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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 1

  1. Python3's: adding 1 + 1 wrong

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 2

  1. Smartphone alarms (most major vendors) and Daylight Saving Time
  2. How can you separate logic and data in Excel?
  3. KompoZer problem
  4. History of the impossibility of computing
  5. whatspad and whatsapp 2.11.12
  6. Google Earth: bidirectional network links?

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 3

  1. re-create your Youtube account
  2. Linux software raid 5, 6 (with mdadm), stripe cache management and access to "updated" data
  3. Bookmarking someones profile page on facebook
  4. Basic things that every computer scientist should know

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 4

  1. Configuring capabilities on Ubuntu
  2. How and why did android and iphone defeat blackberry, symbian, windows mobile, and palm os?
  3. SAN Storage
  4. OS-X Yosemite and background windows
  5. Unicode for Microsoft Word

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 5

  1. Automatic loading of videos and other crap in Firefox
  2. Google Apps for Cyanogenmod

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 6

  1. Egerin Kurdish Keyboard
  2. Obscure Windows filesystem feature
  3. Kindle region restriction

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 7

  1. The IANA, port 456, macon-tcp, and macon-udp
  2. Plotting with matplotlib, problem with legend, how to use proxy artist
  3. ProBoards page numbers (the sequel)
  4. Operations on a range in Excel

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 8

  1. Contacting Information required
  2. Deleting Issue
  3. Help in seeking volunteer rewriter(s) requested
  4. Keyboard driver

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 10

  1. Flikr too big
  2. Bouvet email addresses?
  3. Are matplotlib, gnuplot, and latex connected at a lower level?

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 12

  1. I just want to get this .avi to burn to a DVD
  2. Example of how to define a URI for an XHTML/XML Document
  3. SQL
  4. Audio cassette -> PC

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 13

  1. USB flash drive
  2. rarreg.key
  3. System's Graphics Card mitigation
  4. Computer games these days
  5. Why did my computer quit working?
  6. Links in LibreOffice Writer document

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 14

  1. Deleting Issue (pending)

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 15

  1. Blocking web mail traffic to a specific version of Outlook?
  2. Frequent Computer Sleep
  3. Removing & Inserting
  4. Speech recognition
  5. Flac to wav

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 16

  1. a = help(list.append) and help(list.append)

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 17

  1. Looking for an automatic exposure blending tool
  2. Google Chrome's sound tracker for noisy tabs

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 18

  1. Changing MediaWiki's version control mechanism.
  2. Trying to understand Python syntax

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 19

  1. WiFi hot spots
  2. Why isnt my Java repaint call actually changing the look of my window?

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 20

  1. Dates of 'Friend requests' in Facebook
  2. Looking for an IEEE paper
  3. In Python, where does the return output go, if you don't care about it?
  4. VCARD file syntax for obsolete and emergency contacts "not to be normally used"

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 21

  1. VPN Protocol
  2. List of numbers sorted by bit count
  3. URL and browser weirdness

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 22

  1. How to set Firefox's default zoom level
  2. Kindle vs. Kindle App
  3. Arm chips
  4. MediaWiki getting the user's name in a template.
  5. Printer is connected to the network but (I think) does not receive print requests
  6. Colors turn red after reboot and MS Visual C++

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 23

  1. What games would a laptop with these specs run ?
  2. Question about Facebook spamming
  3. Regin spyware article?

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 24

  1. Determine subtree height in a binary tree is O(n) or O(1)?
  2. finding files in Win 8.1
  3. What is the oldest activie linux distro when you count also forks?
  4. Website to block an ISP
  5. What can a .SCR file do?
  6. Is there a tool to translate messy HTML into a structured format?

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 25

  1. Running Windows via External Hard Drive

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 26

  1. AMD radeon to Catalyst
  2. How can I access the Google Analytics for my web page?
  3. Looking for a good fairly recent reference for CASE: history and current status
  4. Recovering Windows XP file properties
  5. Moving a program from C: to E: drive?

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 27

  1. L1 cache size question
  2. Computer Crashed and probably ruined. Seemingly due to driver install, believing I upgraded from AMD radeon to AMD Catalyst. It all went wrong.
  3. Random logout in mobile Gmail
  4. It won´t sign out
  5. Computer Studies
  6. ajax form dubmit
  7. How to stop Adobe Flash videos

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 28

  1. Two broadband connections for greater bandwidth?
  2. which cryptographic operations are "commital"
  3. returning computer to factory state
  4. Why my computer quit working

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 29

  1. giving people permission to see my Google photos
  2. Screenshot capture tool that supports Direct X
  3. Starting Execution of Java Program
  4. Is there a musical program that do this kind of thing?
  5. Exchanging Wallpaper
  6. Unconventional boot routines on x86 platforms
  7. Could they go after terrorists, pedophiles and the like by crunching big data?

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 30

  1. XFS Log Journal Write Ratio
  2. How to process data coming from sensors using C/C++