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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 1

1. Regular expression look arounds
2. A painfully Simple, Perplexing CSS question
3. hacking
4. writing atom/rss feed to file?
5. PC Problems with Wikipedia.
6. Database Help
7. AM/FM Radio receiver in iPhones?
8. ISPs and MAC Addresses
9. keyboard
10. Re: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites;

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 2

1. Modal JDialog
2. Ipod not detected
3. Value of learning awk, grep and sed
4. Computer cabling
5. Powerpoint to PDF
6. 8086 addressing modes
7. what is an Ink Tank Sub-Cartridge
8. POSIX regex to match a string not containing a given substring

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 3

1. Unix history
2. My walkman mp3 freezes when i try to sync music?
3. Google Voice UK?
4. UK Postcode analysis software?
5. zsync options
6. IE7 certificate error question part 2
7. Looking up former IP addresses
8. Basic domain registering questions

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 4

1. Eight Nehalems in 2U: Electrical & Thermal Considerations
2. Gulftown Xeon and Desktop Motherboard
3. Embedded objects in HTML and changing their size
4. Loss of Net Neutrality in US vs Internet Censorship in China
5. Is wikileaks down?
6. java object reference.

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 5

1. Answers.com
2. Very messy, ambiguous naming
3. Apostrophes in Inkscape
4. Term for an easy computer to hack
5. Scope of CSE subjects in the present world
6. Excel graph... help?!
7. Why isnt the browser the boss?
8. how do I start a billion-dollar company with an unemployed bay area programmer?
9. Java Out of Memory Error

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 6

1. Transferring files from PC to iMac
2. Download
3. Dell Studio 1555 Only sometimes start up now
4. Number of characters in file path limit?
5. installation of windows98 on oracle vm virtual .box
6. fifa 98
7. Problems with sound card in Linux: no sound

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 7

1. Rexx versus Python
2. Windows Mobile 6.5
3. Use cases
4. Is backing up gmail important?
5. Nancy Drew games
6. can a windows binary do anything in between when you click "allow administrative privileges" or is it not executed at all?
7. Wikileaks insurance file encryption key length

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 8

1. php.ini
2. Why is necroing forum threads a bad idea?
3. Join a Facebook network: confirmation email
4. Chrome notebook pilot program
5. Assembly dereferencing using ()'s

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 9

1. Web designing software
2. Free classic science fiction game?
3. IT jobs in 2013
4. Firefox remote functionality
5. If all 13 root nameservers were simultaneously down
6. Samsung TVs with DLNA are being fussy with h264 media
7. Declarations and definitions
8. Spyware/virus protection for mac

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 10

1. Strings
2. Running WCII on a CF48
3. torrent download
4. usb ports
5. Black screen
6. Iterating through arrays
7. Twitter
8. Can setjmp(3) evaluate its argument more than once?
9. How to allow firefox to access the web
10. Quick to learn languages

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 11

1. printing with low ink "harmful"?
2. App development and compatibility
3. Network drive
4. 4GB instead of 8GB RAM
5. Excel formula capitalization idiocy
6. can a 10 min. video be of 750 MB ?
7. Problem with my wiki
8. (JavaScript)(animation) How to display sequential images?
9. Error Message?
10. how do I get out of this rut?
11. LaTeX question - Change the way cross references are displayed.
12. Updating Quicktime Alernative; updating Quicktime Plugin in Firefox
13. How much does an .is domain cost?
14. best reader for pdf files

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 12

1. Owning my own wireless network, how can I see what the others are surfing?
2. What should I use so that my programs can work with audio/video files?
3. Display of leading zeroes in Excel
4. SSH load balancing based on username?
5. SD card refuses to work in cameras
6. Merging or fusing two poor quality images
7. Securing files on my hard drive

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 13

1. Freezes at 'Applying Computer Settings'
2. Coloring in countries and states in google maps?
3. Video card in portrait mode
4. Using pen drive as computer memory
5. Opera mobile
6. php

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 14

1. "Web site interactor" sample code
2. sound cards
3. Changing keyboard shortcuts in Firefox
4. Speed of my new Wi Fi
5. Google-fu help
6. Freezing computer
7. Word 2003 line spacing
8. Windows Remote Desktop crashes server on loss of connection

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 15

1. Firefox (v3.6.13) : How do I open a new tab right next to the currently active one?
2. Printer Power On
3. Browser problems
4. bginfo
5. difficulty in setting path
6. Windows Live Messenger suddenly stopped working?
7. Flash drives and SD drives
8. Ping
9. Laptop freezes occasionally: What is going on?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 16

1. Resolution of still images on HD television
2. Jesus christ... a one megabyte shortcut?
3. Change from 'Libraries' to 'My computer'
4. Youtube login sessions
5. wget
6. SECURITY TO FOLDERS
7. Noisy fan
8. How to tell if an image has been enlarged or not?
9. How can i make games
10. jpg -> video
11. Is Facebook down?

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 17

1. Updating a Firefox extension to work with newer versions of the browser
2. ⛬
3. OpenGl compatible with windows Xp
4. How to build serial strings without MS-Excel-like softwares
5. Red google results
6. How much RAM is that?
7. ram
8. What is a crumb?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 18

1. Installing programs on my new Mac
2. English Malayalam dictionary software
3. I need someone to neaten (code) my user page...
4. Computer in stand-by mode
5. Mac alternatives to Quicktime?
6. Problem Losing Stored Usernames

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 19

1. Torrent use
2. World of Warcraft
3. Connecting a laptop to the Internet through UMTS

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 20

1. Converting color images to grayscale
2. Google spreadsheet help
3. i-Pad Bonfire
4. usb hidden files
5. OS
6. visual studio for windows ce
7. How to show/hide status bar automatically in IE8
8. Remote access via Skype
9. iPhone
10. html
11. Mobile phone standards
12. ASP.NET question: Pressing Enter on a text field vs. clicking on a button
13. What is QuiBids's secret about their penny auctions on high-ticket items?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 21

1. Good forums
2. .net methods corresponding to old win32 api
3. Wifi type N or type G?
4. script
5. Memories of an old computer game

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 22

1. FCC's new Internet traffic rules: What does that mean for us?
2. Apple Apps that are removed from the AppStore
3. Tables in HTML and wiki text
4. Why so many different computer languages?
5. Operation of redirects on other websites
6. Usb drive in the mail
7. VLC
8. Pictures Gone
9. Analyzing patterns in general
10. Apple products
11. Usage statistics

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 23

1. file headers(?) / embedding a file into an image
2. Laptop Graphics vs Cost
3. What are these: ಠ_ಠ
4. Are BSD & MIT licenses copyleft?
5. Hard Drive
6. Automated queries

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 24

1. Asymmetric and symmetric ciphers
2. Inkjet printers
3. Publishing summer research project in machine learning
4. html (query string)
5. Learning C++
6. Updating Android OS
7. EEE PC hostname

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 25

1. RAM
2. Popular articles
3. "Stretch histogram" command in Irfanview
4. Qualitative description of Gamma correction for digital photos

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 26

1. What 90s video game had Mayan ruins exploration?
2. How to remove design skins ...
3. Other domain name suffixes
4. How to use Class SMTPClient to send emails to my gmail account
5. CD-ROM audio connectors
6. Saving pages in Firefox
7. help please :)

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 27

1. RFID tags
2. IE C API
3. Copying several large files to pendrive without errors
4. PRINTER SETTINGS
5. Multiple cookie files for local "web" pages
6. Windows: third-party media players do not load

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 28

1. How to cause coaxial cable interference?
2. ole
3. Best lossless compression for lots of similar photos?
4. Facebook
5. SE search vs flight search
6. Domain name and server space advice please
7. HP Laptop Recovery
8. Which one should I buy...?
9. Null caps lock

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 29

1. Installing stuff in Linux
2. ebooks on Nokia 5300 classic mobile
3. Deleting
4. Wifi access
5. URL is not available; why does this happen?
6. Native Dalvik on a PC?
7. #!

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 30

1. running a c++ program
2. Machine Review
3. Wikipedia coding help
4. Wii games for old people
5. (JavaScript) Creating an alias for an object
6. CONNECTING MOTHER BOARD
7. Partitioning drive in HP laptop running Windows 7 Home Basic
8. Mac's magic mouse: swiping sideways changes the page
9. TTF to TGA
10. Files
11. How to stop my laptop downloading

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 December 31

1. What is XBee?
2. The metals that make up a CPU
3. Why are cell phones so expensive?
4. video download toolbar for opera 11
5. Mediawiki one click (or two click) add text editing
6. Article title shows wrong spelling
7. Website Accessibility Question
8. Best search engines