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OT: CA Frys ads?

From what I can tell, the LA ads correlate pretty well to the stores in the bay area. I wouldn't guarantee a perfect correlation, but of the dozen or so things I remember seeing in an LA ad and then seeing at a fry's up here, it's always been the same price.
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- Post #4
- Oct 13, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Thoughts on Palladium - Microsoft's push for tighter computer security

To paraphrase a gun nut cliche - "When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy" There WILL be a way to remain anonymous on the net, no matter what they do. People that are up to malicious things will be the ones with the motive to find out how to obscure their identity and to do...
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- Post #44
- Jul 10, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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can you use a microfilter that comes with a dsl modem with a regular dial up modem

justin: I'm just about positive that ain't gonna work. DSL signals are higher in frequency than the ones that you normally use with your phone. that's why they can coexist on the wire with your phone line. the filter is just there to make sure those high frequencies don't do anything weird to...
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- Post #6
- Jul 7, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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digital audio out: are they all equal?

bizmark: I have heard that some sound cards (I believe creative labs) follow the s/pdif standard on their outputs, except that instead of switching between 0.5V and 0v, it switches between 5V and 0V. It's entirely possible that hooking such a thing up to a receiver could damage it. If you...
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- Post #4
- Jul 7, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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glue to repair speaker??

no problem, whenever I post a question here I try to answer as many others as I can in hopes that good karma will come my way :) I think you want to be careful with stuff like acetone and goo gone (xylene maybe?) some things can have holes burned into them quite easily by some solvents, not...
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- Post #4
- Jul 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Monitor cabling

A good place to look for info on this would be home theater forums - people often drive their projectors/bigscreens/etc with pcs and send the signals over long runs of coax good high quality coax should do well in the tens of feet range. the longer it gets, the more the quality will matter. I...
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- Post #3
- Jul 4, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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glue to repair speaker??

There are kits that can be ordered to replace the surround completely - the foam surrounds tend to rot (though if yours is really rubber, rot shouldn't be a problem) Apparently the glue can be purchased separately at Parts Expressl. A 6 pack of those acid brushes they list under related items...
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- Post #2
- Jul 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

Unfortunately I'm not close enough to try it myself anymore, but I'll relay the suggestion to check it. Seems weird that we'd have repeated problems with that one slot over the other but maybe it's just more stiff than the other one for some reason. thanks!
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- Post #10
- Jul 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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A decent file recovery program for Windows

All the free versions of NT file recovery programs I've seen were pretty cruel - they'd tell you what they could recover if you paid for them, but wouldn't actually recover anything. Also, if you just deleted something you want to recover, probably the last thing you'd want to be doing is...
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- Post #3
- Jul 3, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

Thanks for the post, it's interesting to hear that. I have to say we've probably had RAM in and out of the slot a good dozen times, but maybe it's just harder to get it seated in that particular slot for some reason. When you had the RAM in and it wasn't seated all the way, were the tabs on...
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- Post #8
- Jul 3, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

Thanks for the reply WW. I did try them both and they seemed to work fine in that one slot. We also tried pulling the board and standing it up on edge on something to check for shorts to the case, no luck there too :( I didn't really notice that slot feeling different than the other...
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- Post #6
- Jul 3, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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SPDIF to Coax

This is all goofy - the digital output of the card should all be on one "channel" meaning it only needs two pins a "mono" jack should be all you need, and if it works for 2 channel digital, it should work for 5 channel. I think it's probably just a software setting and if you hook it back up...
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- Post #9
- Jul 2, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

One last attempt at getting an opinion before sending the board back to newegg :(
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- Post #4
- Jul 2, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Modem/internet reception problem. Plz help.

This may sound like a dumb idea, but have you tried plugging your pc into the phone jack that the kids computer is using? There's an off chance that it's flaky house wiring.
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- Post #2
- Jul 1, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

No ideas? I was hoping for someone who had an nv7m (or at least another nforce motherboard) to share their ram experience just so i know there's nothing fishy going on. I am relatively sure that this point it's a bad motherboard, but you never know...
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- Post #3
- Jul 1, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trouble with Abit NV7m - seems to be RAM

I've been helping my brother setup a system he ordered from newegg. It's an 1800+ XP in an Abit NV7M, and he got 2 Crucial 256MB DDR DIMMs . For quite a while we were thinking something was DOA as it wouldn't bootup at all - nothing on the monitor output at all, and it just sat there and...
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- Jun 30, 2002
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Computer Building
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Ameritech DSL $29.95/month for one year- No fees + free equipment!

True, that! With ATTBI cable, my pings are always at least 2-3 times higher than the pings I used to get on Pacbell DSL. That's lots better, right? It gets me all nostalgic about back when I played games on a modem. Except it fluctuates a lot more than my modem did. Good old best.com.
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- Post #36
- Jun 27, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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__Nice NiMH charger & batteries deal__

I don't believe you'll ever get a true AA battery in Lithium ion. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but a single Li-ion cell is like 3 volts (a little more maybe?) so a 1.5V battery would be impossible -unless they did something crazy like incorporate a dc-dc converter in the cell :) of...
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- Post #16
- Jun 22, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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OC'ing a Cel900 on an old BX board

thanks for the info old fart, i forgot about the "turbo" setting since i considered it to not be enough of a boost to be worthwhile :) I can try removing the slower drive, i assumed it was the pci bus because of the fact that when it hung, the drive access light was on steady (even though it...
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- Post #8
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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OC'ing a Cel900 on an old BX board

Poop. I gave it a go at 112, and its unstable. My HD light just sat on constantly when it got to windows, and it hung immediately. I guess maybe the HDs don't like the bus speed hike (an old maxtor 8GB and a WD 45GB) I don't have any options in the bios between 112 and 100, I wonder if i can...
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- Post #6
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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APC+120amp hours battery=insane uptime?

No problem. I'd look someplace like this for a box Though you can't quite tell from the picture if it's exactly what you'd want. I think the best would be a box that had a lid that didn't let water in, but then maybe some downlooking vents around the edges or something to let the gas...
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- Post #8
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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APC+120amp hours battery=insane uptime?

If you put the battery outside, you have to worry about it getting wet! If you're going to try that, I'd get a marine battery box, put fuses on both leads INSIDE the battery box (you want the fuses close to the battery, because if anything goes wrong after the fuses, they'll blow, but if its...
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- Post #6
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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OC'ing a Cel900 on an old BX board

thanks for the help, i'll give it a go! I start thinking about a mobo with the right multipliers.. then i start thinking about a new mobo + proc... then i start thinking about the new ram and power supply it'd likely need.. ARGH. trying to wait for clawhammer! :)
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- Post #5
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Powering an ATX mobo from 12v car battery

I guess I'll answer my own question :) I did some more google-ing (tweaking the search terms makes all the difference) and apparently it's something other people are thinking about as well. Here's one link. Also, on this page there are a handful of interesting links (search the page for "car...
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- Post #2
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Can I convert this Samsung Server Powersupply to a normal ATX powersupply?

This link may help (warning, it's a .pdf, you'll need acrobat reader or equivalent) Somewhere towards the end it shows the ATX pinout, gives a Molex part number for the connector, and then briefly describes the function of the signal lines. You can probably find the molex connector online...
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- Post #2
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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OC'ing a Cel900 on an old BX board

Does anyone have any experience overclocking in this situation? I have an old rev BH6, and I don't think it has the right multiplier for the PCI bus to be derived from a 133 main bus speed, so I think that any overclocking I do with this 100MHZ bus celeron is going to overclock the pci bus I...
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- Jun 15, 2002
- Replies: 9
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Powering an ATX mobo from 12v car battery

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had heard of a way to power an ATX motherboard directly from a car's battery. I guess since dc-dc converters typically aren't cheap maybe the cheapest (yet least elegant) solution would be to use an inverter. Either way, I'd imagine using a small 12v batter as a...
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- Jun 15, 2002
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Assigning an IP address question..

Is your DSL provider using PPPoE? I know pacbell is switching everyone to that. If so, then yes you can assign an IP number. The PPPoE software that loads will override whatever is there. If no PPPoE (ie you are getting your IP assigned through standard DHCP) then you need to leave it as...
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- Post #4
- Jul 22, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Best Vanilla Ice Cream

Ben and Jerry's "World's Best Vanilla" is quite good, as is Haagen Daas' vanilla. Both are the kind you eat and say "Holy Cr*p, this is vanilla?", especially if you are used to eating Baskin Robbins or some generic store bought stuff (Lady Lee?). cot
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- Post #14
- Jul 20, 2000
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Lan Party Server Help Needed

The cyrix may do better than you think. The integer unit is reasonably fast, it's the floating point unit that is wimpy A lot of the FPU burden of 3D games is that of the renderer, which is not relevant for a dedicated server. I'm not sure just how much FPU use is done by the dedicated...
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- Post #4
- Jul 19, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Ill kill whoever did this....

Hehe, yeah, you can't do that! Unless you do it anyways. I just set up a network like that a few weeks ago. We only needed ~75 IPs, the ISP gave us 1/2 a class C. cot
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- Post #5
- Jul 19, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Chat on a LAN ?

You can't just use netmeeting for that? I thought that you could just put in the IP number and it would connect. Yeah, if i didn't live in a small condo I might look at setting up something similar for kicks :D. cot
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- Post #10
- Jul 19, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Russ/Anyone - Cable Modems & Routers

jmcoreymv: I had the same question. Was is a harware problem or user error? I didn't find it hard to set up at all, but I've set up NAT before, so maybe that helped more than I realized. cot
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- Post #18
- Jul 19, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Russ/Anyone - Cable Modems & Routers

Hey, just to chime in here, I just got a Netgear RT311 over the weekend, got it running in <10 min, even with my stupid PPPoE DSL. Another good aspect aside from the not having to leave your machine on is that having the router do NAT, you don't need any special software running on any of your...
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- Post #15
- Jul 19, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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A proxy question

Just make sure you dont have file/print sharing bound to the new ethernet card for the DSL. Then you should be plenty safe (assuming you're not running any servers or anything, then it gets more complicated.) cot
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- Post #2
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Home Networking HELP

ICS works over NetBEUI? That's the first I've heard of any flavor of NAT working over a non TCP/IP protocol. cot
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- Post #6
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Burnproof 12x Plextor question

I don't think running DVD's while burning is a conclusive test unless you are sure that the buffer was emptied many times during it. Something intensive would be neccesary to convince me, such as burning a CD and running a HD benchmark at the same time. And you would still need to watch to...
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- Post #14
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Chat on a LAN ?

For a chat program, go search http://www.tucows.com for aniazpopup, the best free non-internet dependent chat program I've seen. Better than the default winpopup. For voice stuff, try roger wilco. cot
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- Post #4
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Okay, network Guru's, does this exist?

Office boy: http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/UPI/upiiss4.txt There's 48 VDC across the line while on hook, drops when the line is picked up. I think the ringing voltage can actually be higher than that depending on the system, and is AC. cot
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- Post #34
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Networking
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Okay, network Guru's, does this exist?

Oops! DP :D
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- Post #33
- Jul 18, 2000
- Forum: Networking

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