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    Hand guns

    I know this is a hand gun thread, but I think the market is about to get back to pre insanity prices. I've seen two AR's for under 1000 at dealers here. Gander Mountain had a DPMS Oracle for $750 yesterday. Of course it sold out but still its a good indicator. Also I'm currently waiting on my...
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    google voice and sip

    Has anyone tried to use sipgate and google voice for free voip? i've been trying to get it to work for a couple of hours but for some reason sipgate one's software is giving me a null error, so i tried it on xp instead of 64 bit 7 and it still won't work...
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    AutoCAD on win 7

    Has anyone been able to get it to work? I've been running the rtm for a little over a month and didn't need to use AutoCAD until recently. Even in compatibility mode i can't get it to run.
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    Unable to access some websites

    I'm on my laptop at school on the school's net work and i am able to access the sites. This rules out spyware/viruses in my book. I'm running avast, malware bytes, and run no script in firefox so its pretty rare for me to pick something up. What virus would similarly affect 3 seperate...
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    Unable to access some websites

    I really doubt spyware since i can access these sites on my school's network. I tried at home using OSX, Win 7 and Xp. All three had the same problem. I'm not at home til 8 so i can't change anything yet to see if its a fix.
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    Unable to access some websites

    Last night i was up late working on project for class and couldn't access Webct( school site) to upload the finished project. I chalked this up to them doing some late night maintenance and ignored it. This morning I couldn't either. So I drove to school to upload some work for an online class...
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    laptop recommendations

    Lenovo G530 Intel Pentium dual-core T4200(2.00GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1558209 Similarly speced toshiba http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1564223 Same specd hp...
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    laptop graphics card help

    so an nvidia card with 512mb would do it with ease? that seems to be the most common card i see. i've seen a few 1gb atis but they are few and far between
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    laptop graphics card help

    well the problem with mine is it would bog down when i was attempting to use my hdtv as a dual monitor kind of deal.
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    laptop graphics card help

    well if i tried to play anything high quality it was useless. wouldn't even dream on 720 p with it. yea alot of times i had downloaded divx videos and wasn't even really streaming but it would get skippy.
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    laptop graphics card help

    im in the market for a new laptop since mine crapped out. I have a few things i would like to do. One is use hdmi to connect to my tv and stream divx or just surf the web. previously i had been doing this with svideo on my old laptop and doing anything else while streaming video was near...
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    Is your computer safe from Conficker?

    turns out conficker is ddosing now.... try again to go to the conficker eye chart sites. i'm able to see the trend micro and fsecure icons but i cant even go to the eye chart sites. a bunch of people are saying they cant get the icons to even load.
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    need help serial port stopped working, what to do ??

    if you get it to work let me know. i've been having to use an ancient tower to program a fpga for class and would love to use a usb to serial, but the one i bought from new egg didn't work and no one in my class has been able to even get the pci ones to work.
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    trouble installing xp on new hdd

    the laptop requires ide ( parallel ata) and bought an ide drive. its just my cd/dvd drive is a pain even with the old hdd. but its a hp dv4000 ( 4217cl ) and the hdd is a western digital 160gb ide. i dunno the model # off the top of my head. Also hp's newest realse bios doesnt support booting...
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    trouble installing xp on new hdd

    My hdd on my hp laptop is dying a slow death, so i bought a new one went to install it and my laptop ecided it didnt want to recognize my dvd drive, so i went into the bios and of course the crappy bios doesnt allow booting from usb. I would just install xp using another computer but this hdd...
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    Need a good free antivirus.

    i too had been using avg since i saw it on tech tv years ago, but recently had a weird trojan and avg didn't catch it. i installed avast an it took care of it pretty easily, but i'm looking for something else and have been meaning to try nod32, but the whole not free thing has kept me from it...
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    laptop charger

    wow thank for the quick reply
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    laptop charger

    I've got a 3 year old lap top and the charger is on the fritz. I had a break in the line a while back and soldered it and shrink wrapped it and its worked fine for about 4 months, but now i'm hearing it arc some where in the charger so i think i am going to stop using it. I bought a charger off...
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    weird trojan

    well my cousin told me he clicked it while using stumble and nothing came up so he turned off no script and then it told him he needed to update. i dont seem to have any problems now. avg totally missed it though. i rarely run any anti virus because they just seem to bog down my computer. i'm...
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    weird trojan

    i have a really odd trojan. not sure how i got it i run no script in firefox, avg,and routinely run ad aware, but i got it none the less and it disabled task manager so i couldnt just end the processes. It kept giving me bogus windows alerts like "you have spware!!!"It tried to redirect my...
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