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August 1
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History data
LaTeX and Flashcards
Programs
Trendnet router Status blinking slowly, WLAN blinking rapidly
Replace image
August 2
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 2
Eight-Socket (64-Core) 1TB RAM Server
Dosbox
Wireless All-in-One devices... but wireless fax?
Mobile phone in Europe
Scribus vs. InDesign
sqlcmd
Excel sorts A- higher than A+
Force needed to press a keyboard key?
Lwavuc.exe
S.O.S.
Session expired
Is there free software (for Windows) creating Searchable PDF with hidden text layer?
Google Images
Nikon Camera/Computer File Saving Format
August 3
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Excel trendline angle
Is there a Wiki anywhere that lets us make biographies & autobiographies of common people and ourselves?
Desktop icons on main window unavailable on one of three log-on accounts in windows XP?
no visual songs
errata sqlcmd
In C++/CLI
there mihgt exist a garbage collected language that is directly compiled in machine language?
Software transfer
Menu Items Remaining After Clicking
My printer doesn't work
can a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone sync music with iTunes the same as before?
Backup
Is there a name for this type of data
Cisco Valet M10
August 4
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Shady Facebook Group
What is this image process called, and how can I do it?
Whatever happened to pump and dump spam?
raw to png
DVD Ripping
Apple Travel Adapters
E-mail postage system
Button on taskbar disappeared
Google Wave killed, any Wave like replacements?
August 5
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Intel vs AMD: Has Intel achieved a decisive victory?
Colorado will not load on Internet Explore 8, but other articles will
Finding a MAC Code/wireless dongles/uninstalling browsers
Recovering data from a bad latptop harddisk
Lost XP file
Safari
Slow Blender interface
August 6
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 6
3D GPS or similar
Laptop's battery behaves strangely and reviving it
html
XP DLLs
Upgrading graphics card
How do I upload a photo to a page I just submitted
August 7
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 7
Nested Virtualization
RAID 6+5
Copying External Hard Disk Drives in OS X
Computers infected with malicious software/files
Wikipedia animation thumbnail inconsistency
August 8
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 8
Adobe Flash Player
HP 564 Refill Ink
Connecting E-Mail with iPod Touch
Disabling Your NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall. Pros and cons
August 9
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Mobile phone apps
merging one image from multiple video frames
Is it called a command-line interpreter, a command-line interface, a terminal editor or a shell?
Windows 7 Administrator Problem
What are some alternatives to Google Voice in the UK?
internet
problems with DTS/WAV audio
How is it possible?!
IRC
Why Ctrl + H?
Easiest way to remove a disc from a dead Wii?
Active Desktop (HTML content) on Desktop
August 10
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LAN authentication
Flag problem
Unpacking Microsoft Outlook folders
Does anyone know how to figure out this MD5?
Uptime
Netgear DG834G V3 wireless router
Put similar named files into sub-folders
August 11
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Best Way of Automating Getting Information from Website?
Structure Declaration
MySQL table wildcard
Copying and uploading .ogg files
FutuRe CouRses
Firefox
Solid state hard drive
Hard drive diagnostic software
August 12
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 12
Getting the Images
Encrypting the contents of a folder
"C" Language
Leave USB pendrive stick in computer all the time?
Immediate termination
Facebook - contacting all those who Like a page
Fake Chase Bank Email
Movie making software for beginner?
August 13
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C Storage
Shell for Windows
How to disable auto download feature in safari?
TOC's in Category page
Alt-Tab didn't work
Files
Any free online backup?
August 14
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RSS
Identical
Activating OpenType Features
Defaulting Australian English in Word 2007?
McGill Email
Changing default printer does not stick
UDP
Windows Movie Maker
August 15
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Online back up services
Call to improve password security?
wget
What font you are viewing?
Device drivers and hard disk data recovery
echo time
network cards
Weird PDF
August 16
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 16
How much information on web browsing habits is accessible from the main node in a home network?
SAP
Haskell functions - instances of the Eq class?
Maximum # of Cores (i.e. Logical Processors) & Amount of RAM in various Linux Operating-Systems
wget
Problem with Google Chrome
RAM
Firefox links problem
Automated text input program
random number generator problem?
date
Trying to get iPhone 3G to connect to home WiFi unsuccessfully
Color saturation on television sets.
FIPS
August 17
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 17
Hardware Accelerated AES Encryption
Computer -> TV
computer file with pdb extension
2 anti virus software running together
Need input - writing a basic referrer tracking script
Wikia's poor quality of service
August 18
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 18
Surprising SEGV from read(2)
wget
Mutation in Genetic Algorithms (optimization)
Reinstalled OSes, regedit, and Star Wars
Trying to install an MSDOS program on Vista
Latest version of Netscape (and how to speed up netscape)
Wikipedia has a problem
August 19
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X-Root
Key Stroke Logger
Message digests
IP addressing and correct program instance
SP6a
Virus embeds?
What are the two types of pop-up ads?
Computer Tech Associate
Locating mobile phones internationally
are laptop fans interchangeable?
Certifications/ASP
August 20
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 20
Burning FLV straight to DVD
Flickr
64 bit
Button on taskbar disappeared, the sequel
Registry access from a different OS
Program to compare drives/folders
August 21
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 21
Would this power supply be sufficient for this build?
want to edit the boot.ini
php functions
Ubuntu home directory and settings in kde
Date modified in vista
Fake email address
Ipone 4 Apps
Malware through video codec?
Student laptop webcam surveillance
Doubling up router cables
August 22
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 22
Dual-Domain (Hard Disk Drives)
Exact upload date for a file?
Building a desktop PC - am I missing anything?
Internet
Problems with Windows XP password
What utf char ??
ImageMagick help!
search engine query cache
Wiki link to odd page
Matlab - simple column vector formatting question
August 23
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 23
Installation & Setup of XRDP/rdesktop
How do you call the paint function at any point in the code
MacOS: num keys gone dead
Wireless router.
How to add a shortcut from the Programs menu in WinXP?
How can I stop the sentences from appearing one on top of another when I spellcheck?
Amplifying brightness of LCD monitor beyond scale
BBC IPLAYER LIVE
Custom JPEG Quantization matrix
Wii SD card trouble
Using public computers
Pay Pal asking for my details
cam4
August 24
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 24
Trackmania
Spindle servo failure
Flock "Search" bar option
Matlab on a Mac
Page view limit
mp3
Are these unneeded adware?
Question about URL formatting
August 25
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 25
Installed GIMP 2.6.10 and GhostScript - still can't open EPS
Sending a big file
Disk recovery
File Sharing b/tween Vista and Win 7 - Problem
I hate a dialog box.
There is any Web crawler program that is very easy to use and free?
#1 Google hit
August 26
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 26
iWork Serial Number
Improving reliability of Wikipedia bot
Disk recovery (part two)
Java applet issues.....
Google
New laptop battery
Downloading a clean copy of wininit.exe
Watch
Wrong Screws = Laptop failure?
August 27
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 27
Compile error in hidden module: AutoExec?
Built in Anti-virus programs
Error Box when Googling
Implementing a lock for a socket stream
AJAX/JavaScript problem.
XP Spanned Volumes
Nuclear Physics-Package Simulation Software
What is 32kb of "used space" on an empty USB pendrive?
About this theme
Printing multiple slides per page in powerpoint (Office 2010)
Can't log into facebook!!
Flash video (in embedded player) restarting computer
Batch download
Merge PDFs?
Download trouble
August 28
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 28
Origin of level numbers in Cobol
Sony Bravia TV time display
"Internet not connected" messages when internet works fine...
DHCP irritations
Vista copy paste problem
Excel Graph
Screen
Firewalled download
Splitcam open source equivalent
August 29
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 29
Dissolving Exclamation Point
Getting windows key from an old HD
IRC help
Roadrunner
Cheap software
iPad and editing Wikipedia
Internet (part 2)
Frontpage dying
Old computer upstairs wants Internet
google web accelerator
Factory Reset
Lavabit
Computer does not recognize DVDs
August 30
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 30
Add-ons
Hebrew font identification
VB.net
Compare code
High x16 PCIe 2.0 Slot-Count Barebone System
country ip masking
usb peripheral switch
Arcade Fire's Wilderness Downtown
Hard Drive
August 31
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 31
CD ripping -- byte perfect?
Opening image in new tab in same window in Internet Explorer by middle mouse
Motherboard: The new 'chairman'?
Preventing Windows Mail from marking email as phishing
Problem on saving DDS images with alpha
Must I retain Acrobat update files?
Error message on XBox
spam filter "throwing out" political messages
Processing-Core Price Disparity
Google Mail
SSD Roadmap
Buying a kindle edition book from amazon