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FREE Fahrenheit 911 DVD Rental at select video stores Nationwide

Point taken. Yes, I can say that...he kept trying to avoid Bill because he knew he wasn't going to get the softball questions he's used to answering. BTW, what's it like voting for a traitor and admitted war criminal?
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- Post #88
- Oct 27, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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WinTV-PVR-250 with Remote for just $80 AR

For converting home movies and such, you would be better off with a Bt878 capture card of some sort (or something that uses one of the Bt878's successors, since it's being phased out). You can do uncompressed capture with one of those, do your editing, and encode to MPEG-2 only once you're...
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- Post #48
- Oct 26, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FREE Fahrenheit 911 DVD Rental at select video stores Nationwide

Bill O'Reilly managed to corral the lardass for an interview on his show during the Republican convention. Whenever Bill asked him a question, he tried to evade and/or change the subject...kinda like a certain candidate and his handlers. I'll admit that I had a pretty dim view of Michael Moore...
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- Post #37
- Oct 26, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Poor man's soda: $1.66 per Generic 12 pack @ Savons

A guy who's a bit smarter than the average bear once said that "God is in the details." :) From time to time, Fry's (the electronics store, not the grocery store with the same name) blows out Coke 6-packs for 99 cents each. By the time I start running out of Diet Coke at work, they usually...
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- Post #18
- Sep 17, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hot! Powmax black/silver "Mercedes" case w/400W PSU, $30.00 shipped! @Newegg

The last Antec cases I bought were SLK1600s for about $40 each @ Fry's (with Antec 350W power supplies). Even the SX835s and SX1040s I've bought haven't been that expensive. Even the Overture that houses my MythTV box was only about $100. (Another advantage Antec has is that it appears...
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- Post #26
- Sep 9, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Neat! fM Stereo Transmitter 179

I bought one of these at Fry's a while back...nice little unit. Everything in the description is as they say it is. It's definitely a cut about the $30 gadgets that are usually sold for MP3 players and such; you can put it on any frequency on the FM dial (not just four frequencies down at the...
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- Post #4
- Sep 8, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FREE sample CAT5e patch cable

That's why you get yourself a cable crimper, some ends, and a box of cable. With those, you can make cables in whatever length you need. If you need a crossover cable, want to put two Fast Ethernet runs on one cable, or whatever, you can do that without making a trip to the store. Bulk cable...
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- Post #27
- Aug 17, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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walmart laptop $598

Another clue is that they're using a mobile processor. The "desknote" products were usually equipped with desktop processors and other desktop components, which is why they were so cheap when compared to true notebooks.
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- Post #18
- Aug 7, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Antec Sonata Silent case at Fry's for $59.99 AR

The Overture case I bought @ Fry's a while back came with the power supply...given that the Overture needs a somewhat oddball supply, this probably is expected. I'm 99% sure the Sonata has a power supply bundled with it as well.
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- Post #7
- Jul 30, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Picked a cheap monitor at OfficeMax

...especially when it's something you'll probably keep for a few years, unlike most of the other parts of your computer. I think I was running a 300-MHz K6-2 when I bought my current monitor (a KDS VS-195)...or maybe it was still a 200-MHz K6 at that point, but it was somewhere in that range...
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- Post #15
- Jun 27, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Mobil 1 (updated 6/8)

Um...what "myth" would that be? ($10 for oil and a filter is much cheaper than thousands of dollars for an engine.)
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- Post #69
- Jun 15, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Frys 1 day sale

The rebate form/receipt says it only needs to be postmarked by the 20th. (I had been sitting on the paperwork since 14 May...ended up sending it in yesterday after running across your post. So much for not doing today what you can put off until tomorrow. :) )
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- Post #57
- Jun 15, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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PowMax 650VA/350W retail UPS at NewEgg for $29

Sounds like the battery is old and needs to be replaced. If it's a halfway-decent UPS and batteries for it aren't too expensive, you could save some money that way vs. buying a comparable (or not-so-comparable) replacement. Around here, 12V 7AH gel-cells sell for about $20 each, so two of...
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- Post #3
- Jun 10, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free Chipotle Burrito - June 3rd - donate 2 cans food

There was no signage mentioning any promo like this at their location across from UNLV when I was there for lunch three hours ago. I suspect this is a local/regional promotion someplace other than here.
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- Post #10
- Jun 2, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free USB1.1 Hubs

Mice should work through bus-powered hubs. I have a Microsoft optical wheel mouse (this one) that works just fine when connected through a 4-port mini-hub. I wouldn't think the power consumption of an IntelliMouse would be so much greater that it wouldn't also work.
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- Post #11
- Jun 1, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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TIVO $129.99 AR w/free Home Media Option

Standalone TiVos have both S-video and composite inputs. I have a digital-cable box plugged into the S-video input on mine. With S-video output, the picture's pretty nice.
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- Post #17
- Jun 1, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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APC 500VA UPS for $19

Odds are that they also support RS-232, but you'd need to order a different cable from APC to use that. My work machines get their power through a Back-UPS XS 1500, and only 4 of the 10 positions (not 8, which would be RJ-45) in the connector are used for USB. Network support for an APC UPS is...
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- Post #21
- May 27, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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refurb 30GB HD for $40

SCSI drives have a longer warranty than that. I had an Ultrastar 73LZX replaced under warranty recently; when I looked up the warranty info, I found that it had a 5-year (!) warranty on it.
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- Post #33
- May 25, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Frys 1 day sale

Their 4x burner was a BTC. (I have two...one of them still has a BTC label on it, IIRC). Their 8x burner more than likely is a BTC as well. I've not had any trouble...had a bunch of rebates on stuff I bought when their Vegas store opened, and they all came through. So have rebates on other...
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- Post #24
- May 14, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Can't change settings...sig corrupted? (FIXED)

That wouldn't have worked, as the "Update Profile" button was missing. I found a way to fix it, though: 1) Use Mozilla's "Save Page As..." to dump the HTML to disk. 2) Load the file into WordPad, seek out the errant sig data, and delete it. Change all subseqent occurrences of &lt; to <...
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- Post #3
- Apr 20, 2004
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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Can't change settings...sig corrupted? (FIXED)

When I go into the forum profile page (name, timezone, sig, etc.), it appears that the edit box for my sig contains the remainder of the page code. Since the remainder of the code includes the "submit" button for the form data (and since the defined behavior for that button is to run some...
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- Thread
- Apr 20, 2004
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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free p4 atx case broken,damaged

A wise man once said there's one born every minute. :P
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- Post #7
- Apr 14, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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x10 Starter Kit is back! 6$

The software that X10 provides for the Firecracker is pretty useless (it just duplicates the functionality of the included remote...yawn), but BottleRocket is a decent little utility if you're running Linux or *BSD (possibly including Mac OS X). You can use it in cron jobs to turn stuff on/off...
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- Post #13
- Apr 14, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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~~~~ IWANNA ~~~~

Seen at the bottom of this TechWeb article: I've heard mentions of this before, but haven't seen any hard details (website to visit, etc.). Where do you go to get in on this?
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- Post #187
- Apr 12, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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LA/OC Fry's B&M 4/2-4/6 Barton 2600+ combo $89.99, WD2000JBRTL $99AR, PNY MX440 $19.99AR + more

The same deal's running in Vegas (again) at the same price. I don't know if the others are also available...that's just what I noticed when I was over there at lunchtime.
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- Post #7
- Apr 2, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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PC EZ-Bake Oven $29.99

It should be no more dangerous than the latest P4s. :P (Here's an idea: use the waste heat from your computer's CPU(s) to cook stuff. Maybe some ductwork placed atop the HSF(s) directed into a box would get the job done. You'd have to do something to keep dust out, though, lest your...
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- Post #10
- Apr 1, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Get yer Underwear Boiling System here!

We've all seen you have a long-running thread-crapping problem , so maybe this product will help you with the consequences of that problem.
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- Post #38
- Mar 29, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ch products for flight sims, gameport yoke and pedals

Wrong. I'm currently using a CH Jane's Combatstick through the joystick port on a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. (Getting that port to work when the card's installed on a dual-Athlon board was a bear, but I eventually got it working.)
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- Post #8
- Mar 29, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Get yer Underwear Boiling System here!

I wouldn't rely on the water jets alone at the car wash to get my car clean (you really need a sponge and a bucket of soapy water to get all the crud off), so why would a water jet aimed at your backside do any better there? 8 buttons? If I need to take a dump right now, I don't want to have...
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- Post #37
- Mar 29, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ch products for flight sims, gameport yoke and pedals

I noticed that these plug into the joystick port, a port type which appears to be going bye-bye on newer machines in favor of USB. I still have joystick ports on several of my machines, but I suspect they won't be around much longer. While you can get adapters to plug serial, parallel, and...
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- Post #3
- Mar 29, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Cheap Cruncher

They've frequently had better deals in-store (usually involving faster processors, such as the same board with an Athlon XP 2600 (Barton) I picked up at the Las Vegas store a few weeks ago for the same price. This might be OK if there's no Fry's near you, though.
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- Post #2
- Mar 25, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Batesias 20.1-Inch TFT LCD TV/ PC Monitor/HDTV - $768.95

How do they get away with claiming it's "HDTV-ready" when the specs further down the page say it only runs at 800x600? 1995 called...it wants its low-res display back. (There is a chance that 800x600 is a misprint, as I find it hard to believe that anybody would produce such a low-res 20"...
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- Post #2
- Mar 23, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Quick $50 ($25 + $25)

FOAD, spammer. I see a permanent vacation from AnandTech in your future.
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- Post #4
- Mar 23, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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BACK!! Zalman CNPS7000A-CU $38 - free shipping - no tax outside FL

The fan is removable...it's held on by (IIRC) two small screws. I had to disassemble mine to modify the retention clip for installation (one side didn't clear a capacitor, so I cut off part of it to fit).
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- Post #8
- Mar 22, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free Fedex Shipping 3 day @ tcwo.com

I bought one of those boards from them...but I bought it with a 1.0-GHz Athlon (ye olde Thunderbird core). That would've been about three years ago. I don't remember getting any Lifesavers with it, though. I still have the board and processor...they're running alfter.us (and a couple of other...
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- Post #19
- Mar 8, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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not a deal, but what software shows up on your microsoft retail online trainging site?

You must not've caught the OP's sig where he mentions his age. The sorry state of public education today would explain his nonstandard usage (to put it somewhat politely) of the language.
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- Post #7
- Mar 5, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Fry's Bay Area (3/5-3/9) - Athlon XP 2600+ RETAIL w/ECS K7VTA3 V6 or V8 - 89.99

Same price in Vegas...didn't note if it was a boxed or tray processor. They had the same processor & board at the same price a couple of weeks ago, and that was with a tray processor.
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- Post #3
- Mar 5, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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dead.....let it drop

You must not have had to install Win2K/XP on a SCSI or SATA hard drive before. (You need to put the appropriate driver on a floppy to install it.)
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- Post #21
- Mar 4, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Cooler Master Aluminum Keyboard $13.95

More generally, IBM keyboards 0wn j00. I have a couple of Model Ms at work...nice clicky feel, you can find them used (but in good shape) for about what you'd pay for a run-of-the-mill keyboard, and it can double as a weapon if necessary. How cool is that? :D (My last one cost only...
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- Post #16
- Feb 27, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Checks for $13.86 each were mailed Friday to about 3.5 million consumers who bought CDs, vinyl records or cassettes betw

How many tens of millions do you suppose the lawyers who put this "deal" together are taking home? I don't care much for the Media Mafia, but the only winners in this case are a handful of lawyers and their firms.
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- Post #29
- Feb 23, 2004
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways

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