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    [RANT] After 5+ years of great business with Newegg.....

    It sucks that you're having these problems but I think you should be trying to straighten out your credit card problem rather than going through Paypal. I've never had a problem with an online retailer when I used a major credit card. I'm not saying something bad can't happen. It's just that...
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    my college is starting to require tablet PCs for incoming freshmen engineers

    This strikes me as a way for the University to seem "advanced" and brag about how their students are on the bleeding edge of technology. Why would you need a tablet PC for Statics and Dynamics? While computers are fantastic engineering tools the profession is based on application of fundamental...
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    Fastest Processor for ASUS A8N5X

    Does anyone know the fastest processor that can be put into the ASUS A8N5X? Can I just use any socket 939 processor or am I limited in some way? The manual says that the motherboard supports Athlon 64, Athlon 64FX and Athlon 64 X2. Does this mean that any CPU from these lines will work? I...
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    IDE cable that supports 3 burners?

    As a tangent, why are more optical drives not SATA? Is it a technology reason? I understand that there would probably not be any performance benefit but it would seem to make sense to phase out the IDE storage interface now that most (all?) new machines have SATA drives. I guess I'm just...
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    Whats the most you spent on a monitor?

    About $2100 for a Viewsonic 21PS in 1995. That monitor still works today but I am presently using a 2405FPW which I got last year. I know it's a personal thing but I like to have a lot of screen real estate. It didn't matter much in the DOS days but with this new-fangled Windows thing it's nice...
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    How easy is it to switch to Linux from Windows

    Let's say I'm starting with a new hard drive and I want to set it up with XP and Ubuntu in dual boot. How much space should I devote to the Ubuntu partition? 1GB, 5GB, 20GB? I'm not looking to make it my primary OS but I would like to play around with it.
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    2GB Of Memory

    Hey, don't knock it. That's what I'm running! :(
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    Wanting a Dell 2005FPW

    I submit my situation for your comparison. I'm currently running a Dell 2405 using a Pentium 3 800 MHz and a Radeon 7000. This might be the greatest disparity between monitor and computer/graphics card in the country. :) I don't play the latest games. All the ones I play are older and...
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    Old memory in and even older computer

    I am updating an old HP desktop that one of my relatives has. The memory that is in there now is PC66. Since I can't get this anymore and PC100 is also hard to find I was going to get 2 128mb modules of PC133. I'm pretty sure this will work except I've heard of people having problems where...
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    Want to build gaming computer less than $600

    You forgot to budget for an operating system. Unfortunately, if you want to go with a cheap system it's hard to compete with the biggies like Dell.
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    Installing Windows XP on two computers

    How do they do this? Do they show up with search warrants and law-enforcement personnel?
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    What's a neat, underrated Programming Language?

    If you want to have the chick-attracting status of carrying a pocket protector, you could always learn FORTRAN. To get the full experience, pick a flavor pre-FORTRAN 77.
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    Which media player do you use?

    Winamp is OK but at one point every time I opened it, it would try to connect to the Internet. I found that annoying.
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    36 Processes normal?

    Holy Crap!!! I'm at 34 processes.