Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2006

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December 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 1

  1. reseting admin password in xp
  2. How to connect a doorbell to a laptop
  3. Playstation2
  4. Pci speed
  5. Open source Linux OS
  6. Determining the character set of a file (created by cURLing wikipedia)
  7. install windows 98
  8. software
  9. testing my own wlan
  10. Program in USB
  11. Another problem with javascript
  12. rdesktop resize
  13. making money
  14. how much bits does a chip have?
  15. Forums/Places to ask computer questions
  16. Internet
  17. That's Bots' Work!
  18. Want to download wikipedia

December 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 2

  1. Good Audio Players
  2. Similar Media Players to Windows Media Player
  3. GFX Card Upgrade
  4. protecter
  5. Creative Labs Sound Cards
  6. x86 and x64
  7. XML converter
  8. Should i be concerned?
  9. dead PSU fan: epilogue..
  10. DVD Ripper
  11. Looking for automated way to define a list of words.
  12. Outgoing UDP to port 0
  13. First dual-processor motherboard?
  14. P2P optimized for LAN with churn
  15. youtube video insertion
  16. omponent/vga compatabilty

December 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 3

  1. Freeware Audio Recording
  2. parallel processing
  3. 3D Molecules
  4. Online Translations
  5. Bittorrent question.
  6. ame of type of computer architecture
  7. HELP? Windows Movie Maker Question
  8. Accessing a Linux Network Remotely
  9. Installing fonts with CMD
  10. DHT
  11. Running Multiple Anti-spyeware programs

December 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 4

  1. Ext. hard drive question
  2. How to know which video card I have?
  3. Monitor display
  4. Dual Layer
  5. Spam dated in the future
  6. Asking about processor
  7. Performance "stutter" on PC
  8. VB6 Object Expressions

December 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 5

  1. Any European users here?
  2. Render video faster
  3. Networking 2 Wireless Routers?
  4. install windows 98
  5. propagation delay
  6. why larry page and sergey brin wont leave google?
  7. Would you ever use a free cellphone?
  8. Outgoing Email Issue
  9. Custom Webpage
  10. MP3 and MPEG
  11. The origins of the Ruggedized PDA
  12. Synchronizing two computers
  13. multiple screens.

December 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 6

  1. Computer Drive Full?
  2. Athlon 64 X2 65W
  3. RA-OLSR
  4. Torrents with multiple trackers
  5. Trogan Horse (Problimatic)
  6. Windows Media Player inverted color playback
  7. Flash/AVI
  8. ultiple Sheets to PDF (Macro)
  9. A switch in another switch?
  10. Remote desktop.
  11. xml
  12. Google crawling
  13. How do I Block Programs
  14. Overheating Computer Cabinets
  15. sudo
  16. lightsaber
  17. cell phone service

December 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 7

  1. ADOBE ACROBAT .pdf files
  2. Windows Updates
  3. printer ink
  4. How do I change or delete the "User Profile" / "Registered to: " name on my PC?
  5. TI-86 program
  6. Dock
  7. Viruses
  8. new job
  9. .pcb file (I think it is Altium, not sure)
  10. Slow computer
  11. signal phase
  12. taking screenshots from dvds
  13. TCP/IP?
  14. SQL database - defined transactional tables
  15. Thought experiment: other name for 'window'?
  16. Getting into my router
  17. modem for dial up for networking
  18. "a constant-amplitude, constant-frequency sinusoid in channel k should have identical analysis phases in all nearby channels."
  19. Because even those who answer have questions(aka: the question about my computer)

December 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 8

  1. Windows Media PLayer 11
  2. vi - moving about
  3. MSIE 6 on Win2000
  4. Window completely off the screen
  5. viewing image galleries in wiki-sites
  6. How to make a Graph in MS Excel ?
  7. Tiny, battery-operated webcams?
  8. A little scripting challenge
  9. hosts file for Firefox
  10. WRK54G
  11. Net Framework
  12. Circular spiral traversal of 2D arrays

December 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 9

  1. How do I choose the best vfm and most reliable home PC - as a none IT guru.
  2. 5mm Digital Drop In
  3. Folding@home
  4. Re-phrased Question
  5. quicktime
  6. Internet Explorer Version 7...
  7. GOOGLE EARTH

December 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 10

  1. Windows 3.1 colour schemes
  2. Writing a batch file
  3. mail spam
  4. help!!!!!!!
  5. torage capacity of CD and DVD
  6. Troubles with Linux.
  7. MAKING YOUR OWN MAPPING
  8. A transformer program
  9. NTSC
  10. Uploading plain wikitext to Wikipedia using Wget or CURL
  11. Browser won't display some flash, mpeg, and mp3 files

December 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 11

  1. X box 360 live
  2. Size of Windows XP temp directory
  3. system perspective
  4. pc memory
  5. Open Street Mapping
  6. Way to bond cable modems?
  7. Excel question
  8. Associating a gamertag with an Xbox forum account
  9. TP-T9 Mp3 player from samsung Firmwire

December 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 12

  1. How to make a link.
  2. High density cluster server
  3. Native XML Database
  4. Painful error.
  5. OSM
  6. Fatal error
  7. etter Linux distribution?
  8. haring printer
  9. rogramming macro keys in XP?
  10. Photoshop Elements problem
  11. Wikipedia Editing Tool


December 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 13

  1. PSP Memory Stick
  2. Primary master hard disk fail.
  3. LED article does not print for me
  4. Weird URL in spam

December 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 14

  1. Fireworks MX 2004
  2. Image Format Conversion
  3. Help writing a bot for external wiki
  4. Extracting tracks from DVD
  5. XML Parser
  6. MSN Messenger
  7. Javscript(ugh) again
  8. Cellular Phone --> Computer
  9. How do I dispute the content of a page?
  10. Problems with MS Installer - constant pop-ups
  11. Leisure Suit Larry 7 Cocktail
  12. Page back button in web browser
  13. The most annoying problem!!!
  14. Firefox problem (!)
  15. GOOGLE
  16. Changing .m4a to .mp3
  17. ES chip music
  18. TI-84

December 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 15

  1. Serial and parallel connections
  2. Music Skipping On Computer
  3. Mac and PC
  4. lash ad blocker
  5. How hard is it to connect two computers?
  6. autocomplete
  7. Why doesn't this stupid thing compile??
  8. omplicated upper-bound runtime complexity calculation

December 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 16

  1. PowerPoint and VBA
  2. Song Information Plugins for Various Media Players
  3. Get a Mac campaign
  4. My CD not readable by DVD-rom
  5. 2.5mm/3.5mm M/M jack
  6. atiric wikipedia
  7. Phex IP blocking
  8. Creative commons and GFDL compatability

December 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 17

  1. free movies?
  2. Official nomenclature for DC power connectors?
  3. More trouble
  4. AC adapters?
  5. Networking
  6. Transfer an archived web site to my own web pages
  7. rapidshare
  8. AXEL.DAV
  9. SQL in Biomedical Databases
  10. Wireless Security Overrated?
  11. Can I UnRAID My Drives, Keeping The System (Smaller) Partition Intact?
  12. formatting flash drive
  13. laptop login password
  14. CompactFlash to SD Cards and other Transfers
  15. Corrupted .avi
  16. Rebooting in safe mode
  17. Playing a sound and flash in C# 2005

December 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 18

  1. Converting .EXE to .SWF
  2. font
  3. What does it mean by Single Shared Platforming in IT
  4. udio analysis question
  5. Xcode, Universal Binary, & Multiprocessing

December 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 20

  1. File System Compatability
  2. Some help with HTML
  3. No-op microprocessors
  4. True or Myth: Can websites view a person's MAC Address?
  5. rahhh!! ready to shoot(problem with DOM)
  6. iMac 17in vs 20in

December 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 21

  1. Creating a programming environment in CYGWIN
  2. Wii or XBox, which has better hardware
  3. Network neutrality?
  4. Viewing hidden folders on WinXP

December 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 23

  1. Decompile Microsoft Code For Interoperability
  2. FTP website
  3. Countdown Circuit
  4. Final Fantasy VII Linux
  5. Dreamweaver/HTML help
  6. Ripping video from NASA

December 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 24

  1. wikipedia user boxes
  2. user identification suggestion - good idea or bad?
  3. metavariables
  4. Is my HD dying?

December 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 25

  1. GOOGLE EARTH
  2. Using a Memory Card
  3. forming archive
  4. Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and computer input
  5. Ink jet cartridge models
  6. Every Wikipedia page requires fonts to be temporarily installed?

December 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 26

  1. Facebook Tricks
  2. Nvidia Geforce 7600GS AGP
  3. HELP ME
  4. Settling for a DVD format
  5. Saving Streaming Sound Files as MP3s
  6. Keyboard Q

December 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 27

  1. axel.dav
  2. Does a Wiki-game exist?
  3. Accessing Wikipedia from Java?
  4. DVD sound problems
  5. Medion MD9717/Philips SAA7134 & Debian
  6. question about business and software
  7. dvd-r cd-r

December 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 28

  1. moving data from excel to access
  2. Fair use of images
  3. relationship between i.c.t and public relation
  4. New MS Office for Mac
  5. Core 2 Duo software optimization
  6. CELLULAR VOIP SERVICE
  7. Python method access
  8. Laptop purchasing

December 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 29

  1. iTunes/online music uploading to vox blogs
  2. isual Basic 2005 — Security requirements
  3. artPE
  4. Two iPods on one computer
  5. Excel help!
  6. what percentage of the total typing work does the left hand perform?
  7. Converter needed
  8. Creative commons and GFDL compatability (2)
  9. cell phone reusage as prepaid
  10. MSW German SPAG issues
  11. Paperwork" computer game
  12. HP mailing list script
  13. ow can i see how much ram my accept??

December 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 30

  1. irefox annoyance
  2. I want to buy a video card
  3. Registry Corruption
  4. guild wiki
  5. 4gb ram questions
  6. ow do I check RAM speed?
  7. Computer games that delete files as a punishment for losing
  8. Web pages
  9. ISP connectivity
  10. Is the Parental Control Program 'Hoopaa' safe?
  11. usic files' pictures
  12. VD recorder to PC
  13. Slashdot trolling phenomenon: Hello World
  14. what is trojan spyware?
  15. How do you find out

December 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 31

  1. Shell
  2. Help! CD Drive automatically uninstalled!
  3. Canon PowerShot A620
  4. phpBB dates
  5. e systems e214 fan noise
  6. Multiple monitor problems.
  7. CD Drive
  8. ard drive
  9. Computer Virus problem
  10. The video card I'm planning to buy says it needs