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    Damaged Partition Table

    Hi. A friend of mine has managed to stop his WinXP laptop from booting by corrupting the partition table of the hard disk. He wants me to try to recover whatever data I can from the hard disk. Can I just boot off a knoppix CD and use fdisk to re-write the partition table (it was all one big...
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    Moving XP Pro installation to new motherboard

    I'm upgrading the motherboard, RAM, and CPU in my computer, but keeping all the other components including hard disk, as is. The question is, will I be able to keep my current installation of Win XP Pro, or am I forced to do a re-install? Is there anything I can do in advance to ease the...
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    Problems mounting a fat32 partition in gentoo -solved

    I'm having problems mounting a vfat partition using my gentoo installation. On /dev/hdb1 I have a fat32 partition which is working fine under windows. However, when I try to do a mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win I get a "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many...
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    I wanna play games on Linux

    I use linux at work all the time, and I generally prefer it to windows - the desktop, the internet apps, the OS, the whole thing. Both my computers at home are dual boot windows-and-linux machines, but I never boot either of them into linux. And why not? Well, because I spend about 90 per...
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    Windows XP Localisation

    I'm living france at the moment, and I'm about to put together a new pc. This will include a "french version" of Winows XP Pro, probably an OEM CD. My question is, will this be in any fundamental way different from an english language version, or will I be able to pick the languages during the...
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    Linksys WAG54G for sharing UK cable

    I'm thinking about buying the Linksys Wireless G ADSL Gateway (WAG54G) for sharing my ADSL connection while I'm here in France. However, in a few months' time, I will be returning to the UK, where I will probably get internet access from NTL, and hence a cable modem. My question is, will I...
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    ATM/ Ethernet networking

    Hi, I'm using a linux box to connect two parts of our network. The first part of the network is IP-over-ATM (CLIP) which is coming into an Interphase ATM card in the Linux box. This appears to work fine, as "ifconfig atm0" shows the number of incoming packets incrementing correctly. The...
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    SOLVED- Problems with Multiple NICs/Physical networks in Win2000

    We've got a PC running Windows 2000 Pro that has four network cards in, each one is connected to a different physical network, with a different subnet on it eg: card 1 has IP address 140.94.1.10 and is physically connected to all 140.94.1.xxx IP addresses card 2 has IP address 140.94.2.10 and is...
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    SOLVED -Excel Macro - Importing data from text file

    Ok, so I've got some data in a comma separated text file, and I need to import it into an Excel spreadsheet. Now, I can just about manage that manually :-) but we're going to be doing it over and over, so one of the guys in the lab said "just write a visual basic macro". Now, I've never...
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    Yet another Firebird problem

    I'm running Firebird 0.6 on Win NT and I'm having problems opening images with it. I've got the Tabbrowser extensions installed running in single window mode, and when I double click on a .jpg file, the browser opens up a new tab(which is what I want), but it's empty (about:blank in the...
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    Sept 30th

    Well, the day is finally here, but there's no sign of Half Life 2. Is anyone actually surprised?
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    Request for Win2000 optimisation FAQ

    I've just installed windows 2000 for the first time, and I'd like to get it it running to the best of its ability. Can someone point me in the direction of a good tweaking guide -- I could search the forums, but if there's a guide already out there that people trust, I'd prefer that. I'm...