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    freeflatscreens.com

    Anybody else signed up for this? I took the ebay offer and made the opening bid on an item that I'll never win. Now I just need 8 other people to do it through my referral link ;) My referral link This is from the same people that do the freeipod.com. I saw the site at forevergeek: linky
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    WTB: Cheap PC133 SDRAM

    I'm looking for some cheap PC133 SDRAM for a Dell Dimension L800CXE. It is my brother's computer and I've had to flush it due to spyware/virus infections. He said he wanted it faster and I figured if I could throw 256MB of RAM in there for $20 that would be worth it. There is one DIMM in there...
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    [NEWS] - SpinRite 6.0

    SpinRite v6.0 was released on 6/7/2004 I happened to be visiting grc.com the other day to test a firewall, and saw this.
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    Shredders

    Got any recommendations under $100? I had one that I bought for like $25 or something. It was at least cross cut and 5 sheet capacity. It started leaking a yellowish substance which I assume was the lubricant and then it just seized one day and stopped working. I've got some birthday money and...
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    beeps!

    I have the sound muted and even a checkbox where it says disable pc speaker in audio properties. Yet when I am citrixed in to a client from which I remote desktop to another server and open up a korn shell instance which is from the mks toolkit, I get beeps when I screw up on the command line. I...
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    Cheap Laser Printer Recommendations?

    I was looking at the Samsung ML1710 as it was 199.99 - $100MIR = $99.99. But they no longer have that at Best Buy. I belive it was replaced by the ML1740 model which is $149.99, no rebate. And in the paper this week I see the Brother HL1440 for $179.99 - $30IR - $50 MIR = $99.99. So I am...
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    SR thread that needs help

    XP, 200GB, SATA, data corruption Sounds like someone here might be able to help http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=15029
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    winme & wininit.exe

    So my uncle's wireless went in without a hitch. But he had viruses and spyware and more problematic: a wininit.exe error on startup. He is running windows ME. So I cleaned the viruses - thanks AVG. But AVG wasn't updating. I had to uninstall and install the latest to get the updates. On the...
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    USB Port To USB Port?

    Can you connect two computers directly via the USB port? I want to move some files between a desktop and a laptop. I have a cable that would connect on both ends (it is an extension cable for a usb card reader). I just don't want to hook them up and blow both usb ports out or something.
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    New Toy - High Resolution - Text Too Small

    Posting from my new 'toy': work laptop Dell Centrino 1.6 winxp pro sp1 Anyway, the native resolution is 1400x1050. So I'm using that when docked as well but now all the text is tiny. Some programs work fine others have text too tiny. I tried messing with the appearances settings but I can't...
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    SATA

    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/serialata_faq.mspx
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    CompactFlash Deal

    US Only Lexar 12X Compact Flash CF512-12-252 At officemax item# 2060-2117 In sales flyer for $99.99 this week, regularly $179.99. So far not that great a deal, but add $20 MIR and you are at $79.99. You have to call 1-877-633-4236 or go to a store for this. Now what I did was Compact Flash...
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    Secure Digital Memory

    Okay I've got 4 models to choose from. I want to get a 256MB card and have it be high speed. Choices: Lexar 32X : SD256-32-231 $75 @ newegg Panasonic : RP-SDH256U1A $79 SimpleTech ProX : STI-PROXSD/256 $85 @ newegg Not on my list but for comparison Sandisk...
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    XSL

    Anybody know any good books for learning XSL and related technologies. I work on developing custom pages for this web product. Their recent edition moved to an XML/XSL model and I need to learn that. I'm familiar with ASP, vbscript, javascript and html.
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    Maxtor 120GB on Silicon Image Controller woes

    Here I intend to chronicle my woes trying to get my maxtor 120GB working attached to the Silicon Image Controller. How I want to have it hooked it up: Onboard via southbridge controller PM: Pioneer DVD 105S PS: 250MB Zip SM: Verbatim (rebadge Liteon) CD-RW Silicon Image Controller PM: Maxtor...
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    Installed Win98SE then computer hangs at boot

    Weird thing happened. I disconnected all my drives except for dvd drive and hard drive. The western digital was alone on its cable on an Promise Ultra33. I put it on the onboard controller. Couldn't find a 98 boot disk, so I broke out win2kpro. Created two partitions during setup, 2048 and...
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    Mozilla Annoyances - Any Solutions?

    I switched to Mozilla from IE and need to address some annoyances. Thought you guys might now of solutions. 1) Can't use windows favorites to manage favorites. 2) When opening bookmarks menu sometimes it seems to scroll even when I just opened it. As any more come up I'll post here.
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    Sony DCR-TRV27

    Link is for information purposes. Sony DCR-TRV27 Asking $800 shipped in US. Includes everything that came with the camera originally (including box) plus the Pinnacle Studio I bought with firewire card & cable. If no one here wants it, I'll post same deal on storagereview in a few days. Send...
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    DVD Player Crashes

    Everytime I try to play a dvd it crashes when it gets to the menu. It plays the intro just fine but then bombs with a memory access error (memory at address x could not be "read"). Any ideas? Soyo 6VCA ATI Rage Fury Pro VIVO Windows 2K I tried without success: new driver from windows update...
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    RC5-64 challenge completed

    RC5-64 challenge completed http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/releases/pr.asp?doc_id=1400 http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html So what should I use my computer power for now?
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    Firewire Card with DV software

    I'm looking to buy one of these and wondered if you guys had any thoughts. Original SR thread is here. What do you think of Orange Micro's cards? Anybody have any thoughts on the DV Software? Should I buy the USB 2.0 + Firewire combo? I'm going to use it with a Sony MiniDV camcorder. Just...
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