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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 1

1. Connection between the the desktop and the mobile version of all OSs
2. windows failure
3. formal name of device that connect to usb and boost incoming wifi signal, increase power of signal coming into device
4. Ghost devices on my network

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 2

1. JPEG compression question
2. Syntax for Regular Expressions doesn't carry over to CFG's
3. How do you get onto the internet (world wide web) of a foreign country?
4. Inexplicable DHCP activity
5. How to stop disable and uninstall the IIS (Internet information service) in Windows 10 home edition?
6. difference
7. xargs file-per-line option?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 4

1. Chrome problems?
2. Simplification of CFG
3. Is Hidden Left Factors an issue in Parsing?
4. SATA M.2 vs PCIe M.2
5. Resonance and Reactive Power with Square Wave AC
6. MozyHome backup/restore
7. Mother board reliability

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 5

1. grep for shell glob patterns?
2. ixquick and startpage.com, business model?

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 6

1. causes of limited access on wifi hotspot
2. Seamless, High resolution, dark space images
3. Why Depth First Search uses linear space time?
4. Bitcoin ransoms
5. .NET C# question about HTTP and HTTPS

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 7

1. Youtube offline for smart mobile phones
2. IT Graduate Development Programme Job Questions

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 8

1. Online maps for vertigo-safe roads ?
2. How do I type weird letters in Xubuntu Linux?
3. How can Skype run with Ubuntu on a windows computer?

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 9

1. http://adadvisor.net/adscores/g.js?sid=9276253823
2. "Virtual" email address?
3. Crypto-currency Mining
4. Is this primal-general-simplistic axis accurate?

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 10

1. Which was the first video recording format?
2. Are there different type of film magazines?
3. Slow connection in china
4. Programs closing all over the place...
5. Black hacking, Scammers etc., etc.
6. What's the longest a process has been waiting on a mainframe?
7. SQL parametrisation question
8. Detail(s) Handling software sought

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 11

1. Digital camera focus length

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 12

1. Internet History on Firefox on a Mac
2. LastPass
3. Broken i5 PC, cheap fix options
4. Videos and Music app don't work in Windows 8.1
5. base64-encoding every email?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 13

1. Table headers in datasheet
2. Spam that involves short sentences and one misspelling?
3. Is there some sort of problem with GMail?

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 15

1. Slow running Win 7 laptop

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 16

1. What makes cosine similarity useful for classifying documents?
2. Super Mario Maker

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 17

1. Laptop
2. Detecting that a folder contains unreachable files or folders due to deep nesting
3. Scanner won't open
4. Moving data from one secondary SSD to a larger one
5. Linux hard disk questions
6. Open alternatives to Kindle

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 18

1. Computer systems that handle leap seconds honestly?
2. Windows 7
3. How do I create a website with an unusual URL extension?
4. C Assembler oriented questions
5. external hard drive - sleep or not

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 19

1. Disguised characters?
2. Why FOLLOW sets doesn't contain epsilon?
3. Can a string be accepted during parsing if the input is exhausted but productions are yet to derive?
4. Swelling of old lithium-ion batteries

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 20

1. Networking related

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 21

1. reading / writing a file with javascript
2. C language to machine code
3. My phone contacts disappeared even though I had never synced them with iCloud. Is there any way to get them back?"

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 22

1. Help with PGP

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 23

1. Convert SVG to JPEG or other format

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 24

1. Ad blockers
2. GMail

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 25

1. How do they do it?
2. Website downloader
3. Could a Bottom-up Parser use left most derivation in reverse to parse a string?
4. Global publication alert

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 26

1. Chess programming with Negamax
2. Hands-off Linux

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 27

1. Music software sought
2. Web Archive saving problem
3. WinCompose

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 28

1. Dropbox help, only showing file is uploading...

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 30

1. Removing a VPN setup on Windows 7 Pro