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    My Mobo died (Supermicro X7SBL-LN2) need a replacement... little help!?

    My server's motherboard just died and I'm looking for a replacement. I noticed that the board I have in it (Supermicro X7SBL-LN2) retails at $179 and I'm looking to get something cheaper (<$100). My CPU is a C2D and I need to be able to install 4x 2gb G.Skill DDR2-800 on it. Any ideas?
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    Commercial I saw advertising Move to China for westerners ....

    I want to show my coworker a commercial I saw advertising westerners (presumably Americans but maybe Europeans as well) moving to a specific city or province in China I've seen it on CNBC. It looks somewhat like a low-budget cable company. Anyone know what province it is or better yet...
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    Can anyone ID this japanese (?) coin I found ?

    Found this coin and was wondering it's origin. Images (imgur album, 2 images): http://imgur.com/a/ftMqI Notes: * If I had to take an (un)educated guess I would say it is Japanese. But I am no expert on written languages, especially non-Latin ones. * From it's slight dimensions...
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    Selling an apt, looking for a "fake"/"broken" 27"+ LCD/Plasma TV for staging ...

    OK so I have a co-op apartment for sale that is currently vacant. The apartment is being sold without furniture; however, I am keeping it furnished for staging purposes. The furnishing includes a wall-mounted 32" TV. Due to the fact that I am not using it as a television, I want to take the...
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    Career change at 28, no technology experience -> technology position

    I'm really contemplating leaving the financial industry all together. I just turned 28, live in NYC, where I work for a big financial firm. I make good (not great) money and I just don't enjoy what I do. Every day is a struggle, every day I dread coming in to work.  What I do enjoy is...
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    Can't remember this song! Alt-rock (or 60's rock) and has lyrics "...in my bones.."

    I can't seem to place my finger on this song... I want to say it is in the vein of of Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells... and sort of like Never Met a Girl by Edwin Collins - if that makes sense... It's either a 60's tune or an alt rock tune from the past 2 decades.. the...
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    Now I'm no scientist, but this would assuredly kill someone...

    This was in Bill Simmons mailbag at ESPN.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmonsnflpicks/091125) Q: I'm pledging a fraternity right now. Last night they put us in a cold shower for one hour and then tied us up outside to a pole wearing only our boxers in 30-degree weather...
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    PHP - more of a math problem, dealing with weighting

    I have a set of values for particular years and I wish to weight the more recent data more heavily and the most distant (timewise) less heavily, and I wish to do it so that the weighting drops exponentially. It's been some time since I took a math course and for some reason I cannot think...
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    Anyone know much about cell phones (particularly AT&T)? My iphone broke - getting a new one but not until next week.

    Hi All - Unfortunately my iphone died and I cannot get a new one until next week at the earliest. In the meantime I am without a phone. I have an old crappy phone - can I just swap the sim into the old phone - and then when I get the new iphone swap the sim into that? I know with...
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    Trying to implement a diggbar / toolbar for a network of sites/blogs/messageboards

    Hi - I am in the middle of setting up and running a network of sites/forums/blogs on different platforms ran by different people. I would like to set up a network toolbar of sorts (similar to the diggbar) and I believe I would be using iframes. My ultimate goal is giving webmasters a small...
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    I lost my Dell XP COA and have since formatted/installed Linux. The warranty expired 2 years ago.

    Hey guys, I recently found my old Dell 710m and I realiezd that the COA is half ripped off. I had formatted and installed ubuntu so I can't just recover the key with a software app. Am i SOL? Thanks, Al Neri
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    This word escapes me... another name for a ceramic threshold that you put in a doorway when laying ceramic tiles

    What is the other name for a ceramic threshold (I think that's what it is also known as) that you put in a doorway when laying tiles.. like this: http://www.stonelocator.com/im...eveled%20Threshold.jpg
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    Resume Question, former employer changed their name after I left... how to address?

    For arguments sake, pretend that OLD, Inc. renamed itself to NEW, Inc. I have been approaching it as such: Analyst, NEW, Inc. (former OLD, Inc.)........... August 2004-March 2006 should I just do : Analyst, NEW, Inc.................... August 2004-March 2006 or Analyst, OLD...
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    Google Voice Invites?

    Anyone know the deal? Can anyone hook me up with an invite? :) matstars@NOSPAMgmail.com thanks ! al neri
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    What the fark? PHP math does not work?

    I am writing a quick script that will take baseball statistics for innings pitched and convert it to usable mathematical form. "What was that" you may say. Well, if a pitcher pitches 80 complete innings and then gets 1 out in an inning and gets pulled it is written as 80.1 - whereas...
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    Saw the movie Chinatown

    I saw the movie Chinatown after hearing nothing about how great it is. The movie was OK, nothing that special. Jack Nicholson was pretty good in it (and I don't particularly like him). The plot was very flawed and there's a lot of fairly ridiculous things that happen (e.g. when Jack...
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    Anyone have experience in wordpress templating?

    If you think you can help, shoot me a PM :) $ of course :)
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    Rap fans, what beat is this ?

    This is bothering me to no end. This song is from the mixtape Master P by Sean Price. The track is called Jackass Number 2. I believe this is the right YouTube video (I am at work so it is blocked). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM_N8zSJhJ8 What is this beat from? It is killing...
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    Cheap/Free Local Phone #? (Voice and VM or just VM)

    I set up an LLC and need a phone number for it, I wanted a cheap and easy way to do it - I think GrandCentral (GoogleVoice) did it for free, but as far as I know it's invite only and/or the invites are not available right now. Is there an easy and cheap and/or free way to just set up a local...
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    In vegas taking a day off from gambling and strip related things. Rented a car - what to do? Hoover dam, etc?

    What up? I am in vegas with a few friends and we already gambled our minds out so we are taking it easy today from most "strip" related things. We rented a car and were going to see the Hoover dam which is like an hour away. What else is close by that we can do today and how far away are they...
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    What is the "t" that is used to denote a footnote?

    What is that called? Thanks!
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    :cookie; me

    :cookie: me Last night I had a men?s fast pitch softball game. We were up 17-6 against a bunch of meatheads in the bottom of the 5th. The mercy rule is leading by 10 after the 5th inning. I led off the 5th and the other team put in a new pitcher. He couldn't throw a ball lower than 7 feet...
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    Anyone downtown in manhattan... earlier today around 10 AM EST a VC25 with F16's flew by my office...

    my local paper, staten island advance said... http://www.silive.com/news/ind..._not_to_divulge_i.html
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    Real Estate Question: Fire my broker?

    OK I am selling my studio co-op, because I am getting married and need to get into a bigger place than I have right now. I did a fair amount of research on property values and believe it is priced right. I signed with a real estate agent who lives in my building and, without doing research on...
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    What is happening!?? Computer wont post, will post, wont boot into vista, works then wont reboot, argh!

    I have a PC, here are the general specs: AMD64 3000+ socket 754 CPU @ 2.35GHz Thermalright XP-120 heatsink/fan Biostar K8NHA-M Grand mATX motherboard Antec 350-watt power supply (3-year warranty) Retail Nvidia 6200 (unlockable to 6600) different sets of ram, see below different hard...
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    Any good Mac FS/T's?

    I've been looking for a Macintosh focused FS/T that's updated and enforced as much as Anantech, Hardforums, Pcper, etc. I know MacRumors has one but it requires 250 posts... Any other big ones? I couldn't think where to put this, if it doesn't belong in OT, sorry! Don R.
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    geeky fantasy baseball team

    i just named my team Wave him 192.168.1.1 :o
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    Is this possible? Get Xbox 360's Media Center Extender to play my DivX/XviD/MKV/etc. media?

    What's up? Currently I have the following setup -> -Xbox 360 by my TV -A laptop in my closet -DLink 323 in my closet * All via wired network I have TVersity running on my laptop to transcode my media on the DLink. Question: Can Windows 7 serve DivX and/or XviD and/or MKV, etc...
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    Netherlands wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Domincan out of the world baseball classic!
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    1997 Maxima Issues....

    Hey guys, OK I bought a great used 1997 Maxima GLE from a neighbor, just need a few things... #1 my antenna, sigh, there's no antenna - apparently it got ripped off - here's the nub: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh...HAoHUw?feat=directlink and...
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    Simple - Ajax Question - mysql/innerHTML issue with IE6?

    Simple - Ajax Question - mysql/innerHTML issue with IE6? What's up. OK, I more or less am brand new to Ajax, so be easy :) I put together this quick form that allows a user to sign up - the data.php just basically checks a mysql db if the username exists, and either -if it doesn't...
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    What members run hosting companies?

    kkthxbye!
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    Where is the Corleone's compound / house in the Godfather? Where is the tollbooth that Sonny shot at?

    Where is the Corleone's compound/ house in the Godfather? Where is the tollbooth that Sonny shot at? just trying to figure it out --- Robert Duvall said he was shot "on the causeway" ? Thanks
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    javascript woes... should be easy - hiding classes with a twist

    I'm currently making a table of baseball data-- I'm trying to make a table that will hide multiple rows in javascript... now I put together a way to do it by class, but it is not fully doing it the way I wanted it to. I found and built some code as an attempt to get it to work - but...
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    I need 14 math college credits

    I'm thinking about a career change - and wanted to take some math classes so that I could qualify to teach math in high schools. My state requires 21 credits - so since I have 7 credits already I need an addition 14... Has anyone done anything like this with an online university? How...
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    eBay issue - advice?

    Spare the flames, posts that say "ebay sucks", "never use ebay", etc. Thanks. OK, I sold a laptop on ebay - bidding ended on 1/25/2009, I was going out of town on February 1st, I had it end on the 25th so that could leave the buyer 5 business days (7 calendar days) to send me the payment...
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    There's a book that I can buy a pdf copy for 1/2 the price... how can I bind it? It'd be 270 printed pages...

    I'm trying to see if its worth it to buy the ebook and save $25 bucks. It's 270 printed pages - (double sided - 540 total) Will Staples do something like this? Can I do it myself? edit: I'll buy it!
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    Eliminate Sleep? Is evolution proof that we can't get rid of the need for sleep?

    Think about it. If we were able to eliminate sleep - wouldn't it have been facilitated via evolution? As it appears as humans as a whole, (not talking about specific age groups), our sleep necessities appear to have remained the same - we have not even even lessened the volume necessary...
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    Anyone good with symbol font (dingbat) identification?

    Anyone good with symbol font (dingbat) identification? trying to figure out what font this was made with http://whitecloverllc.com/logo.jpg Thanks, Don R.