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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 1

1. How can I embed a Wikipedia article into my website?
2. Computer build problem
3. AOL proxies
4. Wikileaks
5. Wireless bandwidth limiting

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 2

1. Delta network
2. Free software alternatives to Synthesia Game
3. How could someone determine that I am a sockpuppet?
4. Know?

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 3

1. fast lexical scanner
2. How? (video illusion)
3. Problem with MuseScore
4. question on VM's in Rich Internet Application
5. Phishing email
6. Commodore 64 palette

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 4

1. Java size (Display )
2. Google Chrome extension -- malware?
3. Excel

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 5

1. A website to send certificates ?
2. Best version to make a game
3. CPU overloading
4. Quel peut être l'impact des ondes wifi sur le cerveau des jeunes enfants ?
5. How to show all blog posts in Firefox?
6. Spotify troubles
7. Getty Images Program

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 6

1. Computer Novice Help Identifying Downloads
2. Technological mind manipulation
3. Hotmail Phishing?
4. Cooperating
5. How are the list of suggested pages (articles) for :Help:Books generated?

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 7

1. Graphics card causing reboots?
2. PHP Function.
3. What is the price to put video ad on youtube (the video ads that plays before the video start)?
4. Memory Space
5. gmail
6. Email SMS alerts.
7. Scorewriter licensed under BSD License or similar licenses
8. Computer security
9. iPhone charger
10. Java compiler

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 8

1. "Gateway timed out"
2. Need help troubleshooting computer with corrupted HDD
3. Phones are smart afterall!!!
4. Yahoo Live Chat
5. How to clean a desktop computer monitor

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 9

1. Firefox's recent "File + New Tab" addition
2. Microsoft Windows 7 - Microsoft Windows XP.
3. pdf slow - images
4. "Fused off" features in Intel chips
5. correlated subquery in oracle

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 10

1. catalyst overdrive
2. mojibake in OOo text file

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 11

1. Nokia N8 fails to connect to WiFi

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 12

1. The 'Ç' character with Swiss French keyboard
2. Wikipedia ipv6
3. dim screen

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 13

1. Help me my laptop DVD drive is damaged!!!
2. Which version of Ubuntu is Wikimedia using for their servers?
3. Security check website
4. Wiki having trouble after migration
5. Two or more people call the same cell phone number at the exact time

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 14

1. Global and local variables in JavaScript
2. Are there time machines?
3. How long will a modern computer take to break an Enigma cipher?
4. Playing .swf file in Powerpoint (.pptx)
5. Video to GIF in Ubuntu 11.10
6. IPv1, IPv2, IPv3, IPv5
7. Macbook Specs
8. Average Number of Citations in Wikipedia Articles
9. Syllogism as the first address bar suggestion for en.wikipedia.org using Firefox: why?
10. Question about Linux security

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 15

1. SAMR Codec Error In VLC Player And Other Players
2. utf-8 question
3. Crawl php website
4. Mapped domains and CNAMEs
5. Wikipedia encoding
6. python
7. video editing

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 16

1. Webbrowser displays everything in bold
2. Can Blender open .sldasm files?
3. SUPER (software)

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 17

1. Free mac program for converting PAL to NTSC?
2. Different browsers render same web page differently
3. Where did Google Instant acquire search suggestions?
4. Two computers-- One user
5. Power management in Fedora Linux
6. Why is HTML5 YouTube so slow?
7. "blocking" or "redirecting" access to an aplication.

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 18

1. Ubuntu codenames
2. IPv6
3. Using Python/Numpy/Scipy and Datetime objects

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 19

1. Load runner
2. Digital camera resolution

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 20

1. inetrnet service
2. Bypass VPN for most traffic?
3. Optical zoom gives better depth of field ?
4. What web-framework should I learn?
5. try. ... catch (final) in Java
6. How do I get a big (5000 rows) html table from a webpage into LibreOffice Calc?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 21

1. Computer drivers
2. List of female 3d figures?
3. Erasing old hard drives before disposal...

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 22

1. Why does Apple Inc. permit use of their Mac OS X only on their hardware?
2. North American area codes with identical prefix assigned
3. What is the difference between a web server and a web framework?
4. How do you jump to 0x10000 in x86 assembly using intel syntax and assembling with NASM?
5. Process of elimination style quiz maker
6. Getting files from a bricked Droid
7. Monitor jitter

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 23

1. firefox malware
2. Showing gratitude
3. nrg files
4. The Art of Computer Programming and algorithms

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 24

1. Norton thinks eBay is a fraudulent site
2. recomendation for Windows backup
3. Can IMEI blocking be abused?
4. Computer can't find home broadband
5. Unrefresh ?
6. Regarding md5 format in jmeter
7. How to grant right to 'allow log on through Terminal Services' on Win7

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 25

1. how unsigned store negative number
2. Windows Live Mail
3. why checked,unchecked exceptions in java
4. Waking a disk drive that's gone to sleep due to inactivity / power saving
5. Regarding recording md5 format in jmeter
6. Semi-supervised text classification

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 26

1. background programs slowing computer down
2. wget not downloading index.html files when link points to directory
3. Changeing words on websites
4. Do you need patent licenses to implement GSM and W-CDMA and UMTS?
5. What components can I swap out to customize a laptop?
6. Automated Exploration
7. Reading tzinfo binary files in Java or .NET
8. Saved Application Does Not Work

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 27

1. When I turn OFF my WEP, PSP and Bootcamp Windows suddenly works?
2. identical file problem
3. More WEP woes

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 28

1. Free for use (including commercial) Unicode fonts supporting large numbers of high space symbolic glyphs, OS X
2. Why are there constraints on passwords?
3. Sed
4. Filenames with spaces in Linux
5. accidently replaced old image for new, can't find the old
6. Mysql query help
7. Accent over two letters
8. Google Books forces its localized domain at search

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 29

1. BASH Scripting
2. How to put an internet-shortcut from Internet Explorer into a local windows7 folder ?
3. colour requirements
4. name for wireless repeater
5. unmatched ) in regex
6. Anatomy of BorderStyle

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 30

1. Boiling Apple products
2. 'Locked computer' scam
3. RECORDING AN AUDIO
4. NOW RESOLVED - Help - Can't play onscreen videos
5. Adobe warning
6. Adaptive frame rate ?
7. Strange sound that won't go away
8. Computer Languages
9. 16MB internet - enough for six people?
10. How to fix interference on a Plasma TV
11. How to extend disk partition space in Windows 7