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    computer won't boot... help

    Hello, My computer had been running slowly lately and it hadn't been rebooted in a pretty long time, so I shut it down to reboot it. It installed a bunch of windows updates that were ready to be installed and the shut down properly. When I turned it back on, it comes up with the black...
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    Good phone comparison site?

    In the next couple of weeks I'm going to be picking a smart phone to move to. But I have no idea which one. I get very confused by conversations about the Smartphones to the point where I don't know which one does what. Reading here, people tend to say that the iphone is the best but I...
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    madden 11 - doritos 3d mode

    Did anybody ever try this? I don't remember seeing a thread about it, though I haven't searched on it. The reason for the thread is this: I got madden for Christmas, and I saw the thing in the game about the Doritos 3D mode. Sounded like a Gimmick sure, but something fun to try. So...
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    Xbox360 E74 with bottom right red light

    Hi everybody, My xbox360 worked fine last night and this morning I'm getting the blinking red light in the bottom right corner. I've done some googling, but most of what I see to fix it is for older versions of the xbox (x clamp) or it is to fix different light codes like the 3 light code...
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    wife wants a netbook...

    My wife would like to have a netbook for Christmas. I don't think she'd be doing a whole lot more than email/web/facebook.... maybe downloading pics from her camera or whatever. I don't know what else she'd use it for. Unfortunately, I've never really paid much attention to netbooks...
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    Making a PHP script interact with another process

    I'm trying to write a PHP script that will basically send input to a process, and receive back its output. Specifically, I want write a script to interact with gnuchess in engine mode... where I send a move, and receive back the computer's move (or a message that my move was not legal)...
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    Best Bang for the Buck video card upgrade?

    I'm not restricting myself to nvidia cards , but do have an SLI ready motherboard so I'd lean that way. Hoping to spend not more than $150 ... but price is not firm either... what card is the best bang for the buck right now to upgrade from my 6800GT?? Tried searching for similar...
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    Corsair Value Select 2GB (1GBx2) DDR Ram $30 AR @newegg

    For those of us with computers still using DDR 400 memory, and needing an upgrade... $30 after rebate seems pretty cheap to me. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820145579 I already have this same set installed for 2GB... looking for 2GB more, so seemed like a good deal...
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    wired vs wireless connection and Netflix streaming

    I'm planning on getting a Wi-Fi adapter for my xbox360 so that I can move it up by my "good" tv and setting up a netflix account for streaming. Somebody mentioned to me that my wireless connection would be slower than my current wired setup. Would this cause any problems for me streaming...
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    HDMI/Component output switch

    I'm not sure if this is the best forum to ask this but it's the only forum I visit that might be able to answer my question so I thought I'd give it a shot. I currently have a 50" plasma HDTV in my living room, and a normal 32" CRT TV down in my basement. Normally my wife is upstairs...
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    Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm

    I know everybody is expecting me to say how bad the game sucked.... but actually I didn't think it was half bad. *IF* you are looking for a sim and not an arcade type game with lots of fast action and big explosions. If you're looking for those things then yes, the game sucks. But as a...
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    GRID demo

    I've been playing the xbox 360 GRID demo the last couple of nights and it's a great demo. They gave quite a bit of gameplay I thought for just being a demo and I'm enjoying it even if the game is damn hard. Anyway... my question is how do you do the drifting race and rack up the kind of...
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    Considering a Dell Studio 17 laptop

    I've never owned a laptop, and have never really even specced and priced them out in the past. I've always stuck with desktops where I could build my own. Now however, I'm really wanting a laptop because I'm tired of being locked to my desk and I found out that I can get a decent employer...
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    Best kids DS games?

    I'm buying a DS lite for my daughter for her 6th birthday. There are lots of kids titles for the DS, but obviously the games I consider good do not really apply to her age group :) Anybody else have kids with a DS? What games have been really good and which ones to avoid? Also, which...
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    Fable II Pub Games

    I picked up my card last night... but it wouldn't accept my code yet. It wasn't supposed to go live until today... so I thought maybe my code would work after midnight but around 1:00am it didn't work. Has anybody tried their codes today and managed to download the mini-games?
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    Using IIF in an access select statement

    I want to do a select, where if the query returns a blank result then it returns some set text, and otherwise it returns the result of the query... select iff(isnull([table1.field]) or [table1.field]="","empty result",[table1.field]) from table1 left join table 2 on table1.field=table2.field...
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    Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm

    My wife loves this show, so I'm hoping maybe this could be my gateway to getting her to actually take some kind of intrest in gaming.... but I don't want to buy it if it sucks. My local rental places don't have it yet.... just curious if anybody has played this or seen it? The few gameplay...
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    Fable

    The other day I was looking around at GameStop on my lunch hour and saw Fable in their used CD bin for $10. Having heard of this game here and other places, I decided to pick it up. Everybody always has good things to say, and for $10 you can't really go wrong anyway. Man, this game is...
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    changing the email associated with your gamertag?

    Seems like a dumb question , but when I signed up for xbox live and created my gamertag, I put a different email address in than the one I really wanted to use. The one I used is associated with a Live Messenger account that I don't want to use with xbox. Is there any way to change the email...
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    Xbox 360 holiday bundles

    My local Best Buy tells me that they have the holiday bundles in stock. Can anybody confirm that these are shipping with the Falcon boards? I've heard conflicting things. Sadly, my Best Buy doesn't have systems out where anybody can look at the boxes so unless I can convince a salesman...
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    Perl tutorial web pages/books

    Hello, I recently accepted a new job offer, and it sounds like I'll need a lot of perl scripting ability. I know enough perl to get by, I've been modifying and working on shell scripts for long enough but it's very rare I actually have to write anything from scratch and I need to give...
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    Crystal Reports .QRP files

    I have some .qrp files that I need to figure out how to edit. From the reading and searching I've done, it seems that they are related to crystal reports... but I downloaded a Trial Version of Crystal Reports XI and it does not recognize the files. Anybody know how I can edit these files...
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    Rock Band

    http://www.rockband.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=586 I *love* the guitar hero games... bought my playstation just for it. But now it looks like I have no choice but to save up for an xbox360... :\ --------- One disk with 4 separate campaigns. Guitar, Drum, Bass and Vocal. Each...
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    Javascript problems

    I have a weird javascript problem... i'm not doing anything complicated but it won't work, and google turns up lots of results but not any useful ones. Maybe one of you programming types can point me in the right direction. <form name='my_form' id='my_form' action=/somepage method=POST>...
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    Recommend a fun coop PC game?

    Any recommendations out there for a game that can be played coop multiplayer via the internet? Preferably not a FPS, maybe an adventure/RPG type game? I'm sure I could find something that fits the bill but hoping you guys have some good suggestions... hate buying games without hearing...
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    Guitar Hero II out today!

    Yea it's a PS2 game, not a PC game... as much as a PC game lover as I am, I had to buy a PS2 just to play guitar hero and finally #2 is out... 3 more hours to get out of work and get home to "rock" ;)
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    Can anybody recommend a good Skype phone?

    Hello... I am looking to purchase a wireless skype phone which would be used at my workplace for things such as calling other locations to do stock checks and that kind of thing. I need a quality phone that will have a reasonable range and voice quality, but I don't have much experience with...
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    NFL Head Coach

    This game sounded potentially fun to me... but I haven't heard a word about it from anybody who's played it. Has anybody played it? Is the game good or really bad, or is it just a complete flop that nobody is buying?
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    Wireless networking between 2 buildings

    My company has two buildings that are a little over 1 mile apart and I'm curious if I can set them up with wireless capabilities so that they can use the same T1 line and what the cost would be to accomplish this. I've never set up WiFi that extended past my current building...
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    open source backup system recommendations?

    Hello, I am looking for a decent network backup solution to backup 3-4 Linux servers. The total amount of data is probably ~30GB. I was hoping to find something open source, but an inexpensive commercial solution is ok too. I searched sourceforge and got a good list of programs to look...
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    Late to the playstation 2 party...

    I'm a longtime PC gamer and didn't have a console gaming system until now. I bought a PS 2 solely so that I could play Guitar Hero, which has no PC equivilant. In your opinions, what are the definitive "must have" games for the PS2? First on my list are the whole Final Fantasy series...
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    Almost makes me want to buy a PS2...

    I've always been a PC gamer and I've never had any desire to have a console gaming system.. until now. I was killing time walking through Best Buy on my lunch hour today and they had a PS2 set up with Guitar Hero. I'd heard about Guitar Hero but never actually seen the game or played it...
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    Streamripping music from internet radio

    I listen daily to a publically supported internet radio station called radiofree Colorado. They mostly play music 24/7 with no commercials or breaks, but every now and then (usually once a day) the station manger will come on and talk for a half hour or so either explaining how the station...
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    HTML Image question

    I am trying to lay out pictures on a web page, having read in all the filenames from a database. This isn't a problem, except that the pictures aren't all the same size. I would like to lay them out in 2 columns side by side, with each picture being no wider than 300 pixels and no taller...
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    Need some help with a self-destructed WinXP Home install

    My parents brought me their computer to fix when they turned it on one day and it wouldn't boot. When you try to boot it, you get the message "Windows\System32\Config\System missing or corrupt". So, I take it thinking no problem... I can just reinstall their OS and be on my way...
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    more windows WMF vulnerabilities?

    According to this little article, at least 2 more WMF exploits remain following the microsoft patch to "fix" the WMF vulnerability... has anybody seen any more information on this anywhere? I was just pointed to this blurb by a friend but it doesn't give much information and I haven't seen...
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    add placement in NFS:MW

    Since i've been playing NFS the past week or so, I've noticed that while most of the business names and billboards and such in the game are fictitious advertisements there are a few real life advertisements in the game. The most obvious one of course is for Cingular, but asside from that I've...
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    NFS: MW - pursuit evasion

    I was just wondering how you guys manage to get away from the police when you get your heat level up a little bit. I don't even have to get that high.. .I struggle at heat level 2 and can't get away on heat level 3. The roadblocks aren't usually too much trouble, but can be a pain at...
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    Problem with video playback...

    My computer has been doing this for a while and I haven't been able to figure out why or how to fix it (short of re-installing windows). Every time I play a video, in any format, and with any player, the video is all washed out to the point where you can just barely make out what is in the...
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    Anybody know of a free program for recovering corrupt outlook express folders?

    Subject says it all, anybody have any suggestions? I'm familiar with AOER, but was hoping I could find a free application. -jd