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Post by Bill on Aug 15, 2006 13:24:27 GMT -5
Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could pose a risk of fire. Potentially affected batteries were sold with the following models of Dell notebook computers or separately as secondary batteries: * Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810 * Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705 * Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90 * XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710 www.dellbatteryprogram.com
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Post by Bill on Aug 12, 2006 12:17:23 GMT -5
Congratulations on becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional! Please keep this email as it contains your MCP ID. Your next step as an MCP is to confirm your address at the MCP Member site in order to receive your Welcome Kit. The kit contains your certificate, your personalized wallet card, your MCP lapel pin and the MCP program agreement. You will not be sent your Welcome Kit until you confirm your information and request your kit at the MCP Member site. For detailed instructions on how to access the MCP Member site and order the Welcome Kit visit www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/welcome.asp. By earning a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification, you have made a valuable investment in your future. We hope you enjoy the benefits of membership in the Microsoft Certified Professional community, and we look forward to helping you succeed as a Microsoft Certified Professional. Your MCP ID is To access the MCP Member site for the first time, you will need your MCP ID and your access code. Look for a separate email that contains your access code. Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact your Microsoft Regional Education Service Centers, which can be found at www.microsoft.com/training/worldsites, or visit the Microsoft Certified Professional page www.microsoft.com/mcp for the latest program and certification information. Thank you, The Microsoft Certified Professional Team
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Post by Bill on Aug 10, 2006 20:09:40 GMT -5
All,
I became a Microsoft Certified Professional today.
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Post by Bill on Jul 24, 2006 12:13:01 GMT -5
Sounds good, where can I take a look at this code? Currently a degicank.com store is under development. More tom come stay tuned in.
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Post by Bill on Jul 22, 2006 11:48:42 GMT -5
Kid,
hate to be a shooter downer but when I added the p22 cd on groovetrace to my cart and went to checkout:
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Ben,
to be honest, i have not done much. I would like some more input and some timelines from you. Been pretty busy lately, but that does not mean I dont have time for this project. Still many questions remain.
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Post by Bill on Jul 21, 2006 17:19:01 GMT -5
You can even do customized mp3 players. Sweet.
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Post by Bill on Jul 21, 2006 17:15:20 GMT -5
1GB USB flash stick are $20 these days, pretty good deal huh? We should start marketing econocank on these: www.customusb.com/
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Post by Bill on Jul 20, 2006 18:57:42 GMT -5
Save your money.
if anyone wants a desktop i have 3 - Dell P3 smal form factor desktops sitting here collecting dust. You pay shipping.
Joe if you send me shipping money I will send you the laptop I was telling you about. Its a P4 with 512mb ram and a good working Lion battery. Problem is it only has a CD reader.
Problem with all of these systems is their going to come with windows 98, fedora core or red hat linux 9 as thats the only license I have available.
Avoid acer's like the black plague, especially their laptops.
I love external hard drives. Their cheap and extremely convient. Just makesure you format them fat32 so you can read them on other computers (win98 wont read NTFS).
An external DVD burner would be really good to have too. Just make sure its compatible with win98.
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Post by Bill on Jul 19, 2006 13:40:16 GMT -5
well its a catch 22. Question is are you going to be able to process 250GB in a month? and when is Philly getting their free wireless? They've been talking about it here. I think their talking about 300kps over the wireless. At that speed you could share a 1 gig of data in about 8 hours. 250 would take about 2 months at that rate. If you could do it over an adhoc 802.11g the transfer rate would be 54mbs, or 54,000kps.
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Post by Bill on Jul 18, 2006 20:26:53 GMT -5
you could also share your files over this new thing called the internet . Then you don't have to haul your equipment across town.
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Post by Bill on Jul 18, 2006 11:57:39 GMT -5
In some bios' you can force the bios to use certain drive spec's. Basically, you type the specs on the drive in the bios. Heads, platters, cylinders, etc... basically turning off auto detect and setting it up manually. Can we have a little more details on the setup? How do you talk to the fileserver? You have 2 computers? If you want to use different OS's or boot drives, you should check out that article and www.terabyteunlimited.com/Also a really good bootcd is bartPE. I have it if you want a copy.
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Post by Bill on Jul 17, 2006 12:48:55 GMT -5
What OS are you using? XP gets pretty upset if there are major hardware changes, may decide to not work at all. Not sure if your trying to upgrade the OS or simply setting up a new OS install. What you will need to do is: Get the bios to recognize the drives properly. if you have a raid controller they usually have a seperate bios then the system bios that you have to boot to the configure your raid set. My system for example has the normal bios for the system that you get to by hitting delete when it first boots. Then after the bios screen, you have to press some keys like alt-f6(dependant on your card, should show a message)to get into the raid controller's bios. In the raid's bios you can configure the raid. Then your OS should see the raid as 1 big disk. Once you have the hardware side setup correctly, in the bios you should be able to install / reinstall XP. Using more then once ide controller can be tricky. Also, Im assuming that you've set the jumpers on the drives correctly and or are using cable select appropriately. I actually read a good article on somthing like this last week: www.personaltechpipeline.com/shared/article/printablePipelineArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=5C4XL1XJULCV2QSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=184400017Be careful with a 4 stripe raid set, if you loose 1 drive you loose all of the data on the entire set. With the number of drives you have you could setup stripping with parity so if you loose a drive you won't loose all of your data. Have no expoirence with hot swapping ide drives, but you wont be able to hot swap your OS / system disk.
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Post by Bill on May 25, 2006 12:24:19 GMT -5
Im not too impressed with Maxtor drives. I had one fail after only about 6 months of operation when I lost all of my data... That was early 2005 I bleive.
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Post by Bill on May 23, 2006 13:16:37 GMT -5
FYI my supplier currently has 250GB WD hard disk with a 16mb cache for 86.95.
I'll keep an eye out for IDE/ATA drive for you Dr.
I recently picked up a 80GB IDE drive for $20... After rebates from compusa, which I still havn't gotten them all back yet.
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Post by Bill on May 22, 2006 12:31:38 GMT -5
I beleive the type you currently have in your system is ATA / IDE.
ATA / IDE are the same interface.
SCSI is another old but very good interface.
SATA is the newest and yet another interface.
SCSI and SATA are the best available, SATA is probably faster then SCSI now.
Most common type is ATA/IDE.
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