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    Gaming rig: ~$1K budget, 6-year upgrade cycle

    1. PC will be used for gaming, especially Bioshock Infinite. Don't know what other games will be played (this is for my wife's brother - he is also a fan of Half Life 2 series and Doom 3 and command & conquer). His current rig has lasted him nearly 6 years and would probably expect the same of...
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    No grease on caliper slide pins?

    2011 Ford Flex Ecoboost, 25K miles, driven by wife, 20/80 city/hwy driving profile in North Central Ohio for just shy of 2 years since bought new. Mostly she stays out of the boost and treats the brake pedal normally; if anything she doesn't anticipate stops as I do and tends to be on the gas...
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    2011 Subaru Forester 2.5L NA oil consumption

    So, I am borrowing a Subaru from a dealership while my car is being repaired and noted that the dipstick was dry. Bone dry. At a bit less than 16K on the odometer. No warning lights are illuminated on the dashboard; there is no obvious sign of a deficit of oil. If anything the car has a...
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    D5100 & old lens?

    So, I am a SLR noob. We happen to have a Nikkor 70-210 f/4 lens from back when my wife took a photography class. It is AF but not AF-S so it can be mounted on our new D5100 (love it), but the camera insists that the lens' aperture ring be set to the smallest possible pupil. My limited...
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    iMac, some AVCHD editing / transcoding duty:9400M vs HD 4670?

    So, my wife needs a new computer. I don't want to be fixing computers anymore else it would be a hackintosh. I plan on putting it to work while we sleep with work on home videos. I wanted to hear about Grand Central and OpenCL being put to use before I committed to buying a new machine, but...
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    Need Expose & Spaces in Windows XP

    I just started work, have Windows XP on a really nice Dell notebook. I have been so spoiled with Expose and Spaces in Tiger and Leopard since I switched two years ago. Are there (quality) windows XP clones of these wonderful tools? OS X and Linux/Compiz are unfortunately not options for me...
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    Front Row / External Hard Drive tips?

    So I learned that you can make an alias of a folder on your external hard drive, move the alias to your movies folder on your computer, and then Front Row will show the alias in Movies. This is great for me, I have too many files to keep on my macbook pro. Are there similar ways to handle...
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    Best bang for the buck gaming system-- please comment

    I am trying to build a quality gaming machine for a family member. Since he lives a ways away, I need it to be stable, so if anyone could offer any comments and/or suggestions about these parts, I'd really appreciate it. The goal is bang-for-the-buck pretty much everywhere. I don't intend to...