Posts by SoCalChris

So, who's going to be the first to go into the Alienware forum, and post Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!

There is a glass cover over the screen. The hair is caught between that cover and the screen. We tried taking it off, but didn't have any luck. It's a Sony Vaio laptop, but from what I understand, all laptops are set up this way.

One of the guys I work with has an arm hair stuck behind his screen. It was at the bottom, but he tried to use canned air to blow it out, and managed to blow it right into the center of the screen.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tycho81 Considering I can't read the title of the window sitting directly behind it (which would be the only functional reason for having it). Granted it looks nice, but changes need to be...

Sorry for not replying for a while, but Vista exploded on me. I tried installing the Intel client for the 2200BG MiniPCI card, and that totally messed up my install. It wouldn't even boot the whole way without giving me a blue screen,...

Yeah, the MSDN subscriptions are pretty pricey. I can't imagine anyone buying one for personal use. I have mine through my work. The prices range from $199 (For help files only) to $2,799 (For almost all MS applications/servers/SDK's)...

It's 2.5 gigabytes, and is worthless without a product key from MS.

So far, so good. The install was fairly painless, although it took a while. The worst part of the whole deal was having to download it from Microsoft's swamped MSDN servers. It is a 2.5GB download, and I was mostly downloading at only...

Isn't Media Center Edition based on XP Pro, and considerably cheaper? edit: Nevermind. From http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/m...faq.mspx#EHAAA Quote: While you can access network resources on a work network or a...

Quote: Originally Posted by WeeB you can get little USB lights that plugin into the USB ports and shine light onto the keyboard. Great for planes and bus rides when its dark. something like...