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  1. KoolAidKid

    Real estate gurus - realtor commission question

    My wife and I have had our house on the market for some time now. We decided to try a different approach and rent it out instead. I told our realtor that we wanted out of our listing contract so that we could put it on the rental market. She agreed. We did all of our own advertising for...
  2. KoolAidKid

    Anybody recognize this wheel logo?

    A prelude I bought recently has a set of 17" wheels on them that I am having trouble identifying. There are no markings on them other than the symbol on the lug nut cover. Anyone recognize this? Thanks!
  3. KoolAidKid

    WTF ad of the day

  4. KoolAidKid

    Need a speaker selector that handles 2 inputs and 32 outputs

    I am in the process of setting up a speaker array for research purposes. I have 32 speakers in the array. The array will be attached to a computer's sound card. Ideally, I would like a switch that takes up to 2 line-level inputs and outputs speaker-level signals to 1 or 2 of the speakers in...
  5. KoolAidKid

    Top violinist plays at subway station, no one notices

    A long read, but interesting. I searched for 'bell', 'joshua', and 'violin', so hopefully not a repost. Washington post article
  6. KoolAidKid

    Woo hoo! I just unlocked the fuel computer on my Mazda3!

    I realize that I am probably late to the party on this one, but in case some of the many mazda3 owners on this forum haven't heard about this yet... I read about this on mazda3forums. If you have a 2006+ Mazda3 you can unlock the fuel computer by doing the following: 1) Make sure that the...
  7. KoolAidKid

    My browser trembles and I want it to stop.

    I really don't know how else to describe this problem. I am using Firefox v2.0. For the past 2 days I have been getting a very strange problem about half of the time when viewing web pages. All text and graphics on the web page appears to jump up a couple of pixels and then jump down again...
  8. KoolAidKid

    YAF(inancial)T: My company is going public

    My company (Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC) is likely going public this fall. They are a large defense contractor ($7.2 billion in revenue, 43,000+ employees, see here). They have 36 years of continued revenue and earnings growth. The company currently has internal...
  9. KoolAidKid

    Canon Rebel XT Body $504 AR/AC (+tax and shipping, if applicable)

    I searched for rebel and didn't find this, but you never know how well the search function will work. Anyway, Dell home has a good deal on the Canon Digital Rebel XT. You can use two coupons (stackable), one for 20% off (check your favorite deals site) and another for $35 off $300...
  10. KoolAidKid

    PSA: Ebay is the devil

    So I bought a pair of Xbox 360's a couple of weeks ago thinking that I could sell them on ebay and make $50. I put them up on ebay with buy it now prices. One is purchased by some dumba$$ who is suposedly based in Pennsylvania and wants me to ship it to his son at the University of Lagos...
  11. KoolAidKid

    Mooning is declared legal in Maryland

    WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any...
  12. KoolAidKid

    Will a mobile p4 (not P-M or P4-M) work on a socket 478 motherboard?

    I'm wondering if a mobile pentium 4 (SL726) can work in a standard desktop motherboard. Note that this is a Mobile Pentium 4 CPU, not a Pentium M or a Mobile Pentium 4 - M CPU. 478 pins, 1.3V, 533 FSB. Any info is much appreciated.
  13. KoolAidKid

    How not to declassify a document

    Open this in Acrobat reader. Right click on the black bars. Enjoy. link
  14. KoolAidKid

    Question for those knowledgeable about house appraisals

    I am currently working with a builder to try to get a house. They are building two houses currently. House A is finshed, and House B is about 8 weeks away from being finished. Both houses have 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, are located within a block from one another, and are essentially the same...
  15. KoolAidKid

    Knobs for Audiophiles!

    Link As the saying goes, a fool and his money are soon parted.
  16. KoolAidKid

    One snowflake and the whole state has a coronary

    Here is a list of my snow-related grievances: 1) Three days before the "snowstorm" is supposed to arrive, and the supermarket is jammed with idiots stocking up on canned food and batteries like the apocalypse is coming. What is wrong with you people? I swear, there is a large segment of the...
  17. KoolAidKid

    Dual channel problems

    I have the following hardware: Athlon XP-M 2400+ 35W running at 9.5x200 and 1.35 V Biostar M7NCG 400 NForce2 motherboard Kinstom Value RAM PC3200 (2x256 MB chips) MSI 9800 Pro video card Antec 300W PSU (proprietary PSU that is part of the Aria case) I have been having pretty constant...
  18. KoolAidKid

    A demon has possessed my computer

    My computer was working just fine for months until I installed XP SP2. I then would get frequent lockups. I also got a lot of VPU recovery errors, which means that the video card stopped responding briefly. So, I wiped my hard drive and did a clean install of XP (No service packs). I need...
  19. KoolAidKid

    Holy cow, I am 30 today.

    Cookies, please.
  20. KoolAidKid

    Long distance wireless speaker setup

    I am looking to build a wireless speaker setup to control 6 speakers that are up to 400 meters away from the transmitter. The speakers will be placed in a line that extends away from the transmitter. Each speaker will be driven by its own self-powered amp. Basically I need a way to send the...
  21. KoolAidKid

    Help me spend my limited funds

    Ok, two options for a system upgrade: Option #1: A64 3000+ CPU 1x 80-gig SATA drive MSI K8TM-ILS (KT800-based) mainboard Option #2: XP 2600+ Mobile CPU 2x 80-gig SATA drives in RAID 0 Shuttle MN31N (NForce2-based) PCI SATA RAID card Which is the better choice? Feel free to suggest other...
  22. KoolAidKid

    Monitor blanks out occaisionally

    Every hour or so my monitor blanks like it's not getting any video input. It stays like this for about 5 seconds before going back to normal. I'm running a SFF PC with the following components: -Radeon 9200 (low profile), latest drivers -512 MB RAM (PC3200) -P4 1.6A, Asus P4s333 M/B -Samsung...
  23. KoolAidKid

    Need small, quiet HSF

    I am putting together a Flex ATX system. One of my main priorities is reducing noise, and it's gotten to the point where the Intel retail HSF is the loudest part of the system. I would like to replace it, but there isn't a whole lot of room. I'm looking for a quiet HSF that is no more than 60...
  24. KoolAidKid

    Wireless card installation problem

    I have an HP zt1000 laptop, and I just bought a Dlink DWL-650+ PCMCIA card for it. Followed the install instructions to the letter, and windows locks while loading my cardbus driver during startup. I'm running XP Pro. I've tried every available version of Dlink's drivers, with the same...
  25. KoolAidKid

    Memory upgrade question

    I am looking to upgrade my RAM from 256 to 512 or 768. Currently, I have a P4S333 mainboard, P4 1.6A, and a 256 MB PC2700 stick with Samsung chips. I am running this setup at 150 MHz FSB, the memory at 3:5 at the most aggressive timings that are available in BIOS. Both RAM and CPU are running...