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    Looking for input on SAS drives in HTPC

    I came by about 10 2.5" SAS 900gb drives as well as one 3.5" 3tb drive (all 6gb/s) from a family member over thxgiving dinner. For the overall capacity, I'm considering adding them to my htpc, as it would give me another 3-4 years worth of growth, as I've got abou 8tb of data on sata drives...
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    Help keeping exchange activesync contacts on phone while deleting exchange

    I have an older phone that I had linked with my work exchange account. I've since left that job and the exchange doesn't work anymore, but I need to keep all the contacts. I synced and backed up the old phone and then restored all the data to the new one. I have all the contacts, but I also...
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    Good tennis / running / walking shoe for everyday wear?

    I'm looking for a shoe that works just as well with a collared button up shirt as it does with a polo or t-shirt. I don't want it to look like I just got done running a 5k and then threw on a pair of jeans. At the same time, if I want to run a dang 5k in this shoe, I should be able to ( I...
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    Help ordering interior door bezel for 2005 Buick Terraza

    Need the bezel, or what I would call the "cup" that is behind a door handle. 15844059 is the part number, I need it in brown to match the rest of the interior, though. I've googled and ebayed around, but can't seem to find what I need - though I do find them in black. Is it something I'll...
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    Clicking noise when clutch is depressed (and I don't mean sad) - Throwout bearing?

    I had my car (91 Toyota MR2, not stock, LSD manual) at the shop getting some work done and they fixed the things it was there for. However, when they had it on the dyno toward the end doing some pulls, the guy in the car said he "heard a noise" and then the engine bogged. I don't know what he...
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    Leaving job - want to take a copy of the last 5 years+ of emails I have

    I'm very diligent about backing them up, and I have a .pst file for every year's backups. Is it as easy as just backing up my .pst files to a thumb drive? Do I have to then set up an outlook account on my home pc and add the .pst files to that? I'm leaving on good terms, I don't have any...
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    Thank-you-gift idea for colleague

    I had a colleague refer me for a job (unbeknownst to me at the time). They recruited me and I have recently accepted the position. I'm looking to get her some type of a thank you gift, around $100. She is female, married, and a mother. I'm obviously not going to send flowers or an edible...
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    Going from 4 vehicles to 2? Help me think through this, would ya?

    I currently have a 30 mile each way commute, and have no need to haul any passengers on said commute, so I use a two-seater hybrid. I also have one wife and two kids who primarily use the minivan. I have an old truck for dump runs / pellet pick up, etc. And finally have a two-seater toy that...
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    YAPossibleMoveThread - Long Island, NY

    I'm looking at an opportunity to move to NY and work in the Queens area - closest to Glendale. I can live anywhere up to an hour away, though I prefer 45 minutes or less. With one wife and two kids in elementary, what's a good area to look at? I don't care so much about big shopping and...
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    A "why wouldn't I?" build thread

    EDIT: Ahhh heck, after checking the "Can you RUN it" site, it looks like I could do BF3 with only a video card upgrade. I suppose that's probably a decent suggestion. So now this thread is "Which video card should I buy?" END EDIT, LOL. Why wouldn't I just buy this...
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    "Put the butter on the bottom shelf"

    Does anyone use / have they heard this saying? I use it all the time, but it seems most people haven't heard it. I googled it and got nothing, so I'm wondering where I picked it up. I've always used it to express that something needs to be put in simple terms - as in, you put the butter...
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    Help me Anandtech travelers - NY/PA family fun

    Would like to find somewhere for my family to hang out my old college roommate and his family this weekend. I'm in Hartford, they're in the D.C. area - looking for a good place to meet in the middle. Something kid / family friendly with a few things to do? I know NY, NY has plenty to do...
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    Need some new luggage

    I'm tired of buying a set every couple years. We've gone through three sets of American Tourister and a couple other random brands. We typically travel 3-4 flights per year and between 6-10 overnight motel stays, etc as a family. I travel much more frequently than that, but typically only...
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    ATOT medical question - broken / sprained foot

    I was out doing some trail running yesterday and about a mile or so in, I rolled my left foot to the outside when stepping on a rock. Hurt a tad bit, but I kept running, not going to stop and let it get stiff. Happened again shortly after, presumably because it was a little weaker, then...
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    SSD is making me want to break something (W7 install attempt)

    Putting together an HTPC with the following: ASUS P8Z68-V LX OCZ 64gb Agility 3 SSD Corsair ram New PSU No video card (on board) I read enough beforehand to know that you need to have the BIOS for the SATA to AHCI, I've done that. Sometimes on startup, it will recognize the SSD in the...
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    Cancelling DirecTV and going to HTPC?

    Backstory and info below - is HTPC right for me? Some info may not be relevant, just wanted to include it in case it's necessary. My DTV contract is up, and while I do like their DVR and channel selection, the $110/month is tough to swallow. So I looked at Charter, who will combine my...
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    Why don't auto makers use the same turn signal relay for all cars?

    This is very general, so I didn't choose to put in in the garage. If the powers that be disagree, please move. For years, I have sat behind cars / trucks at stop lights and tried to see if my turn signal flash frequency matched theirs, and very, very rarely do they match up. While I...
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    What's your "radius"?

    I have lived a good deal of my life in rural areas. At one point, I was 5 hours from Denver and about the same from KC, 4 from Omaha and 4 from Wichita. Middle of nowhere. As a result, I now find it no big deal to travel 100 miles or better one way to go get something or do something...
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    Do people with comb-overs just not get it?

    We can see the HUGE bald spot. The three strands of hair don't cover anything. In fact, it's like an arrow pointing at the spot. Seriously, I was at a meeting yesterday and one of the guys there (there were a LOT of comb overs) had a comb over that started at. the. nape. of. his. neck. It...
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    USPS - establishing new service - no mail for a month.

    At work we just built a new shop - about 3/4 mile from downtown Hartford, so still well within the beaten path. However, it's not easily visible from the road. We got an address from the city and all that jazz, I filled out the mail forwarding info, but it's been a MONTH and we've gotten 0...
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    AAdvantage - American Airlines' reward program - so confused!

    Is there a Rosetta stone I'm supposed to use in order to redeem these points? Trying to plan a vacation for 4/13 to 4/21 or so (can go a day either way). Do NOT care where it is, as long as there's a beach and warm water - which pretty much means somewhere on the gulf. Flying out of JFK is...
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    Why do we put lettuce on sandwiches?

    It brings nothing to the table, so to speak. I've never eaten any type of sandwich and thought "Boy, lettuce would make this delicious". It's got little nutritional value, especially just a leaf or two. The stem in each leaf is gross, the white part at the bottom of head lettuce is...
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    Computer bogging - do I need more RAM?

    Running W7 on an older (two years?) Shuttle SG31G2 with a Core2 quad 6700 and 2gb ram. The insufferable thing sometimes takes what seems like forever to perform the simplest tasks. I check the task manager to see which process is bogging things down and things are usually at 1 or 2 %...
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    Just realized I never bragged about my new daily driver!

    Tip o' the hat to Eli. He helped me and answered a bunch of dumb questions that helped me make the best decision. Without further ado, here she is. And pay close attention to the third pic, it's the only one that really matters ;)
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    Transmission issue with my minivan :(

    I have an 05 Buick Terraza (Chevy Uplander with makeup) that has 126k on it. A couple months ago, it started a very hard shift after coming to a stop at a red light or stop sign. When you accelerate, it would shift hard. I took it in shortly thereafter for a flush / fill / filter change...
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    Anyone have any generator expertise - specifically diesel?

    So this last power outage here in the NE (I now have power, fwiw) has left me thinking that I'll have an electrician come put a transfer switch in so I can use a portable generator when needed. If I move, I take the generator and just have a switch put in at my new house too. All that...
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    Hey Charter, where's my modem?

    We moved from MN to CT this month. I scheduled my internet install for the day after closing and purposely packed my modem / router / server in my van rather than putting it on the moving truck so I'd have it. I had Charter in MN and used my own modem there (Motorola SB6120). The guy shows...
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    Moving sucks

    Moving this week, movers are supposed to show up at 0800 tomorrow, spend tomorrow packing and wrapping, then all day Tuesday loading and take off Wed am. Then we have to drive our van 1500 miles to the new location and close on our new house Friday afternoon. On the bright side, we are...
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    Car transport questions

    I'll be trekking about 1500 miles from the upper midwest to the East coast. I have a car, not currently in running condition, that I need to take, but I'm very concerned about the car's physical condition, paint and body is currently 9.5/10. I could get an auto transport company to quote it...
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    Hey Connecticuters, I'm moving to the E. Hartford area. Help me.

    So I took a gig, sight unseen in East Hartford. I've never been East of York, PA. I'm looking at houses on the East, SE and NE sides, Enfield, Vernon, Glastonbury (though probably out of my $ range), Stafford Springs, Coventry...pretty much anywhere in there. Looking for a single family...
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    Paint / body question..have a large chip

    I have this van, it's got a large chip by the handle for the rear hatch, looks like something slammed into it and popped the paint. The chip is actually a little loose, so I'm concerned it will spread if I take it through a high pressure wash. I'm not terribly concerned with matching the...
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    Need songs for "Patriotic" / American / USofA mix tape

    We're having a gathering today (I smoked a brisket and a couple pork butts, yummmm). Thought we'd put together some background muzak. Looking for real stuff, good stuff and cheesy stuff. None of it stronger than PG rated. Only stuff I've come up with so far: Tom Petty: American Girl...
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    Had all four wisdom teeth pulled this morning. Need netflix recs

    I know the netflix instant view requests get old, but I figured you guys would make an exception since you feel sorry for me. I've included my boring story as payment for the recommendations. As for my teeth, that kinda sucked. It actually wasn't terrible, but time will tell. I can...
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    Leather seat repair

    I have a Buick with leather seats (tan) and there are small spots on the side of both driver and passenger seats where the leather has "peeled" away from the side of the seat. It's not a rip in that the underlying fabric is still intact, just the 1" piece of leather has come loose. What's...
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    Would you move? Well, would you? No, really, would you?

    Yet another job thread. Currently: *I live in the upper - way upper - midwest. Call it Fargo, ND. *I have one wife and two kids, both in elementary school. *We're about 600 miles from my folks and 720 miles from my wife's folks. *I've only lived here for about 20 months. *In that 20 months...
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    Looking at used Chevy Uplander / Buick Terraza, etc...

    We drive an old junky '01 Venture with about 150k on it, still runs fine (in fact we're in the middle leg of a 1600 mile trip right now), but it's ugly, dented, rusting and I'd like to get the wife something a little nicer looking. She likes the Chevy Uplander / Buick Terraza / Saturn Relay /...
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    Here's what I did today.

    Went from This To This To This To This To This I bought this car (91 MR2 turbo - hardly stock) on April 1, which now seems pretty appropriate. Drove it a few days and it started smoking pretty bad, I figured turbo seals or valve seal or something. It...
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    I need a vacation.

    I'm thinking beaches...beaches with clear water, which limits to mostly West of the FL peninsula...unless I'm blissfully ignorant and there's tons of other white sand beaches with clear water. I'll be flying, so it also needs to be somewhere semi-close to a large airport. I don't need to do...
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    Does anyone have this garage door screen thing?

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Storage-St...sxp_grid_i_1_0 I live in Minnesota, which is awesome in the spring and summer...except for the mosquitoes. Thinking about getting one of these, but it seems pretty inexpensive. I wonder if I should pay a little more and get something different, but if...
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    Thinking about a budget project car - need some ideas

    Jlee's mr has gotten me looking about those, I've had a buick regal gs in the past, had a corrado, crx, etc. I want something that is fairly normal to work on, and ideally something that has strong forum support, both for getting parts and technical support. So options are an early 90s...