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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 1

  1. Emulating Windows Xp on my Windows Vista to make the game work? How?
  2. Burning images
  3. Changing size of a particular font
  4. Error Reading Thumbdrive
  5. lost?
  6. Windows Movie Maker
  7. Any Mac apps that can read .UIF files?
  8. MSN Messenger
  9. Image snap
  10. Word 2007 switching language with the keyboard

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 2

  1. I have a problem signing up for AIM?
  2. IBM Kittyhawk vs Storm botnet
  3. Horizontal scrolling with touchpad
  4. html / js / css is holding back the web?!
  5. virus
  6. The world's first software program?
  7. choosing a laptop
  8. Downloading link in Flash: Avoid the innumerous scrappers on the web
  9. Excel if function text criteria difficulties
  10. Viruses
  11. Hot linking
  12. Can't boot computer after attempting to add RAM

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 3

  1. follow up to wireless broadband security
  2. Mac
  3. Youtube down?
  4. largest tv
  5. Printing software crashes when it encounters my files?
  6. is it possible to have Internet everywhere in the world?
  7. utest.com: scam?
  8. Google
  9. Safe alternative to scanf?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 4

  1. opengl program crash

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 5

  1. Playing foreign DVDs on a PC
  2. Name of a sorting algorithm?
  3. Computer beeps
  4. BLAST one sequence against database and return a hit for each sequence in the database

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 6

  1. The Sound of Thinking
  2. C File writing
  3. Why not have Enter, Backspace and Delete options on mouse or on Toolbar
  4. Soft spam: a golden business idea?
  5. wireless passwords
  6. Help in checking website fine print updates
  7. removing my email address from a webpage?
  8. Windows command line question
  9. GIMP question
  10. Taking an image grab of a movie file
  11. Disk Partition
  12. WMV to 3g2 converter

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 7

  1. Trying to edit a video
  2. MySpace Groups
  3. networking
  4. GNUCASH user experience
  5. Antifilter
  6. CD player woes
  7. Rayman sound
  8. 777 folders hacked
  9. Win XP SP3
  10. Increasing font size of a specific font
  11. Simple freeware Windows database for bibliographic details.
  12. AMD vs Intel: current mid-to-high range CPUs

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 8

  1. Mozilla Firefox: restoring sessions
  2. Browsing Internet using Adobe Acrobate Reader
  3. Youtube
  4. Fork bomb
  5. Image printer device driver
  6. PSP Help please
  7. Trying to recall but it's just not clicking...
  8. Desktop motherboard with on-board modem AND wireless capabilities
  9. Google Toolbar Find

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 9

  1. Strange HDD problem
  2. Bypassing difference?
  3. Geometry software
  4. Getting electric shocks through iMac headphone jack
  5. CPAN for Java
  6. Removing Ubuntu

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 10

  1. Router for PS3
  2. A question about Windows Paint...
  3. How to find IE Proxy Settings on a restricted computer
  4. Nvidia chip again
  5. Something
  6. Why don't these yahoo answers links work?
  7. Slow computerr
  8. Strange application
  9. new ram not working
  10. Joyfully interesting graphical glitch
  11. 3D modeling software
  12. Version Control System
  13. Processor Compare
  14. How can I make my computer run faster?

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 11

  1. Privacy and email
  2. iTunes on new computer
  3. Just ONE file for flash
  4. C array and structure initialisation
  5. Automatically removing all line-breaks
  6. Metadata editor
  7. Windows Movie Maker
  8. Translate from Turkish
  9. Hidden pic (Internet Explorer only)
  10. Slow laptop

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 12

  1. KDE 4 questions
  2. internet radio in ipod touch
  3. Down Loading free e-books on Plam Top 5
  4. IP Address Question
  5. Registry
  6. Any substitute of CloneCD?
  7. Big Brother
  8. Spyware
  9. Compression
  10. Outlook error?
  11. Additional hard drives
  12. Google balls
  13. Firefox - force text/plain to view files instead of download?
  14. RSTP
  15. Simple graphics problem - make an Excel chart into an image
  16. Runtime errors
  17. HTML source
  18. Monitoring upload/download

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 13

  1. cgi proxies
  2. Need a good PC emulator
  3. Electronic dictionaries' added contents
  4. memory card
  5. software for keeping track of articles, ebooks, notes
  6. Windows not recognising partitioned flash drive
  7. Linux: multiple shells in text mode
  8. indexing software?
  9. GTK+: locales, download
  10. ENTIRE PARTITION GONE!!!
  11. Printer Ink Cartridges for Dell Printers
  12. Windows Movie Maker

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 14

  1. Debian openssl vulnerability
  2. C string scaning
  3. How they use Vmware and other virtual machines on business??
  4. CD player woes (reposted with updated question)
  5. CSS to wrap text around a center image?
  6. MediaWiki: operating system?

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 15

  1. Help- SQL
  2. VCS with Visual Studio 2008 Express
  3. free MySQL hosting
  4. Free flash flex server
  5. Ebay
  6. Archive.org
  7. Visual Basic 2005 question re: images
  8. Using Mediawiki
  9. Photoshopping
  10. Coppermine Gallery
  11. Wiki Nested Tables
  12. Acer Aspire

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 16

  1. MS Word stops spell checking my files in the middle of a page – Why?
  2. Quick and dirty edge detection?
  3. MICROSOFT VISIO 2007
  4. Starcraft 2 is considering having their Creep Colonies to damage enemy buildings
  5. Windows XP compatibility
  6. Babelfish
  7. Printing out columns with css
  8. Font in LaTex documents
  9. IPV6 behaviour
  10. XP specs
  11. Decent font recognition freeware?
  12. Setting the time on a Linksys router

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 17

  1. DHCP automatic allocation override?
  2. Speech synthesizer
  3. What is Prestoserve?
  4. SELECT syntax
  5. Vista Headset
  6. Recording phone calls
  7. Resizing my home-partition on Ubuntu
  8. Clicks made by computer
  9. Vista/XP

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 18

  1. MS-DOS_Windows_Command_Prompt
  2. hardware problem
  3. photos in ipod touch
  4. CLI question?
  5. CD Audio, 700MB = 80 minutes. Why?
  6. Java: Method overloading

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 19

  1. for speed, put XP or Windows 2000 on an old PC?? (pentium 3, 667 MHZ, 256 MB RAM)
  2. Maximum dimensions for image files
  3. Can Windows Media Center record/pause RTSP streams?
  4. How does the Chinese Wikipedia interconvert between different flavors of Chinese?
  5. Cartoon Animation in Adobe/Macromedia Flash
  6. IE7 bug
  7. Misc Desk
  8. Wordlist generator or commandline dictionary attack program
  9. Slow internet problem?
  10. Visible polygon vertices algorithm?

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 20

  1. Help with files
  2. iPod storage
  3. shaddy contractor
  4. How do I split the tabs?
  5. What's wrong with my keyboard?
  6. CPU question
  7. free online soccer
  8. VoIP/IPKall: receiving incoming calls
  9. C variable string
  10. AMD board
  11. Disk image/operating system compatibility
  12. Real-world computational complexity

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 21

  1. how to sniff and play streaming mp3
  2. Mysterious page inclusions/deletions
  3. YouTube
  4. What Trusted timestamping service do you trust?
  5. Can an Adobe Flash plugin read a person's MAC Address or other hardware/personal information?
  6. Java parser implementation?
  7. link sharing.
  8. Anything better than Anisotropic filtering?
  9. Dotaing

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 22

  1. How can I use public domain materials? Can I make money off of them?
  2. GIMP question
  3. Running many with &&
  4. ActionScript: make _rotate rotate smoothly
  5. Incredibly stupid Python question...
  6. Blu-Ray playback on Mac (non-copyrighted material)
  7. Different OS = different fonts?
  8. Sending e-mails without disclosing everyone copied into them.
  9. FreeHand to SVG
  10. More command prompt
  11. Writing DVDs
  12. Domains
  13. Excel question

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 23

  1. Computer restart problem - fix
  2. Request: OpenOffice.org macro
  3. securing my wifi
  4. Debian SSL/SSH vulnerability
  5. Home Server
  6. quality of Windows Live SkyDrive
  7. Exceptions to crossfading
  8. MS Word 2003 Question
  9. Restricted Surfing Zone
  10. iphone vs blackberry
  11. android
  12. Failed RAID mirror - both drives

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 24

  1. My new motherboard is making me sad
  2. Archive of flash site
  3. Transferring files to MP3 player
  4. Ipod Touch Downgrading
  5. Preserving quality of an image
  6. bittorrent situation in France
  7. CD player woes (reposted with updated question)
  8. Flash Drive
  9. Underclock macbook pro
  10. Chip fan failed
  11. Web page update alerts software for Mac
  12. What is a .VoMiT file?
  13. Fastest Internet

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 25

  1. Windows Vista Bit Editons
  2. Changing computer
  3. How to disable file locking in Windows XP?
  4. What archive type is "webpages.ez" ?
  5. flow chart and flow diagram
  6. totally confused about wireless service
  7. Passwords and such
  8. Call Centre setup
  9. VisionLab Studio crash

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 26

  1. SODIMMs in DIMM slots
  2. Meme
  3. Web Design Question
  4. The uses of computer in daily life
  5. Programming
  6. Database querying
  7. linking to an especific page in pdf file
  8. What programming language to use for websites?
  9. angle between two cities on Earth

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 27

  1. Firefox AutoComplete
  2. hashing technique in DBMS
  3. .SRF File
  4. Schema drawing software
  5. Restart Windows to avoid driver-related crash?

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 28

  1. Error Printing on MacOS 10.4.11
  2. Is bandwidth speed shaping legal?
  3. Ctrl Alt Del Box/Window
  4. bestselling macbook
  5. Audio streams
  6. computer buggage
  7. deleting google history
  8. How to extract the content from a wiki page and transfer the information to a database.
  9. computer sound

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 29

  1. Computers
  2. bandwidth of skype
  3. Firefox - link captions
  4. "Unavailable" Google video

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 30

  1. coding
  2. Help me find a good laptop?
  3. computer lore
  4. Music Software Titles And Music Making Software
  5. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
  6. telecoms
  7. What's this symbol called?
  8. Floppy disk of death! (no virus needed)
  9. watching TV in a computer monitor?
  10. phone security with voip and broadband
  11. Thumbnail cache
  12. A little bot job

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 31

  1. Multi-core motherboard
  2. Good Fonts to Use?
  3. Extra Tool Browser
  4. Adding videos to DeVeDe (software)
  5. Displaying the gradient when optimizing in R
  6. Explorer
  7. Concatenated SMS
  8. TV PC
  9. shell script
  10. error importing movie into iMovieHD 06
  11. wrong 'drive'
  12. Super NES question
  13. Javascript question
  14. Opera has problems with CSS at nearly every site
  15. C: Int to string
  16. PHP & socket_accept & annoying problem
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