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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 1

  1. What's the most powerful fully open source CPU design showing where every transistor goes?

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 2

  1. Safe storage of devices with rechargeable batteries
  2. Future Intel Processor Specs
  3. vertical disc drive
  4. What is srf in a URL?
  5. Syskey registry entries on nt 6.x (post-vista)
  6. I click and nothing happens
  7. AVG and McAfee? anti-virus
  8. How do you tag someone on Facebook?
  9. Disable Facebook like popup box

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 3

  1. headphone comparison

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 4

  1. Proxy servers
  2. Adding a coda symbol to my signature
  3. Disabling autoplay videos?
  4. Google Chrome

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 5

  1. Completely web-based free source code repositories?
  2. Market/exchange program

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 6

  1. Windows 8.1
  2. Youtube loading slowly

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 7

  1. 2-step dynamic ssh tunnel
  2. What is the purpose of this aspect of Google's search results page?
  3. Create a company page

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 8

  1. Virus Removal
  2. Facebook question
  3. Making a multi-language site crawlable
  4. Chroot for offline windows

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 9

  1. Images that have pixels of nearly every color of the spectrum
  2. Weird PC speaker problem
  3. hey beotches
  4. Committing an edit with javascript:void(0)

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 10

  1. problem in installing sound driver
  2. iPhone
  3. Intel Core manufacturing
  4. Affine Transformations in java

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 11

  1. Dos command or c++ code to register a certain program for a protocol....
  2. When does support for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 end?

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 12

  1. I have more free disk space than when I started?!
  2. iPod battery
  3. Help find the cursor

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 13

  1. WhatsApp
  2. Simultaneous copies to USB thumbdrive very slow
  3. Firefox and Software versioning
  4. references to fiction versus non-fiction in search results
  5. SPSS v. 21: Python Will Not Run in Syntax Block
  6. LaTeX question

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 14

  1. Samsung Galaxy Tab Storage
  2. Firefox 23

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 15

  1. Smarter page breaks in Word
  2. 2-left hashing references
  3. Looking for a blu ray player for Vista laptop
  4. More on batteries...

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 16

  1. Windows Update (may have) messed up my display...
  2. reset firefox
  3. Web server performance evaluation
  4. Audio not synched with video
  5. 64 bit mobile
  6. blocking faces from video
  7. youtube not working
  8. Extracting Google Books images
  9. New PC...

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 17

  1. terabyte thumb drives
  2. Steps using V - Look up and H - look up functions in MS Excel . Explain with example
  3. Laptop washing
  4. Google serach didn't help - Microsoft Word 2007/2010
  5. Firefox

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 18

  1. p2p
  2. why do speakers have different sensitivities to different frequencies?
  3. recording a tv
  4. Google blocking thehackernews.com from Comcast customers?
  5. Actual URL of a PDF file
  6. How the hell I use unicode with python 2.5???

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 19

  1. Why isn't my image caption showing up?
  2. free genealogy software
  3. What is the first modern programming language in which everything is an expression?
  4. TV Channels
  5. Thinkpad

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 20

  1. Windows 8.1 question
  2. Library hygiene for child processes
  3. RJ Cables
  4. Returns
  5. RedHat 5 - gdb & pstack
  6. Encoding files by adding random data to binary files

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 21

  1. updating Firefox
  2. itunes
  3. I wanna boot my PC (in more ways than one)

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 22

  1. Yahoo or Firefox
  2. "Fragility" of disks

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 23

  1. Firefox
  2. Firefox bookmarks
  3. Thunderbird on Ubuntu
  4. After returning from sleep mode, iTunes needs me to unplug and replug my iPod in order to recognize it
  5. mp4

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 24

  1. Getting a specific value of a variable that is a list on phyton
  2. program to turn Intel TurboBoost on/off

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 25

  1. mplayer
  2. four-channel internet
  3. Adding a space before "/>" in tags
  4. Windows will not start up
  5. Internet Download Rate Control
  6. Question on hacking a smartphone's G.P.S. data.

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 26

  1. Connecting Securely
  2. Why does printf in C use const char * instead of char *?
  3. Bit arrays in JavaScript
  4. router log
  5. Laptop video card upgrade
  6. Java and immutable strings
  7. Same URL, Different Behaviour
  8. I want to buy this
  9. Haswell benefits for desktop computers.
  10. Perl: Creating a hash that contains two lists
  11. my acer laptop overheats how to fix it

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 27

  1. How many Bitcoins have
  2. Separate youtube, twitter and google webmaster account

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 28

  1. Windows XP style file search
  2. RealDownloader YouTube VLC
  3. Difference between webpage "updated" and "copyright"
  4. Limit to Devices on Router
  5. Do I need the extra specs?
  6. how practical is it to keep multiple facebooks? (under pseudonyms)

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 29

  1. wireless repeating laptop with one card on fedora
  2. Does someone recognize this font?
  3. Picture zoom on Sony Walkman (Digital Media Player)...
  4. Safe Firefox Download

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 30

  1. Can I plug and unplug smartphone for power too many times?
  2. Windows saves to itunes folder for no reason
  3. web development
  4. How computer hardware works
  5. Accused vs Culprit
  6. Another question about iPod batteries

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 31

  1. replace the motherboard on old computer
  2. Reason for difference of location of X11 include directory
  3. Web browser engines of TVs with Internet functionality
  4. How to make a searchable online database.
  5. Text files/documents on my PSP?
  6. Monitor Connection Problem