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    Beating Dell

    just for you tannin, a requote from a system quote 2 days ago. you can feel free to go above it in features/components however you like, and i can buy components aftermarket to match - it will still be better bang for the buck. office and xp alone costs $250, the cpu costs $220, the...
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    Beating Dell

    tannin, we're talking about entire systems here, not individual items. i can order a great deal from dell with a specific combination of components, and then add what i needed. you cannot touch those prices unless you were prepared to lose money on the deal. if you haven't ever "read" the...
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    MAC address -> IP address

    unfortunately windows doesn't ship with rarp easiest way to do it is with a ping scan of your entire network (something like nmap will do) and then look in the arp -a table - or find a proper rarp app
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    Beating Dell

    weird, have you tested?
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    Beating Dell

    when did i make a statement about how they make their money? for something like a $70 pc, even if they finance it for 10 years, they're not making money. it's going to be very hard for the 2 systems/2 lcds thing too. etc. i do believe they lose money on this stuff, especially when coupon...
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    Beating Dell

    i'll ask this for the nth time, can you offer me any similar deals to the ones i've mentioned? if not, they're not on the radar because they're at your doorstep.
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    MAC address -> IP address

    ping the ip, then run arp -a
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    SMP in the modern age

    http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/e7505/ is something to consider if you honestly decide you could use smp. like the others, i believe it's a not-so-necessary luxury. put the money in a 9800 pro or something :)
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    Wanted: Socket A CPU

    i think i have a 1.4 tbird and an xp1600+ laying around - i'll check
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    Beating Dell

    check your ego at the door, and understand that people who in no way beat their competitors in cost/value still manage to make a living doing it. it happens every day. care to offer me a deal like the 3 i've mentioned in this thread? dell is still in business and is still profitable, so don't...
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    Beating Dell

    and this has completely morphed into 'my point is that i feel i can better service small business clients better than dell.' your original quote, your response to my question about your point, was dead wrong: your warranty is 1 year less, you can die, and you can decide to move to nepal and...
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    NTFS/Dynamic Disks....disaster recovery bascis

    unless your pc is stored in a safe efs is usually a risk with no reward
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    P4 HSF: which is the better out of Spark7/Vantec Aeroflow?

    stock hsf is very good i use an alpha 8942 w/a panaflo medium output for overclocking my northwood 1.8a to 2.4ghz (not too crazy)
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    Beating Dell

    a domain is just basically a workgroup (which xp home supports) with centralized authentication. usernames/passwords have to be maintained on the local system with the domain controller, group policies cannot be enforced, \\xphomesystem\c$ shares require logins for domain admins, etc. it...
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    Beating Dell

    let's just retype the fleet computer thread and save ourselves the trouble! this shop-owner sentimentality doesn't negate basic economics: faster, cheaper. merc bought a p4 2.4/256mb pc1066 rdram/30gb/xp home/cdrom/56k for $70 + $100 shipping 6 months ago. know any shops around the corner...
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    Beating Dell

    also, xp home...for business?
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    Beating Dell

    look, feel, and noise i would guess the dell to be on top. i would be srignigaftly surprised if your case is better on noise. you come to their house next-day with parts? :/ what happens if you get hit by a bus? dell won't. yes, so office is free, and better than wp suite. ah so now we're...
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    Beating Dell

    damn, i must not be able to quote today
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    Beating Dell

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    Beating Dell

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    Beating Dell

    come to think of it, didn't you buy the $70 pc dell had a while back? somebody was private messaging me about it.
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    Beating Dell

    no, they can't. all it takes is a visit to techbargains/fatwallet and newegg is smoked via coupons.
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    Beating Dell

    my example used no secret handshakes/coupons what is your goal with this? i don't think 95% of computer builders don't know about deal sites
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    Beating Dell

    Save $250+. Top of the line for less. Dell Small Business has the brand new Dimension 8300 Intel 875P chipset Desktop. Pentium 4-2.6Ghz/800Mhz Bus, 256MB Dual channel DDR 400 Memory/30GB 7200RPM HD, 48x CD, AGP 8x, 10/100 Ethernet, 6 months ISP, Integrated 5.1 channel audio, Free Office Small...
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    [NEWS] - Ultra-fast downloads : The Fast TCP system

    yeah, but it requires more than the 'terminal with proper support' that your post implied. it was just a warning to non-linux users, written from the perspective of a person that takes offense to *nix meaning linux :)
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    [NEWS] - Ultra-fast downloads : The Fast TCP system

    post# man sz man: no entry for sz in the manual. post# uname -a NetBSD post.fhdasjkfhj.com 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Sat Dec 14 19:18:41 CST 2002 root@post.fhdasjkfhj.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 fangorn# man sz No manual entry for sz fangorn# uname -a...
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    [NEWS] - Bungle Blows $400M In Taxes

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s874860.htm
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    you're not convincing us, so i hope it works on yourself :)
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    [NEWS] - Bungle Blows $400M In Taxes

    http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6553997%5E1702,00.html
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    [NEWS] - No more "Built by ATI" cards

    i have 2 via epia/eden boards running nameservers on openbsd
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    [NEWS] - No more "Built by ATI" cards

    starts with 'g', ends with 'oogle'!
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    Create a fart

    oy, thought you were talking about the first link
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    Create a fart

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    Building a perfect single CD for drivers

    realtek lan is 100% crap, and i couldn't cross-reference it with 3com because i never buy their products either
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    IPv6

    so, why don't you pay to run one just like anybody else with need would? your isp is not doing anything wrong.
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    headphone recommendations

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    Blew up television, need suggestions for new one

    if you're using avia and mentioning black levels i'm surprised you'd ever consider a plasma
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    Blew up television, need suggestions for new one

    $500? :/ 30" ws hdtv samsungs aren't that much higher... http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=64 is probably your best overall resource, with http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-6342366.html?tag=glnav being a good point to visualize and check general pricing.
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    No more development on IE according to Microsoft.

    whatever the switching mechanism is, i don't think i'm out of line when i say that this is the name for the functionality (esp in web browsers) that everybody understands
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    No more development on IE according to Microsoft.

    MDI stands for multiple document interface. In an MDI application, more than one document or child window can be opened within a single parent window. This is common in applications such as spreadsheets or word processors - one window, usually called the MDI parent or MDI container, contains...
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    interesting people you've met

    there's an engineer here in my company that actually worked with him while he was developing c++ (but didn't work on c++ itself, only made suggestions from the perspective of a guy that knew c). he's 55 and employed, and will be for some time. could have something to do with lucent stock...
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    Suggestions Wanted for Gift System

    i'm pretty sure she'll drop the card by august even if i can't find mine i've got an abit 64mb geforce4 ti4200 in mine, and i'll be upgrading for doom3
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    interesting people you've met

    i knew most of the st louis blues (courtnall, pronger, macinnis, etc) pretty well a few years ago, but haven't been around any of the new ones. one of them owed me a favor and happened to know seymore butts, so a couple phone calls later i was flying to the avn porn awards as seymore butts and...
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    Sony announce the PSX, with 120GB HDD and DVD+-R(W) drive

    it will have to be ui and feature-competitive before cost even becomes a concern, and yes, you can have my tivo when you pry it from my cold dead hands
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    IPv6

    home equipment like cable/dsl routers almost categorically do not support ipv6. 'real' routers do, but tons of what the world is using doesn't. if it was as easy as 'start using it' we would have stopped most DoS attacks by 'starting to adhere to ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2827.txt and...
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    Certifications

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=lpi+certification i actually wrote some of the book material and test lab stuff for this, i think the books were for cybex
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    ghost readme.. good for a laugh

    the 2 biggest ones: ghostcast, a server capable of sending images via unicast, directed broadcast, or multicast and receiving images via unicast pxe network booting support, provided by 3com dabs (dynamic access boot services)
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