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    Streaming video causes entire network to stutter - not bandwidth issue

    Have a random video stuttering problem. While streaming video through my Plex media server over a hardwired connection, my entire network just grinds to a stop for a few seconds. It happens intermittently, and seemingly during random intervals. Network usually picks back up after 5-10 seconds...
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    Stripped screw - screw extractor doesn't work...now what?

    Trying to remove the optical drive from my laptop, the screw was already a bit stripped. Unfortunately, the Dell technicians who put together the laptop must've really cranked that screw in, because I ended up stripping the screw. I bought a set of Moody's screw extractors and those too were...
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    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate BSOD

    Fresh install of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. I'm actually getting a No Screen of Death and have to hard reset. The following is from the minidump: Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File...
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    Pink dust in house...

    When cleaning, we've been noticing that all the dust in the house is tinted pink/red. From the googles, I believe it might have to do with our insulation. Was wondering if anyone else has encountered this and what, if anything, needs to be done. Anyone know if any serious health issues can occur...
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    I'm a sucker for fuzzy animals...

    Knew I shouldn't have let the GF talk me into going to the animal shelter with her...guess we have a new addition to the family to celebrate the holidays with!
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    getting my locks changed...

    I closed on my townhouse last week and one of the things that I've been reading up on is to get the locks replaced. Also, looking at the front door, I noticed that the deadbolts are not reinforced meaning someone could probably just kick in the front door fairly easily. Since I'm completely new...
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    Literal interpretation of "Are you a Mother Lover"...

    Link Talk about having mommy issues when you grow up... repost X2 one I can't find the other one right now. Search stinks. Sr Moderator allisolm
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    Finally, a policy that I can wholly endorse by an airline!

    Consumerist Article I have definitely been on flights (especially when I first started traveling without the benefit of elite upgrades) where the guys next to me had their whole right halves resting on my thigh. Hell, I've been in first and some lady couldn't fit in the seat next to me!
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    71 degrees outside, perfect day for a...

    So last year, I was thinking about getting a used 330, but decided to hold off on any major purchases while the economy cratered. Come the new year, my trusty ol' 92 525i officially kicked the bucket, and I decided to get me a 2009 Mazdaspeed 3! Sure, it's not a BMW, but for the buck, I...
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    Thinking about getting a 2006 BMW 330i

    So I have a 1992 BMW 525i and the repairs needed for the car are getting to an excessive point (like double the value of the car). I'm not a fan of buying completely new, so I've basically narrowed down my decision to one car: the 2006 330i. I have a friend who can get cars at dealer auction and...
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    What could be wrong with my car?

    I'm going to take my car in to see a mechanic, but I'd like to get an idea of what I might be dealing with before I send my lamb into the lion's den. I drive an automatic, '92 BMW 525i and it has just over 110k miles on it. Everything runs great (except for the electronics) and so far I've been...
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    booting from cd-drive, but...

    I've been trying to install a new OS onto my primary desktop and things are just going crazy. Regardless of whether it's an XP, ubuntu, or whatever disk, my system will read the cd-drive and begin to boot up from it. However, after it finishes reading all the install files, the comp just...
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    argh, how do i disable this in firefox

    So after upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0 everything seems to be working fine. Except for the annoying habit where if I type a URL too fast in the address bar it opens up a new tab. As in, if the current tab is loading a URL, typing a new URL opens up another window. I'm one of those ADD type surfers...
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    motherboard problems

    So I decided to use an old motherboard for an HTPC and after connecting everything with known working parts, I try to power it on. The power supply starts whirring for maybe a fraction of a second on the first try, then nothing. If I press the power button after that, no sound come from the...
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    associating subtitles with a dvd?

    I bought Huo Yuan Jia (Fearless) while in Taiwan, and while it has subtitles in Malay, Chinese, and Thai, they didn't find it necessary to have English subtitles. While this is fine for me, my Cantonese roommate wants to watch the movie also. Aside from translating every line for her, is there...
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    so what's the best way to handle this...

    I listed an item up for $1250 minimum bid, $2k buyout. In it are very detailed instructions that I ONLY accept paypal cash. I get some private messages from someone in Brazil and I immediately think scam. The fact that the person happens to ask how they can pay even after it's explicitly stated...
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    delete me

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    tell a secret...

    I'm not normally a fan of artsy fartsy sites, but this one was fairly amusing/compelling.
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    windows messenger server host/port

    I can nomally connect to msn messenger at work through windows messenger. Recently I installed trillian and I just can't for the life of me connect to msn. The default server is messenger.hotmail.com...are there any other?
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    YAWoWT: pwned with easy - the video

    Posted this a couple weeks ago (pre-patch). Got some good feedback from my realm and thought I'd share it for all the warrior lovers (and haters) out there. Character Info: Name: Life Class: Warrior Race: Tauren Level: 60 Equipment: Full valor set + arcanite reaper Guild: Pwned With...
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    help with an MCMS installation

    I'm installing MCMS for a project I'm woking on for my company. Instead of just hoping and praying it would work out of the box, I followed the following link for instructions on how to install MCMS properly: Link I'm currently running Windows XP SP1 (no SP2 for certain incompatibilities with...
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    help with mcms installation

    I'm installing MCMS for a project I'm woking on for my company. Instead of just hoping and praying it would work out of the box, I followed the following link for instructions on how to install MCMS properly: Link I'm currently running Windows XP SP1 (no SP2 for certain incompatibilities with...
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    delete

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    Tweak Doom3 seta image_cacheMegs "256"

    Seems like if you go into DoomConfig.cfg and find the line similar to this: seta image_cacheMegs "32" and set the 32 to a higher value you can get a huge performance increase. People are seeing the ability to go one res higher and higher quality settings! I'm currently at work right now so I...
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    PM 8.0 fubared harddrives? HELP!!

    So I've been googling this error and I seem to be getting nowhere. Here's the skinny on the situation: I recently added a new 250 gig maxtor SATA harddrive onto the system. PM 8.0ed it like all my other harddrives and made it NTFS, using the whole harddrive. I moved all the data from my other...
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    is my harddrive enclosure the problem?

    So I thought my original harddrive in my BYTECC USB2.0 external enclosure was fooked since it was a 3 year old 40 gig IBM deathstar that had seen a lot of wear and tear (it was my primary music disk and bittorrent holder). Lately it's been acting up on me in the sense that if I was doing...
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    VMWare with dos7.10 install help! -- *SOLVED*

    Basically I'm trying to set up a dos7.10 virtual machine. However, whenever I try to install it gives me a "need to format to fat32/16/blah blah blah" message saying that I do not have a logical partition formatted on the harddrive (I allocated a fat 32 partitioned harddrive to the OS). If I...
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    alt-tab lagging with games?

    So basically what happened was I switched my video card from my ti4600 to a radeon 9700 pro. Before when I was playing games such as Warcraft 3 I could alt-tab out of the game with little to no lag time (as in flipping from game screen to desktop screen). However, after switching to my 9700p, I...
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    unable to unlock taskbar help!!!

    So I've installed Windows XP a lot of times and I've never had this occur. Suddenly I cannot unlock my taskbar. The option is completely greyed out and then I cannot even make my start menu non-classic. There is no option for some reason!
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    stopping devices from loading on windows startup

    So after an hour or so of trouble shooting a phantom virtual dvd-rom drive (don't ask) I finally narrowed it down to some registry entries that refuse to go away. I try to delete them, but of course because Windows is running, the entries refuse to be deleted. What I'm able to do is uninstall...
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    stopping devices from loading on windows startup?

    So after an hour or so of trouble shooting a phantom virtual dvd-rom drive (don't ask) I finally narrowed it down to some registry entries that refuse to go away. I try to delete them, but of course because Windows is running, the entries refuse to be deleted. What I'm able to do is uninstall...
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    virtual drive unable to be removed

    I had set a virtual device with a previous version of daemon tools. Just a few minutes ago I decided I'd upgrade daemon tools to its newest version, forgetting to first disable the virtual cd drives I had already created. Now after the install I cannot get rid of the old virtual drive. Any ideas =/
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    problem burning ISO...1 mb too large???

    So I have this DVD .ISO image that I've mounted in my trusty daemon tools and it produces a dvd that's 4484MB. The problem is I try to burn the image either from the mounted drive (dvd copy) or by loading the ISO. Nero 6.3.1.6 promptly ejects my TDK 4x dvd-rs making my Lite-On 812s a worthless...
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    firefox address bar help

    I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Whenever I type an address into my laptop's address bar for firefox it does not immediately put the cursor to the webpage I go to. So for example I would type "www.google.com", enter, and then when I would normally type pagedown on my desktop, my...
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    best fan controller for Tornado 92mm?

    I recently bought a frozencpu.com PMW fan controller to try to control the jet engine known as my Vantec Tornado. However, after setting everything up, nothing has changed! I'm wondering if it's the fan, the controller, or whether I'm just completely retarded and can't put the correct male...
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    deleting IE

    I was wondering if there's any way to actually delete IE from my computer. I've found so many of window's components are just hidden but never actually uninstalled and it's frustrating like no other.
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    how to delete wmp 9.0

    I'm using media player class for all my media files and was wondering if there was any way to completely remove windows media player (such as the run command to get rid of msn messenger).
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    Internet Explorer 6 problem with downloading a page instead of opening for view

    I have no idea why this suddenly happened (it never did before today), but when I try to go to some sites that I had frequented before, IE6 would instead prompt me to download the page as opposed to opening it for normal view in the browser. Any suggestions?
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    thermal paste question

    So I need some thermal paste to complete my computer. However, I don't have any at the moment. Someone suggested that I just do it without the thermal paste and it should be alright as long as I overclock. I've never done this before, but is this ok? Need some help! Alex
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    Need some help!

    So I decided to upgrade my computer and got the following: Barton 2500+ A7V8X-E Deluxe mobo 1gig Corsair XMS 2700 with stuff from my old computer: Visiontek GeForce 4 ti 4600 128mb A bunch of harddrives Turtle Beach Santa Cruz This is what I'm wondering... I got the KingWin 450W Blk PSU...