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Should I get a printer for college, or just print to the school's printers?

I bought my mom an ML-1210 last year. It's an excellent printer and very reliable. It doesn't have quite the toner life that the HP LaserJets I've worked with do; I think it got about 2000-2500 pages on one cartridge. The cartridges are about $70.00 each Still, you have to remember that the...
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- Post #25
- Aug 10, 2002
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should I get a printer for college, or just print to the school's printers?

It ain't easy to keep dorm lab printers online. I work for a higher ed academic computing group managing residential computing support, and it's a PITA to keep printers there. We print 4 million pages per year on 20 HP LaserJets; during peak months these things go through 2500+ pages a day. I...
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- Post #17
- Aug 9, 2002
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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***UPDATED*** budget college comp ($1500) - FULL SPECS NOW!

A question for you: If you're going to college, have you considered the benefits of a laptop? I'll be the first to admit, you're not going to be doing much gaming on it; but laptops are really becoming the standard for college computing, especially at selective colleges. (At Harvard, 60% of...
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- Post #22
- Jun 19, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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My sister is buying a laptop, any suggestions?

Based on what I've seen, here's my thoughts on laptops: Exceptional quality: IBM, Apple, Sony Good Quality: Dell, Toshiba, Fujitsu Would Never Buy: HP, Compaq, Gateway ...this is based on what I see at work (I manage a staff of student-employees who help students with their personal...
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- Post #8
- Feb 10, 2002
- Forum: Laptops
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Which laptop would you buy?

Ack, I dunno about Dell laptops... I've owned two of them and never been happy with the quality, particularly of the cases. I'd recommend you look at the IBM T-series ... I've owned a total of six laptops and my T20 is the best thing I've ever owned. It would run on the high side of your price...
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- Post #4
- Jan 25, 2002
- Forum: Laptops
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MY COMPUTER CAUGHT FIRE!!!

<< My dad's Athlon XP 1800+ setup w/ EP-8KHA+ caught fire when my foot accidentally knocked the power button when I was installing a water cooler on the CPU to overclock it. Thankfully, I had a pitcher of water for the water cooler by my side. So I quickly poured the water onto the motherboard...
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- Post #17
- Jan 25, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

<< that was some great feedback. this has to be the first effort ever to REDUCE frames per second in FPS gaming. Playing Urban Terror (Q3a mod) with all the eyecandy maxed @1280 i am still getting 70-90 FPS depending on the map. I am curious, did you play with Anti-aliasing at all? I wonder...
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- Post #32
- Jan 25, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

Awright... did up some stats for y'all... LMK if this is helpful. In a nutshell: I put in the GeForce3 Ti 200 tonight and have been very happy with it. Under DVI, text quality is much improved (sharper), colors are brighter, the whole thing looks great. In general, my tests seemed to show...
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- Post #29
- Jan 23, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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Does LCD screen really are better for your eye?

Datapoint: I have a Sony Trinitron 19" CRT at work and just got a Planar 17.4" PV174 LCD for home. I actually found at first that my eyes hurt more with the LCD than the CRT. After 15-20 minutes looking at it my head started to work. That was on a VGA connection, though. I just upgraded this...
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- Post #4
- Jan 23, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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Question about routers, can I ditch SW firewalls?

Here's the deal with firewalls. Basically, the way a firewall works is, it only allows internally-initiated connections through. What does this mean? Well, let's say you were to open an HTTP request to forums.anandtech.com. The firewall would remember you had opened up a connection to...
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- Post #8
- Jan 23, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Need Laser Printer Suggestions

I bought my mom the Samsung for Christmas and she's loved it. It was a great deal from Amazon, including a second toner cartridge at no cost! One thing I find intriguing about the Samsung -- I've seen as Staples an identical printer to the Samsung ML-1210, with a Lexmark badge on it. (!) Now...
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- Post #15
- Jan 23, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

Ya, I meant turned ON, not off... whoops. :) Dmitri, you did a much better job saying what I was trying to say, thank you. I hope that going to a GF3 isn't a "downgrade" but, if its true that it's high FPS leading to more ghosting, it may serve as such. Then again, it might _not_. I tried...
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- Post #26
- Jan 23, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

Well, I don't have my new GF3 Ti200 video card in yet (it's at FedEx ground hell in Newark, grr) so I haven't tried the DVI yet. *But* I wanted to update you all on the results of some more game testing I've done. I decided on an, er, unusual solution: I turned off enough...
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- Post #23
- Jan 22, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

It is the PV174 -- the pivoting 17.4 inch, white bezel. I too am a bit skeptical of it being 25 ms response time; but, I don't really know how to test and find out! :( I will try with the DVI and see how that does. I'm also going to play with the brightness and contrast a bit. One...
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- Post #22
- Jan 22, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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LCD: Planar or Samsung?

<< Here's another thumbs up for the Planar 17.4". I have it and love it. I play RTCW on it with no complaints. >> Question for you. I just got my 17.4 (about an hour ago!) It's hooked up to my old GeForce2 GTS via analog (RGB VGA) connection. Windows/Web/etc. is great; however, I'm...
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- Post #18
- Jan 22, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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Colleges I'm applying to

<< and remember ivy league schools dont hand out scholarships so you will be stuck with @ least 100 K in loans by the end so if you want to be an actor , musician , writer or artist you are going to have a very hard time paying off your loans and getting by unless your parents are that generous...
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- Post #16
- Jan 22, 2002
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Colleges I'm applying to

If theater is your thing, and you're looking at Ivy League schools, why not Yale? Sure, Harvard got the American Repertory Co. away from Yale in the 80s, but Yale still has quite the undergrad program in drama... which is something Harvard doesn't. If you go to H, drama will be an...
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- Post #5
- Jan 21, 2002
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Dartmouth interview tomorrow..any advice?

<< My daughter has an interview for Dartmouth tomorrow. She will be interviewing with a doctor here in California. Any advice on how to present yourself and what to say would be helpful. She is a 4.0 all thru high school with honors classes. How much weight does the interview carry? Thanks...
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- Post #9
- Jan 21, 2002
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Owners: Dell 1702FP LCD Monitor, what do you think?

A question ... is it true that the Dell 1702FP is OEMed by Samsung and is the same as the Samsung 170T? Knowing this one way or another would be a huge help in my buying decision. Thanks!
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- Post #5
- Jan 15, 2002
- Forum: Displays
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Super HOT!!!! Save over $4300 on a Diamond!

<< EDIT: How can we help to shut down this DeBeers ? cuz I really want to see it fall so I DONT have to get a diamond ring... >> One option are Canadian (Polar Bear) diamonds... all the beauty, none of the evil colonialist history and tribal murders.
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- Post #6
- Jan 15, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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For MA residents: Unreal T $6 @Building 19

<< A bump for a great deal! I'm going to swing by the Assembly Square store tomorrow and try to pick one up myself. >> If anyone cares... I got the last copy from the Somerville shop, but there's a dozen or so more in the Mass./R.I./N.H. area for you to try. This seems to be the original...
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- Post #4
- Jan 13, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free IMAP email

Plus, IMAP is great for archiving mail. I have about 120 megs of e-mail from the past eight years, all in two-level subfolders in my Unix shell account, accessible via IMAP. Whether I'm on a Webmail client or using Eudora or pine, I can access all of my mail. IMAP is still much more popular...
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- Post #18
- Jan 13, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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For MA residents: Unreal T $6 @Building 19

A bump for a great deal! I'm going to swing by the Assembly Square store tomorrow and try to pick one up myself.
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- Post #2
- Jan 12, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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AMD XPP is back. [Santa Clara, CA & Orlando, FL]

Does anyone know when they do the online drawing? I.e., if I had won via it, would I have heard by now? :) (Missed out winning at the Boston on-site, missed out in all 15 or so online drawings to date, hoping for a bit of luck this time.)
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- Post #86
- Jan 7, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FREE foldout byways map kit

Thanks -- great tip for this map FANatic! :)
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- Post #6
- Dec 11, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Teac mini cd mp3 player $108 +shipping

The Compaq one can be bought on Outpost.com ... supposedly in stock. SKU# 3107440, description Compaq iPAQ Mini CD/MP3 Player. Ordered one today, waiting to see how I like it. :) Hey... anyone know where you can get a Case Logic-like case for it and/or the pocket (8 cm) CD-Rs?
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- Post #16
- Dec 3, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free Program to keep up with all the virus definitions updates

??? Who really needs this ??? In McAfee at least, just turn on AutoUpdate. Configure the AutoUpdate service to sync with the right subdirectory of ftp.nai.com once a day for the latest DATs. IIRC you'll still need to download a SuperDAT once every couple of months to get a new scan engine...
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- Post #4
- Oct 15, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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WinXP and the US Gov.

There's nothing illegal about a company holding a monopoly. There's plenty illegal with a company abusing a monopoly -- dumping product below cost to get a competitor out of a market, only to be able to jack up the prices, for instance. Should the government not have stepped in against...
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- Post #9
- Aug 1, 2001
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Would you support a law like this?

<< Just because some other countries have these sorts of systems doesn't mean they necessarily work. See also, socialized medicine for a have/work example. For all the complaints about insurance companies and HMOs, you'll still get too see the doctor earlier and your operation sooner in the...
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- Post #16
- Jul 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Did I take the right job?

It very much depends on the school. Public school systems, yeah, the pay stinks. In higher ed, the pay ranges from the same to better to significantly better. Private non-profit institutions will tend to pay better than public non-profits (state schools, etc.), even though they're both called...
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- Post #8
- Jun 25, 2001
- Forum: Networking
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Poll: Which for college do you recommend? Mac Laptop, PC Laptop, Mac desktop, or PC Desktop.

I get this question a lot, since I work for a college's IT group managing residential computing and networking support. Tons of parents call with this question this time of year. :) My two cents: If you're not already enrolled there, try to answer four questions for yourself. 1) Is the...
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- Post #16
- Jun 24, 2001
- Forum: Laptops
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Linksys BEFSR11 "pause/delay" issue after inactivity... HELP! :)

I've tried having Keep Alive checked and unchecked -- same thing seems to happen. :(
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- Post #3
- Jun 20, 2001
- Forum: Networking
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Did I take the right job?

Personally I'd say, yeah, not bad. I don't know how the job market is in Michigan right now, but here in Boston things have gotten tight in IT, as dot-com layoffs have left many people with tech experience out on the street looking for work. I work in a major university's IT group managing our...
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- Post #3
- Jun 20, 2001
- Forum: Networking
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Linksys BEFSR11 "pause/delay" issue after inactivity... HELP! :)

OK, I've been having this bizarre problem with my Linksys BEFSR11 (one-port home broadband gateway) and I can't figure it out. If I haven't been using the computer in a while (generally a half-hour or so), the first time I go to access something on the Internet (via ftp, http, or ssh) there is...
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- Jun 20, 2001
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Networking
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Home PNA Networking Questions

Router != bridge. A bridge is a relatively dumb network device that connects different network types (Ethernet to wireless, phoneline to Ethernet, token ring to foo, etc.) A router is a more "intelligent" device that directs network traffic to an appropriate location. (In the case...
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- Post #5
- Jun 20, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Home PNA Networking Questions

Basically, any setup like this (i.e., router and bridging to other topologies) goes like this: DSL Modem --> Router --> Bridge (Wireless/HPNA) --> systems So, you'll plug the DSL modem into the HomePNA bridge/broadband router (I assume you're looking at one like the Linksys all-in-one), which...
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- Post #2
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Data corruption issue with MSI K7 Master??!?

Thanks to all for the replies. I went to the store mentioned above yesterday, and the K7 Master wasn't in their case, and they were adamant that was the one they sent back... the VIA north/southbridge KT266 from MSI was still in the cases! Very strange. Well, long and short was I went with a...
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- Post #6
- Jun 15, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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novice needs info on Roadrunner Linux setup

Well, I haven't done much in Linux, but I can offer the following general words of advice: If your RoadRunner service is anything like mine (AT&T nee MediaOne) they probably use straight-up DHCP to lease you an IP based on your MAC (hardware Ethernet) address. So, if you install the DHCP...
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- Post #2
- Jun 13, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Data corruption issue with MSI K7 Master??!?

OK, I'm a bit confused. I'm putting together a new Athlon system (my first!) and had settled on the K7 Master from MSI and a 266 MHz FSB Athlon T-Bird. I'm waiting on my local computer store (PCs for Everyone in Cambridge, Mass., www.pcsforeveryone.com) to get the AMD chips in stock, but when...
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- Thread
- Jun 13, 2001
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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what is your longest lasting component?

My longest running part? Far and away my HP LaserJet 4L printer. Purchased in December 1993 for my Twinhead OEM'ed Tandy 486 laptop, this thing has survived college and the required term papers, three relationships, and three roller coaster rides on UPS Ground. I still have it and it works...
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- Post #30
- Jun 11, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building

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