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The new Entertainment.com gift card benefit is nice: $50 gift cards for Red Lobster/Olive Garden/Bahama Breeze/Smokey Bones for just $45.00 -- not to mention you can use them yourself...

Good find! In my local book is a $5 coupon for Weis Markets (the supermarket chain we go to), so the book would really only cost me $3.99.

But as Kranky said:"...I admin a small forum and I get at least 2 new registrations every day that are obviously done by programs. It's a giant PITA. They don't even create posts - they just register so their spam website will show up in their profile." We could at least avoid those... If registration was a little more difficult, i.e. prospective member sets up their account (id, password, etc.), then was approved by a Mod, then the member could finalize their membership, it would be less attractive to Spammers.

On another forum that I joined, new members have to be approved by a Mod before they can even finalize their registration. Would that be a possibility (at least from now till mid-October (when BF registrations should start churning up).

Take the whole tower, not just the hard drive... I have a feeling that your video card or the monitor is the problem.

Has anyone considered that Myrage's video card might've gone South?

Or even a digital pic of the screen's display...

Yeah, I was thinking that too...

According to Crucial.com, your Dell takes SDRAM PC133 Ram. The Dell Dimension L Series has a maximum capacity of 512MB, which can be achieved from two 256MB chips of Ram. Here is the link to Crucial's offerings: http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Dell%2BDimension+%2F+Dimension+XPS&mfr=Dell&tabid=AM&model=Dimension+L+Series&submit=Go but you could look around, any SDRAM PC133 should work... (make sure not to get Ram designed for a notebook, of course, that'll be a different shape).

I got a green one! :)

Did you see this thread?: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=40951&highlight=sharpie YMMV, but for $.25 each, it's worth a shot.

40 days! Wow, that's my kinda vacation!!! http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Banners/need_vac.gif

Here's a PCMCIA card that's $69.99 after a $20 MIR (+$4.99 S/H): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102185 How about a 5.1 USB Adapter for $19.99 + $4.99 S/H: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829126101 It averaged 4 stars based on 46 voters. http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/29-126-101-02.JPG And here's a link to their 2.1 Speaker Sets: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010370060+1090608149&Subcategory=60&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

GD is the premier community for entertainment in my opinion... http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Drink/Party-Time.gif

Yup, Elvis is alive and well, right here: http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/thelvis.gif Not to mention the crew from American Idol: http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/AmericanIdol.gif Carlos Santana http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/1019.gif Dave Koz http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/REMusicMrSaxHL.gif KISS http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/REMusicBand07kissbandHL.gif Nelly http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Famous/N1ItsGettingHot.gif and The Beatles http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Music/beatles2.gif. Not to mention Janet & Justin: http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Famous/ACCJanetJustin.gif

Either it's: "The Real Thing!" or you should "Have Gottadeal and a Smile!" http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Drink/FO1DRcoke.gif

http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Words/Welcome%20Fish.gif Welcome to Gottadeal! If you decide you ever want to shelve that WebTV, I'm sure we could find you a great deal on a computer!

Well, the regular http://www.smileyarena.com site is fine. They just added a forum recently... And they have no mods as far as I can tell.

I aim to please! http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Banners/th7e4cc966.gif

Don't complain about too much SPAM here -- check this out: http://www.smileyarena.com/forum/index.php?showforum=2 240 messages of SPAM! http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Rude/th71pseh.gif

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Yeah, they couldn't really offer the MS Works Suite if it was a non-Windows machine. And computer builder cannot offer Windows ME or Windows 2000 anymore -- WinME's life cycle for "System Builder License Availability" ran out on June 30, 2004 and Win2K's on March 31, 2005. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx) My goodness, WinXP has been out since December 31, 2001 -- if ShopNBC were to sell a computer with WinME or Win2K, they'd be moving some very old stock!

Has anyone else noticed that Johnny hasn't posted since making this thread? The question is "Where's Johnny?" (like BCBGirl said, above)... His last "activity" was 5/27/06.

Yeah, and a lot of the time, the programs are either things you've never heard of with inflated "retail values" (Org Chart Professional, Expensable 7, Lashback Anti-Spam???) or they're the full-retail price for programs you can usually pick up cheap after a rebate (Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing v.17, Print Shop 21).

I've had it take 16 weeks. It should come eventually, or you could call and check on it. The code probably expired... Here's $3.85 for 12 issues:http://www.magazinepricesearch.com/detail/caranddriver.html