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    New (to me) Motorcycle

    I couldn't find any turbo 'Busas for sale on my local CL, so I settled for an SV650S. '03 with just over 4800 miles. Pretty close to flawless - the owner admitted to one tipover, and after a pretty thorough look over the bike the only evidence I've found of that is a slightly tweaked...
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    Motorcycle Commuting - Why go bigger?

    Spending a couple of months commuting on my 250 I've started to think about that "next" motorcycle. Given the reality of my commute, I'm starting to wonder if it'd actually be less fun on a bigger bike. Commute is 11 miles one way in light to medium traffic. Speed limit never goes over...
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    Signed up for my MSF course! (Now with bike)

    I'm stoked - I've wanted to ride since I was in college, and that was 10 years ago. I finally bit the bullet and signed up for and MSF course on May 7th-8th. My plan is to take the course, buy my gear, and move about $3000 from my online savings account to a local account. Post a wanted ad...
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    Can't manually trim intel X25-V with XP / ION

    I've got XP Home SP3 installed on an intel X25-V in an HP Mini 311 (Atom / ION netbook). Firmware on the SSD is updated, as are the SATA drivers. Using the latest version of SSD toolbox I'm unable to trim the drive. I get a message along the lines of "This function is not supported on this...
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    SSD Upgrade - Pulling my hair out!

    I'm at my wit's end trying to get an Intel X25-V SSD to work in my HP Mini 311 netbook running XP Home SP3. I formatted the drive using my Vista desktop, setting the allocation size to 4096 and verifying the alignment / offset at 1024KB. While the drive was in my desktop I updated the...
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    WoW Expansion Shrinks Raids, Current Raiders Whine

    I quit WoW for good some time ago, but I still love to read their forums - nothing like a train wreck. After reading the same complaints for over a year, I was surprised to see them whining over something different. Seems a number of gaming sites have reported that raids in the upcoming...
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    Random crashes on older laptop - mobo issues?

    My wife's IBM T21 laptop (PIII 800MHz) recently begun crashing. All kinds of crashes - BSOD on boot (with different stop messages), hard lockups, random reboots, even one I've never seen where the screen flashed what looked like a barcode before rebooting and hanging at POST. It's crashed when...
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    SWG Emulation Making Headway

    Have any of you checked out SWG Emu? It looks like they might pull off SWG server emulation - video was posted earlier this week of a logon and some playtime in an empty server. Of course, the folks working on it are aiming for pre-"Combat Upgrade" servers. Truly a testament to the...
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    Vent / TS server from home (DHCP)?

    I'm curious about setting up a Vent or Teamspeak server for a small WoW guild (no more than 10 people on at once). My current home network is pretty basic - Road Runner cable modem to a wireless router, with my desktop and my wife's laptop connected wirelessly. The server would be an extra...
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    I managed to stay WoW-free for all of two months

    Despite my critisisms of WoW in previous posts (which I still feel are valid), I started playing again last night. The sad truth is that despite a healthy social life with my wife, my surfing (as in waves, water) friends and tennis partners, I don't have an outlet for my geeky side. I missed...
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    Hope my last nForce2 upgrade isn't a waste...

    My system for the past year has been: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Athlon XP 2700+ @ stock speed 1 GB PC2700 RAM (2x256, 1x512) BFG GeForce 5200 Ultra @ 365MHz core, 710MHz mem Seagate Barracuda 160GB IDE HDD My PC is really for Star Wars games - Galaxies, KOTOR, and BattleFront. The memory...