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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 1

1. Partition shift
2. /dev/sda16 in Linux
3. Compile interpretive language
4. Restoring one PC with the restore disk of another
5. Query String and Anchor in URL
6. pasting from word 2003 into outlook 2003
7. Anonymous delegate methods in C#
8. Who is
9. Difference between language itself and standard library
10. How to get a new graphics card to work?

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 2

1. Microsoft Excel
2. Cost of Printing
3. parallel processing..........
4. Firewall problems
5. Ubuntu script testing
6. Fully automatic Aircrack-ng

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 3

1. Cheap computer parts
2. What is Kerberos used for?
3. Junk Mail Sent by Me
4. Z80 question
5. Funny floats?
6. Grand Celebration
7. PRC Firewall Circumvention Tools
8. Simple line matching in linux / bash

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 4

1. Disabling CC On Magnavox TV
2. Quick'n'Dirty CSS help
3. removing a word
4. Freeware DVD playing software?
5. Change words color
6. Freeware 'photocopier' software for WIA flatbed scanner using XP?
7. Changing sea level

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 5

1. force bash to expand arguments (Linux)
2. Bit operators
3. How to connect SQL database to matlab GUI????????
4. watching TV on my laptop
5. XML XSD Schema what is the namespace attribute of the import statement for
6. Loadrunner - Vugen script explanation?
7. Games that won't run on nVidia 7000-series graphics cards.
8. Non-Existing Drives in Windows Vista
9. Bash output errors
10. Serif WebPlus User to User Help
11. Searching IMDb
12. Instance methods in Java
13. IE history security
14. Second internal hard drive on a laptop

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 6

1. Portable VirtualBox for Linux?
2. Sorting MSN contact list by e-mail address
3. auto web crawler
4. Reconstructing link from the href
5. Linux like security in Windows?
6. GPL DRM Kits

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 7

1. Linux on older laptop: recommendations?
2. Rainbow function
3. Intelligence as absence of stupidity
4. Epson R2880 Printing Onto Canvas
5. Fuse.conf access denied (Linux security)

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 8

1. VirtualBox and multiple users
2. Email with pictures
3. Add user to FUSE group (Linux - Ubuntu)?
4. How to put icons on a Symbian desktop
5. Alternative earphones with remote and microphone for iPod touch
6. T2400
7. keeping track of computer changes
8. Flatbed scanner light moves back and forth several times before the full scan - normal?

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 9

1. Undelete, and, searching the Reference Desk
2. lsass.exe
3. Asynchronous x86
4. Google Street View UK
5. UK vat on computer DVD etc
6. using reconstructor withubuntu
7. Winamp
8. Redirecting yahoo mail
9. Scripting language for image manipulation
10. Power Converters

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 10

1. Protective case for Toshiba NB 200
2. Video Conversion
3. Address book (email) quota/send to quota
4. Mysql apache
5. TiLP-II

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 11

1. WinXP notebook throttling
2. help with a userbox
3. Download Wikipedia
4. How to put save file on Wii
5. Touchpad freezing
6. Favicons in IE8's InPrivate mode
7. Folders of JPEG to PDF
8. Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
9. EU, Antitrust, Browsers
10. Emailing a file
11. Querying an Access database for upcoming deadlines

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 12

1. Externalize a video card
2. Count lines in file (bash - Linux)?
3. Supercomputer today, Desktop tomorrow
4. imacros
5. Windows 7 IE to Ship w/o IE in Europe
6. A new laptop
7. Images organized in folders to PDF (a freeware)?
8. Excel API
9. Best way to downgrade quality of .ogg files
10. Using scanner software with different scanners?
11. Where are they getting the (presumably cleared) private data from?
12. Can't start up my Sony Vaio laptop!
13. Printing onto Canvas with an Inkjet Printer

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 13

1. What can I do...
2. What's the problem
3. Another Strange Problem
4. Downhill Jam
5. Embedding Applets Online
6. libticables2-2.dll
7. Can I use a new flat TFT monitor screen with an old computer?
8. Screen resolution of LCD - follow-up question
9. Checklists

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 14

1. Virtual memory
2. Bittorrent play while download
3. I can't read East Asian Languages
4. Search whole site
5. Norton Internet Security and Anti-Spam
6. ATX SMPS question
7. malloc and free
8. bash question
9. Change Network Card

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 15

1. Track program in Linux?
2. Time complexity of modified TSP
3. C command to read next line
4. What is a 1:1 Frame Rate?
5. docx file
6. Universal remotes
7. Alternative to Movie Maker
8. JavaScript mouse cursor
9. iPhone, Podcasts and WiFi
10. plot .dat files
11. Scale pages in Scribus
12. installing problems

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 16

1. Determining origin of digital image
2. What is Blogging?
3. Blackberry Curve and the iPhone 3G S
4. Vandal fighter
5. proxy server
6. Changing list of words
7. Desktop soundsystem
8. DDR2/DDR3
9. Having trouble viewing some pages

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 17

1. Toubleshooting in USB pen drive
2. Streaming live video to a large audience?
3. PDF TO WORD
4. Chinese
5. Using Krita (image editor) in Windows
6. /usr/bin/nm-applet in Ubuntu Jaunty; other Jaunty concerns
7. eah4870
8. Replacing the motherboard in my old computer
9. Telco Cylinders
10. Reset Router
11. Electromagnetic interference - 'stealthy shielding'

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 18

1. HTML page shown as webpage
2. Force to use proxy
3. .svg file
4. Power cycling to drain the capacitors
5. Simple MIDI Software?
6. Greasemonkey
7. Java Programming: Dividing up and Image
8. Confused about my graphics card resolution
9. Two Vista issues

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 19

1. Need MPEG to OGG converter for videos
2. Simple regular expression
3. MS Word 2003 has started checking spelling in American-English, not British-English
4. Linux equivalent of Windows Update?

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 20

1. Web Templates
2. My edit to an article got changed back
3. Reset
4. searches within specific domains
5. Are these photos likely not interpolated/coming from a 2MP native camera

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 21

1. SWF innards
2. Undelete
3. Changing Disk thing's letter
4. Automatic download of podcasts
5. Typing chemical equations in MS word
6. Programs to check out a computer from a pen drive?
7. Cricket 07
8. Grounding a multimeter
9. McAfee blew up my computer
10. Orange Livebox losing connection
11. Mac Intel vs PC Intel
12. Matlab to Adobe Illustrator

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 22

1. Facebook imports gmail contacts without knowing the password. How?
2. Copyright- Product images on review websites
3. InstantAtlas
4. Not shutting down programs can corrupt the hard drive?
5. Joining together a modem, a Windows computer, and a Linux computer
6. Processing Comma-separated values files
7. Facebook unknown "friends" who only have 4 or 5 friends
8. Recording sounds in Windows
9. Mobile broadband disconnecting
10. wireless card for Apple Power Mac G5
11. directX function - openGL equivalent
12. YouTube video ratio
13. U+2308, U+2309, U+230A, and U+230B
14. Characters after "z" in Mac OS X

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 23

1. Hot pluggable SATA/eSATA
2. NT CMD peculiarities
3. Capitalizing a list
4. Two messenger accounts,one i want hidden
5. Preparing a square-pixel image for DV NTSC video
6. Online translators
7. Monitor problem

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 24

1. Download Microsoft Security Essentials?
2. What does ActivePython give over and above pywin32?
3. Using fields in finalizers
4. Using other people's image
5. Internet Connection drops out...a lot
6. Does Windows Mobile have updates?
7. Recovering files "permanently" deleted in recycle bin
8. Send me an email when a web page changes
9. Image sizes changing when edited
10. Upgrading windows 1.0 to vista. Is this possible?
11. Common units for (semi)proffesional desktop publishing?
12. How long can I submerge my keyboard in water before it's damaged (assuming damage is even possible)?

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 25

1. RCA-to-Headphone converter
2. IE* can't open wikipedia
3. Macs and formatting
4. Colour
5. HP PDA is locked
6. Editing Animated images
7. Mobile internet
8. Compare two files in Ubuntu
9. Relationship between offset value format and 2's compliment format in DAC
10. Tablet vs. normal notebook
11. Cut help
12. Alternatives to Paypal
13. Safari Books
14. regional font problem in windows
15. Website builders
16. OnLive
17. Windows trivia
18. Social networking sites that ask permission to snoop in your email account

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 26

1. MPEG-4 encoder?
2. Windows 7 Upgrade Option
3. Diagonal lines/snow across display when running Windows 7 on iMac
4. How are Push notification more battery saving?
5. Extract each nth word of a string or text
6. Handwritten notes
7. Portable laptop charged
8. Getting DSL and keeping screen name - how is it possible?
9. Web profit
10. java
11. problem
12. How can a question be contracted?

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 27

1. Firefox Flash sound works only when running as root
2. More of an FYI for Japanese character help
3. Windows Vista color mod?
4. Add joliet extension to ISO: good idea?
5. Name that diagram
6. New PC Seems to Turn On...Screen in Black...
7. PS3 Question
8. rundll32.exe
9. Windows: Shortcut to shortcut?

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 28

1. bat files
2. retrieving data from sites
3. electronic devices that were commercial failures
4. Increase Upload Speed
5. Location of files on computer
6. Excel function/macro
7. jpegs
8. psplimewire
9. Disappearing free space
10. Tracking cookies?

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 29

1. vista webpage
2. Vista desktops
3. CPUs
4. Internet Radio Recorder
5. Who uses Java servlets?
6. Madden 07 Xbox 360 Controls
7. My Computer is gone
8. IBM POWER6 Decimal floating point
9. Windows graphing program for excel spreadsheets
10. Replacing PS3 HDD... clone first?
11. Solaris 10 and open Solaris
12. Ubuntu - still free after 18 months?
13. Windows or Linux - which is technically better?

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 30

1. Need help with chess
2. Webmail and wifi security
3. Problem
4. How to replace an old url with the new url globally in all pages
5. What product is this ?
6. Firefox 3.5
7. machine code question
8. google question
9. B/W
10. Ogg