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    Cheap options for fixing power window switch housing

    A few days ago, I noticed that my driver's side power door/window switches were sagging in their housing so much that when I tried to press one of the button, all I did was push the switch cluster down. I had a chance to look at it today, and found that one of the threaded cylinders that the...
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    Surgeon Simulator 2013

    Ever wanted to be a surgeon, but got turned off by the years of expensive schooling? Forget that shit, just play Surgeon Simulator 2013. You'll be a pro in no time! :awe: (Note: The video contains some mild swearing, so it may be NSFW if you work for a Nazi.)
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    Windows 7 - Why does my CPU usage spike when my monitor goes to sleep?

    This behavior has been bugging me for a while. When I leave my computer alone for a few minutes and my monitor goes to sleep, some process starts consuming a bunch of CPU time. I can tell that my CPU is being used, because my CPU's temps rise and the CPU fan speed increases to compensate...
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    Alternatives to Mint.com for personal financial tracking?

    I'm looking to move away from Mint.com, and wanted to see what other programs/services people were using to track their spending, do budgeting, etc. So ATOT, what do you use?
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    Grocery Store Value Brands

    The grocery store that I go to has three "levels" of product (sorting by most expensive to least expensive): 1. National brand 2. Store brand 3. A 'value' brand At this point, I normally buy the store brand for things I need to constantly replace (milk, bread, paper towels, etc.), and...
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    Romney Campaign Expecting a Loss in the Presidential Debates

    Looks like Team Romney is throwing in the towel on the debates before they even begin: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/first-on-cnn-romney-memo-seeks-to-lower-debate-expectations/?hpt=hp_t1
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    Ubuntu on a Tablet PC

    I have an old Core Duo-based Fujitsu tablet PC that I've been playing around with off and on for a few years. Unlike a lot of modern Tablet PCs, this isn't a convertible model (i.e., no keyboard). My efforts to use something other than Windows on this tablet haven't been successful, largely due...
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    I don't usually support the death penalty...

    ... but I'll make an exception for people that allow their car alarms to keep going off for 10+ minutes at a time at one o'clock in the morning :mad:
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    World IPv6 Launch Day

    So a bunch of public websites have added AAAA records for their domains. If you have a connection to the IPv6 Internet, effective today, you'll use it to access Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and a bunch of other sites (full list here). They did this last year for a day, but this time around, the AAAA...
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    Reliability of SSDs?

    Are SSDs reliable enough to safely run in RAID 0 for general use in a production environment? Backstory: I'm currently running a 3ware 9650SE RAID controller with four 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives in a RAID 5. The RAID controller has always been a bit flaky, and its most recent...
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    Requesting a cheap virtualization build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. This PC will be used for testing, development, and research of IT products and other technologies that aren't practical to run within a virtual machine. Off the top of my head, my primary use for this PC...
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    Windows 7 firewall and automatic exceptions

    Does anyone know of a way to disable programs from automatically adding exceptions to the Windows 7 firewall? I am experimenting with IPv6, and since my router doesn't have any firewall functionality for IPv6, I rely on the Windows 7 firewall to control inbound and outbound access to the IPv6...
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    Virtualization machine

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. My primary goal is to build a computer that can run a virtual machine lab to support my on-going IT studies and to assist me in prototyping new designs. The previous computer I built to support this goal...
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    Web site scraping software

    Does anyone know of any free software that can download the contents of a web site? One of my college instructors is retiring, and he's invited us to download his large collection of exam answers, lecture notes, and other miscellaneous study guides from his college-hosted web site. However...
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    Windows 7 gadget's crashing?

    I'm running a few gadgets in Windows 7, and every now and then, a gadget will "crash". When this happens, the gadget disappears and a black square the size of the gadget appears in its place. I can't "close" the black square, move it, or interact with it in any way. The only way to restore...
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    Windows 7 and standby time

    I'm running Windows 7 Pro, and my active power policy is configured to put the computer into standby after an hour of inactivity. However, on numerous occasions, I've come home to find my computer still running even though it should've been put into standby hours ago. I've verified that my...