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    Macbook Pro or Lenovo Tablet. (or other?)

    My boss is getting me a new notebook for xmas, and best of all, I get to pick it out. I want a tablet, he wants to convert me to Macs. Price-wise you are looking at about $2,600 (Macbook Pro) vs $1,800 (Lenovo T61 tablet). I'll of course tri-boot the Mac between windows/osx/linux, so my...
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    My boss: "Congrats, go buy the biggest, baddest laptop you can find"

    I guess that's my xmas bonus, a laptop that I get to pick out. I've been out of the laptop shopping world for years, so I'm in need of some help here. Some of my thoughts - I don't need an awesome gaming rig, I never really game much. Not ruling it out, but I don't need the latest...
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    Replace ATI video card in damaged VAIO laptop

    My laptop took a couple foot drop today and I've traced the bluescreen I am now getting back to the video card. With the ATI drivers installed, it BSODs on boot, but without them, I can boot up just fine. Everything else is working fine, but the graphic limitations might get rather annoying...
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    New low-end build

    Previous building experience.... - Two 2.8C systems for gaming & video editing a few years back. - Two 2400 Athlon systems a year ago for general internet/word usage last year. Well, I've been a bit out of the hardware side of things over the past year and now I've been commissioned to...
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    GO WHITE BOY GO WHITE BOY GO!

    Ok, so maybe he's not the next Star Wars kid, but still... pretty damn funny. Link
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    Partition tables are jacked

    I was adjusting some partition sizes on my non windows disk, but something must have messed up becuase now I'm having a hell of a time trying to do anything with that disk. It's a 300 gig SATA Maxtor that is crammed full of data I'd prefer not to lose. Problem with bootable DOS utils is that...
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    Connecting audio between ATI cards internally with auxillary out/in

    In order to get audio working correctly with two TV tuners in my system, ATI says I need to hook my All-in-Wonder sound directly to the auxilliary audio input on my motherboard. Problem is the cables that I have don't fit the aux-out on my 9600. I have a ton of these cables and trying to...
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    New box detects HDD as 128gig, not 160

    Yes I know that is the max for a mobo that doesn't support large disks, however even after a Bios update it still thinks it is too small. I flashed it to ver. 4 of this Bios and Gigabyte says it supports it. My mobo is a Gigabyte 7VM333M-RZ and the HD is a WD 160gb. This is my 5th build in...
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    Looking for a free site traffic tracker/analyzer

    I've been looking around for a web site traffic tracker/analyzer, but unable to come up with anything that excites me. My hosting company does it for me, but it kinda sucks and looking to use my own. It would be hard to believe that there wouldn't be some big open source php/mysql project out...
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    Dual-LAN ports, what's the point?

    They've been on server boards for years but for whatever reason, they're starting to show up on the high-end gaming/performance 925 boards. I'm sure there's some reason for this, but just can't think of a good reason to have dual-lan ports. Anyone wanna shed some light on this?
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    Seagate's 5 year warranty question

    A friend of mine said he saw somewhere that Seagate doesn't actually have to replace the drives that are under warranty, but rather have the option to give "Fair market" credit toward a Seagate drive from them. Anyone know if this is true? I've recently bought a few 160's and come 2008 when...
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    Better Intel 3D Studio Max processor, Xeon or LGA P4?

    Building a system for a friend and wants it to be used mostly for 3D Studio Max and Maya. He wants dual Xeons, but is that the way to go for a workstation doing this? I haven't been able to find any solid benchmarks comparing the two, so if anyone has some links, that would be great. I'm...
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    Building a Myth PVR, switching to NVidia and AMD... I'm scared!

    Title says it all, building a myth PVR. My tuner is going to be the PCHDTV 3000 that just came out, so I'm pretty excited about that (even though I don't have an HD TV, hah!). I've always gone with ATI and Intel in the past, but for this project, AMD/Nvidia seems to be a no brainer (right?)...
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    Copying large network files. Windows says it can't?

    I have some 8 gig movie files I'm trying to transfer from one computer to another and windows xp keeps telling me ""Error Copying File or Folder. Cannot copy [file name]: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currentley in use." Is there...
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    Bad problems with programs unable to get on the internet

    This is a Work Computer running Windows 2000 Sorry. Wish I could think of a better title, but I'm really confused as to what is causing this problem. Basically, most programs that try to access the internet on this system are unable to. Napster won't work, neither will MSN Messenger...
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    Windows Media PLayer replacement

    WMP is annoying the crap out of me. Even when I rxit, it always stays running in the background, still playing music or a movie. Only way to close it is the ctrl-alt-del it. Googled the crap out of the problem and many people with the same problem, but no fixes. That's fine, WMP isn't...
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    Need an ISDN modem

    Need to find an ISDN modem for a client and their service is through Sprint. Apparently Sprint told them they just have to find one on their own, as they don't sell or rent them. Weird. Anyways... I know nothing about how picky or standardized ISDN service is, does it matter what modem they...
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    Flash card MP3 Player without built in memory?

    Only one I've been able to find so far is this one. Seems like a good deal cause it is ~$60 and you can put up to a gig CF card in it (Newegg, $81), which gives you a gig CF mp3 player for ~$170 after shipping/tax/etc.... Reviews for that one and the Nex iie weren't so hot, and it runs off AA...
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    Napster and Messenger won't work, ports blocked?

    Can't figure out what is going on.... My computer at work running 2000 runs fine, except for those two programs. AIM works fine, no problems getting on the internet, except those two programs act as if there is no internet connection at all. I know, first thought, company blocked the ports...
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    Cable modem connection keeps dropping, need a bi-directional amp, any suggestions?

    I have my cable connection split, one to computer TV tuner and other to cable modem, works great 90% of them time, but then it goes dead and the only way to get the cable modem connection back up is to unscrew the TV tuner connection, and unplug the cable modem, so the only connection is going...
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    Settle a bet, is creating a webmail to POP program against GMail policies?

    "Gmail Program Policies Prohibited Actions ...... - GMail Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Gmail Service." If I were to create a program that allows you to use GMail as a pop3 mailbox (i.e. PopGoesTheGMail, Hotmail Popper for MSN, etc...) that is...
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    Automatically rename MP3s from tags?

    I know there are plenty of programs out there, but looking for some advice on which one to use. I have about 9,000 mp3s (they're all ripped, I swear!) and I'm working on getting all the tags correct, but once that happens, I want them all renamed. Also, is it possible to redesign the...
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    Who wants to review my almost purchased system

    Building my roomate a computer on a budget, so here is what I've come up with for him. His conditions... He's a lawschool student, so basically that means he only uses his computer for internet, music, and typing papers. There will not be any overclocking on this system. Why? Cause you...
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    Anyone know of a retail Office alternative?

    Looking for a retail program for some clients who don't want to shell out the $$$ for Office. Used to have ThinkFree Office, but can't get that anymore, anyone know of another? Like I said, besides OpenOffice, looking for retail, not a free alternative. ThinkFree used to run about $50, so...
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    Team Fortress 2

    Thought this project was dead, but came across it on Vivendi's store that it is coming out 1/3/05 http://store.vugames.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1&product%5Fid=642252&affid=9155 Is this legit? Back in '99 when I first heard about the game and was really anticipating it's summer...
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    Alternative to Windows Media Center style interface?

    Making an XP based media center and I'm looking for an interface to make it easy to navigate around with a TV as normal text is too hard to read. I'd use myHTPC, but it appears that project is no more and I can't even find the old files for it. There's a few pay options out there, but looking...
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    Free media pc navigation program?

    Now that myHTPC is gone, I need a replacement. Really, all I need it for is big menus for my TV (can't read text too well at all on it). myHTPC was cool becuase you could add in a menu for nintendo roms and such that were on your computer, and basically, all I'll use this media PC for is...
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    Bad sound card? Bad codec? All I know is that my audio is garbled

    Got out an old Dell (P4 1.4, 128 ram) that had been sitting in my room for about a year and decided to turn it into a media PC. Here's the thing.... some audio sounds normal (mp3s, mpeg videos) but other times the audio is kind of garbled and distorted with pops. It has a fresh install of XP...
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    Bridging a Netgear MR814 and a WRT54G with Netgear as an access point?

    Optimally what I'd like to do is use the MR814v2 (B) as an AP for a media PC in my living room and connect that to a Linksys WRT54G (G) that has my internet connection. I know that with the WRT54G I can use that as an Access Point, but it would only run at B speeds, so obviously, I want the...
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    Wireless-G media adapters

    I want to be able to stream video from my computer to my living room and am looking into getting a wireless media adapter. I could build a system to do this with no problem, but I don't need to be able to surf the internet or play games, all I want is video, so this looks like it will be the...
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    Need a cheap pci card with svideo out (or just video out)

    Turning an old dell into a streaming client in my new house. The AGP slot appears to not work, so looks like I need to go PCI. Could go with the ATI 7000, but that almost seems like too much. All I need is something to display movies onto my tv through svideo or composite, and that's it, no...
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    Website forum system?

    Need to recomend a forum system for a friends website. I'm fond of vBulletin's newest version, but it is $160 lifetime license and I'd rather go cheaper, if not free. Any suggestions?
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    Program to shut down internet connection?

    I use banwidth monitor pro to monitor my daily bandwidth usage and it has the option to run a program once I reach a certain usage per day. What I want to do is tell it to run a program once my usage reaches 1.5 gigs per day and that program will shut down my internet connection until I...
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    ISP blocked outlook port 135, but I wanna use programs that run off of port 135

    Long story short, becuase of the blaster worms and stuff, my local cable company (my ISP) blocked port 135, but I wanna use outlook with my University's exchange server, which runs off of port 135. How can I get around this? I work in the dorm tech support office, so getting a server on this...
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    HTML: favicon.ico help

    Programming? I guess this forum is where this question goes. This is to anyone who has experience putting a favorite ion on to a website, favicon.ico. I'm doing a webpage, and I place my 16x16 .ico file into the root directory of my website, but IE never seems to recognize the favicon.ico...
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    Swapping CPUs ok?

    I know you can't swap a hard drive between different motherboards and expect things to work ok, but is there anything specific about same model CPUs that doesn't allow you to swap say.... a 2.8c for another without reformatting? The reason I ask is my computer was running great while my dads...
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    Wireless monitor question...

    How do these things work? Is it truely a simple monitor without wires, or more like a tablet PC? The reason I ask is I was wondering if you could use one of these as a wireless TV/DVD player if you had a TV tuner card in your PC. You'd probably need a remote control, but with the new Remote...
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    Where is the XP log for crashes?

    I keep getting random crashes every 20 minutes or so (when it's bad). For about 1/10th of a second you see the screen go blue and then the system restarts. Doesn't XP keep a log of system crashes cause I'm really struggling rooting out the source of the problem. This is a top of the line...
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    Will this Zalman heatsink fit in my computer?

    CNPS7000A-Cu I have an IC7-G. While I don't think I'd have any problem normally with this motherboard, I do have the Zalman NB47J northbridge heatsink, which is a little bit taller than the stock IC7-G heatsink/fan. Because of the immense size of the CPU heatsink, will I have any problem...
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    Experiencing random errors and problems, motherboard?

    I've built 3 computer in the past year, two of them work flawlessly, another one I've never been able to work right. Here's the specs... IC7-G P4 2.8C Gig HyperX ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 DVD-Rom DVD-Burner 2x120 gig Maxtor SATA HDDs (non-RAID) I can never seem to get this computer working...