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    WatchESPN

    I have a question about WatchESPN and hopefully someone here way smarter then me has an answer. The US world cup game is tomorrow at 3pm in the central time zone. I work til 4:30. I would like to come home fire up watch espn(either on my xbox, roku or just a web browser) and select the live...
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    Apple Car Play

    http://anandtech.com/show/7827/apple-announces-carplay-ios-in-the-car-arriving-in-2014 So apple has announced carplay which is ios integration into vehicles. I see 2 sides to this. If it get better mobile phone integration into the vehicle that is a good thing. However, if it means that i...
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    2 Part question

    i bought my first macbook about 9 months ago after not having a mac since my performa 633cd back in the day. I am looking to get time machine working because i would like to back it up and then replace the HD with an SSD. I use windows home server to backup my desktop, but my laptop does not...
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    Diesel Cleanup

    I have a question that hopefully the Garage can help with. At my work we have a room that was previously used to store diesel fuel for the server room generator. it is now empty and has been for a few years. We would like to use the room as it is basically in our server room and is wasted...
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    EF-S 18-135mm IS vs EF 28-135mm IS USM

    can anyone tell me which of these 2 lenses are better? i cant seem to find any head to head comparisons. i am looking for a good walk around lens. i currently have a Rebel XTi with the 18-55 kit lens and the 55-250. I find myself needing to change lenses alot because i cant zoom in far...
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    Learn me on Fiber Channel

    at my work we have a EMC Clarion CX310 SAN connected with Fiberchannel to 4 HP dl380 servers.. we are planning to add another server attached to it and the only question i have is the fiber channel card. When i am trying to spec out the new server HP does not offer the same model number as we...
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    msn.com down

    msn.com wont work for me. if i go to one of the sub sites such as health.msn.com it works but straight msn.com does not work. the down for everyone... site confirms it is down. let the conspiracy theories start. Are they getting hacked by yahoo to bring down the new bing site????
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    Credit Report Question

    i pulled my free annual credit report from annualcreditreport.com recently, and i noticed that there was a item that had been sent to collections in march 07. i did not know anything about it, so i called the hospital and asked them. they said the debt was paid in jun 07 and i had to talk to...
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    Best way to use 2 flashes

    i have been asked to take some pictures at work and so far they are going ok. my problem is that i do not like my current wireless flas trigger. i have the cactus V2 set and it is just not reliable. since work is paying for it i have a decent budget, but i want to keep it as cheap as possible...
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    SD1100 IS 8.0 MP vs SD770 IS 10 MP

    SD770SD1100 they look like they are almost identical cameras. from the reviews i read they seem to both be very good for there class, and they are also very close in price. at first i was drawn towards the 770 because it has a slightly larger sensor, but then it adds 2 more megapixels to...
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    replace Hyundai santa fe calendar with thermometer

    i have a 2003 hyundai santa fe and it has one of the stupidest features i have ever seen. on the top overhead console it has a calendar that tells you the date and year. i want to replace that with a thermometer and/or compass. has anyone done this or seen the parts to do this? i have...
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    outlook with /cleanviews switch

    i have a user who is having a problem where outlook is not keeping there custom views when they switch folder. for example if i recreate the view and then user switches to their inbox from the public folder and then goes back to the public folder the view disappears and i have to recreate it...
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    i thought fridays were supposed to be good

    so i walked in the door to work this morning and heard a beep coming from the server room. normally this is not a big deal because the AC will do that once in a while just saying it got warm at one point during the night but its not anything serious. i opened the door to turn off the alarm and...
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    ING savings accounts

    Anyone here use the ING savings accounts. the 4.x interest rates seems really nice compared to m .35% interest rate on my current savings account. It seems like there has to be a catch for the rate to be so high? am i missing something or are these as good as they look. are there any other...
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    Drivers reinstalling when you switch USB ports

    Is there any way to keep Vista from having to reinstall the driver fr a device when you move it to a different USB port. we have Group Policy set to not allow the installation of new hardware on computers here at work, and it gets rather annoying when you move someone to a new location and put...
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    DNS problems

    i am not sure if this is the right forum for this so if it isnt please move it to the right location. i am using server 2003 for our dns server at work. we have 2 domain controllers runing our dns and dhcp. the problem is that we have about 150 tablets all over the country that vpn in and...
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    i officially hate the big ten network

    i really want to be watching the wisconsin-ohio game right now but since no cable providers have it i cannot watch it. i am listening to it on the radio and watching a game cast but i really want to be watching this on tv since the badgers are winning now. this is the biggest game of the year...
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    Recent File list

    i am having a problem with office 2003 running on vista buisiness where i need disable the recent file list for the document imaging syetsm. if a user opens a file with a name longer then 26(i think) characters it will crash the program if i move the mouse over the file menu(like if you are...
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    add printers using command prompt

    IS there a way to launch the add printers dialog from the command prompt? the closest i have come is prnmngr.vbs which allows you to add printers using completely the command line. that would suck. i just want to be able to launch the add printers thing. Anyone know of a way? -Mark
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    Vista and Hard Drives

    i am running Vista Ultimate with 2 hard drives. vista is running off of an 80 gig drive and i have a 200 gig drive being used for storage. for some reason vista keeps shutting off and the turning back on the second drive( i am assuming its the second drive only because i am using my computer...
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    car tire question

    i am browsing for new tires and i was just looking at tirerack.com for ideas. i looked up the tires that were already on the car to see how much they cost since they were on the car when i bought it. they listed the tires as slanted and unslanted. my question is. whats the difference. it...
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    Top Gear Special

    There is supposed to be a Top Gear special on tonight. i just wanted to give a heads up to everyone since there seems to be alot of people who like to watch that show on here. bbc website Does anyone know when the next season is supposed to start? Repost esquared Anandtech Senior...
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    Backup Encrytion file key

    I don't remember encrypting anything on my hard drive however Vista is not telling me that i need to back up the key used for encryption on my drive. i backed it up just in case but know i want to know what is encrypted. can i see a list of all the files that are on my drive that are encrypted...
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    IBM t30 Wireless

    I have an ibm t30 laptop. i want to put wireless into it, but i want to use a mini pci card for the wireless becuase i want to put a card reader into the pcmcia slot. i read online a bit about ibm disabling wireless cards that are not ibm cards and that it is hit or miss with anything else. does...
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    Ibm t30 wireless

    I have an ibm t30 laptop. i want to put wireless into it, but i want to use a mini pci card for the wireless becuase i want to put a card reader into the pcmcia slot. i read online a bit about ibm disabling wireless cards that are not ibm cards and that it is hit or miss with anything else...
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    Playing embedded windows media files

    i installed the Windows media player 11 beta a while ago and it caused the videos embedded on a webpage to stop playing in both Firefox and IE. the window comes up and i have the windows media player sitting there and it says "ready" but if i click the play button it does nothing at all, the...
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    when geeks get bored

    so at my intership today we had nothing to do. so we started to going through old technolgy. we found a box full of old floppy drives and decided to raid them. we spend most of the day making it work but eventually got a 13 disk striped floppy disk array working with a whopping 17 megs of...
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    Itunes Scripts

    i have a microsft keyboard with the multimedia buttons on it. when i would try to use the play/pause, stop, etc buttons with itunes it would pop up the whole application before working. this sucked for when i was ina game cause it would drop me back to the desktop. i found these scripts that...
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    Wireless keyboard without a mouse

    i already have a wireless mouse(microsoft) but i want to get a wireless keyboard to go along with it. i want to get a microsoft keyboard(i have not had good luck with logitech) do they even sell them without the mouse bundled with it? i was at newegg and microsoft website and they only had...
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    Accessing mac network shares from a pc

    My roomate has a mac and i have a pc. i am trying to access files stored on his second drive. when i connect to his copmuter it only takes me to his folder. i know with windows you can just put in the \\computername\driveletter. is there anyway to do this on a mac running 10.3. neither...
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    stock market newbie looking for advice

    I am totally new to the stockmarket, and i have a few questions. i would like to initially invest like $200-$300 and then add more on a regulat basis. is there a online trader that will let me invest that small of an amount to start with? all the ones that i looked at a while back had a...
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    is my bios on the way out

    i went to a lan party at my friends house and my computer was working fine. i came home and put my computer together the next morning. i turned it on and halfway through starting up it just shut off. i tried this about 5 times and it did the same thing each time. i finally had to reset my...
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    auto refershing a webpage

    i am wondering if there is a way to make a webpage auto refresh after a certain amout of time. i work at a marina. we want to have a radar displayed on a tv in our office. right now we go to the weather.com website and use the animated weather radar. but after about 15 minutes it pops up...
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    changing the plug and play monitor

    i recently redid my gramas computer, upgrading it from windows me to XP. i brought the computer to my house to reformat it so it was plugged into my monitor when i installed XP. when i got the computer back to her house the screen went to the 16 colors mode woth 640x480 resolution. so i...
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    slipstreaming drivers into windows xp.

    i know it is possible to slipstream servicepack 1 into the XP install disc, and i have already done that. is there anyway to get some drivers into the installation as well?
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    Brand if video card.

    I am looking for opinions on the wuality if different brabds of NVidia cards. i am getting a 6800gt whenever they comea vailable. but the last card i got was a visiontek geforce 3 ti500. they do not make nvida cards anymore, so.....recomend me a good brand to get.
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    computer displayed on a TV

    i am looking for a way to display something on a tv from a computer that does not have an s-video out port. this is old packard bell computer. i am using this computer at work. we want it to sisplay just some basic info to a televison we have in another room. i was recommended something...
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    Ut 2k4 problems

    my friend just bought UT2004, and he has a problem with it. when he plays a single player game he gets lag like he is playing online with a slow dial up connection. when he plays a single player game all the other computer players lag a ton. but when he plays multiplayer the game works fine...
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    cannot connect to network.

    i got home for the summer on minday, and i brought a lynsksys(spelling?) switch home with me. i plugged it in and now my moms computer cannot get on to the network ot internet. the switch is fine because my computer is working great on it. i also had this swich here over christmas and...
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    divx encoders

    i use seti@home and i can use it in the background all day and not notice any lag even though it is using 100% cpu. i was wondering if yo guys know of any divx encoders that can work the same way. i never like have to make my comptuer unusable for 3+ hours just to encode a movie. my computer...