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    Coin card: steal other peoples credit cards?

    yeah people already do similar things. All I am saying is that this new gadget will make it ridiculously easy, and very legitimate looking when you spend it in person on someone else's credit card - because you will look exactly like everyone else who is spending on the coin card gadget.
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    Coin card: steal other peoples credit cards?

    Hypothetical - but what if I were say a waiter, I bought a coin card. then customer gives me a real credit card to pay then i swipe his card and then duplicate his card using my coin card customer goes home after meal thinking everything is good I go home, edit the customer card...
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    building a windows 2008R2 terminalserver, which 10 x SSD to get?

    will handle load of up to 100+ users simultaneously specs of server so far are Dell T710 96GB ram Intel® Xeon® X5690 3.46GHz 6 Core CPU x 2 Perc 6i controller 2 x SATA 2.5 inch hard disks in raid 0 for paging file this will be the first terminalserver I build where I am going to try...
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    whats the fastest nvidia card that does NOT require addon power

    right now I think i have a GT 240? is there a faster one out? i hate the extra power ones, hot and power hungry
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    Hard Drive Benchmarks - What's Hot & What's Not...Poll Added

    some server drives from new gen of servers Raid-1 2.5 inch Raid 10 3.5 inch <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://67.135.226.227/dellserver.jpg">https://67.135.226.227/dellserver.jpg</a>https://67.135.226.227/dellserver.jpg
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    which is the best wireless access point under $1500

    nah my nothing is still active at one stage I had CCIE, MCSE (multiple), NOVELL, LINUX, etc etc all I did was use them to get my foot in doors. Once you working with the equipment all day every day, I don't see any point in keeping the certs active. Only if I had idle time I may do some...
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    which is the best wireless access point under $1500

    well the cisco 1250 series is very expensive, but really is the best thing I have used so far 6 antennas, 2.4 ghz, 5 ghz, wireless everything, 5 million options in the config section. Its a very big very heavy unit for an access point, but it is definitely in a class of its own compared to...
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    Looking to hire computer tech Los Angeles (off topic I know)

    But i figured why not, this kind of site attracts people who love computers, and who love hardware so why not look here? I didnt see a classifieds forum, so this was 2nd best.... Anyways im looking preferably for someone who has just finished college or computer training. You will get...
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    which is the best wireless access point under $1500

    well i ordered a cisco 1252 to try out will tell u all how it goes
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    which is the best wireless access point under $1500

    needa buy a really good access point, business use, high volumes of data from multiple machines. So, whats the most reliable best one, under $1500 (1500 is not a typo) any recommendations?
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    fan to cool wooden desk cabinet computer is in? 110V

    thanks for the help all i went with the 110V ready to go 120mm slow spinning fans, with metal grills to protect makes things easy, the carpenter can do the rest. thanks again
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    fan to cool wooden desk cabinet computer is in? 110V

    I'll actually have a carpenter with me so I can do pretty much whatever i need I guess guess i should get 2 small fans, one blowing in and the other out, of the desk that is... sigh but i guess i have to find some power converter to get the voltage right for these 2 fans, from 110v down...
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    fan to cool wooden desk cabinet computer is in? 110V

    sigh 2 people I know built these custom desks which they stuck their computers in, ZERO ventilation at all.... computers overheat in like 1 hours so, i need drill a hole somewhere in the desk and then i was thinking of using some small fan, 110V, attached to the hole, to push the hot air...
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    proposed new system (if you have idle time to take a peek :-)

    i thnik the website i went to had an enlarged pic of the xp-90c and it just looked enormous to me because i havent seen heatsinks that look like that before looks like a car part lol BTW, what speeds can I expect to push the 3800 cpu to at stock voltage? 2.4 ghz or 2.5ghz?
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    proposed new system (if you have idle time to take a peek :-)

    thanks for the reply, your memory suggestion sounds familar, I will go with 2 x 1 gig, sticking the others on fleabay I guess man i looked at that xp-90c, that thing is ENORMOUS!!!! will it fit on the epox mboard? also it looks like it doesnt have a fan? what fan do I buy for it? (I dont...
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    proposed new system (if you have idle time to take a peek :-)

    Heya all..... I am a bit out of the hardware loop these days, so I am kinda looking for suggestions on what to buy and what to change. I spent about 8 hours reading nonstop to try an catch up. I already have a good ATX case, a ANTEC 550W power supply, and some good DVD burners, and 1 gig of...
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    PioData DVD-R Discs good?

    UPDATE: these disks are utter junk (PIODATA) steer well clear!
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    PioData DVD-R Discs good?

    gotta say on first look, from my experience with CD-R's, these things look a bit cheap... the thing that bothers me most is the edge of the disk is quite rough, which to me usually implies cheap... Made in Tawain....
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    PioData DVD-R Discs good?

    I just bought some..... only problem is I also just bought a dvd burner (new NEC model from newegg), so I have nothing to reference them to... doh But when I start burning ill tell you if any of them are frisbees I guess, whether they scratch easily, that will be harder to tell....
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    will my motherboard take a 1GB DDR stick?

    and to follow up, who makes the best single 1GB DDR PC2700 memory chip? (money no object)
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    will my motherboard take a 1GB DDR stick?

    heya all, got EPOX 4GEA+, with intel 845GE chipset.... http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-4GEAplus&lang=1 right now I have 2 x 512 meg DDR 2700 sticks in it, but I have run out of ram (using it for dbase purposes).... does this chipset support adding a 3rd 1GB ddr stick? I...
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    MSI athlon motherboard very bad at keeping time

    update: since BIOS update so far so good! maybe that fixed things for me
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    MSI athlon motherboard very bad at keeping time

    yeah trust XP to be screwed up grrrrr The system is not overlocked at all.... I will try the DOS idea, see how that goes, thanks for the idea I actually have a dual boot, I'll also try booting into win2k and see if the same thing happens. Win2k is a better OS anyways, just doesnt have all...
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    MSI athlon motherboard very bad at keeping time

    windows XP corporate and the computer gains about 10 mins every hour while its ON, while its off it seems ok actually.... If i don't set rockettime to go out onto the internet to sync every hour, by evening my clock is more than 1 hour fast! doh I am very careful with my computer, I dont have...
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    MSI athlon motherboard very bad at keeping time

    heya alll was wondering what it could be? my computer gains about 10 mins every hour, and then atomic clock syncs it... very annoying! K7T266 Pro2U is the model - is my CMOS battery bad maybe? although I get no boot errors in bios or anywhere else? The motherboard is about 1 year old and...
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    Good cordless phone? mine keep breaking...

    yah, 2 of the phones that died were GE and 1 was sony.... I have a uniden here which I like, but I have only had it for 2 months.... maybe uniden.... hmmmm
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    Good cordless phone? mine keep breaking...

    noways!! 2 of the 3 phones i had that broke were GE never again!!! hehe I have now realized the price of buying 3 cheapies, is more than it would have cost to buy 1 good one, never mind the headaches!
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    Good cordless phone? mine keep breaking...

    ok, now been through 3 cordless phones in less than 2 years.... is there any make/model (must have caller ID) that is good quality and not too pricey? maybe one on special? thanks for any recommendations
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    Geforce FX 5900 for only $370!!

    I'll pay $600 for a monitor, but I have never and will never pay more than about $120 for a video card.... its madness... these things are worth like $40 within 12 months..... your card might even be 2 generations old within 12 months
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    why upgrade? 1600 athlon XP here....

    kinda strange, I'm a gadget geek, and I find myself struggling for a reason to upgrade the actual "guts" of my computer.... Right now I have an athlon XP 1600, with decent 1 GIG of RAM, and a decent MSI motherboard with USB 2, and an ATI radeon 9000. The rest of my system consists of 2 x...
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    More DDR vs WD RAPTOR: best system performance upgrade?

    Heya all Got my new rig, Asus 865PE chipset, pentium 4 2.4C with 512MB XMS twinpack DDR (total 512MB) and western digital 8MB 200 gig hard drive 7200 rpm Which do you reckon will add more system performance in terms of general day to day usage: browsing the web, burning CD's, basic photo...
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    Er help, my 120 gig drive turned itself into 30 gigs

    ooo i fixed it! rumaging thru my drawers of "stuff" I found a promise IDE 133 TX 2 controller. I put this in the machine and connected the IBM to this drive and it sees it as 120 gigs now! cooool Now, where to sell the thing? ebay? hehehe Anyone here know how much faster the western digital...
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    Er help, my 120 gig drive turned itself into 30 gigs

    I tried everything.... Even windows XP once I load it up on the drive, inside of win XP it still sees the total drive space as 30 gigs more or less, not showing any more space, unused space, unused partitions etc etc Even partition magic 7 booted from DOS mode sees the drive as 30 gigs max no...
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    Er help, my 120 gig drive turned itself into 30 gigs

    IBM Deskstar ICL35L120AVVA07-0 I was installing a new OS, so I wiped the partitions clean with FDISK... Now all OS's (win2k, winxp) even partition magic sees the drive as a total size of 30 gigs. what the hell? Is there some sort of low level format or something I can do? very confusing.......
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    Hitachi CLM174 Flat panel - Limited Colors?

    has anyone actually bought this monitor and reviewed it? for such a "hot" ticket item in terms of the 16ms response time, it seems like no-one actually owns one... weird
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    best LCD for $800?

    hey all... looking to buy a new LCD Image quality is my number one concern, in other words sharp text, good colors and as little ghosting as possible.... It will be used in a dual monitor setup, with the 2nd monitor being a 19" iiyama CRT So far I was leaning towards the new samsung 172T...
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    ~~~~ Brag & Moan ~~~~

    I was too lazy to wake up for black friday sales, so I finally woke up at 9am, to go to work (I live in west LA)... On the way to work, I realized I need a switch for a client of mine, so I thought what the hell let me stop at best buy. It was a friggn zoo, at 9:30am I couldnt even find...
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    You want them, i got them. CircuitCity 11/29!!

    I don't understand the circuit city rules for black friday (nor any shops for that matter) Can I go buy something I want there tommorow, keep it in the box (or whatever), then arrive at the store on friday morning with my receipt, and explain I want a pricematch to the current items super black...
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    do not buy into the real estate bubble! - comments welcomed!

    ok - yes I concede it really does depend where you live. The fact that some people are in areas where they can buy a house with 3 bedrooms for under $200 000 is just mind boggling to me. What a deal! unbelievable...... It seems to me that obviously areas where prices haven't gone crazy in the...
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    POLL: Can a computer (or software) have a conscience.

    animals undoubtedly have a conscience! I have 2 german shepards and if they tear up the house while I am at work, when I get home when they greet me they have their ears flat against their heads and kind of do army crawls around the garage