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    Possible to power-down individual hard drives?

    The options in Windows are to either have all hard drives power-down after X minutes, or to stay on permanently. My scenario is that I have a bunch of hard drives, some of which I need often and need constantly spun-up, and others which are rarely used and which I will often never access...
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    Recommend a cellphone

    My Bell contract is coming to an end soon (great) and I need a new cellphone. I don't know that much about them, at least relative to what I know about other electronics anyway. I'm in Canada, planning to go with 7-11's Speakout pay-as-you-go. I don't use it enough to justify a contract...
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    Wireless network stuck at "acquiring network address"

    I'm completely stuck here. I have an Asus M6Ne laptop with an Intel 2200BG wireless adapter. This thing worked just fine wirelessly until yesterday, when I had to reinstall Windows, ever since that it won't get an IP address from my router (Belkin F5D7230-4). My roommate's laptop is connected...
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    My new rig

    Read my thread here. See system II - the PIII-667 with 640MB and a GeForce DDR (the 1st-generation GeForce)? That's my system right now. So anyway, after years of financial insolvency which are now at an end, I've gathered together most of a new rig. Here's what I have purchased so far...
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    Performance-oriented Windows tweaking

    "Something is bunk, then it's de-bunked." -- Jerry Seinfeld Black Viper (amongst others) runs a Windows tweaks page offers many changes and customizations that users can make to MS Windows in the name of greater performance. BV recommends that many active-by-default Windows services be set to...
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    Slicksurf mouse feet

    Anybody tried these mousefeet? The hype sounds promising - but then it always does!
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    Is this a decent system?

    Hello everyone. This is the first system I'm building in many years - my last homebuilt was an Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 366's at 583Mhz. Life and children intervened, but now I'm treating myself to a new computer. The most demanding thing it will do is games. I do want to play Doom 3 and...