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    Google Voice Question

    You can make free calls to the US through Google Voice / Gmail...but can you do this overseas? Trying to figure out if I'll be able to make calls back to the US when I'm traveling abroad.
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    Gimmal

    Which one of you were on Anandtech a few minutes ago?
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    Renting Issue - Need Advice

    I live in in a town home with two guys. One is my roommate from college and long time friend. The other is the 'landlord' who we know through a friend of a friend. Unfortunately he doesn't know how to do upkeep on a home. There has been a leak in the faucet, which is slowly going to rot out the...
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    Higher Education Question

    I just graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science from Texas A&M. The company I'm working for will pay $X per credit hour towards a degree that benefits your job. I'm going to do either an MBA or Masters in Computer Science, but the good schools cost a lot (Rice MBA/CPSC, TAMU MBA in...
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    Wiring Help

    Is there a part I can buy to be able to hook up a fluorescent light to a normal wall socket? I think this is a T12 ballast.
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    Croatia

    Has anyone been there? My friend and I are going to Europe and looking for places to stay. How cheap is it compared to western Europe and the United States? Is the weather nice towards the end of May?
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    Alton Brown Thread #24601

    I just tried his recipe for making a steak with a cast iron pan, and it's awesome. Easily beats any steak from Outback, Texas Roadhouse, etc. Cast iron pan was probably the best investment I made this year.
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    Illegal entry by apartment management

    My roommate told me today a note was left in our apartment over spring break stating someone from apartment management had entered our apartment to check on the furniture. Since this wasn't an emergency, did they illegally enter our apartment because they never gave notice? Plus the only...
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    Why do pickup trucks own people?

    Is it because pickup trucks are much larger and move much quicker?
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    Deceptive advertising

    I went to a local frozen yogurt place tonight and noticed a slight problem. They advertise their product as .39c per oz, but charged me 39c per oz instead. I guess they hired a lot of ex Verizon employees.
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    Are people really this inconsiderate?

    Now I'm not a tree hugging, eco-friendly hippy, but I try to reduce waste. Especially waste that ends up costing me like electricity. So I have a friend who constantly leaves fans, lights, and laptops on. Her and her sister live together and she gets absolutely mad when her sister tells her...
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    Wireshark Help

    Is it possible to "reapply" a certain protocol pattern to an incoming or outgoing data? For example, if Wireshark sees that a frame has a protocol type of 0x0800, it will cast the frame into an IPv4 packet. I'm working with a driver that resets the protocol type to 0xdddd to bypass the...
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    Any celiacs around?

    Do you frequently eat gluten-free replacements for things such as bread, noodles, etc? I went to the grocery store with them last night and everything gluten-free was very expensive. $5 for a loaf of bread about 1/3rd the size of a normal loaf, that's too expensive for me. On top of that...
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    Thai-spiced cashews from HEB

    Anyone have a recipe for Thai-spiced cashews? I'm wanting to recreate the spice, so I can apply it to other types of nuts.
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    Online shop that aggregates other shops?

    My uncle has some friends that sell various products. He wants to sell them all on his site, but instead of holding inventory, just automatically make an order with each of his friend's site whenever a customer orders from my uncle's site. I told him this would be pretty hard to do since...
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    C++ Question

    Is there a difference in declaring variables with char* var vs. char *var?
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    Pita Bread

    Anyone ever make it? Pita bread and breads in general are a lot cheaper if you make them yourself. Cooking your own food is always enjoyable as well. Anyone have some recipes or tips? I'm going with this recipe Text
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    Protesting

    The protest was a success. My "Jerrod for Heisman" sign riled up a bunch of anti-Obama protesters while the pro-Obama and neutral protesters enjoyed it. Protests are actually pretty entertaining because there all sorts of crazy people and endless amounts of trolling opportunities. My favorite...
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    I'll be protesting tomorrow

    when Obama comes to campus. Who else wants to come? Wow wrong forum, seems someone wasn't paying attention last night.:laugh: Sorry about the P&N leakage.:o Anandtech Senior Moderator Red Dawn
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    Context Free Grammar

    I have a problem where I can only figure it out by using CFG rules like so: ij => iijjj ij => iijjk etc Are you allowed to have two nonterminals on the LHS? For this particular problem, I don't see how to keep multiples sets of things in order.
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    What type of milk do you drink?

    What type of milk do you drink? And why? Taste, health reasons, price, tradition, etc.
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    World's Longest Basketball Shot

    Text Shot from the 3rd deck of Texas A&M's Kyle Field. Do you think it's real?
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    Amazon Prime

    I'm in college and change my address pretty frequently. Can you change your address with Amazon Prime or am I stuck with one address permanently? If you can change it, how often are you able to?
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    who is the oldest person here still living at home with the parents?

    20 and still living with my parents, but about to return to college.
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    Never trust user input

    Just sayin'.
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    Do picky eaters annoy you?

    I've never been a very picky eater until the last few years. I've started eating healthy, which means less soda, hamburgers, etc, although I'll still eat anything that is prepared for me. Now I know some people that will say, "omg tomatoes are nasty", "seafood is disgusting it feels so...
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    Copyright ownership

    I'm studying computer science and imagine I'll be doing some programming at work after graduating. I was talking with a coworker at my internship about copyright ownership over code I write at work. Assume I don't sign a contract giving them ownership to all the code. Although are these types...
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    Need sex of Indian name

    Is Hiren a male, female, or unisex name? I want to properly address my future professor in an email.
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    I'm an extremist

    I enjoy making sarcastic comments on current events especially politics via Facebook. Now before you read, I'm close to moderate but lean more to the conservative side. I support healthcare form but not necessarily in it's current state. The comment below is one I made about the left wingers...
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    Thinking about buying a Wii

    I haven't owned a console system since the N64 I bought a long time ago. Since then I've been playing computer games exclusively and have been out of the loop when it comes to console gaming. I've heard Wii is a good multiplayer console and have been wanting something to make my town home a...
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    Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants

    What countries currently provide free health care under their national health plans to illegal immigrants?
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    Grilled Pork Loin

    I sliced up a pork loin about 3/4" wide and rubbed it with some dry rub. How long should I keep these suckers on the grill? Update: I finished grilling them. I thought I overcooked them first and then undercooked them secondly, but they turned out juicy and delicious. Dried out pork or...
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    What is an engineer?

    I'm a computer science major in the college of engineering. I don't believe I'm an engineer, so I usually say, "I'm computer science but in the engineering college." The reason I ask is because some people at work call themselves network engineers but none of them went to a four year...
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    Kernel Patching

    I'm trying to patch the 2.6.18 kernel on a CentOS machine to 2.6.30 (with web100). Whenever I run the web100 script, I'm getting an error: Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej I'm guessing this file is important or it wouldn't be...
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    Graduate Degree Questions

    I'm currently a computer science and plan on staying in computer science for graduate school. If I wanted to start graduate school during the Fall of 2010, when do I start applying to schools? Are most the deadlines around December 2009 because that's when my current school's deadline is...
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    Move / Rename

    I have a php script that downloads a jpg to a temporary directory. The jpg is then converted to a png using ImageMagick. After completing the conversion, I use the php script to move (using rename()) the png to a live directory. I have another script that takes the newest image from the live...
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    Open Source / Cheap Bandwidth Test Software

    My workplace has been trying to find an open source or cheap bandwidth test software. I found Fancy Speed Test Text, but it suppose to be inaccurate at speeds over 10mbs. Unfortunately we are going to be testing optical lines and need something that can handle larger bandwidths. Any ideas?
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    Slow SSH

    I was SSHing into my local Linux box and noticed my SSH and SFTP connections took a long time to initiate. This has never happened until recently when my internet was down. I was reading another forum, and it appears that SSH looks up the connecting computer's hostname using DNS. Since my...