Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2007

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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 1

  1. RAM compatibility
  2. Can a .pdf file be infested with a virus?
  3. Unable to access Modem config page from behind M0n0wall
  4. Youtube Burning
  5. Microsoft Word Problem! Please Help!

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 2

  1. calculator
  2. Windows Media Player DRM
  3. Political boundary shape files
  4. My Favorites

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 3

  1. Macintosh boot process
  2. Driver Problems
  3. Hard Disk Formatting
  4. Should I take this threat seriously?
  5. Macintosh problems
  6. php (or other) as a "standalone web-app"
  7. dreamweaver MX feature
  8. Mult-mode or single mode optic fibre?
  9. Checking a computer battery

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 4

  1. Webpage question
  2. Drive-detection problems
  3. Instant messenger with internet forum structure
  4. Influence of domain name on Google rankings
  5. xbox 360 dvd capacity
  6. Inputting sound through a SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 5

  1. Which phone is a better buy?
  2. Building a simple computer
  3. Excel goal seek
  4. Improving PC performance
  5. Windows Media Player
  6. One for the academics (endnote question)

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 6

  1. Amplifier Volume Control
  2. BSOD/black screen error
  3. Weird Image
  4. File transfer
  5. N 95 syncronisation with the lap top
  6. Function overloading in 'c' (copied from help desk)
  7. Quick Networking/IP Address Question!
  8. Removing images from hacked Windows installation
  9. Another quicker yet networking question.
  10. .MOV
  11. Query on MS Excel
  12. Does Blackle really save significant amounts of energy?

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 7

  1. How can I connect both of these computers to the Internet?
  2. what was the first wikipedia article?
  3. Vista and Libertad
  4. I.T
  5. Virus!!!!!!!! Alert
  6. Installing Operating Systems on Different Hardware
  7. Computer cooling
  8. Firefox Browser
  9. Computer screen
  10. Logic optimization
  11. List of colours
  12. XMP and PNG
  13. nested VMs
  14. Problem with USB
  15. Best disk defragger
  16. C# regexp
  17. Zone Alarms

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 8

  1. Line Noise / Dial-Up / ADSL
  2. Font in <math> formulae?
  3. Is there any reason I shouldn't switch to Vista?
  4. How can some malicious web pages live for so long?
  5. Java / Flash / Youtube
  6. what does "give us diffs" mean
  7. CPU Socket Question
  8. Website development

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 9

  1. HDTV LCD Backlight life
  2. Losing information in the edit window
  3. A networking error in my pc
  4. Graphics card
  5. "No bootable sector on hard drive"
  6. Codecs and protocols for online games
  7. Windows 98 needs to become windows 98 SE... Or Debian

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 10

  1. Firefox Add-ons
  2. Watermark
  3. python self.__class__.__name__
  4. fix broken laptop display
  5. Creating a bot to insert conservation status of North American organims
  6. IP Address
  7. George F. Heinrich MD

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 11

  1. Audio Device problem
  2. Subversion and permissions
  3. Windows mobile 6.0
  4. comp help
  5. Wikipedia slow?
  6. holograms?
  7. no page break within para in latex
  8. Download a directory listing
  9. Transferring phone pics to my laptop
  10. Apple Macs
  11. Word macro to extract chapter preserving chapter and page numbering
  12. Software for playing with generative grammars

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 12

  1. .bat file help
  2. alarm clock
  3. Computer mathematics question
  4. Urgh
  5. Floppy Disks & XP
  6. Looking for a program or something
  7. i feel i am decieved while i purchased Licensed Norton Antivirus
  8. Question about Java generics
  9. Perl Programming
  10. Ipod Nano Shutting Off
  11. Quicktime issues
  12. Vectorizing
  13. You have new messages

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 13

  1. Connection to my pc
  2. More Firefox Stuff
  3. Accidents when e-mailing private information?
  4. Looking for a good MUD...
  5. When My Internet Crashes
  6. Monitor aspect ratio
  7. music players
  8. Technical Job Spam
  9. Why is my wireless mouse signal being disrupted?
  10. WEBCAM
  11. Relative referencing of file names
  12. Firewalls
  13. Running a .JAR file

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 14

  1. Trojan.Vundo
  2. Wireless Network Connection Problems...
  3. Freeware OS
  4. Wikipedia user compare
  5. emergency calls
  6. Content advisor
  7. Keyring?
  8. Weird graphics problem in FF
  9. windows 98 and Linux-again-

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 15

  1. Hidden Data Occupies My Disk
  2. Connection between desktop and ADSL modem
  3. two antivirus
  4. Internet Explorer 7 Search Bar
  5. help me
  6. mail.com
  7. New tab
  8. EIDE hard drive with IDE connectors
  9. Music download service questions
  10. Smallest digital camera that shoots RAW?

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 16

  1. Online Subscription
  2. firefox
  3. Outlook
  4. Slave drive
  5. Moto Ming A1200 Internet Browsing
  6. Weird Add/Remove Program List
  7. -12V in motherboard
  8. Possible to obtain latest version of DX9 from 3rd party?
  9. what is "moz-screenshot.jpg" ?
  10. Is this true?
  11. Changing permissions on a read only filesystem
  12. Hard disk size

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 17

  1. PowerPoint Presentation
  2. Can cell phones be used for eavesdropping ?
  3. XP SP2
  4. GLUT question on OS X
  5. Switching to another network port ("NIC") on W2K and XP
  6. Problems with ubuntu fiesty fawn, screen resolution, on a Dell monitor.
  7. Safari, OS X and sortable tables
  8. Total RAM replacement
  9. good antivirus software
  10. Hard drive space

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 18

  1. So, backslashing doesn't allow you to save edits, but...
  2. No POST! No POST!
  3. Layout
  4. HELP with a network?
  5. Oh boy...
  6. DVD/TV question for Japan
  7. osi layers.
  8. Screenshot with its Alpha channel?
  9. Difficult SD card recovery
  10. Confusion with LCD resolutions and 720p/1080i
  11. MySQL setup help
  12. Using computer as a sound recorder

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 19

  1. Way to tell age of an AIM account?
  2. do iPods know what color they are?
  3. Thunderbird and IMAP
  4. cant use bit torrent
  5. Delete corrupt file
  6. Google
  7. vista vs xp
  8. Problem with hibernation
  9. What is the best way to use Python under both Windows and Cygwin?
  10. Java linking FORTRAN
  11. 21" or 22" LCD Monitor
  12. Editing Linux
  13. untitled question

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 20

  1. DVD to youtube
  2. WinXP SP2 object block when downloading
  3. Digital Camera Lens Lens
  4. ASCII compression?
  5. Why no $2 computers?
  6. Bandwidth of wikipedia
  7. Google's (and Yahoo's) descriptions of Wikipedia pages
  8. Linux and Razr
  9. Java Complex Matrix Class

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 21

  1. TRR 2: Electric Boogaloo!
  2. Faking a real Bsod
  3. Why NAND and NOR and not AND, OR and NOT?
  4. Mame
  5. Fonts in firefox
  6. Windows Media Player 10 - 1 song, 2 albums
  7. AIM screen name problems

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 22

  1. Excel copy and paste
  2. Halo Aimbot
  3. Making a fake Bsod (continued)
  4. Mounting partitions after the system has started
  5. Another problem...
  6. Help me transfer my Outlook Address Book to my new computer
  7. bit torrent files from www.piratebay.com
  8. System full (Suse 10.2)
  9. Video Editing Program?
  10. while im at it....
  11. Cancel the Bugzilla account

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 23

  1. Linux software
  2. Chapter Splitting in Handbrake.
  3. SD cards and whatnot
  4. Perl Code
  5. Mame play
  6. 有没有华文的 LexisNexis?
  7. List of OS' while booting How do I change this?
  8. having trouble with microsoft window popping up.
  9. Recycle Bin
  10. bit torrent files
  11. Chess by email viewer?
  12. Torrents
  13. Problem with Java
  14. A5 printing.
  15. SQL query
  16. pentium M 715
  17. Audio/Video
  18. Router Stuff
  19. Bold and italics in plain text: a suggested use for the other Unicode planes

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 24

  1. Linux software
  2. Aim account
  3. Does DDR2 memory need a different motherboard slot from DDR?
  4. VMWare vs KVM
  5. Ink colour
  6. Access/VBA question relating to Collection objects
  7. System tray in Windows XP

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 25

  1. Windows Media Player woes
  2. Huffman tree implementation?
  3. Alternate DNS
  4. USB flash drive as RAM
  5. briefcase
  6. Dark web
  7. ls replacement for tree
  8. uploading clip to refrence desk

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 26

  1. Websites and money
  2. Proprietary software vs free software
  3. Date format in MS Excel
  4. IP Address v6
  5. Video formats
  6. Do you suppose a Pentium III @ 1 GHz can run any VM?

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 27

  1. Norton Confidential error
  2. RAM
  3. Linux and Network Connection Sharing
  4. Saving laptop power.
  5. Outlook Express
  6. English-like programming languages
  7. Sony DSC-S500 (digital camera)
  8. Website growth
  9. Nintendo Why?!-Fi Connection
  10. eBay.com.au tripping Opera's Fraud Protection

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 28

  1. Looking for a very specific firefox plugin
  2. Visual Basic to Python converter
  3. How to set up eth1 to get a connection with an encrypted network?
  4. Checking 64-bit processor
  5. QoS on Thompson SpeedTouch 585
  6. Web programming languages
  7. AVI to DVD
  8. Resizing partition
  9. Verizon vs. Cable
  10. beginning networking question

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 29

  1. Where can I find linux code?
  2. Difference between 2 and 2&3 in a shift operation.
  3. System Memory on Mac OS X
  4. Router IP assignment
  5. mother of computer
  6. Cannot apt-get update in Debian
  7. Office 2007 Save As glitch
  8. ActionScript 3 question
  9. DirectX 10
  10. Picking A GPS

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 30

  1. Finding where an IP is...
  2. Slideshow questions
  3. vista
  4. help
  5. JPEG to PDF
  6. PS3 price drop
  7. voice-activated web browser
  8. Virus that makes computer/hardware explode
  9. Algorithm for solving f(x) = x
  10. Way to speed up wikipedia load times?
  11. Free web hosts
  12. It's all about the gigbytes, baby!

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 31

  1. a home printer for business cards?
  2. Web browser switching problems
  3. GFX laptop in Asia
  4. Cantralized Wikipedia geographic database?
  5. Problem with WMM / downloading YouTube videos
  6. Overwriting of geographic coordinates
  7. Enquire about computer projects
  8. to convert a pdf file to word/excel file
  9. Safari Flash Problem
  10. free graphics program
  11. Automatic Computer Power On
  12. Flash CS3 question
  13. hardware
  14. CAN bus
  15. Wikipedia Page Traffic
  16. access from alternate locations