Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2014

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December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 2

1. How do you use Coreboot with an x86 or x64 motherboard?
2. Given an electrical motor and a PC
3. Adobe Photoshop 7
4. What does fn+f5 do on my Windows 7 laptop?

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 3

1. Damaged HDD
2. Replacing the C: disk
3. What are some of the most secure and affordable wireless routers?
4. Alignment Problem with Access Report

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 4

1. Internal data structure for an editor-like application as a binary tree

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 5

1. What were the reasons for Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to drop their support for Symbian OS?
2. hacking via skype
3. XFS AG
4. What are the longest-lived consumer electronic standards to be superseded/surpassed in the near past or future?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 6

1. Haskell why do so much people praise it but so little people use it?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 7

1. Building sequence from (possbibly non-connected) subsequences...
2. Back Button Should Operate at the Topic Page Level, Not the Window-within-the-Page Level
3. Merging iPhones
4. Flipping web pages

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 8

1. Cellphone theft
2. Windows 95
3. Prolog: help for beginner
4. Missing dll file

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 9

1. C++ How to avoid copying temporary object when it's passed to a container function
2. checkpoint (1)
3. checkpoint (2)
4. checkpoint (3)
5. checkpoint (4)
6. checkpoint (5)
7. checkpoint (6)
8. checkpoint (7)
9. C++, inserting an element to std::list, which is faster and why
10. A keyboard-oriented configurable Linux-distro
11. Audacity question
12. caching problem with date-sensitive page content

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 10

1. Hosting English Wikipedia in College
2. I have 2 headphone ports on my pc
3. Documenting on code revisions
4. DVD/CD ROM Drive issue
5. Ext3 vs Ext4 — Journal Size Range
6. Ref desk menu

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 11

1. How to write pseudocode similar to code presented in “Beautiful Code” by J. R. Heard?
2. computer motherboard
3. Trade in digital PS4 game for disc?
4. Where are my emails going ?
5. What is dpuf?
6. What are the advantages of windows phone 8 over android and the advantages of android over windows phone 8?
7. Windows 8.1 paint program

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 12

1. Photoshop performance
2. Can TeX generate “heap dumps” to analyze+optimize out-of-memory situations?
3. Burning with Nero a movie with subtitles
4. Chromecast help
5. When can you say that you can program without being called a liar?
6. How does the page do this?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 December 13

1. Wordpress site to mirror other sites' blogs?
2. "SubOS" - is this actually a thing?
3. Firefox default search preference
4. Vectorized database
5. Reinstalling Windows 7 to remove bloatware