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By the way, those eight new Vostros had a higher failure rate -- one DOA hard drive -- than the refurbs I've purchased have had. But I'm fairly picky about my vendors.
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Over the last few years, the only non-refurbished user computers I have bought for our non-profit have been a couple of notebooks (I won't buy a notebook without a three-year extended warranty) and eight Dell Vostro 200s that were being offered in a one-day sale early this year for the same amount of money I had budgeted for refurbished equipment
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I've recently come across XnView, a freeware image viewer and editor that overcomes Irfanview's limitation of working only with local printers, and not working with shared network printers -- and that's not its only superiority to Irfanview. You'll find it at xnview.com. XnView also offeres a version for the PocketPC.
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Katie Dean's article is pretty good, but people should be warned that some of the "E-Mail Services Firms" she listed -- most particularly Constant Contact and Topica -- have a really bad reputation as spammers among professional mail server administrators, whereas Ms. Dean left out some much better-respected firms, like WhiteHat . No matter who
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Yes, multiplexing (aggregating) DSL lines is possible. For simple solutions to implement, check out E-Pipe (ml-ip.com) and Fatpipe Xtreme (fatpipeinc.com) equipment. We haven't gone that far yet. We simply fail over to a 56k modem when the 768/768 aDSL line goes down. That allows me to telnet into the router from wherever I am and restart the router