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December 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 2

  1. How do you use Coreboot with an x86 or x64 motherboard?
  2. Given an electrical motor and a PC
  3. Adobe Photoshop 7
  4. What does fn+f5 do on my Windows 7 laptop?

December 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 3

  1. Damaged HDD
  2. Replacing the C: disk
  3. What are some of the most secure and affordable wireless routers?
  4. Alignment Problem with Access Report

December 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 4

  1. Internal data structure for an editor-like application as a binary tree

December 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 5

  1. What were the reasons for Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to drop their support for Symbian OS?
  2. hacking via skype
  3. XFS AG
  4. What are the longest-lived consumer electronic standards to be superseded/surpassed in the near past or future?

December 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 6

  1. Haskell why do so much people praise it but so little people use it?

December 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 7

  1. Building sequence from (possbibly non-connected) subsequences...
  2. Back Button Should Operate at the Topic Page Level, Not the Window-within-the-Page Level
  3. Merging iPhones
  4. Flipping web pages

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 8

  1. Cellphone theft
  2. Windows 95
  3. Prolog: help for beginner
  4. Missing dll file

December 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 9

  1. C++ How to avoid copying temporary object when it's passed to a container function
  2. checkpoint (1)
  3. checkpoint (2)
  4. checkpoint (3)
  5. checkpoint (4)
  6. checkpoint (5)
  7. checkpoint (6)
  8. checkpoint (7)
  9. C++, inserting an element to std::list, which is faster and why
  10. A keyboard-oriented configurable Linux-distro
  11. Audacity question
  12. caching problem with date-sensitive page content

December 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 10

  1. Hosting English Wikipedia in College
  2. I have 2 headphone ports on my pc
  3. Documenting on code revisions
  4. DVD/CD ROM Drive issue
  5. Ext3 vs Ext4 — Journal Size Range
  6. Ref desk menu

December 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 11

  1. How to write pseudocode similar to code presented in “Beautiful Code” by J. R. Heard?
  2. computer motherboard
  3. Trade in digital PS4 game for disc?
  4. Where are my emails going ?
  5. What is dpuf?
  6. What are the advantages of windows phone 8 over android and the advantages of android over windows phone 8?
  7. Windows 8.1 paint program

December 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 12

  1. Photoshop performance
  2. Can TeX generate “heap dumps” to analyze+optimize out-of-memory situations?
  3. Burning with Nero a movie with subtitles
  4. Chromecast help
  5. When can you say that you can program without being called a liar?
  6. How does the page do this?

December 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 13

  1. Wordpress site to mirror other sites' blogs?
  2. "SubOS" - is this actually a thing?
  3. Firefox default search preference
  4. Vectorized database
  5. Reinstalling Windows 7 to remove bloatware

December 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 14

  1. Search for a wireless router
  2. OS of handheld devices running the arm_v8
  3. Attachments with Outlook Being Zipped
  4. Software comparison

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 15

  1. Pc issue
  2. can website block my ip address from accessing that website?
  3. videos on computer
  4. Lowest possible signal strength?
  5. What disasters were caused by bad programming, bad software development?
  6. Which Linux distribution?
  7. What is Blipp?
  8. Videos for youtube

December 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 16

  1. Can I install two operating systems on one internal 3.5 inch hard disk
  2. Hosting English Wikipedia for a group of Users
  3. Trying to pronounce ð and θ
  4. TV color adjustment
  5. Generating lists from Excel
  6. Minimize Backtracking Algorithm

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 17

  1. BLOCKED
  2. How to determine if I have new mail in Gmail
  3. GPRS at 35 kbps (k not K)

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 18

  1. Spred Spectrum
  2. Is ms dos supported on beagleboard?
  3. If I wanted to use version control for text files

December 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 19

  1. thermal compound/paste
  2. Andriod/iOS devices

December 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 20

  1. yellow spots on pages
  2. Why are interpreted languages not compiled right away?
  3. LIST OF INSTALLED PROGRAMS
  4. Instagram "purge", will Facebook follow?
  5. Principal download ?

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 21

  1. Alphanumerical character with the exact same pixel width as a space when viewed as text?
  2. Looking for an Android notepad app

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 22

  1. Calculating elapsed time between two dates in Microsoft Excel 2013
  2. Put me out of my Excel depreciation misery
  3. Opening up new web pages in the same browser.

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 23

  1. The Mysterious Android Hiding Bar
  2. sarees
  3. Turning excel into a grid
  4. The perfect mp3 file with lyrics

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 24

  1. Bizarre TV interference problem ?

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 25

  1. TeamViewer
  2. How to find an Apple Authorized Service Provider near Hastings, UK.

December 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 27

  1. Activating IPA Extensions for Windows 7
  2. TIFF source code capable of reading and writing 16-bit color images

December 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 28

  1. Cutting North Korea off the Internet permanently
  2. Cannot backup bcdedit in Windows 7

December 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 29

  1. How to uninstall Cydia Jailbreak
  2. Wikipedia dropping my edits ?

December 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 30

  1. Only one browser will connect to the Internet
  2. Facebook Question
  3. Suggestion to install Chrome

December 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 31

  1. Blender
  2. Lost scripts
  3. Smart/Wi-Fi alarm clocks