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December 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 1

  1. Midtown Madness 2 Free?
  2. Converting sound files
  3. a good antivirus that dont need windows installer
  4. Dictionary/Spell Checker Problems in OpenOffice.Org
  5. Uninstalling from Ubuntu
  6. Mac: software update needs to quit before restart
  7. Blackberry applications
  8. lan problem
  9. Max Headroom intrusion incident
  10. Why are object files necessary?
  11. How do I get Google to search on an exact string?
  12. no skype feedback???
  13. uTorrent woes
  14. if i upload a video on google video does the video shows on youtube??
  15. PHP include()
  16. Mac: Xgrid distributed computing - called without first being authenticated

December 2 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 2

  1. DeviantArt's Drop Shadow
  2. Decompile PDF to LaTeX
  3. Sharing an internet connection between a windows box and an ubuntu box
  4. firefox and excel
  5. VirtualBox with Windows 98 problems
  6. Setting up wireless but have different laptop/router brands
  7. Which would be better?
  8. Really simple bash(?) script
  9. Character encoding question
  10. Memory for a 2006 Macbook Pro
  11. what is the best degree for making money in computing (UK) ?
  12. Defragging
  13. Poor USB HD performance on Mac

December 3 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 3

  1. No interface to Parse method in C#
  2. DIAS
  3. cheapest ICANN registrar
  4. turing machine and ucon model
  5. A suitable wiki for an Insurance company's internal manuals?
  6. Javascript checkbox, input text, text area
  7. Reading in XML in Google Maps
  8. Total win/loss records
  9. Unfair bandwidth distribution?

December 4 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 4

  1. Port Assignment reg,
  2. pc not being able to use internet
  3. Low-level protocol for international Internet connections
  4. Downloading an ISO without it taking 2 days
  5. Using USB flash drive in win98SE
  6. Translating code from one programming language into another programming language
  7. Something is wrong with my iPod
  8. Don't make me kick my Puppy....
  9. actionscript question
  10. Proxy
  11. C++

December 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 5

  1. Firefox forcing re-enter of password
  2. Youtube
  3. How do I install winxp
  4. In SNMPv3, what's the relation between contexts and views?
  5. asm/semaphore.h
  6. Is a MacBook Air better than a MacBook Pro?
  7. The RapidShare servers
  8. MSN Live Messenger
  9. Picture upload
  10. Device not shown in device manager
  11. Estimating Associated Content traffic
  12. Mac terminal/Unix: how did I overwrite my directory?
  13. What's going on here?

December 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 6

  1. Forcing Google to recognize punctuation
  2. anything I can buy for an 80 gig iPod classic that puts a headphone out on the bottom (from the "dock" connector)
  3. Video to audio transcoder.
  4. Why are Blue-Ray recorders so freakin' expensive ?
  5. telephone calls over the internet: Recommendations?
  6. Youtube (2)
  7. Criticism of UTF-8
  8. Multiprocessing without Registered RAM
  9. DNS lookup
  10. Web books
  11. Own Wiki
  12. fake antiviris software
  13. c compiler
  14. Storing DVD-R/CD-Rs in sleeves safe?
  15. Setting up password for website
  16. remote monitor shutoff

December 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 7

  1. Xbox
  2. Word: Tracking changes though I toggled it off
  3. TI 89 Titanium
  4. Text messages onto computer

December 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 8

  1. What's this charcter?
  2. WW2 Colossus versus modern laptop
  3. Read/Write rating of CF card
  4. Question
  5. That reminds me...
  6. Question 2
  7. User:Topology Expert computer help
  8. Choosing web-hosting
  9. Question
  10. Installing software on Ubuntu
  11. Copy whole IMAP repository to GMail

December 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 9

  1. FTP Passive Mode behind NAT
  2. Defeating Rhapsody
  3. sending big files
  4. Website
  5. Need to automate listbox in MS ACCESS 2003 like the one in MS EXCEL when we go to Menu: Format..Cells
  6. Converting Indeo AVIs into something current

December 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 10

  1. I need to see a comparison of Mobile Phones Operating Systems
  2. Clipboard catastrophe
  3. jpeg file format
  4. Windows starts in safe-mode, won't start from system restore or in normal-mode
  5. About worm in the coputer
  6. Daily Build for Ubuntu?
  7. Internet speed + XNA Game studio
  8. Switch off "urgent updates/restarts" in Windows
  9. Rapidshare auto download
  10. Amazon S3 as virtual disc
  11. LCS-type algorithm

December 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 11

  1. table borders
  2. How to keep Command Prompt open?
  3. Adobe Illustrator question
  4. ProDesktop
  5. low bandwidth web-based email
  6. step and repeat - postscript, HPGL, or gerbers
  7. Inheritance problem
  8. Anyone know what's going on with all the new computer keyboards?
  9. Enforcing whitespace
  10. jobs for an engineer in the field of networking
  11. Laptop disaster.
  12. Open file with Python
  13. changing windows xp boot screen
  14. Quick Time 7 Pro--MPEG 1 Muxed????
  15. MSN: alternative webcam compatible clients for Windows/VMware Fusion

December 12 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 12

  1. What's the largest wikipedia disambiguation page and how many entries does it have?
  2. Regular expression to extract urls from link
  3. C++ question!
  4. Sal ex
  5. Xbox 360 Arcade Bundle
  6. Building a PC
  7. online guitar auto tuner
  8. OS X language oops
  9. Debian package manager: Manually installed packages

December 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 13

  1. Yahoo! Mail Chat
  2. Nvidia GeForce 9800 vs ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics processors
  3. Which is the best operating system?
  4. Command Prompt unable to delete folder
  5. Question
  6. Blue screen of death error report
  7. My problem with a C program
  8. How can I implement this feature in a database
  9. www.a.com
  10. Google sites
  11. Homer Simpson's big blue pants
  12. Uncheck "Read-Only" Globally; Windows98

December 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 14

  1. Persistent shift/ctrl/alt/win keypress popups in Vista
  2. Is this idea taken (meta-music account)?
  3. SoundEdit 16 files
  4. Booting into Mac System 7.5 & 8...
  5. creating a string in PHP
  6. Keyboard Layout
  7. Puppy Linux manual install
  8. Multiple interfaces and ambiguous method calls
  9. .swf
  10. Adjusting the size of the pages i download
  11. Graph union in Excel

December 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 15

  1. Problem
  2. "Bookmarks" menu item in Firefox 3 upgrade
  3. Internet problem
  4. Video cards/S-Video
  5. Convert .cab to .exe
  6. Using a TV for Computer, Xbox and movies
  7. Widescreen (large) CRT's?
  8. Can we update offline in Kasersky 2009 as in Kaspersky 7?
  9. My problem with a C program PART 2
  10. Game has resources in a .cat file
  11. Plugin required?
  12. Transferring an article in WORD into a new Wikipedia entry.
  13. thunderbird w/ msn
  14. Web Photo Portfolio

December 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 16

  1. Windows XP driver for caching index of removable drives
  2. Conway's Game of Life
  3. Suggestions for a good printer...
  4. Game programming
  5. Google Chrome as Default Browser
  6. Thumbs
  7. Difference between a "method" and "function" (in context of C#)?
  8. x86 assembly programming
  9. data storage
  10. How do I clear a Yahoo toolbar?
  11. Windows games
  12. Wrong Disc Inserted error after patching SWBattlefront 2

December 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 17

  1. Remote Linux options
  2. computer
  3. Next Upgrade for my Computer?
  4. Procedure to connect wirless gsm modem into allean brady plc controllers??
  5. Apple Mac 2.4
  6. JSP Code
  7. FTP Mirror
  8. GIMP: Need a palette file to change boot screen
  9. WMM question
  10. youtube video download
  11. Monitor Display Problem

December 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 18

  1. Video Card
  2. domain register-ing
  3. Windows Explorer needs to close
  4. do new hard drives fit old cases (a Dell Dimension 4100 = Pentiun III 900 mhz)
  5. Mez screensaver?
  6. Changing directory on XP command line
  7. New laptop
  8. Torrent woes

December 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 19

  1. How to download video from Adobe Flash Player 10
  2. BIOS
  3. Speech recognition software
  4. How to password protect a folder in Windows
  5. dB to V or mV conversion
  6. What is the spec for Inter component level inequality
  7. Question about XP popularity
  8. Linux problem, Ubuntu x86_64
  9. Navigation Columns in Dreamweaver CS3
  10. How Big is a BIT on a Hard Drive Platter?
  11. Virgin ISP
  12. Inuktitut
  13. Hibernation Option Absent
  14. Learning
  15. VLC Christmas hat
  16. jpeg
  17. what's the name of this computer part?
  18. Firefox broken downloads notify??
  19. nameservers
  20. Extra (multimedia) keys on Acer Aspire 6530G

December 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 20

  1. Remote camera
  2. Oh no
  3. Texture file in games
  4. Internet
  5. Question
  6. Using a Sony Ericsson phone on Mac OSX
  7. Printing all possible k-subsets of a n-set
  8. Apple Script Script Editor
  9. portable disk corrupted
  10. PS3 controller for NXT mindstormers robot
  11. Spam solutions critique template author
  12. battery life: monitor or sound output?
  13. Utorrent check
  14. Minefield → Shiretoko
  15. Images in Safari, Firefox

December 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 21

  1. Quantum GIS question
  2. Mass audio file data edit

December 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 22

  1. Playstation emulation glitch
  2. Webcam/digital camera
  3. Digital camera 'hack'..........
  4. .ogg files
  5. PSP EMULATOR
  6. XNA ignorace
  7. Getting rid of backdoor.tidserv
  8. Caches
  9. Skpjack & the Clipper Chip
  10. DDR2 memory
  11. Upgrading Laptop Graphics Card
  12. Auto forwarding past and future mail
  13. Image search

December 23 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 23

  1. I have a bash script I distribute to
  2. network traffic by process (Windows)
  3. uwdg
  4. Curly brackets
  5. Youtube
  6. Deleting a 'friend' on Facebook
  7. Cheap media player for home theatre
  8. Program to show how to fold a origami
  9. Bypassing IE Active X for Lightbox JS
  10. Circumvent geoblocking
  11. Dosbox

December 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 24

  1. cross-browser display issues... :(
  2. Fusk
  3. expansion of QED
  4. Why did Bell Labs quit Multics?
  5. Anti-spyware
  6. Delphi 2009 Resources
  7. Google word distance
  8. Google verification
  9. Virus
  10. Overheating laptop while encoding DVD
  11. I seem to be a Digg Popularity Jinx. Why?
  12. Why did a new modem not fix the problem?
  13. Drive letter

December 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 25

  1. Full form of PMT
  2. Laptop video driver problem
  3. Proprietary Programming Language
  4. Camera review
  5. Computer Problem

December 26 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 26

  1. http://mydomainname to ghs.google.com
  2. Video Card RAM
  3. iPod and iTunes
  4. USB in XP within VirtualBox
  5. Pronunciation of "punycode"
  6. Setting up danted with proper auth

December 27 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 27

  1. What percentage of the WP database is devoted to articles and what to all the rest? And has this percentage changed over the years?
  2. Wikipedia copy
  3. How Many US Businesses currently have a website
  4. Convert DVD video to AVI (or mpeg)
  5. Motherboard recognition
  6. DVD audio
  7. Simple and accurate way of retrieving the size (in bytes) of a dynamic array in Delphi
  8. Coordinates and GPRS
  9. playing .avi files in powerpoint
  10. RCA to Digital Media Port
  11. One handed Dvorak keyboard and Mac OSX

December 28 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 28

  1. Girlfriend crashed her Mac 24.7GHz
  2. Checking system time in batch file
  3. Deleting option from Windows boot loader
  4. GPRS/GSM tracking
  5. New SATA HD for laptop
  6. NNTP server software for small group message exchange
  7. virtual hdd images
  8. Upgrading laptop hard drive
  9. history deleted ,page visited are not available offline
  10. no sound

December 29 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 29

  1. Borland C++
  2. Taskbar disappeared
  3. A simple configuration for processing received emails
  4. UVa online judge runtime error
  5. Missing font support
  6. Album/Cover Art
  7. Slow rotation
  8. Composite video & audio cables for component video connection?
  9. Calculating CPU usage (Solved)
  10. Backdoor Again

December 30 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 30

  1. Help with Picture of the Year? :(
  2. What's this doing at google's site ?
  3. Xbox 360 Arcade HDMI cable...
  4. Crosstalk between audio and video
  5. PAINT IN C++
  6. RDP From windows to linux
  7. Light on new modem not working
  8. how to stop skype spam
  9. making a download link
  10. archives
  11. Virus Question
  12. RSA Generator
  13. Internet watch
  14. GNU Apps

December 31 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 31

  1. Any modern dot matrix printers?
  2. OpenGL and GLSL book suggestions
  3. Easily modifying a stylesheet with Javascript
  4. Why can't I do an Internet search on hkcmd.exe?
  5. Does anyone know what xwc7f8.exe is?
  6. key combo (like Alt-Tab) for next/prev window in TASKBAR ORDER?
  7. Auto Refresh
  8. Virus question 2
  9. Network discovery conundrum
  10. selling PDFs on the web
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