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better than mine, hehe. Pentium III 1.13MHz, 320M Ram, ASUS TLSI-M mainboard, inbuilt SiS video card with 32M sharing. 18Gb Samsung HDD. 8Gb partition1 with XP Pro, the other 10Gb partition installed with openSUSE 10.2. just installed last week. it used to be Mandirva 2007 but encountered with some video card compitable issue then i switched to openSUSE. so far so good intent to upgrade my memory last week, i sadly bought wrong dimm 168pin 512M ECC stickwhich my Bios doesnt support. hopefully i can swap a non-ECC stick with the owner who holded a stall at computer swap market in our city.

Hi nilayz, can you post more details about error messages, such as if there's Bios screen which show some memory and harddisks infor? if yes, then it might be your MBR problem. if not, then it's possible some error on your BIOS.

Red Hat and Fedora (they have the same company behind them) are beginner-friendly distros. They were designed to be by the big corporations behind them. They're much better starter distros than Ubuntu. Red Hat is not free while Fedora is its variant. for linux newbies Ubuntu,PCLinuxOS and MEPIS would be good for start point. they are very userfriendly. Debian,Slackware and FreeBSD are more functional and powerful except a bit complex of usages. while Fedora, Mandriva and openSuSe are in the middle. i install a Mandriva 2007 two months ago. it used to be on the second rank of top 10 Linux distros. it's very user-friendly and easy to configure. drawback of it is its compatibility with some hardware esp. for some old systems. have a look to this linktop 10 distros of linux

Scribefire is good, and also similar one Jeteye my favorite one is Clipmarks, you can use it to post any [pages to your blog, it support also most all popular blog web site, the drawback for it is that if it has size limit for the page you want to post to your blog, but you can clip and save it to the clipmark server without any limitation.

it's amazing fast. what the speed test location, i mean from where to where? mine is from Los angles to Melbourne

cable is the fastest except some security issues required attention. your ISP would normally setup the connection with cable modem and that makes your PC connected to Internet directly with routable ip address and if you dont configure your system with enough security application like firewall etc, your system would be possiblly exploited. one good countermeasure would be put a router btw your pc and cable modem and configure the router firewall to protect your sytem in terms of ports opening, forwarding issues.,

surprised to see so many people vote for Windows instead of Mac. the one thing Windows is superior than Mac is its user friendly application which in the other hand is also its weakness since it put all configuration infor into big core of register, and that make it so vulnerable of being attacked. even though Vista 64bit applies new tech to its kernel stack/heap with random assigned memory addresses which makes it the most secured OS towards buffer overflow attack currently but within next a few years, it's hardly to see enough software esp. hardware drivers supported its 64bit system. therefore almost useless for a horse with diamond armour without being able to carry rider.