Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2011

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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 1

1. migrating to a new PC

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 2

1. List of Major LC-LC Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturers
2. Scanner issue
3. Live Virus/Trojan - anyone feel like investigating?
4. Sinister script?

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 3

1. Let's go right to the end of the story...
2. Need help figuring out what a facebook spam app does
3. Windows Task Manager
4. Laptop Crashing
5. #!
6. Civilization V
7. Strange email

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 4

1. Repairing broken OCLC/WorldCat links
2. smime doc?
3. Tilde problems
4. lpr with Cygwin
5. Unheated storage of Electronics
6. New iPod

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 5

1. Signal distance in CPUs
2. Headphones
3. silent dispatcher
4. Web platform benchmarking
5. avg installer
6. Gigabit Ethernet link aggregation
7. How can I tell which USB ports I have? Ubuntu PC
8. Memory and multi-core CPUs
9. Where can i find tutorials on how to create discussion forum with Amaya or Kompozer
10. Shutting down...

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 6

1. About music instrumens
2. What is the site that shows a comparison between the fair second hand price of items selling on Ebay?
3. Bookmarking websites in Safari
4. Image thumbnails from wikipedia, archived?
5. Virtual machines for web surfing.
6. How do LaTeX package makers do it?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 7

1. Apple Cocoa NSImage Question
2. Windows Live Messenger Error?
3. how to manage add/remove programe on control pannel
4. DVD movie file size
5. Nvidia drivers
6. Intel i7 and quad precision

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 8

1. Repairing a broken pdf file
2. Reformatting advice
3. Where to obtain a HyperSim card?
4. Accessing the entire Windows Phone 7 filesystem from a PC
5. How to quickly change IP addresses
6. Japanese radios
7. Firefox 4
8. Changing ASP.NET MaskedEditValidator error message in JavaScript?
9. TR/Spy.ZBot.blxv attack

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 9

1. Open Office Writer trouble
2. Windows Live Mail
3. Comcast speeds? / Bridging two internet connections?
4. Centering Images in CSS without Floating?
5. What does "033[1;1H033[2J" mean?
6. Help
7. Fedora 12 device automounting comes and goes randomly
8. HP DV 100 Pavilion internal mic does not work after loading Win 7 Home premium.

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 10

1. Installing Chameleon (the EFI emulator/bootloader) with Linux
2. Max Theoretical Overclock speed
3. Intel Core i7-2600 underclocking
4. WebCite
5. Powerpoint conversion
6. Internet time not accurate
7. Interpreting CGI to mean PHP?

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 11

1. Changing the code of Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit CascadingDropDown?
2. Wanted: rubbish video chat client

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 12

1. Wallpaper problem
2. jpg
3. please help
4. What's the best online stock-trading application?
5. Downloading Firefox 4
6. [Question changed] Get a TV, or a projector w/ TV tuner?
7. Free mac anti-virus software

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 13

1. Are ribbons for dot matric printers still made?
2. SONY ERICSSION K510I
3. basics of communication
4. excel 2007
5. Upgrading to Windows 7 when don't have old version installed, only the COA
6. Afternoon Wikipedians
7. UV Light emitting diodes (LED) introduction year?
8. How to convert a JPG image to PPM (ASCII) ?
9. Video camera for lecturing
10. Writing and designing a program
11. Dead Live USB

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 14

1. Free website links checker
2. RAM
3. Software to correct video color and exposure
4. Will overheating power adapter shut down laptop?
5. Wiki cookies
6. How do I stay logged into Google Chrome?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 15

1. Digital cable mystery
2. A website displays my copyrighted material. What should I do?
3. Mumble
4. graph in excel
5. Intel 82865G driver for Windows XP 64-bit edition

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 16

1. Hardware piece on my laptop misbehaving
2. Independent Publishing on iBookstore?
3. Octave GUIs?
4. Partitioning help when dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 17

1. Dell PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library - Maximum Power Consumption
2. Can anyone recommend any books about Gynoids which are female robots with a human appearance
3. Laser mouse WITH a mini-trackball? Does it exist?
4. Junk computers
5. Redhat cluster suite alternative
6. Asking a question at the Mozilla Thunderbird "Community" forum
7. ACPI and sound when running Linux
8. Google left navigation
9. Is it possible to have and use two or more editions of IE or othern browsers in one OS?

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 18

1. looking for a word that covers an action or task
2. QAM vs ATSC tuner
3. Hacktool message on website
4. Diff b/w solid works and catia v5
5. Anti-spyware and anti-adware tools
6. Wireless External HDD
7. Odd problem with sound icon in tray
8. Laptop security
9. Good alternatives to YouTube?
10. Why does Google News Search return fewer hits when you expand the search?
11. 320kbps MP3
12. Word Being Stupid

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 19

1. Non-compressed GIF image
2. Mobile phones in proximity connect as walkie-talkies?
3. Google Chrome inserts an extra line break when adding a comment to a talk page

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 20

1. 16Gb Optical Multimode Fiber
2. secure website (https) on a public network
3. C++ make error
4. USB to MIDI
5. Tablets that will fit in the pocket of my lab coat
6. GRUB legacy and multiple Linux partitions
7. Managed Extensions for C++ arrays
8. App security

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 21

1. Emoji
2. Printing a content list of a folder in Windows 7
3. Four Anon Questions
4. Folder on Desktop Refuses to Move (Vista)
5. Types of boot sectors
6. Windows Command Prompt window title

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 22

1. COM port to PS/2 converter
2. Purple links
3. A problem with Windows Media...
4. Connecting to the internet by using Samsung champ as modem.
5. Chrome compared with Firefox
6. fortran PURE functions
7. bluetooth mic by plugin, not pairing
8. sound emanating from data service center

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 23

1. copy from one desktop to another?
2. Can't copy EXE files to Windows 7 computer
3. Network Neighborhood icon missing
4. Command Prompt Commands
5. color code for network connection between wimax adaptor and PC
6. Are cell-phones soft-modems?
7. iPhone 3Gs spontaneously deleted books in iBooks I hadn't read in quite a while

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 24

1. Free Offline map software
2. Simplest possible internet multi-player game
3. Celestia
4. Eye-Track Mind Reader
5. Command to list all available shells
6. Office Word 2007 Problem
7. Capturing 802.11 traffic
8. Image background from white becomes black
9. License type of magazine code listings?
10. Commercial distributed computing like SETI@home
11. Sharing Vista & Win7
12. Windows XP Command Prompt questions
13. taking over a production environment
14. Establishing a local subnet within a large organization

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 25

1. Microsoft Word 2007 - Preventing Broken Table Rows
2. How do I restart an animated gif when viewed in Firefox4?
3. Lost edits
4. Best loss-less compression graphic format ?
5. Changing my ISP and e-mail address.
6. About Computer
7. Including passwords in a shell script in Linux
8. Do we have an article about the current power stuggle between Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Adobe, etc.?
9. RAM

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 26

1. Existing API(s) to read from and write to web pages (from Fortran) ?
2. DVD-R compared with DVD+R
3. internet protection & security
4. Fake images and computer graphics
5. How to edit Wikipedia from my Windows XP Command Prompt ?
6. Get old data with cURL

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 27

1. Excel problem
2. Ethernet link aggregation load balancing?
3. Buying a new computer - advice
4. Hathi Trust
5. Twitter 'follow' button broken?
6. Network and sharing centre Windows 7

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 28

1. Single bad disk sector on a HD
2. External Hardrive not Recognized by Vista
3. Data matrix "bar codes"
4. Regex gurus needed
5. Half-life 2/Steam question
6. Making copy of windows 7 disc
7. Incorrect 'Password is Incorrect' Message in Thunderbird
8. PC Game Dust Tale of the wired west
9. Supressing output to the Windows XP Command Prompt

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 29

1. Global SIM card but also email
2. low resolution image of Lincoln
3. hiiiiiiiiii sir
4. Recovering Lost Windows Password
5. Windows 7 - Recursive Printing of Directory Hierarchy
6. VBScript gurus
7. Older Korean encodings
8. Lag when updating Wikipedia using PyWikipedia bots ?
9. What XML document processor software and methodology would you use for home use?
10. Downloading all the images in a commons category

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 30

1. Legally downloading System Shock 2
2. Making Add-Ons for Firefox
3. Date and time format in Numbers
4. Computer related post on Misc Desk
5. Chrome / Firefox plugins For Poor Connections?
6. How to get max memory bandwidth throughput on a Tyan S4985-E
7. Get toner levels on laser printer
8. Mac Cocoa Multitouch
9. software that will fix things in video
10. Firefox problems
11. Speech recording
12. typing foreign characters
13. .aspx?

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 31

1. Extraction of Audio from .wmv Video File
2. vst plug-in
3. how to remove old mobo/processor information from a WinXP installation?
4. Specific URL problem
5. Automatic mounting on Linux triggered by device being already mounted?