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    how many prints from an ink cartridge?

    I currently have an old laser printer but I want to get an inkjet printer for the color capability. I print mostly text documents but every now and then I want to be able to print something in color. I've heard about the costs of the ink cartridges and I need to know how many pages of text I...
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    can I install 2 tv tuners in one pc

    I currently have a Pinnacle tv card and I'm thinking about getting the Visiontek Theater 550 Pro. I like the fact that the Pinnacle card and software shows the tv video without writing to the hard drive and compressing the video first, but the Theater 550 card does a lot of processing of the...
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    can I install 2 tv tuners in one pc

    I want to add another tv tuner to my pc that records in better quality than the tuner I currently have but I want to leave the current one in there because it doesn't write to the hard drive when I'm just viewing tv. Is there any problem with doing this? My main concern is how the tuner...
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    Graphics on LCD monitors look washed out and dull

    This is especially a problem if they have LCD monitors of different sizes hooked up to the same computer. The LCD monitors will have different native resolutions so it will be impossible to set the computer resolution to optimize for all of them. I went into a retail store where they had...
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    Graphics on LCD monitors look washed out and dull

    Thanks for all the advice. I'm starting to feel a little better about LCDs if the washed out look can be largely fixed by adjusting the display settings. I thought that it was caused by the coating on the LCD surface. I did a comparison test by looking at a lamp reflecting from the surface...
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    Graphics on LCD monitors look washed out and dull

    The thing about LCD monitors that's always troubled me is how dull and washed out images look on them. I currently use a CRT but I'm in the market for a new monitor and started looking at LCDs. After seeing how dull the graphics are I really don't want an LCD, especially since I use my pc...
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    new monitor is blurry in the middle

    I have a new viewsonic p95f+ CRT and text in the center of the screen is blurry, it's ok off to the sides though. Any idea what would cause this and how to fix?
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    Need help...big time.

    You guys were correct, the video card was slightly askew. I gave it a good push into the slot and everything is working now. If I knew you guys I would buy you a beer but instead you'll have to settle for this :beer: :D
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    Need help...big time.

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    Computer Static & Lag Issue

    Might be heat related. Is your computer running in an air conditioned room? Did the air temperature increase a lot lately?
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    Which media player do you use?

    I use Nero Mix for listening to music. It has an equalizer which makes a huge difference in sound quality.
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    Need help...big time.

    I opened up the case and the video card looks ok. It's screwed in tightly to the chassis so I don't think it could have moved. The new monitor is a Viewsonic P95f+ and the old monitor is a Dell. I'm using a ATI 9700 Pro. I'm not using any kind of adapter. I don't think I waited more than a...
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    Need help...big time.

    I just bought a new monitor and I unplugged the old monitor from the vid card and plugged in the new monitor. When I booted, I heard a long beep and nothing showed up on the monitor. I unhooked the new monitor from the vid card and plugged in the original monitor I was using and when I booted...
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    Viewsonic monitor question

    I have a P95f+ Viewsonic monitor. Do I need to install the driver on the CD that came with the monitor before installing the latest driver download from Viewsonic? Is it even worth installing the Viewsonic driver or should I just use the default Windows driver that gets installed automatically?
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    laser printer causes lights to flicker

    Why did you need another circuit installed? Did having the laser printer installed on the common circuit cause problems? And I meant that my lights stop flickering if I turn the printer off. :)
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    laser printer causes lights to flicker

    I just bought a laser printer and when it's motor is running it causes the lights in my room to flicker about every 10 seconds even if it's not printing anything. As soon as the printer goes into sleep mode or if I turn it off the lights don't flicker anymore. Is this normal?
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    Tweak UI - Optimize hard disk when idle conflict?

    I've been looking into this issue recently also because I'm trying to disable MS's process. If this process runs while I'm using my tv tuner then when I shut down my tv tuner application my pc will crash. I'm guessing it's because MS's process moves or deletes temporary files that the tv tuner...
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    Toshiba Wins Hollywood Studios' Support for HD-DVD

    Actually dual layer recordable DVDs only contain 8.5GB of storage. The "pits" on one of the layers have to be made bigger. Also keep in mind that dual layer DVDs only support R mode and not RW mode. I imagine the same is true for blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. So if you want to use a blu-ray or...
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    Does Norton AV 2002 work with Mozilla browser

    That's good to know. Thanks guys.
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    Does Norton AV 2002 work with Mozilla browser

    Does Norton Anti-virus 2002 work with Mozilla which uses the Navigator browser? I'm using Mozilla and I want to make sure I'm protected.
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    digital tv with tv tuner card?

    I'm thinking about signing up for digital tv with my cable tv provider and I am wondering if it's possible to use the digital tv signal that comes out of the set top box with my pci tv tuner card. My tuner card has one connector for the coaxial cable which I currently use for my non-digital...
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    Cron job for transferring files from one FTP server to another

    Use a shell script and a "here" document to run the ftp commands.
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    need to reboot when change AF or AA settings?

    Do I need to reboot my PC running Windows XP and 9700 Pro after changing the anisotropic filtering or anti-aliasing settings in the ATI control panel?
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    anyone with Ghost 2003?

    I can run chkdsk ok. I don't think there's anything wrong with the data on my disk because if I don't have ghost create the crc file the image is created and I can verify its integrity. The problem just seems to be in creating the CRC file. The error message seems to indicate that it fails...
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    Checking CD files integrity?

    If you have any basic programming knowledge you can write a simple program that will compare two files byte for byte.
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    anyone with Ghost 2003?

    Can you create a CRC file while creating an image file for an NTFS partition using the -fcr switch? I'm using Ghost with Windows XP and if I try to create the CRC file I get an error message. If I don't try to create the CRC file the image file is created successfully.
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    What is your favorite Hard Drive?

    What utility can you use to muffle the seek sound? link?
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    Carly Fiorina Gives Us Good Reason To Boycott HP - Compaq Products.

    Well it's only natural for people to be protective of their jobs. It is their livelihood after all. What do you expect people to say, "Here take my job, I don't want it, I'd rather be unemployed" IMO, if a company doesn't have a lot of respect for it's employees then it probably doesn't have...
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    Carly Fiorina Gives Us Good Reason To Boycott HP - Compaq Products.

    It's not quite that simple. A loss of high paying jobs would mean there were fewer people able to buy other products. So every country that manufactures goods purchased by Americans including the US would be affected. And it would also lead to lower tax revenue and higher spending by the...
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    Carly Fiorina Gives Us Good Reason To Boycott HP - Compaq Products.

    That's pretty much my opinion. I think a lot of these CEOs like the idea because it allows them to explicity reduce costs. They can go to their stockholder meetings, point to their balance sheet and say "look we reduced IT spending by X dollars." IMO, claiming there's something wrong with US...