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September 1
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A really private wiki
Reading user's IP address.
How do I get my Yahoo toolbar back?
Windows 7 Experience Index is not working
re-chargeable batteries
Noise algorithm, Perlin?
Background Music in Microsoft Excel 2003
Skype and charges...
September 2
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Compiler Writing: NOT Parser Generators!
Backing-up to a NAS drive over the Internet?
This Type of Image
Difference between SIMD and Vector Processors
Conventional Explosives Simulation Software
Mini-flash cookie app
broadband numbers
Javascript wait
NP theory
Typing credit card details into SLL-enabled CGI proxies
Compressing
Domain Names
e-mail account hijacked
September 3
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Idiotic and Useless Emails
data corruption
Parchive
Webpage to PDF
a/b drives
Javascript time
Cell Phone and Lap top
Methods for multiple classes
Terminal window of safari
September 4
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Recovery of Deleted File on SD Card
What is the cellular 3G base station price range?
Scanning over the network
Extracting a date from a serial number in MS Excel
September 5
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Disk Defragmenter leaves lots of fragments.
Excel Programming
date
Divx wrapped in AVI container
September 6
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Is it safe to use an open wireless router (say, in a cafe)?
Removing IE from XP
Best and Quickest Way to a Blog
Reimaging HD
Accept big, output small
Oldest and Newest YouTube video, please?
Youtube
September 7
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 September 7
Second Internet Line Cable
Recording a Skype conversation
Viruses
Batch file question - how to find the newest document in a subdirectory structure
Google translate default/detect language
Google
Web
Frustrating ADSL problem
help
September 8
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What is a GeekTool script?
Trillian AIM connection issues
WORD FINDER
Easy computer game development software
Test case
How do you find out what search terms were used to find your blog?
diffing with text motion
TLDs favouritised by google
Hub
How to view Korean NTSB page from late 1990s
TV tuners
September 9
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ram
mac address
Saved pages
Alarm
Vintage Optical Computer/Mainframe
RAID block size
September 10
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Using optical drive ports for hard drives?
Using another type of wiki
Internet speed, difference between 1 mb/s and 6 mb/s?
Other than IP Address, how else do forums/Q&A sites, etc. know that you're the same person?
Hard drives
Almost certainly phishing email, but top-level domain is paypal.com
Data compression built into TCP/IP
September 11
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Storage Area Networking: Difference between SAN Group & SAN Pool
operating system
Microsoft Publisher 2003
Running commands on another (Windows) computer
EMAIL
Teletext and the BBC Micro
Configuring Toshiba Satellite 3000-X11 to use LAN and Wi-Fi (urgent, please answer if you can, cause it's not my laptop)
Display
Date handling with XML in Expression Web
Freeware old fashioned database
September 12
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Maximum LUN Size
Shell Script
What is this Place
Not sure what to look for when Choosing a Web Hosting service for a plain Website.
Internet browser slow and freezing
Free database software
Spam from a friend's email
Prejudice against Macs
Getting the static URL for a Flash video
texting
Word's Editing Tools
September 13
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old computer doesn't play HD video
Meta date
Computers double
Resize
I am lost can you please tracert me so I can find out where I am
Compatibility of MGS2
September 14
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Lost pictures on SD card
Java generics, what use is "extends"?
can we make an arrangement?
Which torrent client allows establishing without too much effort exlusive connection to one peer only
Map Building
Fios
September 15
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pine
blogspot/blogger visual verification (captcha) unreadable
Translation request
'E' for signal on iPhone
os installation
Display or download
September 16
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Remoting into Ubuntu Desktop VM from Ubuntu Desktop Computer
other programming language tutorial pages
Free Complete Multi-Root Operating-System
Vista Themes
Strange Icons
Programming question
Fonts
View Options—Mac OS X
PHP imagecreate to imagick
Outlook rule on outgoing messages
Software to plan PhD project?
September 17
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Copying pictures between camera and PC
kindle dx graphith
solitaire games
Getting rid of background tasks
Command prompt
How to get my tv tuner to work
Twitter
September 18
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Controlled (Fixed) Bandwidth Allocation
Can I get rid of the 'My Videos' folder?
USB Ports on a universal travel adaptor
The Guidebook Gallery
Greasemonkey script
Looking for a lost browser
Keyboard: "Dead keys" quit working for no apparent reason
Contacting people on Panoramio
e-mail addresses in Excel
Question about my Pc system/Graphics capability
September 19
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Remoting into Ubuntu Desktop VM from Ubuntu Desktop Computer - Automation
"Locked" Micro SD Card
Can anybody convert this Flash 8 file into a Flash 7 file?
Real-time shared comments on videos?
Computer code
Installing Ubuntu (dual boot) on a Windows machine with minimal disruption of Master Boot Record
Is it possible to copy all the mails in a Gmail account to another account?
Computer security certification
web archiving
Java
September 20
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Open-Source Nature of Linux
need a information for project
Lost images on SD card
OO Calc formula question - DONE
Adding one million record
How much does an IBM server (mainframe) with 4 TB of RAM cost?
Windows 7
Ubuntu/Linux delete /usr/share/doc?
Hotmail will not word wrap
Microsoft Certifications by Technology
Javascript
photo negative to positive
what's faster on a modern computer: reading more bytes of raw text from ram, or fewer bytes (compressed) and uncompressing it in the CPU
Order of Files
Sony IC recorder ICD-B26. How to connect and transfer recordings
September 21
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Windows Firewall Blocks Google Earth
Faster wget
Need Proxy
Creating/modifying a keyboard layout on Windows 7 with very limited rights
Why does Google chrome have have a totally different window from any other Windows applications.
How to link to google searches
Website capture software working with a cached version
September 22
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Physical Address Extension motherboards
Computer program illegal operation
most bang-for-buck RAM in a hard-drive case?
Spaces in a path variable in a shell script on OS X
Landing page
UHDTV - 8k resolution
Digital broadcast TV in Ireland
cannot access ExtendedReader, duplicate class: extra.ExtendedReader
September 23
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Replacing software
Internet
Timeout
What is something like "javascript:OpenDetailWin('<value>')" called
September 24
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Google chorme (www.xnxx.com)
Playstation3 (PS3) SDK
computer science and technology
Moving the contents of Windows PST files to an archive on a linux machine
Temporary files
Hard Drive
Transferring songs from the mini-disc player to the computer, is it possible ????
Latest Mozilla Beta Version
Help! How do I announce my blog
September 25
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Is Windows hacker-friendliness now officially deliberate?
Memory allocation
wget
My anti-virus thinks that computer game is virus/trojan
Facebook login
September 26
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Android Tablets
Send a kiss?
Spurious http redirect, can anything be done?
Remote Desktop
How to diagnose slow internet?
Thermal past on an i5-750
Is it bad for my laptop to leave it playing me music all night long every night?
Burn mark on laptop screen
September 27
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 September 27
Linksys WAP54G wireless access point help
How to Run Emacs Org Mode Commands From the Terminal?
tsql:sqlserver=plsql:oracle=?:mysql
mac safari won't submit form
Loose lines in LaTeX
Safari Autofill data stealing
Access 2007 and too many fields
September 28
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ISP big brother?
submask
More on facebook login
DPI in Irfanview
mshome.net
Word count in Publisher 2010
Matlab Array Column Misalignment - Help!
September 29
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 September 29
Two hardware questions
Microsoft Windows update frequency
Video WB correction
Can't access a certain website
World daylight map - free screensaver?
hard drive
Ping Localhost
free touchscreen software like a whiteboard to save handwritten documents
computer
What regulatory issues have to be considered when exporting or building products that heavily use cryptography?
September 30
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 September 30
Hack firefox to reenable saving passwords
Protocol for electrical signals going from computer to monitor.
Eskimo Question
http status codes
MS Zone.com online games in WinXP
Who physically made the first Apple Computers