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October 1
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Reconstructor and Graphical Chroot?
Winamp tags
A Template Metaprogram for the Ackermann Function
Regular Expression for...
IP subnet mask
to write a complex program on multiplication
Edit "Open With" context menu in Windows Explorer
games in laptop
Tablet PC
Wikipedia on iPod
Which Linux distro should I install on Parallels?
October 2
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 2
monitor driver issues after reformat
Windows ME
Excel VBA question
Dual booting linux and windows
Is there a street atlas with municipal borders on the web?
Norton 360
October 3
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 3
Virtualization
Forwarding in Firefox and IExplorer
about array in VB
Wrong Address on Google
Just curious about website domain names
October 4
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 4
Where's that picture of the Mac-laptop-filled auditorium-style classroom?
Ancient Computer...Ancient Games?
Youtube access
GoogleTalk Error - The Handle is Invalid
Uninstall
October 5
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 5
Searching Process Memory
Yahoo Answers
Changing colours
SQL plus 8.0
October 6
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 6
Graphing Equations on Office
CD-R Disks
error codes
Possible data sharing problems within a homework
Easiest route JPEG to PDF
Slashes
Too lazy to experiment ....
un-sudo?
Virus destroying hard disk
IM spam
October 7
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 7
Connecting to my port 8080
Locking
Attack of the Undead boot.ini file!
Office 2007 instalation issues
From Live CD to real life
Saving iPhone SMS messages?
High-gloss laptop screen
Playing certain CDs on my stereo causes them to have a vinyl-esque crackling and pop
e-paper
Cell phone/mobile phone.
Server issues
First cable companies
Language Bar changing languages
Add startup programs on Ubuntu
October 8
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 8
I have seup my own wiki, but I cannot edit any page (solved)
Finding all IPs affected by a range block
Java Hashset look up
Tor
Controllable animations...?
Thunderbird On Mac
five advantages of open loop control system
Making ringtones
InvisionFree or phpBB3?
Fast DVD copier
Online shopping project
RealPlayer 11 on Ubuntu 8.10?
October 9
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 9
Shipping
New file system on Windows
Help installing LinuxMCE
global village
graphic cards
.net Framework
CR-RW problems
Writing CDs and DVDs on a MacBook
October 10
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 10
Spyware
how to change from alphabet to ascii code?
Converting ClearSpace markup to MediaWiki
Scanning banknotes
Laptop Downloading Woes
Ubuntu download as VMware virtual machine, VMware tools preinstalled
Why memory segmentation?
Self-Replicating Program
"See what I did there?"
October 11
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 11
Web Programming Question
Mouse problems.
Markup language for desktop frontend ?
Linux kernel
Strange symbols on webpages
JAVA PROGRAM(Test1 of Computer Science)
MHTML
Auto-Refresh?
October 12
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 12
Cryptographic hash in less than O(n)
Google 2001 and phrases
Firefox: Predict my URL please, but not a whole bunch of nonsense
ASP.NET: <%# %>
gnome 2.24
Linux: inline text editing
Versatile Flash Animation Software
Vista track number help
Weird browser glitch?
Keyboard Problem
Is Wikipedia Having a MELT-DOWN?!
Ignoring Users on YouTube
October 13
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 13
Is Windows 7 being released so soon because of the criticisms about Windows Vista?
What file types benefit most from defragmentation?
Qwerty vs Dvorak: why no scientific evaluation?
Free web hosting request
Is there a place to request features for Windows?
Good Proxy?
Make Live USB image with Mondo Rescue
October 14
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 14
Making a different email client the default in IE
Excel VBA query
Secure Password
Extracting *.rar files in Mac OSX
directional ethernet cable?
SMS services that support Primus Canada?
What would be the best WiFi technology for a very busy and large house/office?
Is there a relative to Flash in GNU & Linux?
October 15
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 15
Power Supply
OS X Finder: just one window at a time
Anti-Aliasing in XP Service Pack 3
Cpython and Jython?
October 16
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 16
Youtube
Wireless Network w/o Modem
Executable Jar File
using vista
website
Canon scanner functionality with Windows XP embedded
USB
EXCEL MACROS
Build my own laptop/desktop
alternatives to COLSPAN
Scatterplots in Excel
True Transperency - Linux
Tunneling usb traffic on Linux
October 17
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 17
Error
HTML question
Mediawiki template problem
assigning variables in class declaration (outside methods)
HTML form: unchecked value
moving websites
Skype
Thunderbird Junk
Is the open source Java spelling API "Jazzy" dead? What about the alternatives?
Sync phone with Google Calendar
Youtube Insight demographic and gender identification
scjp1.5 certification
Java problem
Home Network - Extension from question above
previewing pages in Internet Explorer
Location of Mac system updates when downloading/Privilege problems in System Update
October 18
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 18
protocol
Computer language difficulty
Heat sink
Power Supply, Part 2
Mirror my Routers
security expert
Neo Office Help (Question Change)
Semantic web
Font is different on wikipedia only
Wireless Connection Troubleshooting
Domain problem
Performance Comparison between single core and dual core processors
pow() in c
October 19
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 19
Research Project
How to make a glossy computer screen matte?
New phone, crap battery life
Modem Problems
"Ask your network administrator"?
Using an AirPort Express as a wireless bridge for a NAS-device
Blown-Up Screen Display
Defination of diffrent words
Adblock Plus
Steve Jobs
Privacy: do emails reveal my IP address?
transient in Java
October 20
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 20
Xbox 360-Ubuntu tethering
data compression
Shareware
Can you subscribe by email to a RSS Wordpress blog?
Hotmail account possibly hacked?
Nero 8 Cover Designer
Virus
Big O notation
October 21
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 21
Booting Windows XP off of ext
Help finding Adobe software
.rar file
IE Keeps crashing/ Hanging when loading into Wikipedia
8800 GS not working in Bootcamp (iMac).
Excel 2007
Opinions on keyboard w/o separate number pads?
Different web addresses with same target
Floppy drive necessary these days?
Neo Office Help
Collision detection
design and logo,s
Dual pointers in windows
communicating between two windows with Javascript
October 22
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 22
Semantic web again!
Stata plugins
Driver installation problem
Time Machine
Syncing my iPod
I got a blue flashing screen
Scrolling news display
Free software
Restoring order of Microsoft Excel Database
Tables in Neo Office
October 23
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 23
Anyone know of any free software that will actually clone a hard from from one to another, not just create an image file?
Quicker way to add placemarks on Google Earth
phones
64-bit Rootkits
IP Address
Thunderbird is lying to me!
.ck
aac audio codec
PayRoll Problem
uservalidation in c
Quicker way to add placemarks on Google Earth
Backup Hardware suggestions
Laptop issue
Free/open source DXF / DWG to SVG converter?
October 24
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 24
IRC block
Anyone know of any free software that will actually clone a hard from from one to another, not just create an image file?
Find parent folder of Windows Vista programs?
Question about modems and Internet problems
A simple, free and easy to use program for video conversion to Ipod compatibilty?
Nuked permissions in XP Pro SP3
October 25
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 25
There is any computer program that finds the Least common multiple and Greatest common divisor???
USB cord and iPod problems
Text Messages AUTOMATICALLY FORWARDED to email
files between each compuetsr
OpenOffice.org 3 repository?
Scalability of Linux
teachnology and communication world
Java IO
Downloading a Perl Script
Clicking "Safely Remove Hardware" disconnects from Internet
October 26
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 26
Work and privacy
Firefox Favorites
Computer mouse
Laptop LCD Problem
Bridging routers with a cable
iPod without iTunes
Evil WMP 11 and monitored folders
XP - Programs crash on startup
cd stuck in macbook
October 27
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 27
Program to stitch PNG files (frames) into a movie.
Search engine indexing
A PROBLEM IN C++ [COMPUTER PROGRAM]
Logging Program
Norton Antivirus question
Video and audio editing
MSN on outlook
Converting .SWF video into h264 .M4V or Quicktime?
Recommendations for a good Mac forum to join
I disabled services I shouldn't have and can't start them again...
Startup prob on Mac!
October 28
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 28
How to do this in the command line...? (Ubuntu)
Dumb question re: MacBook hard drives
D Programming Language
Stopping Excel from minimizing sheets
Roaring Fan on Dell XPS
trapping a generic keydown event in C#
CAD and 3D softwares
Team Communication
TI-89 Assembly-Language Programming
BlackBerry SIM cards (solved)
Linux keyboard logger
Mutation in computer viruses
October 29
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 29
about wikipedia
what is strategic procurement ?
Mac Installation
Network printers compatible with PS3
Stacking transparent GIFs using CSS
changing motherboard on dell vostro 1400 laptop
BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD OMGWTFBBQ!!!!
SFRIO600.DLL
Search for one type of Wikipedia templates
should I make an old swap partition fat32 or ntfs?
help desk assignment
October 30
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 30
Completely copying hdd
Singularity functions in Ti-89/84+
Multi touch in XP
Computer Won't Even Turn On!
WEBSPHERE DEVELOPER
Visual .net remotely asess user
October 31
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 October 31
Headphones
fstab permissions
USB
Open office writer problems!
crappy keyboard probs
Help! Can't log onto Internet on my laptop.
Finding Errors in Excel
iPlayer
Reaching localhost when I am offline
Phantom Drive Labels in Vista
suppressing a page with nothing on it
Is it possible with XUL?
Random counting/picking
Google question
where do people learn Oracle?
Google