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  1. pyr02k1

    WOOT! Scored $5200! Looking for good laptop deal! *GOT ONE*

    Spice probably isnt wrong on that one. I'm on a dv6000 right now and we managed to get a service under warranty the first time it died was due to overheating and wireless failure (just disappeared from device manager), which also extended the warranty 90 days. the second service was within the...
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    actually those were perfect. im planning to do a much larger array on a areca 1680ix-24 which ill likely run 20 drives on (w/ 4gb on it) in a raid 60 array and at least 2 hot spares all for storage purposes. my areca 1210 doing a secondary array that will store live stuff we've yet to watch and...
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    For those who consume multiple GBs of mobile bandwidth a month...

    best ive ever done was just over 5gb one month. mypod + revision 3, twit and a bunch of podcasts and forgetting to put the phone on wifi when im home. normally im in the 2gb range now, mostly because im watching the small videos OTA as opposed to downloading higher quality with mypod. verizon...
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    sub, is there any chance you know of a large array benchmark of raid 5, 6, 50 and 60? im curious to see the performance numbers on the arrays before deciding on one. i was originally planning a mix of a raid 5 and a raid 6 setup split around 6 drives to the 5 and the remaining 14 to a 6. now im...
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    Laptops that work well with *nix?

    I've gotten better battery life on my dv6000 using ubuntu rather then win vista that it came with. xp was ok, but by no means great. win 7 works well, but i wouldnt say the extra 10m on win 7 vs ubuntu makes a difference. battery life on this laptop has always been horrible though with a max of...
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    Call of Duty: Black Ops Will Support PC Modding

    yep. dedicated servers are in... but no file access (bc2 and moh style). on top of it, its steam and vac (tf2 style browser, vac is just vac, sucks) as opposed to built in server browser and PB. and theyre aiming it towards pure dlc like mw2 was aimed at. theyre not going to give a huge amount...
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    I need some PHP proxy code

    I didnt check the links. I was posting that from my phone earlier :) But after some creative searching, I managed to find this. http://pyr02k1.com/hosted/phpMyProxy_1.0.3.zip Now, the zip comes from a gentoo overlay repo, so the structure COULD be off. It doesnt look to be, so all should be...
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    I need some PHP proxy code

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=php+proxy http://sponsormyblog.com/tag/phpmyproxy/
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    Crazy stormfront coming in at some beach in Helsinki

    I hate california ... nothing good like that. In florida, I had it happen on a few occasions and always had a liking for the rain. Always cooler then hell to be out in the middle of a sunny day, look to one side and see huge gray clouds just rolling in.
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    I'm assuming you guys in the US have HOV lanes right?

    Californias HOV lanes tend to suck more often then not. But then so do most California drivers in general. Never fails that you have a jackass doing 60 in the HOV when the speed limits 65 and most California drivers do 70 or better at any given time (and 80 isn't out of the ordinary either). If...
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    Honda civic vibrating in movement (no its not the rotors)

    I've had this problem twice now. The first was on a 94 Dodge Shadow and it was caused by CB (CV?) Joints being worn to nothing. At least, thats what I was told by a friend who was also a mechanic. Never fixed it as the car went for bust before i needed to fix it. The latest was for the last 6...
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    Reporting wreckless drivers in CA?

    If its the same exact time every day, just leave 10 minutes early, find a cop, and tell him that this guy does it every day. Most cops will be glad you notified them of it, they'll hide across the street and then go run his ass down when he does it. One guy used to do it all the time, every...
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    Jquery script for uploading multiple files to Amazon S3

    I'm with Cog there ... if your not adverse to using a server side script to accomplish the goal by uploading the files to your host, then pushing them over to amazon, this should do the trick http://code.google.com/p/killersoft/source/browse/trunk/Service/Amazon/S3/BatchPut.php# i dont know...
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    From MW2 to BC2

    I like both. I find BC2 to be a good game, but I cant stand the not being able to go prone. That was the tough part for me. I stopped playing it after about 60 hours (xfire shows 39, but it wasnt alwasy on) mainly because it wasnt running properly at the time. One of the updates fixed it and I...
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    did i get jacked by an illegal alien?

    what he said was "s'ok, 2 branches for fifty dollas"
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    Lamp Posts

    they should easily be worth 450, even if they are reproductions. getting something in that style, new, would run around 400 each if you find a decent one with a good amount of weight to it. just try to pick one up, if theyre heavier then all hell, 450 for both should be a good deal. i know at...
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    YAEbayT: Hmmm... you guys think this guy is overcharging on shipping?

    To think that the people bidding didn't check the shipping costs is just friggin absurd. How retarded to you have to be? Even after ebay takes its cut off the top, he just made a profit by a nice margin.
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    Went to IKEA for the first time today.

    Gotta love Ikea and IkeaHacker both. I have an expedit desk set that's been kicking for 3 years without much wear at all (minus where the mouse sits). 4 or so expedit book cases (2 on their sides, one behind the couch, one against a wall across from the other, both black. 2 others standing up...
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    Gmail question

    When i export from my current contacts list in gmail, into outlook format, it takes the group and puts it under Categories... for example, my wife shows up as My Contacts;Family;Most Contacted in the csv, where as a friend came up as My Contacts;Friends Then just to make sure it came up right, i...
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    Top Gear America-- First Glance

    I have to agree on all counts there :) Wish i could get a couple of the cars shown on Top Gear to enjoy here. I'll give it a chance, no matter how slight. Maybe 1 or 2 episodes, but if they cant figure out why Top Gear is epic by then, I'll just give it up right there.
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    Actual differences between recent distros?

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/ubuntu-9-10-and-intel-845g-driver-765553/ has a solution to the chipset issue. but it wont help with the installation process itself as far as i can tell. cant recall if ubuntu will let you select repo packages during install. i havent run ubuntu...
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    Going to pick n ' pull for the first time

    they rock. we dont have pick n pull though, we have pick a part and a couple others around. they still rock though. had a pick n pull in florida i was at, different company though, and it was great as well. good thing i saw this post, reminds me i need to go and pickup a whole new blinker...
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    Converting current system into a storage server

    Ty both. I'll probably take the hint on the raid 1. Good point on speed not being needed. I planned to drop the OC to 2.6ghz or so as i'll probably run a web server off of it with a good few large mysql dbs on it and a few of the queries that'll be run have abused my system before when i did it...
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    Converting current system into a storage server

    Wanted to see what everyone thought of it. I'm a ways out from doing it (need to build my next system first), but I want to plan it out so I can account for the costs of it. Currently planned setup relies on the following items I own DFI LP-UT P35-T2R Q6600 @ 3.1GHz 8GB DDR2 @ 690 i believe...
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    Samsung 2TB, 3 platter 3.5" HD due in September

    what if i had 10 of these baskets with 9 in terms of storage space. wouldn't that be something to love :D
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    Cool isnt an issue. I'm married and dont need any game :) I'm very committed to learning how to ride, as opposed to just believing it's nothing and I can just do it. The guys I'm talking to all generally agree that a large engine bike is bad, just as everyone mentioned here. I have no plans to...
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    I did mean zx and not 6x. Was just waking up when I wrote it. I'm in southern California ... so there's a lot to be had for good prices around here since most people here buy then sell when they can't commit to riding. These guys ate selling their second bikes mostly and they see it as it'd be...
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    Heres a few more questions. More so on the note of an actual purchase. I was offered 8 bikes by a friend of mines friends, who all have motorcycles and one owns a shop around the area that specializes in them, which is also where we met them. Now, I dont remember all the names, so bear with me...
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    Verizon says original Droid 'doesn't have the hardware' to support a mobile hotspot

    crap ... i never knew i didnt have the hardware to do what i was doing all that time.
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    Finally getting around to rooting my Droid, which ROM to choose?

    I've been running roms on my phone since about a week after getting it. Always liked ChevyNo1s' Simply Stunning and more often then not I end up on Petes' Bugless Beast. I did find that going from stock to SS and BB under 2.1 gained me around 3 hours or so battery life using Chevys 1.0GHz LV...
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    Just Installed Froyo 2.2 on Incredible - Does WiFi Cost $?

    I do it on my rooted Droid running 2.2 (also did it with 2.1) and havent had an issue. I've hit 5GB used in a month (my net wasnt hooked up when we moved in here, and they told us theyd have another 2 week delay) and still nothing. So long as you dont go beating the heck out of it, they wont...
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    R.a.t. 7

    I love the way the mouse can be customized. It'll be a nice upgrade when I can afford it. Though I do love my MX518, I just want something different when I eventually upgrade it.
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    YAGT: Bought a pistol

    Now I need to go talk the wife into letting me finally buy a gun. California laws suck though, so this'll be interesting
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    What was Your First car? / How much did you spend? How old were you?

    The first car I "officially" owned was a 94 Dodge Shadow w/ 3.0L V6. Paid ... $300. Had 115k miles with a new engine and transmission in it. Bought from a friend who paid $3000 for it, but didnt want it anymore when she moved. Blew the shifting linkage before I moved here and had the ah heck...
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    WSJ: Nvidia Warns of Sales Shortfall

    The Right Stuff. I remember watching it in the early 90s when I was a kid. Not sure why I was watching it though, or how I remember it. Probably wanted to be an astronaut around then :)
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    Help me build my first rig!

    Firsttime is absolutely right on dropping the nic and usb card. no purpose in 99% of systems as the onboard lan is usually more then adequate (i've maxed the gbit onboard more then once) and if you need usb3, your better off with onboard. Right now I have a NZXT Zero. Good case, for the...
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    Thanks for the extra responses. It makes me debate more on the first bike bit of it all. I still like the V-Strom for the first bike and I'm not hugely worried on the ride height aspect of it as I'm 5'11 and not expecting huge issues with it. I do know harleys as a whole are in fewer accidents...
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    41K* for the Volt

    I've never been big on hybrids or electric cars (in the sense of looking into them, not against owning them), but wouldn't it make more sense to make this into a hybrid style "charge the battery" as the engine kicks, not just "drive the wheels" only? I mean that as drain to CDP, then use the...
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    I appreciate all the info. Sorry for disappearing for a while (long day at work, trying to sleep, not working. it is 2a after all) I am a complete novice to bikes. I've done quads on occasion, but i still wouldn't even say my knowledge is much higher on motorcycles as a whole. I mentioned...
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    Recommendations on a sports bike?

    I wanted to see if anyone here had any ideas on a good (edit: used :D ) sports bike that has a decent mix of speed (acceleration mostly, not so much top speed) and gas mileage (at around 80mph). Looking to spend around 5k at the high end (or 3k with work needed). Planning to get a job around 50...