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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 1

  1. "linking?" (header added by frotht)
  2. Comparison of CRM Software Solutions - and affiliated (fundraising/donor management)
  3. Internet
  4. Yahoo!
  5. Inputting Japanese kanji
  6. wikiscanner
  7. quesions?
  8. Problem with Russian characters (solved)
  9. Linux/Unix: command(s) to return the canonical path to a file
  10. Cross posted Microsoft and Google question
  11. Questions about virtual storage space
  12. SQL questions
  13. Best Java IDE
  14. Maya, 3Ds Max or SoftImage XSI
  15. Google earth elevation map
  16. Text To Speech Software Hunt
  17. Macromedia Shockwave player 10.1 in Mozilla Firefox Windows XP
  18. Windows Vista explorer error
  19. MS Word lists

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 2

  1. Pseudocode operator
  2. processor
  3. xp
  4. How much would the US government pay for this algorithm
  5. Antitrust laws: support for .odt
  6. How is schema definition referenced in an XML document?

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 3

  1. CNET / IT's most influential?
  2. Finer intervals for Windows vista's parental control
  3. Is it Internet Explorer or is it Google...?
  4. Loop through XML
  5. Cheap printers
  6. Fuel pump cuts out
  7. Connecting my computer to my TV

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 4

  1. RAM thumbdrive?
  2. CAD thing
  3. Does this work for anyone?
  4. Resizing NTFS partitions....
  5. Minidisc player down
  6. How safe is it to put banking details on a website?
  7. Wich AMD?
  8. Internet Explorer versus Firefox
  9. dead pixels
  10. Bypassing DRM

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 5

  1. Stepmania
  2. how do you install a copy of msn/wlm on a thumb drive?
  3. registry
  4. Must have "www."
  5. Image upload site
  6. Java vs. C++
  7. Microsoft Publisher and Word Processing Sofware
  8. Device Presenter
  9. How do I create a scraper?
  10. Finding a font
  11. Easy alternatives to DOS window?
  12. SUPER
  13. installing xp on laptop with no cd or floppy
  14. HOW much does it cost?!

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 6

  1. Running IE
  2. Firefox 2 Spell check
  3. Richard Stallman and Wikipedia
  4. Image Scanner Upkeep
  5. Energy consumption of the Internet
  6. E-Mail ID
  7. Streaming music with wiki
  8. Hardisk Failure
  9. RAIDed external USB harddrive...
  10. problem of faint photos on internet viewing.
  11. microcontroller neuron
  12. Bluetooth Webcam
  13. python class method: does a function/method have a way to know it's own name?
  14. Removing lyrics from songs
  15. PSP Wifi
  16. is the psp or iphone a better media player (widescreen movies).
  17. Surfing web without web browsers

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 7

  1. On the verge of breaking...
  2. customising pie chart in MS Visio
  3. Reverting all Windows XP Display settings to default

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 8

  1. Python
  2. midi files
  3. EMail ID - 2nd post
  4. Ripping DVDs
  5. Solitaire
  6. hot swap able hard disk
  7. Windows Aero Problems
  8. Posting not showing up???
  9. Plasma TV break in period?
  10. ancestor to photocopier
  11. CAS programming on PC
  12. Who pays for Internet backbone? How much websites pay?
  13. Unix question: Getting file name if one exists
  14. rename
  15. Using a VPN for only SOME applications
  16. UK Television Graphics - Produced How?

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 9

  1. Nvidia GeForce 8300GS
  2. PS- Flattening a vector

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 10

  1. NTLDR and Vista
  2. Recovering older versions of photos?
  3. Intel Turbo Memory
  4. Nested RAID
  5. Faking a unix tape drive
  6. How to increase the time of timeouts?
  7. WikiMedia private pages
  8. Fixing the boot sector in WinXP.
  9. Is there a design pattern for taking a joined query result and getting it into a hierarchical data structure?
  10. how virgin mobile sugarmama works
  11. Visual Basic 6
  12. ls -l shows asterisks in filetype bit on Solaris 5.10

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 11

  1. C Code: Sorting list of pointers
  2. Why does Firefox take so bloody long to start downloading things?
  3. phd topic
  4. MP3 to WMA
  5. Bitrates when ripping from CD
  6. EMail ID - 3rd post
  7. Wireless connection: Offline even when online
  8. RAM question.
  9. Camcorder / Apple Mac
  10. Authentication through Flash webapps

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 12

  1. .hlp in windows vista
  2. Computing power
  3. installing Adobe shockwave as a nonadministrator
  4. Are you sure you want to change the file extension?
  5. Flash Memory
  6. Algorithm needed for depth of breath first traversal
  7. Suse 10.3 doesn't see IDE disks
  8. Automatic Call ending
  9. My own Website
  10. Matlab quits automatically on startup
  11. Gmail log in page
  12. IT (copied from Miscellaneous by User:Kushal one)
  13. Importance of clock speed on Intel Core 2 Duo processors
  14. MPEG to IPOD
  15. JSP tag library interfaces
  16. Linux even worse than Windows for an artist?!

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 13

  1. Rebuilding a TOR circuit on Ubuntu
  2. ray node traversal image
  3. "shopping cart" for ecommerce
  4. cURL Login?
  5. Content-Type and XHTML 1.1

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 14

  1. Component Video to DVI or VGA
  2. GNU Scientific Library question
  3. Soundclips not playing
  4. Laptop cameras
  5. GUI Programming reference?
  6. Prevent reaching BIOS
  7. Hard Drive question
  8. How much overclocking..
  9. is it safe????
  10. recovering deleted items

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 15

  1. OC question
  2. Are there wiki software that support structured records?
  3. K&N air filter
  4. multiple wireless profiles
  5. flash player
  6. Perl and XML

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 16

  1. SHA-512
  2. Routers
  3. information technology
  4. Faster Browsing
  5. Latest OSS Software
  6. CSS positioning with Safari
  7. Flash issue exporting to QuickTime
  8. 64-bit processors?
  9. CRW on Linux?
  10. Holding on to what I'm doing

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 17

  1. Clipboard
  2. windows vista sound problem
  3. "UNIQ", "QINU" and more in a MediaWiki section URL
  4. 2M Upload
  5. Factory Fit Modules in IT Products
  6. Firefox help needed
  7. vista
  8. hard disk errors
  9. easily embeddable interpreter language.
  10. Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby - which has a minimalist (< 1 MB) implementation you can embed?
  11. Websites Unknowingly Bookmarked
  12. mobile phones
  13. Yahoo Mail out of beta?
  14. Checking file size from the command line

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 18

  1. PowerPoint resolution
  2. Animated GIFs
  3. touchpad mouse
  4. population growth of india
  5. Software
  6. Firmware for K750i
  7. Excel — decimal alignment
  8. Windows XP instalation
  9. Portable Internet Exploder
  10. How to do a network update on a psp.
  11. List of most popular software applications
  12. Static noise
  13. Is it possible to purchase extremely outdated OSs?
  14. config.sys
  15. C Header files
  16. My Laptop
  17. Hacker
  18. Windows
  19. Wanted: a data structure
  20. Remapping MS Office Keyboard Shortcuts in Mac
  21. Biologically powered computer

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 19

  1. MSN spaces question
  2. Tagline diff
  3. Running Windows Vista and XP on the same machine
  4. Video Game Music
  5. Over the Air HD antenna confusion
  6. ActiveX Office Online Clipart
  7. How to make Windows XP Volume Control show recording & playback devices at the same time
  8. Copying a DVD
  9. What's the proper name for a "general warp map"?

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 20

  1. hosts file
  2. How big is a "block" on a Wii?
  3. SSL Facebook
  4. Cables with ferrite cores
  5. Entering password into CGI proxy
  6. psu heating
  7. network
  8. Three questions, all on hard drives:
  9. Free DVD composition software
  10. computer search engine directories (email address removed)
  11. pfSense traffic shaper & Squid
  12. OpenOffice.org Calc question

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 21

  1. video bug
  2. Operating system breakdown?
  3. Perl and Python with Apache on Debian
  4. Possibilities
  5. Volume level, mute, etc....display on screen.
  6. Semantic book search
  7. Apple Mac G4 System x / TV
  8. Image conversion
  9. windows vista probs (E-Mail address removed)
  10. Semantic markup
  11. Hard disk
  12. airport express doesnt work
  13. Locked out of Word
  14. LCD screen failing

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 22

  1. iDVD question: menu music
  2. visual basic for applications
  3. Web/Tree building programs
  4. Page Fault in nonpaged area- stop 0x50
  5. Sub-dividing PDFs
  6. Cangjie character generator
  7. Backing up open files
  8. Blu-ray/HD DVD aspect ratios
  9. amr files
  10. Logout/Stop Script
  11. I want to defrag my computer the OLD FASHIONED WAY
  12. Antivirus Software

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 23

  1. Sleep Mode
  2. Computer Security Cost/Benefit
  3. Choosing a right video card!
  4. MediaWiki config problem
  5. nvidia-settings: Auto Detect button disabled
  6. Image Virus
  7. utorrent "Add Peer"
  8. Is my 'gamma' wrong?
  9. Programming for Symbian
  10. Windows Vista question
  11. Badly damaged VGA connector

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 24

  1. "Data Point" ?
  2. Picasa for Linux isn't symlink-aware
  3. computer line pics thingys
  4. Adding Ram = No Video?!
  5. Calendar software (open source) for team work
  6. How to disassemble the HTC Touch smart phone?
  7. Low Core Speed from T2080
  8. Line breaks in markup
  9. Baby computer OS

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 25

  1. MediaWiki admin.
  2. Moving two IDE hdds in RAID 0 to external enclosures.
  3. Plug and play HDD safety measures!
  4. Free Website Hosting and Building (not Subdomain)
  5. Padding files in uTorrent
  6. Software Project Ideas
  7. Help to create a table with MS Word
  8. Google news
  9. Registering a domain name & nameservers
  10. Internet DNS part 2
  11. transfering files to new pc

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 26

  1. Some YouTube stats
  2. Resetting a PC
  3. chatting
  4. Linux command line question
  5. Mac Mini restore CD with a macbook pro?

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 27

  1. Free scince mags ?
  2. windows media virus?
  3. Online chess frauds
  4. win xp sp2
  5. Removing duplicates in MS Office
  6. Router speed
  7. What kind of monitor connector is this?
  8. RuneScape:Internet Game
  9. Clearing my cache=frozen and another issue

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 28

  1. Partitioning and Booting
  2. Ripping/Converting VCDs with 2 Audio Channels
  3. Processor-memory clock-speed coordination
  4. RAM & wikipedia
  5. Visual Basic Express 2005
  6. Live CD to Live USB

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 29

  1. High level programming languages
  2. Home lan
  3. What is smart cursoring in MS Word?
  4. Customisations in Word and Firefox
  5. Channelize my RAM
  6. Vibrator Overclocking
  7. Scanned handwriting
  8. Windshield Wiper Animation
  9. Servers
  10. Recording

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 30

  1. Apapapapache redux
  2. Update AVG 7.5 free edition
  3. Blinking cursor in Firefox
  4. Computer memory
  5. Which files should I back up?
  6. US internet environment
  7. Internet Explorer Error
  8. Monobook language

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 31

  1. Weird IE6 vs. Firefox issue
  2. Booting stuff
  3. pfSense traffic shaping not (really) working
  4. Old hardware!
  5. Help with TLDs?
  6. can any one help ? with MB to
  7. UK Mobile Automated Texting Services on the cheap
  8. Example 3D art gallery?
  9. Low-level programming
  10. Photo timeline software
  11. Email fields
  12. HTTPS vs man in the middle
  13. Installing mac progams while on a PC
  14. Audacity as a dB meter