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Where are you buying 60 watt incandescents for 5-12 cents each? Or, a little more expensive (1.5 cents/bulb buying 2 at a time) but a better brand.

So a single LED bulb at a sale discount, versus 8 incandescent bulbs. FYI - average price of a single LED bulb is $7+ for 40/60/75/100W bulbs before any sale discounts.

Average prices for a 4 or 8 package of incandescent bulbs before any sale discounts was $2-3; I typically paid $1 for a 4 package at most.

Best price I've seen for CFLs was the occasional Sam's Club pack for $1 containing 8 CFLs (40/60/75/100W); but that's rare. Typically the same pack age Sam's Club is $8+.

And after our 4 yr old broke a CFL in his room (since we couldn't put a new Incandescent in), we replaced it with an LED, which I'd much prefer if not for the expense. Even then, the first one didn't work for some reason; fortunately the store did a return/exchange and the second one (a different brand) worked.

Where are you buying 60 watt incandescents for 5-12 cents each? Or, a little more expensive (1.5 cents/bulb buying 2 at a time) but a better brand.

So a single LED bulb at a sale discount, versus 8 incandescent bulbs. FYI - average price of a single LED bulb is $7+ for 40/60/75/100W bulbs before any sale discounts.

Average prices for a 4 or 8 package of incandescent bulbs before any sale discounts was $2-3; I typically paid $1 for a 4 package at most.

Best price I've seen for CFLs was the occasional Sam's Club pack for $1 containing 8 CFLs (40/60/75/100W); but that's rare. Typically the same pack age Sam's Club is $8+.

And after our 4 yr old broke a CFL in his room (since we couldn't put a new Incandescent in), we replaced it with an LED, which I'd much prefer if not for the expense. Even then, the first one didn't work for some reason; fortunately the store did a return/exchange and the second one (a different brand) worked.

Where are you buying 60 watt incandescents for 5-12 cents each?

Or, a little more expensive (1.5 cents/bulb buying 2 at a time) but a better brand.

Where are you buying 60 watt incandescents for 5-12 cents each?

Or, a little more expensive (1.5 cents/bulb buying 2 at a time) but a better brand.

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

What kind of tabs do you have open? 2GIGS?! 9 Tabs for me, and I'm at 285 megs:

This page
This one
This one
Dealnews
This one
This one
And, a couple of intranet pages.

It wasn't obvious in 2010Q3, pre-monsoon pre-LTO-6. 1.5/3.0 TB tape (LTO-5) was $110 and 2.0TB HDD was $70. And the tape price didn't include the price of the tape drive.

You guys all seem to be missing the point. He wants to repurpose old hardware without spending anything.

Simply put, it is, in fact, no longer possible to accomplish what the OP is asking.

quoting comment buried somewhere below:

Unless "anonymous reader" can set his old hw up and get it online in less than 10 minutes, its simply not worth the time it takes. Considering all the fine expert posts here, this jerkoff's broken router has already "cost" hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars (in five man-minute increments). I sure wish ask.slashdot had a FAQ that told new users to stop posting these kind of questions. The age of repurposing old but still functioning hardware passed when hardware got cheap... because time is only getting more expensive.

router deals for $40 or less

Recently, there was even one for $15

BAM! $15 wireless n router.

TRUE.

As above, Dealnews has spotlighted a new $30 router and a new $20 router. Recently, there was even one for $15. If you watch long enough, there will even be deals for about $5. Unless "anonymous reader" can set his old hw up and get it online in less than 10 minutes, its simply not worth the time it takes. Considering all the fine expert posts here, this jerkoff's broken router has already "cost" hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars (in five man-minute increments). I sure wish ask.slashdot had a FAQ that told new users to stop posting these kind of questions. The age of repurposing old but still functioning hardware passed when hardware got cheap... because time is only getting more expensive.

http://dealnews.com/c72/Computers/Peripherals/Input-Devices/Keyboards/

you need a new one

Well if you would let me know which specific game I could probably point you in the right direction, but without that knowledge? there is a BIG difference between say WoW and Crysis. Pretty much any of the AMD nettops can play WoW with nice framerates, hell I was playing Bioshock and Swat 4 on my 780G board. For something ready OOTB I would suggest a Zino which at $379 ain't bad and has a dual core and a 4350 512Mb that should play most games out there. Like most Dells I believe you can customize it to add bigger components if you wish, but like I said without knowing the game it is just a shot in the dark. But if you want something you won't need to do much more than tie a bow to, this will probably float your boat. Good luck and go AMD!

You determine a game's worth by how fun it is. (Obviously, this varies with the tastes of the user.)

So, how can you find out without dropping a fortune on a questionable title? First, don't buy new right off the bat. If possible, either wait for a demo or rent a title before purchasing. Also, hold off for about 3-4 months following the release date. This is about the point where stores begin discounting these titles by up to 50%.

Finally, check sites like DealNews for updates on special pricing, or find a reliable store online that routinely offers cheap prices on titles you want. (Personally, I've found GoGamer to have fantastic discounts on new titles in their 48hr Madness section... sometimes by as much as $20 below average pricing on new titles.)

It was on DealNews yesterday.

http://dealnews.com/32-off-Space-Shuttles-at-NASA-Deals-from-28-800-000-free-shipping-more/342463.html

NASA has discounted the price of its soon-to-be-retired space shuttles to $28,800,000 each. With transportation to a major airport included in the price (does that count as free shipping?), that's the best deal we've ever seen on a space vehicle. According to the Press Association article, Atlantis and Endeavour are "up for grabs", and the new, Smithsonian-sealed Enterprise may be available for purchase. (Enterprise never made it to space.) If you're lucky enough to get a shuttle, you must display it indoors in a climate-controlled building. Deal ends February 19, and a delivery date of "late 2011" is scheduled.

Source:
http://dealnews.com/32-off-Space-Shuttles-at-NASA-Deals-from-28-800-000-free-shipping-more/342463.html

Mother board is $80
Processor is $50
4GB of ram is $50

Small cases aren't cheap. But the builder in me would rather build something out of a nice hardwood or plexi-glass. (Depending on the decor of the house).

I can't wait until XBMC supports full hardware decoding and HDMI Audio out.

http://dealnews.com/Dell-Outlet-coupon-20-off-refurbished-Latitude-XT-convertible-laptops/273498.html You'll get a full featured PC with tablet features for just a couple hundred more.

First I will add a plug for https://www.bloglines.com/ â" RSS feeds where ever I can log in, via HTTPS. Great for those feeds I read whenever & everywhere; and for those I only check when waiting to board the airplane. In my bloglines collection I have around 400 feeds, which will grow after looking through these threads. :) Some selections that hopefully no one else has mentioned:

Amusement:
http://failblog.wordpress.com/feed/
All about the Fail

http://lolbots.com/?feed=rss2
Robots making the LOLz, though not updated often.

http://lolgeeks.com/?feed=rss2
Geeks making the LOLz, though not updated often.

The latest limerick database entries - http://peeron.com/tickers/limerickdb.xml

The Triumph of Bullshit - http://bullshit.tumblr.com/rss

Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ds-unifeed.xml

PHD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/gradfeed.php
Ever spent time in academia? You will relate to this web comic.

Unshelved - http://www.unshelved.com/rss.aspx
A web comic about a library. Ssssshhhuusshh!

Indexed - http://indexed.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Take two (or more) topics and compare them using graphs & charts â" full of insight & lolz.

Computerworld Shark Tank News - http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Shark/Tank
Many stories, full of humor and face palm

Overheard in the Office - http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/atom.xml
Instead of what was overheard in New York, now worldwide and from your office.

Common geek topics (those blogs that seem to hit all the topics days or weeks before you see them on Slashdot):
Didnt You Hear... http://www.didntyouhear.com/feed/

The Daily WTF - http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx

Global Nerdy - http://globalnerdy.com/feed/

Shopping:
http://content.dealnews.com/dealnews/rss/todays-edition.xml
Many of those geek toys you need

Newegg.com daily deals: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=DailyDeals&nm_mc=OTC-RSS
Need I say more?

Slickdeals: http://www.slickdeals.net/rss.php
Need I say more?

Woot! http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx

Dumb political stuff:
Homeland Stupidity: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomelandStupidity
Government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence

Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

Declan McCullagh's Politech http://www.politechbot.com/info/rss/politech.xml
Also not updated often, but on target when it is.

Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/cryptome.xml
You can get lost here for hours

Music:
House of Blues: http://hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/
The RSS feed for the local House of B

I'm not sure I'm trying to pretend anything. For those wanting to get good deals in a more systematic way than running spot checks on various sites (and get good enough prices they can forgoe the hassle of making a USB drive themselves), I suggest DealNews.com.

Never buy anything from Apple that you can't install yourself. For the Mac Pro, Apple charges $700 for 4GB (4x1GB) of RAM. You can get the same amount of RAM from DealRam for $500. The same goes for hard drives. Apple charges you $329 for a 500GB SATA drive, which you can get from NewEgg for around $200. Granted, these aren't covered by your warranty, but they often have a manufacturer's warranty

I've often though the lack of user serviceable parts in the Mac Mini was designed to sell more RAM at Apple's hugely inflated prices.

You had an above post that suggested that free shipping was *occasionally* included. I would say that it's frequently included, along with the $150 savings. You can check the archives at dealnews.com for expired deals (ex. here). I don't think this is all "beside the point", though. Your original contention seemed to be that in most cases you could build a cheaper system than Dell, which you illustrated using a single example. I just provided a counter-example. You go on to contend that only computer illiterate people should use Dell, which seems strange to me. I would think that computer literate people would value their own time enough to spend a little time on Dell (or any other site) finding a system that is cheaper, the same cost, or within a margin that they believe is worth the time-saving cost (say, $15 to save hours of my time). What you are getting with Dell is really a cheaper price on a system, generally. This is even before you include the "value added services" you talk about. It's not like those services are some nebulous construct, either. If I want to spend time putting together a computer and getting all the drivers, I would do it for someone else and bill them for $50/hr. I'll let Dell bill me the extra $15.

I bought the 1GB about a year ago(all I could afford and turned out to be plenty for me) and I love it.No hassle,runs 17Hr on a single aaa which means if it goes dead just stop at a convenience store,no waiting to recharge,radio picks up well and has plenty of presets,good eq(including manual,no being stuck with preset eq) and it even does a decent job of recording lectures.IMHO For the price they're sweet.

And for the extra $1000, I'll deal with the wires, thankyouverymuch.

Really? You'll pay an extra $1000 for a Dell, AND deal with the messy wires?

You must be a pretty smart guy.

FYI, #24 on the list, dealnews.com can be added as a Slashdot sidebar item.

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Well I did see this from dealnews.com

Well I did see this from dealnews.com

It's currently available for $779, the lowest price ever. The 2005FPW, which I bought for ~$500, is also available for an all-time low of $389. Fscking Dell.

The monitor is *awesome*, BTW. Love the rotating base and USB hub. I've made more use of both than I thought I would. Ghosting is no big deal; I watch movies all the time and I've never had a problem.

It's currently available for $779, the lowest price ever. The 2005FPW, which I bought for ~$500, is also available for an all-time low of $389. Fscking Dell.

The monitor is *awesome*, BTW. Love the rotating base and USB hub. I've made more use of both than I thought I would. Ghosting is no big deal; I watch movies all the time and I've never had a problem.

http://dealnews.com/

don't forget http://dealnews.com/

'Rebates' could easily be turned into a lower purchase price. If the manufacturer is able to offer them after sale they could offer before sale instead.

They could and probably would were it not for the many people who don't bother to submit the rebate at all. The manufacturer's average revenue per unit is therefore much more than the after-rebate price. They advertise this low, low price (after rebates) to drive up the volume, increasing total revenue. Making rebates harder (multiple rebates to different locations, checks that expire, etc) means fewer people will actually get that low, low price.

I think rebates will fade over time as people start to understand the game. Bargain websites mention rebates with disdain and highlight rebate-free offers. People have been burned too many times and aren't as easily swayed by the low, low price. I know I'd pay a few bucks extra not to deal with a rebate, and when I have to I make sure that I submit it ASAP.

Until everyone else gets the message, I'm happy to take advantage of this new tax on the lazy and forgetful. Except I'm lazy.. and forgetful.. shoot!

I'm a solo recording artist, and after losing an entire album in a hard disk crash a few years ago, I decided to do something about it. As hard drive prices started going down, I decided to start buying 200GB plus drives to expand my storage capabilities.

Right now I have a 200gb HDD and a 250gb HDD for backup purposes - both are in USB external enclosures, and are IDE drives.

I wait until prices hit around 35 cents or less per gig, and buy then. Keep an eye out on sites such as Fatwallet and Deal News for deals. My favorite time to pick up a new HDD is black friday - day after thanksgiving. Most stores have really great deals on IDE hard disks. I pick up my external enclosures @ Newegg.

$50? Might as well get one of these for $99 :)

Yeah, who in their right mind would possibly want to pay half price for something?

Seriously, "Informative"? WTF? Here is a link to a similar but cheaper product (see here to get this thing for even less). Do I get modded "Informative" now? Or do mods actually think that informing us that such products exist is actually news? Simple screenless flash mp3 players have been around for a while, folks. Apple didn't invent them just this week.

I smell mass-internet conspiracy. Look, its not a bad thing, trying to show the environmentally friendly side to tech. I greatly welcome it but we have this story and the OLED following it above here on slashdot. This crap on i4u. Plus, The OLED PDA there too. FREAKING DEALNEWS has the SuperFlower P/S giveway deal, (hey dont enter i was jus showing, i wanna win!).

But yesterday it was all doom and gloom with the tech sector research going to China, IT jobs plummetting, Toshiba ditching the NA market.... Ok is it Bush or the Internet Illuminati Collective responsible for the maniacness going on out there?!?!!!

I've also used tradepub.com for some free magizines subscriptions.

If you're careful eBay has some excellent deals. The challenge of course is not falling into an addiction.

For RAM I tend to use Ramseeker.com, while its mainly mac oriented I think they're added a PC section

dealnews.com and its related sites

I watch a few "hot deals" websites for parts and computers. There are some great deals if you're going to buy parts, or just buy a whole computer. If you wait for a few months, eventually you'll spot a great deal.

The two best that I watch are Passwird and Dealnews. I'm sure there will be some good stuff before the summer is over!

Now, as for dedicated encoders, there must be some around. Like here, or maybe high speed here (just a quick Google turned these up).

Of course, another thing that can be improved is I/O bandwidth and compression tweaks. As storage gets cheaper and cheaper you can use HuffYUV lossless, and then have a background task to gradually compress to MPEG2 or DivX, I guess. Heck, you could even do that now, but then current generation CPUs can encode and decode at the same time anyways...

The problem with MythTV is that it uses a hacked (in the good sense) version of the NuppelVideo compression scheme... I quote from MythTV:

So, with the hardware able to handle what I required of it, it's back to the software. I significantly modified the NuppelVideo codec: I added the ability to compress the audio using the LAME encoder library, upgraded the RTjpeg code to the latest version, modified it to use the Xvideo extension to convert colorspaces in hardware, added a better de-interlacing filter (taken from MPlayer), and finally c++-ified it all into Recording and Playback classes, so I could easily use the functionality in applications.

MythTV really looks like it rocks. I just need a better machine to test it out (mine is an appallingly slow poor old thing :'( )

I travel with a late model Apple 12" iBook. Smaller than a TI, and much less expensive, these are the stealth deals of the year. They are excellent for DVD use on an airplane, etc. You can copy DVD's to the hard disc and play from their, or leave one in the drive, ready to watch when the in-flight movie leaves you flat. You get a large clear screen, and easy controls. One battery is more than enough for one movie.

In the car, I have a 7" (widescreen - $200.00) LCD that is dash mounted, and I use a Sony Psyc headless portable player...these are selling now for $99.00.

I looked at the portables with screens, but a nice one, with a large screen, decent controls and battery life sells for more than $500.00, and in some cases, more than $1000.00. For that kind of money, it's not a hard step to an iBook for around $1200.00, and you get the obvious benefits of an excellent laptop.

Any of these will also play audio...most will also play VCD. If you travel far and wide, you'll want a player that is region free, so you can buy DVD's from various countries. Again, my iBook fills this requirement, but not without some minor tweaking.

Before you spend too much, watch for portable MPEG players coming to an outlet near you.

1. "Take an old PC and...": Folks in dorm-rooms don't need an additionial clunker PC taking up room, pumping out heat, adding to the din, etc. While lots of geeks may appreciate living in the equivalent of a hardware cave most dorm rooms I've ever seen barely qualify as a decent closet much less a hardware bay.

2. Yes there are good low-cost 10/100 routers out there. I use a SMC Barricade 7004ABR which offers 4 10/100 LAN ports as well as a simple firewall, print-server, backup modem connection, etc. Some folks have trouble configuring it with a browser other then WinIE, if so just make friends with a Wintel laptop owner down the hall.

3. Watch for deals. I got my router for $50 after refund (check took a month to arrive, not bad.) Another buddy just bought his for $50 direct. My favorite source for good prices is dealnews networking. They've got a couple of good sub-US$100 listings right now.

1. "Take an old PC and...": Folks in dorm-rooms don't need an additionial clunker PC taking up room, pumping out heat, adding to the din, etc. While lots of geeks may appreciate living in the equivalent of a hardware cave most dorm rooms I've ever seen barely qualify as a decent closet much less a hardware bay.

2. Yes there are good low-cost 10/100 routers out there. I use a SMC Barricade 7004ABR which offers 4 10/100 LAN ports as well as a simple firewall, print-server, backup modem connection, etc. Some folks have trouble configuring it with a browser other then WinIE, if so just make friends with a Wintel laptop owner down the hall.

3. Watch for deals. I got my router for $50 after refund (check took a month to arrive, not bad.) Another buddy just bought his for $50 direct. My favorite source for good prices is dealnews networking. They've got a couple of good sub-US$100 listings right now.

If anyone is interested in buying this sort of thing, I do remember seeing good deals on 64MB USB "drives" recently on the various "technology deals" websites. DealNews mentioned this one for $62 recently, and I think I remember seeing one for $49.95 mentioned on some site earlier this month.

If anyone is interested in buying this sort of thing, I do remember seeing good deals on 64MB USB "drives" recently on the various "technology deals" websites. DealNews mentioned this one for $62 recently, and I think I remember seeing one for $49.95 mentioned on some site earlier this month.

Yep!! Here's the dealnews writeup. You can even order it online. (I have the Sony-branded version of the same and it rocks!) This is the best way to watch TV.

Philips DSR-6000 DIRECTV Receiver with TiVo 35-hour recorder $99.99

PHP is a great language, but there are a couple minor problems. While PHP is an Apache module, you can't actually write other modules in PHP.

ahem, yes you can

With any PHP-based solution, you have to hit the DB every time you want to get anything dynamic.

You must not have a clue how slashcode works, or you have never heard of database caching.

Also, psuedo-compiled versions of Perl modules are stored and re-used in Apache. PHP scripts have to be interpreted every time they're accessed. Unless, of course, you use the Zend optimizer, but it is not open source.

You may also be thinking of the Zend Cache, or the Alternative PHP Cache, which is open. You really need to check your facts before you bash on PHP. :)

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50 pack CD-R only $15 from outpost.com. Free overnight shipping. Just in case you need to back up your existing cd's / mp3's.

I'll probably get my ass kicked by moderators for saying this, but you can get a nice cheap DVD player for around $150 buck at:

http://dealnews.com/articles/20 000128/32/11270.html

I don't really see a need to boycott DVD stuff, per se. I think I'll personally avoid buying any DVD-related stuff until after the lawsuit ends, though (I've already got a DVD player). It will end in our favor, I am sure (I think my De-CSS shirt can attest to that), so then I'll go out and buy my DVD stuff and, in doing so, contribute to (what will hopefully be) a nice upward spike on the DVD sales charts.

Stop harassing lawsuits, get more sales. That should be the bottomline. :-)