Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2011

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 1

1. Carrier IQ - Verizon / Motorola Droid phones
2. Geolocating an IP
3. Slumber party

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 2

1. Writing a program in C programming
2. Adjustable mouse/keyboard macro
3. FaIied Sound card
4. Is there a Chrome Extension that keeps count of my keystrokes, etc.?
5. Bootable USB drive (DOS) is C: and does not see my hard drive.

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 3

1. IPhone Text Message History to PC
2. Lost file

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 4

1. trouble editing blog
2. Musical note software
3. How can you make a network IPv6 capable?
4. How do I find Google Chrome's bookmarks in a recovered data directory?
5. Why are shotgun microphones so expensive ?
6. Internet utility to project the horizon

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 5

1. for loop / actionlisteners (Java)
2. Backwards E: no final verdict
3. Copying and pasting from a web site into an email that is not plain text
4. Searching for satellite images
5. Kaspersky backup quirk
6. Computer keeps losing track of file

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 6

1. What the Cluster spacecraft needed.
2. Finding free images of Megawati Sukarnoputri
3. Firefox's elephant-like memory
4. Remote Desktop Connection
5. Deluge of spamming users on a wiki

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 7

1. Question : want to create own .dic and .aff files without unicode ie is in ASCII codes
2. need computer of hijet 2003 in pakistan
3. Billycharge email scam
4. Acrobat reader problem
5. Windows media center gone crazy?!
6. Recover Ubuntu Server Install

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 8

1. PLEASE help me find a new Desktop sidebar!
2. Aztec code reder for computer
3. Editor vi changed somehow... how do I change it back?
4. Wireless USB adapter in Linux
5. android

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 9

1. Latex Table
2. Web hosting and third level domains
3. recovering from forgetting password
4. Bright and efficient lights ?
5. AIM

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 10

1. Adaptive 3D Y / C Comb Filter
2. scanning objects on a flatbed scanner
3. Network layers
4. Web site opening trouble
5. Why do browsers not tend to render text first?
6. vandals
7. "TCB" and "SYN-RCVD state"?

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 11

1. Desktop link not showing up after I mount Truecrypt volume
2. Apache on AWS/ what am I doing wrong?
3. Tablet PCs Christmas sales
4. Previewing Large Libraries

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 12

1. Perl pie
2. PRoblem with System Restore
3. Graph theory

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 13

1. reboot?
2. ssh problem
3. MCA or MCS
4. MediaWiki extension for drop-down search suggestions
5. open source prohibited in app stores?
6. MATLAB Question

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 14

1. Need some ideas
2. Deleting previously-visited sites from search bar in Firefox
3. Dumb memory
4. Report bug in Windows 7
5. Open a variable URL with HTML without Javascript

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 15

1. Kernel headers
2. Where are the cheapest electronics?
3. Speeding up Windows XP
4. Logged out of facebook on my PC ,GRAND SON LOGGED IN
5. Do "find your phone" services work?
6. Huffington Post and sign on with Google

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 16

1. Quicktime media soundfile
2. Can the government find who is behind my username?
3. Question about upgrading from XP 32 bit OEM to Windows 7 64 bit in entirely new system
4. How can I download 40,000 web pages while re-pooling open connections?
5. Passwords?
6. wii ip?
7. Jumbo frames and non-jumbo frame devices together?
8. bsddb with regards to Unix and Python

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 17

1. Apps
2. Accesing the screen's pixels from a C or C++ program
3. Image licencing
4. Sortable html table
5. Opening Two Excel 2007 Files
6. problem with flv files
7. skype works but not add contacts

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 18

1. Forcing www on a domain
2. Android app permissions
3. Screen Resolution
4. macros/scripts
5. HOW TO SAVE A PRINTER OUTPUT FROM A TASK MACHINE INTO A FILE
6. Why ./ needed to run a compiled C programs
7. a.out

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 19

1. Display is cut off
2. Apache, MySQL and PHP
3. Writing stories by computer
4. Difficult-to-remove folders with random names, Windows 7
5. Is there a Facebook app that matches me up to users with the most common interests?
6. Local Apache/MySql/PHP access
7. Move similar programs in the taskbar independently
8. Converting an FLV to an MPEG-4 Pt. 10 AVI using mencoder: audio out of sync
9. WORM (write once read many)

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 20

1. Should I give up trying RegExp?
2. On OSX 10.4.11, the iPhoto has been corrupted. How do I get a free restoration? ("Updates" won't work.)
3. How to select the GPU card for my PC spec?
4. wikicommons
5. Publishing my "decay" program
6. CUPS-PDF and real printers
7. no recovery email came to my email address
8. 20% of the time developing own new ideas
9. Broken graphics card?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 21

1. How do I download a YouTube song ?
2. DVD player sound issue
3. Dell
4. Best programming language to write a class-based text based adventure game
5. Freezing Internet Explorer in Vista
6. Itunes and legality
7. Using GNOME 3 without the GNOME Shell

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 22

1. Video chat between android device and iOS device
2. How to Embed a Random Page from a Category on a Wiki?
3. Offline GPS laptop tracking + a few more
4. My GPU card displays freaky lines after some time
5. Failure of Thunderbird 9.0.exe to execute
6. Changing the format of ls -l?
7. How can I play chess online with specific person
8. Mapping Software
9. Can't start X programs as root

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 23

1. Link quality, signal level in a wireless connection
2. Hard drive
3. problem with installation

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 24

1. Speeding up Windows XP
2. Gantt charts, etc, simply
3. Is there a free product for PCs similar to Garage Band on a Mac?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 25

1. Looking at night sky from Earth's surface in Celestia
2. Is there an English <-> Middle English translator anywhere?
3. In Multiplayer games
4. DDR3 in a computer with DDR2 motherboard
5. Is there an English <-> Shakespearean English translator anywhere?
6. Configuring texvc in MediaWiki

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 26

1. PC laptop that looks as good as a MacBook Pro
2. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS
3. Reducing file size of JPG's

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 27

1. Issues with Flash Games in Firefox - help, please!
2. Mobile phone
3. iPad2 Messenger
4. Scroll bar when there is NOT suppose to be one
5. Class design in web application
6. Using HTTPS in an ASP.NET web application under IIS

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 28

1. I've had enough of this bullshit
2. Where else is startup stuff?
3. Renaming Tabs in Excel 2007
4. Speed up XP
5. Mobile Telecommunication ( IMSI / MSISDN )
6. IM contacts
7. Listen to cell phone/MP3 on radio
8. Arabian hacker group
9. Kindle Restart Problem
10. Sum of digits of 2^1000
11. Hard Drive Performance Planning

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 29

1. Is there a way to send a two-way anonymous email?
2. locate an iPod
3. Project Gutenberg and google books
4. Mouse audio sound missing
5. Reusing an old wired router to get more Ethernet ports in the home network
6. spider
7. getting started with paypal
8. my pc swaps always on the hd
9. FoxTabPDF Converter

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 30

1. follow up: my pc swaps always on the hd
2. Transistor_count Article - Transistor count for Mux 4 input is 24?
3. blender 3D modeling software
4. How safe is being without antivirus software while downloading antivirus software?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 31

1. "find" in firefox browsers
2. Is this fast enough to run Battlefield 3?
3. Helping MS SQL 2000 trying to understand how to do this
4. Flash drive
5. Running on the battery
6. Ad-ID
7. mymax wireless router not turning on.
8. C won't compile