Rapport (Internet Explorer)?
- Dolphin emulator
- Turn off/limit drag and drop of links
April 25
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- Impossible hashes
- Rainbow table size
- AES and multiple encrypted copies
- Weakness of overly long hashes?
- Edit gzipped file without decompressing?
- Geographical Information software: OS OpenData
- A problem with Facebook
- PHP
- Computer math operations
April 26
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- ripping
- Bluetooth headset and skype
- php question
- Deleting entry history in Safari for Mac
- Workplace internet question
- Start program hidden
- Computer Science
- /dev/random security for servers
- Non-admin-rights accounts
- How does my computer know the time?
- How do you momentarily exclude certain labels from being visible while in your gmail inbox
April 27
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- TI Nspire CAS - Clickpad vs Touchpad
- A course for learning coding and similar (UK)
- Do actual people still work at yahoo (apart from in accounting)
- Which software was used to draw this diagram?
- Virus infection in GPS Data Logger
- Styling HTML definition lists to deal with wrapping
- Polipo
- Influence diagrams, causal diagrams, mind maps, or similar?
- Ethical implications of encoding YouTube videos in DivX vs Xvid?
- Problem With Internet Explorer
April 28
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- Program updates
- Adaptive Huffman coding with variable symbol length
- +99
- The weakest hyperlink...
- Mozilla Firefox unable to use an external XSL stylesheet?
- Having a different from address in an email
- Apple iWeb problem
April 29
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- IRC Aggregator Bot?
- Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge and the relations between them?
- Firefox SSL warning
- My pen drive .
- jit compilers
- Outlook / Outlook Express / Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail