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August 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 1

  1. History data
  2. LaTeX and Flashcards
  3. Programs
  4. Trendnet router Status blinking slowly, WLAN blinking rapidly
  5. Replace image

August 2 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 2

  1. Eight-Socket (64-Core) 1TB RAM Server
  2. Dosbox
  3. Wireless All-in-One devices... but wireless fax?
  4. Mobile phone in Europe
  5. Scribus vs. InDesign
  6. sqlcmd
  7. Excel sorts A- higher than A+
  8. Force needed to press a keyboard key?
  9. Lwavuc.exe
  10. S.O.S.
  11. Session expired
  12. Is there free software (for Windows) creating Searchable PDF with hidden text layer?
  13. Google Images
  14. Nikon Camera/Computer File Saving Format

August 3 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 3

  1. Excel trendline angle
  2. Is there a Wiki anywhere that lets us make biographies & autobiographies of common people and ourselves?
  3. Desktop icons on main window unavailable on one of three log-on accounts in windows XP?
  4. no visual songs
  5. errata sqlcmd
  6. In C++/CLI
  7. there mihgt exist a garbage collected language that is directly compiled in machine language?
  8. Software transfer
  9. Menu Items Remaining After Clicking
  10. My printer doesn't work
  11. can a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone sync music with iTunes the same as before?
  12. Backup
  13. Is there a name for this type of data
  14. Cisco Valet M10

August 4 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 4

  1. Shady Facebook Group
  2. What is this image process called, and how can I do it?
  3. Whatever happened to pump and dump spam?
  4. raw to png
  5. DVD Ripping
  6. Apple Travel Adapters
  7. E-mail postage system
  8. Button on taskbar disappeared
  9. Google Wave killed, any Wave like replacements?

August 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 5

  1. Intel vs AMD: Has Intel achieved a decisive victory?
  2. Colorado will not load on Internet Explore 8, but other articles will
  3. Finding a MAC Code/wireless dongles/uninstalling browsers
  4. Recovering data from a bad latptop harddisk
  5. Lost XP file
  6. Safari
  7. Slow Blender interface

August 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 6

  1. 3D GPS or similar
  2. Laptop's battery behaves strangely and reviving it
  3. html
  4. XP DLLs
  5. Upgrading graphics card
  6. How do I upload a photo to a page I just submitted

August 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 7

  1. Nested Virtualization
  2. RAID 6+5
  3. Copying External Hard Disk Drives in OS X
  4. Computers infected with malicious software/files
  5. Wikipedia animation thumbnail inconsistency

August 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 8

  1. Adobe Flash Player
  2. HP 564 Refill Ink
  3. Connecting E-Mail with iPod Touch
  4. Disabling Your NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall. Pros and cons

August 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 9

  1. Mobile phone apps
  2. merging one image from multiple video frames
  3. Is it called a command-line interpreter, a command-line interface, a terminal editor or a shell?
  4. Windows 7 Administrator Problem
  5. What are some alternatives to Google Voice in the UK?
  6. internet
  7. problems with DTS/WAV audio
  8. How is it possible?!
  9. IRC
  10. Why Ctrl + H?
  11. Easiest way to remove a disc from a dead Wii?
  12. Active Desktop (HTML content) on Desktop

August 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 10

  1. LAN authentication
  2. Flag problem
  3. Unpacking Microsoft Outlook folders
  4. Does anyone know how to figure out this MD5?
  5. Uptime
  6. Netgear DG834G V3 wireless router
  7. Put similar named files into sub-folders

August 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 11

  1. Best Way of Automating Getting Information from Website?
  2. Structure Declaration
  3. MySQL table wildcard
  4. Copying and uploading .ogg files
  5. FutuRe CouRses
  6. Firefox
  7. Solid state hard drive
  8. Hard drive diagnostic software

August 12 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 12

  1. Getting the Images
  2. Encrypting the contents of a folder
  3. "C" Language
  4. Leave USB pendrive stick in computer all the time?
  5. Immediate termination
  6. Facebook - contacting all those who Like a page
  7. Fake Chase Bank Email
  8. Movie making software for beginner?

August 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 13

  1. C Storage
  2. Shell for Windows
  3. How to disable auto download feature in safari?
  4. TOC's in Category page
  5. Alt-Tab didn't work
  6. Files
  7. Any free online backup?

August 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 14

  1. RSS
  2. Identical
  3. Activating OpenType Features
  4. Defaulting Australian English in Word 2007?
  5. McGill Email
  6. Changing default printer does not stick
  7. UDP
  8. Windows Movie Maker

August 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 15

  1. Online back up services
  2. Call to improve password security?
  3. wget
  4. What font you are viewing?
  5. Device drivers and hard disk data recovery
  6. echo time
  7. network cards
  8. Weird PDF

August 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 16

  1. How much information on web browsing habits is accessible from the main node in a home network?
  2. SAP
  3. Haskell functions - instances of the Eq class?
  4. Maximum # of Cores (i.e. Logical Processors) & Amount of RAM in various Linux Operating-Systems
  5. wget
  6. Problem with Google Chrome
  7. RAM
  8. Firefox links problem
  9. Automated text input program
  10. random number generator problem?
  11. date
  12. Trying to get iPhone 3G to connect to home WiFi unsuccessfully
  13. Color saturation on television sets.
  14. FIPS

August 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 17

  1. Hardware Accelerated AES Encryption
  2. Computer -> TV
  3. computer file with pdb extension
  4. 2 anti virus software running together
  5. Need input - writing a basic referrer tracking script
  6. Wikia's poor quality of service

August 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 18

  1. Surprising SEGV from read(2)
  2. wget
  3. Mutation in Genetic Algorithms (optimization)
  4. Reinstalled OSes, regedit, and Star Wars
  5. Trying to install an MSDOS program on Vista
  6. Latest version of Netscape (and how to speed up netscape)
  7. Wikipedia has a problem

August 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 19

  1. X-Root
  2. Key Stroke Logger
  3. Message digests
  4. IP addressing and correct program instance
  5. SP6a
  6. Virus embeds?
  7. What are the two types of pop-up ads?
  8. Computer Tech Associate
  9. Locating mobile phones internationally
  10. are laptop fans interchangeable?
  11. Certifications/ASP

August 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 20

  1. Burning FLV straight to DVD
  2. Flickr
  3. 64 bit
  4. Button on taskbar disappeared, the sequel
  5. Registry access from a different OS
  6. Program to compare drives/folders

August 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 21

  1. Would this power supply be sufficient for this build?
  2. want to edit the boot.ini
  3. php functions
  4. Ubuntu home directory and settings in kde
  5. Date modified in vista
  6. Fake email address
  7. Ipone 4 Apps
  8. Malware through video codec?
  9. Student laptop webcam surveillance
  10. Doubling up router cables

August 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 22

  1. Dual-Domain (Hard Disk Drives)
  2. Exact upload date for a file?
  3. Building a desktop PC - am I missing anything?
  4. Internet
  5. Problems with Windows XP password
  6. What utf char ??
  7. ImageMagick help!
  8. search engine query cache
  9. Wiki link to odd page
  10. Matlab - simple column vector formatting question

August 23 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 23

  1. Installation & Setup of XRDP/rdesktop
  2. How do you call the paint function at any point in the code
  3. MacOS: num keys gone dead
  4. Wireless router.
  5. How to add a shortcut from the Programs menu in WinXP?
  6. How can I stop the sentences from appearing one on top of another when I spellcheck?
  7. Amplifying brightness of LCD monitor beyond scale
  8. BBC IPLAYER LIVE
  9. Custom JPEG Quantization matrix
  10. Wii SD card trouble
  11. Using public computers
  12. Pay Pal asking for my details
  13. cam4

August 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 24

  1. Trackmania
  2. Spindle servo failure
  3. Flock "Search" bar option
  4. Matlab on a Mac
  5. Page view limit
  6. mp3
  7. Are these unneeded adware?
  8. Question about URL formatting

August 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 25

  1. Installed GIMP 2.6.10 and GhostScript - still can't open EPS
  2. Sending a big file
  3. Disk recovery
  4. File Sharing b/tween Vista and Win 7 - Problem
  5. I hate a dialog box.
  6. There is any Web crawler program that is very easy to use and free?
  7. #1 Google hit

August 26 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 26

  1. iWork Serial Number
  2. Improving reliability of Wikipedia bot
  3. Disk recovery (part two)
  4. Java applet issues.....
  5. Google
  6. New laptop battery
  7. Downloading a clean copy of wininit.exe
  8. Watch
  9. Wrong Screws = Laptop failure?

August 27 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 27

  1. Compile error in hidden module: AutoExec?
  2. Built in Anti-virus programs
  3. Error Box when Googling
  4. Implementing a lock for a socket stream
  5. AJAX/JavaScript problem.
  6. XP Spanned Volumes
  7. Nuclear Physics-Package Simulation Software
  8. What is 32kb of "used space" on an empty USB pendrive?
  9. About this theme
  10. Printing multiple slides per page in powerpoint (Office 2010)
  11. Can't log into facebook!!
  12. Flash video (in embedded player) restarting computer
  13. Batch download
  14. Merge PDFs?
  15. Download trouble

August 28 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 28

  1. Origin of level numbers in Cobol
  2. Sony Bravia TV time display
  3. "Internet not connected" messages when internet works fine...
  4. DHCP irritations
  5. Vista copy paste problem
  6. Excel Graph
  7. Screen
  8. Firewalled download
  9. Splitcam open source equivalent

August 29 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 29

  1. Dissolving Exclamation Point
  2. Getting windows key from an old HD
  3. IRC help
  4. Roadrunner
  5. Cheap software
  6. iPad and editing Wikipedia
  7. Internet (part 2)
  8. Frontpage dying
  9. Old computer upstairs wants Internet
  10. google web accelerator
  11. Factory Reset
  12. Lavabit
  13. Computer does not recognize DVDs

August 30 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 30

  1. Add-ons
  2. Hebrew font identification
  3. VB.net
  4. Compare code
  5. High x16 PCIe 2.0 Slot-Count Barebone System
  6. country ip masking
  7. usb peripheral switch
  8. Arcade Fire's Wilderness Downtown
  9. Hard Drive

August 31 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 31

  1. CD ripping -- byte perfect?
  2. Opening image in new tab in same window in Internet Explorer by middle mouse
  3. Motherboard: The new 'chairman'?
  4. Preventing Windows Mail from marking email as phishing
  5. Problem on saving DDS images with alpha
  6. Must I retain Acrobat update files?
  7. Error message on XBox
  8. spam filter "throwing out" political messages
  9. Processing-Core Price Disparity
  10. Google Mail
  11. SSD Roadmap
  12. Buying a kindle edition book from amazon
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