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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 1

1. Acrobat bug or feature?
2. Can't add a font on a Mac
3. Nice programming language to play with?
4. Is Microsoft Office shareware?
5. HTPC servers
6. Excel Macro
7. Where to start with creating graphics?
8. Searching files

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 2

1. XPS to Text
2. Twitter widget search tweets from specific account
3. Recent Activity on Your Facebook Wall
4. please help (frame capture from video)
5. formatted mistaken
6. Is there a way to give a program administrator privillages in Windows (like sudo)

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 3

1. Change IE default download folder?
2. Digital Reader
3. removing scratches
4. IP Address and Using a Generic Text Only Printer Over Network
5. Using/converting m2ts files from a camcorder
6. Firefox 4
7. Multiple approximate string matches against a large dictionary

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 4

1. Surge protector for WiFi hub
2. html5 web sockets and wirewalls?
3. Why most of the time the voltage indicator remains on in Fridge?
4. Chess app in IPad 2 ad "Learn"

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 5

1. Maxon MX-2450
2. searching the internet
3. My computer is sluggish in the morning
4. Test my linux computer hardware
5. batch files
6. Windows reinstall disc scratched

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 6

1. Reordering the context menu
2. Firefox 6 freezes
3. Has eBay gotten any better for their users since summer 2007?
4. Why is the C programming language called a middle level language?
5. Snow Leopard Virtual Machine on OS X Lion?
6. Google bombing?
7. Programming an EEPROM
8. Wikipedia article on Google Maps

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 7

1. apt-get
2. FTP Server
3. Why does it take so long for this page to start to scroll?
4. free video editing
5. Getting a profile into search results
6. Are DOIs temporary?
7. Wireless
8. User space article drafts
9. Hitwise data collection
10. phone

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 8

1. How can you help me find my lost phone: A black-cased Sony Ericsson Xperia Play under Verizon's service?
2. Office Professional Plus 2010
3. Financial news formatted to be read by computers
4. How programming languages work
5. How to use a 'Combo box' value as a 'Colmumn name' in a query?
6. S/MIME with ECC
7. This mainboard
8. Firefox 6.02 message
9. Three tower problems
10. Removing mark-up in Linux
11. Free online (no downloading anything) test to see how good one's graphics card is

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 9

1. did will wright design sim city on his own?
2. Aglets - Installation
3. HTML Code cleanup
4. VirtualBox
5. Firefox/Gmail log-in oddness
6. MemoriesOnTV
7. Turning T9 off on a Nokia 1800

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 10

1. Game Programmed in Ruby Over the Internet/Network
2. ram-backed ssd
3. exposed financial information
4. finding a blog post
5. Problem with Gateway LX6810-01 Desktop PC and tuner card

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 11

1. HTML Scrubbed
2. Problem with Whirled website
3. blocked web pages
4. What exactly is an "atomic move"?
5. Malware in link

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 12

1. Support Vector Machine time complexity
2. Skylight Illumination references
3. DVD
4. Best way to extend WiFi signal range in a home
5. image sent from iphone
6. Strange, very old encoding
7. Freezing and hanging of desktop shortcuts

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 13

1. Buying a Kindle Wifi (NOT 3G)
2. ABOUT C,C++ IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING.
3. computer hardware
4. QBasic
5. Windows 7
6. Yabasic
7. PSVita
8. PS3 HDD
9. DDR2
10. Computer Hardware
11. Mind Reading
12. javascript help: after copypasting data from excel/calc into a html textarea
13. sap mm
14. Downloading all Dropbox files and their revisions
15. Broadband

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 14

1. Cable TV
2. Hard Drives
3. Disks the same?
4. Flash drives are going to replace traditional hard drives in about 3 years?
5. What format should I save a C.V. as to make it compatible with XP?
6. RAM
7. free service to monitor a page for changes and e-mail you
8. Returning inverses of time intervals in SQL?
9. InterGlobe Technologies Logo
10. cross platform line breaks
11. Which Linux rescue disc and which prompt?

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 15

1. Character entity reference for brackets
2. Warm computers
3. Cross platform shared libraries
4. How to you add support for new video formats to an HTML5-enabled broswer?
5. Partition unallocated unformatted after merging
6. Excel 2007 - Numbers in Cells
7. help me in text speech
8. Remote computer
9. Capturing video from VCR
10. Re-installing Office 2007
11. iPhone
12. Why does a WoW city appear to slow down around me, but not a real-world city?
13. Use HP recovery disk on a Gateway computer?
14. Grabbing graphic images from within a PDF file

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 16

1. rotate an image
2. Analog And Digital Signals
3. Google is getting too "smart"---what can I do about it?
4. Program to activate Hibernation in Windows7
5. Win7 recently opened programs
6. Apartment Door Openers

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 17

1. Signature tracing
2. Lithium-ion battery charger
3. Win7 Behaving Oddly
4. Protecting BIOS flash against modification
5. HTML and Java Plug-ins
6. Magnet in floppy disk drive
7. Free 3D CAD program
8. Trying to play or convert .ogg files?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 18

1. Google alerts and Google Books
2. computer languages
3. Free Windows HTTP server for learning
4. youtube and networks
5. Problem getting PS3 to recognize external HD
6. Wireless Printer
7. Windows 7 explorers jumping back pages

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 19

1. Why HTML content and CSS presentation rather than XML content and XSLT+HTML+CSS presentation?
2. Advice on Upgrading PC for Gaming
3. why do domain registry fees differ so widely?
4. Variable number of nested loops
5. Letterboxing at Lower Resolutions (Win7)
6. Google query
7. video editing
8. computing: python
9. Google Chrome as a CPU hog

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 20

1. Python matrix module
2. Net access for Ubuntu in a virtual box
3. foreign characters when I want English
4. Tax Calculation For An Employee(male/female) in c programming.
5. Computer Age

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 21

1. cable modem problems
2. Administrator rights at my own PC
3. Google's new option
4. best way to create 1080p videos in iMovie
5. Limiting memory usage
6. Visual Basic Express & AVG
7. Printing is a disaster

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 22

1. Making money off game solvers
2. Job scheduler algorithm
3. Command line in Ubuntu without pressing enter
4. Changing appearance of the screen
5. Matlab 'function'
6. cable internet question
7. Video Editing Software

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 23

1. How to write an abstract in LaTeX
2. javascript help: variable of radio button selection
3. Downloading Gmail from corporate account
4. Printing JPEG files in MS Word
5. Machine-assisted translation?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 24

1. forward slash in filename
2. Downgrading from W7 64-bit to 32-bit
3. transagent font?web pages and fonts...

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 25

1. SQL injection
2. How do one set UTF-8 as default encoding in Notepad (in Windows7)
3. Something's wrong: Deleting texts doesn't free up memory?
4. Learning Web design.
5. How to view folder directory of my Android phone on PC without rooting it?
6. Computing
7. Question Resolved - Webcam video quality
8. Add comments to pictures
9. MBR, fdisk, and other types of boot sectors
10. Chess Word Processing

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 26

1. GNU Octave: Sum of Iterations in for Loop
2. How many UPC bar codes are there?
3. Swreg Problem Please help me
4. network connetion sends packets / receives no packets on hp pavillon windows xp
5. C programming error trouble
6. Windows 7 image deployment
7. Excel
8. Telephone call from "Microsoft support" - Scam or real?
9. Font Wanted
10. WD 31600
11. How do I get Dell Webcam's console to show the special effects again, please?
12. Hyperlinks not opening in Microsoft Excel 2010 for Windows Vista?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 27

1. Javascript on the server side
2. Wireless network on Win 2000 PC
3. query
4. iPod Touch Problem
5. File system to optimize SSD/HDD combo?
6. 2000.00 investment in Roth IRA

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 28

1. dropbox problems
2. dd and /dev/random
3. Ghost spaces
4. Sixteen-segment displays
5. More C programming, different problem
6. Variable number of nested loops in BASIC
7. Font Problem

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 29

1. clip pages from a PDF
2. .com domain names of countries
3. Iteration over an infinite grid
4. are computer font formats vectors?
5. Photo sharing website
6. Dynamic online polling system?

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 September 30

1. How do I edit a template?
2. multiple user e-mail account
3. Wall St. Tickers
4. Privacy and Encryption