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Lenovo Inc. recalled about 100,000 laptop computer batteries Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire. The battery recall was the second for the company in the past six months and comes as Lenovo, the world's No. 3 computer maker, tries to gain ground on its better-known competitors. The latest recall involves batteries made by Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. and follows four reports of overheating. In one case, a user suffered minor eye irritation, the company said. The Chinese PC maker, which has its world headquarters in Research Triangle Park, said consumers should stop using the recalled products...

Have an Acer laptop with battery problems, I think. Have fresh windows xp home and the problem still exists.

Hey gang, Once again, with hopeful heart, I turn to my fellow FReepers for some advice. In a nutshell: Got new computer. It runs on VISTA and DX10 (whatever that it) Come to find out Everquest One (and as far as I can tell, EQII) doesn't do either, and SONY doesn't particularly care. So, five years of customer loyalty ***blip***.. (...but I digress) Anyway, I am now looking for another RPG. One that will take/run on Vista and DX10. Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, --YD

A very strange thing happened to my computer. The other day I was booting up and received a message that my C drive was almost full. I checked it and it was. So I went to system tools and ran disk clean up. This freed up about 3 gigs. I also noticed that there was a game on the disk, I removed it. Then I started looking at my d drive and decided to prune it as well. I got to a game I had and went to remove it it was taking a long time so I went to...

It's one of those software design decisions that makes you scratch your head and wonder, "What were they thinking?" The "it" in this case is XP's most powerful rebuild/repair option, and yet Microsoft chose to hide it behind seeming dead ends, red herrings, and a recycled interface that makes it hard to find and (at first) somewhat confusing to use.But it's worth exploring because this option lets you completely and nondestructively rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation while leaving already-installed software alone (no reinstallation needed!). It also leaves user accounts, names, and passwords untouched and takes only a...

I am trying to reinstall WimXP on an older Dell machine that has accepted it many times before. And now it freezes about 3/4ths the way through installation. I tried taking out a memory chip since it has slots for two of them and even relacing one chip with the other with the same results.No, I'm not going to buy a Mac. Yes, I am going to try a linux distribution. SLAX in particular because I'm burning the disc right now.

All, as noted in the thread Prayer requested for Sionnsar's family, I have a new, quite significant, and high priority pull on my time that will continue for an indefinite period of time. I will do what I can, and newheart and Huber long ago volunteered to help out with posting and pinging the Traditional Anglican ping list during my times away (traveling). Unfortunately I think these two are even busier than your truly --- but we'll do what we can to keep the Traditional Anglican ping list going. For the Washington State ping list I have mostly been pinging...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a geek as "an unfashionable or socially inept person or a knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast, such a computer geek." A dork probably wrote that. Because television, cinema and even the fashion runways are thronging with a new class of beta male with more brains than brawn and a wardrobe that is so far from cool it circles round and links up with cool at the other end. People are letting their geek flag fly. The reigning leading man at the box office is not some pumped-up action hero, but a sweet, lovable doofus who collects...

Agents of the computer fixing "Geek Squad" wear badges and uniforms and drive black and white cars — a look the California Highway Patrol fears too closely resembles actual police officers. The Volkswagen Beetles, emblazoned with a "Geek Squad" logo and painted black-and-white, are driven by men and women in white shirts and snap-on ties whose mission, for a fee, is to bring help to customers' homes, repairing and installing computers and entertainment systems. Best Buy Co. Inc. is now repainting its "Geek Squad" Beetles throughout California to comply with the highway patrol's request that the vehicles not look so...

... Whatever the reason, being a nerd, a geek, a dork -- whatever you want to call the tragically unhip -- is becoming a source of pride. ... And, increasingly, people are parading around in shirts that say "Dork Pride!" among other things. Such items have gotten so popular that CafePress.com, an online merchandiser, has created a special category for shirts and other items celebrating geeks, dorks and nerds. ... For now, though, he's going with it and has put a bumper sticker on his motorcycle that says "Talk Nerdy To Me" so he attracts the kind of women he's...

Dozens of grown men from their 30s to 60s crowd around the tatami mat room in Kagetsuen, a Shizuoka Prefecture ryokan inn, and begin playing with their train sets. More than 90 percent of the inn's guests are adults who enjoy playing with toy trains. These mature train setters have not only kept the inn afloat as others around it have fallen into oblivion, they've helped it grow in a prime example of the otaku business that's now booming throughout Japan, according to AERA (7/18). "Thanks to trimming down our target market, we could stay in business," Eiji Misu, Kagetsuen's...

For some in the tech industry, the chance to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in its opening couple of days is just not something they're willing to pass up—at any cost. And while that early viewing may be a badge of honor for geeks around the world, the "Star Wars flu" may pull down productivity figures, analysts warned. "There's nothing like being here for the first showing," said an IT manager for a financial brokerage firm on Wednesday, while standing in line in front of the Metreon theater complex in San Francisco. He had called in...

SAN JOSE – Susan Love's problems began with a smile. The New York City fund-raiser clicked on a happy-face attachment in a friend's e-mail last year. The virus crashed her computer within an hour. Love, 57, salvaged her data. But within a few months her computer's performance slowed to a crawl. In December 2003, she upgraded to a Sony Vaio with an extra-large monitor and Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Within a few days, "spyware" – programs that sneak onto computers uninvited – began sponging up valuable memory. Then her e-mail stopped arriving. Instead of crafting holiday e-mails, she spent...

~10:29am~ ESTCONVENTION JOURNAL - GULLIANI, McCAIN, and WAR:  There is little doubt that the convention delegates are taking this Convention seriously and last night the prime-time line-up struck themes that resonated across the gathered masses in Madison Square Garden, and no one left their seat once former NYC Mayor Rudy Gulliani began to talk about the importance of winning this fight against terrorism. Several moments of worth through the evening Monday night. I personally teared up horribly when the "Widows of 9/11" came forward to tell their stories. Most noticably to me was the clarity of  Tara Stackpole, the widowed wife of a fire-fighter...

HUGE HUGE HUGE MOVEMENT IN ABCNEWSWASHPOST POLL: The nefarious aspect of this poll is that they (ABCWAPO) claim the overall poll numbers are dead even - and this HAS to be bogus...because the internals are deadly for Kerry... Overall poll show likely voters: Bush 48% Kerry 48% Strongly support the candidates: Bush 56% Kerry 40% Trust more to handle: Terrorism - B-56%, K-38% Education - B-47%, K-47% Economy - B-48%, K-47% Health Care - B-43%, K-50% Iraq - B-52%, K-44% Taxes - B-48%, K-46% Best Describes the Candidates: Honest - B-47%, K-41% (net change for Bush since 8/1 - +6)...

***KERRY CAUGHT IN ANOTHER FIB (NOW ALMOST DAILY) - HEAR THE AUDIO - IN KERRY'S OWN WORDS***

"...Over most of the campaign year, John Kerry has not faced much adversity. From the media preordaining him as "the" candidate earlier in the year, to his sudden and swift winning of the nomination, to his further coronation experience at his nominating convention, things have pretty much gone his way. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have exposed something that I think is far more damaging about Kerry than they realized at the time. Vietnam - blah, blah, blah - you hear the two sides go at it and so it goes ... But last Thursday, John Kerry gave the...

BRIT HUME, OF FOX NEWS CHANNEL (CHILDHOOD SCHOOLMATE OF JOHN KERRY) BUSTS KERRY ON LIE TOLD TO AFRICAN AMERICANS IN 2003 - HEAR THE AUDIO/CLICK HERE

BRIT HUME, OF FOX NEWS CHANNEL (CHILDHOOD SCHOOLMATE OF JOHN KERRY) BUSTS KERRY ON LIE TOLD TO AFRICAN AMERICANS IN 2003 - HEAR THE AUDIO/CLICK HERE

Something struck me today that jolted my thinking on the whole Swift Boat Veterans issue. As I was reading the reports of John Kerry sending campaign staff to Crawford to ask President Bush to denounce (A G A I N ! ! !) the ads put out by 527 something just smacked me in the face. Over most of the campaign year John Kerry has not faced much adversity. From the media pre-ordaining him as "the" candidate earlier in the year, to his sudden and swift winning of the nomination, to his further coronation experience at his nominating convention -...