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    Does anyone here do trade-in-kind for PC repair?

    Reading this thread on pricing PC repair got me thinking about trade-in-kind. Has anyone here gotten anything particularly cool or neat in exchange for PC repair? One of the best trades I got was from a single mother -- she was basically broke but desperately needed her PC fixed so that...
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    High-speed spin dryer -experiences?

    I've seen several blurbs online about centrifugal clothes dryers. The front-runner for these seems to be Spin-X. The basic idea is they're like large versions of swimsuit dryers; you put in the clothes and the device spins really, really fast to throw the water out. Apparently then they're...
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    Dell GX620 desktops

    I'm looking at a desktop -- gotta go with Dell for this purpose. I like the GX620 mid-tower at this time, but don't know of anyone who's worked with these. The GS620 system with 3.2 GhZ Pentium D appears to be okay, but has anyone used a GX620 64-bit under Linux? I'm fairly sure that a...
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    Question for any crafty tabletop gamers

    OK, time to fly my geek flag. I've got a tabletop gaming group (mainly DnD, some other pen-paper and card games). We game at a house out in the middle of nowhere, and usually sprawl over the floor, couches, et c. Not the most comfortable. I found a round table in the trash the other day...
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    AC voltage on my cable line - any ideas?

    I'd love to know if anyone has any ideas on this one: my cable TV's coaxial cable seems to have electrocuted my mainboard, and is carrying AC voltage. I have regular analog cable. It comes into my house, and I have a passive splitter installed inline. One of the cable runs from the...