The latest from Tekzilla: Episode 47 - Tuning Vista for Gaming, Belkin GoStudio, Gaming PC Winner!

"I do have Comcast internet service, but as far as canceling goes...sorry...no can do. As much as I dislike Comcast's attitude, I won't do DSL or dial-up or satellite. Contrary to what several of you seem to think, fiber is only a choice in a very limited number of locations.

If any of you can tell me a method that won't cost over $60 a month, will at least match the 10 down/1 up plan I have now, and does not have the lag time or bandwidth limits of satellite, I'll be happy to reconsider. Otherwise, nope, its not even on the table for discussion.

My only real objections to Comcast's announcement are 1) they should have done that from the beginning and not sold it as "unlimited" and massively oversold their network. And 2) they should be required to provide a tool for checking your monthly usage (and I look for them to be forced to do this).

I'd also be willing to bet that out of the number of people complaining about the new policy, only 1 or 2 percent will actually be affected by it. Unless you have streaming audio or video going semi-constantly, 250GB is a hell of a lot of data."

The 3rd objection should be that...If you go over 250GB twice, they shut your internet off...FOR A YEAR...

Also, i'm looking at my bandwidth usage for the past 30 days.. ~242GB ...Which would put me just under the 250GB cap...and i don't do a lot of legal HD downloads, illegal HD downloads or torrenting (i do a fair bit, but i know plenty of people who do more than me)

Hi, I tried contacting ms on the gfw site but the contact form just doesn't work, so would wondering if you can point me to the place or answer me this..

games for windows live service went free a few weeks ago and at the time my account was gold from a redeem code, but it ran out two weeks ago and my account is back to sliver not if it free why wouldnt it stay as gold, and why do i have to pay a fee to upgrade to gold or such when they went free? now i understand that xbox live didnt got free, just gfw live, but i cant get any help or upgrade my account on on the gfw live site

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I would use a Linux LiveCD to take off the contents of the Drive 1st. Then as suggested I'm sure you could find a very similar and larger capacity HDD to replace the toasted one. Good luck and make sure to post the outcome.

High speed internet is more addicting than chocolate, alcohol, weed, or cocaine...or all four combined. And the faster you have, the worse the addiction gets. I've joked to several local friends that I'd whore myself out on a street corner before I'd give up my cable modem.

To clear some thing up:

A avi file could contain MPEG4 video.

Try Orbit Downloader *link*
As quoted on the main page
The Grab++ module will scan for anything that is being played in your browser, whether it is an audio, video, or flash, and autodetect the download link (only caveat: Grab++ has to be run before the media file is played). This is (a) unbelievably cool, and (b) reason enough for me to switch from Flashget, hitherto my favorite downloader, to Orbit Downloader. Will download WMV and RM streaming video.

Well, everyone else answered your question. Make sure you're grounded! You don't want to have to buy another one of whatever you're doing.

Firewire would be better, you can daisy the chain them together and not have it impact your CPU & power the way USB would. Right now you have the choice between Firewire 400 & 800 while 1600 & 3200 have both been approved and will be out soon. When they come out just get yourself a Firewire 800 card if you want to go this route.

I've played with the Apple keyboards in the stores and actually like them. I just figured if I plugged one in to a PC that lightning would strike me or Steve Jobs would show up at my house and punch me or something of that nature.

Oh, left out this part...

All joking aside, I have in fact looked at some of the kid's keyboards with larger keys. If they'd arrange them like an "adult" keyboard, some of them would be perfect. But instead they arrange them in a square block, and that's just not comfortable and doesn't feel right.

Would the monitor status lights come on, just not the screen, or is it completely dark when turning on? Is the squelching noise a POST error code or just a noise that shouldn't be occurring? Is it coming from the monitor directly or from the computer?

I second everything davmoo said, and also check the seating of the memory if everything he suggested doesn't work. Assuming the monitor is working, if that doesn't lead anywhere, you have a dead part getting in the way, and you've just gotta figure out what it is. After transporting to college this wouldn't be all that surprising.