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August 1
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Google + Opt Out
Risk of sharing a wi-fi network
Does logging in through the secure server stop my workmates on the same network from also being logged in under my account?
dreamincode.net - compromised?
August 2
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What does pvc does?
ASPNET Account password
Java in Xcode
ArcGIS
Android tablet
Create a website
Internet speeds
How to increase the contrast (color) of only the scroll bar "handle" in Windows7 ?
August 3
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Is There a Free, Open-Source Program Similar to Visual Basic?
php myadmin
mounting with nounix, noserverino
Online shopping
August 4
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which dac is the better one
IRC always timing out
What does it mean to open a file?
3D Bluray Ripping
USB Flash Drive vs USB External Hard Drive
Case-sensitive searches?
August 5
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laptop versus Ipad
How many bits?
August 6
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upgrade android
Forcing a timeout with Google cdn
how can I submit a review on Rotten Tomatoes?
Virtualization of existing OS?
I would really like a new desktop sidebar
CS without programming
Video to GIF in Ubuntu
August 7
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Cannot access internet on laptop
Standards for device-side of AC adapters
Videogames
Firefox tabs on Ubuntu
Wikipedia Featured Article RSS Feed (Google Reader)
Windows screen grab
Pretty print database
August 8
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Guitar Controller USB Utility
Up and down arrows at bottom of scroll bar in Word
Internet reply
Space in file names
Drivers in linux
TV "brightness"
Changing processor name
August 9
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PHP processing time per function
Why does mass-pinging an IRC channel produce the (near-)worst of humanity?
laptop switching off itself
What were the dates of connections for the ARPANET nodes?
Free web hosting in the Arab States
Max my pc speed on the internet.
Getting a programming job without academic credentials
August 10
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Audio-only video on iPhone
Tweeting on a phone
HDMI to monitor
Hotmail Code
oldest website
Clothing android app?
August 11
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WebDAV
What OS are computers running on LAN
Encrypted .dmg
Was my Gmail account hacked ?
August 12
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Brother driver installation error message
Print screen and scroll lock key
Relay server?
learning python: for in loops
Inequality Involving Kolmogorov Complexity.
Is it possible to handle errors of file_get_contents in PHP?
proxie
Need help with infobox
kubuntu screen refresh problem
August 13
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Force http (unsecure) connection.
Demonoid
Glade Interface Designer and Python with PyGTK~(or whatever)
Best way of passing text/html to JavaScript from php
How can I back up my mp3 collection to an external harddrive?
Problem with serialising time stamps to XML in C#
August 14
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Audio file creation
Remote pinging
Will this RAM fit (and work) in this motherboard?
nVIdia Output Specification
Not enough room to copy onto a hard drive ... but there IS enough room.
traceroute
Help me find a FB app: Matches me to a list of users with the most mutual interests.
August 15
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I am Naveen Ganesan
Regex and sed
zero indexing of arrays
Variables in wikipedia
Address bar search (email id)
Audio file on facebook
PHP, Replacing Arrays
Monitor problems
Help with Changing Youtube Email
How much would this storage server cost?
Why doesn't Firefox automatically update on Linux?
Google Drive
ZFS, heterogeneous storage media and heterogeneous access patterns
August 16
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MediaWiki: get URL params
SATA III hard drive in a SATA II interface?
Plotting ping results on a graph
Windows task bar disappearing
loop 128 PNG files at 15 fps onto a 10 minute youtube video
August 17
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is the human brain a Turing Machine?
Concurrency
.gif files do not animate on my browser
Ubuntu 12.04 1) Delete Icons from taskbar and 2) Minimize all open windows
is the linux is an flatform independent or not?
who is the best seo company chairman in india?
New folders in Windows
Market research, solar power, battery to USB
Adobe_Flash#Alternatives is rather incomplete. What alternatives are there?
Scared straight for kids on the Internet
Norton Security Suite
Inadvertent reinstallation of Windows XP
OSX 10.4/5/6 - Override "interactive" login and switch to textbox, username/password domain-enabled login
stripping a video of red and green, keeping blue channel only
August 18
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Cantenna
Network components
Django + jQuery
fights on a sim
August 19
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where am I getting the glyphs?
Illegal copies online
Drawpad
UK shops- camera charger
surely there is a more pythonic way to do this generation of pandigital numbers?
Blogging and social networking
August 20
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The Ubuntu interface along with Kubuntu and toggle back and forth without rebooting?
Looking for an architectural model for a typical home Wi-Fi router
Convert OST to PST File
Microsoft vs. Netscape
canon 650d, Magic Lantern
What, specifically, is wrong with this PDF file?
Glitching/skipping CD
August 21
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Tandy Color Computer Emulators & .ccc files
commandline arguements in c
Where do Web Fonts live in the latest Firefox
Google Spreadsheet question
All my locally stored e-mail is gone in Evolution after upgrading to Fedora 17
Further problems with Fedora 17
Install VICE and E-UAE on Fedora 17?
Printing ink usage
Dots and slashes in internet addresses
Tibetan characters in Firefox under linux
August 22
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IPsec server question
All Audio out of sync
FTP Desktop Shortcut
Java Question
UTF confusion
HTML page break control
GIMP 2.8 questions
Old PC game from the '90s
Xine question
Varicode ambiguity
Question about incorrect song size information
August 23
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Getting/ripping songs from a java web game.
Emacs basics
August 24
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Use Android 802.11x EAP settings on Windows
web based 2D CAD
Moving parts
Displaying bitmaps
Simple javascript
Learning programming languages.
Learning a computer language just for the sake of it
August 25
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Revision control for OS
MSIL on Wine
S.M.A.R.T. Warning message
Programming for mobile/embedded devices
Legality of redistributing software available for free download
August 26
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Counter Strike Global Off.
Samsung Series 5 17.3 inch laptop
Fast output of plots in MATLAB
Location based reminders in Android
Does Playbook's security swipe really work?
Question about mounting hard disks on Fedora 17
Move from hotmail to Outlook
Transfer entire Linux system to a new hard drive?
rsync --delete question
Java Book
HTTP space between headers and body..
August 27
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Difficulty finding page related to "Order of Operations" in Mathematics.
how long does it take to overwrite hard drive using system recovery disc
Django simple button + field + saving
Has anyone got The Ur-Quan Masters to work?
Facebook question
August 28
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Options request by firefox.
Is a GPU Required in a Computer?
Play Ogg Theora and Vorbis files directly on iPad
DNS not working, but only for browsers
Googling vs. typing URLs
Google Image Search slows computer down on Fedora 17
A better window list applet for Cinnamon?
August 29
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Determining PDF page size programatically
Integration of Intel Fortran 11.1 compiler with the Visual Studio 2008
Idea to transfer entire Fedora 17 Linux system to new 2 terabyte hard disk
whois
Hard disk storage in the future
IE8 new version opening PDFs in Acrobat
Operating systems
August 30
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Smart TV software updates
Popups
iOS's Safari cannot upload files
Is a hard disk drive a type of RAM?
Google Doesn't Work
August 31
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Encoding in Command Prompt
Java Question
Unix Command Syntax
Automatic Update Failing
Removing "Live Security Platform" malware
can a microsite be under a different person's control?