2/14    To follow up about my laptop's traffic to http://fatboy.paqnet.com:  I had
        visited http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html = 208.246.182.10 =
        http://fatboy.paqnet.com I don't know why opera kept a TCP connection
        open for 17 hours.  Perhaps it was related to putting my laptop into
        suspend mode 7 minutes after visiting the website.  Would y'all
        consider this to be a browser bug?
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11/24   Shopping for a laptop.  How are AMD's laptop chips?  Are the
        Pentium-M's a lot better?  Don't suggest Apple unless you found one
        with a pointing-stick and 2 buttons.
        \_ why do you care what chip it uses?
        \_ 2 buttons?  not 3?
        \_ Dude, get a Dell!
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4/23    Are there any decently priced backed up storage services out there?
        Talking about 5 GB.
        (sorry, I didn't mean to spark off a debate on IDSG earlier)
        \_ buy a 80GB drive.  copy/rsync/dump/etc
                \_ No. Last time there was a power outage at school, I lost
                   my harddrive. I'm not stupid. When I say "backed up storage"
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2/15    For the Soda Gal:
        There's an eMachinese Computer with 1.6 GHz Pentium4, 17" Moniter and
        printer free 1 year msn Internet Access for $679.97 after rebates.
        There's no contract on anything.  Check it out at BestBuy.
        \_ Get the Dell 4300S, $499 and free shipping (under Small Business).
        \_ Why are you giving her such bad advice. You might as well tell
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12/29   I'd like to dip into the pool of motd wisdom.  I'm going to buy a new
        cd-rw.  I don't have scsi so it should be ide.  I want quality, speed
        and the drive should be able to deal with any of the zillions of
        standards.  Price isn't too important but I don't want to take out
        a second mortgage for it. What's the best ide cd-rw out there? Thanks!
        (Please specify a model if you have one in mind or a product line)
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10/31   What's the best way to erase your CDR? I'm not talking about CDRW.
        \_ Get a hammer or yermom.
        \_ microwave oven.
        \_ Put it in a parked car under the sun in a hot sunny day.
        \_ You understand a CDR can't be erased?  It's a write-once deal.
           That's why the above people are giving that sort of advice.
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7/24    what's a good cd-rw drive for a laptop?
        \_ Internal or External?
           \_ external
              \_ SCSI, USB, FireWire or Parallel?
                \_ USB and Parallel CDRW are slow and often don't work reliably.
                   The SCSI drives are often pretty expensive, bulky but they
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4/16    I have a question abous video cards.  If I don't play games at all
        but mainly use my laptop for Photoshop, will GeForce2Go be much
        better than ATI Rage128?  What if I also do some animation/movie
        editing?  What is the strength of GeForce2G0 over ATI Rage128?
        \_ I'd go for the ATI for sure. It has much better video capabilities
           Watching an mpeg1 file on an ATI card offers much greater image
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4/15    Is the new Powerbook G4 worthwhile compared to PC laptops?
        \_ After getting one free from work, couple comments:
           They get hotter. Wait for nVidia's GeForce2Go to get
           built in, the slot load can jam if you flex the case
           too much, and get 256MB of RAM for OS X, otherwise
           it can be pooky. Other than those minor quips, best
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12/6    I have $650 worth of Sony card points.  I want to get a DVD player
        for my TV.  Does Sony make good DVD players?  Any recommendations/
        URLs?  Thx.
        \_ Many Sony DVD players don't play CDRs. Worth avoiding on that
           alone for me. Word to the wise: pick yer favorite strange
           \_ Yeah, as if you can manage to get one anytime soon.
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