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SX10-IS does not do HD video; SX1-IS does.

I've heard that there are some agencies in Bangkok and Dubai who will park it at your doorstep (presumably via sea-freight) for a certain price, saving you the hassle of trying to get it transported. Don't know if Mustafa will do it for you, you may want to enquire.

I use surgical spirit available in medical stores for the same purpose without any problems. Except for the strong smell, it leaves no residue behind.

Once upon a time; not anymore.

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Guys, you won't believe this but I was asking one of their illiterate helpers where an item is located and she looked to the side, spat onto the products located in the aisle and replied "We don't have it". I have never shopped there after that.

They're probably made in China, just like everything else.

I have actually done this for a home-brew HTPC that I've made. You can use a hacksaw and get a pretty decent cut. You may have to sand the edge down with a fine sandpaper (put it on a small wooden block so that you don't have uneven sanding) to smooth out the hacksaw marks. The trick is to use...

I concur. I like the cabinet too. Very classy. Was it custom made or did you buy it at a store?

It was a Matroska encoded file and I am using Media Player Classic whose native codec relies on the 780G chipset to do the decoding. That caused stuttering. After some research I tried the CoreAVC codec within Media Player Classic which improved things a lot as it uses CPU cycles to decode but...

I have a 4850e/J&W Minix board in a small case. Some 1080P encodings stutter, even when overclocked by 10%. I think the X2 arch is becoming a bit long on the tooth and a Phenom is definitely needed to provide headroom for video, if anything (not possible with any mini-itx boards AFAIK). I...

Metro doesn't have low prices on everything. And when you price-shop over the phone, dealers don't give you the lowest quote because they know that you are window-shopping. The reputed dealers on SP Road will have significantly lower prices than MSRP on many items and are within about Rs. 100 of...

I don't think my Su-Kam Falcon 800VA UPS is cutting it for my needs. The switching is too slow and even though I put my computers behind smaller APC's to avoid this, the projector and 46" TV cut out and turn back on even during normal power cuts. Any suggestions for a data grade UPS of about...

I picked up a G-skill 64Gb MLC SSD through Katmandude for Rs. 6400 a few weeks ago. It's really snappy under Windows 7, but I'd still say that it's work in progress until they come out with better controllers and optimizations, not to mention lower prices. I have a 300Gb Velociraptor...

I guess a keychain is probably what they're best for. I had to junk a laptop because they were too cheap to hire competent thermal engineers to design the 7400 GPU that was in it.

By CVT, I assume you mean Constant Voltage Transformer. What is the difference between a CVT and a voltage stabilizer like V-Guard?

The idiot electrician who wired my house has put the plug-point that supplies power to the A/C in the same circuit as the rest of the plugs that supply power to the computers, despite knowing that it would be used only for an A/C. I have to get it re-wired on a separate circuit.

I first have to figure out the wiring in my house and whether the A/C is on the separate heating circuit on which my water heaters and refrigerator are. My main aim is to make the setup unaffected by the power blip caused by the A/C. After that I'll take it step by step.

Thanks for the pointer. Others have advised me to have the wiring in my house checked to see if the A/C is on the same circuit as the computers and also to check whether there are any lose ground wires etc.. So I'm going to have an electrician check everything.

Here's my setup: two computers, one driving a 46" 1080P Samsung LCD TV and the other a HTPC connected to an amp/5.1 speaker setup with sub-woofer driving a projector when I am not controlling it through Windows remote desktop on the other 'puter to play music. Only the LCD TV or projector is on...