Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/April 2011

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 1

1. how to fix a flashlight
2. Offline world map software
3. Youtube 1911 mode
4. no-ip
5. Firefox 4 - do not like the large buttons on the 'Navigation Toolbar'
6. BIOS password reset
7. Creating .pdf files
8. Legal status of the GUID Partition Table layout ..?
9. Rackmount SSI MEB Chassis Manufacturers

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 2

1. Reading/copying Unix floppy on Windows XP system
2. Microsoft Comfort Mouse 4500 in Ubuntu
3. Duplicate file detection
4. Similar file detection
5. Laptop
6. RAR for mac

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 3

1. SeaMicro SM1000-64 System
2. W3C standards as a source for browsers, or vice-versa?
3. DVD world "Zones" - How to increase the allotment?
4. DOS in laptops
5. Home Wi-fi networking question
6. Limits of lossless data compression
7. random numbers and the system clock
8. Sound Card and Microphone Questions
9. RAID 1 and Subversion questions
10. A tablet computer question

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 4

1. PAM
2. jdbc insert query problem
3. Thunderbird and Archiving
4. Searching Twitter feeds
5. Does Verisign have a domain registrar for verisign.com?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 5

1. GNU Octave - GUI with Autocompletion & Tooltips
2. Stopping retweets flooding my feed
3. are these 2 queries equivalent?
4. php
5. Firefox 4 - how to prevent the white dot appearing

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 6

1. please help
2. Disable interpretation of tipping on the pad as click
3. Problem with SQL outer joins
4. igoogle side tabs

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 7

1. Intel Xeon E7-x870 Processors = Three Identical Models?
2. Samsung Champ GT-C3303 Mobile-Phone
3. Wanted: Content management system
4. Advice on buying new PC
5. Changing window manager on Fedora 12?
6. Gmail attachment
7. audio
8. Horizontal scrolling with scroll wheel on USB mouse in Windows XP

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 8

1. Antivirus software policy
2. DS catridge data onto computer
3. Pieces of a URL
4. PCI-E graphics cards lanes
5. Symbolic links to directories, trailing slash
6. .iso files
7. Out of memory in XXX

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 9

1. personal cloud (continued from here.)
2. Java GUI: manipulating (add/remove/setVisible true or false etc) JPanels during runtime?
3. Book scanning services in Toronto

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 10

1. PCI-Express Standard - Missing Widths
2. Inconsistency between different calculators
3. Nehalem multipliers
4. SSD as C:

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 11

1. proxy Servers
2. Firefox 4: Green clockwise rotating circle means it's working; black counterclockwise "electron orbit" means it's not
3. Is the Amiga 16-bit or 32-bit?
4. Give a natural condition in which having ads would make the application faster
5. iOS app development in Windows or Linux

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 12

1. Linux packets
2. Capturing webpages
3. broadband in Altona, Vic, Australia?
4. Platform for new system
5. Re: SSD as C:
6. Downloading google books
7. Desktop wallpaper is always stretched
8. C# expression parsing

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 13

1. How do I find my WEP key without any acces to the router?
2. Dalvik open source? Then where is the source?
3. iPhone

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 14

1. Latex Problem
2. Embedded System
3. User missing on windows 7
4. Is there anything that can be done using I movie that simply cannot be done using Movie Maker ?
5. Deformation of WP pages in Google Chrome
6. BT Broadband
7. Worm: folders become .exe
8. Formating Harddrive
9. Fake RPG
10. Display more sites in Internet Explorer

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 15

1. Laptop specifications
2. Font ID
3. Screen Width Problem
4. Forwarding lots of e-mails

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 16

1. "Blue screen of death"
2. Picasa web video download problem solution failure help request
3. Art of Computer Programming
4. How does AT&T ban third party apps on the Android?
5. 1 connection per second
6. Whizz with vector files?
7. C# compiling
8. Firefox Sync

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 17

1. AOC Slot
2. hi-speed internet service that does NOT involve a fixed IP address (but not using a proxy)
3. video resolution; crt vs lcd?
4. DHL Indian premier league
5. Connecting computer to TV via HDMI - screen resolution problem
6. "Address of property" in C#?
7. Hardware random number generators

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 18

1. Email Client
2. Cookies and Google Chrome
3. Visual Studio 2010 not installing
4. Blue line suggestion in MS Office 2010
5. Extra Rams For Computers
6. Adobe Acrobat and Data Execution Prevention
7. Hotmail emails all deleted - why?
8. harddisk size, is it real

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 19

1. Gmail for BlackBerry
2. Windows 7
3. MediaWiki
4. Automatic mounting (udev?) and filename case in Linux
5. microsoft error

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 20

1. do people get their emails
2. Firefox 4 Navigation Bar
3. Blender 3D Rendering Problems
4. The mysteries of .NET appdomains
5. 49 7/8' cable
6. Facebook info page

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 21

1. Font fallback
2. Making a function that returns a dynamic array in C++
3. Do the high level chess AI programs use Bayesian networks?
4. Where does Firefox 4 store its bookmarks?
5. Backing Up A Computer
6. how to monitor cumulative bandwidth - windows vista
7. Custom Cursors in HTML5
8. research question related to Apple product history?
9. StartManSvc.exe

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 22

1. Shared internet connection bandwidth management problem
2. Upgrading laptop hard drive
3. Starflight
4. Sikuli
5. education
6. Cannot save in Microsoft Word
7. internet street cabinets
8. Firefox 4 URL popup

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 23

1. Bash - deleting recursively
2. Wordprocessing - universal archiving standard?
3. Archiving Hotmail with Thunderbird
4. Cannot print in MS Word
5. Making an animated GIF

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 24

1. MS Word footnote
2. Disk Space
3. Dual monitor system
4. IP addresses
5. What would cause this? Can sync Dropbox, download iTunes, but can't load webpages.
6. StarCraft II framerate issue
7. Rooting my own tablet?!
8. Virus questions
9. XML regular expressions syntax
10. Save chats

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 25

1. How long is a bit?
2. Is Firefox getting spacey?
3. Please hook me up with donation brokers for old hardware.
4. Is there computer assistance in modern-day aircraft traffic control?
5. Gigabit Ethernet Jumbo Frames — performance and switches
6. Server?

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 26

1. 2006 Honda civic hybrid
2. Building a DOS command containing the current directory.
3. Quality problem with animated GIF.
4. Legality of deep linking
5. HTM page in "www.south-pole.com" brings down the browser
6. Google and its web of lies!
7. Edit
8. Where does gcc literally write binary to the .o file?

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 27

1. Blackberry .REM Files
2. Samba share-level logging options
3. computer field
4. SQLite on Ubuntu
5. What is downloading?
6. Verizon iPhone in China
7. My friend is going blind and needs help with her computer

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 28

1. Registry Repair
2. Inabilty to maintain my focus
3. Configure custom certificate validator declaratively?
4. Mp4 player
5. Free software production
6. My computer doesn't understand Google Chrome?

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 29

1. Detecting click on cubic curve.
2. Droid X and Droid 2
3. Video Chat plus pan/tilt/zoom
4. bios refuses to reset in my old pc
5. cannot sign in to mail or post at this forum
6. Encrypting a database file
7. Wifi antenna
8. When good electricity meters go bad
9. eFuse programming

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 30

1. Services not available in Netbeans
2. mac sound problem
3. Two .NET questions
4. XML regular expressions syntax (2)
5. Notebook doesn't start at first but then start later problem.