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they have probably already made the money back.

No. http://www.techspot.com/news/28497-tigerdirect-buys-compusa-brand-and-16-stores.html

eyes getting bad? Id help ya but I don't have firefox installed to see where it is. But i think it is under "view" then text size.

are you going to put the funnel in your pants and let me poor ice cold water down it.

Why do you need ultimate. There is very little difference between it and home premium. I would just go buy the OEM of home premium at newegg.

Yea after compusa was going to close in december. Tiger direct bought them.

I like mandriva too. I use it for one of our file servers at work, and I can't complain it works really well.

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I would agree, if you have health care and not a HMO, or if you live in a city that has a county hospital. If you go to other countries that have "free" health care for all, one its not really free someone is paying for it, two, its not the greatest service you have to wait in a line, and three doctors don't like it at all, they can't make any money, which means the quality of health care is very poor when compared to private health care in the US. There are many up's and down's to government run heath care, but the down's out weigh it all. Keeping health care private is the way to go. But there needs to be some better government regulation over it. And they shouldn't be allowed to be publicly traded companies. But either way, if any of the dems. get in office there will never be healthcare for all. they are just going to raise your taxes, and make you get on your knees.

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Mine did... I did this to my girl a long time ago, she was fucken pissed for all of 60 seconds, then all she could do is laugh about it. This is a great thing to pull on your gf. just watch out because she will probably get you back....

Thats going to happen. As you get more advanced, there is going to be less tweaking that you can do. The only reason you can tweak windows is because of the registry. Once that is gone, (with in the next 2 releases) there will be no to very little tweaking. OS X has used a base of BSD Unix up till 10.5. Leopard uses more of the true unix environment. But if you go back, OS X is actually 15 years old. A good amount of the stuff we see today is from a company called NeXT PC that jobs started after he was fired from apple. Just about everything we see today with a apple logo on it, is from jobs head, and designed by basically one guy. If you look around for videos of NeXTSTEP you can what OS X looked like before jobs brought it too apple.

They are not more expensive a good amount of the time. When you factor in many things, They end up being cheaper many times. Take for example the gateway one, Dell XPS one vs the iMac. The gateway and dell have lower specs, then the iMac, but cost more. And also they are faster, even when running vista http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html?page=1

aww did someone not get any this morning.... I'm all up for change. its a good thing, when done right. These changes they made are piss poor changes that don't work. I could have laid on my bed, twitted my thumbs and came up with better features then Microsoft did. If they want to make a good change how about you get rid of the registry. That would be the best thing they could ever do.

What the hell are you doing on there? here is my macbook and iMac temps

IDK my self, I have wondering how the hell he does it myself. I know I can't do it. Once I start having to scroll I get lost. The all black text, and that weird font notepad uses drives me nuts, even when I tried it with a simple edit I couldn't do it

your joking right?

Well you should give a mac a try. Especially as someone who manages and makes websites, I bet you would switch. The tools for doing that are a night and day difference on the mac side vs. the windows side. Since OS X has a terminal built in, no more putty for SSH. I know you hate that POS. You use transmit for sftp, and ftp which is by far the best FTP program around hands down, no smartftp, or what ever god offal one use use. And since I know you code in just notepad ( I still don't get how the hell you can do that with out fucking everything up, especially with css) there is textmate on the mac, Which does the best layout of code Ive ever seen. It even tells you when you made a mistake. Which can be a big help, especially when PHP errors are off

Fuck Ubuntu. I hate that fucken thing. Everything on it is done in such a noobish way on there. Go with opensuse (my fav) or centos. suse 11 is coming out in about 60 days, and it looks really good, from what ive seen so far. Suse has this sweet thing called YaST which is a kick ass installer and config tool for it. So no more command line installs out of all of them centos is probably the most stable. I dumped RHEL from all my boxes after the first of the year, and switched to centos and wont look back. Ive had one box for 79 days, and its been up for 78 of them with out a restart. I never did that with rhel

The temps you have there are fine. Its a little high for no usage but its ok. Anything above 65 - 70C is pushing where it should be. But it should never get there.

Actually everything you have said about apple is totally untrue. The have brainwashed no one. They have only speaked the truth. I would suggest you go really use a mac with leopard. Vista is a complete pain in the ass. Its a total failure, and even Microsoft knows it, and is finally start to admit it, with ballmer saying vista is a work in progress. And apple wasn't even the one to start the vista bashing, PC mag did with there first review of it. And everything apple has said up to this point is true. Even when they said that mac's run vista better. Vista anyway you cut it is still a mess, its DLL hell, its a registry nightmare. The file system is a fucken joke. All of the features are stolen from OS X in one way or another. Its over priced. Its god offal slow. Even on a 8 core mac pro with 8GB of ram, its still fucken slow. Oh and its way too expensive. Windows activation is a joke and another pain in the ass. There is no activation, or even a CD-Key with OS X why because its priced right and fairly, so people don't steal it. Some Copied Features Vista instant search: Well thats just a copy of spotlight from OS X but not a very good copy because since they don't have a journaled file system is quite slow. Vista RSS Reader: Is an exact copy of the Safari RSS reader, they even copied the design. UAC: is a poor and very annoying attempt at copying OS X security methods. Vista Gadgets: Well thats just Widgets, from apple and yahoo. All they did was change 2 letters in the name. Windows Calendar: Thats iCal, I won't go too deep into it because they copied everything from it, its basically an exact copy. Windows Mail: Again an almost exact copy of Mail on OS X Vista's Photo Thing: (can't remember what its called) What a surprise its a clone of iPhoto And I could keep going. Microsoft say's all these things are there great innovations. But what they forget to tell people is they are actually apples innovations not theirs. Another problem, and big complaint with that many people have with vista is, things just work like shit, or don't work at all. There is no integration between apps like there should be. Getting hardware devices to work on vista can be a huge hassle many times. I can't even count how many times I have had to go and get hardware devices working on peoples computers because they couldn't get it to work with vista. On OS X it couldn't be simpler. Just plug it in. If it needs drivers it will find them for you through software update. My wireless mouse needs drivers for vista to control the extra 6 buttons on it, but on my mac I just plug in the receiver go to my mouse control settings, and configure what I want the buttons to do. On vista its a bitch to uninstall anything, Ive had to click through UAC 5 times before to uninstall 1 program. And it took about 20 minutes for it to remove the program. On a mac just drag the app to the trash can and you just uninstalled the program. To install a program on vista you have to run through the whole installer crap. If you have UAC on you have to click through that thing. On OS X you just download the DMG for the program, double click it, and drag the app to your apps folder. Its installed. The vista UI is another stupid thing they did. Its written really bad because it puts the biggest performance hit on the computer. And its not very good looking. They should have done a much more cleaner look that performers really well like the UI that Suse 11 is doing. Its a lot of little things, that make people hate vista, from the huge price, to the performance hit you take with it, even if you have 4GB of ram. To all the stupid little things in the OS you have to put up with. And sure you can turn UAC off, but then you are back to a XP level of security. And the whole point of vista was to not be another XP in the security department. Ok i think I have written enough for now. Ok now lets see your anti apple responses.

Find out what the wattage is on the power supply that is in the case. If its higher then 350 watts you will be ok. Even 300 watts you might be ok. anything under 300 watts I would say now. Also remember there is a MATX power-supply in the case, so you do upgrade it, you can't just go and get any one you want.

No. That is not the best bet. Going to 2 gb of ram will make a difference, but there is no reason to go to 4GB of ram. Just get the 8600GT, and go to 2GB of ram. Nothing more is needed.

I would be happy as hell with 10/5. Had to make this post to get to #8827 Spammer...

Yes that can happen. But it doesn't really happen anymore. this was one of the many problems with AMD processor designs, back in the days. They where such a bad design that when they would get above a temp. this would happen. They would also break in your hands if you handled them wrong, or put the heat sink on too hard.