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    Why do I feel double screwed by the recall.

    So I just built up my system with an I2600k, 8gb ram, 2 TB HD;s in Raid, OCZ SSD, Blue ray and DVD burner and I cannot really use the raid to backup any data! I have been out of the loop for a while but As I understand it, the RAID array is created on the MOBO chipset. If i create the Array...
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    Anything I should change on this?

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. Gaming, Video Encoding 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread 100-1200 3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from. USA- NewEgg, Microcenter 4. IF YOU have a brand preference. None 5. If...
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    Setting up a Server to Run "Admixture Application"

    I am trying to run this software that can be downloaded here: http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/software/admixture/download.html To analyse some genetic data as another individual has done here: http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/09/playing-with-admixture.html here...
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    Got a free server, not sure what to do with it.

    Long story made short: My firm "ATE" another smaller firm which had a one man IT staff, 2 small slow servers and a fast one. After we ate them we decided to recycle their equipment INCLUDING the fast server, finally pulling the plug on their stuff after a year.. MY firm said i could have...
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    Tried to catch a Praying mantis....

    I think i was a male, small and brown. I saw it flying and wondered what it was. I wanted to bring it home and show my wife but it starting scratching and biting me. It bit me on the thumb and actually drew blood. I am surprised. Anyway anyone ever get bit by a mantis?
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    Windows Server 2003 Drivers

    Recently i snagged an IBM Eserver 325 off ebay. For those that dont know already a few sellers have them listed for about 220.oo via "Buy it Now" or you can bid in and get lucky at 130-200ish. Specs: Dual Opteron 2ghz 2gig ram 120 IDE 7200 SCSI onboard CD 1U Rack etc.. For...
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    Ghana Strikes oil

    Fresh from tha BBC Ghana's President John Kufuor says the discovery of the country's first major oil deposit could turn the West African country into an "African tiger". Bravo Ghana. I doubt that they will fight over it and lets hope its well managed. Some of the comments made by...
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    Living off rats to survive in Zimbabwe

    Rats for food :( Look what we've been reduced to eating?" she said. "How can my children eat rats in a country that used to export food? This is a tragedy. Robert Mugabe who is right about few things but wrong about most is not a stupid guy. He has like 8 real degrees including a 9th degree...
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    Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?

    Article at the NYT - No registration required Just a bit of the article posted. (Bolded by me.) This difference is something that i learned in highshcool, i think 10th grade, and i think its very important to understand the dynamic of that part of the world. I find it sad that so...
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    Politics of Health Care

    Right now i pay almost nothing for health care. With my new plan starting in 2007 i will have to pay 250 bi-monthly for family coverage. The deductible is 5k per year. :thumbsdown: Thats like 10K a year. Thats more than i contribute to my 401k. I dont know what i am going to do. That is...
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    Why do we downplay historical facts?

    I have noticed may times, and as evident in the thread on "Filtering news in IRAN" that we have the practice of downplaying the historical facts of the US, and our allies. Why is it that everytime one person brings up what another country has done in the pas 40 or 50 years to sponsor terror...
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    Home Network Woes, too many devices

    I need help. Is anyone good at home networking? I have had many problems and i have tried all sorts of ways to setup my network. Here is the issue - I have 2 rooms - Office and Bedroom. -In the bedroom is a Cable connection and a D-link Wireless router. hooked up to that router is a PS2 and...
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    MSI S271

    I am looking into getting this laptop when it comes out. I have been wanting an thin and light athlon 64 for a while. The new ones with x2s are right around the corner and i found this website that has a full review...in Russian. I am at work. Anyone know of a good site to translate pages...
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    Any Cell Phone Experts?

    I have a Samsung A920 CDMA phone that i got for free. My woman is overseas and broke her cell phone. The samsung A920 Here That i got for free is on the CDMA network. She is in Africa operating on the GSM 900 network. The Samsung A920 PHone has some cool features and uses a Transflash...
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    Help with home network

    I have many Network devices. With a cable modem and wireless router in the bedroom. In the bedroom i also have -Ps2 -Xbox The ps2 and Xbox are wired connected to wireless router. In the office i have a PC with 2 nics, one Wireless. and a Mac with NO wireless nic. I also have a laptop...
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    Anyone know cisco routers?

    I have gotten a used Cisco 2610 from a friend that used to work at Fuji. The router came with a tag that had the password on it but it reused to work. I have dabbled in Cisco about 6 years ago (2500 series) and tried to reset the password using the cnrtl /break method. It didnt work. I went...
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    back to school

    Thinking of going back to school when i get laid off. Maybe someone can help with info on loans. - Is there a "cap" a person can take in living expenses relative to the cost of the school itself? - Does Unemployment, or unemployment benefits have any weight on grants, or Finiancial Aid? - Are...
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    What ever happended to Sigma Designs

    So im thinking about the "olden days" and Sigma Designs. i remember when the baddest PC on the block would have one of these cards. I put one in every PC i had built. For those that may not know at one point you NEEDED a dedicated PCI card to play DVD's on your PC. Sigma Designs simply made...
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    Kim Jong-il 2 - Why is he "crazy"

    I had a family member that was "mentally Ill" how is Kim Jong 2 mentally ill? I hear he is crazy but they never say why. Same thing for Sadaam Hussein, does he really seem mentally ill to you guys?
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    Need a real Server

    IBM Eserver 326 HP Proliant DL145 Sunfire V20v Hello, all and thnaks in advance. I may need to buy a real server to do a lot of different things to. Data mining, compiling, mock trouble shooting, web host/stress testing. I would like a dual opteron server and im trying to spend...
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    Why Al Sharpton Should have been President

    A while ago i had a dream that Al Sharpton was President. Al Sharpton? Yes, and it was great. No only was he: A person that some think is an idiot or a fraud that has no political know how or policy knowledge whatsoever - President. Be he was the "First black president.!" (Double Whammy!)...
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    What if Bush won the iraqi election.

    What if bush was to win the iraqi election? What would he say or do? If he was voted in i think i would be a funny twist of irony.
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    U.S. OKs Expanded Oil Drilling in Alaska

    They couldnt wait till they got thier grubby little hands on this land. "U.S. : Demands better obesity drugs to fight a growning trend" How bout we consider this source and work on creating more efficient cars for once. I sick of the SAME make and model of SUVs that just get bigger and...
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    Another video from an islamic website

    With all these videos on these "Islamic Websites" why is it so hard to find who is putting this info on the sites and inturn where they got the video from. There was an article months back that exposted some of these "Islamic websites" as actually being owned by people in the US.....If i hack...
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    They just killed my favorite guitarist

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140955,00.html
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    Booting of solid state memory

    take one of these adapters and you can get compact flash memory for 130/2gig and 350/4gig. If i booted and installed linux or windoze on the flash memory using the adapter (needs no drivers) why wouldnt this work? How fast do you think it would actually be. Ha any one tried this before...
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    Was Rathergate staged?

    Rathergate.com was created on 09/10, one week before CBS "realised" their mistake. Registered by Mike Krempasky, who recently disclosed, that he is the political director for American Target Advertising, a Virginia firm run by Richard Viguerie, the conservative strategist widely credited with...
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    Does anyone know how to host a site

    I want to host a site but dont want to pay. I own the domain name and i have highspeed internet with a dynamic IP address. What do i need to do, i plan on running linux on the pc that servs up the site. I would aslo like to run an email server if possible. This is what i have so far. 1...
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    Typing from my new m6809

    It seems even faster than my desktop and that is a dually with 1700 @ 2.1. Errr, but i do still have a gforce 64 GTS that i refuse to upgrade or give away.
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    2 of 7 members of "the base" already arrested

    -Aafia Siddiqui - girl that looks JUST like my X. -Amer El-Maati - Fat man with glasses. Looks like they are already in jail. (Options) - They are either not in jail and the arrest stories are a fake. - Our intel is bad and we dont know they are in jail. - We know they are in jail and ran...
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    Berg killed in the same chair.

    http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=1237 just found this....
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    Who else is faking terror?

    I know you wouldnt belive it if some in the forums talked about it. You still probably dont want to believe this but it happens. A few years ago they found fake alkeda terrorist that were about to do the same thing. Do you think we do this? yes, no? Whats 1 life, or 10, or 3000 for that...
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    final fantasy XI question

    ok, first off i stop in the store to make the purchase for the ps2 but findout it only comes with the hardrive and the game. I dont have the network card on my PS2. I DO have the PS2 linux kit. The linux kit comes with a hardrive and a network card that hooks into the back of the hardrive. The...
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    HP AMD 64 lappy

    Anyboy seen this yet, any reviews? i was looking at the Emachine but the HP seems alot better. Plus it seems to be built better. Any takers....hope the link works here base specs AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3000+ 1.80 GHz AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3200+ 2.00 GHz 256MB DDR SDRAM (1x256MB) 512MB DDR SDRAM...
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    any hope for dalits

    Any hope for the dalits? Will they ever be equal? Will the prejudice against them ever stop? IF so how long will it be before they can actually make any change. 50 years 100 years, 1000. What can we do, can we learn anything from history. "Dalit" is sort of the new name. IT was formally...
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    5.00 - Audio, Video, AGP 4X, USB 1.1, lan - 1.3 via c3

    bundle Syntax - S635MP - SiS Socket 370 microATX Motherboard with Audio, Video, AGP 4X, USB 1.1, CNR, IrDA, 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN Support and Integrated VIA C3 1.3Giga Pro Processor
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    beyond .05 nan process.

    we are already at .09 im told once we get to .05 "because of the laws of physics" the electrons simply will jump of the wire and computer chips cannot be made at this level. What is beyond this and what is in the roadmaps for amd/intel from this point. Dual cores? is this why we jump to 64bit...
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    astral projection - anybody dont this.

    Has anybody had any experiences with this, i think i have...
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    Toms hardware review of 64 3400 ?

    Has anybody noticed that the toms hardware review of the 3400 seems totally skewed. I mean i would expect it to be but not THAT bad. ALL other sites that i have looked at shows the 3400 preforming identical or better than the FX51. In toms site they show the chip below everything, around the...
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    DP - please delete

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