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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 1

  1. Hard Disk Miracle Challenge
  2. websites
  3. FILEZILLA
  4. Mouse
  5. iPod artwork
  6. How many articles/revisions are added to the whole Wikipedia project per day (not only the English Wikipedia)
  7. Compiling code
  8. Help with electronics
  9. most maths in x86 instruction
  10. Turning my TV on and off
  11. lost ability to save JPEG from IE6
  12. Listening to radio

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 2

  1. What's that port?
  2. Adding entries to the registry using .reg files
  3. FireFox 3
  4. Java Swing: How to get pixel values from components?
  5. video conferencing
  6. Copying hard drive
  7. VGA connector pin 9
  8. filename.ext in Windows
  9. escape from Iphoto
  10. Stupid question about smart antenna
  11. security in the properties window
  12. Sharing a monitor but not its display
  13. Google definitions
  14. Domain squatting
  15. CGI
  16. Memory compiler
  17. Videos on iPod
  18. ?Query??

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 3

  1. Flash CS3 actionscript: button to next scene
  2. iPhone roaming
  3. Burning CDs into USB Flash Drive
  4. How do I dismantle a computer?
  5. iPod help please
  6. Industry bias
  7. Javascript: getTimeout on a method of a specific object
  8. In what part of a system...
  9. .docx
  10. Solution to PHP in safe mode

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 4

  1. Contact software
  2. IP logging of dynamic addresses
  3. Powefu
  4. Free Domain Names
  5. French keyboard emulator
  6. sharing internet
  7. (state of) computer games industry in Germany
  8. Snapter like software
  9. Only one computer work with a wired connection to my cable modem
  10. Semi-awesome bar for FireFox 3?
  11. Windows Meeting Space, Windows Netmeeting and you
  12. repair windows xp professional
  13. C++

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 5

  1. Japan mobile phone web markup language alphabet soup nightmare
  2. Differences of software
  3. Ubuntu Linux
  4. DVB-T question
  5. Lost Windows XP admin password
  6. Remote Access

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 6

  1. Booting From a USB Flash Drive
  2. Phone as Clock
  3. Vista
  4. Impossible to enter my BIOS
  5. Wiki diff question
  6. Playing diablo2 on lan question

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 7

  1. Document-centric XML database
  2. Psi-Ops problems
  3. Converting an M4A file
  4. CSS em over px
  5. Windows XP Pro and Server 2003 Enterprise
  6. Live CD vs. live USB
  7. IRC shenanigans
  8. Double underscore (_)?
  9. Reinstall missing qt-mt.dll
  10. Wikis!
  11. How do you check cpu temperature?
  12. Website hosting and making.
  13. A file renamer
  14. Send email from command line without having to specify an SMTP server?
  15. When are we no longer at the mercy of our ISPs?
  16. Vista vs XP

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 8

  1. Image information utility
  2. Broken track ball on Blackberry Curve 8310
  3. From live CD to HDD
  4. Netgear
  5. Round buttons in web pages: FireFox 3.0 on a Mac

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 9

  1. Video Editing
  2. Reparing Windows XP quick and dirty
  3. Scandisk
  4. The Games Factory
  5. Free bin/cue CD burner??
  6. Modifying PDFs?
  7. GIMP layer stacking
  8. junk email
  9. linksys befvp41 mystery switch
  10. Installing Windows Xp in a laptop without cd-rom
  11. Outlook names / contacts.
  12. How to embed text file in a C program
  13. Ignoring floating-point underflow in Excel
  14. TI-84

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 10

  1. How does one save two versions of a file in VB.NET
  2. Searching for URLs
  3. YouTube
  4. ip & CCTV Camera
  5. Hiding WHOIS info
  6. Optical driver for laptops
  7. Burning .nrg without Nero...?
  8. Reverse Lookup on local network
  9. Very possibly, it's phishing ...
  10. Internet bot
  11. Efficient Programming
  12. sql
  13. Printer randomly prints the new tab screen of IE7
  14. Firefox 3.0

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 11

  1. How to transfer Favorites/Bookmarked Sites to an Email message?
  2. Source videos
  3. Turn off
  4. microsoft outlook won't open if i'm offline..

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 12

  1. the catch with shutterfly
  2. Ubuntu - Audigy Platinum checklist
  3. CSS
  4. Google Apps location
  5. Free anti virus
  6. Unfaithful browsers
  7. Network administration question
  8. I'd like to plug the people who made my TV...
  9. Strange requests
  10. Portrait Mode Monitors
  11. Scipting with Visual Basic.NET

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 13

  1. Editing SVG files
  2. Admin. Password win. XP
  3. Merging iTunes Playlists
  4. Reshuffling the directory structure of a website
  5. Technology behind the PS3's on/off switch
  6. Getting rid of 3dsps.x3d trojans.
  7. Alternative firmware for Nokia 3220
  8. DVD drive
  9. LCD display commands
  10. Two television questions
  11. Java colorisation question
  12. How do I fix a broken link?
  13. Wireless network security
  14. optimise
  15. Kaspersky conflicts with my game
  16. Team Fortress 2 crashes

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 14

  1. C++
  2. Windows XP and Core 2 Duo (E8400) - Can't get second core to work.
  3. how to determine format of a word processing file?
  4. iptables question
  5. Defragment HDD
  6. PS3 multizone DVD player?
  7. Excel on a Mac
  8. What time is it ?
  9. Jayski's Silly Season Site
  10. Implementing a flood fill more efficiently
  11. MP3 Players
  12. Spawn c++ processes in new console windows.
  13. Making partitions and losing data
  14. Bagle (computer worm)
  15. Problems with MAME32 and Nebula emulator
  16. Comodo firewall and McAfee security center
  17. Open mp3 in a new Winamp?

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 15

  1. What's wrong with this php
  2. Backup of Windows files using Linux
  3. A3 Printer / Scanner
  4. occlusion test for cube in directX/openGL ?
  5. MS Office - changes between versions
  6. SLI vs. CrossfireX
  7. why no browsers in app store
  8. More C++
  9. Word 2007 Combine Documents
  10. Info by Fingerprinting (a la Back to the Future II in 2015)
  11. Limitations of statically typed languages

July 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 16

  1. my xbox
  2. iPod touch and comcast
  3. itunes
  4. Websites, directories, subdirectories, and the like....
  5. Disable mouse shortcuts in Firefox
  6. Audio Files (eg WAV, AIFF, MP3) to MIDI converter?
  7. Audio hosting on the Internet

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 17

  1. Bluetooth headsets with USB charging
  2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  3. Streaming/storing video
  4. Foreign character recognition
  5. Ubuntu Super Edition
  6. Printing circles
  7. Plug ins for Eclipse in Windows and Linux
  8. light tree
  9. Audio Files (eg WAV, AIFF, MP3) to MIDI converter?
  10. Garageband for PC?

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 18

  1. Photo Printers The Norm?
  2. System Volume Information
  3. Odd watches
  4. usenet
  5. generating pdfs
  6. Motion detection
  7. Scumware
  8. e mail
  9. Transatlantic Internet meltdown?
  10. Admin Rights

July 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 19

  1. Drilling holes in a circuit board
  2. code execution by kernel
  3. Buying a new Computer
  4. Firefox 3 & preview errors / edit conflicts
  5. Second-life rip off PS home
  6. WEP Key
  7. File organization on disk
  8. Internet use in non-English
  9. credit card security
  10. cd
  11. PDF from Scanner
  12. Date format in PHP: WHAT WAS WRONG?
  13. What's the easiest way for me to vertical sync in Windows (2D)?
  14. What is ADFU?

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 21

  1. auto scanner
  2. XKCD on an iPhone or iPod Touch
  3. Comcast Voip  ?
  4. Hard drive enclosure
  5. How is SMS texting so fast?

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 22

  1. Installing .deb with dependencies
  2. linear and nonlinear Quantization?
  3. Graphical applications in chrooted terminal
  4. Automagically crop GIF files to remove blank pixels?
  5. Creating an XML-driven flash website

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 23

  1. Non-breaking tables in MS Word
  2. Firefox hit count
  3. USB keyboard doesn't work with bootloaders
  4. comparing two software implementations
  5. Programming: Windows Vista API (Folder Redirection)
  6. Linux on a USB drive
  7. HDRI in movie industry late 80`s
  8. Safari web browser
  9. files renamed
  10. I have an e-mail problem...
  11. Google ranking
  12. Best choice for a Laptop at college.
  13. Onboard Video + AGP
  14. safely remove hardware... or just pull the plug?
  15. Musician "Jam-with-a-friend-on-the-internet" Software
  16. sound card color ports
  17. how to integrate tomcat 6.x and iplanet 6.x versions
  18. Lyrics in iTunes
  19. Multi-page pdf
  20. Can I turn my PC into a universal remote?
  21. Mozilla Firefox 2 + 3?

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 24

  1. computer software
  2. Disk Defragmention (moved from Misc Desk)
  3. A new device hampering our privacies
  4. Downloading & UK law
  5. Using computer during a thunderstorm
  6. Calling java from command line, want to run more commands
  7. Why aren't linear feedback shift registers' output the whole contents of the register?
  8. LC3 PROGRAMM IN COMPUTER
  9. The 2nd screen
  10. Can a virus infect the Linux OS?
  11. Creating audio cd's on Mac OS 10.4
  12. Format
  13. is it good

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 25

  1. Limiting Internet Access on a Network
  2. ATI SM BUS not working
  3. how did I just copy a copy-protected DVD?
  4. Game studio
  5. .spc to MIDI

July 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 26

  1. using a mobile Phone as a modem
  2. Quad-core question
  3. office productivity tool
  4. Seeking data compression code for short strings
  5. Relating to game development, what is a ‘.CCZ’ file?
  6. safety of phone line wiring
  7. Virus Issue
  8. Owner of ImageShack image
  9. Java

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 27

  1. PDF files
  2. Challenge
  3. Bash script
  4. Reading a BMP file
  5. best video database
  6. Help writing entry for my business website link to wikpedia
  7. Scorched Earth game
  8. XP Lang.
  9. Pronunciation
  10. Linux distribution for offline use - recommendations
  11. Javascript works in Firefox but not IE
  12. MSCE or A+ certification for helpdesk job?

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 28

  1. Partition
  2. A problem with wireless card
  3. SSH on the ASUS EeePC
  4. Security with broadband
  5. Hard drive issues.
  6. context sensitive
  7. Making Dvd compatible
  8. Make it go faster, damn it!
  9. Upgrading Computer?
  10. ai computational complexity
  11. Subfolders and AppleScript
  12. Raw (dd) copy of smaller to larger disk

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 29

  1. A critical Problem.
  2. Infinity in HTML
  3. Problem with toggling switches between laptop and Projector
  4. filesystem in a file, linux
  5. where should the "inline" specifier be placed in c++??
  6. Userpage woes
  7. cuil
  8. Defrag and partitioning NTFS from Linux live CD
  9. US cell phone in Europe
  10. word software
  11. C++ Program
  12. Bot Code
  13. Edit with Notepad
  14. How to use a chrooted environment?
  15. Holographic Versatile Discs
  16. Best Storage
  17. installing iATKOS on VMware Workstation
  18. two finger swipe and multi touch in windows xp
  19. Firefox Theme
  20. CMS without MySQL or Root Access
  21. Does FM degrade sound quality?

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 30

  1. Problem with computer screen
  2. Adding Images to Webpage
  3. Shift 3 on my computer?
  4. Less pixels
  5. Achingly slow speeds
  6. uninstalling winXP and win98
  7. Playlogic supermod
  8. Converting spreadsheets
  9. SPAM
  10. induced bouncy i solar chimney big help with fortran program
  11. Best way of storing my knowledge, tipps & tricks organized online?
  12. Merging hard drives
  13. bypass websense
  14. Custom HTML Tags
  15. Word
  16. Cutting it
  17. Video viewer program on Firefox
  18. oracle sql update using a with-clause
  19. Advantages of different radio frequencies.
  20. Cassette Adapter vs FM Transmitter
  21. CSS: Treating one HTML tag as another
  22. Java and C
  23. Monitor keep awake
  24. ca_setup.exe?
  25. Unable to see image of the City Hall of Buffalo in Art Deco article