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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 1

1. Computer graphics
2. Problems with Ubuntu Live CD
3. Enough power for USB 2?
4. "In the news" archive
5. Socially engineered malware
6. rss
7. Excel - Inserting a link, programatically

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 2

1. Round corners for IE
2. Safari 'Tabs'
3. Why Mac Address alone is not Sufficient ? why do we need IP Address ?
4. Windows Server Update Services
5. Poppler binary for Windows
6. Code cracking...
7. /dev/random and OpenBSD
8. creating or assmebling a Pdf document using free software
9. problem adding to a home network
10. Find the contents of a div in arbitrary html using javascript
11. Citation highlighting
12. Program with Templates

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 3

1. File Association
2. Do intel cores automatically have centrino inside?
3. cryptography- software to analyse code?
4. Lian Li power supply not turning on

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 4

1. CPU Temperatures
2. Craigslist
3. Resting web pages - blocking AJAX requests
4. Running A 2nd Partition in VirtualBox?
5. Page History on Private wiki
6. windows XP installation
7. Online sex talk with fire
8. Weather site that doesn't hurt my eyes
9. Guide to changing from XP to Ubuntu
10. free downloads of visual studio for C++

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 5

1. How are animations like this synced?
2. reporting a bug in google
3. Single Vs Dual Core Processors
4. Easy backing up to a writeable CD
5. Difference between Windows and Linux
6. Star ratings in YouTube
7. Win Vista Not Booting
8. open source software
9. Lan Internet Protocol (IP) Address
10. How do i make my Laptop a WIFI Hotspot?
11. Excel spreasheet totaling
12. Connecting two wifi routers wirelessly?
13. How can I add more ports to a router?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 6

1. How does the Windows XP Installation CD decide if repair is a viable option?
2. Why always modulo by a prime?
3. Waiting for Godot to hard boot
4. i am a 11th student
5. Networking
6. Replacing .htaccess files with <Directory> sections in apache2.conf
7. Recommendation of free blogging application needed
8. Opening files in reverse alpha order
9. Network
10. html -> mht
11. What's the performance load of inner anonymous classes?
12. Installable content management system for CentOS

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 7

1. Advanced rotation in 3DS Max
2. Convert Raw to PNG
3. Linux clock problem
4. laserdisk
5. data to audio?
6. CSS zoom vs HTML size=
7. WWDC 2010

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 8

1. Keeping Windows error messages in the background.
2. Writing a DVD
3. All Windows desktop icons disappeared
4. Thinking about animations.
5. Excel indirect formula (not Excel indirect cell location)
6. LCD monitor vs LCD TV
7. ssh authorized_keys
8. Vertical and Horizontal retrace

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 9

1. File hosting services
2. Indifference curves
3. iSCSI
4. how to simulate a handoff scenario?
5. Time to copy files
6. Getting video from my camera NOT using Firewire
7. Program to Find Primes in C++
8. UTF-8 and HTML
9. Google Chat
10. Surfing with Python
11. email info
12. Internet

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 10

1. yahoo messenger archive decoding
2. Editing subtitles in .srt files
3. HTTP referrers and site tracking
4. getting error mesg with new interface
5. Google
6. Program to help with world cup sweepstakes
7. iPhone
8. Weird hidden text in webpage, not in source, but apparent after copying and pasting?
9. How to check what other people can see of my Facebook profile?

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 11

1. problem with windows media player 11
2. Running out of space on a RAID
3. Comcast Cable Internet Speeds
4. Some Windows installation related questions
5. Ubuntu + Vista DualBoot
6. sql server 2005 se
7. Most "durable" file compression format
8. Real-time post-processing audio from speakers

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 12

1. Java layout manager that forces width
2. Multiple Instances of Ubuntu in Grub Loader
3. Directory to drive letter
4. Mediawiki extension for doing mysql queries from within the wiki
5. Greasemonkey
6. DownThemAll!
7. Annoying Pop-Down Toolbar on Google Chrome
8. Ubuntu WiFi

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 13

1. Infobox field and value ordering
2. XFire & Games List

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 14

1. anyone know how to download movies on a samsung advance a885?
2. Archiving data
3. E-mail name
4. OpenOffice3
5. TouchFLO 3D
6. Program for creating mathematical graphs
7. Mac Dinosaur Game circa 1997-1998

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 15

1. Playing movies full screen at 1080p
2. Phone advice
3. C++ 5.5
4. Question (Internet domains)
5. Storage Area Networking across the Internet
6. Explorer.exe
7. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
8. AARRRRGGG!!!! (Lost Blackberry pics)

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 16

1. Using Open Streem Map within our GPS softwares
2. How to remove a folder which isn't there
3. C++
4. Another C++
5. Drivers
6. Slow starting Windows 7 install?
7. Address bar and title bar unchanged
8. Save my old Mac as some kind of image in my new Mac
9. Computer control
10. Annoyance with Chrome
11. PHP Question
12. Why is Xcode 2.3 GB ?
13. Color (Laser Printer)
14. Computer security and privacy online test

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 17

1. Using RealPlayer to download videos
2. Typeface for identification
3. OpenOffice Base & MS Office Access
4. PHP commas
5. Strange Computer Problem
6. What is QNIX?
7. Force Shield in Yuri's Revenge

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 18

1. Microsoft-based Virtualization
2. Can a whole disk be copied?
3. Is is possible to navigate the Rolling Stone website at all?
4. Video_game_console vs. laptops
5. Citing PDFs
6. HTML web page creation using ASP
7. Firefox RAM
8. Greasemonkey scripts
9. Plustek OpticFilm Scanner 7500i and 7600i
10. I wasn't signed in but I had no history
11. When is a gigabyte not a gigabyte?

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 19

1. SATA-to-USB bridge
2. visual land vl-875
3. Free natural voice text reader
4. url
5. How to translate a Word Document into forum code
6. Server Requirements
7. Create a Wikipedia Bot with no experience
8. assign JSON response to variable
9. Why won't back button work?
10. Photoshop Tutorials
11. eBay weird

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 20

1. Window Media Player
2. Laplace transform C++ libraries
3. Windows XP Firewall - no exceptions ever
4. Arin.net's WHOIS isn't being helpful. Please help me find the origin of my dad's IP Addresses.
5. Outputting known waveform
6. &#55298;&#56576;&#55298;&#56577;

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 21

1. How can I get Unicode range of a Language.
2. Binary - Difference Between Displaying Text And Numbers
3. Subnet calculator
4. Files to Images
5. What's a good tool for Knowledge Engineering?
6. Key code of win-key on azerty keyboard
7. Ubuntu/Vista Dual-Boot Broken - Reason
8. Why do the XHTML specifications "forbid" serving XML syntax as text/html?
9. Editing an MPG file

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 22

1. Multiplication by a fraction avoiding temporary overflow
2. Vista Q
3. Internet Protocol Addresses of Network Interface Controller Ports
4. Make your own Anime
5. Which Linux distro is right for me?
6. Automatic backup of files?
7. Help me understand the whole megabit/mebibit confusion
8. I cannot read the Wiki website
9. operation behind deleting a file
10. can i prevent coping a file
11. Rank amateur wants to install Windows and Linux OS’s on two +15 year old computers, and later install OpenOffice and Ogg Vorbis, for 50 bucks or less
12. twitter
13. Babylon's dictionary of Wikipedia
14. Wget

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 23

1. Just built a computer but it wont turn on
2. Finding and deleting disused DLLs
3. Task Scheduler
4. Language Display in Games
5. What is the operation done for data or file is created ,deletion ,selection ,cut,copy,past
6. Making a page live.
7. Letter case in filenames when transferring photos from digital camera to Linux
8. Logo of Diba inc.
9. How to watch the new Torrent TV Pilot "Pioneer One"
10. Smaller alternatives to OpenOffice with British-English spell checking?
11. Can the Windows Vista Business be installed in more than one computer within a small business?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 24

1. Operating System Advice
2. Networking
3. how to boot from cd?
4. Looking for a separate XML Schema file
5. Perflib_Perfdata_650.dat
6. turning text into html in JSON
7. cd
8. Information about microsoft
9. Captcha is bad
10. Meaning of Ubuntu "version?" number?

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 25

1. Converting Word to PDF
2. Searching for Bootable PCIe 1.0 x4 SLC NAND Flash SSD
3. writing a program, USB and interface
4. Networking Cable Diameters
5. mysql last value query
6. Internet problem

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 26

1. Microsoft Office 2010 Student Edition
2. New Features
3. antenna connectors on cell phones
4. Information theoretic loss of JPEGs through displaying
5. Userscript
6. Free wi-fi at a cafe
7. "non-comercial use only" stamp in MS Office?
8. Modem - router - computers
9. userscript help
10. Problem Downloading RealPlayer
11. Google Adwords, Dynamic Keyword Insertion not working as expected

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 27

1. Location of Wikipedia section edit links ?
2. AJAX question.
3. What software helps recover laptops better than LoJack for Laptops?
4. A way around "geographical restrictions"?
5. MP3 compression
6. Excel conditional formatting
7. HTML viewer for Symbian phones
8. Freeware = Communism

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 28

1. super-arduino?
2. AppleDouble and how to extract a JPEG from it
3. .NET (C#) questions by ramasubramanian k
4. Sanity check - awful way to provide program update?

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 29

1. help with a simple shell script
2. Help With Simple Ruby Program
3. Gmail Password changes by itself!
4. Userscript navigate to random page
5. Using an ActiveX control module in C++
6. JIRA SOAP question: getting issue comments
7. Computer too hot?
8. Wireless question
9. DMA to PIO
10. Software to display and sort a multi-column list?
11. Script to rename same-filename files while copying

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 June 30

1. Newly built computer won't boot
2. Screensaver
3. Help me get rid of this virus!
4. Battlefield 2:Special Forces shortcut command line
5. One window wiki
6. rsync help
7. SCART cables
8. Mac OS X sudo copying through the Finder?
9. Muting a program in Windows 7?
10. Shortcut to Desktop
11. Database for image metadata