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New purchase - too good to be true?

I'm considering buying a new machine and have found the following spec'd new build online for ?499 (private sale); 1. P4 3.2Ghz processor,800-MHz, Hyper-Threading Technology,1Mb (1024Kb) L2 Cache,775...

lprenrut

Portable Hard Drive

Any of you techies out there tell me the best Portable Hard Drive to buy. I have ?100 to spend and I want to get at least 40gb many regards lprenrut

Priesty

I Pod

I've purchased the new 60GB video Ipod, (potentially a mistake being a techno spaz) and I was wondering what the best way is to have access to it in my car. I don't have a tape player in my car and no...

Zero

Dual Monitor Display

I have a Radeon 7200 PCI display adaptor on my system is there anyway I can use dual monitor display with this... it only has one VGA port ( but does have an s-vid port whetever one off those is ???,...

Insane Wally

PC Sound Problem

Vocals sound muffled & are raised by a few octaves very annoying especially when playing cd's. Checked speakers & settings & all seem fine, worked ok this morning. Please help!

auldyin

DVD freezes.

Hi' I recently bought two cheap DVD players. A Philips and a Sanyo. Last night I put a film in the Sanyo player and halfway through, the picture froze for 10 minutes then started jumping frame by...

BigDogsWang

Stereo Interconnects

Can anyone tell me which way the arrow should go on a pair of QED interconnects, i.e, should they point towards the amp or towards the CD player?

Magic 1

Windows Home XP or Professional

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Professional rather than Home

judethepude

what to do with old SIM card?

I have recently taken out a contract with 02, and bought a new phone. I previously had a pay and go phone, also with 02. I am having my old number 'ported' to the SIM card in the new phone. Is there...

tali122

dom joly/trigger happy -how...?

how does dom joly get his huge mobile phone around without attracting prior attention - especially in a library - where does he hide such a large object? is it in pieces and does he construct it under...

stronghold

Asda dvd recorders

Are ASDA dvd recorders any good. I think they are duraband or cyber something, presently reduced to ?69 ?

inicholson

ipod to hifi

I have a load of music on my computer which I would like to play through my hi-fi. I gather that you can get 60gb ipods which would hold the music but how do you get that music through a hi fi? Thanks...

Skids

Tsunami

In his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke predicts space travel, satellites, missions to the various planets and so on. All well and good, but in 1982, 2010: Odyssey Two (obviously the...

bernardo

Stripes in Toothpaste

A few days ago somebody was asking about the stripes in toothpaste. Today I killed a choob of toothpaste and did a post-mortem on it, so here it is: http://tinyurl.co.uk/6la2

Kerplunk

Google search

Do an I'm feeling lucky google search for "failure"

WendyS

What does Subscribe to this Thread mean?

If I tick the box, does this mean I'm notifed every time sombody else replies? It doesn't seem to be happening in my case. Am I doing something wrong or have I missed something?

toyboyz

heart disease

What percentage of men who took annual holidays would be less likely to die of a heart disease, than those who'd skipped time off?

chelsea25

Looping tracks in windows media player 10?

Hi, is it possible to do this? ie can i listen to one, or more tracks over and over again? Thanks in advance :)

paulz

13 amp plugs

On some electrical kit you but they have a conventional [ie with a screw, not moulded on] plug. The wires inside sometimes are covered by a small bit of metal that is crimped on, so no stray wires...

RobertRaw

Bully in the workplace

I was hounded out of a job and fired by a very jealous black manager who then went on to fire most of the white staff and replace them with black people. Is this racism ?

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