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    48 bit LBA on a Linux distribution?

    I need a quick answer/opinion real fast! i got a 160 gb hdd with a new motherboard and amd 64 athlon 2800. during the windows setup it detected only 131069 mb(~ 131gb) although the bios correctly detects 160gb. i had posted this problem here...
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    160 gb = 131069 mb?

    i recently bought a 160 gb seagate harddisk( not SATA) . in the windows xp setup it shows me i have 131069 mb?...i know about the theory behind it that 1024 mb = 1 gb and hdd manufacturers use 1000mb =1 gb but is the difference so huge for 160 gb?
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    HTML to images

    check out this site: *www.100mb.nl/ good aint it!....i want to use the html code(its not a background image. the developer has done the ascii art in html) and make it into an image....how do i do that?is there any software/freeware for it?
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    decide your distribution

    been seeing lots of posts , people asking "which distro is the best" etc etc. the real question is "which distro is good for you". depending on your level of knowledge of computers and linux you would be comfortable using a certain distro. here's an online wizard which will help you decide on...
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    system reboots abnormally

    i have an airtel dsl connection for which i use a router and a LAN port on my motherboard(not a card). things were smooth for 6-7 months. now when im online for say like an hour or so, the connection abruptly disconnects. when i try to enable it , the system reboots! i dont suspect a trojan or...
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    recover grub

    i have a dual boot of xp and red hat 9.0. recently i reinstalled xp on C: leaving all other partitions intact. Now when i start my system i do not get the grup bootloader. how do i recover it back?
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    .dat images to .jpegs or something similar

    have you ever come across em before?-.dat images...........i need to convert em to jpegs,bmp ....any ideas.....freewares preferred.
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    mounting fat32 on ext3

    i remember seeing this thread..... and i tried to look for it but dint find it .......it was'nt mentioned in GNUrags -"These topics have been covered" anyways i wanted to mount my mp3's onto my red hat. i entered the below code in the CLI mkdir /mnt/win mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win...
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    Sticky for HijackThis log files.

    lets have a sticky for HijackThis log files! people who cant read em can post them here and we ll help them out.....wat say people?
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    editing boot.ini

    i installed stylexp and i dint apply any bootup screen yet it still asked me if it could "add a line to the boot.ini file"......to which i clicked yes. everytime i start the computer i get two choices windows xp (bootup screen) windows xp i figured the first is a copy of the original...
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    archiving databases off websites.

    you must have gotten spam several times offering cds of all importers, exporters , distributors of stuff like oil, pulses...etc..etc ......(just an example) . there are several sites which host the addresses, contacts of these guys and the spammers lift it from there to make a compiled...
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    weird mouse does not sleep.......

    i upgraded a computer by changing the cabinet(cpu,ram,motherboard.....) and a monitor. the mouse, keyboard and ups are still the same. the weird problem is that even when the computer is off the mouse(its optical) has its light on. even weirder is that even when the ups is switched off the mouse...
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    Cannot Disconnect my internet

    when i try to disconnect my internet (right click->disable) i get the following error: since im the only one on my pc , i am always logged on as administrator. does this error then mean that my pc is remotely controlled? help me out people.
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    firefox takes long to start

    when i first got firefox it used to fire up immediately. now it takes about 10-12 secs! is it cause i ve installed a lot of extensions?
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    LAN blues

    i have a LAN at home which consists of: my PC which has two LAN cards. one takes the cable internet and the other goes to my moms pc. we share the internet connection and the ISP knows about it. we pay a bit extra for this. the problem is that there are times , at least once in three days...
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    CD Drive keeps Ejecting!

    everytime i insert a cd......any cd..... the damn drive ejects it out ! no errors are also displayed.is it some kinda trojan horse prancing around in my system?
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    DVD to VCD converter

    hi, i need to convert a few dvds to vcds .........any suggestions of a freeware to do the job. i searched in *download.com but dint get any good ones
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    fla in frontpage

    if i ve created a banner in flash and i want to keep the rest of the page in html how do i integrate the .fla into frontpage while designing the page?i read somewhere that i ve to use dreamweaver to integrate my flash movies but im not very familiar with the dreamweaver interface......what are...
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    poster toaster!

    ok i very badly need posters for my room. the few free poster sites which i found in google dont have what i need. is there any software which can increase a pictures size without reducing its quality considerably . as for printing theres a place which can do it for me so i don have to print em...
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    Lost Control over Control Panel!

    Help! i used some windows hacking script to change the name of my "Control Panel" to PANEL X. and after i restarted i did get the cool name but i lost control over lotsa stuff. i cant run any .exe file. the error says that i have to specify an association for "exe" files. and if i open control...
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