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    Engineered hardwood flooring

    We have an accepted offer on a house that is being built that will be completed in early/mid-June. It's a spec home on 1.7 acres in a "development" of four houses. Great builder, property, and location. Anyway, one of the upgrades we're debating is laying engineered wood flooring on the 650 ft...
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    Employer-provided tablets, but....

    I have an interesting situation here that includes my nearly complete lack of knowledge about tablets. I've always wanted one, but could never justify it. I work for a Mennonite-owned company. The ownership belongs to a relatively progressive New Order church so we have (heavily filtered)...
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    At what point are problems with a new-to-me vehicle not the dealership's?

    I bought a 2001 Saturn SL. Love the car. Not luxurious, but getting 35-40 mpg is nice. I took delivery about April 1. Before I bought it, some work was done to the car at their service center. They added cruise, changed valve cover, timing cover, oil pan gaskets, and replaced the muffler strap...
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    Experience with Saturn SL1 or 2?

    My commute is 42 miles each way and I'm currently driving a V6 Ford Escape. 18 mpg is killing us right now with gas at $3.69 here. It turns out I can partially finance a Saturn SL1/2 and it will still be cheaper than the fuel for my Escape. (I think we're actually going to pay cash now. No...
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    ATOT: Lend my your bathroom-remodeling/real-estate ears!

    First, we live in a 1920s Cape Cod house. It's perfect for a starter house, has some decent updates, and the price was right. We payed just over $100k for it. We just built a new, detached garage. We have one full bathroom on the main level. We are stubbed in for a toilet downstairs, and I'm...
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    VGA cooler fan question

    Mods, please move this if it should be in the cooling section. I have a Zalman VF700 left over from a previous video card. My question concerns the fan on this cooler and the connection on my video card, a 7600GT. The Zalman fan connector is 3 wires (red, white, black). Ground, and two...
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    Interesting job app response. How do I handle this?

    I'm a certified teacher here, but was unable to find a job when we moved here in August (short notice job offer for my wife). I spent a lot of time in manufacturing/carpentry work through college, so I've been applying for jobs in that area with the intent of staying in that career path. The job...
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    Install location for remote start

    My Ford Escape has a sweet two-way remote start and I lost the remote over a year ago. It's getting chilly here (-20 last weekend) and I wouldn't mind having a new fob to use it since I don't have a garage stall. Any idea where the "standard module location" is for a system like this? I've done...
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    Do I even need a wicked good VC for 720p video?

    I've got my old AXP Barton 3000+ running in the basement as our HTPC, hooked up to a Westinghouse screen. I had to order a new case and PSU for it and now my 6800 doesn't fit, so I'm looking to replace it. The machine decodes 720p movies just fine. I've never had a problem with it in the past...
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    Squat subs

    I've been doing the Stronglifts 5x5 program for a few weeks now and am liking how things are going. I'll be heading out of town for the next 11 days. I'll have access to Olympic bars and enough plates/freeweights to do everything but my squats. I'm at about 200# 5x5 now; I definitely can't clean...
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    Access Querying Question

    I'm working on DB software for a music program to help manage their music. I had a DB guy help me with the structural things and everything on the form entry side is gravy. I'm having a problem with reporting and querying in two cases, though. Here are the affected tables and fields: Music...
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    Laser Printer warming between each page

    Anyone ever have a problem with their laser printer warming up between EVERY. SINGLE. SHEET. OF. PAPER. IT. PRINTS. ??? My Samsung ML-2010 is doing this now. INCREDIBLY annoying when I'm trying to print address on wedding invites....
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    stinkynathan's training journal

    First, a little about me: When I was in high school I was the starting center at about 195# and wrestled 160# during the winter (weight usually got down to around 157 by state tournament). I graduated in 2001 and spent 7.5 agonizing years in college (don't ask). Let's just say that I drank a...
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    Table Relationships in Access 2007

    First, I'm not sure if this should be in this forum or in programming; mods, please feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place. I took a DB class about four years ago when I was a CS major. The basics have stuck with me, but I'm still having a problem. I'm working on an inventory and...
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    oops, wrong forum

    delete me please. posted in the correct forum
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    Anyone from Milwaukee?

    A student organization of which I am President will be traveling to Milwaukee next Thursday through Saturday for a conference. We're staying at the Ramada City Centre. Anyone know of any places around there that would be friendly to a group of eleven college students and one old guy so that...
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    Help me build my friend a recording rig

    My friend is a sound guy and is looking at getting into recording. We're checking out the possibility of building a machine since the pre-built ones start at $2,000. 1. Here's what he says: "I'm looking for something that won't bog down while running thirty plus simultaneous tracks. I might...
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    Question about LiveCDs and networking...

    My girlfriends laptop just started bluescreening on boot last night. She got it through the university, so she can take it there to have it restored. They'll save all of her documents but won't tough her music, even though its legit music. Is there a LiveCD that will allow me access to the...
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    Help me install my SATA card.

    Bought a Promise SATA300 TX4 and a new 320 gig hard drive a couple days ago without realizing that I need a floppy drive to install the drivers (how retarded is that?). Is there any way to do this without the floppy drive? I don't have one. My roomate doesn't have one. I don't know anyone...
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    Priceline's "Name Your Own Price" Airline tickets....

    In a few weeks a few friends and I (16-20 Aug) are going to be travelling from South Dakota to Nashville, TN to party, hit a couple concerts, BS with some friends we have there, and generally just have an end of the summer road trip. One problem, they're leaving early on the 15th and I can't...
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    Help me create a scheduling website

    I TA for the MUS100 class here at my university. Finals week is coming up here and my boss wants me to create a website that the students could use to to sign up for times (we only have 20 available computers at this lab). Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking there should be an opensource...
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    Anyone from the Kansas City, Missouri area?

    I've got tickets for a concert at the Uptown Theater on March 31st. Are there any places to stay (close to the theater? I'm pretty sure we're going on the cheap since we're driving down from Brookings, South Dakota. Gonna be 3 guys, and another guy and his fiance. Also, any bars in the...
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    MP3 tag info

    So I'm currently using Tag & Rename to go through and get metadata from the freedb. With the amount of music I have this is possibly going to take forever. Is there a program that will recurse subdirectories and automatically find a "best-match" in the freedb to fill in the ID3 info with?
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    Want to move my old Dell mobo into a new case

    I'm using my old Dell Dimension 4100 (933 mhz P3) as an HTPC in its original (ugly) case. I'd like to order a desktop case for it (fit in the home theater rack) this week. I'm looking at the Antec Overture II. First of all, will I be able to phyisically mount this baby in that Antec case...
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    Possible PSU death?

    This all started when I killed the keyboard of my Logitech MX-DUO. Switched to a cheap gateway USB keyboard that my parents' had when I was back at their house a week back. Fast-forward to now.... I got back to my house and I couldn't get the Gateway keyboard to bring the computer out of...
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    Help with BIOS flash screwup EDIT: now sound issues.

    Setting up a computer for a friend here. Was having problems running both sticks of OCZ ram so I decided to flash the BIOS to see if it would fix it. Flashed using the windows flash tool that DFI has on their website using "update all" (if anyone is familiar with the program). It said it...
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    Windows 2k3 sharing permissions

    I have an old K6-2 box running Windows 2k3 serving all of our music and some movies. All shares are fully accessible from any of the other 5 computers in the house. I couldn't access the shares back when I had a Slackware install but I wasn't in Slackware much so it really didn't matter. I've...
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    Dual 17" LCD and dual DVI card

    After trying to make a decision for about a week whether I wanted a 2001FP or a 2005FPW I've decided I'm getting neither. I think I'm going to buy a single Viewsonic VP171b-2 and a dual-DVI card (possibly) now, and another of the same screens in a month or so. I was browsing the video card...
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    Need Dual LCD + dual DVI VC suggestions

    After trying to make a decision for about a week whether I wanted a 2001FP or a 2005FPW I've decided I'm getting neither. I think I'm going to buy a single Viewsonic VP171b-2 and a dual-DVI card (possibly) now, and another of the same screens in a month or so. I was browsing the video card...
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    OCing newbie in need of direction

    Athlon XP 3000+ A7N8X-X motherboard (BIOS rev 1011) 2x512 Corsair VS PC3200 RAM Thermalright 947U heatsink w/ 92mm Tornado on top (~5000 RPM) First time CPU OC here (obviously). Finally started fiddling with things since I got the heatsink installed yesterday. Anyway, I've got this...
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    Roomates F@H client crashes often *update*

    I just built my room mate a new 2600+ box last week. He was having some errors, so he reinstalled Windows XP tonight, and I got a few things working for him (including F@H). It popped up the XP error box within a few minutes of rebooting (to activate the service). Picture of error info...
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    Can anyone recommend a remote?

    We've had our HTPC running for quite a while now, but we're getting pretty annoyed at having the keyboard and mouse in the living room. We'll most likely be making a switch to Windows Media Center Edition this weekend. I'd really like something to control that, but not necessarily ONLY MCE (i...
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    Help me get my roomate's new box running...

    convinced my buddy he needed a new computer this past weekend, so he ordered a motherboard, CPU, RAM and case on sunday. it got here today and we assembled it today. I gave him my old 4x burner and he has a month-old 80Gb hard drive in there too. parts: Biostar M7NCG Athlon XP 2600+...
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    3000+ Barton running HOT

    First post / First build here. here's the gear: 3000+ Barton A7N8X-X Speeze WhisperRock cooler Antec SLK3700AMB case gig of Corsair RAM single 40 gig WD hard drive single Sony DVD burner I've had this build running for a couple weeks now with no freezing issues. I've mounted the...