Recent content by CrustyTheCrab

I bought a spindle of the white ones with no stacking ring (printable), and they burn fine, but after a few weeks the disks are unreadable in any computer/player. Can't use them for anything except immediate data transfer (where I'll be copying all the info off them within a couple of days). Crusty

Oh, and LFTL: linky

I have had the problem Novon has with all my wireless routers that I have ever owned (Belkin, Linksys and Netgear). It doesn't seem to have anything to do with heavy traffic, just sort of random, especially late at night :-) Crusty

I have the Powershot S400, and have bought 4 batteries off eBay. All generic, but much higher mAh than what comes with the camera (ex 1200 mAh instead of 840). I have had no problems with any of the cheapie eBay batteries. They work great for me. When I go out shooting on a day hike, I easily...

This may be the drive that everyone tried to order when the $15 off $25 coupon was found. Staples phone-CSRs got slammed with that combo, went out of stock real soon, and stopped honoring the coupon. Read about it on another forum. Crusty

No rebates or anything? Limit per customer? This is good, especially with Jewel Cases. I paid more than this for a 100 spindle!

Very cool. Got one. My dad has something like this with a 60 gig hd in it, and he loves it. For $13 delivered (CA 2nd day), I think I'm going to like this. Note that the rebate has a short submission deadline (hence 2nd day shipping for me, which was 20 cents more expensive than ground). Thanks...

You are correct Esquire, This ISN'T a USB 2.0 model - I have it, I filled out the exact same rebate form. Nowhere does it say USB 2.0 on the description page, and the rebate form has a picture of the item (rebate valid only for 1 item), and if you look at the USB logo on the image, it's not the...

How about taking some initiative, like maybe going to Google, and asking it for "deal forum acronyms", which leads to a result like this: Hot Deal/General Online Acronyms I'ts called "resourcefulness". Crusty

My sister tried to do the deal, Staples called Gateway, who told Staples that the price is good when you buy a computer at the same time. They didn't say anything about a typo. I guess the typo may have been NOT stating in the ad that you had to buy a computer in order to qualify.

Could you tell us which store that might be, so that we can have online price match to their B&M? Thanks, Crusty

BVG = Best Value Guarantee - especially on AmEx cards (mine has no annual fee, and does not qualify for BVG, call AmEx, find out if your card has that feature).

I live in Santa Cruz, and would get in on the deal to split shipping Crusty