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I call for September 29th  to reach 50K  not betting on anything since my state is on the list as a non-online gambling state :-/  sucks I can;t win money in Poker tourneys 

Wait a minute. So you're saying if I have a bunch of things into one power strip like my a/c, my modem, router, and all this could cause this to do that? I was kind of thinking that also, because my a/c was also acting weird like kicking on and off.

That could be a reason because you don't need your whole house ran on just 1 surge protector. You need to make sure you don't overload the Joules on the surge protector and blow out the Wall Outlet with too much power. I happened to do that once  hooked up 15 computers to 2 surge protectors and into 1 wall outlet and  it really blowed a fuse to where my office area was starting to smoke a little.

Verizon fixed my connection  just in time because I was about to called them to cancel my DSL service and I was without DSL  service for 6 days. Apparently the CO  was under maintenance  and connections were dropping everywhere.

I don't have Verizon but a similar story. I'm on one of the oldest phone lines in No. Kentucky serviced by Cincinnati Bell. I'm  the last house on that line with 6 neighbors. We are the only 7 houses in a population of 25,000 people which 18,000 of them only have lived here 7yrs or less. Bell made sure all of them got DSL but not us. Every time I call them to see if I'm DSL ready or not I get the same answer it will be there soon its been 10yrs now. F#@& them. I'm so glad Insightbb is coming Monday to put in Phone service for $20.00 less a month. Never will Bell hook up to my house. I used them for 26yrs."Never more"!

I agree  thats like my time with AOHELL !!  Tried to go with Verizon and they were like  please  stay with us  we will give you free service for 3 months      I'm not gonna fall for them monday morning when I tell Verizon to screw it..

I have had the 3M package since it became available in my area between 2-3 years ago and had hardly no problems. I had no problems  what so ever for 10 straight months  till this past Tuesday

My suggestion to those who have been with Verizon DSL for years    LEAVE VERIZON  DSL  SERVICE  WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A CONNECTION!!!  Its gonna happen to everyone since the FIOS deployment is only 8% done across the country and my area won't have FIOS for up to 2 years.

I have been a valued customer with Verizon for my whole life and its exclusive DSL packages for the past 6 years. I "have" the 3M/768K package which exactly I do not. The problem occured in the middle of the night Monday Night/Tuesday Morning where Verizon decided to cut its existing customers from the 3 Meg package without them knowing. I have contacted Verizon on over 20 different occasions in the past 4 days and every single representative  said  the same thing  "you need a new modem  .... you need this and you need that to get your speed."  Yesterday (Thursday), a tech came out to my house while I was not home but my mother was home and he arrived 1 1/2 hours before my appointment time of 5pm. He claimed that I have very good connection  but he didn't tell my mom what the speed was and he went on my computer when I wasn't home at the time and was going through webpages to see if they load fast or not (Which is against Verizon's Policy "An adult of 18+ years of age must be at the home at the time of your appointment AND The USER of the computer must be present also to verify the problem with the technician"). He said to my mother that the webpages load pretty fast and left my house  5 minutes before I walked in the door. When I came on the computer  I have noticed that nothing was changed or done to my computer  let alone my connection. My connection right now is at 255Kbps Down and 518Kbps Up  which is very slow on the down side.  I then contacted Verizon on this matter that the job wasn't handled accordingly and completed as it should  and the tech noticed something strange with my connection. What the representative found is that my service is on a loopback just before it comes into my house and to my modem ... what this means is that      my connection is like  a clogged drain with some water getting through  meaning  only very little is getting to my system while the rest is getting pushed back elsewhere. The representative  finally admitted to tell me  "Due to the enormous amount of new customers in your area signing up for the 3M service, we are asking all existing customers to downgrade their service to 1.5M or 768K." This really pisses me off to hear this from a company who suppose to be the best in my state  now they are telling me to downgrade my service or go with another ISP  so the new kids on the block can get their share of the fast internet.  I DON'T LIKE IT ONE BIT  and  I'm going with Comcast  Monday Morning to get their Powerboost package of 8M/768K  with powerboost to 12M/768K for the first 20MB on a download.

don't go bashing apple here now. all the new macs and imacs with intel cpus rock.

Not trying to rub it in    but heck  Intel  chips are in MACs now  so thats a plus for those who like Intel and MAC    just wonder when AMD will be in MACs

I have noticed that Apple have released a new service for iTunes called EMI Fairplay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay_%28DRM%29 and it actually lets you purchase your music without the DRM  on it for $1.29 per song or an upgrade charge for already purchased iTunes music for $0.30 more per song. The price is per song  but I think they offer a upgrade fee for Albums at $2.50 more .. unsure on the exact price  but what the heck   at least Apple is doing something right for a change.

my co-worker was saying that if I burn the iTunes music to a CD  then rip it in WMP then it "will" work

Is it possible/Is there a way  where I can convert my iTunes downloadable songs to an MP3 player?

I know the cheap AT&T Phones had it too  believe  me  I had one    when the battery is out for 5 minutes, the time is resetted.

I have heard from news links  that it can cause the consumers to receive for 1 extra  hour of peak minutes on this sunday if the problem is not corrected on the provider's system. Meaning like Monday Morning    Nights minutes ends at either 6 or 7 am    and becomes peak minutes        the real time  is 7:01am  and that is peak minutes        but the system is showing 6:01am  which is off-peak minutes      but at night        when its 7 pm nights  start up    and are free        but the system says  6 pm  which means  you have to pay for the minutes that happen during that hour of 6-7 pm

Are they gonna be any patches or software upgrades involving the DST change for cell phones? If so, how can it be done?

I have 512MB OCZ S.O.E  PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) memory with timings of 5-5-5-15. I am planning on buying a 1GB stick of the same type  but the timings are 4-4-3-15 and also 5-5-5-12.  Will my memory work with 2 different timings  or does it have to have equal # of timing in order for it to work?

MARYLAND?!?!?!?!

I live in md, i wonder if it is available on delmarva yet....

Only on the Western side of the bay have FIOS now.

FOR ALL YOUR FIOS QUESTIONS  HERE IS A LINK WITH ALL YOUR ANSWERS ON WHERE FIOS IS AVAILABLE .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS_availability

My friend is wondering ..  if he buys a new motherboard and  a AM2 chipset  instead of the 939 he have now , will he have to reformat his hard drive ?

here is the motherboard for it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131146

$359.99 what a rip

but look at it       its like the only true compatible motherboard  for that specific processor

AND ITS MOST LIKELY FOR A SERVER  LOOK AT ALL THOSE SATA PORTS !!

But what is sweet  is that AMD have a Quad-Core Out  

Windsor (90 nm SOI) - Quad FX platform

Dual-core, dual CPUs (four cores total)

CPU-Stepping: F3

L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core

L2-Cache: 1024 KiB fullspeed, per core

MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization

Socket F (1207 FX), 2000 MHz HyperTransport (HT2000)

VCore: 1.35 V - 1.40 V

Power Consumption (TDP): 125 Watt max per CPU

First Release: November 30, 2006

Clockrate: 2600MHz (FX-70), 2800MHz (FX-72), 3000MHz (FX-74)

Manufacturing Tech 90 nm

Price: $525

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The problem about this 1 is   125 Watt Power Consumption    and  Socket AM3 processors will be available  by Christmas  and it can fit in any Motherboard with AM2  but the biggest part  is    full support for the newest line of DDR3 Memory by Christmas or New Years

Actually  found 1 so far available

Clock Speed : 2.3GHz

Core Brisbane

Multi-Core Dual-Core

Name Athlon 64 X2 4400+

Operating Frequency 2.3GHz

HT 2000MHz

L1 Cache 128KB+128KB

L2 Cache 2 x 512KB

Manufacturing Tech 65 nm

Vista Ready Yes

64 bit Support Yes

Hyper-Transport Support Yes

Virtualization Technology Support Yes

Multimedia Instruction MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, 3DNOW! Professional

Voltage 1.25/1.35V

Price: $165

But the fact is  65 watt power consumption is gonna be out by April or May

Dual-core CPU

CPU-Stepping: G1

L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KiB (Data + Instructions), per core

L2-Cache: 512 KiB fullspeed, per core

MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization

Socket AM2, HyperTransport (1000 MHz, HT1000)

VCore: 1.25 V - 1.35 V

Power Consumption (TDP): 65 Watt

First Release: Dec 5, 2006

Clockrate: 1900 MHz - 2600MHz

512 KiB L2-Cache:

3600+: 1900 MHz

4000+: 2100 MHz

4400+: 2300 MHz

4800+: 2500 MHz

5000+: 2600 MHz

I overclocked my AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ from 2.0GHz(2.01 on Windows) to 2.6GHz  and the processor never reached 1.4V and the temperature never went over  104*F(40*C). Used  Sandra 2007 Benchmark  and it beat all the P4 and Core Duo Processors by at least 100 points

Here are the specs for the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and FX-62  for AM2 Motherboards

Athlon 64 X2 6000+                                       Athlon 64 FX-62

Clock Speed : 3.0GHz                                 Clock Speed : 2.8GHz

64 bit Support: Yes                                      64 bit Support: Yes           

HT: 2000MHz                                              HT: 2000MHz

Hyper-Transport Support: Yes                      Hyper-Transport Support: Yes           

L1 Cache: 128KB+128KB                            L1 Cache: 128KB+128KB   

L2 Cache: 2 x 1MB                                     L2 Cache: 2 x 1MB

Manufacturing Tech: 90 nm                          Manufacturing Tech: 90 nm

Multi-Core: Dual-Core                                  Multi-Core: Dual-Core

Processors Type: Desktop                          Processors Type: Desktop

Series: Athlon 64 X2                                   Series: Athlon 64 X2

Vista Ready: Yes                                       Vista Ready: Yes

Price: $529 chip only                                  Price: $409.99 chip and heatsink

Source :  www.newegg.com

Anyone seen the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+     I have     but the starting price is an arm and a leg.  Who thinks the Single/Dual-Core  FX/ FX2 processors  should drop in price?

use DVD Shrink http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/dvdshrink.html#downloads if you have a single layer DVD Burner. Depending on the computer itself ,    you can convert an 8.5GB DVD to 4.7GB (4484MB)  I think        in about 35 minutes on a fast new computer  or 1 1/2 hours on a slow computer.  And there is a feature on there  that lets you burn the  converted DVD  that actually uses just a little less quality than a normal DVD  that you get for rental or from the store  but its still  very good quality.

hey baby    wanna see the joystick on my computer