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    MSWord Odd Page Size & Margins Causing Text Cutoff

    A friend is trying to print onto some odd paper in a particular spot in Microsoft Word, and for some reason when I setup the margins, the text in the body is cutoff (viewable in print-preview) although it should be correct according to MSWord. First, here is the layout of the type of paper...
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    Send post-data with wget only once

    I'm trying to mirror a site with a login using wget and post-data but an receiving error 405 codes... The site doesn't use cookies to handle logging in, so I have to pass my username/password with the --post-data option to the login script. This seems to work fine and it starts mirroring the...
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    Record output from idle DVI out on vid card.

    I have a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and was wondering if there are any products can record from my DVI-out (I use VGA to my CRT). I can't use a program on my own computer as it would be very resource intensive (i don't want to lag my own computer as I want to record from a video game). The preferred...
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    Something remapped the My Documents folder...

    from the original C:\Documents and Settings\Henning\My Documents to C:\Documents and Settings\Henning\Recent\My Documents The My Documents folder on the desktop goes to the Recent\ one. I just noticed this after I installed the gamespot.com download manager or whatever the heck that thing...
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    Load balancing two internet connections based on port info

    My apartments give two internet connections to each apartment and I'm looking for a software based load balancing solution. My only request is to have a filter to send traffic on a certain port to one connection, and other ports to another. For example, all game ports (e.g. 27015 for...
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    Corrupt CD-R's

    I'm trying to burn a VCD onto a CD-R, and I can see all the root directories, but it tells me everything is corrupt. I'm using an Acer CDR (12x8x32x) with 12x capable CDR's and the Nero ASAPI or ATAPI or whatever it's called (atleast I think I am) with Nero 5.5.7.8. Any ideas?
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    Problems booting two hard-drives (Windows XP)

    System specs: Asus P4B266-c w/ 1.6a @ 2.24Ghz Western Digital 800JB (80gig) Maxtor D740x (40gig) Toshiba DVD Acer 12x8x40x CD-RW I currently have the two hard-drives on the primary IDE, and the two CD-roms on the secondary ide. I setup my jumpers (Master w/ Slave present on WD, Slave on...
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    VoodooPC Cabling System (Picasso)

    Does anyone know where I can find some info on how they do their cabling? Their system look very clean, but I just don't see how it's done ;)
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    Antec SX830 Replacement Panel and dBa of retail hardware...

    I managed to severely scratch up a panel of my Antec SX830 case transporting my computer to a LAN party. Instead of going through the hasle of painting the case myself, I would rather just order a replacement (beige). Does anyone know where I can get these? I would also like to know if anyone...
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    Asus P4b266-c HDD LED...

    Am I just stupid, or is there no HDD LED plugin for this motherboard? :o
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    Smoke safe for electronics...

    I was wondering what type of smoke is safe for testing the airflow inside my computer?
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    Problems playing US Marshals DVD...

    I'm in Europe right now and a friend of mine is having a problem playing this DVD. I can get to the dvd title screen but the "Main" selection is greyed out. I can use the arrows to select the special features and another topic I can't remember off the top of my head, but I can't get to the...
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    Downloading Microsoft's Virtual Java Machine...

    I go to Microsoft's update site to get the Java Virtual Machine and it tells me it's no longer avaliable via "automatic update", and I go the website on www.microsoft.com and it tells me to go to Windows Update. Where can I download the regular Java Virtual Machine from Microsoft (the one...
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    Mulitple instances of SETI and multiple computer problems...

    Ok, I have two questions: 1) When I leave my Windows XP box idle for a few hours and SETI is running, I come back to 10 or 12 instances of SETI in my tray, but once I mouse over one, they all disapeer (much like when you end-task a program to get rid of the icon). What is this, and is there a...
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    Super slim fans (40mm?)

    My friend is having a heating problem. His graphics card shipped with a heatsink on the gpu, but there is no fan on top of that heatsink. His system used to lockup after a bit of game playing because the card would get to hot. I temporarily fixed the problem by jimmy-rigging a fan to the back...
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    I killed my sound (XP/SB Live! 5.1)

    First of all: I couldn't figure out where to put this becuase their is no audio forum, so I will try to find an answer here. Sometimes when I plug in or unplug my headphones to the back of my computer, it reboots or freezes my computer... earlier today, I tripped over my headphones which made...
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    Sharing 2 DSL/cable modems...

    Next year I am moving away from home for college and I am betting on the network connection sucking. So I have a few questions: For one, you can't get cable/dsl to a dorm can you? That's not really a problem because I plan on getting an apartment outside the school. So here come the "real"...
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    Onboard AC97 audio is screwey...

    I play Counter-Strike and I need my voicecomm to work for matches and such. My SB Live! 5.1 would make my transmit all static, and no one can hear me correctly... I decided I would try to use my Onboard audio and mic input to see if that would help anything... I enabled AC97 Audio, and Onboard...
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    Required ram...

    I'm trying to get my old dell up and running with linux, but I found that my motherboard (intel 810 - i think) only supports 4x64 ram... most ram you find now is 32x64 9if i'm not mistaken) and I get a beep error when I try to use this ram... right now I have 64mb of ram (2 sticks filling both...
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    Needed DLLs for Kernel (XP)

    Trying to install Windows XP and after it copies all the files it reboots and stops at the progress bar and spits out the error: Load needed DLLs for Kernel.... Anyone get this error or know how I can keep installing?
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    Sony G400 vs ViewSonic G790

    They both seem exceptional, around the same price, and close to the same specifications.. Any recommendations? What about a nice quality 17" monitor that is a bit cheaper?
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    VIA chipsets...

    A friend was talkuing to me about how unstable and reliable the VIA chipsets were. Can anyone post a good article detailing the VIA chipsets against other chipsets? Personally, I'm looking at the i850 chipset on the Abit TH7-RAID motherboard... any comments?
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    Windows XP setup crashes...

    I recently had some problems with my computer and I planned on reformatting my hard-drive... the problem included random short freezes and I thought it had something to do with my RAM... I called Crucial and I switched out my two sticks of 256MB for two new sticks... got them in a few days ago...
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    Freezing...

    This isn't total freezing, but every few minutes my computer will just freeze for 5-9 seconds.... usually when I do something... say, I dbl-click someone's name on AIM it will take forever to load the window; or click a folder on the start-menu, it freezes trying to load the contents.... i'm...