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Ironically when I opened up this thread I was greeted by that same pop-over window. Well played Hardforums. :p

I didn't think that was too unreasonable, though I could be wrong. I see GT 620s for around $50 and I haven't spent a lot of time looking yet, and GT 520s are $40 at the bottom end of the listings on Newegg. Another option I'm looking at is a 6570, also coming in at $50ish. Much more than $50...

I've working on a Dell Inspiron 530 that has an old 8400 GS video card in it now. The CPU is a Core2Duo in about the 2.8Ghz range I think, and it still has the stock 350W PSU. I'd like to just find something in the $30-40 range that will refresh this thing a bit without needing a new PSU. The...

I never managed to pick up a 5100, but I do have a couple 5155s (IBM PC/XT in a suitcase) still around. I took one apart about 10 or 12 years ago and upgraded the motherboard to a 486, gave it an IDE hard drive, network card, and installed Novell Netware 3.12 on it. Hmm, now I want to go dig...

I had a Netware 4.x server in my house on a pair of Maxtor full height SCSI drives that I had running for 4.5 years straight. I would probably still have going (barring hardware failure) except for a divorce and move. It also was running for just under 4 years in its prior location, down for a...

Conan the Librarian will ensure punishment is swift. Seriously though, seems it would be difficult to track and enforce this on the end user. So you unlock your phone from AT&T and move to T-Mobile. AT&T is just not going to see your phone on its network any longer, and T-Mobile has little...

Ironically as I was reading this news bit on the front page, I got an email from Instagram explaining how they had considered all the feedback they had gotten about their TOS and that the new TOS will take effect Jan 19th. Basically, a nice suck up message saying: "PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF...

I find it a bit odd that the 9400 didn't even POST, I would have guessed it would boot but not run at the correct speed. I've never tried to run a 1066Mhz bus CPU in a Vostro 1500 though, could be it sees it as incompatible and refuses to go anywhere. That said, I have a Vostro 1500 with a...

Is it just me or does that line sound like pointy haired manager speak for "give me a chance to stock up on pencils and post-its before I jump ship"

They should be forced to use their "product".

When I was watching Chuck E Cheese and the band rock at this link I noticed in the related videos list on the right there was one called "Westboro Baptist Church Reacts - The Rosie Show - Oprah Winfrey Network" Funny how YouTube relates things you wouldn't expect, and nails it.

Yep. For when the band crashes at your house they need to be able to vomit on the carpet, and to be able to empty your liquor supply, refrigerator, and leave cigarette burns in your coffee table. These guys might also siphon motor oil from your car and smoke up your stash of AA batteries too.

This project isn't likely to break any precious metals markets. The description of the mission in the news story says they are going to target an asteroid around 7 meters wide. Any returned material would be worth more by virtue of it being part of an asteroid than its weight in precious metals...

It took eight replies to get a "That's no moon"? Kudos to Steve for the Yo dawg line, very nice. Now in the spirit of the rest of this thread, I'd rather see a couple billion invested on the future of humanity than watch it spent on hookers and blow in DC. Just don't miss orbit and launch...

Am I the only one wondering if this could be used to say, heat the water back up? In a home use situation, you pay money to get your hot water hot, often with electricity, then these nice pipes will charge up my Nintendo DS while I take a luke warm shower. I can see plenty of good uses in...