Posts by DMR

More info on your network setup would help also:

- What make/model of NIC?

- Cable or DSL Internet access?

- Is there a router in the picture, or does the computer connect directly to your cable/dsl modem?

- Are you using DHCP or static IP assignment?

If you're using static IP addressing, check out some of the suggestions in this article:

http://www.stevewolfonline.com/Downloads/DMR/Doc/Linux/Network/NICConfig.txt

You might want to look at the environment around your house/neighborhood. Very strong electromagnetic bursts from an outside source can induce audible signals into speakers and other sound equipment, even if no power is applied to the devices (the wires to the devices pick up the signal because they act as antennae).

Here's an example:

I used to work for a professional audio recording facility located about 1/2 mile from the San Francisco bay, and during one recording project our equipment would pick up some nasty interference (very similar to what you describe), of short "bursty" duration, and at about the same time twice each day. The noise radiated into everything you could think of- our microphones, speakers, recording consoles, and tape machines, and was so bad that it caused us to stop the session during those times.

After a few weeks of examining every possible area of our facility for the source, some bright coworker figured it out somehow: it was the signal from the sweep radar on an aircraft carrier that was stationed at a naval base further down the bay. Each morning the carrier would pass close to our studio on its way out to sea for training manoeuvres, and each evening it would return to dock. The signal from its rotating radar antenna was so strong that it blasted us each time it passed.

Weird, eh? I doubt you're in the same situation, but you get the idea...

Changing the refresh rate might help, but it sounds like the real culprit is electical interference either from noise on your AC power line or RF noise being radiated thorugh the air from some nearby device.

sometimes i can see blocks of lines running down the screen

If you're trying to describe rather wide horizontal bands that slowly crawl down your screen, those are roll bars, probably induced by something dumping "hum" onto your power lines. Try moving the computer to an outlet on a different electrical circuit, and consider suspects such as large appliances, microwaves, or light dimmers; all of these can induce interference. If the bars appear intermittently, see if they coincide with such a device turning on.

Flickering and other screen fluctuations can be caused by nearby electromagnetic fields. Speakers or telephones placed too close to the monitor are often the cause of this. If you have no such devices close to the monitor, see if relocating/reorienting the monitor minimizes the interference; you might be able to pinpoint the source of the problem that way.

Your log file is pretty clean; are you sure you don't have a DNS issue instead?

Try reaching a website by its IP address instead of its URL. Using Google as an example, in Internet Exploder's location bar, type the following:

http://64.233.167.99

Does that take you to Google?

Also try opening a DOS box and typing the following commands. Tell us the results of each:

ping www.google.com

ping 64.233.167.99

well first i installed windows xp and then i installed suse linux on my computer.
for windows xp -cdrive ,d drive ,e drive
for linux i made a seperate partition
to reinstall the linux it encounters the problem!!!.

To try to answer your question though-

- On which drive are you trying to install SuSE, and how is that drive partitioned.

- When you say "it encounters the problem", what is the exact error message concerning the partition table?

- What program/utility are you using to partition the drives?

From the "Trippy but True Hardware Fixes" department:

For any of you out there who've had the wonderful misfortune of having a hard drive go totally belly-up on you, but recovering the data on the drive is absolutely necessary, check this out:

One of my clients' old Maxtor drives finally went South on her this weekend, just as I was in the middle of migrating her data over to her brand new computer. The drive just suddenly died- whir!, click!, spin down, vanished, kaput. I couldn't get it to spin up again on a few subsequent power-cyclings of the machine, and not wanting to damage either of her computers, I took it back to my shop to try to revive it. I put it in three different computers (running Windows and Linux), but it refused to engage in any of them at all; all I got from the drive were a few sick-sounding whines, and one of the controller chips began to get really hot.

I was just about to call her and give her the bad news when I remembered a really off-the-wall fix that I read about ages ago: wrap the drive in an anti-static bag, wrap that in couple of zip-lock baggies, and stick the beast in the freezer overnight. I Googled around a bit and found that this was considered to be a huge "Urban Legend" by many folks, but others said that the fix had indeed worked for them.

WTF I …

Some info on the trojan:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Dyfica+Trojan&btnG=Google+Search

Note the references to disabling System Restore and running your utilities in Safe Mode. If system restore is enabled, and the virus was present at the time your last restore point was taken, the virus can be reintroduced to your system that way.

Yes, definitely make sure the master/slave jumpers on the drive are set correctly for the drive's location on the new computer's IDE chain.

If the jumpers are set correctly, open a DOS box and see what the "fdisk" has to report about the drive.

If downloading is a pain, you might want to order CDs from www.cheapbytes.com. They've got quite a variety of distros available, and as their name says- the prices are cheap.

Hey- Chill out.

As I've said, your question isn't suited to this forum, and I've already told you what the proper course of action should be. Additionally, some of the methods that could possibly be used to obtain the info you want are themselves illegal in some situations, and we don't do the hacks and cracks thing here because of that.

Look, just because someone IMs you saying they have your IP or other information:

A) In and of itself does not make them a stalker.
B) Doesn't even mean that they really have the information they say they do.
C) Doesn't necessarilly mean that they can do anything with that info even if they do have it.

Get yourself behind a good firewall, harden your system, block IMs from this "stalker", and let him go find someplace else to play.

ctfmon.exe info <- This is a valid MS Office component, although not critical

nscntrl.exe info <- This is component of a trojan!!

msdmxm.exe <- From what I've read, an "adult services" dialer; it should go

Please read through the posts in our Security forum for information on detection and removal of trojans, spyware, etc.
If you find that you have been infected and need further help, please start a new thread in the Security forum. Include as much info as possible concerning what troubleshooting steps you've taken so far, as well as any helpful info you've gotten from any detection and removal utilities you've run.

what's to stop someone from getting a gang togeather... It's a possibility.

More than a possibility- I've even seen people register on a site under several different user names for the express purpose of mounting their own "denial of karma" attack against someone else- no gang needed. This kind of abuse of "rating systems" is what has caused many forums to drop ratings altogether.

If you honestly want to verify a member's reputation, the best thing to do is to use the "find posts by this member" option available on many/most forums and read through some of those posts. You'll be able to determine pretty quickly whether the member is worth relying on.