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Hi What is the difference between the Official brand Microsoft Xbox 360 VGA cable and the [usually] cheaper ones made by other companies? Is there any noticeable difference in quality? thanks

Anyone can build a superlative gaming rig given a bottomless budget: Getting as much oomph as possible out of what today passes as a fairly modest budget takes more thought. A colleague has asked me to spec a R10 000 gaming PC for her son as a reward for him should he get an A aggregate. I...

Recently, I was asked whether I would be interested in doing some software testing from an end-user/data capturer point-of view. This entails giving my opinion on the look and feel of the software system rather than the more arcane aspects of software development such as adhering to "business...

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I have just returned from Port Elizabeth, where he was shocked and punctured by a neurologist. We need more doctors like him. While he conducted the tests, we spoke about books, the human sense of morals, consciousness and what [and how] was being measured before touching on Mammalian Nervous...

I am stuck with a Windows 98 machine [You in the back row:stop laughing] at work until my replacement PC has been prepared for me. I am not able to create shared folders on my PC. I can pull files from other machines, but "Sharing" right click menu option is absent. The file and printer...

Hi I saw that it is possible to start downloading PS3 content, then stop the download and continue later once one has been capped and local bandwidth comes into play. Can the same be done with the PSP? Thank you

Please Click me Good grief! :eek: One day when I grow up I want to be an unskilled worker.

I feel like pimping out my Coolermaster CM690, but see that my mother board has only two case fan headers. Is this because my motherboard is a cheaper model? Is there any way I can get around this and hook up more fans? Thank you

The beginning of the movie had me in tears. :oops: I am a sucker for sad realities such as those portrayed at the start of Up. :oops: Man goes on a journey with an amusing and sometimes helpful sidekick or two, faces a trial which he overcomes [with help] and returns home. That's the...

Someone at work asked me how she might insert an entry into the table of contents of a Word document after she had accidentally deleted that subsection link. I tried the "view in outline mode" as well as "view in normal mode" thing to try to make sense of it and also enabled field codes but...

I have read one or two reviews on this soon-to-be-available in South Africa processor and have seen that it is going down well with hardware fundis. I think the price is reasonable too considering what one is getting for one's money. order_i5 If you were soon to be building a new gaming or...

Slummies' next white elephant? So I am a little weary of the constant [feels that that] marketing campaign I have been subjected to over the past few weeks and am feeling cynical. Hemingway's I also have a 1.9Mb Hemingway's brochure [did the email rounds at work] in PDF format. Anyone who...

I have just opened my mail and checked my Telkom account [Invoice for September 2009....Do Broadband Level 2] The amount was somewhat lower than I had expected. :eek: R237 to be exact. My telephone line comes to R114 and DSL Fast is R133. I am wondering whether this glitch was brough...

I see that a certain etailer is advertising pre-orders via Amazon of Windows 7 Home Premium for a shade over R2000. If it does end up retailing for a similar price in South Africa, will you buy it, keep using your existing OS or jump ship to another OS? I am thinking of switching to a...

One of my contacts sent me this link http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1063599

My brother has offered me his old Samsung D900 provided all of his addresses, music and photographs are transferred to his new Nokia Navigator. Bluetoothing doesn't seem to help. Have you any idea as to how one might go about effecting such a transfer? Thank you

Do any of you know if there are locally hosted equivalents to Skype, Googletalk and Windows Messenger?

Hi I have been shopping around for a wireless adsl router [for my mother]cheaper than my dlink 2640u and come across the Netgear WGR614IS for R530. Only thing is that I am not sure whether it contains an ADSL modem or is just a wireless router. Do any of you know whether it can be used to...

/*I didn't think this belonged in the gaming PC section. With some help from my brother, I shall be getting a laptop for my mother, hopefully as a Christmas present. The Netbooks with the 8 inch screens may be a little too small for her, but a 15 inch screen ought to be about right. The...