Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2011

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 1

1. svn problem
2. Compiling PureDarwin
3. Full form of 'i' in 'intel i series of processors'
4. Firefox font messed up?
5. Recommended antivirus/antimalware
6. userscript

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 2

1. Windows 7 Backup disks
2. Non google / bing search engines by marketshare?
3. Laptop battery with built-in DC socket
4. Printing port from laptop computer.
5. no "advanced search"
6. What is wrong with my computer?

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 3

1. I need a reputable tool to end my PC errors. If ErrorEnd isn't one, what is?
2. Running a 32-bit .dll on a 64-bit Windows system.
3. scan& record
4. implementing a subset of SQL

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 4

1. Perpetual loop problem
2. IBActions
3. Archive
4. Mathematical calculations in MS word.
5. What musical instruments were used for the Windows Theme?
6. How to view ppt. without bloatware?
7. No games with pre-installed Windows 7 PC
8. torrent file, already the right size when download starts?
9. Converting .wpd files to .doc files
10. PS3 Software updates
11. How difficult is it to install Linux?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 5

1. Youtube app
2. c++
3. help
4. How to avoid "credential storage password" prompts on Android phones
5. Creating 366 Page .pdf

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 6

1. 10-line C++ program that would change the world

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 7

1. how to make Perl more random
2. Focus follows mouse on a mac: how to do this?
3. Struggling with Computer
4. Online maps with heights
5. Bizarre Problem with Gmail & Thunderbird
6. USB Flash drive locks up laptop at bootup. Why?
7. Preventing a reformat
8. New Computer Programs
9. Beginner's Question - Installing Windows 7

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 8

1. Google Search
2. Nokia N95 Battery Spare

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 9

1. Unicode 6.0
2. Dual video cards and gaming
3. Can you identify the country location in mail addresses on the Internet?
4. Modem Too Far
5. Voice-picking program

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 10

1. User agent string spoof
2. Corrupt master file table
3. SATA drivers
4. Java Class
5. Home routers with good IPv6 support
6. New Partition On Ext HDD
7. Scrolling
8. Email address left on guestbook problem
9. using a proxy
10. Disk enclosure
11. Can't delete a corrupted folder
12. defence
13. SFTP double hop
14. Pushdown Automaton Formal Definition

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 11

1. How do I get gtk working?
2. Formalizing a rule
3. Special help for access 2007
4. single left click in e speaking software
5. what is cloud computing?
6. VBA unicode
7. pipelinks
8. how do i download a file online to itunes for free
9. Laptop adapter
10. Step by step explanation of internet processes

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 12

1. backup firefox address bar search
2. Text Converter
3. Multiplication and addition of arrays using foreach() loop in PHP
4. Organizing music
5. Math for hardware vs. math for software

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 13

1. Output of Image
2. 5,000 BTU air conditioner in a ~150 sq. ft. room
3. How to use Queue with multiprocessing in python
4. Blog for selling toys?
5. 'Bad Mac Read' SSL Error
6. how do people make web comics?
7. URL bar
8. Unreadable external harddrive; missing driver?
9. called phone, heard dialup sound
10. Alternatives to connecting to a router which is too far away

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 14

1. sprint and text/sms costs?
2. Macbook hardware diagnostics (memtest, disk drive)
3. How do I forcibly move some stubborn Android apps onto the SD card?
4. USB gamepad on Linux
5. mod_rewrite and .htaccess help
6. Fake PayPal email
7. Phone hacking
8. Computer memory

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 15

1. Just installed IE9. I have a serious problem with it that seems to make it useless for me.
2. Defaul video player; detecting which is playing and changing it
3. Registry cleaning
4. Samsung Infuse 4G
5. Someone Help Me Please My PRograms Arent Working!
6. Bridged Client Mode
7. Power on/off on a single USB 2.0 port?
8. Age of my computer?
9. Steam problems

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 16

1. JAVA,(J2EE),net or php
2. Drag and Drop Won't Work in Book Creator Editing Area
3. Automatically copy from Firefox cache to a folder
4. How to copy and insert a "cookie" from a folder into Firefox?
5. Manually activating an on button

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 17

1. Web site for selling diamonds
2. Command Prompt problem
3. Malicious program in my computer
4. Multiplication and addition of arrays using foreach() loop in PHP
5. Java functions

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 18

1. Computers and ambient temperatures
2. internet speed
3. (Advanced networking) Bridging routers with multiple internet connections
4. computer makes continuous beeps before loading the bootloader, but my hardware seems fine?
5. converting mid to mp3 AND editing jpg photograph

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 19

1. torrent speed
2. Cheat sheet program
3. Computer attempts to boot, fails, and repeats until unplugged.
4. Program takes eons to load
5. PHP
6. PC to TV with HDMI/DVI-D
7. Bytes free on a Commodore 64
8. I want to keep bookmarks, but not have them pop up in Google chrome's autocomplete?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 20

1. Programming in MS Visual Basic
2. Is it possible to fool installer programs into thinking you have admin access?
3. how does a computer decide to allocate computations to a graphics card?
4. Missing burner registry entries
5. "what was the last city you logged in from???"
6. Question about a certain kind of URL
7. User-friendly tools to change MAC addresses?
8. Windows thinks my hardware has changed, but it has not.
9. Wiping clean an iPhone
10. iPad app, for only one system

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 21

1. Backup autocorrect spelling Word 2010
2. Sort files into date folders
3. Python: sum of sets
4. How to recover deleted SMS
5. General Programming and access times
6. Issue with flash security and a CD im using..........
7. 802.11n technical question
8. Firefox sync
9. Updating information on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Wikipedia site.
10. Slow startup of PC

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 22

1. restoring read-only files to read-write
2. Radio on the ipad
3. Are security requirements considered to be a Non-functional requirement
4. Facebook down?
5. what's the best computing language to learn?
6. Norton Anti-Virus

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 23

1. Sata power connector
2. Facebook - Exporting list of page fans ('likes')
3. relief map
4. Connecting subwoofer to receiver
5. Missing edit links in Reference Desks
6. Should routers make faint noises?
7. screen recording device

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 24

1. Speech recognition
2. Chances of tracking down attempted SQL injection
3. A command for checking how much memory a program uses during its runtime (in Linux)...
4. Games that spontaneously alt-tab
5. laptop booting
6. wget article history
7. Linux distribution system requirements

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 25

1. Does logging in enhance access to this desk?
2. Ideal programming language(s) for beginning bioinformatics
3. What is bioinformatics?
4. Problem synching Google Calendar & Android phone
5. After using Windows, Ubuntu cursor breaks
6. IGMP and PIM

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 26

1. privacy & google maps street view
2. Reliable Power Supply Unit
3. Pulling up a nickname history on IRC
4. Webpage with multiple scrollbars and no frames
5. Is this sentence correct?
6. Matrix multiplication in php using foreach loop
7. Update
8. Another rsync question
9. What could be causing wrong characters to appear?
10. C# questions

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 27

1. How to download from public FTP?
2. Restoring Icons
3. Steps to Post a Article
4. Excel formula problem
5. Appropriate usage of SSD term?
6. Acid3 source code
7. Vista's "Run..." doesn't save

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 28

1. Windows XP moniter problem
2. Is there an English <-> Archaic English translator anywhere?
3. Name of an algorithm / problem
4. First Programing Language
5. C# and C++ libraries problem at work
6. Hidden Files
7. problems with a driving game called Blur.
8. Mono/Moonlight/Chromium conflict? 3 different mscorlib.dll versions
9. DVD Mystery

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 29

1. Identi.ca and subscriptions
2. preferred design for object-oriented aspects of c++
3. USB
4. Failing hard drive and silent data corruption
5. Cannot download Greasemonkey
6. C (graphics)

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 30

1. Convert function
2. Site not appearing in google search
3. Malware cold calling
4. Google Instant Search etc = Evil
5. the 'size' of a bit
6. Nokia C5-00 and e-mail

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 31

1. Co-op Puzzle Games: are there any?!
2. Antivirus updates
3. Can VirtualBox use more than 4GB of physical memory of hosted on a 32-bit version of Windows?
4. Must have your help! (appending sound tracks)
5. why is counterstrike so popular?
6. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Node - Default # of VMs / CPU Core
7. Is there a mapping application that computes distance given waypoints?
8. HDMI PC to TV connection
9. Strange sounds accompanying file operations on my MP3 player
10. Blue lines on screen -- at my wit's end!