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  1. m1ldslide1

    Affordable content filters?

    I'm helping out a friend who is looking for a pr0n scraper that is inexpensive and will work for a smallish business (around 200 sessions max). I pointed him towards an enterprise solution, which he liked until he got the quote and saw that it would cost over $10k a year for a subscription...
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    Help me build a Gaming PC! $1500 budget

    Hello ATGH: Last month, while on family vacation, some douchebag methheads broke into my house and took almost everything of any value. This included my gaming PC, which while aging had great sentimental value to me since I had installed every single component (up to and including the...
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    Any nutritionists? I have to submit blood / urine for life insurance exam tomorrow!

    So I turned 30 this year and am finally getting around to getting some life insurance. My last hurdle here is to submit some blood and urine tomorrow for them to assess my risk level. I'm told that they are specifically testing for blood sugar and cholesterol levels (not sure about the urine -...
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    Advice on which Windows server 2k8 version to get?

    I'm bringing up a server that will host a single windows application that will need to be accessed by up to 5 simultaneous users. I have a bunch of options here, and want to make sure I pick the right software package and licensing the first time. I'm looking at server 2008 - should I get...
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    RHEL 5 32-bit question

    I'm running ESX 4.0 (64-bit) on a server with 12GB of memory, and have installed a guest running RHEL 5 32-bit since the application I'm going to use only supports the 32-bit OS. However, the whole reason I'm moving this application to this server is to try and take advantage of more memory. So...
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    Looking to fold on my new uber-machine

    I stopped folding after hitting a million points a few months ago - the app stopped working on two of the machines that I was running it on, and my GPU that was folding started to act funny so I cut everything off for a while. Now I've inherited a desktop with the following specs: vista x64...
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    Looking at used pickups

    I've been checking out craigslist and the used car ads lately to see what kind of pickup I'll be able to get in the $5k - $8k range. I'm not looking for anything fancy - I live in the city and want something that will let me make dump runs, work on my yard, and survive the occasional commute...
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    ATI 3450 card for a 24" monitor???

    A friend of mine is looking at options for a new computer, and since she does zero gaming I've suggested that she look at Dell for options. So she's found a pretty decent bundle that comes in at around $600, and includes a T7200 C2D, Vista premium x64, 4GB RAM, etc and so on and comes with the...
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    Insanely Cool Data Center

    http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/...-a-james-bond-villain/ This Swedish data center was built out of a former nuclear bunker, and is designed to look like a moon-based space station or something. All we get for tech ambiance in the U.S. is fluorescent lighting are freakin' Star Trek posters...
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    Crysis maps

    Looks like I get a gaming night tonight :Q, and I was going to hit up some crysis user-created maps. I seem to remember there being a thread a while back where someone was recommending some of these, but I can't seem to find it. Anybody have any favorites they would recommend??? TIA!!
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    Argh yet another f@h smp client issue

    I've had endless problems with various revs of the smp client on this machine, and the latest has me stumped. Team 198 has always helped me fix them in the past, so here's another problem!! ;) I completed maybe 3 or 4 WU's with the fixes described in this former thread...
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    Startle Response Linked to Political Views

    This is saying that folks with conservative views on several social issues tend to have stronger physiological responses to startle stimuli. Of course as a non-republican I'm gleeful to read that social conservatives are physically predisposed to be more frightened, but the article doesn't go so...
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    f@h smp client stops working

    I'm seeing this on both machines that I'm running the smp client. Suddenly f@h will shut itself down, displaying the output pasted below, and will display the same output every time I try to run the app. On the first machine I noticed it on, I was frustrated and let it go for a few weeks. I...
  14. m1ldslide1

    Picking out a notebook

    This will be mostly for my wife, who is finishing her degree. She'll be surfing the web and using office 2007. I will occasionally use it for consulting work, most of which is text based, and so horsepower isn't necessarily a concern. That said, nothing frustrates me much more than a slow...
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    Trouble removing f@h smpd.exe

    Just like the thread title - I used the stanford directions to uninstall. I used regedit to remove the pagdegroup entry from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then attempted to delete all of the files in the directory. I was able to remove all files but this .exe, tried rebooting, and I still can't remove...
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    US Black AIDS rates rival African nations

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH...aids.report/index.html This is truly appalling. And we're sending billions to Africa, which is a good thing, but not contributing nearly enough to our own people. Not to mention our disgusting lack of real sex ed in public schools - obviously abstinence...
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    Favre coming back to GB???

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...e.return.ap/index.html Wow.. I didn't expect this, but I guess I should have. I can't really see it as being very good for the team in general unless Favre would be way better than Rogers, whom obviously the jury is still out on. I guess I see this as a...
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    New crunching project?

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/0...collider.ap/index.html The article is kinda funny as it talks about the whole controversy where this particle collider could accidentally destroy the earth. But on topic, it mentions at the bottom of the article: Sounds like a DC project if I ever heard of...
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    fighting with fingerhut

    I purchased an Arrow 10x14 shed from Fingerhut late last year. (They're a mail-order and online retailer, for those who don't know) I paid like $800 for it, and they shipped me box #1 out of 2. Box #2 never came. A week or so later my fiance called and was given the run-around, told that they...
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    Eating Insects - the wave of the future

    Will rising prices of traditional food allow insect eating to catch on in this country? Or will it take an utter economic meltdown to make bug consumption mainstream? What do you guys think? http://www.slate.com/blogs/blo...mannature/default.aspx
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    Recommend me a driving sim!

    So I'm going to visit my brother and his family later this week, and I would like to pick up a driving sim game for my nephew. He is 8 years old, and has been very vocal about wanting as realistic a driving sim game as possible. That said, I'm sure his definition of realistic is more related to...
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    my (belated) crysis experience

    I finally picked up the full version of crysis about two weeks ago, and I've been loving it. I don't get time to play every day, but I've invested several hours into it and I think I'm going to play it again and again. I was worried that my system was going to hold me back on enjoying the...
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    This just in!!

    Yeah yeah, I know, but this still upset me when I read it this morning. I understand the whole double-jeapordy thing and why the laws are how they are, but come on! Shouldn't we be able to make just one exception? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...nfession.ap/index.html
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    No hard-drive detected

    I'm trying to install WinXP on a new XPS 1330. I boot from CD, and once all of the setup files are loaded and I'm ready to select/partition drives, I'm told "no hard drive detected". I think since this is an ultra-low-weight that it may have an SSD. In BIOS all it says is "120GB HDD", and that...
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    Carter making progress in ME visit?

    After reading this, I've decided that the right-wingers are correct. This guy is a washed-up hack who should stop undermining the foreign policies of the administration and helping the terrorists win. It's plainly obvious that any dialog with Hamas or other terrorist organizations will never...
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    CCIE-written study material (routing and switching)

    Can anybody tell me if the current written exam is # 350-001 v3 ??? I understand that the R&S written was recently updated, and it sounds like maybe they removed some of the dial/FR/ATM type questions and added a bunch of MPLS and other newer subjects. I've had success with the Cisco press...
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    Count Me Out - the Obama Craze

    This article is by Matt Gonzalez, and analyzes Obama's rhetoric vs. his voting record. With these points in mind, it's pretty hard for me to maintain any enthusiasm for Obama. I worry that he'll be like every other 'liberal' president, and use his presidency primarily to protect big business at...
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    f@h SMP closes immediately!

    Last week sometime I tried to turn on the f@h SMP client after a reboot, and as soon as I click the fah.exe it opens a command window for a split second and then closes it. I'm confused here - this computer gets rebooted all the time, and I haven't had any problems with this client. Is this a...
  29. m1ldslide1

    drivers for ECS GF7100

    My friend bought a combo package at Fry's where he got a E6550 and ECS mATX mobo for $150, and is having problems finding chipset drivers for Vista64 (gf7100, SB=630i). The ECS website only has Vista x32 and XP x64. My google-fu wasn't up to the task. Anybody have any suggestions? THanks
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    Jimmy Carter Administration Revisted

    I just happened to get to the part in the book this afternoon dealing with Carter's presidency, and I thought of ProfJohn's comments about his declining defense spending, and about the left's tendency to idolize Carter as a pure champion of their (my) ideals. I'm quite surprised to find that the...
  31. m1ldslide1

    game pad for SupCom?

    Do any SC players use gamepads here? I've always been fine with my regular keyboard, but the layout for SC just feels terrible and awkward. I'm thinking about investing in a cheap gamepad to try to put the arrow keys in my left hand, and I'm wondering if anybody here has tried these out. Here's...
  32. m1ldslide1

    getting a new game today

    I'm thinking Crysis (have the demo), cod4, or Supreme Commander. I've spent a lot of time on FPS games the last few years, (bioshock, hl2, farcry, oblivion, fear, cod2) and haven't played a strategy game since I was a teenager. I probably invested over 2,000 hours on Civilization 1 & 2 over...
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    after 2.5 years of test-taking..

    I finally passed the last test today and earned my CCNP. That's all. :)
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    yet another build thread

    So this is for a friend of mine. He has a budget of around $750 max, but hopefully less. He's looking for a fast all-around computer, and wants to eventually put a mid-range GPU like an 8800GT 256 in, but for now will settle for affordable graphics for some light gaming. He has an xbox 360, and...
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    Teen dies hours after liver transplant approved

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...ansplant.ap/index.html GLENDALE, California (AP) -- A 17-year-old died just hours after her health insurance company reversed its decision not to pay for a liver transplant that doctors said the girl needed. Nataline Sarkisyan died Thursday night at about 6...
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    quick question

    I installed the smp client onto my dual-core opteron at home this weekend. My router died a few weeks back, and so my gf's computer has been the only one online ever since. Every once in a while when she's not doing homework or cruising myspace I borrow the connection and do updates, etc to my...
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    just started folding

    I've been wanting to start folding for several months now, but hadn't gotten around to it. I just got F@H going on both cores of one of my desktops this morning, and I'm pretty excited. I used MDE's setup guide and installed the CLI version, and it went off without a hitch. So far it seems like...
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    job question!

    So I've had two jobs post-college: My last one and my current one. I was at the last one for six years, working my way from data entry to telecom specialist to network engineer to defacto senior network engineer. The problem was that they weren't compensating me as a senior, and also I felt like...
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    man killed by cell phone

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/...xplosion.ap/index.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- An exploding mobile phone battery apparently killed a South Korean man in the first such known case in this gadget-obsessed country, police say. The man, identified only by his family name Suh, was found...
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    nazi archives finally opened to public

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/....archive.ap/index.html I know this is wishful thinking, but I wonder if this kind of expansive documentation could change the tone of discourse at all in the middle east in re: Israel vs. Iran. It's always been pretty damn hard to deny the occurence of the...