Posts by Slother

Bow to the Moai! Wooster, your avatar cracks me up! "Say dear chap, could you please pass the grey poupon?" Oh yeah - need to stay on topic I guess. The Dell avatar doesn't float my boat, but it makes it easier to...

Details can be found at Dell's web site: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topi...ade?c=us&cs=19 Q What does the Graphics Card Upgrade Program provide me with? A Customers who purchase an Inspiron XPS with the ATI Radeon 9700...

Quote: Originally Posted by Karl It's got the NEC DVDRW flashed to do both plus and minus formats This has piqued my interest. Where can I find that firmware update? Thanks (and sorry about your exile to...

Markwill, I feel your pain. My main point was that the CD probably doesn't even show up on your order, so asking some clueless person to send you a "missing" CD won't help - they'll just say it isn't missing cause it ain't...

It really is a tech support issue. Customer care is the joke in my opinion. After talking to tech support for a few minutes (describing the CDs I DID receive) we discovered that the correct CD part number wasn't even on the order for...

I suggest iRiver if you are interested in a flash memory based player. http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/ifp-395t.asp I have one of these and it is quite cool.

Try "Fn-F8" in conjuction with Planet-Ed's suggestion to set the computer to do nothing when you shut the lid.

Try Gibson Research Corporation's Wizmo app. It can be configured to do a lot of neat tricks, including powering down monitors. I haven't tried it on my laptop yet so I can't promise it'll work. You can get it here: ...

Interesting. I didn't know about the WLAN lights on the ethernet port but sure enough they are flashing orange right now while my wireless card communicates to my AP.

I'm hoping for a software solution. If software controls the Bluetooth LED and software is aware of the traffic on the wireless link (hence the little blinking networking icon in the the system tray) then it would be possible. If it is...