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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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    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

    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

    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 :-)

    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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    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

    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...

    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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    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

    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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    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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    do not buy into the real estate bubble! - comments welcomed!

    Hi all.... Almost bought a house this month, then after doing some research, I found out some shocking facts: 1) Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period...
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    seeking DVD WRITER recommendations....

    Hi all... what would be a good drive to recommend in terms of price/quality for writing my own DVDs to play back in my DVD player? thanks!!
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    what speed cpus can the MSI K7D Master handle?

    the brutual price war from intel's side is sure to force the amd processor prices way way down.....
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    what happened to the CPU price cuts?

    I'm waiting to buy, and I thought they were supposed to kick in, but so far nothing has budged compared to last week?
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    What C1 stepping p4's are available?

    I'm about to buy 2 pentium 4's (preferably from newegg).... I wonder what that cheapest p4 chip with guaranteed C1 stepping from newegg would be? thanks all
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    AMD paper launches are moronic (XP 2800)

    I have never seen such a stupid tactic in my whole life...... I actually find it insulting to me (as a multiple AMD athlon owner) that AMD thinks that by sending one or 2 chips to places like anandtech, I am supposed to sit on my ass and wait probably 3 months until I can buy one. And for that...
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    Join w2k domain controller to SBS 2000?

    Hi all..... got a question... I have a crappy old MS Small Business Server 2000. I have just ordered a brand new nice server, a normal windows 2000 server...... Can I join the windows 2000 server to the Small Business Server 2000 domain, make the windows 2000 server a domain controller (So i...
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    Can IDE handle SQL server 2000 with 15 users?

    or am I dreaming? suppose I gave the system a generous processor (2.53 ghz) and lots of ram (2 gigs), could an IDE drive, like say the new western digital 8 meg cache model, handle SQL server pretty decently? (in a RAID-1 software array)..... and this is all the machine would be doing, just SQL...
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    best budget SCSI raid-1 controller?

    heya all.... wondering if anyone has any ideas on which SCSI raid controller is the best value? obviously has to be very stable, will be use for 2 x 15k cheetah drives in raid 1 on a win2k server..... I would also consider on-motherboard solutions (for pentium 4s) thanks all!
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    MS terminal server 2000 - what cpu setup?

    I am custom building a machine in 1 months time for MS windows 2000 terminal server...... I am trying to figure out which CPU/memory/motherboard combo will be the FASTEST and the most STABLE..... There will be about 40 users loaded on the terminal server, including about 5 power users. Might...
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    eh? my athlon xp1600 kills my 1.6a@2.13 in number crunching?

    I just got my hands on a 1.6a to mess around with... anyways i have an older 1600xp system, 256 megs ram, and this newer 1.6a with 512 ram (better ram than the xp1600). the 1.6a is on a epox 4SDA+ board (or is that 4DSA+) anyways I was busy running l0phtcrack which does brute force attacks...
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    how many of YOU would go to an Athlon XP giveaway now?

    lol, how times have changed...... to think of the people that once would drive 4 hours to a parking lot crowded with 100s of people at the very slight chance of grabbing an athlon XP..... Hey maybe that is the reason that athlon XP sales are going down? that brilliant AMD marketing campaign...
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    Most stable motherboard/CPU for server?

    Hi all.... I am building a server, and was wondering if any of you had any opinions of which motherboard/CPU combo above 1ghz is likely to be the most stable and reliable? thanks for any opinions....
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    what PSU for AMD XP1600?

    heya all.... was just wondering, since the new AMD chips use 20% less power, could I get away with a 250w amd *approved* power supply i got? I really like the case and the psu (its quiet) thanks :-)
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    CD-rom drive vanishes from win2k??

    I have a dual boot setup, win2k and windows NT BIOS always detects plextor SCSI cdrom drive, attached to 2940UW scsi card But these days when I boot into win2k, I have no cdrom drive, grrrrr (winNT is fine) Any suggestions/ideas/qik fixes? thanks
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    Does more memory help win2k? (256mb to say 768megs)

    hiya all looked around for any benchmarks on this, but couldnt find any.... but with the super cheap memory prices, i was wondering if adding say 512 more meges to my 256meg win2k server machine will make any *major* performance differences, specifically when a lot of programs are loaded and...
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    What is causing my computer to reset under d3d?

    I can only play games for about 15 mins, then I get an instantaneous reset..... I bought a new motherboard (asus cuv4x) and p3 650e. Which is the most likely culprit? the memory and graphics card (geforce 2) have been tested in other systems and are ok. I have the newest drivers for every...
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    DOH - I messed thermal

    grease/compound on the pins of my p3 fcpga.... and then it got into the socket on the motherboard too! Is this bad? its like impossible to clean off from imbetween those pins.....
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    newbie builder - p3 fcpga fan question?

    hi all... i got a p3 chip here. It's got like a bumpy little small circuit right on the top of it in the middle. I guess this is normal? the reason I ask is because the heatsink/fan actually sits on top of this, instead of the whole chip then. Do i need to use some sort of thermal...
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    My new Game PC keeps resetting

    or going back into win98. This happens whenever Im playing a game after about 10-20 mins, all games. My motherboard is ASUS cuv4x. pentium 650e, creative labs annihilator 2, sblive, win98se, 128 megs ram. All drivers are their most current. Directx 7a installed. Checked bios settings. I'm...