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    Google Wave invites!!!

    Can anyone please invite me sharathg786[at]gmail[dot]com ----------------------------------------- Posted again: ----------------------------------------- Can anyone please invite me sharathg786[at]gmail[dot]com
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    Which lcd monitor to buy?

    Thanx for your suggestion :smile: I was looking samsung product website, anyone knows how's the T220? the price? It looks beautiful. > Any suggestions on dell monitors? > is the glossy frame (samsung monitors) a distraction? > Also is HDCP good or bad? :grin:
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    Which lcd monitor to buy?

    Hi all, I'm very confused with all these lcd monitors available in the market. I'm looking for 22 or 24 inch (dell, samsung or lg), my budget is <16K Mainly use it for watching movies and for gaming. Which one do you guys suggest, also can anyone guide me with what specs/options I should...
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    CMOS error

    Thanx! and sorry for opening this thread here, i request the mod to delete/move it
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    CMOS error

    Hi, Im having a triple boot with windows XP, slackware & BSD. Every time i start my comp, it halts before showing the bootloader (LILO), it says a CMOS error has occured & the BIOS settings are set to default, due to this I have to set the system time & USB keyboard support to "enabled" every...
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    How do open source people earn?

    Thanx for all the gyan guys!! @mediator: Thanx for all the info, the very 1st few lines cleared my misconception :D
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    How do open source people earn?

    I always wanted to ask this question, how do open source software developers earn, i mean for ex: u can get an ubuntu cd anywhere in the world for FREE, what's the use for them?? u may say i didn't google enough... i did, but this question is too general :D
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    console resolution on FreeBSD 6.2

    Yes, i have added, vesa_load="YES" line in /boot/loader.conf file.
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    Help on free BSD installation

    U guys might be able to help me with this as well: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=556148#post556148 :D
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    console resolution on FreeBSD 6.2

    Im using FreeBSD 6.2, how to adjust the resolution of the console mode? I used vidcontrol command and i get the following error: $vidcontrol MODE_261 0A7F0G0H7Ividcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Inappropriate ioctl for device 0A7F0G0H7Ividcontrol: cannot activate raster display...
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    Help on free BSD installation

    I had gone through the handbook for the installation part, It said "FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition" ..... but didn't say it can't be installed on a logical partition :D (thought there could be a work around). But thanx for reminding me again, i had forgotten to refer the...
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    Help on free BSD installation

    Partition magic... ah!! :eek: what I would have done without it. Thanx for all the replies guys, BSD is up & running! without touching slack & windoze! LILO is the boot manager Just have to do some fine tuning now.... mounting logical partitions (hope atleast this is possible), sound problems...
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    Help on free BSD installation

    Thought of trying BSD and didn't take much time to know that it needed a super geek to install.... I needed help on partitoning: I'm having a 40 GB HDD, with triple boot, windows XP on my primary partition and Slackware & ubuntu on one of the logical partitons. Now, I want to replace ubuntu...
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    help me on Linux from Scratch (compiling binutils)

    Thanx!! for the link it worked! :)
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    help me on Linux from Scratch (compiling binutils)

    Hi, can anyone help me on building linux from scratch? I am trying to build my own linux for the 1st time, but am stuck in the early stage itself... I use Fedora core 6 as my host system, I am referring to the LFS book ver. 6.2 and am currently in chapter 5.3 I get these errors when I do 'make...
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    Partition problem!!

    then i guess i will remove some more applications that i don't need in order to free up space
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    Partition problem!!

    Hi, im using fedora core 6, I also have windows XP on my hard disk (40 GB) and have kept 8-9 GB for linux. Now : >my root partition is an ext3, with 4.9 GB, out of which im left with just 160 MB free :( (I thought 4.9 GB was enough, and i haven't just blindly installed everything on my DVD)...
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    What is the use of workspaces?

    In KDE, right click on pane/ltaskbar/kicker ->configure panel-> taskbar and the 1st option. I find it useful only when i uncheck the above option, it doesn't look cluttered that way and with 3d desktop it looks cool :D you can have different backgrounds for each desktop if you want 8-)
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    What are these zombie processes doing?

    AFAIK Its ok to disable cups if you don't have printer. You said there's constant HD activity, try running 'htop' or 'top' as eddie said and see which uses max CPU, but see if you really want that process to be running. Probably some scheduled task may be running (the cron, anacron tasks etc..)...
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    What are these zombie processes doing?

    You may want to stop these services which you may not need, unless you are running any server: >sendmail ----> if you are not running any mail server >sshd ----> if you don't login to your PC remotely >httpd or apache ---->if you are not running any web server >mysqld ---->...
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