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    Metered network connection.

    I am renting a room in a house and I want to share my high-speed internet connection with the owners to save money. I want to split the bandwidth equally so that no one person hogs the connection. Are there any wireless home networking routers that offer this type of metered network connection...
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    Half size PCI slot.

    I want to buy an IBM thinkpad dock with a half size PCI slot and then install the ATI HDTV wonder in it. Is it possible? I searched the internet for the dimensional specifications of a half size pci card, but found nothing. Just looking at the ATI card, I can see it has full width as a regular...
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    External 5.25" USB 2.0 enclosure.

    Hi, I want to purchase an external 5.25" USB 2.0 enclosure to connect an ATA DVD burner with my laptop. Can anyone give me some suggestions for which brands are reliable? I have Windows XP, and I want a drive that will be automatically recognized by XP without needing a special driver. I also...
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    Rotate a .mpg video 90 deg.

    I shot a small VGA .mpg video using my Sony DSCP10 camera. The particular scene required that I shoot the video with the camera held vertically, i.e., with 3:4 aspect. Unfortunately, I did not realize that the file would be saved horizontally with 4:3 aspect. So now the whole clip plays tilted...
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    WPA on Win2K client.

    I run an 802.11g home network with three laptops accessing it. One is WinXP + Centrino; and two have Win2K, one with a Belkin 54G adapter and one with a Cisco Aeronet 350 adapter. Because the Belkin 54G adapter does not support WPA on Win2K, I am forced to run WEP. I tried the free Wireless...