Recent content by markuskidd

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    recommendation for wireless mouse/pointer

    I am hoping someone can recommend a wireless device to send mouse clicks to a laptop/PC that may be far from the presenter. How far? At least 50 feet, though about 100 would be the best. The most important thing will be that it work reliably, because this will be part of a mobile setup that will...
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    Hot Enough? CompUSA Mid-Tower ATX Case - $30

    My concern regarding the standoffs is more that because this is a very old tower case with a newish MSI motherboard that's sporadically losing power may be unknown territory as far as what's currently under that board. I'm not sure I want to use a power supply that comes with a $30.00 case...
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    Hot Enough? CompUSA Mid-Tower ATX Case - $30

    CompUSA Mid-Tower ATX Case For thirty dollars, if it holds together it's a good deal, right? It's cheaper than anything else I see locally and didn't find it in any active threads. Personal digression: I need to swap an already-built PC into a new case, because it is in an...
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    where to find old SFF pcs

    It looks like I may be in the market for an old (read: cheap) SFF pc. All I need to do with is is run Linux and play wave files, so speed, gee whiz video cards, and hard drive space are not really important considerations. Is there any place I can look or any good, older models to search for on...
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    Please help me choose/build an audio kiosk for my local museum

    To make sure it's clear, all I have to play is audio--
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    Please help me choose/build an audio kiosk for my local museum

    I'm volunteering at the local museum to help put together an exhibit about the expieriences of some Holocaust survivors who relocated to our little town. We would really like to have a small listening station for visitors to listen to eight short interviews. Currently, we're looking at...
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    seeking mailing list software for snail mail

    here's a bump
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    seeking mailing list software for snail mail

    I have a client who is interested in starting up a mailing list for keeping in touch with their customers. I'm honestly not too familiar with mailing lists, other than some limited experience using mail merge in Word. What's the best stuff out there? This is a fairly small business, so I don't...
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    saving troubled laptop hard drive

    A friend brought me his laptop when he stopped being able to boot into Windows XP. He was getting blue screens after the windows logo first appeared, and safe mode wasn't working either. Since there was no sensitive data on the drive, I tried first installing a fresh copy of Windows but the...
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    Free PC Games

    The Ur-Quan Masters - Rerelease of Star Control 2 for modern platforms http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
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    the election is over - is there an index of newspaper headlines?

    it needs more hand-parsing than I imagine in my perfect world, but this is pretty close. I have never used their news engine before but I guess I'm going to have to start. thanks for the help
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    the election is over - is there an index of newspaper headlines?

    I'm thinking about putting together some kind of project that features election-related newspaper headlines from around the country. Is there anywhere out there that parses news sites for headlines? This is really specific, but I am hoping someone else has gone to the trouble of automating this...
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    Linksys Wireless-G WRT54G 802.11g Broadband Router $49.84 AR

    Is this deal still working for anyone else? It's coming up as $64 in my shopping cart
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    IN Logitech Z-560 THX are back in stock for $73.95 shipped @ Justdeals.

    So how would these compare to the z-640 5.1 speakers at amazon? generally higher model number == better, but due to the price difference and my ignorance I'm confused and having trouble understanding the differences in features?