Aluvus

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  1. Crucial, Corsair, Mushkin, OCZ, Kingston (not ValueRAM, with a few exceptions), and Patriot come first to mind. You might consider a single 512 MB stick instead of 2x256 MB (unless you can save money with 2 sticks). you lose dual channel capability, which is a bit of a performance hit, but it leaves more room to upgrade later.
  2. I installed directly over 8.0 and lost search.ini, but nothing else.
  3. What web browser? For IE: go to Tools, Internet Options. Programs tab. Under Email, choose the app you want to use.
  4. Yes, it can. There's nothing special about it except it's been subjected to a bit more testing.
  5. The Nazis were socialists... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Nazis were fascists. Fascism is not socialism.
  6. On speakers, red is positive and black is negative. This is true of a number of DC devices. Virtually all speakers will work fine if the polarity is switched. The only time it's likely to matter is if you have 2 speakers outputing the same thing, but with opposite polarity. This can cause something like motion sickness. Home power wiring has no negative (or positive), per se, because it is AC. It has hot (typically black), neutral (typically white), and ground (almost always green). In a perfect world, there would never be any voltage difference between neutral and ground. See Wikipedia
  7. " A BNC cable has 5 connectors that receive Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal Sync and Vertical Sync information." From here. Here are some examples cards.
  8. Mozilla's Sunbird is still under construction, but I'm told it's pretty good.
  9. I have to take issue with this. Several items on the test are incorrect or inaccurate, or just speculative. Examples: "Silver fillings are safe to put in your teeth. Otherwise, dentists wouldn't use them. FALSE. Silver fillings are nearly 40% mercury -- one of the most toxic heavy metals known to man" The amount of mercury one is actually exposed to is safe. "The history taught to American children in public school is true and accurate. FALSE. American history, as taught to American schoolchildren, is more a collection of lies and distortions than actual history. From Columbus to the Vietnam
  10. Yes, they use roughly 1/3 as much energy (and thus, produce roughly 1/3 as much heat).
  11. Because they are made by different, competing companies. Each of which would love to undercut the other on price.
  12. The Opterons are AMD's server line. They come in a variety of flavors, with some of the more recent ones (ie. Italy) being dual-core. AMD also sell a consumer line, the Athlon 64 X2, that is dual-core. Yes, as far as I can tell that board has no Pentium D support.
  13. Question: is he within the return period of the Belkin networking gear?
  14. You can use a 20-pin power supply without an adapter. You might take this as an opportunity to buy a new, better power supply if the one you currently have is lacking.
  15. Well, uh, how much music do you have?
  16. Ask the other person to down-save to the Publisher 98 format. Pub 2003 has this ability. Alternately, they could make a PDF out of it.
  17. Hit Print Screen (or alt-Print Screen to get just the active window). Open Paint. Hit Ctrl-V. Save it.
  18. That isn't a Firewire (IEEE 1394) connection. It's a parallel (IEEE 1284) connection. Not gonna help you. What is an "external firewire"?
  19. You need an adapter like this. CompUSA sells them, as does Radioshack and others.
  20. http://takaman.jp/D/index.html?english Anything that doesn't estimate individual rails is essentially useless. Total wattage is not a useful measure of a power supply.