Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2015

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March 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 1

  1. Manual for maven
  2. Attempting to get best resolution
  3. How can you run Linux if you don't want graphics, guis and the like

March 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 2

  1. IPA characters representation in VM/CMS in 1986

March 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 3

  1. Simple program
  2. 3D building game
  3. How to edit a PNG pic ?

March 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 4

  1. Disassemble code
  2. Skype logging in to Microsoft account
  3. Some software doesn't grasp my Windows 8 screen resolution.
  4. Chrome update
  5. Creating simple animations with .svg files and line drawings

March 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 5

  1. Excel tables
  2. When is a URL not a URL?
  3. How do I download certain movies directly?
  4. Analysis of Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks
  5. how to listen to the same sound through two 3.5mm ports on my pc

March 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 6

  1. Problem with motherboard supporting 5.1 channel sound
  2. Google Chrome issue
  3. Windows 7 (Ultimate) Logon screens icons
  4. Mouse pointers modifier(s)
  5. How to reposition an HTML background image ?
  6. Timing events with HTML
  7. AI and theory of mind

March 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 7

  1. Convert copy-protected VOB files to hi-res FLAC
  2. Javascript to change image transparency ?
  3. Javascript debug help needed
  4. More ram = longer battery running time?

March 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 8

  1. Any way to tweak the automatically generated PDF books from Wikibooks?
  2. programing in computer
  3. Web scripts and browsers

March 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 9

  1. Recovering data from a failing/bad sector'd hard drive?

March 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 10

  1. How to automate running of a sequence of command line programs?
  2. External USB drive doesn't display in File Explorer
  3. Alternative PDF viewers with a good search function for Windows?
  4. Why are domain prices not all more or less the same?

March 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 11

  1. Autofill Win7 username
  2. The Great Wikiblizzard, or the NSA chilling effect
  3. Where to find free animation frames ?
  4. email

March 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 12

  1. Staying signed in on a website application
  2. GIMP export file formats
  3. Videos by email
  4. If you computer has 2 GB of ram, when does it start having problems dealing with text files?
  5. Extracting photos from PDFs
  6. Samsung WB350F Camera haywire
  7. Are generic batteries evil?

March 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 13

  1. PC rating in Window 7
  2. SHA-256

March 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 14

  1. Windows 7 Explorer view
  2. CHINEESE MALWARES
  3. HTML arrow key detection
  4. Software sought
  5. Inconsistent Google Search hit counts

March 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 15

  1. Computer speakers high-pitched noise upon connection

March 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 16

  1. What programming language did Punched cards use?
  2. MS Sculpt Bluetooth mouse erratic pointer
  3. PHP reading a .txt file
  4. Help finding a game manual
  5. Scanning

March 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 17

  1. Extracting peaks from histogram data.
  2. Non-redirecting link
  3. Gmail and POP3
  4. .Jpeg software:

March 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 18

  1. Interest rate calculations in MS Excel: is the "help" incorrect?
  2. Barebone computers
  3. Call via wifi
  4. The CSS "Clear:;" attribute - A didactic explanation?

March 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 19

  1. Audio Incompetent
  2. Facebook Group administrator problem
  3. What does law enforcement target, when they want to put a site down?
  4. Hosting my own server
  5. Moore's Law
  6. Operator overloading in Java?
  7. Reliable, Versatile, free Duplicate File Finder?
  8. Domain names not in use
  9. Keyboard woes "è"
  10. Area all domains in the form word.com already taken?

March 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 20

  1. C follows B - inspired by music?
  2. Internet Interruption
  3. Chrome issues

March 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 21

  1. Transfer music from iPhone 4 to latest iPod
  2. Photo management software
  3. Firefox

March 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 22

  1. Apple TV
  2. e learning
  3. Securing a MediaWiki server

March 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 23

  1. Special magnification software wanted
  2. Formatting numbers in Java with Swing
  3. PHP function question

March 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 24

  1. Quest about jkflip flops and transition state diagramsg
  2. GPL
  3. All OSS software is free?
  4. Simple GPS module

March 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 25

  1. Software Sought
  2. Video downloader
  3. iTunes
  4. Bit logic and state diagrams homework (part 2)

March 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 26

  1. Dropbox String-Matching Algorithm

March 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 27

  1. TinyCore Linux
  2. Reboot Android to Safe Mode
  3. Deinstalled a game but I still lost 7GB of total space...
  4. power point
  5. Adding whitespace to pdfs in adobe
  6. One article redirecting to another one!

March 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 28

  1. Wireless Module Not Found at Workplace
  2. Internet infrastructure and nuclear war

March 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 29

  1. Why break backward compatibility, when developing new programming languages?
  2. Hard Disk Unformatted?
  3. Skype
  4. PDF direct from bitmap?
  5. Computing

March 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 30

  1. Major downloading problem
  2. Xforce
  3. Online converter for RAR
  4. Discover hosting, given a web-site
  5. Extended Unicode Characters in Serial Read of EEPROM
  6. What kind of right do you buy, when you buy a domain?
  7. USB port monitoring on Windows
  8. Tablet Coby Kyros Mid 8127
  9. ASP.NET compilation error: the same type is defined in two different DLLs

March 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 31

  1. LibreOffice / MS Office interoperability 101
  2. Leaning to manage a server on the cloud