Technology and ProgrammingLaser Printer

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October 24, 2008, 04:45:31 am
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Hey all. I have a few questions about laser printers as I would like to get one.


Can printers advertised as having "ethernet" connect directly to your router, and then be accessible from other computers on the network as a printer? I'd really like to skip the whole plug in to computer/share step as that relies a lot on the computer being on, not failing, etc.

Are color laser printers any good and worth getting? I print mostly text, and I only use color when I make random birthday cards or whatever. If I could get rid of my old inkjet color printer that'd be nice, but if laser color is no good I can keep it. If color ink is unreasonably priced I wouldn't bother either.

I know the ink lasts for a long time (1+ years, I hear) and that's why I'm planning on getting one. Are the cartridges generally replaceable, or should I look specifically for ones that are?


Lastly, any suggestions?

Thanks.
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Entertainment and MediaGuild Wars Megathread v3.0 [3rd YEAR OF GUILD WARS WOO]

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October 15, 2008, 05:17:43 pm
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Okay. Well I guess I'll start in one of the new campaigns because I haven't played them before. So you recommend Nightfall then?

I can just get nightfall and start with that right, without the original game?

(I played originally on my brother's account btw)
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Entertainment and MediaGuild Wars Megathread v3.0 [3rd YEAR OF GUILD WARS WOO]

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October 15, 2008, 05:58:42 am
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By GW, I mean Guild Wars.

I've played Guild Wars a long time ago (Prophecies) when it first came out (or was it beta?), but not too much. Now I'd like to get into it again.

But I'm so confused about the expansions/campaigns and what I need to buy/what I should buy.

When starting at level 1, do I have to start with prophecies or can I play whatever campaign I want? (Out of the three, prophecies, factions, and nightfall.) And should I buy all three campaigns?

Is the expansion necessary?

Thanks in advance.
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Technology and ProgrammingFTP questions.

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October 09, 2008, 02:28:38 am
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Filezilla is open source (therefore spyware free) and doesn't suck.
http://filezilla-project.org/

However, FireFTP should work. But you might as well try filezilla and see if you can get it to work.
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Technology and ProgrammingMass Effect Blue Screen

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September 06, 2008, 04:56:06 am
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http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

That should work fine.

If not, check out:

http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
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Technology and ProgrammingRAM running hot

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September 04, 2008, 06:04:11 pm
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Not sure what would cause the actual heat, but there are lots of different memory coolers you can look at. Most of them cover all your ram, so you would only need to get one.
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Technology and ProgrammingKilled my explorer.exe

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September 03, 2008, 04:38:11 pm
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Well, if you flash your bios to the latest you might be able to get USB booting support.

If you have a floppy drive you can get it to boot to the usb through that too.
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
Not sure if that's up to date, but it looks promising.

I think there's a lot more to using a flash drive to boot windows setup than just copying the files anyway.

If you have any other cdrom drives lying around it's probably much easier just to throw one of those in.
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Technology and ProgrammingRAM for laptop

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September 03, 2008, 04:17:22 am
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To check your ram, just right click on My Computer and click properties. It will say in there. If you have a 2.80ghz processor I'm doubting you have 192mb ram.
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Technology and ProgrammingMessaging Shenanigans!

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August 31, 2008, 12:58:00 am
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Pidgin pretty much is adium, as adium was based on pidgin. Another happy pidgin user here.
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Technology and ProgrammingMy sound does not work.

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May 24, 2008, 06:24:02 am
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Oh, make sure you switch to classic view on the side of your control panel. And I also forgot to mention it's under Administrative Tools.
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Technology and ProgrammingMy sound does not work.

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May 24, 2008, 06:13:06 am
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Hmm..

By any chance is your Windows Sound service not starting? You can see this in Control Panel -> Services
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Technology and Programming(RESOLVED) Installing Ubuntu (crazy error)

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April 12, 2008, 05:40:22 pm
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You could try running the "sudo gparted" command from the livecd's terminal and formatting from there. (You'll need a root partition in ext3, and a swap partition 2x your ram size.)

I don't remember if Ubuntu lets you install on a blank partition without formatting though.

Formatting takes less than a minute for me usually.
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Technology and ProgrammingNew Computer

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March 20, 2008, 07:20:11 am
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You can also be cheap and price match all your stuff with Canadian stores through NCIX, lowering the cost quite a bit.

http://www.shopbot.ca/
Is great for canadian stores.
I searched a few on there for ya.

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10530BD0986&vpn=P5K&manufacture=ASUS
They will pricematch that.
http://www.tddirect.ca/products/113805/Intel/BX80562Q6600/
And that.
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11130AC2711&vpn=RC-690-KKN1&manufacture=COOLERMASTER
And that for a few $.
http://www.tddirect.ca/products/114624/HT_Omega/STRIKER_7_1/
And your sound card.
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=14040DR3295&vpn=SH-S203S/BEBN&manufacture=Samsung
DVD.
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10450AC4602&vpn=FREEZER-7-PRO&manufacture=ARCTIC%20COOLING
Fan.

They won't pricematch anything with rebates or that is on sale. But you'll save like crazy with just those.

Just use the pricematch button when you order. I've never had them deny any online from directcanada or tddirect. (And have pricematched full computers like this.)


Also look at the sale page:
http://www.ncix.com/promo/promosale.php?webid=easter2008
They have sneaky sale urls for a lot of the products you posted. They're usually the same price as the pricematch ones.

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27704&vpn=512%2DP3%2DN801%2DAR&manufacture=eVGA&promoid=1065
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25352&vpn=OCZ2P8004GK&manufacture=OCZ%20Technology&promoid=1065
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Technology and Programminga free 3d character modeler?

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March 10, 2008, 03:44:27 am
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If you're looking for like... a 3d modeling program use blender.

http://www.blender.org/

(Annnnd I just realized you said not blender haha. But I can't seem to delete.)
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Technology and ProgrammingMini-Windows, anyone?

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March 08, 2008, 12:19:20 am
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What are the actual filesizes for this stuff?
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