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    Monitor going out?

    Those are the symptoms of bad capacitors, which are fairly easy for someone with reasonable soldering skills to replace. The hardest part is figuring out which ones are bad, although if it's making any kind of high pitch noises, you can probably track down the exact worn out part that way...
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    Help save my eye(s)

    It looks like you've taken the time to do a good amount of research, but i would like to add something first: Stop using VGA. I am about 90 percent certain that going to DVI will be a significant relief. IPS panels may be unneccesary, as you haven't complained of color accuracy or viewing...
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    Sharp Quattron technology?

    Purely speculation: TN panels only really do 6bits of color per subpixel. The signal comes with 8bits of data per color channel. Most panels deal with this through interpolation. Adding a 4th 6bit subpixel would be an improvement? Again, this is all probably wrong. Anyone willing to...
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    sonofa

    Yeah, you're pretty much screwed. But, since the panel is probably pretty much worthless to you anyway, you might want to pop it open and have a look. The best scenario i can see for you is to go on ebay and find a broken panel of the same model and try to swap the parts without breaking...
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    Any other high-end wireless mice to consider?

    A few years ago, I went with the Razer Copperhead, their flagship at the time. In fact I got two of them. Razer makes, by far, the prettiest mice on the market. Not the best. Their software, (on the copperhead at least) is terrible. The firmware is buggy. The build quality is not good...
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    Can someone explain to me the WoW Raid? Maybe Im just a noob.

    Honestly, judging from the amount of married people and couples in Azeroth, in all likelihood the majority of people raiding have had sex at least once. Raiding virgins are likely in the minority. Many (I'd say 5-10%) of them have children. Back to the OP though: Get out while you still...
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    Gateway Monitor--repair--An Inside Job

    If you have a volt meter, poke at the powersupply a bit and see what's going on when it fails to come on. Standard warning: be careful around the inverter section for the backlight. But you probably know that already. Look for capacitors that bulge out more than others at the top. I've seen...
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    Sony HT-IS100 Bravia Home Theater System

    I played around with this system in BestBuy, they had it marked as $425 The look and feel of the system is great, the little baby satellites are incredibly tiny. The sub seems to be the right size. The speakers themselves just have little holes that the wires go into, but the other end of...
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    LED's in series or parallel, and resistors to use?

    From my understanding, it's best to NOT hook up LEDs in series. The reason is that each bulb has slightly different performance characteristics. Also if one bulb goes out, the remaining bulbs will have too much power and the failure will cascade. The best thing to do would be to assume the...
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    Naked Pico Challenge Fails Hairdryer Challenge

    solder, melts around 400F
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    Super Compact Mini Projector

    This one beats the pants off of those in that it's actually available for buying: http://www.amazon.com/Mitsubishi-PK20-PocketProjector/dp/B000I28EGC It's 800x600, but scales 1280x1024 pretty well. Makes a 5ft screen on my wall. Granted, only in a dark room. Producing a 32" screen, it can...
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    would upgrading help much for WoW

    Another possible bottleneck to look into with WoW is harddisk performance. Sometimes, a good defrag can do wonders, especially after they release one of those big patches. People around might tell you that defragmenting once in a while does nothing, I say they're full of crap. If you follow...
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