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  • PC Recommendations

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    Another month has passed and recommendations are getting a little more complex again. Interesting to see that as the dollar has been crashing, PC prices have been stable as has technology. The machines I bought a year ago are about 10-20% slower not 50%. Main move has been with graphics…

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  • SD/MMC USB Reader

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    Crucial Hi-Speed USB SD/MMC Card Reader upgrades from Crucial.com. Just $10 with free shipping, this little widget is a SD/MMC card reader that plugs into any USB 2.0 slot. Going to give it a try very useful for all those digital cameras and phones with MMC/SD cards in them.

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  • New memory choices

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    “Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2312 covers the latest in RAM. The big news is that the price of fast PC3200 CL2 Ram is actually higher than PC3700-PC4000 CL2.5 ram, it seems like an upgrade in January recommendations are in order, specifically, going to: * “Corsair TwinX 4400C2.5”:http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2312&p=19. This stuff is quite slow at DDR400,…

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  • Crucial Ballistix

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    RAM from Crucial is actually made by Micron Technologies and is very hard to find. The best place is direct from “Crucial”:http://crucial.com. BTW, it looks like the PC4000 is the better by according to “Club Overclocker”:http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/memory/crucial/ballistix_PC4000/p2.htm. It is about the same price as the PC3200 ($130 vs. $128), but is…

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  • Santa Cruz Juliana

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    Someone wanted to get a new bike from Santa Cruz Bikes. Here are the notes on buying a Juliana that “MTBR”:http://mtbr.com/reviews/2004_full_suspension/product_123148.shtml likes although few folks have it. * They have a great site for picking colors. She liked the orange with the black arm. For the front shocks, they now…

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  • PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL

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    “PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL”:http://kadaitcha.cx/0x50_error.html. I hope you never get this blue screen. Calvin’s machine is really sick. Got a bunch of these errors and then found out that the disk would refuse to boot with a NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND. Even using the Recovery Console (F8 with a Windows XP disk) didn’t help.…

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  • Omega Drivers and Tweaking

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    TweakGuides.com. Well removing the ATI Catalyst 4.12 allows the machine to boot. I went to safe mode and whacked it and now it seems fine. I deleted all the drivers and will try a reinstall. Wish me luck. Also will try out the Omega drivers as well to see how…

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  • ATI Crashes

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    *unofficial* ATi Troubleshooting guide. _OK I think I may have found what’s wrong with Calvin’s machine. Sounds a lot like video drivers. Here’s a note from someone who is using the same Chaintech VNF3-250 and ATI Radeon 9700s so close to his 9800. I’ve had the system fail to boot…

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  • Etymotic ETY COM ER-22 Headset

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    “ETYCOM”:http://www.i4u.com/section-viewarticle-108.html. Etymotic is now making a headset. Should be very good for noise reduction given its design. The thing works fine with Connie’s 7100t, but just is terrible with hum on my 7290. I don’t know why. Others have recommended it, but doesn’t work for me. Something to do with…

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  • Outpod

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    stoer.de// Outpod Home. What Ephpod recommends for getting Outlook contacts onto your iPod. The top Google hit is “iPodSync”:http://iccnet.50megs.com/iPodSync/ so that’s another to try.

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