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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 1

1. LaTeX Graphics cut off at the side of the page
2. Simpson Animation
3. antivirus
4. processors
5. Norton Internet Security
6. EMI shield needed for installing internal HD in external case?
7. ebay

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 2

1. Facebook and private friends lists, how?
2. web hosting?
3. Working with JLabels
4. World's Sillest CSS question
5. To Break LAN Connection
6. APNG in GIMP
7. remote start up

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 3

1. How does su work?
2. Windows Live Messenger 2009
3. Permissions (Ubuntu + Vista)
4. Learning Windows 7
5. Removing a reparse point
6. How to open .pcx files?
7. Were can I find information about solving this problem
8. Buying a new motherboard and CPU and memory
9. Looking for old software that combined decision trees with NPV

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 4

1. Vista Sidebar Gadgets in WIndows 7
2. USB headphone
3. HDTV resolutions
4. Ghost images
5. Makefile
6. Animals chewing through ethernet cable
7. Software to overlap two images?
8. Software to give x.y coordinates of points within an image?
9. Segfault in C relating to null string
10. Restricted characters in Wiki URLs

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 5

1. The buttons above the Wikipedia edit window
2. RHCSS
3. CRYSTAL REPORT USING JAVA
4. Microsoft Office Word 2007 PDF Problem
5. Problems with Format Factory (v 2.20)
6. Duff laptop reality check
7. OpenSuse
8. Windows explorer crashes every time

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 6

1. What program can be used to combine multiple PNG images into an animated GIF?
2. Bill Gates's code
3. Linux based operating system emulator
4. Computer's Clock Reset
5. Uncompromised computer
6. webcam as security
7. I tried to ask Yahoo Answers, but
8. FORTRAN-90 Array Syntax
9. windows vista problem, application wont launch, side-by-side configuration incorrect

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 7

1. Xinhua's website unsafe?
2. SQL woes
3. Gaming experience on different platforms: comparable?
4. Qnective
5. Zip file properties
6. Updating hardware under Ubuntu
7. Where to attach USB wires?
8. Wi-Fi question
9. exe extracting
10. On a remote, hosted website: How do I maintain a file that contains the ip address of my local router?
11. Where to find a UK-english version of OpenOffice?
12. Windows Genuine Advantage Kit for Windows XP
13. Answerbag
14. What are "Terms of Service", "Terms of Use", etc for

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 8

1. Does this exist yet?
2. Can I trust Microsoft or not?
3. What causes screen "tearing" in videogames?
4. Auto password feature
5. Question
6. Free or inexpensive web-based email server
7. DVD Copying

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 9

1. genuine software assurance
2. assemble-able cell phones
3. fork() system call
4. auto sorting incoming email
5. How do older computers to more modern machines in terms of power usage?
6. eBay and PayPal buyer protection policy limits
7. In-Page Links
8. Excel Circular reference
9. Unusual behaviour by antivirus program
10. desktop computer slowdown and performance

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 10

1. Slow uploads
2. How to open Linpus Linux source code?
3. Bell's theorem and computability
4. IP address
5. Automatic email and web page downloading
6. how do i put my name on a new flashdrive
7. Make Firefox display temporarily narrower?
8. Want to write short sections of text, and/or outlines, then organise them into essay or report
9. PDF
10. Windows Registry problem
11. How do I track an email error?
12. Simple floor plan drawing package
13. Product Reccomendations for hooking a coaxial cable (television cable) to a projector, ie a tv tuner?
14. Want to shorten (front and rear) a .flv video file

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 11

1. Specification for TeX / LaTeX?
2. Blog, but on my computer
3. The mouse & computer hardware development...
4. computing
5. VC++
6. CD/DVD
7. Website
8. Installing flash on an offline computer.
9. Installing VLC plugin for Firefox on RHEL or CentOS
10. Combining gifs
11. Microsoft Works Problem
12. Word VBA code - select all text boxes
13. Is there I way I could have this connect to the internet?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 12

1. source code
2. Password cracking
3. FastCGI and Catalyst
4. Movie-making software for animated GIFs
5. Display stuck in text mode or print mode.
6. MS bookshelf 95
7. intel graphics driver for windows 7
8. How do I know if vision is connected?
9. Runescape question
10. Sudden Problem with HD TV
11. very very very very simple gui programming language thing
12. Should I Virtualize My Server?
13. strange problem - Dell system restore

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 13

1. Utorrent
2. How to charge battery w/ wind but not create a fan
3. BSOD...not able to start windows...
4. backup synchronization?
5. Is "compiler" the right term?
6. Laptop meltdown: stuck in boot loop
7. OpenOffice - how to change the default font?
8. How can I run, not save, downloaded files with Firefox?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 14

1. System Restore to get rid of malware
2. Free RSS to email forwarding service
3. 1GB vs GDDR5
4. Mail merge into objects and advance records in Word - VBA code?
5. old php
6. Function keys
7. neural network integrated circuits
8. Photoshop and PNGs
9. LaTeX textstyle in a region

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 15

1. Malware keeps opening webpages
2. DFD FOR BMC REMEDY USER TOOL
3. Automatic image search?

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 16

1. Images in Wikipedia don't show up
2. Windows 7-like theme for Ubuntu?
3. java apps in XP - set program access and defaults - can't uninstall
4. Real player (bug) can't delete files - "file in use"
5. Firefox rss tabs

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 17

1. Add date to toolbar
2. Hidden folder search
3. .flv split
4. DIY screensaver or moving wallpaper?
5. media player
6. LHC Computing Grid
7. Processor speeds and graphics hardware
8. Windows 7 wake up alarm
9. Windows Product Key Update Tool

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 18

1. Nameservers and domain question.
2. Windows - file & folder permissions q
3. Printer driver problem
4. analyze internet connection
5. Instant alerts for web-based email
6. Ubuntu: add "gksu" to a GNOME action
7. Windows Media Player shutting down

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 19

1. Long Range wireless router
2. last logon time in yahoo mail
3. Graphics in BASIC (1)
4. Graphics in BASIC (2)
5. is JSP a Servlet?
6. Crack search engine
7. Serpentine Gallery
8. WLAN problems
9. Eurasian telephone country and area code

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 20

1. Right click to mean ESC
2. Acer eDataSecurity/EmpoweringTechnology
3. web design consensus on floating CSS sidebar menus?
4. Emailing RSS feeds
5. Permissions in Ubuntu & Vista
6. Re-Activating Windows XP
7. Game recommendation
8. Probably not too hard OpenGL question
9. Special characters question

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 21

1. Program start
2. Bank statement in CSV/spreadsheet - want to put each amount in a category
3. Trojan - question
4. Why do virtual machines peg the CPU?
5. power supply issues
6. e-Ink longevity
7. Quick Java question on Thread.interrupt()

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 22

1. What countries has the internet not spread to?
2. Some printer trouble
3. OpenOffice and Firefox - bloatware?
4. Apache redirect question.
5. CD players
6. Text-to-speech in Voice Chat for Source Games
7. why is Model Mayhem always 404?
8. Blu-Ray color sub-sampling

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 23

1. What Windows tool is good for gathering bandwidth statistics?
2. Notebook stops in the welcome page
3. Image help
4. Virus
5. How to remove the password from a pdf
6. difference between html server componemts and asp.net server components
7. Pascal prob.
8. program remember
9. Networking question : What layer in the osi model does a server work with
10. need new monitor - what happened to full screens?
11. SATA Drive not recognized

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 24

1. Spin-button control in HTML form
2. How to connect speakers to my tv
3. Looking for a data entry job
4. php database question
5. Wireshark help
6. Precision of older British credit cards
7. 4G Network
8. Finding and adding to CSV (Comma-separated values) files

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 25

1. Origins of wizards
2. Telephone calls management
3. Upgrading Graphics Card in Laptop
4. windows 7
5. Cannot delete video file
6. Does intel atom architecture have special virtualization accelerating instructions?
7. Approximately how many megabytes is the Internet as of Today?
8. Google earth images
9. downforeveryoneorjustme
10. Use optical drive on one PC to install software on another PC

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 26

1. TOR inside a LAN and destination IPs
2. wants to get data structures subjects
3. The differences beetween white DVD and purple DVD
4. Execute a file when computer has been inactive.
5. Why am I spam?
6. surfing sux
7. File permissions?
8. Adobe/Acrobat product suite questions

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 27

1. Range decoding and random numbers
2. Got something I need ID'd
3. open new rss items into new tabs
4. Looking for Parrot Basic 1.0 and Parrot Basic 2.0 - something to do with Perl.
5. bugging devices for night clubs
6. Do laptops or notebooks nowdays use SATA internally?
7. error report
8. hellos
9. is there a single enterprise user of windows 3.1? (in a vm of course)
10. Toolchain
11. Apple Time Capsule
12. When you buy software on the internet.....
13. javascript - name of behaviour type

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 28

1. PHP Login recommendation please?
2. USB drive shrunk....
3. EXCEL short cut
4. Facebook question.
5. A New Undertaking
6. Safe Keylogger
7. about the racing car engine
8. bash filenames and redirecting output
9. Google Earth
10. TrueCrypt Recovery Disk
11. Threat detected and quarantined but site in history
12. Wierd attempts to access port 44281

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 29

1. micro-SIM
2. Regular expression - write n at nth match
3. Where to get a capture card?
4. Laptop Problem
5. Cyberarticle 4.364
6. Screensaver or program showing progression of night and day across the atlas
7. Automating downloading a page after a menu choice
8. how do I use a networked printer
9. IE7 peculiarity
10. Graphics card question
11. General Purpose GPU

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 30

1. Cannot delete user accounts
2. Java bytecode vs. machine bytecode
3. Getting Office 2007 Student on my eeepc
4. MHTML VS HTML
5. CSS question
6. how does an Intel Atom compare to an old Pentium III?
7. Ubuntu Dual Boot
8. Is an ATX psu suitable for 24vdc supply?
9. Accidental forks?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 January 31

1. Connecting wirelessly
2. do I have to do something with my complex printer to turn it off, or just flick the switch?