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Continue reading →: Identity Theft
Federal Trade Commission – Your National Resource for ID Theft. Jennie had a credit card used by some Nigerians buying dolls. This is a big deal. Fortunately, Google shows that the FTC has a pretty good site for what you need to do. It isn’t just a matter of cancelling…
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Continue reading →: Top 10 Show-off DVDs
MSN House & Home – Movies You Must Watch on DVD. A good review of great DVDs to show off your home theater, in reverse order of course: 10. Fight Club. 9. Heat. Michael Mann’s LA vice story. I didn’t like the movie much though. 8. Saving Private Ryan. There…
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Continue reading →: Updated: Creating a Bootable Windows XP SP1a CD
Creating a bootable Windows XP SP1a CD (Nero) (Windows XP) – TACKtech Corp. _Shamelessly cribbed from TACKtech because instructions like this tend to evaporate on the web_ You will need the following items: # A copy of the original Windows XP CD or ISO # “Network Installation”:http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/network.asp of SP1a for…
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Continue reading →: DVD Backup and DviX and XviD
Well, it’s time for my six month review of how to do DVD backups. Super useful to have a backup and also to have a smaller copy for watching ont he airplane. Here’s the latest: * DVD-copying extravaganza – CNET reviews. In the last six months, there have been a…
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Continue reading →: SlimX Battery Replacement
“SlimX Batteries”:http://electronics.realbuy.ws/B000063574.html. _My batteries in my SlimX aren’t holding charge, here is a review from someone who found out where to buy them_ I had a difficult time finding places to buy the special rectangular NiMH batteries which the SlimX uses, not to mention a source for an external charger.…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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.…
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