Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2011

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= March 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 1

1. Iomega external hard drive
2. Migrating MS Outlook
3. Map creation
4. CSS box model
5. Vandal's comeuppance
6. Google Maps

= March 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 2

1. Trusted in the sense of Mozilla
2. Using the datastore outside of CGI in Google App Engine
3. URIs and URLs (terminology)
4. Updating Adobe Flash Player
5. DVD driver
6. New Core i5's vs Core 2's

= March 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 3

1. Mostly downloaded video file
2. how many gb is 5nb
3. Difference between Fab site and Assembly site
4. Youtube video view milestones
5. Why do I hear a door closing?

= March 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 4

1. OPTICAL FIBRE
2. a freeware tool to zip files in batch one by one
3. DNS not responding
4. Printing or splitting a very large web page into parts
5. Installing IE9 RC

= March 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 5

1. Computer start-up problem
2. Endless Ocean:Blue World
3. Website help
4. Free Random Number Generator
5. REBOL
6. OpenOffice Calc autocorrection madness
7. Random pool for encryption

= March 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 6

1. Question about Dell's early days
2. Metasearch blogs for topic x
3. Mixcraft Robotic Voice
4. web cache
5. Name of an old Windows game
6. Actual pixel contents of RAW image files
7. Doing mirror writing in Microsoft Word?

= March 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 7

1. file transfer
2. Archiving google cache
3. Uninstall the ICQ toolbar from Firefox?
4. Convert KMZ file to a file that will play on a regular media player
5. Problem mouting pen-drive in Linux
6. Sending SMS from PC
7. Excel (2003) Macro question
8. W32 Blaster Worm

= March 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 8

1. Copypasting from Wikipedia into MS Word
2. Perfect game in chess
3. Microsoft Advertising cookie
4. How to ensure a ksh script uses just one of two options?
5. Any idea why Alorica shut down in Manhattan, KS?
6. Server
7. Pluging a 3.5mm headset with microphone for mobile phones into the earpone socket on a PC

= March 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 9

1. Windows XP Error Message
2. Serialise/deserialise a dictionary in JavaScript
3. Ancient Egyptian game on the Amiga
4. What is software?
5. Firefox told me to stop scripts; is there an IE solution?
6. <DOLPHINTEXT>

= March 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 10

1. Regex gurus
2. Android versions
3. Additional UI packs
4. What plugin is required for this web video, please?
5. E-Com mobile TC-300
6. Can I run Sims 3 on this system
7. waererewraawer
8. CascadingDropDown problem
9. Parts of PDF print too pale to read

= March 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 11

1. email check with phone and encryption
2. Windows audio error, speakers "Not plugged in".
3. About SFA
4. Annoying Ads
5. How to draw a circle around a word(s) in Open Office?
6. Macbook shuts off at 50% power

= March 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 12

1. RAM
2. WPA2-PSK 802.11g
3. Telephone Service Factor, How to do the calculation. Any formulae??
4. logins across subdomains
5. Keeping my unsecured wireless connection connected
6. Perl, remove initial characters until string that matches argument is found
7. javascript >>>
8. What is the H Drive
9. date
10. DVD +RW
11. Apple Keynote: how to split presentation into sections, with section titles in header
12. Saving contents of an array to file (VB)
13. settings for opening Web Page Blocked?
14. Fast PCs in the $5000 price range

= March 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 13

1. Google searches
2. Dell Latitude d620 CPU replacement
3. php
4. What am I doing?
5. Erasing data on old laptop
6. Facebook and Mediaplex
7. Can cookies be blocked by name?

= March 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 14

1. Time synchronization
2. QVOD player
3. Garageband playback help
4. google books problem
5. Group Policy settings
6. ASP.NET problem with dynamically populated DropDownList
7. Wikipedia edit conflict recovery

= March 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 15

1. [jQuery] select -> change()
2. iPod not appearing in iTunes
3. Fortran and Real precision

= March 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 16

1. question about LCD screen backlighting
2. Input-dependent flickering
3. personal cloud
4. Cray CX2
5. Historical webpage
6. What are "Transparent Huge Pages", and should we have an article
7. Indian Highways Map in localised language
8. Image splitting
9. Sims 2 open for bussiness how to install
10. lyx to tex bib problem

= March 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 17

1. Calculating Powers of 2 in Octave
2. Sending an unidentifiable link
3. Recording Flash 10 streaming sound
4. Windows management on Macs
5. Dual booting Vista and XP
6. Running as administrator on Vista

= March 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 18

1. Running two devices from a single ethernet cable
2. Unable to Install Adobe Flash Player
3. How to make small frame by frame animation with transparent background (Apple)?
4. battery prices
5. What the world needs now is another blogger.
6. Weird network problems

= March 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 19

1. GNU Octave Manual - PDF Format
2. Filtering Strings
3. IE8
4. Parallel computing for on-stage audio processing
5. Choice of CPUs

= March 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 20

1. reliability of UDP
2. Has .gov.ly been hacked?
3. Tracking Flickr images
4. Evolutionary algorithm for music
5. Computer self restores
6. CMOS battery time of day
7. Microsoft Excel 2007 linking automatic updating

= March 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 21

1. Safe file update (against power failure)
2. What is this site up to?
3. How do I view performance of individual cores ?
4. Windows hosts file

= March 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 22

1. HP Pavilion Laptop DV1000 (An old but brill laptop that HP made but did not seem to produce for long!!!)
2. Windows XP
3. Excel questions
4. How can I find out what programs are accessing the internet?
5. Exiting Firefox
6. GNU Octave - parfor Equivalent
7. Conditional CSS
8. 'Amazon Online Reader' does not work in my Firefox 3.6.15
9. MSI CR410 laptop
10. Video Joining Software
11. Problem with search engines
12. Windows 7
13. Upgrading memory on my PC

= March 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 23

1. Mobile internet
2. firefox on a mac
3. Chain text messages
4. The 'C' button don't work on my keyboard. why?
5. Cross compilers
6. Can J2ME Midlets be made to work on an iPhone 3Gs?
7. Animated graph
8. Internet in Uganda?

= March 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 24

1. Projector light
2. Help with Android Code
3. playstation 3 music mood
4. Severe Virus/Malware Problem
5. Firefox 4 and the disappearing bottom toolbar
6. Video Editing Software with Timeline View of Audio
7. Forcing registry re-read in Windows 7

= March 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 25

1. Computer display
2. Are there ANY penny auction sites without prepaid bid packages?
3. Good, Business Web Design Company
4. How do I start my own money-making website with the lowest possible start-up costs and overhead?
5. Tyan 5086B-TRF Eight-Socket Server & Intel 80615 Series Nehalem-C Processors
6. Untraceable IP
7. Japanese fonts
8. Point and name color
9. Why is MySpace (reportedly) losing out to Facebook?
10. Virus problem, help appreciated
11. VoIP and 7/10 digit dialing

= March 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 26

1. Picture of a DIN 7/16 connector?
2. Ubuntu installation error
3. Hologram
4. Database Transfer
5. YouTube forcing people to have a Gmail account
6. Cursor only focuses where I place it on second click when coming back to a window
7. Mouse problems - Windows Vista
8. Free Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

= March 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 27

1. Email clients supporting binary MIME
2. Variable-sized tuple class in C# or other such language
3. How do I read iPhone app code?
4. Gtalk vs. Google Talk
5. Samsung Wave Apps
6. Intel PC Camera
7. HP software in Chinese
8. The ever growing tentacles of Google

= March 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 28

1. Using WebGL in Firefox 4
2. Why computer manufacturers disable CPU virtualization capacity by default?
3. 32GB DIMM
4. what's the max proces name lenght on winxp
5. Non recognition of D:Drive
6. Saving a document in Microsoft Office Word 2007 as a "read only" file
7. iOS SDK Standalone
8. sfdisk input format

= March 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 29

1. Virtual VS. Augmented reality
2. How to download this "spreadsheet"?
3. Saving with Firefox: normal vs. scrapbook
4. Question about article Digital Visual Interface
5. Saving and Exporting in Snow Leopard
6. New York Times limitation on the number of articles
7. Epson TX 111
8. slow shutdown (Windows XP)
9. Capacitor colors
10. Wiki spam
11. Surveillance
12. Yahoo/AT&T Display Name

= March 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 30

1. Core Duo processor
2. Computes reset during boot.
3. Going on vacation, need gmail autonotification
4. ms PICTURE IT
5. Wireless Sky TV
6. php
7. Apple Keynote: "Reapply Master to Selection" if object has been deleted?

= March 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 31

1. Weird Xcode Problem
2. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition - Temporary Licensing Non-Compliance
3. Upgrading to Firefox 4 from Firefox 3.6.16
4. Firefox 4
5. Algorithm used in Mega Millions POS computers