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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 1

  1. php - where do i start?
  2. How do I create-protect titles in my wiki?
  3. Google Phrase
  4. Ubuntu - slow DNS lookups
  5. What can I make?

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 2

  1. JavaScript Support in OS X
  2. Question about image to sound converter
  3. Can a USB drive survive after being in the washer?
  4. WinXP limited account and taskscheduler
  5. Mail (app) cache
  6. Missing wireless network?
  7. "This" and "first" memes on online forums?
  8. Excel and HTML tables
  9. TrueCrypt and Autoplay
  10. World of Warcraft: Treasure yield
  11. Copy home folder on Ubuntu?

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 3

  1. Checking for user fonts
  2. Speaker blip blip blip buzz blip blip buzz noize
  3. Cannot associate files
  4. TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Screen Problem
  5. Grabbing that "CNNBC" video
  6. font size=1
  7. Android Eclipse setup
  8. Div and span attributes

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 4

  1. Adobe Media Player
  2. Status of Apache log for downlaod of a file
  3. REPOST: Stopping Excel from Minimizing sheets
  4. 0x80004005 error when I try to register vbscript.dll
  5. Microsoft big through illegal copies
  6. download
  7. AOL
  8. a gentle start to versioning....
  9. reset Keyboard
  10. Squid cache

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 5

  1. Google Reader shared items
  2. yay a happy topic name
  3. Download
  4. Question
  5. Reporting
  6. is there any open source webzine, ezine, online magazine software?
  7. Program Help
  8. Another in need of help!
  9. Standalone data entry system
  10. Bluetooth Caller ID
  11. Background change when locked

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 6

  1. OS X Binds
  2. TIGCC and C programming
  3. Turing test judging as a Turing test
  4. Connection problem
  5. Firefox problem
  6. Rapidshare
  7. Yahoo
  8. Some secure pages: Use of Back-button = 'page expired'...Why?
  9. More Program Help
  10. Collaboration in MS Excel. How?
  11. PHP Directory Listing Woes
  12. proxy server
  13. Norton Ghost 2003

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 7

  1. WTH?!?!
  2. "Do this when there's time" in C#
  3. How does Google limit searches to a specific country?
  4. Google Calendar bug?
  5. Asus Eee USB fault
  6. turbo c++
  7. TI-83+ malfunctioning buttons
  8. Windows registry shapshot and diff utility
  9. Remove my personal information from google search results
  10. dos games on xp
  11. What is a corrupt list and how do I prevent it from happening again?
  12. WM6 and different data connections

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 8

  1. why does VLC sound so much more AWESOME than winamp?
  2. Unicode weirdness / mystery
  3. Opening OpenOffice.org Math on Ubuntu?
  4. Feasibilty of buying a Cray CX1 for home use
  5. how do I allow XP to physically shut down my computer, instead of just almost doing so?

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 9

  1. 3D Graphics Library
  2. Converting XVid to DVD
  3. PS3 Maintenance Update
  4. Deleting previous Windows installation directory
  5. Wireless woes on Intel Macbook
  6. Spending $50,000 on a Computer
  7. Incredibly aggressive virus telling me I need to protect against viruses
  8. Linux problem and Hotmail problem
  9. XWIS online (Red Alert 2)
  10. higher-end graphics cards and PCI-Express versions
  11. rapidshare contradictions

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 10

  1. windows xp services
  2. PNG vs TIFF
  3. Youtube
  4. Information on CNC
  5. Using old printers on windows XP
  6. Switching between soundcards
  7. I can't sign in to MSN or get to msn.com
  8. Search for someone's MSN skydrive
  9. What company rates website builders
  10. Automated diagramming for Netware partitions/replicas
  11. windows games
  12. Need Excel fundtion help
  13. Numbering in NeoOffice
  14. Using someone else's unsecured wifi
  15. Paypal = credit card?
  16. Subset symbol doesn't render on Wikipedia

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 11

  1. Hacking into my hotmail account
  2. SQL Help
  3. Omitting multicharacter postfix in a regular expression
  4. Win XP: Sorting documents by page count
  5. audio electronics
  6. robots
  7. AVG deleted user32.dll!
  8. css bug fixes for ie6 and 7
  9. Torrent help needed
  10. Troublesome issue with a shell script
  11. Joomla, LAN, and WAN
  12. Checking E-mail with Public WiFi

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 12

  1. Reducing restrictive NAT on wireless router
  2. Dell Inspiron 1501 Powerpack issues
  3. IE6 "Active content" warnings, javascript permissions, blah
  4. Sharing the Program Counter
  5. Copy Protection
  6. Merging accounts on AOL
  7. Flash not cached
  8. Columns in HTML tables
  9. linking iphone to a different itunes account
  10. I would like to delete my Wikipedia URL

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 13

  1. Vista copy file missing "Do this for the next n conflicts"
  2. cross-vnc
  3. spontaneous connection combustion?
  4. Mac OS X: How Can I Stop Devices From waking sleep mode?
  5. iMovie 08 Fast and Slow Motion
  6. Turn off automatic loading
  7. help with seamonkey composer
  8. fastest, lowest-footprint version of Opera browser (no javascript)
  9. Recursive Functions in Matlab
  10. Pausing Youtube Buffering

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 14

  1. Batch File: File Tree
  2. Disabling Live Call Hyperlink
  3. bit storage
  4. How to sort all the processes running on my computer
  5. Open office.org question
  6. Siebel
  7. SIMple questions ?
  8. CSS standards
  9. Non-internet browser way to view locally hosted html files
  10. How do I get a list of files on WinXP using DIR command
  11. Time complexity of SortedList<TKey,TValue>.Concat()
  12. Pesky School Filter
  13. Downloading from YouTube

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 15

  1. are there any totally-lightweight "spreadsheets"?
  2. Poster of a flickr image
  3. PSP Inviso-files
  4. The Feeble Beep of Doom
  5. organising favorites across various comptuers with different OSes and browsers
  6. Can't reformat a drive
  7. Broadband connection problems
  8. TI 89 assembly language
  9. Free online music hosting

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 16

  1. Can WinXP access WPA2 WiFi networks?
  2. Virtual 3D Accelerator for Linux
  3. No Sound in Linux
  4. Programme to find chords?
  5. Send and receive Text Messages (SMS) from a computer
  6. ImageMagick coordinates after crop
  7. Any freeware to rotate a jpeg image n degrees?
  8. Building Electronics
  9. Free HTML template/gallery software
  10. "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area"

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 17

  1. Please help with viewing problem
  2. Problem Connecting to Internet
  3. Asymmetric Cryptosystem
  4. Font Editor
  5. Dell Inspirion 1300
  6. Portable Apps on Linux?
  7. batch things
  8. iMovie '08: Editing Slow Motion & Fast Motion
  9. Scaling PHP and MySQL
  10. Laptop Brands
  11. Personal abuse on YouTube
  12. download website using webripper
  13. Can I merge .debs?
  14. PC Upgrade
  15. Setting up LaTex
  16. Does anyone else use Google as a spell checker?
  17. Spyware redirecting my browser
  18. Hmm...I need a Laptop
  19. AES
  20. Wikipedia Usernames

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 18

  1. Firefox not viewing images
  2. How do I install VLC
  3. 'Build your own PC' - Help please
  4. laptop slowdown
  5. Blog with access control
  6. Limewire
  7. decidability
  8. How might I prevent websites from...

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 19

  1. 3 quesshuns in one
  2. Weird Internet problems
  3. Java Script Problem
  4. information about some Computing history
  5. HOW TO JOIN TWO EXE FILES!
  6. OPEN GL question.
  7. ReadyBoost good idea?
  8. HDR program
  9. Basic Linux Regex
  10. screencasting from your computer workstation directly to youtube
  11. Dreamweb
  12. Apple Keyboard malfunctioning as mouse
  13. The Brookings Institution on Twitter

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 20

  1. ANT build process.
  2. Amazingly Realistic Graphics
  3. Strict NAT on DSL modem?
  4. HP Compaq Presario
  5. Problem in starting Microsoft Age of Mythology Gold Edition.
  6. underline in spanish
  7. History of MATLAB's "why" function
  8. html/css future.
  9. Spyware won't let me access YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google Images

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 21

  1. System->Administration->Network does not appear in Ubuntu 8.10
  2. Free Antivirus
  3. CSS for the blind
  4. Printing a file into a bitmap or something
  5. Makes me want to set the fox on fire myself...
  6. BeautifulSoup
  7. Localhost offline in firefox
  8. Password Problems Windows XP Pro
  9. Set top box
  10. sudden shut-down of HP Pavillion laptop

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 22

  1. Zigbee or CAN
  2. One program, one/two file formats
  3. Converting standalone program into web-application
  4. Wiring an RCA-to-VGA adapter
  5. HP PSC 1350xi All-in-One

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 23

  1. php large num calculation woes
  2. NX/XD/DEP
  3. Comparative tests of 256Kb AAC vs. MP3 vs CD?
  4. on screen keyboard
  5. Different 'Drives'
  6. Sony Vegas text editing
  7. Running python scripts with Plain Old Webserver
  8. Three questions in one
  9. Curly brackets in Java

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 24

  1. bad sectors on hard disk
  2. Film scanner problems
  3. change in how wikipedia displays in my browser
  4. Interrupts in the human brain
  5. What is command use &mmo in foxpro?
  6. How to enabled ENUM in existing DNS.
  7. NAS+USB drive
  8. How would you secure OSPF on windows server 2003
  9. Weird TV colors

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 25

  1. Spybot is blocking me from connecting to my wireless router
  2. Laptop Overheating
  3. Google results being redirected
  4. Windows 9x on logical partitions?
  5. Irritating animated ad that won't go away
  6. Web-hosting with Perl and PHP, program in C++
  7. PDF built-in font set
  8. Networking for Dummies?
  9. Blackberry Storm/YouTube
  10. X11 in minimal Debian installation
  11. Powering down HDDs
  12. Microsoft Word

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 26

  1. Combining multiple files into a single executable
  2. Yahoo
  3. footnotes in Word: page breaks
  4. google maps
  5. Image size
  6. Buying advice for macbook hard disk drive
  7. Hamming distance
  8. gmail doesn't work with google chrome??
  9. Video Cards
  10. Soft reboot

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 27

  1. RCA DRC628 dvd player
  2. big number calculator software
  3. Reinstalling Ubuntu and extras in a new computer
  4. would the mac mini support some weight?
  5. Television and xbox 360 region encoding
  6. Algorithm

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 28

  1. SQL query from win32 command line
  2. AND, OR Gates
  3. Interactive Website
  4. TV Question
  5. Website Development
  6. Is Yahoo down?
  7. grep a file with lines from another file
  8. Scanning in UK
  9. Default font list for Ubuntu / Kubuntu Linux (+OpenOffice)
  10. Speeding up and slowing down audio

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 29

  1. OS X mail application
  2. Questions about /etc/init.d/network
  3. Auto complete data
  4. Relative vs. Absolute referencing
  5. Setiing up a lan with two Suse machines
  6. Cellphones in the United States
  7. Back button not there first time I open a page, is there after
  8. What is the easiest way to save Hotmail emails to hard disk?
  9. Help with .emp file format.

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 30

  1. Now whenever I want Google I get iGoogle - annoyed!
  2. trouble with slowdowns
  3. mysql query question, merging SELECT results
  4. Firegestures
  5. Program for determining primes
  6. Remote thread injection, weird failures
  7. Untitled
  8. binary packages on Linux: what am I missing?
  9. Coding in VB6 for Windows CE 2
  10. Coding Today screen applets in VB.NET
  11. router rebooting
  12. Java Exception Handling - logic error?
  13. Compaq ports
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