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    Woot! Take it RIAA

    Ok so if some of you have been following what the RIAA has been doing recently, they are targeting universities around the nation. They are especially targeting residence halls around the state of Wisconsin in universities. Now recently, they targeted Madison, and gave them a list of...
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    Street Lights and polarities

    Ok so I don't know if I am the only one here that this happens to, but I will give it a shot. Does it seem that street lights turn off when you walk or drive under them at night? We were talking about this at work today, and someone had mentioned about polarities with the electrical fields...
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    Weird Pattern Showing on screen

    Ok so I have been having this crazy pattern showing up on screen. It looks like a crazt tesalation of the image on the monitor. This problems seems to only happen when I play games. Cliffs are included if you don't want to read the full version. Originally thinking this problem was caused...
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    Vista from a Geek Squad tech's perspective...

    Now I can see the general opinion here about Vista. Most people are saying its slow, clunky, annoying, and just overall doesn't feel as snappy as XP. Well let me have my words: I work at the Geek Squad. I am in a precinct connected to a Best Buy in the Milwaukee area. I have been just...
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    Best business class notebooks

    I am a college student currently. I commute to college, so my laptops get a lot of stress. I have always been a big fan of business class notebooks, as they seem to be built the best for durability. Now I was looking at both HP and Gateway's business notebooks. How do you guys feel about...
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    Need some LCD monitor advice

    Alright, so I need some advice on what I should do here. I just purchased a Samsung 225BW 22" Widescreen LCD display for my PC. I love it, however the Best Buy I work at just got the new Gateway FPD2485W 24" LCD display. My current Samsung supports a resolution of 1680x1050, which is...
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    So I'm thinking about hosting a larger sized LAN

    Alright I have been hosting 5-10 person LAN's since I was a freshman in High School in my basement. Me and a few friends even chipped in money for a platform (made out of shipping pallets and floorboard), desks, chairs, network equipment, and cabling. It's a pretty cool setup. I will post...
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    Need ATOT's input on my situation

    Alright, so right now I am going to a 4 year university, UW-M. I like it here, but I think I am finding out that the 4 year university thing is just not for me. All that goes on here are kids wanting to get drunk and party. And while I don't mind the occasional drink and party, its just...
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    Laptop Battery Problems

    This has just started happening recently, and maybe you guys know a bit more about it. I have an older laptop, it's about 4 years old. I still have the battery that came with the laptop, as it still holds an hour and a half charge. Now, just the other day, it started acting funny. The...
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    iPod Nano

    So, has anyone picked up an iPod Nano yet? I have just put my mini on eBay so I can purchase a nano. They look so sweet. Anyone had any problems with them yet? I am a stickler for new tech, especially tech that's small and sleek :P.
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    Laptop screen goes Green sometimes

    I have an older laptop... It was made in 2001. It is a Compaq Armada e500. Now I know a lot about computers, so I am thinking this is a video card problem. Sometimes, my screen will just go randomly green in black areas of the screen, such as where there is text. This tends to happen when...
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    Win2k or WinXP on a P3 900Mhz

    What would you guys recommend for a slower laptop that has a Pentium 3 900Mhz CPU, with 256MB of RAM and a 20Gb Hard Drive? I was thinking about XP, but then a friend of mine told me to run 2k because I may get better performane and better loading times on opening applications. What do you...