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  1. Re:Late! on AOL to Give Away Spammer's Porsche · · Score: 1

    Slashdot cruiser? :P

  2. Re:Confirmation? on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    With an Ack-Ack gun?

  3. Re:Make sure the mouse has a long cord on Building an Unattended Computer Presentation? · · Score: 1

    But I'm left handed, yet can't use a mouse with my left hand! How insensitive, you clod! :P

  4. Re:Buy it in Canada on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    Seen the difference in prices on dell's webiste though?

    Offhand, the Dell 2001FP comes to mind.

    It's around 1550 on Dell.ca's website, plus 15% tax, comes to about 1782.

    From the US, they've recently been sold for 750 USD with rebates/coupons and such. At current exchange, comes to about a thousand.. plus tax at the border(if they bother), worst case is about 1150. Big difference from 1782.

  5. Re:no more... on Ford Testing a New 'Traffic Monitoring' Device · · Score: 1

    we're not already depressed about being in windsor?

  6. Re:And you wonder... on Orwellian Tech Support · · Score: 1

    I was in louisville, kentucky about 3-4 years ago, and they were offering 9 an hour.

  7. Re:Magnusson Moss Warranty Act on Hack Your Car · · Score: 1

    another advocate of double plus ten on offramps, i see? :)

    having said that, i've yet to see an offramp that was rated anywhere near what's actually safely possible.

    nothing like quad plus 10 to show you an offramp wasn't actually driven by the engineer who decided on that speed.

  8. Re:Don't buy based on technical specs... on Choosing a Cochlear Implant? · · Score: 1

    external component, for sure

    there's a hell of a lot of signal processing to be done to generate a workable signal.

  9. Sound quality matters as much as hearing a sound on Choosing a Cochlear Implant? · · Score: 1

    I came across a page last year that claimed to imitate the "sound" of an implant, and was very shocked at the quality of sound. Perhaps I'd be able to hear the higher frequencies(over 1500 hertz) that I can't now, but if the quality isn't there that doesn't seem to help me.

  10. Re:Don't buy based on technical specs... on Choosing a Cochlear Implant? · · Score: 1

    Hell, when i wore hearing aids 10 years ago(I don't any more), they had telecoil support.. and had had support for it back in 1981 when I started wearing them, both Unitron and Starkey BTE models.

  11. Re:I know.... on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    IE 6.x has PNG support just fine.

  12. Re:ViewSonic on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Used two of those for awhile at work before replacing with a pair of Sony 20E20's. Got tired of adjusting the focus every couple months as it drifted. Very easy to adjust, upper left hand corner at the back is where the horizontal and vertical focus controls(convergence) are located

  13. Re:Can't beat Sun or SGI on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    I was looking at one of those today, search for 90w11 on ebay. Wanted 350 dollars though.

    a 13w3 to hd15 adapter is usually about 10 bucks fortunately. My "Sun" 5010pt has dual inputs, one is 13w3 and one is HD15. push of the button, and i can flip between them. I put a 13w3-HD15 adapter on the 13w3 connector and use it for my laptop. Cheaper than buying a KVM.

  14. possibly my monitors you're talking about on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Possibly could have been me, I use a pair of 20" Sun branded Sony GDM-20e20's at work, and have a damaged one at home that needs a few parts to repair(the screen is pincushioned heavily, and the pincushion control won't work.)

    I use a 21" Sun branded Sony 5010pt at home now, does 1600x1200x75hz nicely, and if i could stand the flicker would do 2048x1536x60, still readable. The 20e20's will only do 65hz refresh at 1600x1200. Much fun to get THAT working under windows. I run them at 1400x1050x75 at work.

    The 20e20's were built in about 1997 or so, and the 5010pt was built in 1999 if I remember right.

    Both are trinitron's, and easily adjustable for focus/convergence.

    I paid about 130 apiece for the last two 20e20's, shipped. I think the 21" was around 260 shipped, they're cheaper now on eBay which is where i got all four.

  15. Re:IBM 3151 on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Two of those sitting in the bathroom closet right now. Freebies from work.

  16. Re:Price update... on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    If you have enough addresses, compusa had the 200 gig seagate for 100 after rebate, significantly dropping the price here. $500 for 5 200's plus whatever taxes were on the original price before rebate.

  17. Re:Security these days... on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Both Detroit and Philadelphia have required me to take off even sneakers as well.

  18. uh, looks SLOWER to me on Turning A FX5900 Into A FX5950 Ultra, Tool-Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    did i miss something, or are those benchmarks showing the "upgraded" bios is actually making the card run slower if they don't overclock even further?

  19. Re:An enterprise-grade printserver in the laundry on What's Next for Your High-Tech Home? · · Score: 1

    Great workhorses, and if you ever need parts, they're cheap on ebay, just buy another laser printer.

    Pickup feeders are about 5 bucks, if the fuser unit goes that's about 75 from a rebuilder.

  20. Re:The Day I Got my Dual Standard... on Best BBS Memories? · · Score: 1

    still have one of those lying around at the office somewhere. the old huge style courier, not the relatively "small" new ones?

    i think it's 99 dollars to upgrade it from 16.8 to v.90 with a daughterboard.

  21. Re:I like the AIW on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    Someone gave me some url's for a few programs, but most were just for watching tv itself, none of them actually supported the close captioning.

    even found one that plugged into winamp(it didn't support the ATI chip though)

  22. Re:I like the AIW on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, still trying to get my ASUS 9600XT/TVD to work with the ATI multimedia center, claims it can't find the tv components. Oddly enough, windows Media Encoder works fine, and the enclosed ASUS tv tuner software works, but without close captioning(rather important for someone deaf like me)

    Tried to email ASUS tech support about it, and their mail system bounced the email because their mail system is misconfigured and won't accept the redirect they use to a real account.

    ATI wants 2.99 a minute or something similar to talk to them, I'll put up with it not working properly for now.

  23. Re:Great Solution! Here's the plan. on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt? · · Score: 1

    Raise the voltage at the start with a transformer :P

  24. Re:One word: Batteries! on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt? · · Score: 1

    APC apparently made the _same_ ups, from their 280 to 500va back-ups pro's, just set the firmware differently for each.

    all of them all used the same 7.2ah 12v battery as well, giving the same runtime at a given load.

  25. Re:Gigabit on Rewiring Your Home Phone System? · · Score: 1

    Time to fix your cabling issues/hub issues, should take about 10-15 minutes or so(8 meg/sec is pretty typical)