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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 1

  1. 3.5 floppy
  2. Code Question
  3. Are the Wikimedia servers still in Florida?
  4. MacBook, Black MacBook, or MacBook Pro
  5. Embedded images to attachments
  6. Tape Drives
  7. Early computer displays
  8. Customized context menu search
  9. Links
  10. weird behavior of fsquirt.exe
  11. Buying a video card
  12. C++ versus Java
  13. Computer performance improvement with more memory

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 2

  1. Why does linux suck?
  2. Windows Media Player is Kaput
  3. Audio Quality Metric
  4. HSDPA vs. HSUPA
  5. Changing a color in an image
  6. Laptop blackouts
  7. CMOS problem
  8. Mock Laptop
  9. Fortran program copied from manual doesn't work correctly
  10. Number of network connections to the same server
  11. Windows games on Linux
  12. Icons in my taskbar--whats happening?
  13. Web Pop-up effect
  14. google earth

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 3

  1. PMR446 Radios
  2. Distributed rsync?
  3. "Internet Explorer provided by...."
  4. Might there be reason to keep any of this old dev/cad software?
  5. MSN 7.5 and WLM 8.x
  6. Pregap ripper
  7. Editor for Lisp
  8. MIDI file on waste.exe/DAT/176
  9. CIRCLE ALGORITHM
  10. ringtone support in Samsung Juke
  11. Delete RSS Feeds Into Recycle Bin
  12. apple and download
  13. Userbox Code
  14. Dealio is doing my head in.
  15. What does this .jpg warning message mean?
  16. Batch file environment variables

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 4

  1. Code
  2. Putting clips together?
  3. SONGS PROGRAM on C++
  4. About data storage
  5. set up "On Demand" DSL Connection
  6. Bridging Networks....
  7. Wireless Networking
  8. Package management on the Mac - CLARIFICATION
  9. Fortran
  10. Computer speed.
  11. ASP.NET problem
  12. Aero-style look and feel for Linux?
  13. wireless internet not connecting
  14. opening ports so that i can open programmes and download patches properly
  15. noname
  16. Multimedia keyboards
  17. Bebo problems
  18. 939 processor
  19. Firefox file associations

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 5

  1. Does the Wikimedia Foundation only use free sotfware like the Free Software Foundation?
  2. standard TRS microphones unpowered, need solution
  3. irc passwords
  4. Extrapolate a photo's missing piece
  5. Batch red eye removal
  6. How do you set up a task force on a different MediaWiki?
  7. Graphics card heat
  8. threads in computerscience
  9. Is Google AdSense Completely LEGAL and safe?
  10. how to check out timings for executing a function in VB
  11. How do you convert an EPS into an SVG?
  12. Good NNTP servers
  13. Super Bowl Introduction Video
  14. MSN live messenger
  15. DRM and [http://www.mediaconverter.org/ Media Converter]

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 6

  1. getting out of Picture mode -- Vista
  2. Firefox bug?
  3. MacOS fonts to .ttf
  4. Running a game in a Virtual Machine?
  5. How to RUN a program in Windows
  6. DirectX 10
  7. windoz media player won't start and stop ripping, right?
  8. Sharing contacts in Outlook
  9. rope!
  10. making a computer work
  11. Videos not playing fullscreen?

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 7

  1. Verizon Cell Phone accounts
  2. How to select marker bits for data communication?
  3. Looking for Team Fortress 2 sprays
  4. I want to visit Windows XP land
  5. PCMCIA card ?
  6. Scheduled Task
  7. Second NIC card for Mac G5 Tower?
  8. Audio effects plugins
  9. Ipod to Itunes
  10. Wikipedia and my unfortunate IP exchange
  11. RPC server time sync thingy
  12. what is YTIMG?
  13. VGA to Component hooked up to a 1080p television

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 8

  1. Web activity monitoring software
  2. C# escape characters?
  3. itunes7.6 my arse
  4. ISP upload speed percentage too low?
  5. What's that element?
  6. Nokia 7610 Memory Card Question
  7. Lyrics websites

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 9

  1. Coding Theory
  2. Wine / Ubuntu
  3. Visual Boy Advance.
  4. SATA to PATA adapter?
  5. Google Earth
  6. Google Earth / Google Maps comparison
  7. virtual keyword in programming
  8. PDF to HTML/DOC
  9. Network bridging...........
  10. Opening URL in links with an external program in Firefox
  11. PDF Files
  12. Thinking of switching to an Imac computer
  13. recording music on a dvd blank disc
  14. Linux
  15. Unreal Engine 2, 2.5 and 3 system requirements
  16. sound direction software

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 10

  1. sharing
  2. RuneScape
  3. *.dat video format on Ubuntu.
  4. Is iPhone too big?
  5. wireless internet not connecting(2)
  6. Security on Linux
  7. Navigating to a specific website using a keyboard shortcut
  8. xbox
  9. MSN TV or WEB TV
  10. Java Script
  11. Parsing HTML with PHP
  12. Laptop Hard Drive RPM's

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 11

  1. Software for Information graphics
  2. RuneScape II
  3. Linux Uninstall
  4. Size of email message
  5. Mac data recovery (moved from Language desk)
  6. USB Connection
  7. OpenGL
  8. psp feeder

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 12

  1. PSD to Vector
  2. wireless router disk
  3. Unix Commands
  4. Annoying virus, perhaps rootkit
  5. comparison of MediaWiki vs Drupal-Wiki
  6. Windows 3.1
  7. Unix filesystem question
  8. RPM of Flash harddrive

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 13

  1. PC Blackout
  2. Vista Business vs. Home Premium
  3. Using unlocked iPhones
  4. I Want My Own MMOG
  5. Apache HTTP server won't execute PHP on "localhost"
  6. Flash drive and programs
  7. pokemon crater
  8. Linux/Booting
  9. Templates &userboxes
  10. Average pay for first line tech support in USA

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 14

  1. C++
  2. Cannot Format Jump Drive
  3. Firefox bookmarks backup
  4. Repair Office 2003
  5. Changing the title of an article
  6. Graphics card
  7. PDAs and e-books
  8. Answer plz
  9. Mozilla password
  10. Hard drive noise, and performance with external case
  11. Laptop network cables
  12. HTML (Picture Fading)
  13. Microsoft Word question
  14. Microsoft Excel question
  15. Mac OS X kext
  16. A song i found on youtube

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 15

  1. ie search
  2. Photoshop -- Photocopy-like effect?
  3. Dev-C++ Compiler
  4. XML schema?
  5. 3D graphics cards - just for games?
  6. fonts in the terminal
  7. Software cracks
  8. Edubuntu Installation
  9. runescape
  10. Powering a video card
  11. Resizing the partition on a windows xp system.
  12. Carriage return
  13. A WYSIWYM XML editor?
  14. smartax mt882 modem
  15. wii LAN-adaptor or nyko ethernet adaptor thingy
  16. viruses on Wii?

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 16

  1. rstatd/portmap access through firewall
  2. Image issue
  3. Free Virus Protection
  4. Javascript: events with generated content
  5. Disabling SE Sidebar
  6. Getting MS Access data into a MySQL database
  7. Make a data logger
  8. NNTP control messages in Thunderbird
  9. Script class
  10. Proxy question
  11. iMovie
  12. Is my iTunes Music Library.xml file corrupt?

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 17

  1. A Mystery: Connection losses while streaming
  2. Is there difference between widgets and applications
  3. havin problems with my modem on ubuntu
  4. Professional Photographic Printing Resolutions
  5. 'Collaborative' Web Browsing
  6. nokia hack
  7. Vista window won't stay open
  8. Bluetooth headset emulator
  9. Extract vector from PDF
  10. Firewire box?
  11. html on invisionfree
  12. Writing a Programme
  13. Unusual Outgoing Connections Blocked by PeerGuardian

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 18

  1. Types of computer
  2. Accessing second computer
  3. CLI app for determining if a sound file is stereo or mono?
  4. E-mail address availability
  5. Give a Brief Note on Hiriyur Town .
  6. Ubuntu root login
  7. Apophysis Batch Rendering
  8. Mac or Cross-platform OpenGL demos?
  9. linux drivers, root, and X
  10. Digital camera "face" feature
  11. Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4.0
  12. remote port forward
  13. Exploding a video-file into individual images

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 19

  1. OpenGL over SSH
  2. examining old Mac fonts
  3. Concatenation in Perl
  4. Start-up problem in Windows XP, German message
  5. Defragment fails.
  6. IBM RSC (RISC Single Chip)
  7. Audio communications.
  8. Email Repeat Send Online Service
  9. iPlayer WMV
  10. Windows XP Pro Booting problem
  11. Deleting Files from Recycle Bin via Command Prompt
  12. computer problem
  13. What's wrong with this excel function?
  14. Piracy
  15. Running wiki offline

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 20

  1. Green Colour Prints
  2. Memory Advice
  3. Processor Advice
  4. SQL question
  5. Sharing with Vista and XP
  6. ALT+??
  7. census date for Summit, California
  8. nokia
  9. Audio communications II
  10. internet explorer hanging up from constipation

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 21

  1. Web Browsers
  2. Any free programs that let u turn text into mp3?
  3. Microsoft Word - keyboard puzzle
  4. Mercury Levels in Laptops
  5. MIDI to WAV
  6. how to use a plotter?
  7. Recurring appointments in Outlook/Pocket Outlook
  8. Prevent Apple Software Update ever starting in Windows XP
  9. my.yahoo script mystery
  10. PowerPoint
  11. FLV joiner
  12. Mozilla and download manager
  13. Wikilinks.js

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 22

  1. Odd DNS-related (maybe?) Internet problem
  2. Windows Live Messenger on USB?
  3. Hydra on ubuntu PPC
  4. Quicktime in the site www.nveil.com
  5. PDFs
  6. auto variables(local variable)
  7. Windows XP - Password
  8. Digital Camera TYPE
  9. Standby and Hibernate Modes

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 23

  1. iMac HD upgrades
  2. Malfunctioning recycle bin
  3. Problem in Hibernating my PC
  4. Boot ISO from HDD
  5. Firefox search suggestions?
  6. Weatherbox
  7. Game Name
  8. iPhone V. Blackberry Pearl?
  9. Apple remote in Powerpoint presentation in MacBook
  10. Three-part question: Building a PC, Programming, and Hardware website

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 24

  1. Linksys Wireless-G Router
  2. Amarok requirements
  3. Recognizing the uniquely-decodable property of a set of strings
  4. Firefox searching Wikipedia
  5. Arabic transliteration font
  6. Operating systems?
  7. Vista explorer issues
  8. Linkedin
  9. iTunes problem
  10. Linux

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 25

  1. Overclocking a G4 Powermac
  2. PNG/FLAC are lossy?
  3. 'programmable' stack
  4. Juice sync with Sansa c250 on Tiger
  5. Seemingly Bricked Thinkpad
  6. SRS reporting
  7. where i could find the the different interesting programm codes that could run on borland version 3.0 of C++

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 26

  1. Laptop and External Monitor Resolution
  2. Firefox Resources
  3. Time-Consuming Machine
  4. Specially enumerated list in LaTeX
  5. iPod managers
  6. List files
  7. Back
  8. Excel data sieve
  9. Frontpage = problem...
  10. Linux Puppy display problem
  11. HELP

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 27

  1. Executing a command over ssh doesn't preserve the return value.
  2. Computer longevity
  3. Gamer Fo life :P
  4. Tell me how this is done
  5. a lightweight (couple of megabytes!!) LOCAL web server with cgi support for windows? FOUND IT!
  6. Harddrive misreporting size
  7. bash aliases
  8. .bashrc.7C.bash_profile.7C.profile:_SSH_vs_SFTP
  9. Setting up workgroup names
  10. plays sound files at the press of a button
  11. LaTeX issues
  12. what do tr and td stand for in html tables

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 28

  1. creating 3D objects
  2. Typing speed over time
  3. Weird MS Access problem
  4. New name for iPod
  5. USB battery pack
  6. about drupal base website
  7. Fast redirect
  8. modular algorithm in javascript ? need source codes
  9. Is my computer dead now?
  10. LaTeX issue
  11. Linux and Windows: both?
  12. three
  13. boot fom flash?
  14. hack
  15. Linux installation

February 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 February 29

  1. Extent of destruction of opening an email
  2. download speed
  3. Email for Paypal?
  4. Headings in XHTML
  5. youtube problems
  6. Windows Character Map
  7. proxying with a CGI python script?
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