Recent content by ModemMix

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    Went to Microcenter today

    MC in KC has awsome return policies, the policy is, they will take anything back with no restock fee, kinda like walmart! I bought my wife a 500gb WD drive and it sat for 2 months before i got around to instaling it...wouldnt you know, DOA. I had lost my reciept, called the sales line, they...
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    Gartner Analysts - Ignore Vista until 2008

    my company just upgraded from NT tp XP 3 months ago, and im talking about tens of thousands of computers. We will get vista in 2012 or so.......
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    USB 1.0 -> 2.0 upgrade

    he's not a lurker, he's a compulsive poster, im a lurker.
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    XP Pro x64 compatible firewall?

    I did say a WORKING beta. 6.0.13.183 dosnt work in 64 bit os's, its very broken. Older beta's worked better.
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    U.S. Patent Insanity Thread:8-23-05 Congress to address Patent quality

    Wait just one minute. Who in the hell is saying they OWN the internet. I can personally attest to the FACT that one of my old boss's invented the internet and he, although relocated to Las Vegas, still owns it. He also invented several proprietary pieces of software we use, that were...
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    Do you trust using a PC/Laptop fingerprint-reader ?

    yeah... that looks compleatly real, no fabrication or manipulation contained in any of those Q/A's........ I think we should all consider that gosple and switch to all non M$ products tomorrow. TROLL
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    Poll: Linux distro

    Suse on both counts, hands down. Although i hate their site every since novell bought them.
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    XP Pro x64 compatible firewall?

    i know this is an old thread, but i just started using bitdefender 9 prefesional plus, it has antivirus and firewall in one package, and im as happy with it if not happier then i was with zone alarm. Ill be even happier when Kaspersky gets a working beta if KIS 2006 out.
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    Nforce4 query for WinXP

    probably because theoretically, SATA is hot swappable.
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    Invoice software

    quick books is what i use
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    Yeh, it's klixxer

    Its amazing how anal some of us can be.
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    Vista Install Troubles

    Not that i support stealing, but i still cant get over the fact that you have to PAY to beta test software for M$.
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    Computer shuts off after I boot it

    Check your case and any loose wire to make sure somthing isnt grounded out. Unplug your optical drives and any hard drives other then your boot drive, and try booting. If it boots and stays powered with them disconected it may be an underpowered power supply. Otherwise start removing...
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    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: Drivers, Free Trials, and Availability

    Yes it matters, and the diffrences are in terms of license agreement. My retail license allows me to install xp on any single computer i choose to use or upgrade or whatever, as long as its only being used by me on one computer at a time. Basicly the license if for me personaly. An OEM...
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    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: Drivers, Free Trials, and Availability

    Just so i understand correctly. If i own a retail copy of xp32, im trading my RETAIL xp32 for an OEM xp64 if i use the exchange program. There isnt a retail xp64?