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Net2Phone – Broadband Products
Net2Phone – Broadband Products – Max PVN. We were on a conference call today. Man are these complicated from a hotel room. The hotel speakerphone didn’t work, so I cranked up my old Net2phone account so we could all at least hear the call. Also trolled their site. They have some nice solutions for small…
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Toshiba DC Car Adapter
DC-120 Toshiba Portege 300, 600, 2000, 7000, T3400, T3600, and R100 Series Laptop DC Car Adapter. Here’s the equivalent adapter for Car sockets that is $45. BEcause toshiba has a proprietary connector, you need this for the many older flavors that used their little mini connector.
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Booting off the Network
Bart’s Network Boot Disk. The second technique is to boot off the network. In the old days, I had a trusty PCMCIA Ethernet card with DOS drivers so I could put a floppy in and then get the network up and then connect to a machine. Alas, I’ve lost that card and floppy. So to…
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Boot Disks
Bootdisk.Com. I’ve had two machine crash on me now while running Windows XP. The bad news is that we normally buy machines without integrated CD-ROMs, so recover is a real problem. Thank goodness for this site which has MS-DOS and other boot recover things along with pretty universal CD-ROM drivers. This is a real problem…
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Best pricing for Compaq Power Accessories
Ok, I foutn Laptop for Less and this seems to ahve a good selection of old Compaq accessories: * Battery for Compaq Evo. $115 for an internal Compaq Evo 400c battery sure isn’t bad. * “Universal DC/DC Stepup Convertor”:http://web1.applelaptopbattery.com/ccp5/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=50X5437793&rnd=6841936&rrc=N&cip=64.3.228.130&pg=prod&ref=DC%2FDC+ADAPTER&cat=&catstr=&catstr=. This is a mouth full, but basically, this lets you charge the Compaq battery in your…
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Compaq Evo 400c
HP | CONFIGURATION. We have an old Compaq Evo 400c that I use quite a bit. One the quandaries is that when we got it, we didn’t get every accessory to save money, but now it would be nice to have a CD drive for instance when it crashes. Of course these are expensive as…
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New Shuttle Boxes and Optorite Drives
“Shuttle Launches”:http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/11/6/prodit/6631568&sec=prodit and “Optorite DD0401”:http://www.optorite.com/newproducts.htm. Just when I thought it was safe to make Christmas recommendations, now come two Shuttle boxes that could change the recommendations so that the SK43G becomes the new low-end machine of choice and the ST61G4 has the ATI graphics chipset so maybe the last barrier for Shuttle (slow onboard graphics…
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RAM Reviews
For those who like to overclock their systems and squeeze performance, the type of RAM you use does make a difference. Here’s a quick review of various websites and what the gamer geeks think are great modules. Its interesting to see that folks are charging more for overclock oriented modules now. I’m not sure if…
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Desert Combat 0.5
Desert Combat. A very cool mod for Battlefield 1942. Just released their 0.5 version. I haven’t had time to play games in a long, long while, but good to remember.
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Athlon 64 vs. Athlon 3200+ vs. Pentium IV
[H]ard|OCP – Shuttle SN85G4 and “Pentium vs. Athlon”:http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0LDM= This comparison was done between Athlon 64 3200+ and a host of machines including a fast Pentium 3200 system. On the charts, the top is the Shuttle and the bottom is the Pentium. Shows it to be about 20% faster. That’s pretty amazing considering that the Pentium…