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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 1

1. Android app paranoia
2. Browser appearance off, can't remember changing settings
3. Motorola RAZR V3i - Voicemail Problems
4. DEP and CometBird
5. Windows compression?
6. Official looking Yahoo email

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 2

1. Embedded that uses an Intel Atom E6xx that comes with a housing
2. Chrome extensions
3. Why would history disappear?
4. Anonymous
5. Virtual Private Network (VPN) and being anonymous

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 3

1. Keyboard shortcut in Internet Explorer
2. How to read [http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ natural earth]'s maps?
3. Kindle Fire...not e-paper
4. Wikispaces user rights
5. Bash problem with single quotes
6. .m2ts

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 4

1. Anvil Studio: Scrolling the piano-roll
2. google docs image problem
3. From vector to coordinates, from coordinates to vector
4. math question on program
5. Skype: incredibly loud artificial background noise

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 5

1. Migrating all SVN metadata into root directory of working copy
2. Unable to play audio file
3. movement of mouse (computer)
4. Password Folder
5. Can't search using Google in Firefox
6. gluing images side by side

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 6

1. Ethernet Ports' IP Addresses
2. Vector animation
3. Programming Languages
4. Clocks inside my computer, changing time
5. Free Web Based/Hosted Bug Tracker

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 7

1. Factory settings
2. Downloading jar file from webpage
3. Allow program to make changes, no queastions asked
4. mini screens
5. How does a call to a cell phone find its destination?
6. Digital Photo Frame

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 8

1. 1=
2. Question about Sales Receipt Templates in Quickbooks 2010
3. "Delayed" page numbering in MS Word 2010
4. What was the internet like...
5. Best practices for application protocol and library API design
6. Google ads
7. User contribution pages
8. MSN
9. Another IM question

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 9

1. I want the host to send PIO cmd only, how can I do it?
2. Hypervisors or virtual machine software that can perform signature checks on the VM it is loading
3. How are URLs containing semicolons handled by common web servers?
4. Transferring HDD to new machine
5. Cannot access one particular site (issue has persisted for months)
6. Threat detected while sensitive information was visible - should I be scared?
7. Can't compile wxWidgets on Ubuntu 11.10

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 10

1. Forcing Windows to choose a static IP only on a certain wireless network
2. Help me ID a former warez group member.
3. RfC: What is the difference between information technology and computing?
4. Compiling if statements with final booleans
5. Advertising Malware on Wikipedia
6. Discovering my password
7. encryption
8. Audio in/out
9. Explicit instantiation
10. How much for 13" MBP 2010?

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 11

1. Thick Margins
2. Mozilla support newsgroups
3. LaTeX font question
4. Removing extraneous seconds from WAV file
5. Debian installer preseeding issue
6. Proxy servers

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 12

1. Wireless fails at single hotspot
2. Codes for a Universal Remote Control
3. Email address or a P.O. box of Mike D’Antoni
4. PHP and MySQL
5. Exponential algorithms
6. Force MinGW to install in Program Files
7. Chiptunes
8. Linux: why load environment variables when not using them?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 13

1. SMS forwarding
2. great firewall of china
3. Secret Facebook group problem
4. Interactive voice response recommendation ?
5. Software/hardware/Safari conflict?
6. open source or free video editing
7. Problem with Pywikipedia

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 14

1. mobile AIM/trillian
2. Drawing with JavaScript
3. CDC 6600 - which generation?
4. cut and paste
5. LGA1155 and graphics
6. Word macro
7. Animation3d PDN
8. Article Jannie Viljoen
9. OpenOffice, choice of dictionary
10. Studying PHP, Ajax, jQuery, and MySQL.

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 15

1. phone internet access
2. "New Tab" button in multiple places in Firefox
3. How to let VB2005 print a+b+c+d=24 ?
4. Warning e-mail senders about unintended recipients
5. Microsoft filing.
6. iMovie
7. Direct use of SSD within virtual memory

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 16

1. Display problem with right to left encoding
2. Google translate api
3. MediaWiki Farmer not working
4. why doesn't anyone
5. Microsoft GIF Animator
6. Hypervisor capable of performing a secure boot process
7. How does a hidden link work?
8. Firefox addon shortcut

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 17

1. Counting email domains
2. Looking for a simple self-hosted blogging solution for collaboration

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 18

1. biggest p2p networks nowadays (besides bittorrent)
2. Entire computer freezing when I click just about anything in IE 8?
3. Overwriting backup partition by accident leads to Windows failure
4. How accurate is Wolfram|Alpha?
5. Not all mobile phones get their clock automatically kept on time?
6. 5.25" floppy drives with a USB connector - find please?

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 19

1. Thin x86 tablet
2. Internet Explorer cannot ...
3. Victor adding- listing model 110 year 1921-1925
4. What happened to this website?
5. something that falls betwween twitter notifier and goole alert
6. Finding index of substring in less than square time?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 20

1. Android on Playbook 2.0
2. Which Wikipedia uses disclaimers the most?
3. Engine game s2 or s3
4. Raspberry pi

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 21

1. Javascript crashing weird
2. computer turning itself off
3. Getting URL of video
4. computer restarts
5. Grabbing a frame from a video
6. Getting formatted output from a web page

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 22

1. 500 Internal Server Error
2. Rogue antivirus... how to remove it fast?
3. Are there implementations of C++ without system headers as text files?
4. Keeping URL with an image
5. Listing all non-subpages using regex
6. clearing hard drive before i take it to the dump
7. Relationships in Visio

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 23

1. How do find a website on Alexa?
2. Are proxy servers legal in the UK?
3. How do I get a dynamic IP address
4. Browsing history

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 24

1. Google Voice Recovery Issue
2. Strategies for buying computers
3. draw something
4. The Entry On Microsoft Dynamics Is Unclear-- Can Someone Fix It?
5. PHP - getting data across pages without forms

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 25

1. External hard drive problem
2. Accessing a web page
3. gif breaking
4. curved writing
5. Openoffice: Alignment in enumeration (within table)
6. make a folder impossible to be opened
7. system info
8. World's longest URL?

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 26

1. Blocking time-wasting sites in IE8?
2. Windows 7 libraries?
3. How do I register the domain ear.th?
4. Movie image distortion
5. Full virtualization of x86
6. Wordpress Question!

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 27

1. Important question regarding Google Voice
2. strange behavior of facebook
3. can SolidWorks 2011/2012 do video export?
4. Problem with SOAP used from C#
5. Alternative to Finder
6. Looking for free Java editor
7. Answering machine which requires hitting a button to save a message

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 28

1. ps3 superwihte option
2. TMP???.EXE issue
3. name of deciding input for a logic gate
4. Image processing- Applying a gradient of defocus through an image
5. Is there a phone app that detects being inside polite areas, and auto-silence the phone?
6. GNU/Linux: ln -s dereference "."

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 29

1. Digital TV question
2. Remembering logins in Firefox
3. Cannot access Google groups when logged in
4. Packet
5. Odd compiler warnings.
6. sketchup modelling
7. SQL - Multiple joins
8. older special effects graphics software

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 30

1. Registry?
2. Can't write to DVD in Windows XP
3. Prevent applications from changing cursor
4. so, how do I really turn the cookies back on?
5. Download helper for Firefox that's customizable by filetype

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 31

1. downloading a podcast
2. Half/Fullwidth
3. Audio on computer
4. Borked USB drive