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Chaintech VNF3-250 Doesn’t POST and beeps once…
I guess I asked for it, upgraded from a 75GB drive to a 750GB (!!) drive and things were working fine until I actually put the drive into the computer and now nothing happens. I get one beep and then the system just hangs! “OC Forum”:http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=266936 has a very useful what to do on a…
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US University Endowments
“Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment actually has a list. These are for the fiscal year end 2005, but so pretty recent figures. | Rank | Institution | Endowment | | 1 | Harvard University | $25.474B | | 2 | Yale University | $15.225B | | 3 | Stanford University | $12.205B | | 4 | University of Texas…
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iGo Auto/air85
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Intel Core 2 Duo Desktops Arrive
Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors were announced two weeks ago with much fanfare from the hardware editors and the enthusiast community. Intel had brought a great-performing chip to the market that was faster than every processor currently available and was much cooler than its Pentium-D predecessor. Today, there were a slew…
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MVP Baseball 2005 is no more
We downloaded the MVP 2004 demo and Calvin just loves it, unfortunately, because EA lost the rights to MLB, they now only have NCAA Baseball and it is only on consoles, so nothing for our beloved PC. You can still get used MVP 2005 on ebay though. And you pretty much have to have a…
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Yoku Moku
!>http://www.yokumoku.com/images/SMMAIN2.JPG! I picked these butter cookies up on the way through Narita, I have to say they are just awesome. You can buy them in America at Neiman Marcus or Saks, but they are from Japan and get gret “reviews”:http://www.superfuture.com/city/reviews/review.cfm?ID=159 there. bq. !>http://www.yokumoku.co.jp/company/img/com_yoku_img01.jpg! Yoku Moku Yoku Moku produces some of the finest all natural butter…
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Microsoft Zune to compete with iPod
!>http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/2137_zune.jpg! Well, I’m glad that J and Robbie are on this, nice to know there will be some competition. The 30GB Zune player direct from Microsoft will have Wifi so you can download without needing a PC. Will be about $400 according to rumors, so it will be pricey. They even have a “blog”:http://www.zuneinsider.com/ for…
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Intel Core 2 Duo Desktops Arrive
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Shanghai Restaurants
John and went to “Ai Wan Ting”:http://www.aiwanting.com.cn/ ?????????at the “Superbrand Mall”:http://www.entershanghai.info/country/Ci_22_set.htm (????, Zheng Da Chang Cheng) and had a great meal. Great views and really fresh fish and lobster too. Duane also took use to “South Beauty 881 Club”:http://www.qiaojiangnan.com/ (???, Qiao Jiang Nan) in Puxi (we’ve also been to the branch in Pudong) As “Eurobiz”:http://www.sinomedia.net/eurobiz/v200407/risk0407-02.html…
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Bluetooth Headsets: Plantronics 640 and Motorola H5
Well, I seem to have misplaced my Plantronics 640 headset again, so not a bad time to look at the headset market once more. Here’s the recommendations: * “Plantronics 640”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=12867242/zip_code=98004/. These have come down a lot in price to $65 at newegg. Nice form factor. It is nine grams and loud enough. Main problem I…