Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2016

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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 1

1. Google Earth Placemark names
2. Does the Lenovo Thinkpad 13 have user upgradable RAM?
3. Computer keyboard key sizes and spacing

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 2

1. EasyPHP Devserver
2. SQL Query for non-existent values
3. RSA key size for SSH
4. digital eletronics - Borrow Skip Subtractor
5. How is adding bots to a website by a user possible?

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 3

1. Physically, how resilient are SD-Cards?
2. How do I "unrecommend" a news story on Facebook?
3. Best way to quickly italicize all uses of [i]this[/i] in a document?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 4

1. This robots.txt confuses me
2. How do I find folders on my PC ?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 5

1. Online bitcoin betting site other than bitbet.us
2. Chromebook Recovery Utility doesn't recognize model
3. List of instruction usage by various computing tasks
4. Old versus new software

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 6

1. How do I copy-and-paste a set of Excel data from a spreadsheet into a Wikipedia page?
2. How to get a good job in IT industry?
3. Radio Restricted Mode Checker
4. Converting from KB to KiB (and similar stuff)
5. Design and structure of the datapath between read head and microcontroller

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 7

1. How do I translate this math equation into an Excel formula?
2. Can I edit ODK records online?
3. Why won't the entire internet be LAN

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 8

1. Can't configure Wireless repeater, what can be the problem.

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 9

1. Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
2. Interesting problem
3. What is "K" in grep?

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 10

1. Saving directly as CS6 File in After Effects CC 2015

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 11

1. zeros of the Riemann zeta function
2. Flash player PARTIAL failure (Game menus not loading)

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 13

1. Smartphone turned off by itself one night
2. Double floating-point: "recalling that J has exactly 53 bits (is >= 2**52 but < 2**53)"?
3. Efficient algorithms on collections of pixels (Java)

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 14

1. MIPS4KE has MMU?
2. Name for time to complete dialing a telephone number

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 15

1. Internet stopped working after upgrade from Fedora 20 to Fedora 23

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 16

1. Make Search/Landing page user friendly
2. System to receive photos from the public
3. Wikipedia presentation: pages within slides?
4. Project Ara
5. Merging Firefox profiles, GThumb question and Evolution problems

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 17

1. Importing CD music into iTunes
2. Raspberry Pi file editing
3. Comprehensive listing of hex colors and hex color codes
4. please recommend disk cloning software
5. Word spacing/indenting problems for my bibliography?
6. BBC Food Website

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 18

1. Hashing in an CS undergraduate degree
2. Travelling with lots of softwares and games

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 19

1. Disable Nvidia Optimus so that the integrated Intel graphics card is always used
2. resting a wiki api
3. May someone compile me spoof?
4. TV antenna connector mystery

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 20

1. Detecting ip addresses of forum accounts
2. Switching disks under LVM

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 22

1. Ban mobile devices from website
2. Determine if 2 random walk point sets are within a threshold distance

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 23

1. Non-applications of Machine learning
2. Open source software(s) sought

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 24

1. scammed?
2. Why am I getting spam from myself?
3. RSS Feed / time Sync app.

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 25

1. old Unix checksum algorithm
2. HTTP proxy for fixing bad RSS feeds?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 26

1. proving that a recursive algorithm creates a balanced binary tree from a sorted array
2. VB Class Interests
3. Emulating Nokia

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 27

1. Mediafire / Apache OpenOffice
2. Software sought
3. File types option on Windows 7 Ultimate

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 28

1. Non-local online ads
2. Help Finding Universal Remote Codes
3. Ive been up/(down)?graded
4. Microsoft windows gadgets clock Folder

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 29

1. Wikipedia pages updated since last visit
2. Accessing local file from web browser
3. Opensource software sought
4. Whatsapp without Whatsapp
5. Thumbnails Issue
6. Modem, SIM Card, and Software issue

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 30

1. Barebones PC with basic video hardware
2. how to disable data usage warning android
3. Password protected .zip File/Folder
4. Computer Folder's Window
5. Raspberry Pi serial port

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2016 May 31

1. Hidden cameras over WiFi