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    Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around

    Is that 40 million derived from total sales (including resellers) or actual installed userbase?
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    Reviving an old 3DFX powered PC

    from what time period? If I may throw some contenders into the Thunderdome: Gravis Ultrasound (all hail GUS!) TB Santa Cruz SB Xfi
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    for those people who have eyestrain, nausea, with lcds

    My solution (to sensitivity to fluorescent light) is a minimum tint on my glasses of about 5%. (minimum b/c they're transitions.) That's alleviated the majority of my cheap-lighting woes. The other solution I use for home or cubicle (when possible) is non-LED Christmas lights. I started...
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    AMD Radeon HD 7770 CrossFire Bundle Lucky Draw

    Price per performance advantage. Though not parading the corpse of 3dfx w SLI branding is probably a close second.
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    Best Buy Employees Feel Threatened By Amazon

    Granted brick&mortar is at a disadvantage due to higher overhead / infrastructure costs - if they can use immediacy or the hands-on experience as selling points, I suppose those could be advantages. But online retailers can't really pressure a website to sell more extended warranties. That...
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    IIS Bindings vs Redirects and SEO

    I'll add to the chorus for 301s being your best bet. Especially if it's from a domain you previously used in a nontrivial manner, or a defensive registration. I'm not IIS savvy, but it sounds from your examples like you'd end up with two domains on the same IP serving the same content? At...
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    Looking for very quiet 120mm case fans for top vent

    SPCR very recently updated their Recommended Fans article, (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page1.html) but I don't think connectors are detailed. It could at least provide a starting point for brands. I'm still using Scythes from a few years ago that I got on sale, so my apologies for...
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    Negative case reviews are so hard to find

    I find empiricism much more revealing. If they're willing to post the data (and method to gather that data!) then any analysis at all, spin or not, can be supplemented by your own. I stopped judging the paper magazines by negatives after I saw a trend towards only panning small or neophyte...
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    Negative case reviews are so hard to find

    I am sometimes amazed that people haven't clued in to the economics of "product review" publications. Or maybe I'm just old and jaded. If they say honest^H^H^H^Hmean things, they can scare away the thin-skinned advertisers, or dry up their supply of advanced review materials. And we the...
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    Intel Retail Edge 2006!

    how can a company declare the secondary market "illegal"? software publishers already lost this battle in court a decade ago. if you have a piece of property you wish to sell, the original manufacturer's wishes are largely irrelevant. granted, you had to agree to the terms of sale to *get*...
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    Isolated hard drive mounting

    rubber bands break too easily. office workers know well what i mean. clothing elastic (the kind with the bundle of elastic fibers in a cloth sleeve) should do the trick! i'm pretty sure silent mike recommends it. but to answer the op's question: there's a company selling a "noVibes"...
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    ZipZoomfly is slow?

    well, having just seen my order placed noon tuesday hit shipped status, i know what people mean. i'm not really sure what i was thinking paying a little bit extra for faster shipping if there's a two day processing lag put in front of it. they *are* nearly as fast as the egg, and price...
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    Newegg "Open Box" motherboards?

    i just sent back a bricked asus mobo, today. your mileage will vary. newegg still has a better track record with me than ebay, for what that's worth, but i'm not a fan of openbox at the moment. they _do_ stress that you're taking a chance, but aren't they taking a corresponding chance...
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    [H]OT! AMD FX-55 $139.99

    gentlemen, can we table the ideological discussion of parallelism and get back to the relative hotness of this ongoing deal? specifically, would the benefit of an unlocked multiplier justify the higher outlay for the FX? is the 4000+ deal actually the hotter? (no disrespect intended to the...
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    The Madcows F/S Thread *PICS*

    get on up! too funky
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