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    Laptop recomendations

    My current laptop is an Asus, but my biggest gripe about it was the cheap plastic shell it was housed in. The 2 halves of the shell were held together by about 10 screws on the bottom. These screws threaded into a metal sleeve that was embedded into the plastic of the case. Once the plastic...
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    the ideal work music player 4 me would be?

    Need a very portable mp3 player. would load it ideally from my computers existing music. (USB ) Needs to have an external speaker as ear buds and headphones are not allowed at work. Dusty environment, should be dustproof. Machinery is noisy so needs to have descent volume. Long charge that...
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    acl sprain

    fell down 3 months ago. knee been hurting every since. got an mri finally, and just talked to the nurse. no surgery or therepy called for. but it could take a while to heal. how long i said, its been 3 months now. I don't know she said... hmmm helpful anyone been in a similar situation so I got...
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    ACL sprain

    fell down 3 months ago. knee been hurting every since. got an mri finally, and just talked to the nurse. no surgery or therepy called for. but it could take a while to heal. how long i said, its been 3 months now. I don't know she said... hmmm helpful anyone been in a similar situation so I got...
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    laptops for linux

    Have held out with desktops forever. because I like that I can custom build them to my specs. And when something goes wrong merely replace the component. I duel boot with xp and linux mint. Seem to stay in linux about 80% of the time except when I need a windows app for something. If I wanted to...
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    2012 National Agricultural Classification Survey

    So I have owned a small acreage for many years that we live on, but just this year I have received for the first time , from the Govt. The National Agricultural Classification Survey. It claims by law, I am required to fill it out. Apparently all my neighbours are getting them too. Is this just...
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    Direct TV and volume

    Is it just my setup or is it direct tv in general that all the commercials are 2-3 times the volume of the programming? Very annoying.
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    car door remotes question

    The keyless remote that came with my 2000 toyota solara has started acting wierd. It will work fine for a couple of days then quit working, then start working again. has been doing this off and on the last 10 days or so. Changed the battery and it didn't help the problem. thx
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    Security in a virtual machine

    Have wondered but not researched much, how much security does one need for a virtual machine? On occasion, I run xp for instance fully patched , with the standard windows firewall ,inside of virtualbox in linux . And have always felt that was fairly secure as windows is, in a sense kept inside...
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    Problem with codeblocks IDE: Resolved

    Couple of years ago spent some time learning some basics of C until eventually it got thrown on the backburner and I quit trying to learn. Am trying to rekindle desire to learn and have opted to just go with c++ since a lot of the basics are very similar. I downloaded codeblocks-8.02mingw and...
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    viewing ext4 drive from windows

    I have heard that Ext2fsd may work somewhat for this. has anyone here tried it, and what were your results? thx in advance.
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    Congress in action , famous bat video

    We now get a clear picture of whats happening in Washington DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8pW7KTEbL8
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    Eliptical trainers

    Well you finally sprung for that $1000-1500 dollar trainer so you could stay in shape. did it work? or did you use it 10 times and it sits neglected in the corner forevermore. Im thinking about the smooth 3.6 http://www.smoothfitness.com/ellipticals-machines/smooth-ce-36.htm seems to be a...
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    Remanufactured Ink Cart.

    Has anyone tried these and do they work for you ok? I see the OEM ones I use seem to have shot up about 30% since the last one I bought. The remanufactured/ aftermarket ones are half the cost.
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    Big brother Chavez to citizens

    Text CARACAS (Reuters) - Leftist President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelans on Wednesday to stop singing in the shower and to wash in three minutes because the oil-exporting nation is having problems supplying water and electricity. Venezuela has suffered several serious blackouts in the...
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    letterman blackmailed for sex

    Text Audience was unsure if his confession was part of his act, pretty pathetic. Personaly I expect it to come out that He was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez while at a game.:roll:
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    Power supply

    It will be 3 years in oct. that I bought a PS from newegg. this one When it got here, I immediately installed it. During the install was having problems plugging in one of the modular cables for the peripherials. I assumed it was just because I was taking a bad angle at it trying to get...
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    Linux and Raid

    I have always run linux in the past on its own drive with grub written to the mbr of my windows install drive. (Pata...xp on master, linux on slave) Recently I purchased 3 new sata drives and set them up in a raid(0) Installed xp on the array and it is functioning as It should be. I wiped the...
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    Jack webb schools Barack on Healthcare

    Text seems to fit right in even today:D
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    setting up a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

    I have an abit kv8 max3 mb. only the 2 pata contollers are being used at this point. the primary disk has winxp home on it and the slave drive has a linux install. I am thinking about setting up a raid array 0+1 or 1+0 Not knowing much about it , I have been reading and hope I understand...
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    For your own good,we must control it all

    Locked, Repost Fern P&N Moderator Text And you guys were worried about a few phone calls being listened too? oops repost plz delete mods:-)
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    Does Barrack have super powers?

    Waiting with abated breath, to learn the truth. Text
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    Student tests MSM ability to check facts

    Text second source This was in essence a harmless misrepresentation of the facts, but illustrates a trend that has become to prevailant in MSM. The Dan Rather incident comes to mind off the top of my head. Has ideology and laziness now become the two driving forces in reporting the...
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    Progressive Oregon goes after Beer drinkers

    Many states tax revenues have fallen off sharply as a result of the economy. To offset this State politicians are following the Fed goverments lead of raising money through sin taxes . I don't drink so again this doesn't affect me, but I do feel sorry for those that do, as I know sooner or...
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    Going to try some different AV software

    Am presently using Kapersky and am not unhappy with it. But a high renewel fee has me thinking about trying a couple others, I have not tried yet. If you own these two standalone AV tell me what you think of them.
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    new taxes

    Text So does that affect only the smokers that make over $250 k? President Obama signed a law early in his administration to raise taxes from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack of cigarettes and from 19.5 cents to 50 cents per pound for chewing tobacco. Not that I care, as I don't smoke. But I...
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    Terra forming in Tongo

    Video of underwater Volcanic erruption 6 miles off the coast of Tonga. New real estate in the making. Text pretty awesome sight.
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    Global warming revisited

    New facts seem to be gearing to blow the global warming Junk science out of the water. Text Caught a blurb on the news this morning also about a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison who is now saying that the warming trend actually ended in 2000 and that we have started a new...
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    What does a 1,000,000,000,000 look like

    Politicians throws these #'s around like popcorn. But what does a trillon dollars look like? An interesting graphic to put it into perspective. link
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    Bank gives Tarp funds back

    link Good for you TCF. I wish you had a branch here. One steps back from the feeding frenzy. Hopefully as the article suggests, it could be a new trend.
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    Line Item Veto revisited

    Text Go Senator Feinggold. I'll support you and Obama on this one.:thumbsup: Unfortunatly it seems many other Senators will not.
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    virtualbox 2.1.4

    hadn't looked at ubuntu since hedgehog so thought I would take a peek again on a VM. Guest Ubuntu installed ok. Was able to mount guest addons from vm iso also. This is the first time i tried VBox. Was wondeing if this is normal behavior? VBox shows scd0 as being mounted but as far as...
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    Proper way to clean a monitor

    visit this site and learn how the experts do itText
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    Irans Response to Obamas interview

    Responding to the U.S. offer of direct talks between Iran and the United States, Elham said that "there remains no choice for the United States but change, and this change is determined to be done," Iran's Mehr news agency reported. Elham said that "the U.S. behavior of focusing on the...
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    Tom Daschle not a popular pick?

    Was suprised to see an article here at a sight I would definately call to the left. That seems to think Obama has no intent on reforming healthcare. Change you can count on or just a campaign slogan? Text
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    Obama gives his first TV interview as President

    Since most of you probably don't get this channel. The link has a transcript also. Text It was a lot like his US speeches. Not a lot of facts or substance. IMHO
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    Obama widening his base of support

    Video In an effort to reach out to all nations (planets?), Barrack has apparently gotten through, as some have reached back.
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    minnesota election

    Text If Someone could please explain to me how this could be a vote for Frankenstien? I don't care what side of the aisle your on, this kind of shennanigans should outrage you.
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    Canada To chip in 3 1/4 Billion

    Text Every little bit helps, I suppose? anyone think any other countries where there are subsidaries will chip in? Latin America. Mexico. Asia, Europe, Australia?
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    Music the military uses during interrogations

    nullText Personaly I would prefer waterboarding to the Barney theme song being played loudly over and over, thats just inhuman.