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  1. ooma on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    ooma

  2. CHEAP but watch HD & RAM requirements on Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · · Score: 1

    This isn't an a shameless plug or anything, I have no affiliation with these guys other than yes, I did buy a cheapie server from them and it works great! I use it for game servers like L4D & 2142 & all the old classics (red faction, quake series, etc.) The main thing to watch for in my opinion is the Hard Drive you plan on using with it. These are IDE only & the $99 one only accepts 1/4" single-platter drives or maybe a laptop drive. but it's perfect for me :) I popped a 500GB IDE drive in the dual 3.06 Xeon / 2GB Ram one.

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  3. Several options... on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 1

    Tiny 2003-Vista Edition runs great on older machines using very little resources - people are playing around with the asus EEE version of WinXP as well and the Beast edition of TinyXP. Otherwise, I prefer an older debian-based version of Mepis. DSL (Damn Small Linux) might be an option as well. I'd say that's probably fast enough to run straight WinXP though.

  4. Re:Bike to work on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's simply not true. Muscle mass burns calories all day long while aerobics only burns while you perform that particular exercise. Metabolic rate is increased around 11hrs post-resistance training & only 1 hr aerobically. You really need to do both to be fit though, as well as the 3rd piece of the puzzle - flexibility.

  5. Re:Stop Playing Their Game on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1

    BAN

  6. Art on What To Do With Old Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Turn the display around so it closes with the LCD outwards, and have them cycle art via the network or it's own drive - put a picture frame over them and you'll have a dynamic art display! You could do family photos, downloaded art, etc.

  7. Re:Is this data provided to the SETI@Home folks? on Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability · · Score: 1

    It's probably heat - I suggest downloading speedfan (a free utility) and look at the temps while SETI is running, if the CPU is getting too hot - like over 65C - you probably need to either upgrade your HS/F or stop using SETI before you cause permanent damage. Other possibilities are a bad motherboard or power supply (or just about any other component) but you'd have to trouble-shoot to find out.

  8. Re:They don't like competition on CNN Fires Producer Over Personal Blog · · Score: 1

    One more reason to watch Fox News instead!