Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/January 2015

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 1

1. User friendly/freeware/shareware transit map creators?
2. Transparent windows

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 2

1. Ceramic disk capacitor size?
2. Zipping Files with 7Zip
3. Article on Clipping (computer graphics) in need of attention.
4. Percent-encoding and mojibake, once again
5. Non-mathematical part of good programming
6. What benchmark to use to measure the speed of a programming language?

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 3

1. Turning Off Automatic Zip of Attachments
2. Adjustable windows
3. New ad problem with comic strips

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 4

1. Credit Card Processing
2. How long does a temporary ban last on a wiki website
3. Two questions related to Vagrant
4. Relocating 'Recycle Bin'
5. Call of Duty 'game controlling issue'
6. Building a package on Linux
7. USB Pen Drive issue
8. Win7Pro Windows explorer view
9. SecureZIP Uninstall Error

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 5

1. Using USB digital joystick adapter on VICE?
2. help required from experienced authors for regarding references
3. Mount an external drive in Linux such that non-root can write to it

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 6

1. Difference between an LFSR and an NLFSR
2. What is the name of that dramatic effect?
3. Help for VICE
4. Alarm clock in Windows 8

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 7

1. computer theory
2. Materials, money, and technical expertise required to start a website from scratch?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 8

1. Distance to route
2. 'D' on my Oyster card
3. MS Word 2010 Navigation pane
4. Windows server family
5. Flickr duplicate pictures
6. New type of ad strategy

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 9

1. Multiple CPU cores vs one bigger CPU?
2. Trustworthy sources of Windows builds of open source software?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 10

1. Can't re-enable an app
2. Internet only companies ?
3. can I change the lines colors in Outlook (exactly the the way unread emails are bold)
4. x61 rattling woes

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 11

1. Can I get Gmail to display my email address ?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 12

1. PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR
2. MS Word 2007: Can't Add Section Break
3. Finding things online

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 13

1. Second Gmail account or Google account
2. If computers are no longer made with floppy disk drives, then...

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 14

1. Facebook notifications and other
2. Test overview tool

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 15

1. minimum USB latency versus bluetooth
2. Explanation for Laptop Charger Voltages
3. Removing name assigned in pdf numbering field
4. Decimal - long conversion and long - DateTime conversion in C#

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 16

1. please give me a problem to solve (as below)
2. Excel
3. need more wired connections

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 17

1. How do you format characters to look like Scrabble tiles?
2. Formatting time durations (minutes and seconds) in Excel 2013

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 18

1. the new chrome tries to reinterpret searches starting with the keyword "Google"
2. Online and contactless payments security

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 20

1. YouTube Partner
2. Android devices

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 22

1. How painful will the upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 be?
2. What industries are the social networking sites part of?
3. Remote desktop without a domain name and static IP address?
4. Security and remote access, OSX tips?
5. Website design and online memberships

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 23

1. Conecting HTC One X Mate to Fedora 20
2. Exception thrown when trying to insert multiple rows to database in .NET C#
3. What problems can't machine learning deal with?
4. Socially positive video games

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 24

1. FOSS for electromagnetic FEA simulations
2. I'm looking for a shoe
3. Can your friends tell when you've logged into Facebook?
4. Headphones plugged into notebook or tablet

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 25

1. HTML alt text not displayed
2. Ersatz "dual boot" option
3. How to return an HTML page to using a CSS file ?
4. Finding your network's DHCP range if you don't have a Default Gateway IP?

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 26

1. Google doodle for 26 Jan 2015
2. Word Count in Powerpoint
3. Can't sync to itunes u
4. Further .NET database question
5. Fedora 20 Cinnamon GUI hangs with every file operation

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 27

1. How do I remove the lines on my screen?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 28

1. Porting Word for iPad to a PC
2. How to create another Gmail account?
3. Can I emulate a smart phone on my PC ?
4. upgrade my upload from 2GB to 20GB on Wikipedia
5. Remove or not update Internet Explorer - safe?

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 29

1. Cryptowall 3.0 and system reset
2. USB drive ejected from an off computer
3. How to create animation/image sequence with alpha channel?
4. Photoshop problem
5. Windows update killed wireless connections?
6. Wifi tethering *from* a laptop
7. Language/Toolkit for Lightweight Linux GUI Programming

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 30

1. Urdu keyboard for Nokia Lumia
2. Alt code no keypad
3. Reverse engineering
4. hidden code in HTML files
5. Serials and digital signature

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 January 31

1. Web browser-like program to display HTML pages
2. firefox AVG malware removal
3. ProCite