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    Simulation Software for Restaurant Training

    Looking for a low cost simulation software for restaurant employee training. I have used one before at another restaurant but can't seem to remember the name of it. Basically it would ask how to make a menu item and you would drag from say a left hand column certain menu items to the right...
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    What game are you saving to play last????

    What game do you have in your que to play but you are saving it as the best for last game. After playing Fallout 3, I haven't touched Fallout New Vegas yet....saving it for when I get other games played from collection of Steam Holiday Sales and Humble Bundles, etc...
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    2013 Holiday Game Purchased you thought would suck but rocks!

    What game did you purchase during the holidays 2013 that you thought would be ok but bought it cause of the price and it turned out to be awesome. For me it is Dishonored. I saw the previews and thought meh but once I started playing on suggestion of a friend I can't put it down!
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    What to do about mortgage early payoff?

    Economy/Stock market seems to be doing well but most of us know it is false reality. Not to get into long discussion. If you feared that the dollar will fall and lose value and got money from inheritance would you pay off your house if you could? I'm thinking if house is paid off then no...
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    Anyone notice all Doomsday Prepper Episodes removed from youtube?

    Weird that all removed and also not available from National Geographic website????
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    Dead Island Crap with ACTS!

    So I fired up Dead Island last night.....was having a blast with it. Little did I know that when you choose a character at the beginning of the game you were choosing a position in the game. I liked Ryder..he seemed badass....come to find out later he is the last act of the game so I basically...
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    1998 Honda Accord rpm drops on highway

    1998 Honda Accord with 202k mileage. Old Thread: See bottom for Update Pre info: A year ago I was on highway doing about 70+ mph gave the car gas to pass a car and it just died (almost got creamed by 18 wheeler). Problem was distributor cap....replaced. When distributor cap replaced also...
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    Is my friends computer infected?

    A friend at work has a gateway laptop with windows vista. It is not booting up and when it is going through command prompts at the top it mentions something about "grub" which I know is related to linux. But he doesn't have linux installed at all on his laptop (he doesn't even know what linux...
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    Tennis Elbow

    Anyone ever suffer from tennis elbow and how long did it take to recover. It has been about a month now and at the beginning I couldn't even hold a plate in my hand but now it is a little better and the pain isn't completely gone but I can still feel some nagging pain. Haven't tried actually...
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    Please suggest a wireless keyboard/mouse combo

    Need a combo that will work about 10+ feet away from wireless receiver for computer setup to living room tv. Looking for decent but lowest price possible. Preferably name brand? Thanks
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    USB Wireless Adapter $ 5 FS @ Newegg w/coupon till 7/12

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833156152 Description kind of misleading (Windows 2k/WinXp ONLY), but says works with vista in lower description. I'm using on some older computers. Hope this helps someone.
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    Anybody having problems gaming on $399 Acer Laptop Deal?

    Bought the Tigerdirect Acer Deal for $ 399. I have loaded the following games and none of them work. They are older games as I use my desktop for newer games. FEAR 1: Error message to insert correct dvd (I have retail copy not pirated). COD4: Multiplayer works but Singleplayer just...
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    Celeron M @ 1.6 to Pentium M @ 2.0 ?

    I have a 2005 HP laptop that I really don't want to get rid of yet. Would I notice a little more performance in WinXP with this upgrade. It used to run fine but with all the bloatware of websites, etc...it seems slower even with fresh install it just improved a little. It is alright for...
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    Microsoft Office 2010 Student / Home for $ 79.99 at newegg

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116856 Cheapest I've seen it. Hope this helps someone
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    e5200 oced to 3.4 to PII 1035T overclocked?

    Thinking of going the tigerdirect barebones deal for $ 300. Would I notice a big difference in gaming with a 5850? I game at 1920x1200. Was looking at i7 but don't want to spend over 500 right now plus can use the extra parts from barebones in other computers. Looking to play some future...
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    Hitman gameplay footage

    16 minutes on firingsquad....looks really good
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    2 cycle oil mix in lawnmower?

    My echo weedeater will start and idle but when I give it gas it dies. Thinking the gas is old and I'm down to the last bit in the fuel container. Can I mix the last bit of it with my straight gas for the lawnmower? I have no where to throw out the old mix. I'm going to make a new mix of 2...
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    Need Suggestion of what to play next

    Ok, Finished Fallout 3 this morning...AWESOME..downloaded Broken Steel and finished main quest tonight. Good ending...I need suggestions maybe 2 remaining dlc to try of falllout3 series. Also what order would you recommend from bad to best to play these games in: 1. Metro 2033 (worst)...
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    Academy now Online....Finally!

    Great clearance deals
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    Any info? Steam 2010 Christmas Sale?

    Does anyone have any info if Steam will be doing another Christmas Sale like last year???? I picked up a ton of games last year and spent more on games than on actual gifts ;)
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    Fry's Houston, TX Samsung LN46C650 $ 749

    Went by Houston, TX Fry's tonight to look at TVs...haven't been paying to much to actual models but saw they had a Samsung 46" 1080p w/120hz for only $749...salesman said it was normally $1099...didn't really take that into account and bought. Did research and this set goes for $ 1099...
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    MSI 5850 for $ 194.99 + 1.99 ship at newgg AR

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127500 Guess some are jumping the gun early after 6870 reports. Can't wait till the 5850s drop more to crossfire :)
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    Job Situation what would you do?

    I work as a seasoned restaurant manager. New company but doesn't have their "ducks in a row". After failed audits they put me in charge...understand my immediate boss has failed twice and his boss has failed twice. So I'm basically in charge of what my immediate boss should be in charge of...
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    Windows7 lockups and IE

    Been using Win7 for about a month now and have had only 2 lockups....in the past 2 days I get a lockup at least every 5 minutes....I have tried upping voltage on cpu, cpu fan full blast, etc....still locks up. It seems to be when I run IE8 and hotmail I can't attach photos without it locking up...
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    Large LCD TV at lower resolution gaming....

    I'm looking at getting a 1080p TV somewhere between 55" to 63" in the future for the living room. I'm wanting to use my older computer components to run various games on it (ie FEAR, COD, etc). Can I run it at 1680x1050 and will it look alright? Of course when I try to run my monitor at this...
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    Worth upgrading system to q6600 and overclocking?

    I have an e5200 oced to 3.4 with 4 gigs ram and ATi 5850. I mainly surf the net and play games such as Crysis; but want to play Bad Company 2, Metro 2033, etc....in the future. Is it worth getting a q6600 on ebay for around 100 buck. Don't want to upgrade entire system at this time...DDR3...
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    New Headaches and Beer! What gives?

    I normally drink about 4-5 beers twice a week which gives me a good buzz and I'm still good for work the next day. Though now if I drink say 2 beers, later that evening I get a bad headache and the next morning the headaches are so bad (feel like my eyeballs are going to pop out of their...
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    Damn Chase abunch of GREEDY SOBs

    My account has been paid off since July 09, I check all the time just in case and now notice a new $ 59 yearly fee. I ask for them to take it off....they won't do so fine take it off and close my account. Their reply: We can close your account but you will still be charged. I haven't charged...
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    8800gs to 4850 worth the upgrade?

    Currently I have an e5200 oced to 3.4 and just bought the HannsG 27.5" monster monitor. I'm able to run most games fine with my 8800gs 384 meg overclocked @ 1920x1200 resolution with no AA except for Crysis and Farcry2 (why does there have to be the word "cry" in both of these games!). Is...
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    27.5" Monitor and Current Graphics and Scaling

    I have searched stickys and google with little understanding. I'm wanting to upgrade 19" monitor to 27.5" Hanns Current System: e5200 oced to 3.4 8800 gs 384 megs ram everything else na I'm fine with running newer games for the time being at 1280x1024 if needed with black bars...
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    e5200 oced to 3.4 @ 1.325v 44C idle OK?????

    I'm at 44C idle and about 58C max. (using both coretemps and realtemp) Specs: Gigabyte GM31-ES2L ? e5200 Artic Cooler 7 (used thermal pad that came with it couldn't find my ac5, heard only 2-3 degree difference anyways). Is this fine?
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    Freezer 7 Pro + Speed Fan incorrect

    I have a gigabyte g31M-es2l, e5200 overclocked to 3.4 @ 1.3v When I go into speed fan it shows that the fan is running at the slowest speed of 915 rpms but it is at 100 percent. How can I fix this to run the fan at a higher speed so that I can overclock higher. This fan is capable of...
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    Harddrive partition corruption or dying harddrive?

    My computer has been having alot of errors sys.xml data errors, etc...blue screens of irq less than or equal to. I tested each stick of ram with memtest and no errors. About every few days when booting the computer would ask to run checkdsk before booting into XP and it was always having to...
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    Overclocking and Further overclocking later?

    I'm currently looking at getting an e5200 and overclocking it to around 3.00 gighertz with stock cooling and then later about 4-6 months later getting arctic cooler 7 and going for 3.5+ is this alright to overclock higher after so much time has passed? Currently I will be only moving over a...
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    Harddrive boot problems

    Reinstalled windowsXP on an 80 gig sata harddrive; my 160 gig ata100 drive (used only for storage of mp3s, videos, etc.) was hooked up to computer when installing. Computer ran fine for quite sometime until I finished installing WinXP updates. Now the system stalls on first boot then I have to...
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    Asrock Dual Sata 2 mobo with x2 3800 freezing up

    Here are my specs: Asrock Dual Sata 2 mobo x2 3800 Arctic Freezer Pro 64 (using arctic silver 5) x800xt (x800 pro vivo flashed) ---->not oced 1 gig Patriot Sig DDR 400 ram 2 80 gig SATA HD in Raid 0 160 gig hd for storage (ide) Case old Antec with 2 intake fans and 2 exhaust Ultra 600...
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    Low Temps then High temps and weird artic silver pattern

    Ok I got on the deal for the x2 3800 Toledo from Newegg recently and have it overclocked to 2.5 @ 1.4v on Asrock 939 Dual SATA mobo with Artic Freezer 64 HS. At first it was running at 33-34 idle and now has been running around low 40s C. I removed HS and the artic silver had pushed its way to...
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    Where are benchmarks for single core cpus + 8800 GTS/GTX ?

    I know that a single core cpu is going to be a bottle neck for the video card but for those of us that don't have limitless amounts of money for upgrading to a C2D, etc. what kind of performance can we expect to get with our current systems with a 8800 GTS for example until we upgrade to dual...
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    Strange I/O Error

    I'm putting together some old computers. I'm testing the harddrives (anywhere from 1 gig to 13 gigs) I used Seagate Seatools for DOS to test them and everything is ok but the program doesn't format the drives. The bios recognizes the drives but when I use a win98/me boot disk( to format the...
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    Opteron work in older bios in Asrock 939 dual sata board

    I bought this mobo on 2-22-06 with the original intent of getting a 939 sempron when they come out well doesn't look like that is going to happen. So looking at getting an opteron 144 or 146 from Tankguys but am concerned about it having an updated bios (bios 1.4 which recognizes opterons came...