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    The most badass scene in any movie, ever?

    I think so.
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    Antec Earthwatts 430W power supply $29 shipped at Frys

    http://www.frys.com/product/7370634 Hope this helps.
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    Blu ray data burning software?

    I scored a load of blank Verbatim Blu ray discs and want to use them for long-term archival data storage. Which software do you recommend for this? I'd prefer freeware, of course.
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    Internet Explorer and murder rates.

    This made me chuckle. Because correlation is always causation. http://gizmodo.com/5977989/internet-explorer-vs-murder-rate-will-be-your-favorite-chart-today
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    Mini-review of Antec's new budget-priced VSK-3000

    My go-to budget cases (i.e. $40 or less) are the Fractal Design Core 1000 and NZXT Source 210. The Source 210 has been out of stock at Amazon for a couple weeks, and neither have been on sale at Newegg recently, unfortunately, and I needed some cheap cases for budget builds. This cheap case...
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    What are your favorite TED talks?

    Jack Horner's talk on dinosaur growth and development. Josh Klein's talk on training crows to pick up litter. Paul Ewald's talk on diarrhea and evolutionary medicine. Nathan Wolf talks about discovering and tracking new viruses in Africa. Those of you in engineering, computer...
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    Otellini retiring May '13

    http://intel.ly/T6LukB Between AMD's waning and ARM's waxing, the business ain't gonna be what it used to be. Now seems like a good time to duck out!
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    What causes this issue with the display?

    Help me settle a debate I'm having with a friend. What causes this? http://youtu.be/GIWsAaQBbKQ Thanks for your time. Edit: AMD Athlon II X3 450, Biostar A880GZ, 1x4GB Patriot DDR3-1333, WD5000AAKX. Monitor is hooked up to the motherboard's VGA port.
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    New or used car for $15-16k?

    Long story short my beloved 2003 Suzuki Aerio SX was taken from me by a horrible, horrible person. It was a humble car that took me to more than 30 states, and gave me almost 90,000 miles over nine years at no repair costs. This car was so reliable it was astonishing. I took care of it and it...
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    Architectural sculptures made of old parts

    http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/franco-recchia-computer-parts-city-sculptures I like the silver cityscape made of aluminum heatsinks. :thumbsup:
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    First 2TB 2.5" hard drive?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822236348 It's 15mm tall so it won't fit in most (any?) notebooks, but it would certainly fit in most ITX/SFF cases that specify 2.5" drives. It would be a really tight fit - if it would fit at all - in Antec's tiniest ISK case. AFAIK this is...
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    Animals holding other species of animals.

    I'll start with a gibbon holding a kangaroo:
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    Falling hard drive prices.

    I've purchased a dozen of these over the last few days at $60 apiece, which is only 50% higher than their pre-flood daily price of $40 each. :rolleyes: That said, it's nice to not have to drop a Benjamin on a 500GB HDD. Do you think hard drive prices will decrease to their pre-flood points?
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    Quantum Bigfoot.

    Why are there no 5.25" full height form factor hard drives on the market today? Most cases - both from big box and DIY manufacturers - have unused 5.25" internal bays in them. With today's densities, lower rpms like on current green drives would be viable mass storage devices, mitigating the...
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    1155 mATX board with a USB 3.0 front panel i/o header?

    Cheapest one I could find on Newegg is an ASUS that's almost $200, and that's out of budget. There are ITX boards with USB 3.0 front panel headers but I can't find a reasonably-priced mATX board with this feature. Any tips? Chipset doesn't matter.
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    Poll: Would you buy a case without 5.25" (optical drive) bays?

    I realize you can use a 5.25" bay for things other than a burner but that's what's usually used. Is a 5.25" bay-less case something you'd consider buying?
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    Peculiar eBay buyer pattern - fraud...?

    Been selling on eBay since 2000 and have been a PowerSeller on occasion, but here's a new one to me: Listed quantity 3 of an inexpensive ($75) electronics item, had one buyer on the 17th attach the note "Hi, As shown in the order details, the shipping address is (name, address) LANCASTER,PA...
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    My modest WHS 2011 build

    After building dozens of file servers ranging from the simple to the more complex for others and my lab, I decided to build a modest file server for myself, mostly to share movies, documentaries, and recorded sporting events for friends who are overseas and don't have access to a US-based VPN...
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    Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB $101 @ Amazon

    Link. Compared to $247 on the egregiously price-gouging Newegg... :rolleyes:
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    What are you most looking forward to in 2012?

    1. Return to semi-normalcy in the hard drive market. :P Growing weary of shelling out a Benjamin on every system I build! 2. AMD Trinity looks to be even more enticing for low and mid-range builds than Llano was; I suspect I'll be building a lot of these. 3. Truly reliable SSDs. Even the...
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    Western Digital and Seagate reducing warranties on HDDs

    DailyTech article. Great. Western Digital's Scorpio Blue, Caviar Blue, and Caviar Green lines will have 2 instead of 3 year warranties and Seagate's Momentus, Barracuda, and Barracuda Greens will go from 5 to 1 year. Welcome to the duopoly.
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    Lian Li PC-Q08 $80 shipped @ Newegg

    Link. This is one of my favorite ITX cases. My personal daily driver is in one and fellow forum member RaiderJ wrote up his experience with it here.
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    Seagate 2TB Green/LP internal 3.5" HDD $100 @ Amazon

    Link. This is the cheapest I've seen a 2TB mass storage drive since the Thailand disaster affected HDD supplies.
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    System sufficient for office work until 2016?

    I've been asked to build a dozen systems next month for an office. These computers will be used for nothing more demanding than running Office 2010, a few medical software titles that are no more demanding than Office 2010, and browsing the web. The consideration that gives me pause is that...
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    Looking back at 2011, looking ahead to 2012.

    As far as I've thought about this, in 2011 we've seen the following developments that interested, or even excited me: 1. Reliable 64GB SSDs from Crucial and reliable 80GB SSDs from Intel hit the $100 mark. 2. Single platter 1TB hard drives, though sadly the flooding in Thailand put the...
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    Vizio 32" 1080p TV $250 w/ free shipping

    Link. Ships from Vizio. Not an LED, might find a comparable model a bit cheaper closer to the holidays, but this seems like a solid deal for now. Hope this helps.
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    Dead/OOS - AMD Phenom II X4 830 2.8GHz quad core OEM CPU $56 shipped @ Microcenter

    Link. Save ~$40 on the CPU and then spend ~$40 more than usual on your HDD. :P Edit: Apparently this is now dead.
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    Why is the response to Bulldozer so overwhelmingly negative?

    If the FX-8150 were priced the same as the i5-2500K, it would be a better value unless you were primarily a single-threaded application user. It's a harder sell at its current pricing. For gaming, it would be a moot point since anyone using these chips is gaming at 1080P and is GPU-bound, not...
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    U mad, Bo?

    Welcome to the B1g Ten, thanks for the blooper reel. ...Take it out on Ohio's Shit University next week!
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    Help me find an awesome Halloween costume

    Found a suitable Bigfoot costume on Amazon, but I'd really rather be a dinosaur. There are many, many amazing dinosaur costumes for kids but none for adults that I can find that aren't terribly cartoony (e.g. Barney? No.). A Godzilla suit would also be good. Please help me ATOT!
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    AMD Athlon II X3 450 (3.2GHz) $64 shipped

    Frys had another X3 for $40 shipped earlier but that quickly went OOS. This isn't as hot, but it's still $14 less than Newegg's price. Hope this helps. Link. Newegg reference link.
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    Excitement at the low end of the CPU market! Update: New Llano APUs also at <$70

    New Sandy Bridge CPUs. The model that caught my eye is the humble Celeron G530. Two cores, two threads, 2MB L3 cache, 2.4GHz on the CPU, 850MHz (1GHz turbo) on the GPU - and $42. I suspect given how the Pentium G620 fares vs. the AMD Athlon II X2 255 that the Celeron G530 will perform...
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    What are your go-to not-garbage budget PSUs?

    By budget, I mean less than $50. Preferably less than $40. By not garbage, I mean a unit that produces the wattage on its label, and is constructed well enough to reasonably expect it to last many years.
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    Hitachi's new 4TB 7200rpm drive uses four 1TB platters

    Edit: updated link to Anand's article since the Storage Review piece got pulled. Less excited by this drive than I am by the prospect of single platter 1TB HDDs.
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    AMD Athlon II X2 265 CPU + ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard $90AR *Shipped*

    $90+ ~$10 shipping - $10 rebate = $90AR Combo link: http://www.frys.com/product/6761705 Rebate link: http://images.frys.com/art/rebates_pdf/6639164_090211.pdf Reference link for CPU at Newegg. Reference link for motherboard at Newegg. For those of us who live near neither Frys nor...
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    HP TouchPad...64GB

    Apparently 200 of these were available for $250 from CostCentral and sold out within 20 minutes of that information being posted on SlickDeals. AFAIK these are the only 64GB white bezel TouchPads that were sold in the United States. After having my order from HP, Barnes & Noble, and OnSale...
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    Minimum account age/post count before using FS/T

    Might help with annoyances like this. Hardforum does it. I don't think their 50 post minimum is necessary. Hell, 24 hours, ten posts, or something similarly lax would probably work. I assume it would be easy to implement?
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    Anyone have any experience with Lulu.com? (Self-publishing.)

    I have a narrow niche book (nerdy science jokes) that I'd like to self-publish. Anyone have experience working with Lulu.com? I'm less interested in making money than I am in having a physical book friends, acquaintances, and colleagues can buy.
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    USB 3.0 flash drive roundup on the main site

    Link. Few thoughts not included in the article: 1. As this was my first roundup review, I now have a far, far greater appreciation for the hard work and effort put into these articles by Anand and the other editors. Benchmarking multiple products in multiple tests is very time-consuming...
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    Scientists discover that snakes use tools

    ...they're calling them boa constructors.