Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2009

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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 1

1. change camera drivers
2. Manually backing up Hard Drive
3. CSS hover
4. Format a disk that refuses?
5. Firefox bog
6. Restoring deleted files
7. 250W PSU and a new Video Card
8. Konqueror, Firefox and openSUSE
9. Blackberrys, Outlook and Exchange
10. Time Zone Software for OS X For Scheduling Appointments
11. MoWeS to Real Server
12. What is the best web browswer for Windows?
13. Looking for something that says "Ready" when startup finally finished, and requires entering a key code to allow computer use
14. Transfer contributions list to new account

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 2

1. What to look for in a media center PC?
2. how would i... (in CSS)
3. Saving in safe mode
4. Vista Wireless Connections
5. Address Book in Yahoo Messenger
6. My own server at home - WWW/FTP/DNS? - possible?
7. Slow Acer
8. Machine translation of flash websites?
9. Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007
10. xp installation issues
11. OS X DNS/DHCP settings forgotten
12. stock website
13. Capabilities of netbooks
14. Change jpeg comments
15. Access is Denied (Thumb Drive)
16. thepiratebay.org

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 3

1. IE 6.0: don't want to get forwarded to Dell
2. NTLM vs LDAP
3. PSX Emulator--Issues with Disc Spinning
4. Flash in Web Pages
5. (Moved from misc) 3gp code for Windows Movie Maker
6. Why my wikipedia english pages so strange like this
7. Standalone virus cleaner
8. TI 89 assembly

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 4

1. Drive overclocking
2. Can I uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 after I have installed Visual C++ 2008?
3. electroni signature
4. what is computer?
5. What is Windows Media Format Runtime?
6. Virus infection
7. C++
8. Putting Two .jpg Files Into A Single .pdf

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 5

1. Vista taskbar problem
2. Find the Maximum of a Set
3. Read from /dev/urandom and convert to binary
4. Fire suppresor for computers/servers?
5. Reverse a diff file
6. mobile broadband (1)
7. Applying column width changes to every sheet in Excel
8. want to save HTML of current page from Firefox 3
9. internet on the go
10. serving SVG to FF and png to IE?
11. excel macro help
12. Spam using anothers address?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 6

1. skype to irc (or similar) gateway?
2. Current processor offerings
3. Sort order in Windows explorer
4. Truely unlimited broadband
5. MS Excel cross-reference help
6. Ultramon Wallpaper (Vista)
7. Question on ACID
8. How do I capture live webcam from livejasmin
9. Microsoft Word "bugs"
10. Blogger layout 100%
11. Vista Enterprise vs Windows 7 Beta
12. OpenGL
13. Layout Issues

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 7

1. SSD comparable to Intel X25-M
2. counting blocks in aurocad
3. Music in PC
4. Program refuses to completely uninstall
5. Using Clonezilla
6. Reload a web page every x seconds
7. Computer programming for chatterbots.
8. Using an existing sim card in a new iPhone?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 8

1. How do I update OpenOffice2.4 to version 3?
2. What's that computer virus called that pops up "you have a virus" messages?
3. rename files
4. Touch pad turned off
5. Motorola KRZR K1 Custom Ringtone

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 9

1. Pointers/References C++
2. How would you recommend organizing digital media (photos, videos, maybe audio in future)
3. programming a physics engine?
4. Hot pixels and Photoshop CS3
5. Mac/G4 question
6. Equipment found in a DNA Lab
7. Firefox login window disappears and reappears
8. Auto-complete function
9. Bit Torrent

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 10

1. Modular network security software?
2. search engines and multiple domains
3. Viewport area below BODY in Firefox
4. Apache Tomcat and Apple
5. Free Photoshop-Like Website?
6. Name the font
7. screenless display
8. Authentication using Mobile Phone / Sim card

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 11

1. Skype problems
2. Gnome Sort
3. /stalk for pidgin
4. PNG in PHP problem
5. Java programming - how do I do this...
6. digital pen/stylus
7. Incorrect behaivour or mailicious code?
8. Sync Evolution and Collanos
9. Finding the same text in two different files
10. Google Currency Converter to Only Two Decimal Places?
11. Speex audio from Adobe Flex / Flash Player 10 .flv via Red5 to .wav PCM?
12. Access 2007 and autogenerated form fields
13. iPhone and Blackberry
14. When does a MAC Address Change?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 12

1. Hibernation Mode
2. Extract the constant term from a polynomial, with Maple9
3. Security Software
4. finding pixel with RGB in visual basic or visual C++
5. Why does YouTube add black vertical black bars to my (windows movie maker) videos?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 13

1. after burning a dvd-r
2. What's really happening here?
3. Gmail offline
4. question
5. I need a boot disk
6. Linux and Torvalds original source code
7. Google toolbar and Firefox 3.0.7
8. Xlib fullscreen window sample
9. How backwards compatible is Windows 7?
10. Are stored procedures considered part of the data layer or data access layer?
11. How games use CPU cycles
12. Partition problems lead to extremely slow computer
13. Program
14. VNC client

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 14

1. what is the best free antivirus program?
2. Firefox URL window doesn't work
3. Best way to upgrade a Windows Millenium computer
4. Remote saving of pages
5. Xubuntu Loading Problems...
6. Windows XP question
7. printer beeping
8. Memory upgrade for a Dell
9. Burning dvd's &cd's

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 15

1. Cocoa Finder in 10.6
2. Graphics cards
3. DVD video creation
4. I'm spacing out on this Q...
5. 32-bit memory limits and GPUs
6. Alan turing
7. Ubuntu vs. Xubuntu
8. Mobile photo sharing
9. Using Opteron 2000 series in a 4 socket motherboard
10. annotating pdf files
11. Am I allowed to be using a pirated version of windows?
12. Can this fax?
13. Comparing variables in C++

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 16

1. Saving output in a text file
2. Preventing PLESK from disclosing my email address
3. RAID with different sizes of disks
4. Allowing blocked users to edit cetain pages
5. Thunderbird reply quote header
6. want to remove U3 from my pen drive
7. Vista and Outlook
8. Multiple live video on a single screen

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 17

1. Creating a strong password, valid characters?
2. Google print size
3. Getting the commit charge limit
4. Adding five more users to an existing 25 user Novell netware 4.2 version
5. Screen quality
6. irc help
7. Windows Family Censorship - or whatever it's called

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 18

1. C#.. how to show a tooltip anywhere on my screen?
2. Effect on humans
3. Problem with software requiring Adobe Reader
4. wii mod chip
5. Lahey compiler (FORTRAN programming)
6. Databases
7. Lookup table Excel
8. computer - DVI-D and VGA
9. Bluetooth and cell phone interraction
10. How to enable net send
11. SATA power supply
12. Switching to Linux - some questions before I do
13. Help! Excessive hard drive activity
14. Any way to tunnel traffic from behind a GET-only (no CONNECT) HTTP proxy?
15. Discrete Hard Drive Speeds

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 19

1. Two questions in one
2. Every Single Hardrive Fried?
3. iPod touch jailbreaking
4. How to identify SDRAM memory exactly for compatability reasons
5. Odd connector
6. Apostrophe
7. DOS

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 20

1. SLI in 8x?
2. Turning off a computer on a network via dos
3. Li-ion battery
4. "Looking glass" for SMS routing
5. Unbearable low screen resolution on Vista which is impossible to alter by normal methods. Help!
6. Old-header (Windows 1.0 and 2.0) bitmaps

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 21

1. net
2. Slow Computer
3. Fork bombs
4. question
5. XP windows update: how to start custom install
6. Stickam.com
7. Turning things off and on
8. Solaris 9 in VMWare
9. blocked mediawiki export, api.php - gfdl freedoms
10. Is 10-to-1 still valid?
11. Intel Core 2 Duo processors vs Centrino 2 Duo

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 22

1. HD camcorder with emphasis on microphone jack (and budget)
2. Skype Data Consumption
3. Scheduling/alert application in Windows Vista
4. IE8 vs. Chrome
5. Where and How should I write this code?
6. "New mail" notifier for IMAP
7. Crysis sandbox2 Sound
8. Inkjet Printing onto Canvas (Epson Stylus Photo R2880)

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 23

1. Windows EXE's on Mac OS x x86
2. Anyone else have one of these stupid things?
3. recovering CD data
4. Hidden files aren't shown
5. Copy a binary file in C/C++
6. Making a PDF of a Book
7. Why are console games more expensive?
8. Priority over wifi network
9. WEP Key
10. Online services request email password
11. DVD audio selection
12. Assembler syntax
13. Translation
14. Directory after remaming a user

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 24

1. Network Adaptor
2. Freeware software alerts
3. Hourly check for updates on Ubuntu
4. Oprea tabs
5. MS Word tables

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 25

1. Game Maker Help
2. DVD drive woes
3. Citing works from the Commons in a research paper
4. Viewing the MFT
5. Running Applications over a Network
6. .NET HTML table problem
7. About top university's in "MIS" Major
8. Tunebite

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 26

1. Floppy
2. This Can't be Good can it?
3. ls -tr | sh foo
4. Transferring email adresses from cableone.net to aim mail .com or yahoo.com
5. Convenient Contribs Lookup
6. Audio on DVDs in Windows Media Player
7. Sending e-mails and surfing the net anonymously
8. iMovie HD
9. Vista, firefox
10. Ports and Sockets, .logs and e-mail

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 27

1. A way to guard against identity theft?
2. Nag, nag, nag
3. JDBC
4. ISP
5. Black bar appearing either side of you tube videos!
6. SQL optimisation
7. .net on mac
8. Electronics: Logic processing: How to feed D type flip flops from parallel ...

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 28

1. SolidWorks
2. Dispose and Finalize
3. Flash and Java on 64-bit Linux
4. Installing Microsoft Office without a CD/DVD drive
5. IIT
6. TRS vs TS jacks for headphones and amplifiers
7. Root access for brain in a vat
8. Series of tubes
9. Random intractable all-browser failure on non-infected machine

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 29

1. Out-of-office auto-replies from people I've never emailed
2. Sending SMS via the computer.
3. Screen savers and tooltips don't work.
4. PC Slowing down
5. can my laptop write to dvds/cds
6. Hibernate

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 30

1. What's the most recommended ANSI/ISO C++ compiler for Windows Vista?
2. InternetCalls Software
3. convert text to numbers
4. Help me with some download things?
5. monochrome TV transmitter and reciever
6. capital "I" in MS Word 2007
7. remote desktop
8. Simple OSS
9. Need to set up a generic printer but I don't have a driver
10. World Tour / Rock Band Instrument Compatibility
11. Cloud Computing Confusion

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 31

1. Quick 'n easy wireless router question
2. downloading
3. 3DS Max 9