Recent content by TomPetty

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    Best Hard Drive deal?

    Matt Stone: thanks for the welcome and the info on how it works (hope it doesn't get locked right away cause i'm still learning!) Herbman: Yeah, it's still a pretty good deal for the HD but I was kinda hoping someone would have a better deal or if anyone knew if any coupons would be coming out...
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    Best Hard Drive deal?

    I'm looking for a new hard drive for my computer. I've been reading about the previous deal on the IBM Deskstar 45GB 7200rpm here, but onvia.com raised their price from $149.99 to $159.99 on this product, and buy.com doesn't have that $30 coupon anymore. So, essentially, though it still may be...
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    Cat-5 cabling

    You know what! I think I figured my problem out! I think it had to do with my combining of 2 100 footers. Think they are not constantly in contact.
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    Cat-5 cabling

    I have cat-5 cable and am using a linksys router. I hooked up 2 computers already, all is good there, but the 3rd computer is having problems, and I think the problem roots at the Cat-5 for it. That was the one computer I chose to make my own cable with (because it's 150 feet away). Initially...