Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2017

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 1

1. What files to search for lost bitcoin?
2. Tool to check for zip file compress level

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 2

1. Android map apps that work near the poles?
2. Influence of MINIX on Linux?
3. What To Do If i Want To Play Homescapes Android Game On My Mac PC?
4. Blockchain

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 3

1. RGBA hex interpretation
2. Another level of 3D experience

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 4

1. Word Labels Question - Specifying Vendor
2. nVidia Quadro 2000 graphics card

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 5

1. GoogleBot and such.
2. Vector field visualization apps: free, configurable, pretty?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 6

1. PowerPoint animation on click

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 7

1. Streaming video display ratio

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 8

1. how to delete files on my phone
2. VHDL is Sequential or Concurrent/Parallel?
3. Security question

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 9

1. USB Hub
2. Optimum number of threads on BOINC Primegrid LLR

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 10

1. Programming vs. designing electronic circuits

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 11

1. Font Designing Software
2. MS Outlook 2010
3. MS OneNote 2010
4. Duplicate Installations
5. Encryption help
6. Android Phone softwares

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 12

1. Is there an Internet forum thread with ≥100,000 posts?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 13

1. Regex for Linux ifconfig
2. Use Microsoft Word 'manage sources' feature to automate Chicago footnotes
3. Bing and Google Problems?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 14

1. Computerized ordering of Chinese characters
2. Using undefined variables
3. Resetting default PDF reader in Windows 10?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 15

1. Alexa / Echo gadgets

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 17

1. IBM z/OS and other mainframe operating system

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 19

1. A firefox/chrome addon for translating words?
2. Arabic encoding
3. How to get rid of malware?

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 20

1. Do I need to worry about this?
2. Placeholder text to use in Python function that will receive a list as the argument
3. 3D printer
4. kanjis

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 21

1. How to populate an online poll with options from an Excel spreadsheet
2. Why you need an operator like ++ or --
3. Overwriting a list in Python with a slice taken from that list

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 22

1. Android web traffic

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 23

1. Optimising compilers
2. AMD or Intel: does it matter?
3. Lots of files slow down saving from GUI on Linux

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 24

1. Electrical contacts on bottom of Intel Core CPU

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 25

1. 2-in-1 Software
2. Clogged websites

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 27

1. Help Translating Phone Specs Into Quality Of Experience For VR
2. 😂

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 28

1. I have 2 questions about 2 different websites
2. Problems with Windows 10
3. Regarding IMDB
4. In Wikia, searching all pages that are in two categories

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 30

1. LED screens for portable electronic devices that are not OLED
2. GUI ambiguity
3. Privacy violation (or) Missing Terms of Service - what action to be taken?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 31

1. C programming — how do I view the 8, 32, or 64 bits of binary information at a known memory address?
2. Who or what can fix corrupted and unplayable video files?
3. iPhone and Android smartphone