For the first time in 10 years I've gone to a computer fair at a local hotel. Had to pay £2.50 just to get in. I was pretty underwhelmed by what I saw. Stalls selling copied software (illegal surely?), secondhand parts wrenched from old PCs and Macs, under-spec PCs with flashing coloured lights...

Well, Yahoo Japan put out on their online shop a new Mac desktop (worth £600) for £15. 20,000 people put in orders for 100 million units, before the error was spotted and the item removed. Yahoo blame their sales agent for the mistake and as 'no contract of sale has been established', they...

I now realise I shouldn't have ordered from PC World but a 160gig Samsung ATA 133 drive for £77.55 delivered seemed a bit of a bargain but up until today no delivery, I tried e-mail etc with no response the money went out my bank the day after I ordered on the 23rd December and on the phone today...

Subject: Immediate charging of credit card - even though goods on back order. From: Baffie Date: 13/07/2003 12:15 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: Hi, I know this has been discussed here before, vendors charging immediately...

Arrrgh! Stupid dabs.com and their no-phone number and no-way-to-contact-us-unless-we-deign-to-allow-you website... Opinions are sought... I purchased a Linksys Hub from Dabs just under a month ago. Details he http://www.dabs.com/uk/productview?quicklinx=15L4 This hub arrived. I was having...

In article , says... Is it just me, or is their site down? Urgent maintenence was carried out last night on the electrical cables around the headquarters. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi All, Looking for smartcards suitable for use with Smartcard login, has anyone got any ideas what I could use (I've got a dell keyboard with reader) and where I can get a quantity from? Thanks! -- Alex Threlfall Cyberprog New Media

In article , says... Are these the same drive, with the difference being the latter one is OEM? Thanks Jim yep, i flashed my DWU-10a to DRU-500a firmware. --

In article , says... Hi all, I wrote to this group about 2 months ago saying I was having probs with a graphics card bought from komplett. I returned the card and received a replacement very quickly (good point number1) The...

Hello, I want to buy a UXGA TFT monitor (I've got my eye on the Dell 2001FP, or LG L2010P, which both use the same panel), but I have a rather different idea of how many dead pixels are 'acceptable' than most online vendors seem to. Does anyone here know of any online vendors which will...

What is inside that cylinder thing that is at the end of a AC adapter of a laptop or notebook? Is it like a load matching thing? Current limiter?

I havn't posted this here before so I thought I ought to say that I'm another person who will never order from Aria again in my life. Alun Harford

I need to use my PC to use Skype to chat to someone across the pond, PC to PC. I understand there are two ways I could go to set up the communications hardwa 1. Buy a standard headset. 2. Buy a Blue Tooth adapter which will enable me to connect my Blue Tooth headset to my PC. Questions.....

I'm looking for a USB Hard Drive, preferably one that's around 150GB or so. Basically, the best £/Mb ratio but not too much past the £100 mark. The best value one I know of is the: LaCie 300700EK P3 160GB 7200rpm External USB 2.0 Design by F.A Porsche with Cable from...

I am thinking of buying the following hard drive: http://uk.aldi.com/ Go to Internal Hard Drive Drive to get a Western Digital 250Mb hard drive for £79.99. This seems to be a good deal. I am looking for a case to support this drive. I don't actually know the exact term for this. Is it a caddy?...

I have just recently bought an iCute Gaming case from eBuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=59321 I have also bought a motherboard from the same...

Usually when I format a hard drive and partition it, all the logical partitions are in sequence, i.e C, D, E, F before the CD drives etc kick in on the end. However, with a new PC I have built, they kick in after C drive with my remaining logical drives starting F (I have two drives). The only...

I'm looking to buy a USB2 Hard Drive for backup purposes. I am currently looking at the Lacie Porsche 80GB or 160GB drive from EBuyer (around £55/£75 + P&P). 1) What's the optimum size I should be purchasing for best price/storage size ratio? I think around 160Gb seems like a good choice. 2)...

I bought a laptop from Evesham a while ago. Its a Voyager Pro 64 A3200+. The laptop is no longer under warranty. However, I think that the hard drive is dying. When it accesses certain parts of the disk it seems to take forever and sometimes crashes my machine. The machine was only...

Any recommendations for a set of PC speakers between £50 - £80? Thanx. AMO