Epinions Recent Reviews for dreamer_awakes

In Nomine Patris

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:28:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - From a Catholic prayer for forgiveness, “In the name of the father.” These were usually the last words heard by the victims of the Boondock Saints. The movie centers around two Irish lads from the slums of Boston who have lived way below their...

Kingmax Technology PC4000 512 MB DDR RAM (mptc22d-38): Overclocker's Rejoice

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:35:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Something about the cold weather of autumn and winter brought out the performance enthusiast in me, perhaps it was the heat generated by a fine tuned PC running 25% faster than originally clocked. But I binged on overclocking products in an attempt to...

Perfect Storage for On the Go

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - The USB flash, thumb, pen, what-have-you drive is ubiquitous with the user on the go. However, with recent marketing pushes, they're moving more and more mainstream to the point that I just purchased this model for my 50+ year old aunt. In other words,...

Briefcase for the Geek

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:05:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - After purchasing my laptop I had an important decision to make, how to lug this thing around. At 8lbs and almost 16" wide it isn't exactly ultra-portable. And as I needed both the bag and laptop for school, I had higher requirements than just a...

Great Low Profile Monitor

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:56:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I'm getting ready to embark on a serious move, back to college, and back to a dorm room. Among the many issues I'm dealing with my therapist from this, comes the need to consume much less space. I'd been using a 19" crt monitor for the last 5 years,...

My First Wireless Desktop

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:57:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - For lovers of ergonomic keyboards, Microsoft set the standard with its Natural line of keyboards. When they finally released a wireless edition with a distinct ergonomic shape, I jumped on it. Features At this point, very little has changed...

Low Price, High Quality

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:21:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Ahh the joys of Black Friday, for the uninformed: the day after Thanksgiving when discount stores open to the masses shopping for cheap Christmas gifts. Last year, it was time to get a low end dvd player. At the early hour of 8am, that one was sold, so...

Worth the Wait and Upgrades

Tue, 18 May 2004 14:27:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I'll start out by saying this isn't a game for everyone. Not only does it require a strong stomach to violence, but most pc's can only play the game at minimal settings. That being said, what it delivers is one of the most stunning first person shooter...

Spread Spectrum Network on a Budget

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:16:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - It's nice to be back at Epinions. Like last time I was here, I'll promise to come back more often...

Almost Perfect

Wed, 8 May 2002 04:22:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I finally gave up my trusted Uniden when the battery would last all of 30 minutes between recharging. Well, I actually decided to give it up, when I found the deal on the Siemens Gigaset 4210 system. Like most of my purchases, the looks of the system...

For the Serious Fan Only

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 04:39:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I bought this DVD because I doubt I'll ever have the priviledge of seeing David Bowie perform live. It's a shame for he's been at the cutting edge of music, stylistically, for almost 40 years. In my opinion, he's an unparallelled singer and...

More in my work resources

Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:02:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Ever since I've worked in desktop and helpdesk support, I've found O'Reilly's books to be invaluable resources.

What I do

Currently, I work in a call center fielding problems arising on a variety of webservers based on Unix...

Where would I be without O'Reilly

Thu, 14 Dec 2000 06:20:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Upon first starting my new job I was given the chance to shadow several people in our call center. At each cubicle, be the resident male or female, young or old, there was a single consistency. Everyone owned this book. When I asked someone what...

A hidden treat

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:08:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Wow, this is going to be fun. A completely new topic for me to write on. I've got to say that I'm surprised to find this course listed on the site, it's a very small "out of the way" course in my home town. I was first informed of it's...

A worthy CD-RW

Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:17:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - It's amazing the amount of draw the promise of a $99 CD rewritable drive creates. When I saw this advertised at www.circuitcity.com, the words of Wayne's World came back to me, "It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine." And so it was.
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Exceptional quality with a few minor drawbacks

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:49:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I really wanted to like this DVD player and I really did at first. My first experience with Samsung DVD players came when a good friend purchased last year's 6-series DVD player. After using my JVC player, see my review, I was blinded when I saw how...

What would have been

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:53:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - This is an album I listened obsessively to in High School. I think there's some kind of connection to the universal loneliness we experience in our teen years and heavy metal. Black Aria is certainly a departure from Danzig's usual. On the surface,...

A Dystopian Fairytale

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:57:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Somewhere in a bizarre future, Dickens and Kafka meet and write a story together. At least that's my impression of this film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (The creators of the excellent and bizarre piece, Delicatessen). Together they weave a...

Haunting, gritty, yet ultimately redeeming

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:13:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - I don't know what the impact of this film would have been without the untimely passing of Brandon Lee. I would like to believe that it's excellence would have brought him out of the B-movie genre he had been confined to. For all intensive purposes,...

Kubrick on Comedy

Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:22:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Released in 1964, Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb was originally written to be a serious drama. Instead, after reading the script Stanley Kubrick realized the comic potential in the absurdity of the situation. This...

Archived Computer Hardware Reviews: Professional Editing at a Pauper's Price

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:57:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - A few months after purchasing my digital 8mm camcorder (see my review <a href= http://awakes.epinions.com/elec-review-5787-8B65F5C-399C8DD9-prod6 >Memories Made Digital</a>), I realized that I was missing out on one of it's best features,...

An admin's dream

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:19:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - First, the basics, Ghost is a program that takes a snapshot of a computer's configuration. The resulting "image" file (usually a few hundred MB, depending on how large the original system disk was) is a compressed copy of your computer's hard...

Dellamorte Dellamore

Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:45:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - Released as Cemetary Man in the United States (also edited, though not greatly), it was released as Dellamorte Dellamore in Italy. Of love, of death, the two central themes of Michele Soavi's homage to the Italian zombie genre of horror films, a...

I am Jack's utter amazement

Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:50:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." I believe this to be the most poignant line in the entire film. Tyler Durden's deconstructionist philosophy rolled into one short phrase. This is the story of 3...

F* it dude, let's go bowling

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:42:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dreamer_awakes - An exceptional, surreal mystery woven around the one true pasttime: bowling. The Coen brothers finally succeeded where ABC and ESPN 2 have failed, they've made bowling truly look good. Of course, the bowling alone is not the strong point of this movie;...