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    smartphone network extender

    Verizon's 4G LTE signal is strong in my NYC Bronx neighborhood, but my apartment is located in the rear of the building adjacent to an alleyway, so the signal in my apartment vacillates between "1X," "3G," and LTE, and never more than 2 bars of strength for these 3 modes. Verizon wants to...
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    Delayed Write Fails .. HDD inaccessible

    I'm sure that this is a common scenario but I receive silence when I ask it. I am using both Vista-32 and XP Pro-32. A 1-terabyte internal hdd (Samsung) in an external enclosure used for archival purposes... i powered off the computer by hibernate and turned off the external enclosure...
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    HDD Firmware: To Patch or Not To Patch?

    consider this samsung HD204UI hdd: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20110603072217 } there appears to be a serious firmware problem with it based on the one-egg ratings. samsung acknowledges this and provides this firmware patch: http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...bbs_msg_id=386...
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    Need Spec'ing Instruction

    This will be my first attempt at building a PC. I expect to use it for several *Nix flavors, which implies ancillary and applications software, which might be extensive in storage and processing power requirements. I want it to be reasonably high-powered (dual core and 4GB RAM, eg). I will...