Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/September 2017

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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 1

1. Mac Ctrl button no longer provides menu for new tab option, etc., when clicking on links
2. Manufacturers of integrated circuits used in smart cards and similar NFC and RFID devices

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 2

1. Switching to Windows 10
2. Weird Google result
3. Age of laptop death

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 3

1. Distance
2. USB to PS/2 conversion: mouse vs keyboard
3. fox tv editing programs

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 4

1. USB keyboard not recognised by boot CD? Would PS/2 be different?
2. Video info update during sharing
3. Good source of free Mellotron samples?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 5

1. Tape drives as named pipes

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 6

1. Is Moore's Law still alive for memories?
2. github / latex question
3. Stopwatch and a Timer
4. PHP/MYSQL Login code
5. Using industrial plug in standard UK socket

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 7

1. Stupid censorship question
2. A url for producing the raw text of a random featured article?
3. Excel Formula sought
4. Recovering pendrive’s datas

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 8

1. Miro Converter
2. Facebook Videos Pausing When Window Loses Focus
3. “.bs7” file type
4. Keyboard

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 9

1. Mutation testing to extract minimal example of a bug?
2. Pascal: Number <=> String
3. copying Linux files onto a Samba share
4. Fox tv edits

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 10

1. All these websites down
2. Where to find teammates for open-source projects?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 11

1. Mouse Dragging Not Highlighting Reliably
2. OneDrive
3. When a site has an API
4. Putting a text file onto the taskbar

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 12

1. Identifying connectors on motherboard fo Wyse V90L thin client

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 13

1. Firefox warns me when closing multiple tabs

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 15

1. Survey tool (Not Google Spreadsheets)?
2. Boot from CD (Windows 7)
3. Commodore PET errors for mistyped commands
4. Accessibility option for fat fingers ?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 17

1. Will Find my iPad work if open proxy is enabled?
2. Computer-narrated YouTube videos
3. Alternative to Synergy (software)?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 18

1. Updating Issues:
2. How can I Find Latest Jobs?
3. Laptop Problem
4. Does the VIA Eden 800 MHz CPU support PAE?
5. Hard discs dying from long storage

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 19

1. OOP prototypes
2. Windows Task Manager
3. Reversing lines → senil gnisreveR
4. Regarding AWS certification requirements.
5. Sleep number bed data stream
6. Safely remove that USB thumb drive
7. Forgetting to unplug the computer before taking out a HDD

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 20

1. How eCommerce Mobile App Boost Retail Business?
2. Disabling autocorrect in Microsoft Word
3. Website Development References

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 21

1. Performance increase by reducing colour depth from 16- to 8-bit

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 22

1. Which version of PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions engine) is used in Notepad++ v7.5 (32 bit) ?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 23

1. Error checking software for Hard Drive(s)

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 24

1. "open source programming language"?
2. Font from an image
3. "Find and replace" issue...
4. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 25

1. Website where you can publish Ebooks for free
2. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing#Error_checking_software_for_Hard_Drive.28s.29 Following the discussion]
3. Deleting Issue
4. Turning off the GPU by commands instead of waiting 15 minutes (or whatever OS is set to)

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 26

1. Regex: How to delete all comments and all that comes after them in a row?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 27

1. Why do audio CD .WAV files show up in Ubuntu but not in Windows?
2. Java programming help.
3. If one radio station is louder than another, is there a way to measure the volume?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 28

1. Clock keeps changing
2. Electromagnet to wipe HDD and make it new again.
3. Getting data from an infected disc
4. Truck driver's CB radio transmissions over the net
5. Windows safe mode
6. another github question
7. Extracting the disk from the HDD
8. Why don't web pages fit on my browser (Chrome) ?
9. URL for reference desk questions

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 29

1. Proxy for specific sites only

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 September 30

1. kind of instability while working on open web pages
2. Energy consumption of laptop
3. Recovery
4. PDFs on github