Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2011

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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 1

1. Blu-ray anamorphic widescreen
2. Internet connection
3. Extract text from pdf
4. Identifying model of PowerBook G4 & Nil Startup
5. Gmail Sent Mail/Sent Messages
6. Follow-up post from a month ago - found it!
7. Nine-segment displays in elevators in Germany
8. cheap small-ish i5 or i7 pc with 4 or 8 gb ram and solid state?
9. Google Earth polygons
10. PROJECT ON RSA ALGORITHM
11. smtp for Google apps

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 2

1. Maps for dummies
2. Where did I go wrong? (XP password bypass)
3. Facebook profile train station option?
4. head-mounted display
5. Sluggish bittorrent window in Ubuntu
6. PNY VCQ450NVS-X16-PB Quadro NVS 450
7. 'Can You Run It?'
8. How to check which program created a file in my computer (Windows)?
9. How can I cancel saving a web page in IE?
10. Monitoring network adapters on my computer
11. DOS command prompt command to get rid of Mac resource forks
12. Droid 3 processor swap

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 3

1. Broken Computer
2. nostradamus's best and worst predictions?
3. Windows Vista behavior copying CDs
4. Voice Memo app for Android 3G MyTouch T-Mobile?
5. Creating New Word Document + Content from Macro
6. further question on c++ objects deleting themselves
7. name of city
8. Searching for a computer part
9. Contacting an IP
10. mac os x time machine
11. PC problems with running programmes from icons

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 4

1. Full HD backup and recover for a Windows 7 PC
2. Please help in finding a jigsaw creating program...
3. Nexus S vs LG Optimus 2X

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 5

1. convert jpg to text
2. Dueling monitors
3. Can't save my Tiddlywiki
4. Extensible compilers & languages, compiler-compilers, metaprogramming, extensible syntax, domain specific languages, language-oriented programming
5. FORTRAN
6. My computer has gone mute

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 6

1. Battery charger
2. Again, sata drives are being strange
3. Dell loves to nickel-and-dime us. What computer manufacturer gives us a better customer experience?
4. LAN - WIRELESS CONNECTION
5. AntiSec's law enforcement hack
6. OpenSSL API

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 7

1. Lappy keeps shutting down
2. "Go to a web site" displayed in Firefox address slot rather than the URL
3. MS Word - Highlighting
4. Batch renaming in Linux

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 8

1. I need an old computing joke
2. Android - ability to sound alarm at regular intervals
3. SVG image appears incorrectly after uploading into Commons
4. Copying text from website with LOTS of links
5. Chat site
6. Windows easy transfer
7. mouse pointers

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 9

1. Cell phone without a baseband processor
2. Identify a satellite-view or bird's-eye-view image?
3. Starting programs via Run
4. Name of open internet group?
5. functions of a function
6. Router gives wrong location

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 10

1. Cannot access Windows Update
2. computers?
3. MS Office on a tablet
4. Hi-Grade ftp site for laptop drivers
5. undefined reference to vtable
6. Different Voltage slower computers?
7. explicitly forbid a Windows 7 process from consuming more than 95% of the CPU
8. Where to find certificates in Windows 7?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 11

1. Does lowering the volume on an MP3 player increase battery life?
2. What? A METAL DETECTOR APP? (Android Marketplace)
3. Android device with a USB Host port
4. Cheapo Android tablet battery life
5. Unable to create an Yahoo account.
6. JDK, JRE, x86, x64
7. Linux Keyring prompt fix
8. What computer manufacturer gives better warranty deals?
9. Why would a toolbar disappear?
10. Networked printer problems
11. Using VLC to add video effects/adjustments to vids
12. Tr0ub4dor&3 vs. correcthorsebatterystaple

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 12

1. "Temporarily" installing software
2. Mouseover pop-up CHN-ENG translator for Internet Explorer?
3. cropping jpg images
4. Google forces its localized domain on me
5. Google problem
6. Screen Quality with Video Question/Concern
7. flickr
8. PS2 .STR Audio Files
9. Where's the security weakness?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 13

1. Video Enhancement and Programming
2. Help with MS Access 2007 (VBA) to open a new instance of excel 2007 instead of excel 2003
3. How to make each excel files open in a same instance of excel 2007
4. databases
5. Obsolete or backdated website
6. How to find a lost iPhone
7. Parallels desktop

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 14

1. How would a website/network know that it's you, even if your IP address is changed?
2. disable keyboard on laptop
3. solution of computer problem
4. Stretch screen resolution
5. How do I install language support without Microsoft Office?
6. My MS office program is now in windows.old folders, but how do I get it to work again?
7. Stopping Firefox from flashing a page and then changing it
8. Is defragmenting pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys worth it?
9. Microsoft Word preferences

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 15

1. HP 6310 all-in-one printer
2. Web-page problem
3. Wireless internet provision in a large building such as a hotel
4. Program Files Folder x2
5. Identify software for plotting stories
6. Find and Replace expression: Change 3rd colon to a period?
7. Looking for nice boxes and arrows FOSS
8. twitter

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 16

1. Google's purchase of Motorola
2. need help
3. omanual file format
4. Laptop battery - left plugged in and running
5. Security implications of a poor-man's proxy?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 17

1. Most likely thing to die in a PC from a power surge
2. Someone sending emails from my Outlook
3. Reversi Bug
4. A computer without a chassis?
5. Finding and configuring certain hotkeys

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 18

1. changing name of wireless router
2. Geomedia Professional
3. Problem with [http://theie9countdown.com]
4. parchive
5. Cannot stream video from A&E family of websites
6. Zip file
7. Can't install Windows XP x86 on Windows 7 x64 as a second partition
8. Power Supplies for laptops
9. how can pypy work?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 19

1. Google Street View privacy concerns
2. Download special video from youtube?
3. accurate shut down
4. Excel number display format
5. Firesheep for Linux
6. Powerpoint Open Side-by-Side?
7. Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Bridging Device
8. PS2 .STR Audio Files

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 20

1. Permutation identification
2. Javascript program writing
3. Firefox source code
4. Where does Chrome keep its bookmarks?
5. Windows 7 file explorer and all internet browsers jump back a page
6. How to send an old computer system to schools in Africa?
7. CSS normal text style
8. Can most computers type diacritics?
9. MS Excel - Elapsed time calculations
10. Router settings

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 21

1. Burning time differences
2. best proxy to avoid detection
3. Adobe InDesign favour

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 22

1. Layout Diagrams of Computer Hardware Standards
2. How can I batch process convert MP3s into mono?
3. Diagnosing intermittent crashing
4. Reporting facebook abuse
5. Tor Proxy error..please help (Q moved from misc desk)

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 23

1. Firefox: Is this a problem for anybody else?
2. Looking up Chrome's history file
3. Learning Print Conversion to Web
4. Firefox keyboard shortcut
5. Why www and http?
6. Changes in BootCamp 4.0
7. Any NLE that can natively edit MKV files?
8. QR codes for Wikipedians

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 24

1. Making an FTP connection secure
2. History of computers
3. Reloading without re-caching

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 25

1. NLB Browsers in Windows 7
2. What happens to files and programs when you install linux over windows?
3. Windows Media Player 11 - Resizing
4. How involved was Steve Jobs in technical design/architecture?
5. school lab a little lost
6. I'm not used to new windows installs (formatting etc)
7. Phone calculator

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 26

1. A little help please with new windows install/getting my hardware to work?
2. Missing audio channel?
3. extracting 3d coordiantes from 2d images of face

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 27

1. Reading PDFs that have columns
2. Secret Facebook Group
3. Are hex codes, CMYK, and RGB equivalent, or does one have greater color range than the rest?
4. What irc channel has the most people in it?
5. Why is idling in irc channels considered bad?
6. How to sync a Palm Tungsten E with a Dell Studio XPS with windows 7 ?
7. Free PDF software
8. Maximum RAM capacity for a Compaq presario CM2050 1456VQL1N laptop
9. "Additional logon information required" error message Windows 7
10. Mozilla support forums - few messages since August 18
11. select count vs. mysql_num_rows

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 28

1. New technology info
2. Stellarium
3. NLB Browsers in Windows 7
4. API usage to view deleted file
5. Chrome IDN whitelist
6. Internet explorer first to use domain greying out in address bar?
7. Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Tape Drive Support

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 29

1. First stage bootloader larger than 512 bytes
2. CSS Full-Height Scrollable Columns
3. hibernate a single program

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 30

1. Mozila reloading previous sessions
2. Editing .bashrc
3. wikipedia mirror on my local network.
4. Deleting many files
5. Digital Pens
6. Microsoft Word length
7. Second most popular non-commercial site
8. Automatically getting a file's parent directory in Windows 7?
9. Home directory physical location when running a Linux Live CD

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 31

1. Do I have Bitcoin straight in my head?
2. Does the browser or the server look for "index.html"?
3. Digitise my life: step one - acquire a scanner
4. Net Access
5. pcie half card with Wimax and WiFI
6. Telecommuting programming job boards?