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October 1
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- setting limits on family computer
- Shutdown command
- Missing posts
- Ping
- Obscure Ancient Viking Computer Game Nostalgia
- Embedding Flash movies and players like YouTube
- Free Office
October 2
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- Microphone
- ksh or bsh variables
- Missing after posting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCOMER
- Computer won't change visual settings (win98)
- Transferring files
- Password security
- Converting .AVI to .MPEG
- Gmail
- Minichess
- ISP bandwidth limit in Australia?
- Answered
October 3
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- Visual Basic Coding
- Audio / Video Capture
- flashplayer doesnt have sound
October 4
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- Searching for a simple Small Business Program
- Overclocking failed -- CPU fan error
- Answered
- Internet Explorer popping up
- Private Investigator Service
- Gmail Question
- serial number
- computer chess
October 5
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- Data base in computers
- FTP server on residential nonstatic IP
- Disabling McAfee
- Online Search
- CMOS Password
- Recover Password
- Send packages in VB6
- Nanostray on Nintendo DS
- apple mac or microsoft windows
- Remote desktop
October 6
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- Windows Media Player 10
- Arithmetic problem related to internet
- HackThisSite
- How to put an e-mail address in a wiki running MediaWiki software?
- CD rom
- Washing machine vs. USB drive
- about dealership
- Staging site in web development?
- Brain transplant for laptops
- DNS rootserver IP list
October 7
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- Mozilla search engines
- What do the parts of an email address mean? Can the date or location it was sent from be deciphered from it?
- Question about wikipedia search engine
- african watering hole
- t-rex tissue
- Adsl Sharing
- Wireless network adapter on Acer laptop
- Hot laptop
- Latex help - Section headings
- icons in computers
- Odd task manager window
- java
- binary to decimal or hexadecimal
- Modem and Hyperterminal
- Citing an acceptance speech with BibTeX
- Reading from a source and outputing it to standard out in linux
- url
- expanding opcode
October 8
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- header file
- Office and Image editing software
- How are all these n00bs getting such cool animated avatars?
- duplicate fonts
- Disable JS
- Turning UT:GOTY into pure engine
- what linux distro
- DVD to iPod
- mandatory password changes
- Lost data in Microsoft Word
October 9
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- iPod FS
- forcing X into 16 bit color from boot
- Replacing HTML span tags with old style markup
- Spell checker
- Zipf's Law
- base 64 encoding?
- What is that thing on the end of cables (not the plug)
October 10
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- iPod
- Dos Exec CMOS Password erase
- Seeking Info about Building Controlling Computer
- operating systems
- operating
- LZMA
- Free video editing software
- Internet information
- Google Video charging
- Resuming an SCP transfer?
- DVD to mpeg
- help with internet
- Exception handling in MATLAB
- Cheapskate question about internet cable
- Rays and lines in MS Word
- Hans Reiser
- Debian and MSN
October 11
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- webmail problem
- Transitioning from Win XP to Linux
- MS Word annoying me
- varying duty cycle or width of PWM using vc program
October 12
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- Graphics Card
- Active Desktop
- getting files off qemu
- PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
- Creating a private online database?
- WIN-Modems
- categorise the entire WIKIPEDIA
- DVD burner HD/BLU ray reader COMBO
- VCD Format
- Request help on converting hex strings on a page
- Server Error
- How to play OGG videos
- Pin Number Solver
October 13
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- domain functional level windows server 2003
- Wikipedia
- O in Opera
- Sound too high-pitched in Windows.
- How to enable windows task manager
- Runic alphabet in Unicode
- Splitting AVI files
October 14
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- Frames Per Second - limits of conscious visual recognition
- Page views of websites
- If, then, how, why
- Blocking ads in websites
- Printing PDFs in a Different Color
- I wan't as much Information as possible on:
- Best way to send large files over internet
October 15
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- Revert graphics settings
- cartoon
- searching wikipedia from the MS Office Research task pane
- Sort or count by word
- Low price computer
- Why one of my speakers will eventually stop working?
- Shell32.dll cannot be replaced because it appears to be in use.
- Rome:Total War -- Low budget alternative
- My suck-ass trojan
October 16
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- Ethernet
- Javascript Ticker
- New computer help
- Looking for forum host which offers Google Groups-like integration.
- Computing /IT
- Online reading list (del.icio.us for books)
- ARPANET
- permanent CPU usage in Quicklaunch bar
- windows preboot
- ipmi_si
October 17
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- PICAXE programming under Ubuntu GNU/Linux
- Does Google rank pages by outgoing links?
- Image comparison script
- WIFI 2-way control with Pocket PC
- Best programming tool for beginner
- Odd first line on "database" entry page
- USB Cables
- Nokia cell phone
October 18
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- How does a PC find a specific web page on a server in another location?
- ipod
- Can't find mpdat.exe
- Lanczos Resampling
- Questions reguarding the Task Manager in Windows XP
- Shareaza's Advanced Settings
- html forms
- DFT bins
- Version numbers
- NPROTECT folder
- Extending wireless range?
- Some registry keys
- Making money from web design
- Freezing and Jumbled Screen
- nesting in css
- LaTeX formatting
October 19
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- Chmod < Linux < Internet < Computing
- Font Not Detected in MS Word
- Form information in Firefox
- How does it know…
- Size
- GOOGLE SKETCH UP
- building a website with credit card payment functionality
- .wmv to .mov
- Spy software
- Website menu templates
- Format HFS iPod to FAT32 without using Windows
- Azureus GB download size DECREASES!
October 20
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- Using Microsoft DNS server to block sites?
- Auto Redirect File in IE
- Downloading torrents when they are blocked
- Compression techniques
- Visual basic question
- OEM vs Rebranded Graphics Adapters
- A Computer Memory question
October 21
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- History Button in IE7 ? How can I add it back to the toolbar ?
- Removing music from an iPod
- Wikipedia
- pen drive
- Moved Files Got Deleted In Windows
- Making your own laptop
- Changing System Drive
- VPN Connect/Disconnect Icon
- Win98 security -- my options?
- Speeding up a Windows machine
October 22
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- Changing codec format of .avi files
- NO pop up script
- Running a wikibot
- Moving application/binary directories' locations in Ubuntu/Linux as a whole
- Software Radio
- Video Compression
- Computer Lockup
- Removing weapons from Unreal Tournament GOTY
- Intel Processors
- Whistling Monitor
- Errors introduced by processor change?
October 23
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- Music writing program
- Wikipedia web services
- Ethernet hub
- RSS / ATOM for Wikipedia
October 24
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- Scheduled startup and shutdown
- HTML Marquee trouble
- MS OFFICE WORD 2003
- WORD
- Q about VoIP.
- Recovering Outlook mails and address book from a hard disk
- SQL question about aggregate rows.
- Peripheral device
- audio timescaling
- PNG
- Duplicate File Finding Program
- Ubuntu Problem
- Placing page in Categories
- Dark Laptop Screen
- Transparent Images
- If I were to sell my PC (probably ebay or craigslist), how much could I get for it?
- Web based free source control for simple users
October 25
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- C Decimal percision.
- Internet bandwidth priorities
- Password-controlled"File Hiding"
- Computer Slowing down with CD Drive interface
- Dual booting with Kubuntu and Windows XP
- USENET
- Transfer speed
- Latex Book Margins
- Is there a Java keyword for the outer class instance of an inner instance class?
- Suse 32 vs 64 Bit
- Suse 32 vs 64 Bit
- Margin Setting
- PHP Login
October 26
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- Word
- 3D
- ava j2sdk1.4.0 question
- Microsoft Word
- NS mystery
- MacBook vs. PC laptop
- The best 15 inch laptop
October 27
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- Good headphones?
- irefox 2.0 and Wikipedia
- Online Jobs
- Modem router combos
- sd cards
- xml file
- join
- Carbon fibre mice
- Big VB Programming Project
- OIN popup
- Video Ipod
- NTFS & Linux
October 28
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- ASP date function
- Labtec Wireless Keyboard
- Mouse slowdown/speedup problem
- My PC rejects my new HDD
- JavaScript - processing long scripts
- Meebo
October 29
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Explorer taskAnswered- Alternatives to .lnk shortcuts?
- Valid python statement
g-mail accountANSWERED- text ⇒ avi
- There must be an easy answer to this
- Malfunctioning drive
- Wireless with Halo server
- Internet Access
- BIOS
- BitTorrent
- MP3 Player Help
- GMail
- bios
- Converting .MOV files to another format
- computational neurosciences
October 30
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- icrosoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Strange problem with Internet connections (on Mac OS X 10.2)
- GUI for GMT
- NT and .net framework 2.0
- New IE windows appearing very very very small
- Fall Out Boy CD Cover...
- Recycling In Linux
- Keyboard/Mouse Y-splitters
- Constant variables
- Proper Wikitext to Display a Javascript-only Hyperlink?
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and IT Compliance issues
- linking cells within an excel spreadsheet
- .bin / .cue burned...and so what?
- slow start up
- html tidying
October 31
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- Detecting speed of travel on computer
- Algorithms and code
- Popular wiki engine
- Trying To Understand File Management In Linux
- Bug: linking to downloads
- Hard Drive Recognition in SUSE Linux
- Dilemma: DVDs, macrovision, and other anti copy protocols
- Shell program
- Content Management System (or similar) for hosting user-submitted files
- Skype
- Windows vs SuSE Linux server platforms