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Brother HL-5170DN. Been using the printer. It is great with both duplex and network port. Main thing not covered in the FAQ is that it doesn’t do TrueType correctly, so printouts over the network fail. For some reason the default is to load TrueType fonts as graphics. This is fine…

Newegg.com – WOET TSERN ICR-A2 Beige Card Reader/Adapter. For $15 how wrong can you go. This thing lets you read just about any type of flash plus it has a USB 2.0 port as well. Great for upgrading a case that doesn’t have a flash reader.

I was able to get the Crucials to run to 217MHz before I had stability problems. This was running at the very aggressive 2-2-2-10 settings Anandtech recommends for Athlon 64. To get farther, you have to relax timings, I was curious to see what others folks experience was. The Crucial…

Thermalright XP-120: 1st 120mm fan CPU heatsink :: SilentPCReview.com. Well, if you really want to be cool and quiet get this monster. This is absolutely massive heat sink that can take a gigantic 120mm (that’s about five inch wide fan). “Newegg”:http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=0 carries it for about $65. It is expensive, but…

Overclocking is a complicated topic. Here’s how I did it on this new Chaintech VNF3-250. The net is that I got an Athlon 2800+ costing $150 to perform like an Athlon 3700+ costing $400 with a 30% overclock. And also got another 10% out of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.…

Turning Legacy USB Mouse support on in bios locks keyboard o. Thank goodness for the internet, it just required the correct google query, which was google:”Chaintech VNF3-250 keyboard locked”. This told me that when you turn on USB Legacy Mouse support in the BIOS, then you get the Post Code…

Boy it sure has gotten complicated installing Windows. Here’s what I did (breadcrumbs for Calvin’s new machine): # BIOS errors. On startup, I got BIOS errors 7F and 8C. 7F is “Keyboard is locked”. This means the BIOS thinks that there is a lock on the PC case itself and…

Yahoo! Groups : nslu2-linux Messages : Message 1096 of 1387 . Pray that you never have this happen to you. In my first test of the NSLU2, I did a firmware upgrade since I was having problems and it is good to get the latest. Destroyed the boot of the…

I got an el cheapo Linksys Linksys: NSLU2 – Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives which is about the size of a small camera. Plus, got a USB 2.0 enclosure for cheap from Newegg called a “Quick-Serv Penr35u2”:http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-145-843&depa=0. It cames in a box labeled Backup Q. Here is…