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    Press power button: One click from PSU ["Solved"]

    Right, so if I press the power button, I hear one click from my PSU. Nothing else follows. If I hold down the power button for some time afterward, I hear another click. Nothing else follows. I'm shorting the power switch with a paperclip, so I have at least eliminated a short in that...
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    Cheap home theater setup?

    I'm not sure how to best set this up. Should I purchase the components separately, i.e., buy a receiver and buy a set of 5.1 speakers? What kind of "wattage" do I need for about a 12'x12' room? Can this be reasonably done for less than ~$125? Any other suggestions that I may be...
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    Pretty simple networking question...

    Here's the situation: I have two computers--one wired to my router, the other connecting wirelessly. Both are running ZoneAlarm's free firewall on Windows XP Pro. The router has been configured to assign each a static IP address. ZoneAlarm has been configured to "trust" these static IPs...
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    Synchronization software...

    I have an external hard drive which I connect to my laptop while at my desk in my dorm room. Every few days, I like to copy all the new and modified files from several select folders on my laptop to my external hard drive; when complete, I would like for the selected folders on each drive to...
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    Fundamentalists...

    Has anybody else looked at the bigger picture of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and the War on Terror and realized that, at each's core, lies right-wing Christian fundamentalists fighting against right-wing Islamic fundamentalists? (The Bush administration has most certainly...
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    IBM Serial Number

    My system won't be here for a few days, but I do have my serial number. Can anybody direct me to the page on IBM's site where I can input said serial number to get the specific information on my laptop, eg, keyboard country of origin, monitor manufacturer? EDIT: Scratch that. I found...
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    IBM Question

    As an incoming college freshman, I am looking to purchase a notebook. After much debate, I've decided on an IBM Thinkpad T43, no matter the extra cost involved. Unfortunately, IBM's purchasing "setup" is a bit foreign to me (and I'm not quite sure why). It seems to me that the only way to...
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    Notebook already part of a domain at work...

    First of all, thanks for taking the time to read this. Here's the problem: We have a desktop upstairs, connected to a Linksys cable modem/wireless router combo, and a notebook connected wirelessly to said router. The notebook is mainly for use at work, where it is connected to a domain...