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    8/17/2005 - 8/16/2014. RIP old friend.

    I'd try recapping it on the off chance that you've got some capacitors that have gone high on ESR. Might be able to get a few more years out of it. :)
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    Athena Atlas 800 Power Supply Review @ [H]

    In the future, you guys might consider using a step-up transformer to go from 120 to 240V for testing if you run across another unit that is 80Plus rated at 230V.
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    Microsoft Re-releasing Halo 1?

    The PC version of Halo done by Gearbox worked fine for me.
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    Beware Best Buy Computer Price Hikes

    I've for the most part been successful at avoiding Buy More since the Geforce Ti4600 fiasco a few years ago. My money either goes to Fry's,Microcenter, or Newegg.
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    Is 200 miles to the gallon Equivalency Good?

    Its street legal if its classified as a motorcycle. Then they can ignore crash test standards and make it as light as possible.
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    Disgusting Computer Award

    Simple Green. Mix 50/50 with HOT water. Strip the case, and dunk it. Strip the motherboard, and dunk it too. Rinse the MB with distilled water, and air dry for 24 hours. The tar and nicotine smell will be gone.
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    Carl Icahn Selling off Yahoo Shares

    As long as he keeps his fingers out of the airline industry, I don't care what he does.
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    Verizon Raises FiOS ETF to $360

    They no longer grandfather plans. I had the 5/2 (which I was quite happy with) and was forced onto the 10/2 in December along with a $10 price hike. I did NOT have a choice.
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    PS3 Slim Eats Half the Electricity of the PS3 Fat

    A first generation 60GB PS3 pulls less than 200W during video playback. My Synology single drive NAS pulls another 15W. Both measured with a Kill-a-Watt. That's nearly half of what my desktop PC pulls at load. I'd much rather sit in my recliner than at my desk. I can happily live with the...
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    PS3 Slim Eats Half the Electricity of the PS3 Fat

    MKV2VOB is your friend. Takes about 5 minutes to convert. NTFS support isn't an issue when you can stream with DLNA. Find some new arguments... these are old and worn out.
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    WD800 PCB recovery?

    I've done a PCB swap with a WD300BB that suddenly quit working. It took me a few weeks, but I found a drive with an identical model number and firmware revision on eBay. I'm still using that repaired drive as the boot disk for my file server. If the data is worth recovering, IMO its worth a shot.
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    New Macs Have Downgraded Hard Drive Controller?

    I'd wager that the speeds are below SATA/150 spec because of command overhead. If Apple dropped back to SATA/150 for power savings, then you would likely lose all the nice benefits of SATA/300 (like NCQ and AHCI). Hell, the thing may even be running in IDE emulation mode.
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    1964 Antique Modem Live Demo

    That brings back memories of messing around with an Atari 400 and a 300 baud modem. I would love to find an electrical schematic for the unit he had and try and build one.
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    LCD TVs Kill Kids

    Two words: Natural Selection
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    Gigapixel Pictures Cure Boredom

    Could be a number of reasons, but I'd guess that they are running a generator judging by the light you see next to the stairs. Marine generator sets typically are water cooled, using a heat exchanger instead of a radiator. Coolant is pumped through the engine block in a closed loop to cool it...
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