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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 1

  1. Unallocated space
  2. Software
  3. What is the significance of the RIAA no longer suing infringers?
  4. computer troubles
  5. Need .exe file to close three processes on Windows XP
  6. How do I close one of my windows on a laptop?
  7. php

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 2

  1. e-mail listserve
  2. Firesheep
  3. Video games
  4. Difficulty in choosing username
  5. Chinese ?
  6. Simple email forwarding
  7. Upgrading my HP ATi Mobility Radeon 4530
  8. base64_decode
  9. Weird networking trouble
  10. MacBook Pro

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 3

  1. help for connecting to server
  2. Slash in the IP address
  3. IT milestones in 2007
  4. Items with multiple attributes
  5. Story Management software
  6. question
  7. Subnetting

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 4

  1. Newsgroup / computer newbie type question
  2. Building a Storage Area Network Head - Operating System
  3. BitTorrent
  4. does exist any c syntax that is forbidden in c++?
  5. hard drive
  6. polynomial shift
  7. Windows command prompt FOR loop
  8. How has this image been generated?
  9. who's got money? How do I find an investor with vision?

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 5

  1. Problem after installing new video driver
  2. Automatic form filling application required
  3. "number of cores" on 15" Macbook Pros?
  4. display size
  5. List associated values in MS Access
  6. Help
  7. Monitor as TV
  8. C or C++

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 6

  1. Batch file to control network settings
  2. Is there a way to get a "wikitable sortable" table to correctly sort by "year"?
  3. Windows 7 file permissions
  4. urls
  5. My graphics card; not good enough?
  6. is it possible to distribute a large database as many ways as you want?
  7. Whole Disk Encryption
  8. smallest, most compact and self-contained C++ compiler for Windows
  9. how does this work?
  10. bandwidth

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 7

  1. .sla extension on Scribus
  2. Ping
  3. Python object creation failure idiom
  4. Network Security

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 8

  1. EXIF, meaning of "Optical Zoom Code"
  2. Mac OS X version adoption rates
  3. HELP. How do I remove specific auto-suggestions from my Google Chrome's URL bar?
  4. Long-Term Data Archival
  5. What does this line of assembly mean?
  6. Eye Altitude in Google Earth
  7. Mongolian script support
  8. Subliminal
  9. saving a level of game

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 9

  1. Using two different bibliographystyles in one document (solved)
  2. Format specifier: %d %n
  3. facebook
  4. Mp3/other audio -> midi?
  5. iPad download problems
  6. A low cost / free alternative to Adobe Illustrator for the Mac
  7. Stop websites from knowing my Facebook account and my friends
  8. how does server colocation work? Can I do what I want below?

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 10

  1. Facebook albums cause WiFi to drop
  2. Kindle specs
  3. Computer Problems
  4. ISPs, privacy, tethering

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 11

  1. assign programs to network cards
  2. Converting .ps to .ai on Vista
  3. mobile network
  4. 10 Gigabit Ethernet to DDR InfiniBand Converter
  5. My isp disconnects my connection

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 12

  1. Gmail Offline: still https?
  2. Dual graphics cards
  3. Master Proxy Server Setting
  4. Time Machine restore won't accept my password
  5. Ruby Programming Question
  6. problem in using multiple ask transmitters
  7. Most compact programming language
  8. Microsoft's contract with purchasers/users
  9. How do I force a window (e.g. Notepad) to float on top in Microsoft WindowsXP
  10. Strange infection/virus/bot?
  11. Want MORE browser history

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 13

  1. FTP running on CentOs, allow upload but disallow delete
  2. Program memory size
  3. Illustrator's equivalent of Photoshop's Twirl Filter
  4. "Himem.sys", a 'software driver' for use in personal computers.
  5. Saving short texts online
  6. delete program from the list of programs for spec. file types (and generally: delete!!)
  7. Better algorithm?
  8. Random Numbers
  9. C++ header file problem
  10. Did Google have first data-center cooling towers?
  11. ipv6 and ipv4 question
  12. MP3 Download

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 14

  1. How do I restore all extensions and tabs on my Google Chrome?
  2. internet homepages and tabs
  3. Desparately needed drivers for the ethernet contoller
  4. Ping Localhost
  5. RAmos T9 and Android
  6. html

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 15

  1. What ever happened to German Murder Case against Wikipedia?
  2. List of College/University IP Allocations
  3. Airlines fare search; full URL
  4. Subject
  5. IPv6
  6. List of all the "about:<name>" that are recognized by FireFox and MS InternetExplorer

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 16

  1. windwl32.rom
  2. PPP connection with Ubuntu
  3. for enquiry
  4. Creating a wireless network using an aircard
  5. making "sed" match only once
  6. When did "I think I have I a virus/malware/spyware etc" = OMFG REINSTALL YOUR ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH BEFORE YOUR PC EXPLODES!
  7. Why is my system so slow with 2D DirectX graphics?

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 17

  1. Autorun problem in Windows 7
  2. Wireless network for a Verizon phone
  3. How do I restore all extensions and tabs on my Google Chrome?
  4. What disk formats can PS3 mount through USB port?
  5. Clock in RISC OS 3.7
  6. High capacity text editor?
  7. Sorting by date modified
  8. I Am Still SoapFiend
  9. Coding help
  10. Downloading Silverlight Video?

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 18

  1. Post compile array size definition in Pascal
  2. Programming language
  3. External SATA + operating system
  4. Samsung Syncmaster 797MB monitor OSD
  5. How to reset game in old Xbox
  6. No add/remove programs in my settings folder!! what can i do to uninstall?
  7. Count valid English vocabularies
  8. Encryption master key held by the Chinese
  9. PPP connection with Ubuntu II
  10. Saving Hotmail emails to hard disk
  11. Easy script language to back up data to a pen drive
  12. Camera timer capture and filenames
  13. what percent of the area of a 17" macbook pro scren does a 15" macbook pro screen have?
  14. Flash ad archive
  15. Restrict printer
  16. Images not showing up

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 19

  1. TinyC for loop problem
  2. Cloud computing question
  3. BBC News website stats
  4. Screen resolution with two dissimilar monitors changes on reboot
  5. Saving all glipper (or clipboard) items
  6. Facebook apps that tell you who visited your profile?
  7. Yahoo! Chat changed years ago. Why?
  8. forget SQL language - what IS, mathematically, a relational database?
  9. ...and forgetting relational databases, what is screaming fast?

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 20

  1. Uses of Microsoft Silverlight
  2. Faceboook - suggesting people you may know
  3. watch
  4. Windows - No Disk - Exception Processing Message
  5. Clicks Agent
  6. laptop cannot see dvd writer
  7. Python + Ubuntu + controlling a program
  8. How to move a macro in Microsoft Word

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 21

  1. Full Disk Encryption: RAID Controller & Self-Encrypting HDDs
  2. Core i5 vs i7
  3. cell phone as workstation
  4. Copy alternate rows in Excel
  5. .png vs. .jpg
  6. Language specific search in Google from the search box of Opera by adding code
  7. a web browser can run different javascript every session, can a program run different code each session (as downloaded)?

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 22

  1. Is this a fast Internet Connection?
  2. HP dx 2480 Desktop PC
  3. Line breaks on Polldaddy comments
  4. Free tools for converting HTML to ePUB on OS X?
  5. keylogger
  6. Facebook
  7. Networking a Macintosh with Windows NT server; let's all (not) samba

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 23

  1. Web hosting services' choice of their (virtual) dedicated servers' Linux distribution
  2. Domain hacks and political instability
  3. Boleto bancário
  4. what's the Features of virtualization software, which is available in the market today ?
  5. command prompt
  6. AVL-tree: Deleting leaves an ambigous rotation situation
  7. File indexing, backup and dedublication
  8. Why are the URLs different?
  9. Mounting in Ubuntu
  10. computers
  11. PDFCreator error

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 24

  1. Someone sent me an email with a .bat file attached. What should I do?
  2. Does ANY smartphone app have facial recognition? (Or is the following on the video just made-up?)
  3. a folder sharing over through a network limiting to some users in the work group

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 25

  1. LAN and WAN configurations
  2. What DirectX is for?
  3. Kindel reader
  4. Calendar sharing with MS Outlook 2007/Exchange 2010/Server 2008
  5. PC freezing
  6. Video Cards
  7. Printing or screencapping Google News Archives scans, easily...

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 26

  1. Eight Nehalems in 2U: Electrical & Thermal Considerations
  2. Java web start
  3. Where can I find a smartphone app for ChatRoulette?
  4. Mac Wildcard Character
  5. STV iPlayer
  6. scanmem for Mac
  7. Google
  8. Microsoft Timershot

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 27

  1. .tar.gz is a compressed file in a compressed file?
  2. darknet search engine
  3. Copy and paste problem with emails that are not plain text--solved!
  4. œ
  5. Polling (Mouse)

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 28

  1. Saving a Flash Picture
  2. "content blocked" IE message
  3. Fibre Optic Strands
  4. (DOM)(HTML5)(JavaScript) Checking the size of a canvass element
  5. Message Rules
  6. What's wrong with my laptop?
  7. OpenVPN remote issues

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 29

  1. Eight Nehalems in 2U: Electrical & Thermal Considerations
  2. Add-ons and other issues
  3. Questions about wireless carrier technologies (GSM, CDMA...)
  4. Python as a calculator
  5. Microphones and Sound cards
  6. Computer modelling of Artificial consciousness
  7. Processor upgrade
  8. Firefox and Keyboard Shortcut customization
  9. Office 03, Excel, tilde issue in VLOOKUP
  10. Oops, my mistake! I meant .dat file (continued from here)
  11. DVD -/+R

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 November 30

  1. China e-mail security
  2. XBOX 360 CD Rip to Flash Drive?
  3. want the pictures back, please help
  4. Easy Android OS Question
  5. More difficult IE7 certificate error question
  6. Non-WYSIWYG free online wiki?
  7. php
  8. Grouping similar images