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I'm thinking of dumping my current VoIP provider in favor of a non-VoIP cell service alternative such as Verizon or AT&T Wireless Home Phone Connect . For those using one, how do you handle call blocking? I have accumulated a very large call block list through my VoIP provider and would like...

Check the disclaimer at the bottom of their web site. Just a 500 mb increase but hey, I'll take it. Some claim ST throttles well before hitting the limits. http://www.straighttalk.com/

BIG drop in year over year Q1 postpaid (contract) subscribers, from 677K to 539K (below AT&T). Churn increased also. Revenues grew anyway, proving: - coverage still trumps price (and always will) - they charge so much they can lose customers and still profit If the trend continues V...

$60/mth + tax for 7.5 gb data, 1100 min voice, unlimited text Breakdown: Nexus 5: T-Mobile 5gb, 100 minute plan ... $30/mth Galaxy S3: AT&T Straight Talk 2.5 gb, 1000 minute plan ... $30/nth Data speeds on TMo are sweet but I'm out of coverage territory 20% of the time, thus the...

This is spectrum T-Mobile purchased from Verizon for billions in order to get a rural foothold and better building penetration. TMo announced an aggressive implementation/expansion plan starting later this year. Do current iterations of the S4, S5, Nexus 5, Note 3, etc support it? I'm...

Big time DDos attack against meetup.com continues. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/meetup-suffering-significant-ddos-attack-taking-it-offline-for-days/

Bloat, lack of updates, updates making the program worse or buggier, better alternatives, etc ... I've seen way too many apps lately that are resting on their laurels that no longer deserve the title. Google should start culling the list. What's the value of the award when better alternatives...

Here's a list of places that should be online shortly, within days apparently. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5175-sprint-launching-new-lte-cities-december-2013/ Report if/when you're seeing it.

Say it ain't so! Sprint ... you're drunk, go back to Kansas City. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/13/sprint-working-on-possible-bid-for-rival-t-mobile-us/4015567/

EA stock getting spanked too. To be clear, it's a 'temporary' halt but it's clear it's bug ridden for EA to go to this measure. http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/04/battlefield-4-problems-halt-future-projects-and-expansions

Hey guys I've been out of the loop for awhile and need your advice. I have 2 aging systems ... AMD 965BE cpu, the other a Q9550. Both have modest overclocks running Radeon HD 5850's on single, 24" monitors. Is there any sense to stepping up to a better vid card or would I be bottlenecked...

That was quick. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-to-Shutter-AIO-Wireless-Brand-126289

Looking for suggestions on a Canadian GSM carrier for a prepaid SIM. I'm heading up there for 3 weeks and figure I'll need no more than 3gb data, less than 100 minutes voice. Also, how can I execute call forwarding from my existing carrier (Sprint) to the SIM assigned # if I'm already in...

With summer coming I want to keep the heat and noise down by moving my pc down to the basement but keep the keyboard, monitor, and mouse upstairs. So long as I get a decent resolution that's fine, nothing high resolution needed. I'm not cabled for cat5 but was wondering if powerline would be...

After nearly 4 yrs of virtually flawless use (Thermaltake Purepower 500, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UDP4 board, Phenom II 940 and HD4850) my system is rebooting every 8 - 10 seconds from a cold start, never getting to bios. You can hear the HD change up and down in pitch in concert with the case fans...

I'm halfway through my Sprint contract, Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, ignoring repeated attempts by Sprint to upgrade the phone to ICS. Their upgrade blocks functionality of the tethering app FoxFi which has been very handy. I sense they're going to shove the upgrade down my throat sooner or later...

If the antenna connection is located in a different room than the router what are my options short of getting a drop made of whatever is missing in the room?

I hate it when manufacturers start blaming one another and you're in the middle left holding the bag. My Lenovo b570 laptop connects fine to my Samsung 47" HDTV but isn't detected whatsoever by a newer Vizio (M470SV). Same HDMI cable. Vizio support says contact Lenovo, Lenovo says contact...

Hey guys, I'm tired of paying Dish Network for mostly stuff I never watch so it's time to cut the cord. The problem is I don't where to start. I just picked up a Vizio 470SV (still in the box) which I think has stuff like Netflix and Hulu built in. Here's what I've got: In basement - a...

Maybe I'm a bit paranoid but I haven't upgraded certain of my Android apps because the permissions seem pretty invasive. The trend seems to be going that way too. Evernote, for instance, requires the following permissions: Your personal information: read contact data, read sensitive log...

Got my receipts together (taxes) and discovered I haven't bought anything computer related in 10 months. That's a record for me plus there's nothing looming either. Anyone in a similar situation?

Awfully nice of them. http://phandroid.com/2012/01/04/samsung-offers-dead-space-for-free-on-galaxy-s-ii-devices-download/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

In case you guys missed it in the other forum ... http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1657132

I'm struggling with what to do. My oldest system is an Opteron 165 with an ATI HD 4830. Any sense replacing the vid card with a more power hungry, older gen GTX 260-16 or is the bottleneck simply impossible to overcome for any meaningful improvement in older games? Monitor is 1680 x 1050...

Start: Saturday, Apr 16, 2011 - 10:00am End: Saturday, Apr 16, 2011 - 10:00pm Location: 1903 W Michigan Ave Kalamazoo MI, 49008 http://www.theboxheads.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=NL_Lan_Parties&file=index&lanop=show_party&party_id=19

So I'm dusting out my box and took notice of the drive inside ... Maxtor 6L080L4 80 GIG. Almost daily use since Sept '02. Yes, it's frequently backed up. Yours?

I was surprised to discover how well BFBC2 is running on an ATI 4830 at medium settings, 1680 x 1050 res. Edit: removed mention of the cpu, I'm more interested in the older vid cards you guys are running, and what resolution. Clearly a 2yr old cpu isn't all that old except to the bleeding...

My 940BE is at 3.55 ghz, 1.4 vcore, 53C at 100% load running Boinc on an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro. Pretty much in line with what you guys are running with this cpu?

Finally starting to REALLY enjoy this game (other than the occasional x-engine crash) but for those of you who need some hand holding to get on track check out: http://www.mahalo.com/stalker-call-of-pripyat-walkthrough The open nature of the game was a bit confusing (to me at least) in...

Tomorrow I RMA a 1 Gb stick of G.Skill's DDR2 D9 Micron HZ Ram. Just curious, since it's no longer manufactured and came as part of a dual channel kit (2 x 1) do they warehouse some of this older stuff in cirumstances like this? I'm thinking otherwise they'll send a non-matched type which...

I'm hitting crossroads on 2 levels. First, I've been with a Boinc team for years that has whittled down to just me producing. Second, 100% of my points have been cpu crunched. I just have an aversion to pushing vid cards. Right now most of my cpu resources are going to WCG. With the...

What's the secret to resuming a game where it left off in Steam (Metro 2033) after the computer is reformatted? I was halfway through the game when my system went down hard. Now that Win 7 & steam have been reinstalled the game wants to start all over notwithstanding my efforts to copy over...

Just picked up a P5N-D on the cheap. Decent board other than a ridiculous .08 vdroop. Runing 3.5 ghz P95 stable for an hour. NB = 1.36 HT = 1.32 Flashed to newest bios, however I can't seem to disable thermal throttling as the cpu multi drops to 6 from default 8.5 till pushed...

Continue to find great deals on used skt 775 motherboards and DDR2 Ram. For new I'm still amazed the *lowest* priced, crappier skt 1366 boards (short of the occasional deals) are barely under $150, 2x to 3x more than many 775's. Q9550's with assistance of a friend with a Microcenter nearby...

I got a phone message from Microsoft about renewing my Technet Direct sub for what they say is a $200 savings. Anyone else getting these? I figure this 'savings' might work out to last year's deal ... around $263.

http://www.theboxheads.net/index.php Start: Saturday, Mar 27, 2010 - 10:00am End: Saturday, Mar 27, 2010 - 10:00pm Location: 1903 W Michigan Ave Kalamazoo, MI 60 signed up. And you thought LANs were dead. HA.

Samsung SyncMaster 753DF ... purchased Feb, 2001:eek: Not used everyday however.

I'm running Linux on a standalone pc and plan to move the HDD to a new system running Win 7. Will a solution like EasyBCD provide boot up choice to either OS on their respective drives? I think one drive is SATA, the other IDE. Not sure which is with what OS.

When I'm looking to purchase something older or hard to find the last thing I need is for Amazon to come up as a high Google hit when Amazon hasn't carried the product for years, will never carry it again, yet listed disingenuously as "currently unavailable" as if there's a chance it will come...

(note to mod: feel free to move if different forum more appropriate) In the past 2 months I've sold: Socket A board Athlon XP_M 2600+ skt A A64 3000+ skt 754 (3) Sempron 3100+ skt 754's (2) skt 754 boards Gainward GF4 6600 GT 7600 GT (4) 512 mb sticks of DDR It amazes me I was...