Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2007

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 1

1. Table width
2. synchronize firefox bookmarks
3. Oregon Trail
4. Port 666
5. Thunderbid attachment problems
6. How can I import bookmarks to Firefox from Navigator 9.0.0.1 ?
7. Something like Wikipedia that you can download onto your computer...
8. Does PS3 memory slot support SDHC?
9. 3D Modeling Software Using Human or Humanlike Scanned Images

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 2

1. LaTeX figure captions
2. Japanese IME input
3. Fedora 8 problem: Picture spontaneously disappears
4. A network prompt problem
5. Java plugin for Mozilla Firefox installs, but doesn't work (once again)
6. Help finding a game

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 3

1. tight and square autoshapes in word
2. Proxy
3. Cell phone info - Razr
4. using .gzip, .gz, and .tar
5. Outlook express error 0x800ccc79
6. stopping websites
7. Free animation software
8. C++ library for an http server
9. Google search help
10. itunes is irritating

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 4

1. Auto Power On
2. Power supply for VGA card
3. download wikipedia
4. Google always telling me there's no results. Nothing but lies!
5. Win XP Installation/Startup Question
6. Blogging as a character in fanfic
7. Calculator Password Program Code
8. Initializing an array of non-PODS?
9. cangjie

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 5

1. Do web hosting accounts have bandwidth caps?
2. radio auction
3. Runescape
4. Freeware video converter.
5. How to select particular columns of a particular row in VBA Excel
6. Computer memory related to hard disk
7. Recovery of hard disk
8. Difficulty booting Linux in VirtualBox
9. Overnight
10. downloading directory tree from Apache autoindex
11. WinZip
12. Software installer
13. Why is my PC running so SLOW?
14. Resolution in HDTV
15. Hard disk partitioning question

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 6

1. Desktop icons in Mac OS X
2. top-level domain I can't find in directory
3. md5 as password
4. Help me get rid of an "Open With" function
5. Forum administrators and privacy
6. Unicode composition ...
7. Reverse DNS = (random).phx.gbl
8. No more my documents
9. Convert IFF ILBM to PNG/GIF?
10. computer questions
11. FIPS codes?
12. "(talk)" appears now (sometimes!) in WP signatures
13. .albm file extension/format - How to convert ?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 7

1. compiling python source code to an executable file
2. Virus
3. RTC modem - where RTC is...
4. Virus
5. Moving location of My Documents and the like
6. Re: Unicode composition ...
7. Symbain for Pc--Linux for mobiles
8. Firefox URL bar
9. quick and straightforward path to a small-scale ecommerce site selling PDFs?

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 8

1. Coloured text in console mode
2. DSL 10-day warmup?
3. Card Making Program
4. Space of hard disk consume by operating system
5. Video Encoding
6. Photoshop pixelation effect
7. Is huge amount of physical RAM necessary for getting better FPS in games?
8. 2D designer program
9. MKV problems in Win Vista
10. JPEG, web spiders and the wonderful Avril Lavigne
11. Shell script - Windows/DOS or Unix/Bash
12. Installing python modules, windows
13. Laptop choice
14. Word.docx
15. Crashing of windows explorer
16. LAN
17. Ipod Video Converter

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 9

1. svchost.exe
2. Ipod
3. School tracking program
4. Graphics Cards
5. WHOIS error
6. Pixelating SVG?
7. Beep
8. b&
9. PSP VIDEO PROBLEM

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 10

1. Opera = Firefox + 20+ extensions
2. Function keys in Mac OS X
3. Chess symbols in MS Word
4. using telnet
5. About ram requirement for getting good FPS
6. What is the difference between Monitor refresh rate and FPS?
7. can I instal and work on VB 2005 and VB 6.0 simulatneously ?
8. User Agent Information
9. How do you use a jar file?
10. Canon RAW in Photoshop CS
11. Kindle
12. Text-to-speech on Java using Microsoft voices?
13. Caesar IV
14. Ipod + Limewire
15. unicode characters
16. Computer start up process
17. Memory Speeds

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 11

1. Sansa C140 MP3 player Frozen
2. Function Key not Working after Hibernation
3. ram software
4. .ogg
5. Image watermarks
6. Open Source software - source code only
7. Graphical file search utility for Linux
8. CPU Question from a newb

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 12

1. MacBook
2. Translation
3. What are the hot keys for HTML of web page on Mac
4. Search engines indexing
5. Random crashes, "bad pixels" leaving trails on moving windows
6. Subfloats and prooftrees in LaTeX.
7. SATA and PATA ??
8. Uninstalling GRUB bootloader
9. The computer as general purpose tool and the internet as general purpose network and slices of salami
10. How do I clean my notebook screen??
11. Java Chat rooms
12. Apache server redirection...
13. FTP Client for windows needed
14. So-and-so has added to your FunWall!!! Really?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 13

1. Ubuntu networking question
2. **FATAL** String Manager Failed to Initialize Properly
3. PSP
4. Linux webcam drivers
5. Handwriting translation / reading program?
6. Printing issue in Excel.
7. Pasting "Unformatted Text" into a MS Word document
8. How do I type Unicode?
9. Web color translation
10. rogue developer
11. Typing problem

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 14

1. IP address not from here
2. PSPICE 9.1
3. Flip book
4. Coding issue
5. Cannot connect to internet through wireless network connection.

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 15

1. What is the name the computer we (most of users) use??
2. OpenOffice 1.1 > .doc files: conversion en masse
3. can linux run windows programs?
4. IPX on Vista
5. Easyjet and Payapl are spamming me
6. Downloading problem
7. WinXP Display Properties - Desktop tab freezing
8. Firefox plugin idea
9. UDF ?
10. What software to use? InfoGraphical document
11. Printing off Googlebooks
12. Proxy
13. DIV and SPAN question
14. SVG Images
15. installing windows XP onto a computer with Windows vista

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 16

1. Need to read my Mac OS 9 cdrom on a Windows XP computer
2. zapgrab not working properly
3. telephone receiver symbol in MS Word
4. Sony NWZ-S616F mp3 player
5. Not being able to see the progress of some downloads, why?
6. AVI to RMVB
7. Windows explorer error
8. (Windows XP Pro, SP2) PIDs over 28000
9. Open-source alternative to .NET
10. SQL Server Service Manager?
11. Measuring Angles of a Triangle
12. Is it possible to open and edit a MS Outlook msg file?
13. PC game suggestions
14. Google searches
15. Screenshots
16. Accessories in WinXP
17. Restricting login times on OS X

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 17

1. Why do some kinds of malware, especially trojans, have weird names?
2. Music file editing
3. mediacoder
4. Making a digital disk of jpeg pics and background music.

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 18

1. What specs are needed to run the game crysis with every single thing on max ???
2. CON
3. .Mac Web Page
4. Hard disk compatibility
5. i'm sure there's a name for this, tell me it
6. Playstation 3 hardrive upgrade
7. Using a Wireless router as a network card...
8. Unix question: * with spaces in it
9. Further Unix question: How to get rid of the extension
10. What is a "channel business"?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 19

1. Finding a specific file with cmd.exe
2. Hacking into runescape.
3. Firefox three
4. sue linux
5. Mediawiki systems and reversion of multiple article edits by same user
6. Playstation 1 Emulation
7. Java, C++, C# or Python??
8. Scaling up low-res images
9. Anyone wanna help us by setting up a bot?
10. AIFF vs WAV
11. Picking a motherboard and CPU

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 20

1. Suggestion for Wikipedia software.
2. hardware or software?
3. Can I use avast! and ClamWin on the same computer?
4. Understanding problem
5. AceText alternative for Linux
6. DNS Privacy
7. Freeware solution for accepting 48-bit scans from an image scanner?
8. Laptop Charger
9. Pedagogical cfront
10. COPY vs XCOPY
11. Make executable from Python code

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 21

1. Which free MMORPG is the best?
2. Weird Website
3. Help
4. sim theme park patch for windows 2000
5. Can't see partitions
6. Is this possible with CSS?
7. Raid 5 + 1 spare drive VS Raid 6
8. Poser and daz 3d
9. Regarding Online Jobs

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 22

1. iPod Touch to iPhone
2. Itunes Video + PSP Questions
3. game deletion problem
4. Bare bones linux
5. HDD performance or lifetime quality?
6. Deleted file/folder recovery
7. Pop ups for real?
8. iTunes/WMP
9. installing software in linux
10. Mobile phone
11. Dell computer configuration
12. facebook Safari problem, mac os leopard,
13. Building a new computer from scratch
14. Nintendo DS - "The Golden Compass"

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 23

1. Whois
2. Grabbing data
3. Keeping an HTA window on top
4. winners of super bowls and national championships
5. dancer/sometime actress
6. Stdout in C
7. components of verbs
8. Computer price difference
9. Safely remove hardware
10. Partitioning USB flashdrives
11. FCC Rules Part 15
12. Scanning on Windows Vista
13. Name that Bioshock tune
14. Georges Bizet.

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 24

1. First words e-mailed/posted/etc. - famous?
2. Copy-and-paste in Microsoft Excel
3. Install GNUCash on Mac OS X
4. DVD playback software
5. Using the quadrature signal of the Digital Down Converter
6. php/apache
7. Home Recording
8. Mystery image
9. DVD Remixing
10. The World Is Flat
11. Vista Question

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 25

1. .ivr format
2. Nokia 2610 USB port?
3. Graphics Card
4. Optimising Euler Project 5 in Ruby
5. USB Hard drive structure

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 26

1. Blackberry Pearl Input
2. Windows media player 10
3. "Animor8"
4. Operating System not supported
5. Camera as Web cam
6. Do monitors affect computer performance?
7. RAM Speed Vs Quantity
8. Display problems with new computer
9. How to access files from another partition.
10. Like, omigosh, 2 CPUs???
11. My computer screen

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 27

1. CompactFlash vs SecureDigital
2. Another Blackberry Pearl Question
3. Microsoft Word documents as RTF
4. L2 Cache
5. cache problem using Wikipedia
6. Firefox 3
7. Hard disk partition question
8. No Mozilla x86_64 plugin for Sun Java?
9. Ton_Roosendaal
10. Google ranking of specialised directory websites
11. msdos batch file to choose from a long list of options?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 28

1. encrypting a single file or stream with a password
2. free dvd to ipod video
3. Digital camera as a mass storage device
4. Difference between CF cards
5. SETI@HOME Screen saver-- It makes me seasick
6. Source File --> Executable File
7. Need help with using MEncoder
8. Linux Dependency Hell
9. Firefox
10. Human-Computer
11. GT4
12. network speed vs. firewire speed
13. Facebook safari problem, mac os leopard,
14. Gaming Problem
15. Microsoft Live Search Books problem
16. Capturing USB audio stream
17. capturing preview images and multiple print of web pages
18. picasa to iphoto
19. keyboard question
20. Mac on a PC?
21. Maximum file size: FAT32 vs. NTFS
22. time machine

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 29

1. DVD ripper recommendations?
2. Non-widescreen laptop?
3. Formatting a hard drive
4. How to convert this format
5. Boot question

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 30

1. Multiple versions of warcraft3 - frozenthrone
2. to cut away a part of an image
3. Which language is used
4. An idea for a bot
5. Sandisk Sansa c250
6. Can Inkscape speed up development by copying code?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 31

1. Python error message
2. Wii: 16:9 progressive w/component, what's the resolution?
3. My computer screen goes dark
4. Designation at the top of the product
5. Programming
6. Bug reporting
7. Embed code
8. Robot voice has taken over my Mac!?