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[edit] September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 1

  1. Gaining access to LAN computer
  2. PSP Help
  3. tv-links
  4. Hardware problems
  5. Firefox IRC plugin
  6. I'm Feeling Lucky and Stopbadware
  7. 5.1 Channel Sound Extraction From DVD
  8. chmod issues
  9. IRC for dummies
  10. installing new cellphone OS
  11. Dual boot
  12. Printing a Wikipedia article
  13. Typing 'O' on computer

[edit] September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 2

  1. website question how to get from .com to .index
  2. uxtheme.dll
  3. Google Maps
  4. Network problem
  5. Systems event notification trouble?
  6. Is it time to move to Linux?
  7. Sharp VC-H942 Locked VCR
  8. Large file transfer from desktop to laptop
  9. identify this computer from the 80s
  10. Graphic cards make computers faster?
  11. DVD Authoring in Linux

[edit] September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 3

  1. Old JVC Master COmmand II
  2. Norton's Dependence
  3. Moving an OS from one HD to another?
  4. MP3 file
  5. i have a problem in asp scripting can u help me out
  6. I have a frisky problem...
  7. One file File System
  8. What do I use to clean an LCD screen?
  9. My toolbar won't display any windows
  10. Using a font in a web page
  11. programing to access the internet
  12. Problems with DVD-RW Drive
  13. lcd monitor/tv
  14. why so expensive?
  15. drive cleaning
  16. Category-based file system
  17. Is ZoneAlarm needed if using McAfee Security Center?
  18. Where is Options?
  19. Running PHP in a browser without installing a server
  20. Sharing Satellite Broadband Connection

[edit] September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 4

  1. Limewire Searches
  2. how can I block a Certain webpage in a website?
  3. Maddening mail
  4. Restriction Break
  5. this PHP file needs copy editing.
  6. Casual Games Market Size Europe/UK
  7. Winxpsp2 object block
  8. Internet
  9. Mysterious Ink Level Increase
  10. Improving grainy audio

[edit] September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 5

  1. Fractals and Apophysis and Math...Oh My!
  2. Getting information from a Visual Basic menu
  3. Rapidshare
  4. C# mode for GNU Emacs?
  5. Serving web pages with the correct MIME type
  6. Commutative encryption/decryption
  7. features of recylebin
  8. Skinker Vs. Desktop Buddy
  9. ِDreamweaver
  10. Windows Explorer problem: missing option in "Open With" context-(sub-)menu
  11. What's up with Photobucket?
  12. unable to connect with a provided link to a source.
  13. Quick/easy tunneling through restrictive public wifi.

[edit] September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 6

  1. Turing
  2. iPod and itunes
  3. Neither Windows Live Messenger or live.com is working for me
  4. Red Hat Linux update
  5. How did type I error in hypothesis testing come be known as "false positive"?
  6. Visual Basic menu Click() event
  7. Prohibiting image downloads
  8. Getting windows licence from installed windows
  9. USB Flash drive giving me flack
  10. Which Java ORM?
  11. Opening Word 2007 with 2003

[edit] September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 7

  1. LaTeX pictures
  2. Font sizes in Excel
  3. has apple launched a PDA silently in the name of ipod?
  4. The Boyhood of Raleigh
  5. Color in Excel
  6. uninstalling of spy-shredder without license/
  7. Online Form Fill Pre-Popping
  8. .xnk (Outlook)
  9. Weird Image

[edit] September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 8

  1. Slow down animations
  2. BBC News 24 live online
  3. usage of lattice constants in automotives and information about quantum computation
  4. game consoles
  5. Turn off the touchpad
  6. Detecting removable hard drive
  7. gps in cell phones
  8. Accidentaly closed tab
  9. different connections for different applications
  10. Dual 12V rails on PSUs

[edit] September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 9

  1. Microsoft Excel question, probably a dumb one
  2. OS X Address Book and Default Email Address
  3. Running a game in windowed mode
  4. No Emacs in Fedora 7?
  5. cost of cell phone plans
  6. Difference between Mirroring, Failover, Clustering and Load balancing?
  7. Bots

[edit] September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 10

  1. Latex equation captions
  2. Laptop AC Adapter Problems
  3. Pascal
  4. multithreaded UNIX kernel
  5. How do I set the hostname on Fedora 7?
  6. Email
  7. online money
  8. Vista and Ram
  9. Two firefoxes, one profile

[edit] September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 11

  1. Computer Rebooting
  2. Add a string of text to the end of every line of a text file.
  3. Nod32
  4. Using ADBLOCK to remove a specific wikipedia link.
  5. Removing Windows Media Center
  6. Regex in Java: finding expression 1, but not if it's part of expression 2
  7. Rate of return
  8. Random Microsoft Word Question
  9. Zone Alarm

[edit] September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 12

  1. Hard drive light/motion
  2. Zipped (compressed) folders
  3. change directory to user's home
  4. Need Information About RTMX .O.S.
  5. Loading device drivers
  6. Online based revision control software
  7. transitor/logic gate switching energy
  8. Application for ordering lists.
  9. How much does it cost to develop and make a device
  10. questions
  11. SSE
  12. .mid files out of tune
  13. What is Bluetooth?
  14. External USB hard drives
  15. SSH

[edit] September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 13

  1. Registering a second-level domain
  2. Sending Novell messages
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 13#In C should I use exit() or return() to exit main{}|In C should I use exit() or return() to exit main{}]]
  4. what are the key features of Xerox Alto?
  5. How to resize Flash in the Wikipedia editor
  6. Black Bars on a Plasma Screen TV
  7. Closing the lid
  8. xp reinstall
  9. net view equivalent for bash/linux
  10. Laptop computer + external LCD monitor
  11. Spybot - Search & Destroy
  12. Spanish Dictionary
  13. Docx vs PDF
  14. Dell Inspiron 1520N
  15. Firefox and IE

[edit] September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 14

  1. SQL Function CAST question.
  2. Would somebody please tell me...
  3. oddness
  4. Bioshock demo
  5. list plugins
  6. Brightness adjustment on laptops
  7. news section posting
  8. cleaning my laptop
  9. Bad audio while CD drive is running

[edit] September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 15

  1. Microphone
  2. Firefox image background
  3. Hardware problem
  4. Firefox Find function
  5. HTML and the line break?
  6. bipedal locomotion
  7. Wikipedia in other languages
  8. PDF Files
  9. WEBSITE help: it suddenly stopped working
  10. Auto tabbing in MS Word
  11. Connecting eTrex Summit GPS receiver with a PC
  12. Easiest database software
  13. Empty users' recycle bins
  14. Multifile linking in C++

[edit] September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 16

  1. Another LaTeX question
  2. Directory vs. tagging
  3. Firefox crashes on plugins since I installed Java
  4. Dual monitors.
  5. ECC registered memory
  6. AMD CPU compatibility
  7. MSN and Japanese characters
  8. SkyIDE Article
  9. Java plugin for Mozilla Firefox installs, but doesn't work
  10. See-saw symbology
  11. getting mail from yahoo to windows mail
  12. psp flashplayer
  13. Importing mail folders/messages
  14. Windows XP, Disabling USB 2.0 notices.
  15. Software engineering
  16. Monitors and Macs
  17. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 16#|]]
  18. Two problems with Windows XP
  19. Creepy spam timing
  20. JavaScript

[edit] September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 17

  1. Embedding for YouTube
  2. XP Issues
  3. Computers Rebooting
  4. Favicons
  5. No sound at all
  6. Wikipedia Outrage
  7. Loss of data on portable HDD
  8. Looking for fix/new desktop
  9. getting rid of dropdown box in excel pasted from html
  10. kamerflauge
  11. Security exception in ASP.NET
  12. nVidia

[edit] September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 18

  1. Ebay fraudster
  2. PHP question
  3. Do computers that are connected to a wireless network need antivirus/firewalls, etc?
  4. Any list of commercial programs with the equivalent free programs?
  5. yahoo mail
  6. ASP.NET and Windows authentication
  7. latest computer scams
  8. Defragmentation Research
  9. Antivirus software
  10. changing cms

[edit] September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 19

  1. Japanese/Chinese characters in Firefox
  2. Applescript question!!!
  3. Shop by spec computer site
  4. manual hostname resolving for wget without using /etc/hosts
  5. Proxy Server
  6. Middle click should not minimize windows
  7. bebo.com
  8. question
  9. Microsoft Word 2007
  10. Offline fantasy role-playing games
  11. Using regex in Yahoo Pipes
  12. Emulator
  13. Water on the computer
  14. Windows Streets and Trips 2008 Gps

[edit] September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 20

  1. how to jam a signal from neighbors remote controlled car?
  2. ClamWin
  3. googlepages.com and RSS Feeds
  4. Making an Ad with Word or Excel
  5. Windows office
  6. Python string concatenation
  7. Putting files under "Podcast"
  8. video camera question
  9. Compact camera for Wikipedia photography
  10. avgw.exe
  11. e-mail
  12. Premiere Pro vs After Effects
  13. Breakdown by letter
  14. Memory usage in windows?!

[edit] September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 21

  1. xbox live speed problems
  2. Computer tower
  3. Learning C++
  4. URL Questions
  5. US consumers contract with broadband companies
  6. regex question
  7. What can back up old versions of text files each time they change?
  8. MySQL Ordering results that have been Grouped

[edit] September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 22

  1. Laptop recommendations
  2. MediaWiki formatting glitches
  3. How easy is it to start a search engine?
  4. Wide screen Vs Full screen
  5. Application/x-msdos-program
  6. Dazzle DVD recorder
  7. Can not find Internet Folder
  8. Hotmail Inconvenience
  9. system administrator

[edit] September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 23

  1. Saving Flash files
  2. use diagram for vehicle identification
  3. openssh question
  4. Dormant programs
  5. Functional and imperative programming time-equivalent
  6. No Videos on Temporary Internet Diles Folder
  7. Norton SystemWorks
  8. self made billionaire
  9. 10 ± 0.001 on a TI89?
  10. HDMI everyday benefits?
  11. File extension .do

[edit] September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 24

  1. ECC registered memory
  2. PostgreSQL constraint
  3. iPod Classic not accepting podcasts
  4. PHP scripts...Maximum length?
  5. IE versus Firefox
  6. Windows Vista - system crash when playing a game in compatibility mode
  7. Vista and wireless + WPA problems?
  8. Help with perl
  9. Mac Preferred Wireless Network
  10. Proving primes with seven gates
  11. Cache
  12. Chat scripts
  13. Mid/early 1990s computer game

[edit] September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 25

  1. Windows local security policies
  2. One silly question
  3. Annoying website
  4. Wikipedia edit window problem
  5. Shockwave video on iPod
  6. Wikipedia in Microsoft Word
  7. Radius on a map web site?
  8. MSN Virus "image36.zip"
  9. Combining black and white and colour images
  10. Polygon union
  11. Forum Spammer
  12. Change IP in wiki editing??

[edit] September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 26

  1. Is it possible to transfer a hard drive to a new machine and still use it to boot?
  2. Game Maker 7.0 Pro
  3. Speed cameras
  4. Changing Keyboard Shortcuts
  5. computing
  6. Karioke Track
  7. ASP.NET and Linux
  8. NTFC (NTFS?)
  9. Two-nots problem
  10. Wireless Networks
  11. Credit card transaction processing

[edit] September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 27

  1. The little server that couldn't....
  2. usecase
  3. HTTP in the file system
  4. internet and proxy
  5. Generic Macro in Excel
  6. CustomValidator on ASP.NET being ignored
  7. Still about ASP.NET...
  8. Mac OS X in October
  9. Page Creator
  10. Is this a real Virus?
  11. LaTeX
  12. Tripod for taking pictures of documents

[edit] September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 28

  1. Computer keyboard on the laptop is not working
  2. computer fraud
  3. .flv converting
  4. Is this possible...?
  5. Deletion
  6. halo 3
  7. Xbox Emulators
  8. Regular expressions
  9. Extremely annoying login problem
  10. URL Syntax

[edit] September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 29

  1. .CGF
  2. Hacking modems/routers
  3. Translating machine code
  4. linux
  5. copying DVDs to CDs.
  6. Yahoo! photos
  7. Enlarging digital images - removing zigzaging from pixels
  8. email password
  9. Mozilla Firefox
  10. Binary to ASCII
  11. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 29#Microsoft Word and Excel “*” characters|Microsoft Word and Excel “*” characters]]
  12. Java screensaver for Mac OS X
  13. Multiple MediaWiki installations using the same source
  14. Sorting Columns in Wiki Tables
  15. Itunes

[edit] September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 September 30

  1. Get an E-mail address?
  2. Microchip for the playstation 2
  3. TeX not working for me :(
  4. How i enable auto update in symantec antivirus corporate edition ???
  5. image threshold
  6. The Great Template Reform
  7. GRUB on primary partition
  8. UTORRENTS
  9. How to send entire folder full of pictures over the internet
  10. How many states offer e-learnig programs:
  11. Print to file - .prn
  12. Changing default open in MS Word
  13. license informations included in file?
  14. TCP/UDP
  15. MS Word lists