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    MBP late 2011 - 13" or 15"

    Buying a MBP to match the early 2011 my work lets me use (13") The one I'm buying is for school, light-moderate sysadmin use, watching videos and occasional transcoding (handbrake) and light photo editing (canon RAW, some photoshop or gimp work) Very little gaming - likely to be used with...
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    Stirling Engine - why can't we make them?

    Everything I've ever read about a Stirling engine or its variants seems to point to them simply not scaling. Why not? Is there something inherent about sizing up to 1kw or more that I just am not seeing? I do know that there have been a few actual successes - such as Whispergen, and Sunpower -...
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    EAS test today?? Anything?

    Did anybody notice anything at all? If it were an actual emergency I suspect the only people alerted would be old folks watching soap opera's. Working folks don't watch TV (tho they might listen to the radio, but more likely iPods or streaming on computer.) I know I typically don't see severe...
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    Kindle keyboard?

    I'm considering a kindle 3g - one of the older ones with the keyboard. Is this needed very much? I'd love to have one - as I have Prime and tons of ready to go PDF books. The draw on the 3g with keyboard for me is that I hear google maps works usably well. And mono text browsing anywhere on...
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    Radiator fan - PT cruiser - not the typical burned brushes

    OK so have a 2004 PT cruiser (with the lite turbo) - the radiator fan is relay actuated with 2 speeds. The fan itself has a resistor on it for low - and you provide ground to either low or high to get that speed. So knowing what i happen to know about these cars - when my car started bogging...
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    Facepalm in America's Wang

    http://www.local10.com/traffic/29609914/detail.html Wow....
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    NAS on the cheap

    Looking for NAS with redundancy on the cheap! Prefer RAID5 but will settle for mirrored drives. Would like iSCSI support but thats just an extra that goes beyond the goal of the system. Essentially backup for digital pictures, and storage of data off-PC for 5 client PC's (wifes, own, 2 laptops...
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    Turning brake rotors/drums

    Does anyone turn brake rotors/drums anymore? Used to be that the parts stores would but I haven't seen that in a while.
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    Just in time for the price cut - PS3 being sold

    Bah.... I bought my PS3 for GT5. I bought a Logitech DF GT to go along with it, which I now use on my PC, and the PS3 sits idle. Wife had a couple games for a bit, but I don't even use it for media, nor for blu-ray. I've moved to a mythtv for all media needs, Wii handles netflix streaming...
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    Plug for the 3m Headlight restoration kit

    Just wanted to say I had very good results with the 3M headlight restoration kit. The kit has a hook/loop circular drill bit backing (for 1100-1600rpm drills) a number of 500 grit, a number of 800 grit, and a 3000 grit pad, plus a sponge and rubbing compound to finish. Used BlueMagic...
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    America's mid-Atlantic to Maine I-95 corridor on Hurricane alert

    Everyone down here get yer water, batteries, canned food, gas, plywood, flashlights, and yellow rain slickers ready! Irene coming! Channel 7 expected to go into full-bore 24/7 coverage of downed palm fronds, beach sand movement, and wave watching.
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    Realms Online

    (used to be, or still is in other countries, called Regnum Online) Does anyone play this? Looks to be a F2P DAOC style game. I got to lvl 5 or so but I don't really want to invest too much time only to find out that the whole game is empty. Haven't seen a soul, admittedly it was early on a...
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    Cruze diesel coming to America?!

    itty bitty turbo-diesel with a manual will get you 50mpg+, and Chevy's gonna sell one with the Cruze name on it?! Now we're talking! http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2011/07/chevrolet_confirms_reports_of.html
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    Olds Law

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM& I'll just leave this here.
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    Any FL folk gonna go try and spot the shuttle?

    Weather is not cooperating but I'm still gonna try to see the flame of the shuttle liftoff from down here. Its easy to see when they did a night launch, a little less brilliant against the daylight, might not be possible with it being cloudy.
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    Better to leave the hot water heater running 24/7, or switch on/off on demand?

    Supposing you don't care about the time factor, say you have a timer that turns on the water heater an hour before you wake up, and turns it off an hour after you go to work, then brings it back on an hour before you get home, and then off about the time you go to sleep. So your heater would be...
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    Free-for-all in America's Wang!

    Driving is typically so poor and dangerous here already. This ruling cannot help things. http://www.local10.com/news/28113135/detail.html Interesting the way the law works. I'm against red light cameras, but understand that officers can't/won't sit there and police red lights. (I'd much...
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    Orlando trip

    Going to the funnest place on earth. Any suggestions for a fun memorial day weekend that does not involve any mice, roller coasters, hugely overpriced theme parks, or any of that? Just the wife and I - no kids. (Yes I understand there is no way to completely AVOID kids, but just saying that I...
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    Soooo... Rapture time

    Is it midnight tonight (like 0001 on the 21st?) and are the bumblefucks who actually believe this conceited enough to think it'll happen starting in Eastern time (wait aren't they mountain or Pacific?) Or is it like 8pm? I gotta plan my rapture party.
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    Veronica Belmont's Bangs

    Discuss: They can be seen on the latest Tekzilla Daily episodes: http://revision3.com/tzdaily/2011-04-19glaryutilities Compare with the much hotter Twitter pic: http://twitter.com/#!/Veronica Or the incredibly hot (though maybe some hint of bangs in this one)...
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    Car Insurance - accidents and tickets

    So.... Been with Esurance for nigh on 5 years and same rates essentially the entire time. Back in 2007 I totalled my old firebird (not my fault, lady ran light, she got ticket and her insurace paid for my totalled car). Wife rear ended a lady in 2008, was an illegal scamming that got $10k, I...
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    Who has the right of way in this case?

    Inspired by the 4-way stop poll, here is another driving question for ATOT: 4-lane (2 in either direction) divided highway and you are in the marked left turn lane at an uncontrolled intersection waiting to make a U-turn. A 2 lane road intersects. Drivers waiting to turn right. Who has...
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    Losing a bunch of offtime servers

    FYI: gonna lose a bunch of my machines. Bossman had no problem with me running BOINC on non-mission critical servers during non-work hours. Cept now I'm quitting that job come friday. SO I'll only have a couple machines here including my q6600 (which hasn't really been doing any BOINC since I...
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    Quitting for another job.

    Lets say you worked for a place for about 5 years and were fairly close to the owners and it was a small business and whatnot. You get a job offer you are taking, the firm offer comes in after work on Thursday. You accept the offer and everything is settled at lunch on Friday (so I'm not...
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    Too soon?

    Is it too soon to joke about the nuke plants?
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    Lunch meat

    Discuss: Genoa salami. Go.
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    Latin in "Latin America"

    It basically means "of Hispanic descent" or to put it a bit more abrasively "Spanish". How did Latin get involved? Central and South America are taken together and called "Latin America". Doesn't Latin mean pretty much most of Caucasian Europe? Like those people who spoke latin were the Romans...
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    I feel bad for pitting lesbians against each other.

    Anyone else? I mean most of the time I just masturbate furiously but sometimes its just like 2 truck driver chicks and that ain't hot at all. Locked. Don't start. ATOT Moderator ElFenix
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    Paid off my yacht

    Just bought this bad boy. Finished the last payment last week. Yup, gonna go hang off the coast of Somalia. Perfect weather this time of year. http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/cool-pictures/311/paul-allens-mega-yacht/
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    PSA: demonoid.me reg open

    Just an FYI, you can just go there and register, no invites.
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    My impressive DC clout

    Is my processing power needed in a particular project? Currently stand at #14 in points for TA in World Community Grid, something like 2.9M points in a year or so since joining TA. I've got 4 or 5 machines that run the client and do so on my c2q most days too. Just making sure I'm not needed...
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    Tom Hanks son = Next rap superstar?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_psMU63b7I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0qfnphzRs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khixw-XAaO0 Discuss.
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    Storm - American Gladiator - Homeless

    http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/26/former-american-gladiator-storm-is-homeless/?icid=maing|aim|dl4|sec1_lnk2|39326 Discuss.
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    Anyone used groupon for hotels?

    Happens to be a deal near me. I know its like a gift cert, but what if the hotel is full? No way to spec what kind of room you get? No way to reserve the room?
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    Pet peeve - hiring folk who never call back after an interview

    Discuss. I know when I go through and hire folks, if I've caused them to come in and sit for an interview, no matter what, I relay the results to them. Either I hired them or not. I'm not all that butthurt (still working, but looking) but I recently went on not 1, but *2* interviews...
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    T-storms in America's Wang

    This thread exists to discuss the current rain passing through Tampa St. Pete and headed to the east coast of FL. Suck it wintry folk.
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    PSA: WEP128 laughably easy - alternates in a WDS environment??!!

    SO I had some time and I figured I'd try to pentest my WEP128 key at work. WOW. 15 minutes and I had it. Key was 13 chars, and "complex" that is it had a series of numbers in the middle of a backwards product name and then a female name on the end. (in the form of cart2761hannA ) Soooo...
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    Alternator

    That is all.
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    Bah Humbug

    That is all.
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    iPad 3g or iPad wifi + Mifi

    iPad with 3g or jump in bed with Verizon and get in a contract with a Mifi? Already have 2 iPhones with grandfathered unlimited. iPad is intended to stay at home mostly, but you never know. Have laptops and even a tablet PC that have previously stayed home on trips due to lack of data...