Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2013

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= May 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 1

1. Alcohol abuse and my netbook
2. Windows Media Player not updating metadata properly?
3. GPS-traces or elevations for European Highways
4. Microsoft Word 2007 Problem

= May 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 2

1. Strange audio/video stuttering problems
2. Graphics with Java: Applets and Applications
3. is there software that can determine a person's race
4. Making a single page of a section landscape in Word
5. "SecuROM" in The Sims 2/3
6. Pokemon, 3rd gen. celibi
7. Checking my mac's memory usage
8. On the accuracy of floating point

= May 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 3

1. Syncing files between home and work Win 7 computers including files on network via VPN
2. Windows installation not finding new SSD
3. make optical disk look as normal drive

= May 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 4

1. Signature pictures containing colored symmetric geometric shapes
2. Partioning
3. Switching users on Twitter
4. Like button on banknote
5. Turning client-server model into processes sharing memory boosts performance?

= May 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 5

1. Copying a CD via iTunes
2. What is The use of Thread class constructors?
3. WINDOWS 7 - HIDDEN FUNCTIONS
4. Battery life and charging
5. Windows XP shutdown

= May 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 6

1. Newspaper App?
2. what is the use of thread class constructors-2
3. What is the origin of the second O in Revolution (TV series)?
4. vandalism at Rediffmail?
5. Replacing an HDD with Windows on it
6. How to disable autocorrect/autocomplete on iPhone 5 ?

= May 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 7

1. Weather forecast can be wrong??
2. Chrome's auto form fill-in thingy
3. What's the new security system of MS Office 2010?
4. Spell-checking not working at the Commons
5. Software terminology question
6. Free software terminology/ apparent contradiction in articles
7. (acting)?

= May 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 8

1. Compatibility with MS Office - track changes

= May 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 9

1. iPad system requirements
2. Checking grammar
3. street fighter II for the mega drive

= May 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 10

1. MP4
2. RetroUI problems
3. Is there any good, easy way to do nominally GUI-oriented stuff in Windows?
4. bokeh enhancement
5. what is innermetrix?

= May 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 11

1. Desktop backgrounds...(A more convenient way to switch them?)
2. slow boot
3. PHP geolocation consent on smartphones
4. GMAIL SETTINGS

= May 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 13

1. E top-up and e-vouchers in the UK
2. Pioneer DDJ Ergo?
3. GIF images/IE9 Favorites
4. pascal programming "menu" question

= May 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 14

1. Convertion of MNEMONICS
2. Laptop will not boot

= May 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 15

1. Software for scanner
2. software to crop PDFs
3. Break havoc in Linux without admin password
4. md5sum of installed program in Linux
5. Learning Data digitization
6. 3D maps

= May 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 16

1. Password Protecting an External Hard Drive

= May 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 17

1. Sharing of files in Nokia Lumia
2. Seeding Ubuntu: A noble thing to do or a waste of disk space?

= May 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 18

1. Bell connection process loading slow
2. studying MS in computerscience
3. Windows 8
4. Making city infobox montages?
5. Blender reference images

= May 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 19

1. Where to find material for shared library programming?
2. Current method I'm using to remove redlink entries in a set of lists - need faster method
3. Game making...
4. Spambot question
5. Google translate worse now?
6. Citrix weirdness

= May 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 20

1. How come a shared library could provide service?
2. How to open a port under Slackware 14
3. Non-proprietary GPS database schemas
4. Is it possible to acceess different parts of a class by different threads?
5. Fiddling with volume on Windows 7
6. the md5 sum of an empty string

= May 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 21

1. computer stuff :3
2. What is the threshold of date/time difference for certificate error?
3. Google Webmaster tools - Search results URL removal tool
4. project based question
5. Graphics slow on ipad

= May 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 22

1. Registry Errors, Junk Files and Broken Shortcuts!
2. Classification of computer language
3. Suggestions/Comments on Material and Website
4. Web Development Ideas
5. GLEW
6. Charging my phone via computer USB compared to wall socket USB plug
7. edgers

= May 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 23

1. AutoCAD 3D Modelling
2. Switch mode transformers
3. Text emails and hyperlinks
4. Privacy, js and Google
5. Did users of the SCELBI and computers like it have to flip switch software in manually on each power-up?

= May 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 24

1. OCR scan to a text file, no interpretation
2. SHGetFolderPathA error on NT 4.0
3. win7 taskbar in revolt

= May 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 25

1. Getting rid of the daemon & speeding up D-Bus without hacking the kernel?
2. Alt + Tab doesn't work when some upstart of a program think it should have focus

= May 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 26

1. Media players controlling master volume
2. What kind of hard drive is this?

= May 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 27

1. branch coverage
2. What type/kind of charger is this?
3. Annoying Drupal problem
4. Citrix apps rental service

= May 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 28

1. Centering text and pictures
2. Stopping repeated loading of content, stylesheets and javascript codes to fasten

= May 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 29

1. Switch to external monitor upon startup
2. QBASIC Decompiler
3. MASM615/Irvine32 Pains
4. Mislabelled SPAM.
5. Javascript: storing a reference to data or popups that lasts while you browse Wikipedia
6. Is there any tool that only runs on Linux?
7. Desktop subtractive "3d printing"

= May 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 30

1. Can't edit SVG file
2. Deleting from gmail's spam folder
3. Facebook redirecting to another site

= May 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 31

1. What does a Linux distribution mean?
2. Aesthetics of Windows 8
3. Software calculating the astrological position of planets