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    CCD cameras and nighvision/IR LEDs?

    Hi guys, I've got a CCD camera which appears sensitive to IR (pointing a TV remote at it shows the IR LED blinking), I'm wandering if I can just get a perforated PCB, mount a few IR LEDs on it and use it as nightvision? If so, does anyone know what specs are required for the LEDs (wavelength &...
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    Dell 1800FP TFT - thoughts?

    I currently have a Hanson H750 17" TFT. Its a cheap thing, does its job and I'm reasonably pleased with it, considering the price I paid 6 months ago (£300). Browsing the pages of www.novatec.co.uk I found the Dell 1800FP, a black 18" TFT with 3 years warranty and DVI-in for £315 which is a...
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    Mixing left/right on 2 channel amp

    Hi all, what I'm trying to do is run three speakers from a 2 channel amp. I want the third speaker to play the signal from both right and left channels. I understand I need a circuit to do this, does anyone know if it is easy to build such a circuit, what is the degradation in sound quality...
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    AOL and ICS

    Hi, I have a client who is trying to get his AOL connection to work with 2 machines which are hooked up using two NICs and crossover. Some people report it can be done, others that it cannot - ICS cannot be enabled as the AOL software dials up. Meanwhile he has a 12 month contract with AOL...
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    A7N8X S-ATA questions

    Hi, I'm wondering how to boot off the Silicon Image S-ATA controller on the A7N8X deluxe. There is no option either in the system BIOS or the S-ATA BIOS which seems to concentrate on creating RAID arrays only. Any ideas? Manual says nothing about it. Thanks
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    Drive icon missing?

    Came across this on a friend's XP machine - take a look: It suddenly decided to change the icon of the C: drive to a generic one. Tried changing it under "Tools" menu, but the correct icon is displayed and I tried to change it to something else and then change it back again but to no effect...
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    Front page info XP3000+

    Got this in the mail from AMD today, I've never used the news feature on the front page so I'm not quite sure how to use it - if someone wants to add it then go ahead: SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-FEBRUARY 10, 2003-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor 3000+ - the world's...
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    CPU Museum

    http://cpu-museum.de Some interesting stuff there. Came across the site some weeks ago and was meaning to post it but forgot. blakewry's thread reminded me of it.
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    Digital cameras

    About time to change my 4 year old Olympus 840. Nikon Coolpix 2000 or Canon Powershot A30? :) I'm put off by the Nikon as it doesn't have a viewfinder and the flash is supposed to be poor, has anyone had any personal experience with these? Thanks
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    Outlook Alternatives

    My dad is using Outlook, and has been using the address of our provider back home that I used to use when I knew nothing about computers (1997... or somewhere thereabouts). Needless to say I used to fill out all these silly forms like all newbies, and as a result his box is full of spam, but...
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    Un-fdisk

    Hi, I accidentally fdisk'ed my drive by mistake, is there anything specifically designed to recover from this situation, like unformat.exe but for fdisk? Or shall I try generic recovery software? Thanks
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    Bad boot sector

    Hi, Got an old 2.5gb Caviar drive, it tests out fine but I suspect that the boot sector is shot. The drive has no bad sectors and I've written data on it all the way and read it back successfuly, but I cannot get it to install Windows, neither 2000 nor 98SE. After copying the files it cannot...
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    Which Socket 7 board?

    Hi all, I've got plenty of spares lying around from work, enough to make a system out of. I'm thinking of making one and giving it to my sister as she doesn't have a computer at the moment and I'm sure she wouldn't mind one to surf the net on. Basically I need to find some sort of AT case and...
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    Any info on a Sony Minidisk unit

    I just got a brand new Sony MDS-SP25 Minidisk unit for £10 (<$20)! However, this is intended to be connected to a Sony component system and therefore has a ribbon cable connector for the power, in and out connections (though it does have optical for this also). This is why they are selling...
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    Jehh getting the message?

    http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=5326 A little late but...
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    Who types most?

    Lets see who types the most in here! http://dolphin.bitdevil.com Download the 60kb program and get the stats rising! I've made a StorageForum.net team, ID number 1594 if you want to join. It just counts the number of keys one presses and by double clicking the icon, transmits the results back...
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    Man gets operation to become a cat????

    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_365440.html :-? bloody hell!
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    Anti SUV site

    About time someone made one... http://poseur.4x4.org Read on!
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    Passive cooling a GF3 Ti500

    I'm thinking of getting rid of my ageing GF2MX card and replacing it with a GF3 Ti500, in particular the Hercules 3D Prophet III Ti500 which I can get hold of at a particularly cheap price. I'd like to replace the heatsink/fan combo with a passive heatsink so as to avoid noise. This is...
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    Acoustic management from Windows

    Are there any programs out there which will allow one to change the acoustic management on a Barracuda IV from within windows? Basically, my problem is this: on my machine I'm using right now, there is no floppy drive (or a controller for one at that). The hard drive is NTFS so I can't access...
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    What do we all look like

    What do we all look like? Post photos! (yes I know, this is very sad. I'm getting bored here - might become the next Jason). Here I am: www.rotting-energy.net/Forums/boo.jpg (I realise I have to shave and have a hair cut... at some point) So, lets see everyone else's ugly mug on here!
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    Anyone heard of eZula?

    http://www.scumware.com/wm1.html I just found out about it... <sigh> :evil:
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    Mercutio@1k posts

    Congratulations for 1000 posts! :beer: Hope you overcome your recent problems and return to the usual posting rate :-)
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    www.zerofanzone.co.uk

    www.zerofanzone.co.uk Go check it out. Personally I wouldn't risk water in the PSU but hey... at least his computer is near enough damn silent.
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    My thoughts on the Zalman Flower

    I finally ended up with a very quiet AMD machine. At last! I used to use an Alpha 8045 on my XP1800 and, with the Papst 8412NG, ended up with a lot of noise and temperatures in the 60C range under full load. I was running the chip at 1667MHz, 1.8v. It would certainly do 1800MHz but I didn't...
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    IBM admits DTLAxxxx/ICxxxx problems...

    http://web6.scan.co.uk/OLQ/LogQuery.ASP Go to the bottom where is says "Click here to get HDD test utility". Link to the IBM DFT utility... and that form was a generic support form. But hey, whats that further down? Firmware update for 60GXP and 75GXPs (DTLA) for "failures due to prolonged...
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    A7V333 killing processors?

    http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=418ad510cb6f0d58ebe1c246fdd0f620&threadid=153305 hmm... looks a bit suspicious... anyone round here had similar problems?
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    Anyone got XP1800+ Benchmarks?

    Just set up my new system comprising of the following: MSI K7T266 Pro2 XP1800+, Alpha PAL8045 w/ Papst fan (I forget the model) 512Mb Crucial PC2100 (2x256) (all the other stuff is from my old computer) I was wandering if anyone has something similar (preferably with the same mobo) to compare...
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