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    New Sprint Bills

    So I got my Sprint bill for the last month for my cell service. The bill is quite different from how it has been for years previously. It's over twice the size with more pages. What did they do with all that extra space? Nothing. Other than use a slightly larger font in a few places. In...
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    Nero Pricing

    I'd like to get a new copy of Nero. But when I looked at their website, they only thing they were offering was Nero 7 Ultra Edition for $100. So I was thinking of just finding a DVD burner that comes with Nero, which will only cost me about $35, then throwing away the DVD drive. Anyone...
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    Car Enthusiasts -- Wheel Poll

    Just curious what ATOT general impressions are on wheels and tires.
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    ViewSonic Graphics Series CRTs

    I've just about lost all faith in ViewSonic as a company. At work, we have quite a few ViewSonic CRT monitors. Some of them are Graphics Series (mostly G810s), others are Profressional Series. All of the Graphics Series monitors look like crap. The most common problem is fuzzy picture...
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    Nuclear Power

    Personally, I think it's about time people start embracing nuclear power (both fission and fusion). I think it's risks are minimal and it's advantages plenty. I've been convinced. Curious what other ATOTers think. For those who don't know the difference between fission and fusion, the...
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    Subwoofer Craze

    The other day I was looking around to see what kind of home stereo speakers there are. Oddly, I couldn't find any speaker sets that had large woofers (most had nothing over 6.5" tops). Some of them (maybe all, I don't remember) you could get separate subwoofers for. So then I was thinking...
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    Abit uGuru Loses It's Settings

    I've owned several Abit motherboards, and on more than one of them, including my newest AW9D, uGuru occasionally loses it's settings after a shutdown/restart cycle. Everything else on the PC is fine, but uGuru is back to defaults and all the settings have to be re-done, including clock speeds...
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    1280x1024

    So maybe I'm a bit behind the times here, but I recall 1280x1024 being a somewhat standard resolution option for CRTs. However, a few games I've played with recently didn't have 1280x1024 as an option (instead offering 1280x960 or 1280x800-something), and one of them had 1280x1024 but it had...
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    SATA Optical Drive Compatibility

    While SATA Hard Drives have pretty much taken over in replacment of PATA, optical drives are still mostly PATA. I know awhile back at least one SATA optical drive, the MSI XA52P, would only work on Intel chipsets, and these kinds of problems are probably part of the reason why optical drives...
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    ABS vs. Brake Pumping

    I've done some experiments with my '97 Cadillac Seville STS in slippery conditions. I've found that I can brake faster by "pumping the brakes" than by mashing them and letting the ABS control slip. Has anyone else experimented with this on their ABS cars? What did you find out? I would...
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    ZEN Technology

    Remember the Kenwood True-X drives featuring ZEN technology? At the time, they were the fastest CD-ROM drives (up to 72x) yet were dead silent (no disk spin noise). I loved them. Though they did have some reliability issues that needed improvement. I've been waiting and waiting for similar...
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    8800 Fan Noise Levels

    I'm a quiet PC buff and currently use a Gigabyte 7600 GT Silent Pipe II card (fanless). I'm thinking of upgrading to an 8800 GTS at some point. I've read somewhere that the cooling fans used on 8800 series cards are actually fairly quiet compared to a lot of other stock GPU coolers. I'm...
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    Insurance Companies Are Evil

    Today, my dislike for insurance companies has flared up again, and I feel like sharing... 1. In the past, I worked for an insurance company for several years as a programmer. I was unhappy working for them because of the ways in which they discriminate and were attempting to further...
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    Linksys Wireless USB Network Adapter Problems

    Though I always use a wired connection for my main PC, I almost always have a portable PC that I use wireless on. I've had repeated problems with Linksys Wireless USB network adapaters...always the same problem. If I leave it plugged in when the system boots (Windows XP), it usually won't...
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    Processor Importance for RTS Games

    I've heard from time to time that RTS games like Rise of Legends or Age of Empires are more processor intensive than most other popular game types. Given that I like RTS games, I am therefore interested in how true this is, and if processor upgrades can result in decent performance gains in...