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    Why are so few pointing finger at Obama and Salazar?

    While many on Internet are aware that without the efforts of Ken Salazar at the bequest of President Barack Obama on behalf of BP to allow them to drill the Deep Water Horizon in the first place, there could not have been a disaster. While fingers are pointed at MMS which is over seen by...
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    The dangers of "clean coal" and how the use of this term is Orwellian

    The grid should have been a top priority of our elected officials, but instead the more they say they are going to change things the more they don't. and.. when is Obama going to make that speech he was supposed to make last week supporting replacing aging coal burning plants with natural gas?
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    ***OFFICIAL*** Obama's Healthcare summit discussion thread

    If not for the tax on medical devices and adding 31 million uninsured to the roll, some of the changes make enough sense for me to consider supporting this, but... taxing medical devices just does not make sense, so... any news on this front?
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    The dangers of "clean coal" and how the use of this term is Orwellian

    The point is not so much to do with coal, most know it is a "dirty" but abundant fuel. But, rather, in how it is being marketed as "clean". Natural gas is much cleaner and under Obama, Coal burning plants are increasing compared to those using natural gas. This is a contradiction. If Obama...
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    The dangers of "clean coal" and how the use of this term is Orwellian

    Anyone else concerned about large quantities of arsenic, mercury and lead entering into our ground water? There is no such thing as "clean coal". Just like there really is no such thing as "the taxpayer's money" Anyone wonder why instead of spending billions on solar or wind or even...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Hi XTKnight, Thank you for all your time and help. Just wondering... if it was ok to bring up and ask you to add that Home Theater LCD section to all the other monitors you review, for use with a PC? I was thinking the S-IPS and Alpha IPS panels might be worth watching as they improve...
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    Any idea on how to get hdmi audio GeForce 240 GT in windows xp and/or linux?

    Hi, I tried to get this working with new Sammy 46 inch led lcd and can't get both sound and video working... any ideas on how to get the nvidia audio going in windows... pretty sure just might need to change bios.. currenly set to internal and external codec... or some sort of registry tweak...
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    Zotac 9300 itx problems

    Hi, I built a pc about six months ago with the original zotac d-e version and no problems... thought I would try new improved i-e version and... 1) Can't get xorg wizard to work and only got xvesa to work once in about 15 tries in linux... puppy linux for most part. 2) Strange warning...
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    Optical Drive won't open all the way

    :disgust: Second drive in a row and it won't open more than about an inch. Can pull it open, but then next time... won't open even with pull past about half way point Just finishing my first mini itx build and first time I have used slim drives. What should my expectations be and is...
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    Lian Li PC-Q07 mini itx case with only half height pci slot

    Hi, I am looking for a mini-itx or mini-itx/micro atx case that I can fit the Zotac 9300 motherboard in http://nvision.pl/img/200901/zotac_9300_itx_wifi_04.jpg There are not a whole lot of pretty cases out there. One of the cases with some modding potential, the Lian Li PC-Q007, is a no...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    [list=1]Looking for Big 40+ inch Monitor, any suggestions?? Would like to keep cost to around $1k, but could go as high as 2k Any thoughts on this Hitachi Monitor? was wondering how well it would work with this box Would an LG be OK... super IPS panel LG with Super IPS panel...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    XtKnight, Are there any 120mHz Big Screens that would work well as PC Monitors? Anyway to bring back the recommnded big screen list that used to include the westinghouse and sharp Monitor/TV/s?? Anyone come across a larger TV/Monitor in the 42-57 inch class that you could sit 3 feet...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Hi Mr. XtKnight! Thank you for all you have done. I am thinking about getting a large screen tv and using it for double duty as pc monitor. The thread used to mention the large Westinghouse LCD's for this purpose. I was just wondering if the newer 120MHZ large screens might work... if...
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    What do I need to do to get old video driver to work with new card?

    yep.. i put post in software for starters, but I think I should have posted here first. mostly it is because omega has had some health issues in his family and he hasn't been able to put out new Omega drivers in over a year. Also, sometimes a newer driver has some problems an older driver does...
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    What do I need to do to get old video driver to work with new card?

    Hi, I just wanted to make sure what I am doing will work without any problems. I have installed the Omega drivers for a HD4650 Video Card. They seem to work, but... will there be any problems? In general, what do I need to do to get older drivers to work ok with newer video cards...
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    Any way to get newer Catalyst drivers to work on older operating system?

    Hi, Trying to get newer cards for older systems. Any help would be appreciated. First idea is how can you get Radeon HD 4650 that is not in info base to work without yellow warning deals in bios for XP for Omega drivers not updated in about a year Then.. what are the newest cards I...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    xtknight, just writing to make request. with the recession and all, any way to add a budget category or to include more of the less expensive lcd monitors? see some cheaper ones on newegg now, unfortunately many appear to have tn screens. hoping to see reviews of 24-28 inch screens in...
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    Linux TV tuner card Kernel 2.6.25.16 or earlier

    Looking for plug and play tv tuner card, prefer pci-e, but pci is ok, for kernel 2.6.25.16 or earlier. plan to use with comcast cable. just needs to do basic channels. plan to use small linux versions:beer: like puppy linux 4.1.2 have dvico, mdp-130, etc... looking for both good cards...
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    Looking for program or ideas to keep windows from freezing up

    thanks for replies! I have defragged and run ccleaner and immunized with spybot, will try ATF cleaner and did full scan with malwarebytes and no problems found. No problems with hard drives or memtest. Goal I guess is how to learn how to end freezing when wrong keys pushed.
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    Looking for program or ideas to keep windows from freezing up

    nothing specific. he gets distracted and hits something on keyboard or clicks mouse and presto... freeze up. I can't get him to repeat because it is by accident. I was just hoping for some ideas on how to help him overcome this. Maybe some software or maybe something needs to be fixed in...
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    Why give Wall Street or Banks one penny?

    Just wanted to re-open the discussion now that some time has went by. My take is that all the money being pumped in will do little to contain the deepening of a recession, but is more intended to position those who caused it and the government to swoop in and profit from wherever this takes...
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    Looking for program or ideas to keep windows from freezing up

    Anyone know of any software of ideas to keep my dad's pc from freezing up when he hits mouse wrong or hits a key on the keyboard he shouldn't? When he does so.. it is causing complete freeze up.. no keys on keyboard work, so can't hit control alt delete, also his boot ups and shut downs take...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Thanks xtknight and shiznit! I won't buy my next monitor unless it can do 1080P and 1:1. That is bad news that the new doubleview 26 inch does not do 1080P and 1:1 well. Thanks for the warning. Mike
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16824185010 xtknight, what do you think of this monitor? Is it as good as the other 26 inch one from doublesight that was previously ranked highly here?
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    Why give Wall Street or Banks one penny?

    Consider how banks and Wall Street treat us: 1) They make our savings so insecure so that they pay us very low interest rates 2) If a Money Market fund like the Reserve has problems.. more than likely they caused the problems and.. your hard earned assets will be frozen and you will rely...
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    Any idea on why browser default font text size for toolbar so small?

    What the hell is so awesome about a freaking navigation/address bar you can't even freakin read?? How do you increase size.. I have tried commands in profile suggested by firefox.. they don't always work. What the hell is the default font text size here at anandtech.. 8 pt?? That is way...
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    FireFox 3.0.1 is out

    On two pcs so far where more than one user, the users where firefox not directly installed got downgraded to safe mode. In about five or six other pcs, plug-ins that you download from the site did not play well with firefox. While maybe not directly a firefox issue.. they should really test...
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    FireFox 3.0.1 is out

    Das Fox, keep your old version.. imo firefox 3.0 and 3.01 are still alpha and not yet beta. Lots of problems.
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    WTF is wrong with my installation of FireFox?

    WTF is wrong with firefox period. I read they have all these great plug ins and as soon as you plug em in firefox downgrades you from normal mode to safe mode and actually removes normal mode from your pc. Right now.. I am trying to figure out how to get back into normal mode. I unchecked...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    XTKnight, Good news to report.. I finally got video input box to go away.. in the end after i toggled between it being set for ten seconds from default to twenty and back it must have unstuck something and now it clears within seconds or does not show up at all.. Thanks again!
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    X1900 to 3870

    So can you or can you not return the 3870? You might be starting to be cpu limited.. but regardless the 4850 is better buy than the 3870.
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    xtknight, In regards to my original post and your reply: Originally posted by: thestain Hi xtknight, I bought a couple NEC Multisync 20WMGX2's a while back and on my dad's I get this video input blue box that pops up and stays on for a while unless you wait long enough or hit the...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Hi xtknight, I bought a couple NEC Multisync 20WMGX2's a while back and on my dad's I get this video input blue box that pops up and stays on for a while unless you wait long enough or hit the menu key on the remote. This occurs if you log off and want to log back on and the box actually...
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    Getting more blue screens than I like when doing install

    Thanks guys! Hardware and initial install of legitimate copy of windows showed no problems... I run memtest and hard drive test before I install OS. Temps are fine. My post and question is more on how to prevent some of these problems, given hardware and legit copy of windows are ok...
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    Getting more blue screens than I like when doing install

    Assuming hardware is fine and windows is not pirated.. anyone have ideas on how to improve installs, so that if you do have problems, you can recover from them easily? I am going to look into some protections built into the games themselves that might be doing something. I just read one game...
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    Getting more blue screens than I like when doing install

    Thanks for responding Louissss! I agree, therefore I am worried. Most of my installs are on XP. The system specs vary, but I have encountered most of the problems with older socket 939 installs. I use what were top of the line parts for that time.. Asus Premium or A8R-32 MVP ATX...
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    How can I uninstall windows vista

    here is my suggestion.. take out the windows hard drive.. and save for rainy day in case you want to use windows vista again.. buy a nice hard drive in its place and.. you should be good to go.. install xp to the new hard drive. If you hate windows so much you want it off that hard drive...
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    User settings taking way too long to load and now CCleaner shows way too many temp files

    this was meant as a more general question. This has happened on almost all of my more complicated installs. My installs have been limited to Windows XP or Vista Home Premium. All have at least 2 GB of memory and more than one hard drive. Typically I have one hard drive for the OS...
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    Getting more blue screens than I like when doing install

    Hi, I am doing more large scale installs than I used to. This usually involves installing a minimum of ten to fifteen programs and a couple dozen games in getting computer ready for family member or friend. With so many programs.. I tend to get 2-3 blue screens on average and I am...