Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2008

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May 1

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

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

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 4

1. opengl program crash

May 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 29

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

May 30

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

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