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    New build freezing when doing low intensity work, and I can't seem to find the cause

    I built a new computer for my birthday right after christmas, and it has been freezing on me randomly ever since. Specs: I5-2500k Asus P8Z68-VLX 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot DDR 133 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB 1TB Hitachi HDD Antec 620W power Supply When the system...
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    Dell XPS L501x, or something different?

    I am looking to buy a new laptop for the wife. The main use is for WoW, with a microphone so she can talk to her family while they game together. I will probably use the laptop myself when we travel for a little light gaming, things like dwarf fortress would be the most taxing game. From...
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    Replacing a 9800GT

    My 9800GT just died a painful death, and I am looking to replace it. I do quite a bit of gaming, but I really don't play many of the newest games, and I don't strive for the highest settings, the 9800GT never left me feeling underpowered. Normally I would upgrade to the newer card at the same...
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    SC case - animal cruelty - Gov claims Congress can ban any speech it deems unworthy.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126148497 There is not too much that matters in this case, except for the governments assertions, and who signed the government's brief. The part that worries me is that Elena Kagan signed a brief that states congress has the power to I...
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    Need some help with an online course

    I am taking econometrics online. I didn't think it would be a big deal because I have taken a math class with this teacher online before. I had forgotten all the special characters for statistics. I am having real problems with getting things like X bar and sigma symbols into my documents. Right...
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    ME1 storyline question, 2 year old spoilers ahead

    If you don't like spoilers, leave now Just played through mass effect again, and I have to ask a plot question. Why is Saren going after the conduit in the beginning of the game if it is just a way to get into the citadel? Why can't he just sneak in a huge army of geth in crates like they do...
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    Windows 7, netbooks, and domains.

    A vendor wants us to use netbooks for users out in the field. We want the netbook to be managed by AD. We also want to encrypt the drive. Supposedly no data will be kept on the netbook, but we don't trust vendors. Does anyone know if you can even load windows 7 with encryption on a...
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    Blocking vundo, instead of reacting

    We keep having new infections of this virus all, and our corporate anti-virus never seems to stop it. We are running Symantec Corporate edition 10, and the original Vundo is over 4 years old. Is there any way to stop this from infecting machines instead of formatting them after they are infected?
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    Getting ready to go backpacking

    I have not gone backpacking in over 10 years, and then it was with the boy scouts. My father wants to go on a trip to colorado for a week, and I need to get my gear ready, pack all my stuff, and make sure I know the rules. What are some good websites for someone who wants to get back into...
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    Charter schools in New Orleans show huge improvements

    Craig234 has constantly said that people should read The Shock Doctrine, so I took it up, and I have yet to finish the book. However, the very first part of the book is about how Milton Friedman and the republicans used the devestation of Katrina to force charter schools onto the public. Using...
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    Keeping my house warm without power?

    Power is out to my house, many of my neighbors have power, but there are still thousands in town without power. I am not sure if the power company will get to my house tonight, and it is supposed to get down to 2 degrees, and have a high tomorrow of 6. Any ideas on how I can keep my house...
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    Why do people keep blaming laissez-faire for this crisis?

    I am open to the suggestion that I am missing a critical piece of information, but here is why I don't think this is the fault of a market economy. When the President exerts pressure on agencies to change their policies to meet his goals of home ownership, we are no longer seeing a...
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    How do you tell a teacher you think he is flat out wrong?

    Small background: This is an online course from a state university. My major is economics and this course is a requirement for the school of business, it is called "Business and Developing Countries." For some reason we started studying memes, and have moved onto Thomas Kuhn. In his...
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    Home defense gun for a woman.

    I am currently out of state for work, and my girlfriend just called to tell me there was a shooting near our house. Apparently the shooter was hiding somewhere in the neighborhood, but its all over now. She was not sure if the cops found him or not. I live in Illinois and I had been...
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    Reprogramming an "easy button"

    We got a cheap promotional knock off of the "easy button." Says a stupid little phrase and is all around annoying. We noticed that it has a small 3 hole port in the bottom, and we thought maybe we could get a new phrase for the button. Anyone know of a way to get this done?
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    Daylight savings time on linux

    We have several linux boxes we have gotten within the last year that have Redhat enterprise linux 2 on them. (I am not literate with linux, but suffice it to say its an older version.) I need to make sure these servers are using the new daylight savings time dates. How would I go about...
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    Virtual PC with win 98, but I lost my key

    I know that normally this is a stupid question, but I saw that Microsoft has a virtual PC image for XP (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&DisplayLang=en) I was wondering if there was anything like this for 98, or if there was a legal way to get a new key. (I...
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    A few upgrade questions

    I want to upgrade my computer, and build a second one with parts i have laying around. I currently have 2Gigs of pc 3200 in 4x512 setup. If I get 2X1Gig and install those, so that i have 2x512, and 2x1Gig, would that work, or would I have problems with that? I also have a westinghouse 37"...
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    Anyone have experience with a 37" Westy or Sceptre?

    I want to get a 3007wfp, and they are on sale currently for under 1500. I am pretty sure that I want to wait for the g80 cards to come out to drive this monitor though. Would it be safe to wait for the new cards to come out to buy the monitor or should I jump on the 1500 price and just torture...
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    Problem with SATA drive conflicting with PATA

    I have two hard drives. An old parallel drive, and a new SATA drive. I also have a dvd burner that is also parallel. The problem is that twice the SATA drive has stopped booting, the first time setting the DVD driver to slave worked (I had not started using the old parallel drive yet)...
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    16 bit application running on citrix

    I have an application I am trying to get to run on our citrix server farm, old 16 bit application built with foxpro. The program is run from a command line that specifies a folder location on a remote server for its database. (d:\appname\app.exe -t \\servername\appfolder\database.dbf) is the...
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    I need to audit folder permissions on a network

    Here is the issue, at work we have a small/medium sized network with several file servers. Our AS/400 team performs an audit every year of access rights, and gives a report to the various department heads about what each of their employees can access. Now, they want this report for the network...
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    Outlook express settings transfer

    Here is a summary of what happened. Old computer died, built new computer. Old computers hard drive is ok, and a secondary drive on new computer. Cannot boot to old drive in new computer. My old drive has my outlook express contacts, and e-mails I need to get to, but how can i transfer...
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    Problems with DFI NF4 and Sata hard drive

    My roommate told me he had problems with his SATA drive, and he found out he had to disable the primary IDE channel to get it fixed. He also said that from what he read it almost always has to be done. Every time I reboot my computer I lose my ntldr file, and have to fix the MBR. It is also...
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    Steam question for new computer

    I am building a new computer as I type this, well as soon as I am done. And I want to install my half life 2 saved games, and all that on the new computer. I purchased it online however, is there a way for me to transfer the files so that steam will recognize them, and speed up the install...
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    New computer build

    Ok, here is what I am looking at. Dfi lanparty sli AMD 64 3400, which core is better? 2 gigs of ram (2x1024) or should I go with 1 gig (2x512) And I have no clue what brand I should use 6800 gt, what brands are good for these cards? What is a good power supply, that can also support SLI...
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    Half life 1 ending

    I was playing my way back through the game to see it again, but the stupid teleport level and all the jumping in xen just annoys me too much. Anyone know a place where they have the text from that end dialogue, or if not that a good review of the storyline. Of course maybe i am just missing...
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    I have some questions about Citrix

    I work for a Hospital that is looking into installing citrix for our remote sites, and some of our less demanding users. With the decision making process is coming a lot of rhetoric about how great it is, how little bandwidth it needs, how resilient it is, and all the cost savings it will...
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    I need a good case, whats out there?

    I am going to be building a new computer soon. I am looking at an athlon64 3400, 6800 gt, and a gig of ram. I hope to do a little overclocking, but nothing extreme. My main points of concern are my roommate and my cat. My roommate smokes, and that with cat hair is a bad combination. I...