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Continue reading →: Tom's Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Affordable and Reliable 80 and 160 GB Hard Drives – Solidly Middle Class And Affordable
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Affordable and Reliable 80 and 160 GB Hard Drives – Solidly Middle Class And Affordable. If you don’t have $150 to spend on a hard drive, Tom’s Hardware likes the Samsung 160GB drive. It performed OK and is much cheaper at “$116”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1224163/blsrt=1/ut=0ce6e8ac87113673 according to pricegrabber.…
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Kazaa Lite K and KLChat
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Continue reading →: Kazaa Lite K and KLChatKazaa Lite K : Resources and Information. Kazaa Lite has gotten harder to find now that the folks behind Kazaa have been cracking down (how ironic that is!). In any case, these folks still seem to have a copy. “#KLChat”:http://kppdata.twizt3d.com/kl/index.htm. Some folks think this is the better non-spyware version of…
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Digital Music Sites
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Continue reading →: Digital Music SitesRareWares. A great place to get codec binaries. “Hydrogen Audio”:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/. Seems like the best forums for those with digital music technology questions.
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NTFSDOS
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Continue reading →: NTFSDOSSysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 – NTFSDOS. Another darn useful tool if you corrupt your Windows NT/2000/XP installation. Let’s you read an NTFS partition from plain old DOS. When used with the network boot floppy, it should get you home no problem.
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More on creating a Network Boot Floppy
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Continue reading →: More on creating a Network Boot FloppyUniversal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks. Amazing someone is still maintaining this. Darn useful though if your machine doesn’t have a CD-ROM
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XP Partition Management
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Continue reading →: XP Partition ManagementAlso know as how to get one big fat Windows partition into something manageable. I have a big partition and lots of data. So, how do you get to the right configuration and make everything boot correctly? * “Mandrake Linux”:http://mandrake.com. This Linux has a dynamic repartitioner for NTFS partitions. You…
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Epson 3200 35mm scanning
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Continue reading →: Epson 3200 35mm scanningUsing my Dad’s new Epson 3200 scanner. Man, there are a lot of software settings, here are some guides to getting the scanning right: * Epson Perfection 3200 scanner: Impressions by Norman Koren, Benjamin Kanarek, and Guido Bruck
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Plasma Balls
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Continue reading →: Plasma BallsAlex and Calvin are working on understanding those strange plasma balls you see in science experiments. Here are some links: PLASMA BALLS. You can buy one. “History”:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kier/history.html. History of the plasma ball. It’s actually a kind of Tesla Coil. Didn’t know that. So on to this fellow Nikola Tesla. Amongst…
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The file comparisons
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Continue reading →: The file comparisonsSince I’ve been overclocking, I’ve seen two cases where the file systems have gotten corrupted, so caveat emptor. Seems pretty serious on NTFS since it scrambles everything. For instance on one machine, I lost a big part of the file tables. On another, it corrupted the Windows installation. In order…
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Shuttle ST61G4
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Continue reading →: Shuttle ST61G4Shuttle ST61G4. This could very well be the perfect Intel-based small form factor machine. Has a very fast ATI Radeon integrated graphics chipset (about half the speed of their top of the line card, which costs more than the entire Shuttle box!) Also has silencing technology to be quiet as…