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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 1

  1. Seeing entire Facebook wall at once
  2. Large Text File Viewer
  3. Has Firefox split into two versions?
  4. Virus-free, except not!
  5. How login super user
  6. Distributed computing projects
  7. php
  8. Connection detection in Windows 7
  9. Can I send people a URL that will cause a google doc to be downloaded as a pdf?
  10. No smoking
  11. Downloading videos off of YouTube

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 2

  1. ripping from cd
  2. Saving files in Firefox
  3. Are these download sites legit?
  4. Using the Statistical Test Suite from NIST
  5. Free Flash Clone
  6. Another php question
  7. Computer language for text documents
  8. How do i type the infinity symbol? It's not num lock, hold alt 236 on my computer
  9. moving video taken with Ipod mini from ipod to computer
  10. Scanning old B&W photographs
  11. Uploading PDF/Word Files With HTTPUnit
  12. Need Windows API opinion

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 3

  1. Repair Of a Laptop Screen
  2. RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
  3. What's the term for a code file?
  4. Network issues
  5. Scan specific folder
  6. Alternatives to "solid compression"
  7. Office with frontpage
  8. Password-only Joomla resources
  9. Firefox will not print all of webpage
  10. can't burn file to CD-R

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 4

  1. Semi-unresponsive key
  2. Ugly DOS charset
  3. Making a laptop a wi-fi hotspot
  4. Finding accurate phone numbers online
  5. VirtualDubMod (abandonware)
  6. Changing colours to a standard grey
  7. Bluetooth and WiFi
  8. My CRT monitor has gone green.
  9. Domino toppling in Blender
  10. Mechanicaal engg
  11. Lost Picture

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 5

  1. Converting formula into Javascript... help.
  2. Windows XP activation
  3. Building a new box
  4. KDE sftp
  5. Print screen
  6. Limiting SSL/TLS chain-of-trust length
  7. Video Encoding issue
  8. USA customs rates

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 6

  1. Does information posted on the Internet remain forever?
  2. Are there any websites that explain how google indexes wikipedia?
  3. Macbook rapid ticking noise
  4. Google UK
  5. Subversion wanting access
  6. From normal laptop into touchscreen
  7. GoogleMaps - scale overlaps copyright notice and is therefore unreadable

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 7

  1. HandyRecovery Help
  2. Wrongful Article Content Change.
  3. Placing captions beside figures in LaTeX (beamer)
  4. Internet
  5. KDE on Windows--Plasma Desktop won't launch apps
  6. Copying from a pdf file
  7. Why must ads cause so much misery?

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 8

  1. USB 3.0
  2. Signal a program when Internet connection made
  3. do Huawei wireless broadband dongles support voice?
  4. How to merge bookmarks files in Firefox?
  5. Firefox does not load websites after computer left unattended for a long time
  6. atanfull
  7. Quantum Computer Data Transfers
  8. gmail vs yahoo mail
  9. Enforcing strong passwords in Active Directory
  10. Consequences of misusing Mac OS X Terminal
  11. iPhone question...

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 9

  1. Hard Drive Cleaner
  2. laptop power brick going eeeeeeeeeee
  3. Question About Artificial Intelligence Programs
  4. I want to have my own bussines but i don't have much money, which is easier and cheaper?
  5. Wanting to run a Servlet locally with little prior experience
  6. Online computer
  7. iPhone OS 4.0 with multitasking
  8. Wiki edit tags
  9. I couldn't edit
  10. What's still running?
  11. Bioshock stability issue

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 10

  1. Excel
  2. Google Street View
  3. Memory leak (or something similar)
  4. iTunes is sentient?
  5. transfer files from old to new computer
  6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8600493.stm - What computer?

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 11

  1. Make your own movie by hacking
  2. c program
  3. My 1440x900 has decided it's a 1280x720
  4. Gmail in Mail (Mac)
  5. VB v6, Excel reference and components, server-side program
  6. "Floating server"
  7. Adobe Reader

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 12

  1. Touchscreen technology and human health
  2. Whats the best website where i can learn Javascript language fully?
  3. non profit association / donations
  4. Is there something like snapshot.debian.org for Ubuntu releases?
  5. Thoes Small Icons What Are In Line With The Title
  6. Disappearing Ink(jet)
  7. Config file keeps "vanishing"
  8. Benchmarking AWB's typo fixing
  9. Excel to VBA to VBScript

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 13

  1. Traveling salesman problem and taxicab geometry
  2. Windows XP Pro doesn't boot
  3. information technology
  4. Question about editing PHP and javascript files
  5. Opera Mini proxy for other browsers?
  6. XP Pro SP2 Blue screen

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 14

  1. Setting up an external image editor
  2. Latex: 2 Questions
  3. Disown child processes without forking
  4. Python: Filtering with inequalities
  5. Can using a laptop on a bumpy road damage it?
  6. VBScript and JavaScript
  7. Cryptography: Password entry method
  8. Internet Connections window crashes
  9. Getting Quicktime onto my Mac
  10. Linux group root?
  11. vpython related error
  12. Python/TI-BASIC: indirections
  13. Purchasing a Motherboard
  14. Misplaced Wikipedia Logo
  15. Pings
  16. Download games on iPad?

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 15

  1. Serial port?
  2. Computer problem
  3. Robozzle
  4. Symbol
  5. Media program
  6. Monitor: no signal?

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 16

  1. Previously selected links
  2. Internet searches for non-linear notations
  3. Quality loss in rotated compressed images
  4. External hard drives
  5. dvd/vcr recorder
  6. Laptop trouble (part 4)
  7. PATH in Ubuntu
  8. Firefox live bookmarks
  9. WMV to MP4 converter
  10. Font display issue in Word
  11. Formatting your hard disk
  12. .txt mess
  13. can any netbooks continue running while shut?

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 17

  1. Touchpad
  2. What determines if something is saved in the cache?
  3. email bounce
  4. Zaped.info
  5. Printer problem
  6. c program
  7. Internet
  8. Setting up an online casino in the UK
  9. printout of output of a c program

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 18

  1. P4SD Motherboard
  2. JVM memory allocation
  3. DOS (running on windows XP)
  4. Using a SOCKS proxy in Windows Live Messenger ("Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8089.726)")
  5. Router/Internet Problems
  6. Netbeans tutorial
  7. sockscap
  8. Symbols to identify
  9. samba share

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 19

  1. Choice of calculator
  2. advanced format
  3. How to improve this ERD for a Mysql database
  4. What makes a CD bootable?
  5. bug fixing
  6. Mediawiki - automatic content for a new page
  7. NES/SNES
  8. delete irc channel?
  9. Malicious popups

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 20

  1. Laptop hard drives
  2. Regular expressions to manipulate a text file
  3. E-mail account not retrieving mail
  4. Is Facebook or wikipedia an example of cloud computing?
  5. www
  6. PDF exploits -- is there a non-vulnerable reader?
  7. DOS
  8. posting information
  9. Virtual Harvard architecture and the C language
  10. Lag/Ping/Latency, Online Gaming, & Graphics Settings
  11. Arrays
  12. Can't scroll .svgs
  13. Laptop hardware upgrade or new laptop

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 21

  1. how does apple keep flash from running?
  2. Googlebot indexing
  3. Editing MS Word dictionary
  4. Win XP language and keyboard
  5. Is there a way to determine the default gateway in JavaScript, similar to myIpAddress() for the IP?
  6. torrent proxy
  7. What happened to Yahoo mail?
  8. Create CD-Audio from DVD soundtrack

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 22

  1. Running Mac OS X software on Windows
  2. wiki markup
  3. server services
  4. Learning to write a compiler (or at least a language parser)?
  5. c program (English dictionary)
  6. Shortcut
  7. GraphViz + Doxygen
  8. Download countdown timer
  9. Some TLDs are valid DNS names by themselves, but Mozilla Firefox doesn't know it
  10. What do you call the yellow triangle?
  11. Kenny Kerr

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 23

  1. Writing my own programs for iPhone
  2. lossless ogg vorbis editing?
  3. Mac OS X Updates Download
  4. Deploying software through Active directory
  5. Motorola Milestone and Android 2.1 update
  6. Does this exist?
  7. MSN plugin Logitech G-19 keyboard

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 24

  1. Forget password and not getting E-mail
  2. How's my motherboard look?
  3. HDTV stuck blue pixel
  4. Mr. Do's Wild Ride
  5. fast xml processing?
  6. removing grub from Windows machine
  7. Saving only the Google cookie when exiting Firefox
  8. Layers in PDFs
  9. Defining a vague business project
  10. What is Rapport (Internet Explorer)?
  11. Dolphin emulator
  12. Turn off/limit drag and drop of links

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 25

  1. Impossible hashes
  2. Rainbow table size
  3. AES and multiple encrypted copies
  4. Weakness of overly long hashes?
  5. Edit gzipped file without decompressing?
  6. Geographical Information software: OS OpenData
  7. A problem with Facebook
  8. PHP
  9. Computer math operations

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 26

  1. ripping
  2. Bluetooth headset and skype
  3. php question
  4. Deleting entry history in Safari for Mac
  5. Workplace internet question
  6. Start program hidden
  7. Computer Science
  8. /dev/random security for servers
  9. Non-admin-rights accounts
  10. How does my computer know the time?
  11. How do you momentarily exclude certain labels from being visible while in your gmail inbox

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 27

  1. TI Nspire CAS - Clickpad vs Touchpad
  2. A course for learning coding and similar (UK)
  3. Do actual people still work at yahoo (apart from in accounting)
  4. Which software was used to draw this diagram?
  5. email
  6. Virus infection in GPS Data Logger
  7. Styling HTML definition lists to deal with wrapping
  8. Polipo
  9. Influence diagrams, causal diagrams, mind maps, or similar?
  10. Ethical implications of encoding YouTube videos in DivX vs Xvid?
  11. Problem With Internet Explorer

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 28

  1. Program updates
  2. Adaptive Huffman coding with variable symbol length
  3. +99
  4. The weakest hyperlink...
  5. Mozilla Firefox unable to use an external XSL stylesheet?
  6. Having a different from address in an email
  7. Apple iWeb problem

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 29

  1. IRC Aggregator Bot?
  2. Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge and the relations between them?
  3. Firefox SSL warning
  4. My pen drive .
  5. jit compilers
  6. Outlook / Outlook Express / Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 30

  1. How do I connect my PC to both my monitor and TV: particularly with a splitter?
  2. Shallow Depth of Field - optimum focal length
  3. Using Janusvm on Mac OS
  4. Should firefox have 5 vesions of Java Console installed
  5. schedule web crawler
  6. TightVNC, Ubuntu, and the Shift key
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