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Video Cards
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Continue reading →: Video CardsTom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts Part III – . _Tom’s Hardware latest reviews now takes price into account, basically you can buy a $400 card (!!!) and it is 50% faster than a $150 card, so the sweetspot in the market is nVidia and ATI’s mid range card_…
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Continue reading →: ACL Website
Diary of an ACL Reconstruction. Had to happen, here is an entire site just devoted to getting your ACL back! “ACL links”:http://janet.braystudio.com/acl/links.htm. Her list of ACL related sites is great too. I like “Knee1”:http://knee1.com
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Continue reading →: Woo Hoo! John Ludwig using a SATA 10rpm drive
a little ludwig goes a long way: 10,000 RPM WD drive. Now that’s a fast drive. Smaller than what I normally use, but amazingly fast. Great tips on getting this right. I’ve only done standard EIDE so knowing the SATA trick is good.
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XP Defragmenting
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Continue reading →: XP DefragmentingThe Windows XP defragger – is it good enough for the enterprise?. I’ve been running the XP defragmenter quite a bit on the video machine. Man, is it slow. Also doesn’t seem to speed things up much. So I’m off to try some commercial defragmenters. Here’s a quick review: *…
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Continue reading →: Torn ACL on an MRI
Well, got the MRI’s of my knee and it looks like blobs of grey and black, but thanks to websites here’s a view of what it should look like and what it looks like torn. Yuck, lots of blood too. ACL MRI Pictures Normal and Torn Jennie thinks I’ve got…
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Network Boot Disks
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Continue reading →: Network Boot DisksAppDeploy.com > The Network Boot Disk Creation Home Page. A place to figure out how to boot up from the network. I tried using Bart’s, but he’s exceeded his network bandwidth for the month 🙂 “Tech Republic”:http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6268-1054824.html. Ther e is an old Netowrk Client Administrator utility on the old Windows…
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Unlocking an Athlon XP
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Continue reading →: Unlocking an Athlon XPWith Pentiums, the only way to overclock is to increase the bus speed of everything. But, the Athlon, with the right hardware and know how, you can leave the buses at their normal speeds and just increase the clock on the processor. here’s how: * “XP-TMC Adaptor Socket”:http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030703/index.html. This is…
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Year End CPU Buying Guide
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Continue reading →: Year End CPU Buying GuideA couple of more sources for the latest on processors. I’m thinking about spending $1,000 to upgrade two machines I have that are currently Pentium III 450Mhz and 550MHz if you can believe that (state of the art four years ago with 256MB at 133MHz and 8GB hard disk on…
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Bill Mao's New Computer
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Continue reading →: Bill Mao's New ComputerOK, my third system this year based on the Shuttle. Bill wants to edit videos mainly and also use this machine to access the Internet. That sort of thing. He was looking at the Sony system which costs $1900. That machine has a Pentium 3.2GHz, 1GB memory and a 200GB…
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Skiing and Knees
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Continue reading →: Skiing and KneesI guess it had to happen. Helping Grace out, one ski got caught under herr and the other went the other way. Nice new skis with the bindings set way to tight. Rip and the next thing you know, on your back down a sled with a torn something. Here…