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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 1

  1. Issue with Java (PJIRC) and fullscreen games
  2. Windows XP laptop battery
  3. How many single-sided Blu-Rays would the YouTube Collection require? Double-sided?
  4. Installing Android SDK on Ubuntu

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 2

  1. MP3 player to PC USB cable
  2. Extracting hi-res image from Adobe Flash
  3. How does UnoTelly work?

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 3

  1. Copyright rules for the UK
  2. Windows XP - Documents and Settings Folder - Rename a User's Folder
  3. USB Flash partitions
  4. Windows soft link for executables
  5. Aluminum laptops

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 4

  1. Operating systems that run on feature phones
  2. JavaScript variables
  3. images from Word doc

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 5

  1. Java EE Issue
  2. What does this text mean please??
  3. How do you know the page number for a book in the Kindle app for the iPad or Windows?
  4. Secret Online Ballot
  5. Intel processor in a consumer electronics device
  6. Facebook link dead? Name change form

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 6

  1. Atto FastFrame NS14 Quad-Port 10GbE NIC Card - Transceiver Removability
  2. Hacking
  3. How to determine if an email was forwarded?
  4. About call back advantage
  5. Javascript regex question

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 7

  1. Changing the wallpaper on Windows 7
  2. Searching in Chrome
  3. Title Tools in Premiere Pro CS5.
  4. Today's featured picture
  5. Cabling options
  6. svn blame rate limit

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 8

  1. History of X.25 packet switched networks
  2. Pictures spreading through Facebook showing people in need
  3. Flashback trojan
  4. newly created torrent won't seed
  5. USB light

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 9

  1. Android Tablet
  2. Windows Explorer remembering CD/DVD info even after rejecting
  3. Running a windows program on my mac
  4. Solid state holographic data storage
  5. Mains Adapter for iPod Touch
  6. How do I live-download to YouTube?
  7. Processor iddle
  8. IE8 converting numbers into telephone numbers
  9. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.
  10. Unix time
  11. Easily confused letters/numbers/glyphs
  12. Transferring 50 MB to a friend

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 10

  1. LaTeX chapters and sections
  2. I can't get WP using Perl's get command...
  3. Places in Battle Ready (Tom Clancy Novel)
  4. wordperfect mail merge
  5. Price of Windows 7

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 11

  1. Constructing a small embedded PC
  2. C# performance lint
  3. Why did a new window not open?

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 12

  1. Windows Vista Defragment
  2. windows explorer
  3. 8b/10b encoding
  4. 2bone link checker
  5. Risks of using Stiki
  6. Ancient 3d engine
  7. Firefox: quit with warning
  8. Hide a font
  9. Pastebin
  10. Need to convert raw avi to MJPEG or with similar intraframe compression only codec

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 13

  1. Extraction of Files from .zip Archive on CLI in SLED11SP2
  2. site icons in browser tabs
  3. Simple Java animation
  4. Windows 7
  5. map tag
  6. RSS reader that syncs between computer and iOS without Google Reader
  7. unicode and alt code
  8. iPad/iPhone
  9. greasemonkey javascript

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 14

  1. Calendar for a Facebook Group?
  2. Free software for adding accompaniment to music
  3. Keeping track of changes
  4. Patterns
  5. iPhone call forwarding question

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 15

  1. "Most wanted articles" for Crimean Tatar Wikipedia
  2. Excel help

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 16

  1. Name of principle: "every lineal work can be copied"
  2. iFrame
  3. What is this cable I see before me?
  4. Strange crash in 3D Studio Max
  5. How to create an Alternative DNS root
  6. Javascript in body
  7. IE8 Print Preview
  8. Setting up php in Nnginx in windows 7
  9. Virtual machine
  10. Changing images in a page
  11. archive time capsule
  12. HD cameras
  13. Downloading pdf files.

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 17

  1. Check if port forwarding is working
  2. LUCOMS~1.EXE

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 18

  1. Using Chrome
  2. Digital signatures and email
  3. IE9 WMP add-on
  4. what is a driver in computing
  5. GPS navigation
  6. Installing linux on a second windows partition
  7. Printing emails
  8. New Netbook
  9. Appending excecutable to Command Prompt
  10. how hard is 2.5 d
  11. Javascript regex group to array

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 19

  1. Password protect webserver
  2. comments in source code
  3. google advanced search
  4. What is the best program to let me run Windows programs in Ubuntu 11.10?
  5. Tearing off a Firefox tab
  6. Laptop will not connect to particular WiFi network
  7. Opening txt files in IE

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 20

  1. What sized go-board could a Matrioshka brain solve in a few days?
  2. C++
  3. Legitimate or pirated copy
  4. CQuote
  5. javascript
  6. How do I save a screen shot?
  7. Dafualt Theme font (Office 2010)

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 21

  1. LZMA2 Data Compression - PCIe ASIC
  2. Zedo
  3. What are the disadvantages of object-oriented programming?
  4. Syncing Firefox add-on data
  5. Download page with wget
  6. Changing a laptop case cover
  7. Populate a MySQL database automatically
  8. Slow laptop/ task manager
  9. Mac malware
  10. Can I delete Restore Points manually?

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 22

  1. Problem using Chrome
  2. Changing the default video software and explaining my ghost in the machine
  3. On ASIMO and his ability to pour liquids from one container into another
  4. Additional batteries for laptop: Battery instead of DVD drive and USB battery
  5. Earphone buzzing
  6. What is the difference between Java and Javascript?
  7. hard disk capacity and speed

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 23

  1. Laptop problems
  2. wrong fonts?
  3. Name for digital projection concept ?
  4. "X" Power button light of Xaser VI
  5. Wouldn't it be nice if...
  6. LaTeX figure numbers
  7. Private email communication
  8. Webcam formats?
  9. Some Computing questions
  10. Firefox Addons that can make browsing quick by using alphabet

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 24

  1. Javascript unlimited multiplier.
  2. comparison between android and ios development
  3. Unnecessary music in a videogame
  4. Animated GIF frame order
  5. Problem with external hard drive
  6. Insight about recovery disk

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 25

  1. BIOS INT 10H source of pixel data for characters
  2. Xcode and link to website and addition of more text
  3. Gmail Account
  4. Running process and automatic sleep

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 26

  1. Double OS and double hibernate?
  2. Classful networking and CIDR

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 27

  1. MS-Excel
  2. iPhone Camcorder/iMovie
  3. Leading spaces are stripped out of Access table
  4. Python exception fail

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 28

  1. What do we call this character?
  2. Stickers on laptop: remove or not?
  3. Mac screen not framed in window

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 29

  1. Windows' license of a wrecked computer
  2. in perl script, regex not recognizing n, $, /Z
  3. Bad network topology question

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 April 30

  1. Screen anti-burn-in app ?
  2. Windows Movie Maker and MP3s
  3. Why does the IT department need BRMs - are they "worse" than other departments?
  4. Boot Linux from RAM
  5. Nested Scrollbars
  6. Ubuntu + Windows
  7. Adblock
  8. Who's censoring this stuff?