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    ATOT- help me find a certain type of glass for my dad

    ok, my dad's birthday is coming up, and he's been dropping all kinds of hints that he wants a certain type of glass to drink his martinis. the closest thing I can find is a model made by Libbey, but they're only available by the case (he only needs a few of them, maybe 4) Libbey Old...
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    need a program to automatically download a file every day

    well, i need to download a pdf file that changes every day. I've tried setting up getright's daily downloads tool, and it works ok, but not the way i would like. i set it to download at noon, and it will only download if the computer is on and getright is running at that time. like say i boot up...
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    Stupid Comcast...

    so on monday, I arrived home and there was an orange piece of paper on the door. It was a notice from Comcast that my house is a source of "signal leakage" and that it was severe enough to disconnect service. I was not happy. So i go inside and the digital cable works, but no internet. I called...
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    Adobe PDF question

    ok, i've got a 4 page pdf and i need to split it up. I need the first 2 pages together and the other 2 separate. is there an easy way to do this? i tried messing around with photoshop cs2 and i can get the individual pages, but the file size is huge (like 10 times the original file and one...
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    YAFFT: quarterback quandry

    Both are projected about the same, normally i'd play Brady, but he's going against the Bear defense. On the other hand, i've got Pennington who hasn't been doing all that much, going against Houston, so he could put up some decent numbers. thoughts?
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    YAFFT: to trade or not to trade

    My current offensive lineup: QB: Tom Brady Chad Pennington WR: Javon Walker Marques Colston Chris Chambers Jericho Cotchery Bobby Engram RB: Frank Gore Edgerrin James Reuben Droughns TE: Dallas Clark Marques Colston It's pretty tempting because i could use some help in...
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    YAFFT: which running back?

    Frank Gore going against the Bears or Reuben Droughns against the Jets??? they're both projected to score the same, but it's such a tough choice. thoughts?
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    It's pumpkin pie season

    It's about that time of year again...pumpkin pie is almost the best kind of pie... I was hanging out with a friend of mine from out of town (his parents still live here) and we were hanging at his mom's house cause she's pretty cool. anyways, she made this feast for us... turkey, mashed...
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    Dennis Wolfberg on XM Comedy 150 @ 10pm EST

    this guy is hilarious... there is very little of his material recorded. not quite as good as video of him, he does this crazy thing with his eyes.
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    HELP: outlook express crashed and my inbox is gone

    I booted up, and like usual, first thing i do is check my email, so i opened up OE, it downloaded my email, and then just froze. I let it be for about a minute, then ended it. the send/don't send to ms window came up, i clicked no and then everything froze. I rebooted and everything booted fine...
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    when did flash memory get to be cheaper than system memory???

    i've recently had the upgrade bug, and i'm nearly broke, so i've been watching hot deals and i just noticed that you can get flash memory for quite a bit less than system memory (DDR PC3200 in particular, not that it really matters). I just got a new hard drive, and now i'm looking at getting...
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    I need to make a powerpoint into a DVD

    Little background here: I've got a project for class, and we need to show a series of graphs and they need to be quite organized. there's 5 sets of about 6 graphs each i'm gonna need to show. the layout is pretty simple to do in powerpoint; but the thing is... in the classroom we're in, there is...
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    Any way to setup a sync for a usb flash drive??

    I want to set up some sort of automated sync for my flash drive, mainly because I use it to transport schoolwork with it, but also use it at work. I just want to make it so that whenever I plug the drive into my computer, it syncs a folder on the drive with a folder on my HD. how can this be...
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    Video card upgrade, now my computer locks up

    well, i just upgraded my video card, because it was time and i had the money... i went from a radeon 8500 128mb to a geforce 6600GT 128mb. now, when i run games (so far i've tried HL2, doom3 and UT2003) and they all feeze up after anywhere from one to ten minutes. also, i've tried to run games...
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    I just won a trip to Florida

    I'll start this off with a little background... about 2 months ago, Pinnacle (video editing stuff) had a contest to create an elaborate display for their products, and grand prize was a trip to florida, so me and my department manager took the morning and built this display mainly because we...
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    How do i reformat video files to a smaller size to play on my PPC???

    ok, so i want to convert some video files (.avi) down to a lower resolution so i can play them on my pocket pc. as it is right now, i've got an ipaq 3955 with a 400mhz xscale and i've got a 1 gig SD card in it too. what i need to know is how do i go from an avi to whatever format windows media...
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    how do I play old Doom games in 3D

    I remember at one time i had a program that was basically a launcher for Doom that ran the games in 3d which looked a hell of a lot better than they used to. aside from accelerated graphics with higher resolution textures, it would run under win xp. the program i had was a launcher that would...
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    Where do you guys get good, high resolution wallpapers??

    Well, I'm setting up a couple LCD's at work, and they're just begging a good wallpaper to really make the screen beam. I want something at least 1280x1024 and with good colors in it. It's been a long time since i've gone looking for desktop backgrounds, and i'm sure that people on here would...
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    It's a St. Patty's Day miracle

    Bomb threat forces evacuation at GRCC I'm pretty sure that someone decided that they'd rather go out drinking on st. patty's day instead of having to go to night class, like myself, but they decided to take one for the team and make sure that no one has to go to class. talk about a nice...
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    Where's a good place to buy car stereo installation accessories

    I just got an Optima Red Top battery from my mom for xmas, and now I need to hook it up. I've pretty much figured out how I'm gonna do it, but I need to get a few things to hook it all up properly (I've already got 2 amps, a cap., and some power distribution parts I'm not going to reuse. I...
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    Photoshop problem: crop tool not working right

    well, some time ago, i was making cell-phone wallpapers and i could crop them to the correct pixel dimensions (i could make a non-square crop). I just recently got a new cell and i've gotta make some cool wallpapers for it; but the problem is, now the crop tool is only letting me make a square...
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    Help me figure out what song this is...

    like the subject says.... i heard this song on XM radio... it's a rock song. i don't remember who the artist was, and i don't have the complete song title because i have the older pioneer deck and xm box that only shows the first 8 characters of the song and artist tag from xm. i know somebody...
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    Compatibilty issues running DVDR and CDRW concurrently

    well, i've got an HP dvd300i and a TDK 48X cdrw, and when i put a CDR in the TDK, my computer will hard lock (the pointer won't even move). also, before i installed the DVDR drive, my TDK worked fine. i need to be able to burn DVD's, but the piss-poor 16x CD write speed of the DVD burner is...
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    Class is boring... what should i get for lunch on the way home?

    ok, class is really boring today and i'm really hungry... i need some ideas for lunch.... what are you guys all eating for lunch today??
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    Where's the best deal for True Crime: Streets of LA??

    like the title says.... but i'm looking for the PS2 version as far as i've seen, the best deal is at target where it's still $50, but they give you the strategy guide for free, unlike at best buy where they give you a gift card for the value of the guide (but you gotta buy it). great game from...