Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/June 2011

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 1

1. Reconnecting a bash session
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
3. Recover images from formatted SD card
4. Can a multi-monitor rig be achieved with different output modes?
5. Network Printer
6. HTML/CSS Table help
7. Change from Gnome to LXDE

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 2

1. how to hack a web or blog
2. Sync program that works between Win 7 and XP and works with networked drives

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 3

1. 128 bit gaming
2. Multicolumn text flowing multipage sliding
3. More MS Office Problems
4. common practices request
5. User DMCA report system
6. Why does Internet Explorer alway's say, " Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage?"
7. cable modem dropping and wired/wireless router
8. Does it need to be 64-bit to use both cores?

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 4

1. Hypervisor for GPU Virtualization
2. Apple Iphone touchscreen sensitivity
3. Facebook question
4. Can a flashable BIOS be modified to start a bootloader larger than 512 bytes?
5. How does VPN affect my Internet connection/privacy/security?

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 5

1. Link to a Facebook image
2. lost office 2007 media, have key - where to download
3. How to make sounds from the Windows Command Prompt ?
4. Windows 95 Media
5. Firefox 4: open new tabs at end
6. How do you show categories as wiki markup?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 6

1. PDF: Searchable
2. RAM card compatibility (DDR3-1333 instead of DDR3-1066. Will it work?)
3. How to re-open a Firefox window in a full window?
4. WinZip WinDows
5. Outlook 2003 - Multiple Calendars - Intermittently stop syncing with Exchange
6. Looking for a template-based, static CMS
7. What happens when Flash games stall ?
8. long-term media storage and compatability
9. Oracle bug: Empty strings treated as null

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 7

1. Local printer to internet printer
2. MP3 tag editor for "genre" and "composer"
3. Inkscape convert text
4. IP Address

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 8

1. cable provides telephone service
2. World Mode G3
3. Game programming languages?
4. Breaking out of alert() loops
5. Looking for a Programming language
6. Install DMG programme on Windows 7
7. Best word to describe "Software which is run by an operating system"
8. how do most php programmerse program the html part (mac)
9. Using my choice of icon for each desktop shortcut, folder, or URL
10. what might a beginner without formal training learn wrong about web design?
11. USB Devices No Longer Working (Vista)

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 9

1. Laptop wont recognize FAT32 Flash Drives
2. Regarding archiving on CD/DVDs
3. Knowledge Management System of an organization using RDF in Semantic Web
4. Why THAT password?
5. how does NAT traversal work? (or busting through a firewall)
6. NSA and Cryptography
7. Pop-up pictures in Firefox

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 10

1. Back button
2. Blogs
3. Fastest mainstream computer language to learn?
4. Adjusting sound

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 11

1. Using unmanaged .dll with managed code
2. TV rebroadcast
3. Subtitling
4. Referrer spam
5. how much faster would it be if instead of normal SSD, the hard-drive was a little computer behaving like a hard-drive but going off of RAM?

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 12

1. New PC config question
2. Streaming IMDB trailers
3. formatted hex printing in C++
4. Timing Music on PowerPoint
5. google not indexing
6. (Only one) Computer from the network weeks disconnecting from internet and network.
7. Vista System Restore
8. download vedio from utube

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 13

1. can't access blogger
2. Bit frame selection in differential Manchester encoding
3. anti-spyware software for Macs
4. cron.daily in Ubuntu

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 14

1. Browser war
2. Best Linux OS for File Transfer Protocol Server
3. backup hardlinks
4. Giant Mail Merge Question
5. Learning game programming by reading open source code?
6. worldwide visibility of jt3.com

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 15

1. External Hard Drive
2. How can I cancel saving a web page in IE?

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 16

1. Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 LTS - Separate Partition Sizes
2. Acquisition of home LED and LCD monitors, navigating marketing jargon
3. Characters added to text file
4. Problem with WLAN under Ubuntu
5. If an IP is shared between multiple people in reality, could they be accused of sockpuppetry?
6. list of -fu to practice to become an elite hacker?
7. parody video of startup (full of buzzwords) on techcrunch?
8. Remote Desktop from Linux to Windows?
9. Does a device like this exist?
10. Delete duplicate files
11. Overwriting CD-Rs to destroy data

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 17

1. Figure out what type of server a site is running
2. Open source compability with powerpoint
3. Animated JPG??
4. Taking pictures without using my hands
5. Ad problems

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 18

1. 2 computer monitors
2. ping and keyboards
3. Question about references
4. What's this character?
5. Alt-C

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 19

1. Wordpress MP3 plugin for dummies
2. Uptodating drivers for Windows XP
3. Search for files in Windows 7
4. IPod formatted Mac/Windows
5. Rename all subfolders by adding the same prefix
6. Progress bar for auto-fsck (Ubuntu 10.04)
7. Facebook question

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 20

1. Help with switchboard (MS Access)
2. Memory Stick question
3. how is version control for a development team usually set up?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 21

1. Tracing MAC address over the Internet
2. Administrator bullying situation - where to report it?
3. Archiving a Polish report
4. Best cloud desktop service
5. Windows PE image restore
6. Is there a charity that will send my old computer to the 3rd world?
7. Web server on top level domain only?
8. 'Monitor Program'?

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 22

1. Firefox Icon
2. mouse single click e speaking software
3. Elite question
4. Simplified Chinese Music Notation software
5. Having trouble with my computer
6. Kenya WiFi Security
7. Router logbook

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 23

1. Running program for Unix-based OS
2. Ubuntu: Command + ` OSX equivalent?
3. Torrents
4. MS Outlook 2007
5. Secure VPN + Insecure (W)LAN
6. BrowserChoice.eu - does it really work like this?
7. Restarting the display in Linux
8. Samsung Galaxy S II release date in China?
9. Laptop design

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 24

1. 2 x 500 GB (WD) or 1 x 1 TB (Toshiba)
2. Onboard video card
3. Looking for an audio media player SOFTWARE

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 25

1. A Software which SEPERATES refrences from the main text of a scientific paper?
2. disappearing link
3. PHP regular expression
4. Enquiry about purchase of Monitor Inverter
5. Safe Mode in Windows XP
6. remote processor networks
7. If routers have 192.168.1.1 as IP...
8. Economical side of torrent
9. filesystem
10. secure against file corruption
11. parchive
12. Storing 15GB of data in my garden for 50 years
13. What is the weird little separator in my Firefox 5 tabs?
14. A device doesn't "support" .txt files?
15. Windows stable work
16. Wireless
17. Zero-byte files in WinXP
18. Tooltips In System Tray
19. Which top-level domains are limited as far as who can own them?

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 26

1. Saving passwords on Android apps
2. adding automatic subtitles for VLC videos?
3. Tracking down a group of hackers
4. Cat5e crosstalk
5. Most error correcting file compression?
6. Right to left encoding

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 27

1. Thermal efficiency of FPGAs vs. conventional CPUs
2. Excel: Date Calculation
3. Desktop speaker volume detection?
4. Remote file system manipulation without FTP
5. Robots.txt
6. Swedish IPRED Law - keeping logs mandatory
7. firefox
8. Wikipedia content automatically posted on Facebook
9. Transferring DVDs to computer

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 28

1. Computing clouds
2. Ubuntu keyboard restart
3. Full access to an iPod's file system
4. 'Run As Admin' Option Not Appearing
5. what format are rackspace cloud images in?
6. How do you get a PDF to work on Word 2010?
7. PHP MyAdmin help

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 29

1. Playing Downloaded .cue & .flac files
2. Moderate (or just slight) network security for dummies
3. How to creat a mobile phone app
4. Ad problems, the sequel
5. HFS+ drive backed up onto FAT32 drive
6. Shell script help
7. web designing tutions online for beginners [80 years old, Me]

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 30

1. Creating a mobile phone app part 2
2. Phone apps, business side
3. Source of online topographic map
4. Processor cloud
5. Harvesting HDD from an external enclosure
6. projected and non -projected visuals
7. Finding out why my laptop rebooted
8. firefox/ fedora 7 not behaving
9. Difference between computers and humans
10. Google search for "sex"