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Don't know, MrSlacker is in New York and Chester Brown from AmbientCPU in Oregon. His name is on the mobile page and he's liking every comment on the AmbientCPU Facebook.

What the... http://www.ambientcpu.com/ Almost fell off my chair.

I got a temporary refund from the CC company, but they give Mark another 60 days to send proofs of shipment... Order was placed on Feb 7th and I still have no guarantee that I'll get my money back definitely. At the same time, FCPU has finally lost their BBB rating and are going close to 0 on...

Well, I was the one who posted this, and later got a confirmation from End Point that they closed the site. There's just so many posts at OCN that not a single one bothered to read them. There you go, if you want the full discussion, edited names out: E-mail 1 from End Point: E-mail 2...

Some estimate the inventory is worth $5 millions. Now, more news, I've been speaking with the eCommerce provider, they put up the message, so no news from FCPU yet:

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I'm looking for the Shuttle PF27 VFD front panel if anyone still has one of those in their junk box. Thanks for looking!

oh by the way, for example imgburn will read the cd properly, but windows itself can't mount the partition and sees it as raw...

Hello, strange problems with my Dell XPS L501X. A flash drive appearing properly FAT32 formatted on another system appears as a RAW filesystem on the laptop. Now again, with a DVD-ROM. It works properly with my external DVD drive on another system, but I use the SAME drive on the L501X...

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Or one of those? http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/18972-18972-236251-1156654-3328075-3434445.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-18972-236251-1156654-3328074-3760400-3760406-3760409.html...

Yes, Touch of Color is a bezel that turns from red to grey with the viewing angle. http://www.bestbuy.com/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat150500050046&type=category

Would it be cheaper with a contract?

Even that tool doesn't work well IIRC. :p Avast is a PITA to uninstall as well, I just found lots of remaining files and still-active services on a computer that I tried it on a year ago. (And it sucked)

If you buy the 5000 pages cartridges, all the 4 carts costs $500, which means $0.10 per page. ($0.15 for the 2500 pages cartridges) Not exactly cheap for a laser printer.

If you haven't downloaded any viruses, that would have been the same with any anti-virus, or even no anti-virus at all.

The false positives in Avira are cracks, keygens, etc. I suppose they simply try to reduce the amount of pirated software for some reason.

Failed NES? It might just be the (very few) power supply components.

Unless they're reliable, which isn't often the case with consoles and optical drives in general: take a box of old CD-ROM drives, how many still work and read every discs without problem? A few units will stand out, but a lot are failing.

Not sure 240Hz would really cause more lag as the TV still uses a 24, 30 or 60fps input and processes the picture twice as fast. Oh, and 120Hz or 240Hz screens can output 24fps properly. As for Touch of Color, I really don't think a red bezel is worth $600.

You might just crash the GPU by asking for a resolution it doesn't understand. PowerStrip is able to cause damage, but only to old CRTs that don't have any overscan protection. It could drive the electronics out of tolerance, but that's a thing that doesn't exist with digital. The worst thing...

That's what happens when you use a reliable cartridge system with gold plating on the connector as well. Lead was removed from electronics to make landfills cleaner. Well, shouldn't electronics be recycled in the first place? They say people will always keep throwing out electronics in landfills...

I'd say current consoles are more unreliable: optical drives seem to cause a lot of problems after a short while, BGA chips and lead-free solder cause tons of problems, and hard drives can fail. Also, there's a whole bunch of electrolytic capacitors that can fail on new consoles. Slot connectors...

The E71x is a US-only version. Too bad you can't wait for the E72 though (Q3 release), it seems to have a lot of improvements over the E71.

Well, the HP OfficeJet printers with 920XL/940XL/88XL cartridges look like an interesting option as well, they claim a lower cost-per-page than about every laser printers under $600.

You're right... Didn't Symantec buy something last year though?

When people call me up to check for viruses, they're all using Norton, which doesn't find anything and crashes all the time. (There are a few AVG and avast cases as well)

Oh, and here's some Symantec experience: someone brought me a laptop that kept crashing, and Windows would barely boot. I thought the computer was filled with spyware and viruses. I installed Spybot and Avira and found absolutely nothing (scanning in safe mode). Then, I uninstalled ZoneAlarm...

Quoted for truth. AVG 8+ makes every computers I have extremely slooowwwwwwww. I used AVG until version 7, and then had to find another option. Avast was bloated, annoying, didn't work correctly and doesn't have a good detection rate. Comodo works quite well, and is free even on Windows...

Oh, not that one, I was talking about response time causing motion blur. (And it looks like 120Hz helps) http://www.hometheatermag.com/gearworks/707gear/

PowerStrip case?

Probably a whining coil with drying-out glue or something. Dipping it in epoxy would probably solve the problem completely, or using transformer lacquer and placing it in an oven.

This is normal.

Touch of Color is just the red bezel around the screen. As for 120Hz, I believe they also have less response lag at 60Hz.

Some HDMI chips only work at 480, 720 or 1080 resolutions. Some GPUs can output these resolutions natively.

They weren't that bad, but they decided to use a plastic casing, which is part of the reason why all multimedia speakers don't sound good, they used horn tweeters, and the control pod uses cheap sealed pots and there's an opamp that often fails (which can only be caused by a poor design or...

Oops! Looks like they're not in stock finally. Parts Express lists the M10 as discontinued... but Audio Insider claims they're too popular to discontinue... Maybe the M12s are replacing them (they seem to be cheaply built compared to the M10s) Maybe you should look at the M200s or D1080s if you...

I already had to fix someone's Klipsch ProMedia, and I can tell they're cheaply built. He brought in one of the satellite speakers as well, and from what I saw, they're probably worthless against the Swans. Sure, Klipsch used a larger subwoofer, so you can expect more low-end response, but the...

The first thing that crossed my mind when I replied that not all old speakers are crap was a picture of an Apogee :D Well, all I found was a French DCX2496 fansite telling to use the digital input with a different ADC, to make up for the lousy AD stage. They also say the DA sucks, but that you...