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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 1

1. Email recursion
2. What is inking?
3. How do they design the italic fonts in word processing?
4. Expressive power of computer languages: it's all about the syntax/logic?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 2

1. Need help setting up an internet system in a very large house (20 bedrooms)
2. Is there anyway to remove the smiley face on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 3

1. USB drive letters
2. Typing English with Russian keyboard

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 4

1. Skylake questions
2. IT careers
3. Trying to get apt to work in Fedora 22
4. Format(file extension) to contain 7.1 surround sound audio?
5. If people learn Lisp or Haskell to increase their understanding about how computers work...

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 5

1. Java 3D
2. Where can I get a good cheap used computer in Vancouver Canada?
3. How to enable Java on Windows 98 ?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 6

1. Fonts that look like cursive handwriting
2. Forcing windows 10 upgrade
3. Choosing an open-source 3D CAD program

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 7

1. Excel help
2. SCREEN ROTATION
3. Opening Documents in MS Word

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 9

1. Fuzzy logic, when you are using a digital computer
2. A question in computer science with an emphasis in communication & Internet
3. Removing metadata from images: why?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 10

1. Nameservers & web hosting for just one page, with domain already registered elsewhere
2. Can the Raspberry Pi 2 ARM port of Windows 10 run apps that have a GUI?
3. How to read notes from a MIDI(*.mid) file?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 11

1. [http://opencv.org/downloads.html OpenCV]

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 12

1. Audio delay device ?
2. What is FreeVST?
3. How to list drivers as they load in Windows 7 ?
4. Ethernet to wireless

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 13

1. Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?
2. Android app to count cells in micrograph images?
3. How to print from Blackboard
4. published operating system source code
5. What is note 0 in MIDI?
6. Google Chrome Issue
7. new computer and dual-channel memory
8. lollipop op
9. Excel scrollbar

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 14

1. What is the shortest program that's an example of the halting problem?
2. Editing Wikipedia over a VPN

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 15

1. hey, you, get off of iCloud
2. Adoption of Lotus 1-2-3 software outside USA?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 16

1. Many system settings options missing under "System administration" in KDE Plasma 5 "System Settings" screen
2. Upgraded for Win10 and can't use Keyboard Hotkeys in Word 2010

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 17

1. Facebook: "Getting back onto Facebook"
2. USB to notebook power adapter for charging
3. IPs of public Wifis in the UK
4. Windows 10 Update Prompts
5. Halting problem question
6. What are the best free text-to-speech programs these days? For Windows and for Android?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 18

1. Contribution to page Lanczos_resampling
2. Bamerbalazs
3. Should I accept Microsoft's suggestion of upgrading my Windows 7 by Windows 10, for free, after they found my computer to be appropriate.
4. Do TCP & UDP function the same way over IPv6 the same way they do over IPv4?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 19

1. Can you really delete emails permanently?

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 20

1. Screen that would consume less energy with black background
2. Do web servers these days tend not to accept telnet conversations?
3. Blocking email attachments on an iPhone 4s running iOS 8.3

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 21

1. How important was Linus Torvalds for the Linux kernel actually?
2. Android version
3. 7 inch LCD display screen with HDMI input and can be powered by USB?
4. Windows 10 doesn't turn off my computer when shutting down
5. Firefox hyphenating Finnish?
6. Cite templates not functioning

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 22

1. is it possible to spoof someone on Ashley Madison
2. Font coverage
3. Using python interactively, show output on another window

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 23

1. What is it called?
2. Verifying the Ashley Madison data
3. Can School WiFi block VPNs?
4. Upgrade vs Clean Install to Win10

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 25

1. Unable to remove program from Windows 7 Startup List
2. Turboboost on Intel 4790K
3. Microsoft Wi-Fi Sense tracking wi-fi devices globally?
4. C# how to load an external libary (DLL) if it exist in directory?
5. Tiled high-res images

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 26

1. UK unemployment of computer scientists
2. split string based on some seperator using angular js
3. Create An Account
4. I am getting the message below from many wikipedia pages. What's going on?
5. Windows 10
6. Office
7. Shouldn't programming abstractions be easy to understand? Often I find that OO is not the case.

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 27

1. Glassdoor.com
2. Unsupported image type on mouseover
3. Old URL means computer won't go to new web site
4. Java class transportability

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 28

1. Beats headphones
2. Why is the radix point unavailable in Programmer mode of Microsoft calculator?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 29

1. Protection rings
2. Choosing a router that's capable of the most number of connections
3. What are the most common screen sizes (by pixel size)?
4. How does OpenVPN's virtual network connection work?
5. MS Excel thousands separator in footer page numbers and number of pages
6. Dynamic IPs and IPv4 address exhaustion
7. Self-DDOSing AOL article
8. How do you enable/disable the feature in Microsoft Word 2013 that automatically creates bullet lists?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 30

1. Could or does Microsoft incorporate open source libraries into its products?
2. Computer scientists who eschew the use of computers for their work
3. Defaulting
4. Suggestions for free antivirus scanners for windows 7 or 8

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 August 31

1. KiCAD
2. Toolbar windows
3. #! /usr/bin/env python not picking the last version of python
4. How do I connect laptops with female ports to vintage speakers?