I have a collection of stuff that I no longer have use for, customer 'wanted' but back out half-way, couldn't get sold otherwise, spare unused items, etc:
#1.Thermaltake 120mm fan Used, Black with orange fins, 1300rpm, powered by molex connector $50.00SOLD!
#2. Thermaltake LED 120mm fan Used, Clear with blue LED, 1300 rpm, powered by molex connector $60.00SOLD!
#3. Patriot 1GB MMC Mobile card (2 available) New. Reduced size with full-size adapter. For use in cell phones like Nokia 6230, 6620, N-gage, N70, etc. $300.00 eachSOLD!
#4. Crucial 1GB Mini SD Card Brand New, still sealed in packaging. Has SD Adapter. For use in cell phones like Nokia E61, 3620, N73, etc $180.00
#5. Sandisk 1GB Memory Stick Micro Card (M2) Brand New, still sealed in pakaging. Has Pro Duo Adapter. For use in cell phones like Sony Ericsson K800i, W880i, P990i, W300i, etc; Sony PSP (with incl. Pro Duo Adapter) $300.00
#6. Actiontec USB/Serial 56K External Modem Brand new, still in sealed packaging, standard 56K v.90 modem driver will work fine $300.00SOLD!
#7.Crucial 512MB SDRAM New. Lead free. Will work in most boards that have both SDR and DDR slots $430.00SOLD!
#8. SOYO Tech-Aid PCI Diagostic Card Brand new, still in sealed packaging. Very effective tool when diagnosing a no POST scenario $300.00SOLD!
#9. Belkin USB 2.0 Card New, PCI-Express x1, NEC chipset $400.00 (I know it expensive, but that is the price of PCI Express x1 cards for you)
#10. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE New $250.00
#11. Notebook USB Flashlight New in original packaging. Powered by USB connector. $50.00SOLD!
#12. Lexar 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Card Brand New, still sealed in packaging. $300.00SOLD!
More will be added if I find anything else around the house...
Early last year the Electronics Frontier Foundation went very public with Sony BMG and its case regarding music CDs sold with a copy protection called MediaMax. Developed by a company called The Amergence Group Inc., customers complained that Sony's music discs caused a number of discs to be unreadable on their computers. The biggest complaint was that customers were unable to extract tracks for playback in other devices.
Because of all the lawsuits and complaints, Sony was forced to settle litigations with $5.75 million USD. This week, Sony BMG filed a lawsuit against Amergence alleging MediaMax did not perform as expected.
Using rootkit technology, MediaMax installed low level software on a user's computer system without permission from the user. Rootkits often cause problems and many users complained Sony's discs using MediaMax even forced them to have to reformat their systems.
Sony BMG seeks roughly $12 million USD in damages from Amergence. Representatives from Amergence disagreed with Sony's lawsuit and said Sony's claims were unwarranted. Amergence also noted that discs exhibiting problems used different types of technologies Amergence did not supply.
the first comment below the article is hilarious:
AMERGENCE YOU WERE NOT SNEEKY ENUF WE WANT MONIES BACK love, Sony
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is suing a company that developed antipiracy software for CDs, claiming the technology was defective and cost the record company millions of dollars to settle consumer complaints and government investigations.
Sony BMG filed a summons in a New York state court against The Amergence Group Inc., formerly SunnComm International, which developed the MediaMax CD copy-protection technology.
Sony BMG is seeking to recover some $12 million in damages from the Phoenix-based technology company, according to court papers filed July 3.
The music company accuses Amergence of negligence, unfair business practices and breaching the terms of its license agreement by delivering software that "did not perform as warranted."
In a statement, The Amergence Group vowed to fight what it described as unwarranted allegations by Sony BMG.
The company also suggested that lawsuits against Sony BMG over CD copy-protection primarily stemmed from Sony's use of another technology.
New York-based Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG, declined to elaborate on the suit. Sony BMG is home to names such as Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood and Modest Mouse.
It began including MediaMax on some of its compact discs in August 2003 and shipped about 4 million CDs equipped with the technology in 2005.
The program restricted the number of copies of a CD that a user could make. Some users reported problems when the CDs were played on their computers.
The record company also drew complaints over another type of copy-protection software that restricted CD duplication.
The fallout over the copy-protected CDs sparked lawsuits and investigations.
Last fall, the company agreed to pay a total of $5.75 million to settle the litigation and resolve investigations by officials in several states
BARNSTABLE, Mass. - A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges.
“In 32 years of service in courtrooms, as a prosecutor, as a defense attorney and now as a judge, I have quite frankly never confronted such a brazen situation of an individual attempting to avoid juror service,” Barnstable Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson told Daniel Ellis, according to a preliminary court transcript of the exchange.
Ellis, of Falmouth, had been called to court with about 60 other potential jurors for possible service on a 23-member grand jury.
On a questionnaire that all potential jurors fill out, Ellis wrote that he didn’t like homosexuals and blacks. He then echoed those sentiments in an interview with Nickerson.
“You say on your form that you’re not a fan of homosexuals,” Nickerson said.
“That I’m a racist,” Ellis interrupted.
“I’m frequently found to be a liar, too. I can’t really help it,” Ellis added.
“I’m sorry?” Nickerson said.
“I said I’m frequently found to be a liar,” Ellis replied.
“So, are you lying to me now?” Nickerson asked.
“Well, I don’t know. I might be,” was the response.
Ellis then admitted he really didn’t want to serve on a jury.
“I have the distinct impression that you’re intentionally trying to avoid jury service,” Nickerson said.
“That’s true,” Ellis answered.
Nickerson ordered Ellis taken into custody. He was released later Monday morning.
Ellis could face perjury and other charges.
I would like someone to try this in a Trinidad jury system...
I have a single 512MB SDRAM PC133 module for sale.
Brand: Crucial Model: CT64M64S4D7E Specs: SDRAM, PC133 • CL=2 • Unbuffered • Non-parity • 133MHz • 3.3V • 64Meg x 64 Manufacture date: Week 35, 2007 Timings (as I recall from CPU-Z): PC133: 2-2-2-6; PC142: 3-3-3-8 Condition: Brand new, only got it Friday 29th June 2007 Reason for Sale: Was intended for a Biostar M7VKQ motherboard... until the board mysteriously died mere hours after installing RAM in system. RAM worked flawlessly in said board for the 3 hours was in use. Turned it off normally.. come back a few hours later to turn it on, no POST and nothing up till now.
Asking Price: $430.00
Note: sale may be withdrawn at any time if I miraculously revive board
Special Note: oh yeah, It's Lead free too! (says so right on the label!) Hooray for environmentally friendly RAM!
GALESBURG, Ill. - Caisha Gayles graduated with honors last month, but she is still waiting for her diploma. The reason: the whoops of joy from the audience as she crossed the stage.
Gayles was one of five students denied diplomas from the lone public high school in Galesburg after enthusiastic friends or family members cheered for them during commencement.
About a month before the May 27 ceremony, Galesburg High students and their parents had to sign a contract promising to act in dignified way. Violators were warned they could be denied their diplomas and barred from the after-graduation party.
Many schools across the country ask spectators to hold applause and cheers until the end of graduation. But few of them enforce the policy with what some in Galesburg say are strong-arm tactics.
"It was like one of the worst days of my life," said Gayles, who had a 3.4 grade-point average and officially graduated, but does not have the keepsake diploma to hang on her wall. "You walk across the stage and then you can't get your diploma because of other people cheering for you. It was devastating, actually."
School officials in Galesburg, a working-class town of 34,000 that is still reeling from the 2004 shutdown of a 1,600-employee refrigerator factory, said the get-tough policy followed a 2005 commencement where hoots, hollers and even air horns drowned out much of the ceremony and nearly touched off fights in the audience when the unruly were asked to quiet down.
"Lots of parents complained that they could not hear their own child's name called," said Joel Estes, Galesburg's assistant superintendent. "And I think that led us to saying we have to do something about this to restore some dignity and honor to the ceremony so that everyone can appreciate it and enjoy it."
In Indianapolis, public school officials this year started kicking out parents and relatives who cheer. At one school, the superintendent interrupted last month's graduation to order police to remove a woman from the gymnasium.
"It's an important, solemn occasion. There's plenty of time for celebration before and after," said Clarke Campbell, president of the Indianapolis school board.
In Galesburg, the issue has taken on added controversy with accusations that the students were targeted because of their race: four are black and one is Hispanic. Parents say cheers also erupted for white students, and none of them was denied a diploma.
Principal Tom Chiles said administrators who monitored the more than 2,000-seat auditorium reported only disruptions they considered "significant," and all turned in the same five names.
"Race had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever," Chiles said. "It is the amount of disruption at the time of the incident."
School officials said they will hear students and parents out if they appeal. Meanwhile, the school said the five students can still get their diplomas by completing eight hours of public service work, answering phones, sorting books or doing other chores for the district, situated about 150 miles southwest of Chicago.
Gayles' mother said she plans to fight the school board — in court if necessary — to get her daughter's diploma. The noise "was like three seconds. It was like, `Yay,' and that was it," Carolyn Gayles said.
American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Edward Yohnka said Galesburg's policy raises no red flags as long as it is enforced equitably. "It's probably well within the school's ability to control the decorum at an event like this," he said.
Another student who was denied her diploma, Nadia Trent, said she will probably let the school keep it if her appeals fail.
"It's not fair. Somebody could not like me and just decide to yell to get me in trouble. I can't control everyone, just the ones I gave tickets to," Trent said
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books.
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His collection ranges from best sellers, such as Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" and Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," to obscure titles, like a bound report from the Fourth Pan-American Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1910. But when he wanted to thin out the collection, he found he couldn't even give away books to libraries or thrift shops; they said they were full.
So on Sunday, Wayne began burning his books in protest of what he sees as society's diminishing support for the printed word.
"This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch of books.
The fire blazed for about 50 minutes before the Kansas City Fire Department put it out because Wayne didn't have a permit for burning.
Wayne said next time he will get a permit. He said he envisions monthly bonfires until his supply — estimated at 20,000 books — is exhausted.
"After slogging through the tens of thousands of books we've slogged through, and to accumulate that many and to have people turn you away when you take them somewhere, it's just kind of a knee-jerk reaction," he said. "And it's a good excuse for fun."
Wayne said he has seen fewer customers in recent years as people more often get their information from television or the Internet. He pointed to a 2002 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, that found that less than half of adult respondents reported reading for pleasure, down from almost 57 percent in 1982.
Kansas City has seen the number of used bookstores decline in recent years, and there are few independent bookstores left in town, said Will Leathem, a co-owner of Prospero's Books.
"There are segments of this city where you go to an estate sale and find five TVs and three books," Leathem said.
The idea of burning the books horrified Marcia Trayford, who paid $20 Sunday to carry away an armload of tomes on art, education and music.
"I've been trying to adopt as many books as I could," she said.
Dozens of other people took advantage of the book-burning, searching through the books waiting to go into the flames for last-minute bargains.
Mike Bechtel paid $10 for a stack of books, including an antique collection of children's literature, which he said he'd save for his 4-year-old son.
"I think, given the fact it is a protest of people not reading books, it's the best way to do it," Bechtel said. "(Wayne has) made the point that not reading a book is as good as burning it."
Can't blame him, really. When last most of us picked up a good book?
Browsing Amazon, I came across a few cards that look worthy of my money, with varitions mainly in clock speed (factory OC'd)
So which do I buy? Here are the contestants: Card Name Model Number Core/Mem clock Price PNY GeForce 7900 GS 256MB VCG7900SXWB 450/1.32 $158 XFX GeForce 7900 GS 256MB PVT71PUDE3 480/1.40 $175 XFX GeForce 7900 GS 256MB PVT71PUDD3 600/1.60 $204 XFX GeForce 7900 GS 256MB PVT71PUDP3 525/1.55 $175 EVGA GF 7900 GS 256MB 256-P2-N624-AR 500/1.38 $160 Asus Radeon X1950Pro EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M 581/1.40 $179*
My personal pick is the XFX with the 525MHz core clock for US$175 as it have a decent OC and it is visually appealing (Remember Arcman, artistic taste counts with me! )
So I ask the tech-inclined members of GATT: which card should I go with? I will most likely order this card as soon as Tuesday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A dead passenger traveled unnoticed for at least half a day on an executive passenger train, an Indonesian newspaper reported Friday.
Anxious family members found the body of Edy Haryanto, 55, sitting in a locked lavatory on Thursday afternoon, more than a day after he had boarded with a group of friends in the central Javanese town of Tegal, the Warta Kota newspaper reported.
His family became worried when Haryanto didn't get out at the station in Jakarta at the end of the 6-hour journey and his cell phone went unanswered.
The body traveled back and forth between Tegal and Jakarta before a janitor told the family he had been unable to clean one lavatory because the door was locked, the report said.
The cause of the death was not immediately clear, but Haryanto had recently suffered a stroke, it said.
Dina Nurhandayani, the man's 29-year-old daughter, said she planned to file a complaint of negligence with the state-owned train company PT Kereta Api Indonesia.
Well some of you may know that I was forced to suddenly abandon my quest for "Intel Core 2 Goodness" (for the while) when I got a sweet deal on an Asus motherboard. My god! what a deal!
any how I have now decided to start on my uber PC project, theme name "PCs are a work of art". Bar that all C2D users will still pwn me without a flinch. I'll still put up a fight in the benchies.
After much assembly, this is my PC specs as current:
Motherboard: Asus M2N32 WS Professional Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2GHz) RAM: Titan 1GB DDR2-667 RAM (PC2-5300; timings 5-5-5-13) Video Card: GeForce 6200LE (I had to beg to get this card when i was buying board) Hard Drives: SATA 120GB, SATA 200GB, SATA II 500GB Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD burner Case: Thermaltake Armor Jr. with clear side panel. PSU: Ultra Products XVS 600W Modular Other: MSI Theater 550 Pro TV Card
Estimated cost: TT$7200.00
I shall now present pics of my budding uber rig:
more pics to be posted
I need to do some serious cable management soon, though
FUTURE UPGRADES: Immediate: GeForce 8800 GTS (unless DAAMIT comes with something better for the price). June: Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-6400 or higher. 2 x 1GB. Maybe I'll go with Corsair instead. Haven't decided for sure yet. a front mount USB/Firewire/Audio/Flash reader bay... PC sits on table and I'm not going to be reaching on top to plug in anything. July: Athlon 64 X2 6000+. From reviews I've read it beating the FX-62 and will just barely match an C2D E6600 much later on (December): - possibly spray inside of case black.
For those of us who have onboard sound, it seems a very recent Microsoft Update screwing up the drivers for certain onboard sound chips. If you have a Realtek sound card in particular. It may also cause a "Illegal System DLL Relocation error" at startup.
JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.
“Nobody panicked, but we instantly went into planning for the worst-case scenario,” said Permanent Fund Dividend Division Director Amy Skow. The computer foul-up last July would end up costing the department more than $200,000.
Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario was at hand.
Nine months worth of information concerning the yearly payout from the Alaska Permanent Fund was gone: some 800,000 electronic images that had been painstakingly scanned into the system months earlier, the 2006 paper applications that people had either mailed in or filed over the counter, and supporting documentation such as birth certificates and proof of residence.
And the only backup was the paperwork itself — stored in more than 300 cardboard boxes.
“We had to bring that paper back to the scanning room, and send it through again, and quality control it, and then you have to have a way to link that paper to that person’s file,” Skow said.
Half a dozen seasonal workers came back to assist the regular division staff, and about 70 people working overtime and weekends re-entered all the lost data by the end of August.
“They were just ready, willing and able to chip in and, in fact, we needed all of them to chip in to get all the paperwork rescanned in a timely manner so that we could meet our obligations to the public,” Skow said.
Last October and November, the department met its obligation to the public. A majority of the estimated 600,000 payments for last year’s $1,106.96 individual dividends went out on schedule, including those for 28,000 applicants who were still under review when the computer disaster struck.
Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.
“Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,” Corbus said.
According to department staff, they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
The department is asking lawmakers to approve a supplemental budget request for $220,700 to cover the excess costs incurred during the six-week recovery effort, including about $128,400 in overtime and $71,800 for computer consultants.
The money would come from the permanent fund earnings, the money earmarked for the dividends. That means recipients could find their next check docked by about 37 cents.
I just WOULDN'T want to be the technician who made this blunder... they should revoke ALL his certifications for this... and make him.. use DOS for the rest of his career
Only difference I noted off the bat is that it's an 800MHz FSB Processor as opposed to the 1066MHz FSB of its older siblings... and it's obviously now the cheapest Core 2 Duo available.
I need a P4 processor, having been stuck with a brand new P4 board in the process of troubleshooting a customer's PC.
Ended up being a dead CPU instead of the board. Whoever install the CPU for the guy forgot to remove some foil thingy and it remain between CPU and heatsink (and compound) for two years!
Requirements:
Socket 478 Cannot be faster than 2.4GHz NO CELERONS!! FSB: 533MHz never overclocked If you have a cooler to go with I'll take that as well.
Tell me what you have and your asking price....
P.S. If by contrast, anyone is interested in the board, I am willing to sell it. It's a Foxconn 661MXPro (sis chipset). asking price $420; 1 yr warranty. I have no profit to get on the board.
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