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March 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 1

  1. Computer numbers
  2. How to turn a GIF image into a JPG image
  3. NORTON 360 or NORTON 2010?
  4. non-linear waveshaping
  5. Kodak Easy-share Picture Program Issue- Library Back up
  6. Requirements for watching videos using YouTube HD
  7. Odd CD-Burning Question

March 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 2

  1. Key exchange with no shared secret?
  2. Importing TiVo files into Windows Movie Maker
  3. Deleted E-mails
  4. Remove Security Tool
  5. Saving MS WindowsXP or MSOffice to CD for possible reuse before I delete them
  6. Can a website disconnect my wireless connection?
  7. GNU make issue
  8. CustomizeGoogle is broken, how do I fix it?
  9. IP address
  10. Pre-translated phrase libraries for command-line apps
  11. Ripping Music from a Gameboy ROM

March 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 3

  1. windows 7 file sharing
  2. Outlook Web Access attachments
  3. Windows 7 new Updates
  4. Vimeo stutter
  5. Unrefresh
  6. Recursive rootkits
  7. Date injection
  8. Opera Mini on Nokia E63
  9. QuickTime portable
  10. Virtual Disk
  11. Special Character Keyboard Shortcuts
  12. Flash and WMV Sometimes Doesn't Work
  13. Closing ports, monitoring internet activity
  14. Capture Video
  15. FedEx for large files?
  16. Life expectancy of Microsoft
  17. Overclocking
  18. Video
  19. Avoid opening an email client when clicking on an email address
  20. What makes pirated copies "unsafe"? Does it get worse or is that marketing?
  21. Windows 7 vs. Windows XP
  22. TV Tuners and recorded programs
  23. GigaQuads

March 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 4

  1. Janes combat simulation WWII fighters game
  2. Computer names?
  3. partition
  4. Average traffic
  5. Image Privacy/Protection
  6. Trajan:WinNT/Omega.D
  7. Computer problem
  8. Hard drives
  9. working copper
  10. uTorrent, wireless, Linksys, and RoadRunner
  11. Five networking questions
  12. Recurring problem with ExFAT flash drive

March 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 5

  1. seeds
  2. SpyArsenal Internet Spy, Malware?
  3. Computers
  4. Floppy Disk
  5. Alphabet used for non-latin-charset licence keys
  6. how much does putting together a beige desktop quad core intel i7 system cost?
  7. Hard Drives
  8. Soundcard synth programming
  9. Real Player memory hog?
  10. floating point representation.
  11. Am I protected?
  12. There is any PC emulator?
  13. Google search results
  14. Keyboards
  15. what external monitor resolutions (with its VGA out) can an EEE PC 1005h netbook drive?

March 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 6

  1. Retaining fonts across Word Documents
  2. Wikis and Version Control Software
  3. Q: Java bytecode from same USB-flash-disk on various OSs?
  4. force higher resolution in ubuntu
  5. Java
  6. right click taskbar
  7. Deepblue?
  8. CDROMS
  9. Replacing text in text editor.
  10. Altering the appearance of Firefox tabs
  11. Information Request
  12. Custom XML Functionality Restoration Plugin for Word 2007
  13. Vista (only!) computer not connecting to internet....
  14. educational learning games

March 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 7

  1. Contacting UEFA
  2. What would happen if I submitted forwarded domains to Google?
  3. Windows 7 Updates Problem
  4. Dell hard disk
  5. How to remove Skype logo and other annoyances.
  6. Chatzilla
  7. Threshold
  8. Google auto-suggest discriminating against lesbians
  9. Windows "calling home"
  10. Solid state hard drives
  11. Dell d520 Laptop
  12. Searching for raw graphics

March 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 8

  1. Problems Downloading with Firefox
  2. Properties
  3. Rewriting this for-each loop
  4. Recovery
  5. Typography Questions...
  6. temperature
  7. regular expression help
  8. MS Word track changes disabled
  9. Update vs. Upgrade
  10. Installing Linux when Windows won't do anything more than Safe Mode

March 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 9

  1. Recovery disk
  2. School computer help
  3. javascript <li> color
  4. Duplicate Installations of Same Software
  5. Swedish letters in Facebook messages
  6. Deleting a desktop file that is there but windows says it cant be found?
  7. WMV file in Powerpoint, define 'where' opens
  8. Ubuntu 9.10 Update Manager Help
  9. Linux dialog command is driving me crazy
  10. Letting people on local network access a server on my computer
  11. Email - outlook - smtp
  12. Folder encryption
  13. Sort in Excel - blank cells first
  14. Convert to mhtml
  15. Major Google trouble
  16. Online forums/portals

March 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 10

  1. (Win XP) How to forbid XP from accessing one particular wireless network?
  2. Can't Install Windows XP from Within Windows 7
  3. network upgrade question
  4. Removing Atdmt Cookie
  5. Laptop Mousepad Mouswheel Not Working In Games
  6. is there a mobile device that takes a 3G sim and exposes it over local WIFI?
  7. Setting up a whitelist for email
  8. Quantifiers in bash shell expression?
  9. Software cheat prevention
  10. Windows 7 – sound keeps dropping
  11. Link checking
  12. Google search
  13. How to make an mp4 file
  14. Java 2d graphics
  15. Maps
  16. avi player for win mobile 6 on htc p4530 (herald)
  17. What a nifty connection problem.
  18. JPEG Image won't display in IE6
  19. Why are all my rar downloads corrupt?

March 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 11

  1. "&" in command line
  2. RAID stripe data recovery
  3. Windows Vista
  4. Limiting Ubuntu Hardy Heron's use of CPUs / Cores
  5. Upload speed
  6. Were can I find Debian 5.0.0 CD/ISO?
  7. Secret Web Page

March 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 12

  1. Computer unable to renew IP Address
  2. best free fire-and-forget antivirus for Win 7 Home?
  3. Truecrypt error?
  4. Simple Python program
  5. Countering virus infection without antivirus program
  6. what is the name of the task manager executable on windows 7? (I'd like to start it with a shortcut)

March 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 13

  1. Best inkjet printer for occasional use and refilling
  2. Hex line numbers
  3. MediaWiki LocalSettings.php -- setting up Guest read-only account.
  4. Dell function keys
  5. Single page PDFs > Online accessible format

March 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 14

  1. latex multicols
  2. My monitor won’t work with a splitter cable
  3. Handwritten Character database
  4. "Gothic" fonts
  5. Rotten Tomatoes webpage problem
  6. Banned torrent
  7. Photoshop problem
  8. Which files are the most difficult to compress?
  9. Intro to Computer Science
  10. Recommendations for a wireless router

March 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 15

  1. Cannot access admin account
  2. New SSD: clone or reinstall?
  3. SSD/Moore's Law
  4. to connect two wifi devices
  5. Promissory abstracts
  6. Want to keep text between two text strings and discard everything else
  7. Computer froze like it never froze before
  8. mp3 quality
  9. Sound problem

March 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 16

  1. Open office draw fit text to curve
  2. business
  3. Are any of the MS Windows 22 BrowserChoice options written in pure Java?
  4. anonymous
  5. Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video?
  6. Message is driving me around the bend
  7. Shortcuts for Special Characters On a Mac
  8. find total number of results for a Google search string
  9. Blocking all incoming external email for certain addresses in Postfix
  10. Inkscape: import PDF
  11. Typing special characters on Windows?

March 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 17

  1. Important
  2. home network - slow speed for 1Gb
  3. "Ticking" HDD
  4. Keys suddenly not working
  5. Greasemonkey Question
  6. Windows networking / Samba and subnets
  7. One DVD won't play in laptop
  8. Google Earth
  9. .exe to .dmg
  10. Win 7 - opensource and/or free video editing software?

March 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 18

  1. Game development - relative profit now vs then?
  2. Dell Optiplex to upgrade
  3. Intel Core
  4. Specific keyboard key will not function
  5. fortran 90
  6. FrontPage site user registration
  7. Ubuntu 9.10 Hibernating without consent
  8. What happened to Hotmail?
  9. do I need to use a switch to segment, or if I have enough LAN plugs I dont need them?
  10. Copy/paste one partition's contents to the other partition in GParted
  11. Does an electronic paper word processor exist?
  12. Including gpus, new and used, printers, Playstations, etc, and mainframes and services too what is the best teraflops for the money?
  13. Connection reset by peer.. meaning?

March 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 19

  1. Formatting
  2. Google Chrome
  3. Stop Excel Horizontal-scrolling in a document
  4. ISO Files
  5. .mdf and .mds files

March 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 20

  1. Editing Wikipedia from iPhone OS
  2. syscall # 3
  3. Error message in main screen every time my computer turned on
  4. Login page
  5. control breaks
  6. Delphi/AVG Issue

March 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 21

  1. Local Javascript pop-up with pop-up blocking on
  2. Installing MSYS on 64bit vista
  3. US federal government software
  4. GPU-assisted video transcoding on ATI?
  5. Fortran
  6. Updating to Norton 360 v.4 from v.3 for free --- is that possible?
  7. fortran
  8. Top ten websites
  9. Putting text into a database
  10. Clever AI
  11. Complete System restore for Medion Akoya
  12. TCP/IP weirdness.

March 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 22

  1. Microsoft Groove
  2. What are the future prospects for inserting highlights, annotations, and html anchors into other people's websites?
  3. lib to java class/.net il ?!
  4. How can I find out my first router's upstream IP when I'm behind several levels of NAT?
  5. Spell check's algorithm
  6. What is Smart Business?
  7. Linux, Multiple Monitors and CLI/Grub
  8. graph
  9. fortran
  10. Quantum computing

March 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 23

  1. World Book Cyclo-Teacher Learning Aid
  2. Lyrics display
  3. digital age classroom
  4. Verifiable donations to a ACLU/EFF/Wikimedia/Free Software Foundation sort of organization
  5. Mount a laptop hard drive in a desktop?

March 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 24

  1. Is there a way to edit the html of a page while I'm viewing it?
  2. Looking for win 32 version of Apache httpd 2.0.64-dev
  3. Surds on the TI-84 Plus
  4. Plugging an PC's network cable into a Cat-5 PBX wall jack fried the ethernet card
  5. What is the future for SUN Microsystems
  6. fastest browser
  7. is there any software that can answer trivial questions about "is there any number that?"
  8. Ticker tape transmitter keyboards?
  9. Caret browsing
  10. Cloning a linux install, then using the hdd image on a different pc
  11. Firefox - Add-ons no longer shown in menus

March 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 25

  1. fortran 90
  2. How do I restore minimized windows ?
  3. PDF assistance required
  4. The nuts and bolts of quantum computing
  5. Linux filesystem problem?
  6. Access 2003 Question
  7. IE8 - default to display the "Find" tool
  8. Backups

March 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 26

  1. Converting from flv to image files
  2. Google Earth down?
  3. Shift+F10 not working in Opera
  4. partitioning a new laptop with preinstalled os
  5. vba to android?
  6. Insecurity through OS piracy?
  7. Looking for a web annotation program that does certain things
  8. Ubuntu 9.10 Monitor Hibernating without Consent (revisited)
  9. How is bookmarks.html read by Firefox?

March 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 27

  1. Using Twitter for business
  2. 16-bit Icons
  3. LocalSettings.php
  4. Cannot Page Down the reference desk pages
  5. What artilcles to begin?
  6. How do I fix "LUpdate MFC Application" and stop it from crashing?
  7. Caret navigation in Firefox
  8. Highlighting text with the mouse prior to copying

March 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 28

  1. Programming languages that are executed by a Virtual Machine
  2. Color management in Windows Vista
  3. Connecting to my ISP
  4. How much do tape drives cost?
  5. Small silent computer - no fan, keyboard, or display
  6. Mass download of Pdfs
  7. Graph editor?

March 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 29

  1. Media Player mess
  2. Java Applet Problem
  3. Firefox tab placement
  4. software crossover
  5. USB networking
  6. Battlefield Bad Company 2
  7. Unicode graphic
  8. linux poster software
  9. CDG file to CD-R
  10. Couldn't access half the web sites I tried
  11. Important Resource Removed from Circuit Board page
  12. bash help requested
  13. exif

March 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 30

  1. PHP: Passing a variable between frames
  2. Error message every time the computer is turned on.
  3. Clearing logs
  4. Back-up options
  5. Electronic office
  6. How to burn a duplicate of a DVD with only one disk drive in Win 7?
  7. Do I want a bridge or something else.

March 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 31

  1. help identifying
  2. Exact time
  3. oracle
  4. iPhone, AT&T and Verizon
  5. JScript
  6. How can i create a portable "mini network" with my portable USB as a shared drive?
  7. PDF PECL shaded pie
  8. I'm looking for a speakeasy kinda wiki
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