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    budget video camera

    I used to work in video production 8 years ago. Since then got out of the industry completly an not done a ton with it. I'm getting the itch to get a camera to record family moments. that requirement is fairly easy and i'm sure i can find a HD camera that will fit the bill for a few hundred...
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    worth upgrading desk to act as a home server?

    I have a quad core Llano FM1 based system i built a 3 years ago, haven't really used it in the past 2 years. I pretty much just use my phone or laptop and only use it when I need something that requires a desktop pc, this has mainly happend because of new baby and my office being moved to the...
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    Send/Receave Text from a Computer

    trying to setup some sort of way for Dispatch at my company to communicate via text to company issued cellphones. currently we all text to the employees using our own phones, but that limits the information because it is limited to who sent the msg, is there anyone that offers say a website...
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    Cheap Reliable High MPG commuter car

    Just took a new position that going to require about a 120 mile a day commute. Been thinking about getting into an older car that I can just pay cash for (under 7kish) My brother has been pushing me toards a VW TDI as a good option, but there only worth getting in a stick from what he says. I...
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    cost of living adjustment

    Just had my yearly review, another near perfect one, and another crappy raise of 2%. My boss was just the messenger of course and he encouraged me to write a letter to send up the chain of command. Anyone know where I can find the cost of living increases over the past few years? Tried...
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    odd craigslist sale...

    So I was selling an extra 17 in monitor on craigslist for 30 bucks. Guy agrees to price and comes to pick it up. When he gets there he offers me a 32in LCD tv as a straight up trade. I took the trade and it works great. What's the possible angle the kid had for even offering such a lopsided...
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    very nice house boarder line neighborhood, boarder line house nice area

    So in a dilemma. Been house shopping for about a month or two in the Kalamazoo area. Mainly was lookin for a countryish house. This weekend I happened across a program kzoo is doing they torr done 50+ homes in a niehborhood that was heading south. And built some parks new public buildings...
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    Office IT rant

    SO got a question for you guys, and I know alot of you are in IT of some sort. shouldn't the idea of the IT department be to make the rest of the companies lifes easier? seems like its the reverse here. converted to thin clients a few years ago, took awhile to work out all the bugs and issues...
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    Thinking of buying a House

    so got married a few months ago, and had a kinda 3 year plan. pay off debts this year, buy a house year 2 start on kids year 3. well I'm getting pissed at our landlord (a/c is dieing but not dead, cost us 350 in electricity to run the damn thing last month (800sqft townhouse). basically I...
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    Cable Cards and media extenders

    ok here is the deal. finally getting cable back after not having it for awhile since the wife wants it and its about football season anyway. Just setup a projector to replace my tv and because of that my room is situated as such that the cable line is going to require a over the floor run to...
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    Projector under 400 bucks

    Looking to setup a lowend projector in my home. Main goal for this is to allow me to rearange my living room to give me more functional space, but the wall where it makes sense to put the tv is not going to work for a LCD/Plasma (no power, awkward to wire...etc over a balcony and would need a...
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    Any Wine Snobs on here?

    so me and my fiance enjoy wine quite a bit but its the cheaper variety or some cheap swill I brew in the basement on occation. at our wedding she came up with the idea of a wine box ceremony, basically you close a bottle of wine and a couple letters your write before the wedding in there to be...
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    Neuterd Kitten - Crazy Cat

    so my very active very crazy kitten just got back from getting its balls waked off. vet said to keep him relaxed and calm for the next week and away form my other cat and dog. I thought yeah prolly best he is going to be in alot of pain and just want to sleep. ummm he is prolly as nuts...
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    Nielsen Survey...5 free dollars?

    so I got a nielsen survey in the mail...I was like cool so people actually do get selected for these things, and raitings aren't made up. so I open it up and 5 crisp 1 dollar bills are inside, did they just really send me cash?
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    John Daly's Hairy Navel

    I guess that's what i'm drinking...made it accidently. Peach Vodka (meant to grab the sweet tea vodka but I mixed the drink in the dark) lemonade realized something was off (was going for a drunken Palmer) so I figured what the hell Mixed in some instant tea and OJ pretty damn...
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    What's for dinner?

    I'll start...was feeling foodie tonight so and it felt like a Bar Food type of night watching college bball all afternoon...So brought the bar home :) Roast beef, Mushrooms, Bacon, with Provolone on a Pretzel Roll.
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    Cheapest Plane Tickets

    so booking tickets for my honeymoon. I've found a decent deal thru airtrans website which is actually cheaper than all the deal websites for the same flight...but haven't done the priceline bidding thing in years, is there any bennifit to going that route these days or is it not any cheaper
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    How to sell collectables?

    So my fiance has several totes worth of Tweety Bird "stuff" I imagin some of it might actually be valuable, and she wants to sell it. I have no freakin idea where to start though...anyone have any ideas? I can sell anything that is electronic or nerdy but this "stuff" I dunno.
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    250-300 budget for new camera

    not sure what to get. really IQ is the primary goal, ease of use is secondary since my Fiance will be using the camera as well. Looking at used and new options. Cameras that have caught my eye E-pl1, s95, gf2, g11/12, maybe a low end used dslr?
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    so no clue where to go for Honeymoon

    we have about 2500 in the honeymoon budget and not sure what to do. Jamaca was plan A but the resort we eyed a few months ago can't fit into our budget anymore, and the other resorts that do just don't seem to be all that great reading about them. We thought about renting a house int he keys...
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    so I missed Jury Duty

    so I'll admit I missed it prolly my fault, but I never really check my mail, nothing important comes in there that I need, all bills I ahve are autmatic or atleast handled thru email, but was going thru some past mail to find an old pay stub because there was a dispute over some sick time with...
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    How much to feed a kitten

    so me and my fiance (well she did I just chose this a battle not to fight) adopted a stray kitten. good little guy, figured him 6 weeks when we got him. was pretty sick (upper recipitory, ear mights, worms...etc) brought him to the vet, vet thought we were about right ta 6weeks then he checked...
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    Caribbean Destination Wedding ideas

    so got engaged over the holidays, Both of us really wanted to get married in May on our aniversery date, but that was conflicting with her sisters wedding a few days before. so we were going for a late summer early fall wedding. Well as I expected her sister and the dude she was engaged to...
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    Just don't get sick

    and I don't know why, I mean I'm overweight, don't live the healthiest lifestlye, work my self to death yet I rarely get sick and if I do its just a minor bump on the road. This Xmas I go to my parents with my new fiance, they anouce sorry hope you don't get sick but we just got over a major...
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    Engagement Ring

    I'm going down that path, and done a bit of shopping locally and looking online, when I started looking I went in with the thought that who could really tell the difference between lower end stones and a good one, and I was super surprised there was such a big difference, and that what most...
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    Knife Set

    Looking to get my dad a decent to good set of knifes. done some research but its so many different opinions out there. budget is 100-120. Not necessarily looking to get a "set" but would like to get him some good steak knifes, a chefs knife, pairing knife, and something to sharpen them with...
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    best bang for buck in P&S?

    would love a dslr, but I don't think the other half would find it easy to use, and she is the one that wants a camera more than me so figure I should stick to a P&S. would like to spend 200-300 what would be the best bang for the buck in that range. size isn't a major concern, but good low...
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    First New Build in a LONG time

    ok few months ago my main system got hit by lightning and really don't have the patience to go thru it peace by peace to figure out what is good or bad. Looking to build a budget workstation, I don't game much anymore but something about on par with the Nvidia 8800gt I had would be nice. so...
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    Trying to help GF with Debt issues

    GF got screwed in her divorce and really knows nothing about finances. while i'm not to the point in the relationship that I'm going to bail her out I want to help her figure out a game plan to figure it out, since she has been basically trying to just pay it for the past 1.5 years and just...
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    Decent Mattress for cheap?

    so i'm in the market for a new bed, up till this point in my life I just always used a second hand bed or bed provided in whatever place i'm staying mainly because I never really could afford a bed. well I got a new place and don't have a bed now since I sold mine when I moved in with my ex...
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    Female roommate

    good or bad idea? I just broke up with my GF of a couple years. and while I could easily afford my own place right now I haven't lived alone in awhile and I know very few people in the area. I'm going to go see a place sunday. its a pretty nice house where I would rent the basement for 475 a...
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    What OS for old Laptop

    My GF was planning on getting her dad a Netbook for xmas, but I was able to aquire a really nice shape Dell D610 for 50 bucks from my works IT department, haven't received it yet but it has some sort of single core Core processor from my research 1.8-2ghz or so. also has a x300 radeon in it...
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    Netbook prices

    has anyone else noticed they have gone up in price lately? got my GF a Mini 10V on a deal for 199 a year ago and can't find anything around that price now. everything seems to be 250+
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    buying used 360

    I know the early ones should be avoided like the plauge? at what point is the RROD not much of a concern?
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    best internetTV solution

    ok I'm thinking of making the switch to full on Inet TV, I did it before, but then I moved in with the girlfriend and my method of computer hooked to tv did not meet aproval lol and found setting up a nice interface way to much mainence for me to mess with. so with the recent push of settop...
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    Jackass neighbor

    so I'm having a New furnace and A/C done on my house this week and unfortionally do to its location required some significant work to extract the old one and put the new one in due to it being in a crawlspace with no acess large enough to fit a furnace thru. Well I have a nosey neighboy, you...
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    Insurance Weirdness

    So I had some lightning damage to my A/C and Furnace. Had an quote written up for it and it was 6000 bucks with some nice equipment, figuring the insurance company would jew us down so there was some buffer built in. well the adjuster came back, not only did I not need to get a second estimate...
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    ughh I hate IT

    ok I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable computer person, only reason I didn't go into IT or a related field is I hated dealing with people being idiots with computers, and knew most entry level jobs that would be the primary roll. Now I can't be the only person like this who works for a...
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    boss askign for opinion on an old coworker of mine

    what would you guys do in this situation. about a year ago I started where I'm at now after I got fired from my old job for a BS reason since then a couple other people from the company I used to work for have came over and worked out pretty well here. both I gave good recommendation for...
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    matrox dualhead2go

    Just started a new job this past week. And its on site at a customer. And I have to use a computer supplied by the customer that's pretty well locked down. my job really needs 2 monitors to work efficently, and the comp they supplied just has a single output with a x1300 attached. I was...