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    return policy for hypersonic laptop, i'm a little confused

    i hope this is the right forum for this. sorry if it's not. i bought a hypersonic laptop a few days ago, and it's too late to cancel the order without a penalty. the trouble is, i didnt shop around enough, and i found a considerably better deal. i looked at hypersonic's return policy, and...
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    foreign ebay buyer, how not to get screwed?

    i sold an old alphastation for a decent amount of money tonight, and my buyer is in south korea. may not have been such a wise move to sell worldwide, but i didnt want to exclude a high bidder. the red flag went up with his first statement regarding paypal. here is the meat of his email back to...
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    which font is displayed on the fedora website?

    on the fedora website, they use a font that i've seen elsewhere, mostly on linux-related sites. can anyone tell me what the name of it is? i've tried googling, and i know the answer is out there somewhere, but i can't seem to find it. thanks much. *of course now, the fedora website isnt...
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    will crucial stand behind their lifetime warranty?

    i ran memtest on the two PC133 256 MB sticks i have, and i have tons of errors. they are both crucial sticks, but i'm almost certain they were not bought from the crucial store. will they honor the lifetime warranty? after testing those sticks, i decided to test my 512MB PC2100 stick, just...
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    how to start COMPLETELY over with a hard drive

    so i need to know how to completely wipe a hard drive clean and start over. will something like killdisk accomplish this? i wiped a drive with killdisk, and booted off the windows xp disk, formatted, and installed the temp windows files, and rebooted. you are supposed to be able to boot from...
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    problems with a new install of XP

    i have an old pentium III machine i assembled with parts i got from a friend, and others lying around my house. so, i put ubuntu linux on it, just to see what everyone was raving about. i liked it, but the purpose of this machine is to run windows while i migrate my (relatively) fast amd xp...
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    replacing PSU fan

    i'm going to be replacing all noisy fans in my (lian-li pc-60) case, my computer sounds like a very small jet. the loudest fan is the PSU fan. would it be worth it to switch the fan, or would it be a waste of time? doing the actual swap is no problem, but since i've never done this before, i...