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  1. Wyndru

    Time Lapse Beans :-)

    Haven't visited here in a while, and I just remembered there is a gardening subforum here. If it's ok, I'd like to place some time lapse videos of a bean plant I'm growing in what is supposedly called deep water hydroponics. I plan on recording it through flowering and fruiting. I'm pretty...
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    Why do most serious strength trainers have guts?

    I've always noticed that the massive guys deadlifting and squatting large amounts at competition are usually fat in their midsection. I don't understand why this is though, does it have anything to do with the large amount of calories and protein they need to take in to stimulate muscle growth...
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    Do you know all of these acronyms?

    28 Internet acronyms every parent should know I didn't know quite a few of these:
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    Microsoft buying Mojang (Makers of Minecraft) for 2.5 Billion

    http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6128759/microsoft-said-to-be-buying-the-maker-of-minecraft-for-2-billion This might be a repost, is a couple days old. If so please lock it up. I'm worried about the direction ms would take mc in. I like the current state of it and the mods for this game are...
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    Jay Adams of the Z-Boys Passed Away :-(

    "You don't quit Skateboarding because you get old. You get old because you quit Skateboarding" RIP Jay. http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/dtown/thrasher.html Bad year for the Z-Boys, first Shogo in June and now Jay :-(
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    High Waisted Denim....Ugh

    Why are high waisted jorts and jeans back in style for women? These do not look good to me? I'll post a pic of them on a mannequin so it doesn't get locked up as a babe thread, although anyone wearing these isn't a babe to me :\ What do you think ATOT?
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    Sandbag Training

    I'm looking to change up my exercise routine. I been strength training on and off over the last few years I'm considering going a different route for a few reasons. The main reason is time. With 2 kids and my wife and I both working long hours, I have very limited time so working out at home...
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    Why are there womens and mens bicycles?

    Is it just a size thing? My wife and I were shopping for bikes and I compared a men's to woman's last night, and the seat doesn't seem that much different and riding it feels normal to me...just a bit smaller. Are there functional reasons or is it mostly cosmetic? And could I save money and...
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    Funeral Processions

    Are funeral processions excluded from many traffic laws? I noticed today that they don't need to slow down for stop lights. I saw a car nearly get side swiped earlier today by the leading car, because he saw a green light and started turning into the lane that the procession was. I'm glad...
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    Is this Newegg Comment/Support Community Notification Feature New?

    Today I received an email from newegg: Is this a new thing? I've never commented on this item, and I can't tell if it's a phishing attempt but the link to answer points to turnto_dot_com. I don't know what turnto is. Don't they have a tech support staff for these kind of questions?
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    Anyone have tomorrow off because of the storm?

    Just got an automated message from my job stating that our area in upstate NY has issued a state of emergency and no one is supposed to be on the roads tomorrow morning due to the weather. We were off today too, and we only had about 3 inches. Apparently the state doesn't have the resources...
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    Christmas decorations are getting out of control

    I'm noticing that people are really going nuts with their Christmas decorations lately. It's not enough to have lights hanging on your house, now you need blow up snowmen, santa, reindeer etc.... All that is cool, until you have a neighbor that gets one of those light show kits from lowes and...
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    2008 R2 iSCSI Initiator Not Reconnecting To Target After Reboot

    I'm not too sure what I'm overlooking, I feel like this should be simple, but after reading some docs on technet it might be a timing issue on services. For some reason after I reboot any of our 2008 R2 file servers our iSCSI Initiator will not reconnect to the target. The target is in the...
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    Fathers - How much time did you take off when your child was born?

    My wife is due at the end of July, our second and I'm trying to figure out what a good amount of time is. At work I have tons of vacation time that I can take, but summer is our busy time so I don't think it would be a good idea to take more than a 1.5 week consecutive period. This is our 2nd...
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    Low Impact Indoor Cardio Suggestions

    I'm so pissed, my 5 year old Nordictrack elliptical broke this weekend. It's been squeaking more and more, and I've been tightening bolts to remedy it, but now the crank arm has a crack on it, and it's unusable (it slips and bounces around when I use it). I'm bummed, since we paid about a grand...
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    Muscle Gain

    I've been doing a weight lifting routine (SL 5x5) for a while now, but I haven't really been pushing myself 5lbs. each workout as the program suggests. Once I hit 200lb squats (which is also my current body weight) I've only been adding 5 lbs every 2 cycles (every 4 workouts for squats, 2...
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    Dynamic DNS for Website

    Not sure if this is the right subforum, since It's not really a hardware question, but I figured it fit better here than in the SW forum. I use GoDaddy, and they don't support dynamic dns without a 3rd party client, so I was wondering if anyone here has suggestions on what is a good option for...
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    WD My Book 3TB NAS - $160

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136880 $179.99 - $20 with promo code EMCXSXV66, ends 4/8 Not sure how great of a deal this is, but camelegg says it's never been lower than $170. http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822136880 I've been looking for a few cheap NAS drives for my...
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    Moisturizing Lotions and Soaps

    I've read a few articles about today's OTC lotions containing chemicals that are bad for your skin, resulting in quicker aging of the skin. I have to use lotion because my facial skin gets really dry and flaky, and eventually without lotion my face gets lumps and rashes. I'm not sure if these...
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    Coax Splitters

    I rewired the coax cable in my sister's house this weekend, because she had piggy backed radio shack gold splitters all over her house, and I'm still not happy with the results (although the TWC digital cable boxes are now working correctly). By results, I mean the signal power going to the...
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    Microwave and Possible Leaking Radiation

    A few months ago I bought a new microwave that has been disrupting our WiFi signal each time it is on. I've searched around on the web and have found some sites that say this is normal (since they operate in the 2.4ghz range) and other sites that say this is abnormal (even dangerous) because...
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    Working out while sick (Lifting)

    I've had a a sore throat and am running a fever, but I really don't want to stall on my lifting progress right now. I just got more consistent with my lifts and don't want to blow it now. Are there any concerns with working out while you are sick? My doc said it's a common cold, and I refused...
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    Google Music

    This weekend, my nephew told me that he has been uploading songs to google music. When I asked him if it was his purchased itunes collection, he said, no, it's his napster collection....basically he uploaded over 8000 illegally obtained music files to it. I told him that there is probably a...
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    Cholesterol is High Again

    So I just found out that my Cholesterol is high again, I thought I had it maintained with diet and exercise, but I've been slipping and really lost control of it. My LDL is 201, the doctor wants me to get this down to 100. He said given my family history of high Cholesterol, I won't be able do...
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    Ruby on Rails on Apache

    I'm new to ruby, and ruby on rails. Is it possible to run RoR without purchasing a paid apache plugin like Phusion Passenger? I want to run it for non commercial reasons. I'm not that deep into it, is it as easy as redirecting apache or the RoR server to the correct ports, or is there more...
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    Free Offsite Backup Solutions

    Does anyone know of any free Windows software that will allow me to create my own offsite backups? I'm not referring to "cloud" based services, but more along the lines of 2 locations that I have servers set-up that backup to each other. I'm not concerned with the logistics of the...
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    Wine Suggestion Please

    I have a friend who has some art opening up at a local gallery, and he sent me an invite. I wanted to bring him a couple bottles of wine to share at the opening, but I don't really drink it and don't know what is the appropriate type of wine to bring to an event like this. I'm not too worried...
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    Anyone here winterize their own irrigation system?

    I have a small 5 stage sprinkler system, and each year I blow out the system with a 6 gallon 150 psi pancake compressor. It takes a few rounds to fully blow it out. I let the compressor get up to 60 psi (which supposedly is safe for the lines), then open the zone and let it blow out the water...
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    Motorola Xoom Refurb $229 f/s

    http://www.buy.com/prod/motorola-xoom-32gb-wifi-3g-verizon-10-1-android-honeycomb-tablet-pc/220255556.html?ListingID=237488234 Not sure how good of a deal this is, but maybe someone will be interested.
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    Looking for a decent cabling toolkit

    I'm looking around for a decent starter cabling toolkit (for around $100 or less), and came across this: http://www.amazon.com/Paladin-Tools-...914662&sr=8-30 Is this a decent deal for this kit? I need the spring loaded punchdown tool, and also the cat5/6 crimper. Anyone know of any...
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    50 Shades of Grey

    I probably missed another post on this, but I searched and couldn't find one. Please lock it up of it is a repost. I was at the bookstore, and there were literally groups of women gathered around in a group and a sales person getting them all ramped up to buy all 3 volumes of this book. It...
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    Taking Days Off From Lifting

    Do any of you drop your workout weight when you take breaks of say 5-14 days? If so, do you have a rule of thumb how much weight you will drop? I've heard some say that you come back after a ~5 day break stronger but if I take a full week or more, I have a really hard time matching the weight...
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    Warm? ST3000DM001 - Seagate Barracuda 3 TB 7200RPM 158.99

    Probably not the best deal out there, but they are beating out newegg by $20 so I figured I'd post it for anyone looking specifically for this drive. http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barrac...pr_product_top Also, not eligible for prime (at least not from the 3rd party), it's still free standard...
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    Standard Core Room Temp

    We have conflicting numbers coming from 2 different vendors setting up our cooling for our room that will host the core and our app servers. We have an apc in spot cooling solution in a room that is hardly handling the area it's in, the unit is below: It's 1 rack, full of blades, anyone...
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    Irrigation system working well, grass control without chems, not so much...

    We have a full coverage irrigation system that usually keeps the lawn nice, and I've had no issues feeding it and controlling it until we had our daughter. Now I'm trying to accomplish the same thing organically, and it's not working out so well after 2 years. Dandelions and crabgrass are...
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    Charlie Horse

    Thursday morning I abruptly woke up with an extreme charlie horse in my right calf, which lasted for about 30 seconds. It literally felt like my muscles were being torn apart. 2 days later, and I still have a lot of pain in this calf...much less than the initial charlie horse, but I can still...
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    Roof Shingles

    I've recently found 2 of my roof shingles (asphalt) on my lawn. I've checked my attic and don't see any obvious leaks, but I was wondering how to determine if a roof needs to be replaced, or just repaired. When we bought our house about 5 years ago the inspector said the roof should last...
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    Repeater-Bridge Question

    I'm using DDWRT on a netgear primary wireless router, repeat-bridging to a linksys (also DDWRT). It seems to be working fine in the sense of handing out the ip's from the primary router and reaching all of the areas, but my laptop and tablet do not automatically "jump" from one router to...
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    Windows 7 Repair

    I've got a Windows 7 laptop I'm working on that had a rootkit and the user kept using it until it deteriorated to the point of not booting into windows 7 anymore. I've tried Windows startup repair and restoring to an earlier date, and neither worked. I was able to get all of the files backed...
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    BD-R Discs

    Not sure where this should go, so OT it is. What is a good place to buy recordable discs online? I'm specifically looking for BD-R discs, hopefully bulk. I had a place I used to buy from a few years ago, they had bulk pricing for CD-R and DVD-R, but I can't remember the name. They sold a lot...