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    Landscaping Lighting

    I have seven of the new Kichler LED landscape lights (all up-lights on 20-25ft trees, (4) 12.4W and (3) 9W LED up-lights). We picked these up from a professional landscape designer last fall. These really are very bright. They replaced (4) 50W halagon uplights on a very large japanese green...
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    NEW LIGHT TECHNOLOGY

    Actually, here is a startup that claims they will ship a new type of light bulb this winter with the cost of a CFL and the lumen/watt output between an LED and CFL. Also, they state on the web page that they can dim the full range with standard dimmers (i.e. no special electronics needed)...
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    Dimmable Halogen Recessed lights?

    Just avoid the cheap 12v halogen balast crap at Home Depot/Lowes/Expo Center and you should be fine. I use Hatch electronic balasts on my 12v halogens with PCS SmartSwitch Dimmers and they work perfectly. No flicker. No hum. No power line noise.
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    Is anyone using Apple TV

    Sorry to jump in, but my Wife and I have used an AppleTV with our 60" Sony SXRD for over a year. When the rental service came out in Febraury with the higher resolution rentals (and purchases too) we tried it immediately. A few comments: 1.) The SD quality of the rentals (purchases) shouldn't...
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    It was the GFCI

    Yeah, I know what you mean, I've heard very little about this myself, and stumbled across it by accident: "New requirements for ground-fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs) take effect on July 28, 2006. The requirements arise from a 2001 field study, which discovered that a small but significant...
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    It was the GFCI

    Yes, old GFCI's will fail (i.e. the ground fault circuit no longer works) and you will never know. The building code was changed in 2007? (or was it 2006, I can't remember off the top of my head) to fix this. New GFCI outlets are now required to fail with the circuit open so that you know that...
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    Help me pick a new computer configuration ...

    Don't buy a GeForce 7 Series GPU for a new computer right now! They won't run VISTA "well" and you'd be much better off with any lower end GeForce 8 Series GPU at the same price. You'll probably see a price drop too in a few weeks when NVIDIA rolls out the GeForce 9 series cards so buying into...
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    Class action suit against DirectTV as the HD content well isn't...

    No comment with respect to DirectTV or Dishnetwork HD, but saying that XBOX Live or AppleTV HD movies are poor compared to "free" content on cable or sat is a bit miss-leading. You have to pay a monthly subscription fee for cable and sat services, so the content really isn't "free". Personally...
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    What do you think of these solutions for HD dist?

    Sorry to sound sarcastic, but the only winners with respect to WirelessHD will be the firms that collect the royalty checks from all of the other manufactures once this is "built-in" to everything on the planet. The average Jack and Jill won't be able to figure out how to configure this thing...
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    Against a provision in energy bill.

    This is really a mess here in California. One of the nearby counties (Contra Costa) actually has a local law now "requiring" CFL lighting in new contstruction homes. Yes, I said "requiring CFL"! I've actually been over for dinner in one of these new homes (owned by a friend) and every last...
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    Microsoft debuts Extenders for Windows Media Center, adds DivX and XviD

    As a former owner of a Microsoft media extender (that quickly went up on eBay), I have to say that these images are not that much better in my opinion. For instance, those album covers are way too small for people to see in a typical family room and the text on the bottom left is very terse...
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    Credit card from from VIP TUNE

    Btw, the VIP Tunes $29.99 charge to our credit card was followed up by a charge from "Carnation Enterprises" a few days later, at that point our bank recommended that we close both of our credit cards. The "Carnation Enterprises" charge was interesting because the company makes currency...
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    Credit card from from VIP TUNE

    I was hit with this last week too. My credit card company said they hadn't heard of any reported problems with charges from this company before. I urge everyone to check and report it!
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    Landscape lighting

    Sure, the idea is to run the low voltage wire from the lighting transformer out to the most distant light and then run the other end of the wire all the way back to the transformer! You screw down both ends of the wire to the same terminals on transformer. It helps to have landscape wire that...
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    Landscape lighting

    Do you have a "professional" landscape supply house in your local area? I would check with them first. Your right that the amazon.com price is way out of line. I think I paid less than half that for mine. I really don't have the time to hunt, but just to give you an idea here are some...
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