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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 1

1. fuses that can be attached to a printed resistive heating device so as to maintain a temperature range ie: 100 degrees F
2. malfunctioning header and footer in HTML file
3. Laptop Purchase
4. Keyboard layout defaults to English/US on Fedora 14 Linux

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 2

1. Research design for IT PhDs
2. rsync not working as expected
3. Green and blue look fine on my laptop.

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 3

1. Wikipedia-related blog aggregators
2. Pop up blocker for specific site?
3. What's wrong with the external link check?
4. MySQL5 password brute force
5. Firefox Stopping & Starting
6. Mercury (element)
7. MySQL fuzzy select field name
8. Latin characters in Unicode
9. User Limit on Software Installation

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 4

1. Can't access external hard drive
2. Clicking scroll wheel to go to full-screen mode?
3. How to select proper PSU for my PC with new GPU card upgrade
4. Two sets of earbuds in one iPhone 3GS
5. Is face detection involves matching faces
6. C# cannot convert from char[] to string
7. Delete facebook
8. Multithreaded Apartment in Visual Basic Application

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 5

1. Computers that degrade with age
2. Does Video card affect video playback performance?
3. What's the best way to restore a computer to its factory state?
4. Free MS-DOS games?
5. VPN in other countries
6. Website prices
7. Norwegian letter

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 6

1. How do I install "F22 Lightning II" on my W7 system?
2. Folder COM
3. Table of Contents Greasemonkey userscript

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 7

1. Is redstone Turing complete?
2. Forcing internet access to require a user name and password (Win XP and DSL modem)
3. Win 7 flaky on system resume
4. Strange "WUDFHost.exe" process - Please help
5. SearchIndexer.exe & SearchProtocolHost.exe keeping computer busy
6. Oversized display area for hidden systray icons
7. Really good virtual reality
8. The Wikipedia search facility is seriously broken
9. Synthesizer voice
10. Google search
11. Question about destructors in C++
12. How to raise an IOI kid?
13. problem with networking
14. Identifying people on Twitter
15. Do Android developers dream of owning lots of physical Android phones?
16. Typing password twice in Windows 7

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 8

1. Average amount of time for two-qubit entanglement.
2. laser toner compostable?
3. 8GB of RAM, but OS only seeing 7?
4. MatLab help
5. <div> tag margins and displaytitle
6. Google Account

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 9

1. Alternatives to texvc in MediaWiki
2. facebook
3. Smartphones and apps that run everywhere
4. Connecting an Atari standard joystick to a modern PC?
5. Boosting WiFi with aluminum foil
6. Issue with java and thread halting.....

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 10

1. iPad charging
2. Amateur architectural design programs
3. DOWN LOAD SOFT WARE OF BENZ ACTRESS COMPUTER SYSYTEM
4. C# getting the amplitude of the sound read by the microphone
5. 15 inch cheap thin ssd like zenbook?
6. ASP.NET session expiring

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 11

1. regex problem
2. report of censoring by Wikipedia Chinese web site
3. How do I use phpMyAdmin
4. pagefile
5. Columns in EPUB
6. Skype on smartphones: 3G or wifi
7. How can a web crawler see what we can't?
8. Best program for a text-based shooter game

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 12

1. "Can't extract MFC42.DLL"
2. Upgrading RAM while hibernated
3. Average amount of time for two-qubit entanglement.
4. Looking for a 3d First Person Shooter/Engine/Game Making System that Allows Tinkering with Enemy AI
5. every time i search the web my internet explorer stops working what can i do to fix this problem?
6. The difference of TouchWiz and Android?
7. Embedding a video into PPT 2003

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 13

1. Split files unrecognized
2. Quantum OpenCL?
3. Can you blackout jan 18 to protest the SOPA act?
4. Finding names of Flash files/Associated flash content

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 14

1. Microsoft Office problems
2. livejournal

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 15

1. What is PCle versus PCIe
2. going rate for used macbook pro

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 16

1. 3G Wifi Router

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 17

1. Is machine translation really a CS topic or a linguistics one?
2. I need help with a TV remote!!!
3. Opening download.
4. Is it possible for a Photoshop tool's effect to "wrap around" an image?
5. "multiple networks" on a Windows 7 home network
6. Good wikipedia mirror?
7. When does the blackout start

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 19

1. Xbox 360 emulator
2. Tor Proxy
3. Weird letter characters
4. One question about SOPA.
5. Is there some way to look up the non-toll free number that a toll free number goes to?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 20

1. What is filling up my Harddrive? (After installing Windows7Ultimate from DVD)
2. another networking problem
3. Platform-dependent C++ problem regarding standard out
4. Word styles
5. IPv6 transitioning

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 21

1. USB Using Processing Power
2. Word 2007 Error
3. Recognizing Counterfeit Credit Cards
4. Download an on-line video?

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 22

1. Timer limit on Digital video recorders
2. New monitor flickers only while gaming
3. How to speed up the floppy drive in VICE?
4. Subtraction?
5. iPad bookmarks

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 23

1. Sharing big files
2. seizing websites: how does it technically work?
3. Hot CPU?
4. Referrer spam possible in non-bot traffic?
5. "expert" user-generated content
6. Some files missing - TestDisk didn't help
7. service providers and passwords
8. Sophos and Spyware Quarantines
9. Free certificate authorities?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 24

1. One computer, several network connections
2. "Unblowing" eFuses using a focused ion beam

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 25

1. Can a JavaScript alert appear when browser is minimised?
2. Keyboarding Pro 4, Pro 5 , Pro 6 and Keyboading Course 1-25 w/Keyboarding 6
3. SQL query
4. Image Processing using Fourier Transforms in MATLAB
5. Patent for content downloads
6. Is there a way to call a toll free number without them seeing your number that doesn't cost a fortune?
7. Brute-force attacks against Gmail passwords

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 26

1. Where can I learn to build my own mobile apps?
2. why is my sparkle nvidia geforce 210 512mb graphics card not working?
3. Information Technology Foundations
4. Making a New Word Doc from An Existing doc
5. drop-in code for a survey on my web page
6. So what happenswhen you divide by zero?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 27

1. Hard drive prices -- am I missing something?
2. Video from iTunes on Windows computer
3. http://www.htc.com/in/smartphones/htc-sensation-xl/ link does not work.
4. "Are you sure you want to leave the page?"
5. Restart problem ........ Motherboard or software?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 28

1. Ordering a single Tegra 3 SoC
2. Importance of checksums
3. Key loggers on smart phones
4. wifi printer setup problem
5. Software writer?
6. How come Windows applications sometimes keep running after they "crash"?
7. YIM emoticons
8. Wikipedia competition

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 29

1. sending bin like a txt
2. high speed video
3. Speeding a Media file but also saving it speeded
4. Frames to gif
5. Home networks and printers

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 30

1. 32-bit Vista to 64-bit
2. Webseeding torrents
3. Ipod touch
4. Printing favorites
5. need help destroying computer
6. source code for a javascript text adventure game
7. sarcasm from computers

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 31

1. How to load a mouse driver without a mouse driver ?
2. Refresh webpage continuously
3. Onion
4. google
5. Meta machine learning
6. Running installers on Windows 7
7. Changing interfaces' colour
8. Vertical bar!
9. Windows media center tv guide listings die at 6pm tonight? D;
10. floating point types in Windows programming languages