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I doubt I'll EVER try to call or place a dell order again. they suck. after cancelling my 2007 refurb order (on the phone) I get an email the next day saying it shipped! ;( I called back again. they wanted me to accept the box and then wait another day for ups to come around and re-pick...

I was ordering a refurb from dell but after I learned it was only a 90day warr, I cancelled the order. interesting how dell 'cancels'. they say they do. then I get an email next day saying its now shipping to me ;( had to call them back AGAIN and really cancel. they wanted me to accept...

it was a helluva deal ;) I was not in the market for a new cpu/mobo but I saw it on slickdeals and just HAD to give it a try. yesterday when i was at microcenter, I saw the same mobo for about $50 or $55 and the chip was $230! so the frys deal was effectively $70 or so off. not bad...

I am running freebsd and using fvwm as my 'desktop'. yes, its the dpr site. regular size fonts, though.

that was a gift from DEC when I worked for them, back in the late 80's. I was in a group that also did the 'infoserver' (a bank of cdrom drives as a network file server). they gave that clock as a gift and I glued over the main cd with an ultrix cd ;) RIP DEC. one of the truly great...

v1b18 the photo should be very clear, is it not? maybe you need a new panel? (LOL) ;)

I just built a 'frys special' ($199 for the e6400+this mobo) and installed xp and also freebsd 6.2-pre. some snags (which I can get into, if anyone cares) but in the end all is well! I have everything I need working. I needed a matrox p650 in agp to work (for my pshop work). that was a...

(no, my desk is NOT usually that clean - ha!)

hi (first post, here, for me) here's a link to the screen photo I took of mine, just yesterday: http://static.flickr.com/100/280135462_86dec7d913_o.jpg its from mexico, rev A03, bought from costco just a few days ago. I think it was the LAST one that costco had - after I placed the...