Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2007

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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 1

1. backup software and external hard drives
2. Mozilla Thunderbird Signature Question
3. ViaVoice v.10.
4. Saving Yahoo Emails to a Folder
5. Firewall Help
6. Using SATA II drive on SATA I bus
7. What is the best computer in the world called?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 2

1. trying to recall...
2. Printing Problems
3. Ghosts
4. source to jar and losing path
5. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 3

1. Programming
2. Command Prompt
3. Bittorrent trackers
4. Pentium D and Pentium Dual Core Difference
5. 802.11, wi-fi, etc. Data link layer
6. Archos 604
7. iTunes video syncing problem
8. Norton AntiVirus 2007 Addition Error
9. vista start menu
10. Moving to object-orientated languages from GWBASIC
11. CDDL / GPL license question

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 4

1. Passing variables to a Flash movie at runtime
2. PC buy guide
3. Shell?
4. The DOS DIR command
5. Ready to do some reverse engineering!
6. mp3 playback stuttering and skipping in Winamp when hard drive is in heavy use...
7. PlayStation 2 international compatibility
8. Picture effect in Pinnacle Studio 10
9. Firefox, Photos, Facebook, and Java
10. Free virtual breadboard
11. mutliple users at the same time?
12. Photoshopping - Style

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 5

1. Macbook pro (core duo)
2. Lightest and Thinnest Laptop
3. Inspiron 8100 Help
4. Sound Card
5. delete recent
6. Questions on Kubuntu and KDE
7. DVD to PC?
8. MAC (Apple) Computers.
9. Apple / MAC machines
10. Faster PDF reader?
11. DRM and Napster
12. Pseudocode

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 6

1. File and Print Sharing
2. what are those things called?
3. File search in explorer in XP
4. oo confusion
5. speed restrictions
6. bees in my head
7. website design
8. computing
9. Can you figure out what book this came from?
10. page disappeared
11. Geforce 8800 and Core 2 Quad
12. traffic shaping
13. Can i save my computer?
14. PHP user management

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 7

1. Password protected sites
2. Greasemonkey script
3. Software for simple animated game
4. How to insert combo box/combo list box in a cell in MS Excel Sheet
5. Internet Explorer 7 Search Bar
6. Bookmark manager recommendation
7. PHP Download
8. MS Word
9. Mac: fullscreen apps
10. Mobile phone internal batteries
11. C programming questions

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 8

1. simple webcam app
2. Firefox Spellcheck
3. Rules in Microsoft Outlook
4. AVG Detected virus Obfustat.EVN
5. prog...........
6. How to make a folder password protected in Windows XP.
7. USB Bandwidth warning
8. Apache SMTP server?
9. Force a file to play with a specific media player
10. Bustin' outta my iframe (javascript question)

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 9

1. Old Hard Drive Blues: need help.
2. Cannot get internet
3. Error Message
4. What's the secret?
5. Mac OS X backup
6. Wiki
7. necessity of Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
8. Downloading Files on XP SP2
9. Java Programming:Bytecode
10. Another problem with the Windows Movie Maker
11. Finding out library dependencies of a Windows application
12. help! lost data!
13. Need passive RFID locator system
14. Powermac G4 HDD Upgrade
15. Namespaces
16. bots

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 10

1. Auto Network Config
2. Invoking user-preferred file handler in Windows, programmatically
3. inverted screen
4. am trying to get this book so that i can read it offline
5. Entering data into Microsoft Excel
6. Virtual Hard Disks (vhd)
7. Dreamhost - experiences?
8. PHP echo() problem
9. Recognizing media player type/ html object backgrounds
10. SIM Cards
11. One-page web photo galleries
12. second-level domain traffic counting
13. GlovePIE sensitivity
14. round-robin program.
15. "Add to cart" button for wikipedia

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 11

1. Playing 3D games in PC
2. Ghost File Win98
3. JavaScript archiving function
4. Nokia 6680 help
5. Wireless Router loosing signal
6. Non-animated animations
7. Clock difference in Pentiumdual core Vs Core 2 duo
8. Dual-ported RAM re-ask
9. HTML_.3Cobject.3E_backgrounds
10. Page Loading Speed
11. CPU designation according to windows

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 12

1. Quintuply Hypnotized
2. Types of processors
3. Pseudocodes, DFDs and Flowchart
4. How can I protect my Laptop's Ac/Dc adapter?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 13

1. Fireworks Cs3 Transparency
2. Physics on Graphics cards
3. HTML_.3Cobject.3E_with_a_transparent_background
4. Unicode usernames
5. Pictures

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 14

1. Trackballs
2. Vista sound card problem
3. Rechargeable CR2032 button batteries
4. FrontPage html
5. Youtube search
6. Knowing the age of a computer
7. SharePoint vs. wikimedia
8. A question about DDR RAM
9. Email and Applescript
10. A beginning relational database application?
11. Hard Drive System Conversion?
12. webcam capture/basic editing.
13. Reverse image search

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 15

1. Vista "Run" and "Run as administrator"
2. 10-Key SPM
3. vista in-place upgrade
4. where to buy .fr domain name?
5. Thunderbird folder display
6. TDEncypt Application
7. ChartXL by Harvard Graphics
8. Can't enter BIOS
9. Maximum size for iPod?
10. What is the data-link protocol used between the routers on the Internet

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 16

1. What Are The Different Types/kinds Of Browsers, wap browser, mobile browser, mini browser etc
2. Printer ink cartridge
3. Top IT companies in Israel
4. Wireless-N backwards compatibility
5. VOB (DVD files) to any other format
6. Find / replace
7. Firewall again
8. Fluctuating router
9. Mozilla Thunderbird
10. Free video streaming from input
11. Vista and takeown

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 17

1. Dual monitors and fullscreen games
2. Question and issues concerning software/hardware firewalls
3. Web accelerators
4. CD Drive exploaded with cd spin
5. MSN Messenger
6. Password protecting VLC http interface
7. looking for a blank, dual-layer, double sided DVD
8. Recursively compare files in two directories on Linux
9. Launch external process with ruby on windows
10. Game Networking Shop
11. help with recommending an improvement to the wikipedia front page
12. Need a program to take a bunch of jpegs into a movie
13. Security on an open wireless network

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 18

1. windows action on highlight
2. writing to a wiki, best practices
3. Screensaver as video?
4. Dynamic Scoreboard/Table
5. handicaps
6. Is opera mini legal?
7. USB flash drive in linux
8. graphics cards
9. Amarok scoring
10. Transparent Overlay
11. What is the ruby syntax construct with a colon and square brackets
12. Can't play starcraft
13. VMWare question
14. Is there a freeware equivelent to Adobe Flash?
15. Wikiwix
16. What does "www3" means in web address like www3.nationalgeographic.com?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 19

1. The moment of truth: Windows Vista
2. Flagging Youtube users
3. Accessing Wikipedia
4. response time
5. ATRAC3 Plus
6. MP3 player won't use USB port
7. Adding Image Overlays Remotely in Google Earth.
8. Can two or more people register a domain name?
9. Diablo II crashes when starting game
10. Problems with "locked" documents on microsoft word
11. Bittorrent ?
12. Beginner's class for Senior Citizens
13. Protection afforded by DMZ?
14. voice recognition / AI
15. monitor connection
16. Displaying 4:3 with a widescreen monitor on an ATI card
17. Browser bookmarks

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 20

1. Image Scanner
2. Questions about Puppy Linux
3. Public domain SHA512 code
4. Touch pad scroll
5. Repeatable table in InfoPath 2007
6. programming
7. Bare 'buntu?
8. Activation of extended buttons in Edit box toolbar.
9. Transferring hand written text to the computer
10. tv on computer
11. What's wrong with Wikipedia? (or my computer?)
12. dvd writer drive that doesn't write dvds!
13. harddrive recovery?
14. Keyboard switching languages
15. Shape tweening in Flash CS3
16. download speeds
17. Tracking down an IP range

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 21

1. Flash video to MP3 conversion
2. Free Website Advertising Services
3. This is bad...
4. ip not resolving but name through resolving..
5. Keyboard/mouse codes ?
6. Windows Movie Maker
7. Domain name selling related help
8. duplicates
9. Pentium D with 2 cores?
10. Fedora Core Install
11. D-Link DI-624+
12. New printer
13. Viewing Burmese characters on Wikipedia

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 22

1. converting lat/long to pixel coordinates
2. Anyone heard of this? Windows XP cannot ALT-TAB or switch tasks properly
3. GoDaddy page appears for all invalid domains
4. Need HDTV 1080i recorder
5. File Format of Azureus download
6. Websites Hacked?
7. duplicates in outlook express
8. Fonts in PDF
9. How accurate are biometric tools at the present time ?
10. Hit Highlighting in SQL Server
11. At what size does 720p HDTV become unwatchable?
12. Fading text in Flash CS3

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 23

1. Digging info about an ELF file
2. Question Related to VBA in MS Excel
3. Are there any public domain wiki engines/softwares?
4. iPod transfer
5. "Adobe Printshop Software"
6. Cron Executing PHP Script
7. gsmarena.com
8. Corrupted registry on an OEM machine
9. Forums hosting service

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 24

1. itunes music cards
2. PHP Lexicon
3. The Printshop
4. color space
5. Simple Question about Myspace and HTML
6. Quick Java question
7. DOS Torrent
8. Effort formula to move a load up an incline with weight on two wheels
9. Video recording
10. Is it possible to manipulate strings in dos/batch (windows) without using anything but the built in windows commands (not using temporay files)
11. I've typed that license key like ten times already!
12. Wireless Internet Lock
13. PHP user security

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 25

1. Mmorfe, DVD Burner Specifications
2. japanese.exe
3. CDs
4. PNGout
5. newsgroup reader for windows XP
6. Changing just the container of a video
7. IP Adress?
8. Hooking a laptop 2.5" drive to a desktop PC
9. Upgrading to Xbox360 Elite
10. echo
11. Infinities, NaNs and IEEE 754

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 26

1. TotoBaggins's (also known as Sean) code
2. Carbon not working properly in Mac OS X 10.4.10
3. Removal of Spy Shredder
4. Wikipedia and money
5. itunes plus help
6. OUP/Basic sample

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 27

1. Top websites
2. Is this a good computer?
3. Erdős number in computing?
4. Keymap
5. Vista "Audio Mixer" for xp?
6. Free flash video player?
7. Emulating a computer that's useless.
8. OpenGL command

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 28

1. default password
2. School Internet Filtering
3. seminal paper
4. Not intended blanking
5. XML extensions
6. HQ1
7. The Forum Game
8. Programming Language for working with hardware
9. Transferring data between computers
10. Malware on Vista
11. Software release date database
12. Interchanging desktop and laptop RAM
13. Wordpress, Markdown and New Lines

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 29

1. Word doc into picture
2. Internet Speed
3. Google Maps/Earth
4. Free antivirus software for Windows XP?
5. How difficult is starting an ad agency?
6. Google Earth Help
7. My line-out is acting up!
8. Video conversion software
9. The Simpsons Hit & Run
10. mod_rewriting
11. Font family
12. Old RAM with new RAM
13. AVI codec

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 30

1. Ipod/MP3 player memory upgrade
2. desining of logical circuit
3. Website
4. windows installer for vista
5. live cd to live usb
6. How to remove a motherboard secured with clips not screws
7. how many writes
8. Sample flash / flash video files
9. Screen saver quirk
10. Wireless newtworking/router
11. Continual failure of wireless network

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 31

1. Laptop external monitor
2. Boosting saturation on laptop monitor
3. DVD-lab - Project does not compile
4. WHIRLPOOL