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    Facing your own death with belief in no afterlife

    I'm not an atheist, and I don't have any problems with those who are. This is not a thread to debate what is atheism and what isn't, or the pros and cons of that, if I may say, but an honest appeal from a theist to gain some insight and information from atheists on how they may approach their...
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    Notion Ink Adam has launched

    http://www.notionink.com/techspecs.php Open for pre-orders, shipping in about "8 weeks". Some grumbles about vaporware and the like from the police. Responses forthcoming. Fun stuff.. Seems a bit big and still overpriced to me, but seems promising.
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    802.11n standard expected to be ratified in September

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30880/100/ I think this is about as good as can be expected. Technology moves on, so the newer stuff will have a greater performance potential, but current draft 2.0 certified products will not become non-compliant or incompatible.
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    Large photo printer recommendation

    I'm looking for recommendations for a home photo printer for the perspective of a demanding amateur. I'm not going to be printing a lot of volume or even regularly, but I want the ability to print some large images, small images more often, all in high-quality color with good fade resistance...
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    Buffalo back in the wireless business

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30656/97/ http://www.buffalotech.com/pre...ess-injunction-stayed/
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    Chimping

    In case you don't know, "chimping" describes the act of looking at digital images on your camera immediately after taking them -- perhaps in hopes of getting a "good" one, in which case, you might go "ooh ooh ooh", hence the term. Now, "serious" photographers have nooo need for chimping...
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    Minimum HW requirements for smooth video playback

    Please pardon the n00biness of this post. I have to buy a notebook for someone, and haven't had one of my own for a long while. So I went down to the local Best Buy and looked at several of them. Looking at the Geek Squad video that's conviently installed on all of these laptops, I noticed...
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    Poor gigabit transmit performance with socket A chipset

    The problem is that I get at best ~ 400 Mb/s transmit performance as measured by iperf (isolated from disk, etc). Receive performance is fine (> 900 Mb/s). CPU utilization is around 25% while sending, and around 50% while receiving. Can anyone tell me why the KT600 setup's GbE transmit...
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    Viewsonic VX2025wm DVI input problem & factory reset

    This is a bit like the following post, where the OP fixed a puzzling 2025 issue by fully powering down his computer. (I decided to post separately because I couldn't even find that post using AT search, and only found it using Google, and that post was in General Hardware.)...
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    802.11n draft 1.0 fails acceptance vote

    While some vendors would have us believe that the current draft 802.11n products are good to go and will be easily upgraded to the final standard, the committee rejected the current draft, and other vendors are sniping. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060504-6751.html...
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    Folding@home & stanford.edu connectivity problem

    I haven't seen any posts on this subject, so am wondering if I have an isolated connect-path problem with folding@home / stanford, or if anyone else knows about this problem. I cannot access folding@home's sites, nor any of stanford's. It's been down since the weekend. Are you able to reach...
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    External SATA HD enclosure with quiet fan

    I'm looking for recommendations on good external enclosures for a single (SATA) HD, which provides power, good cooling, and an external SATA cable connector. This is for my PVR, which takes a SATA cable. I already have the necessary SATA I -> SATA II cable. I already have a case that fits...
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    nVIDIA 7800 GTX and GT reach end of life

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29799 Oops, re-post. More to come, I'm sure. :o http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1807536&enterthread=y