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    Crazy PC mod - Wall mounted Back Lit

    Anyone have some spare cash? This would make a hell of a Christmas gift.
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    Wall mount PC I made - Pics.

    http://members.cox.net/bigblades/casemod1.jpg To answer the questions I know will be coming - After multiple benchmark tests, NO, the graphics card riser does not hinder performance in any measurable way. Dust has been almost no issue whatsoever. I vacuum it when I vacuum the room...
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    Auto Fallback with Linksys Router

    My router is randomly connecting me at 1 mbps instead of the 11 mbps that it should be. I have excellent connectivity and am on network channel 4, which none of my neighbors use. I do not understand why it randomly puts me at 1 mbps al the time! I know it is a feature in the router called...
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    Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer

    I had a bunch of friends all give me their copies of the game pamphlet (the cd key) after we had played through NWN 2 together online when it first came out. I'm up at college with my roommates and wanted to play with them on the network there. I purchased a copy of the expansion and now...
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    Upgrade Specifications

    I am upgrading my roommates computer for him. He plays a lot of video games but does not know anything about buying computer parts. I know slightly more about computer parts, but have ordered few enough online that I'm always worried I'll order something that is a bad price or incompatible...
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    will ATI drop ship?

    I want to RMA the card, but don't want ot have to ship it back and go without one for weeks and not be able to use my computer. All that is wrong with it is that the fan is dead. I'm tempted to just remove the fan and install my own, but only two problems - One is that I'd void the warrenty...
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    moving mass files in windows

    for some reason years ago I got all my music into folders based on the cd. It wouldn't be a problem but half of it is probably repeats and I'm running out of space. How do I take the 200+ Cd title folders and put them all in one big "music" folder without opening each folder individually...
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    Wireless Router at only 1mbps?

    I have a linksys wireless G router with speedbooster. I have a linksys wireless B internal card inside my computer. The router is set for mixed mode, (meaning allowing both G and B cards) and it was working fine for the last few days. The cable went out for a little while today during a storm...
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    need some photoshopage

    I work at a camp and have been charged with making a sign for the canteen. Its a weight loss camp so all they sell are toys, diet sodas, and water. The girl who runs the canteen is named Dale. Here is a pic of the canteen with her on the right side. I don't know who the girl on the left is...
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    Random nifty pics I took.

    Took some random pictures with my digicam recently. Here are the 3 best results. big dragonfly Spooky Frog close up of frog Gas Pump Enjoy.
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    vampire bloodlines doesn't want to be played

    Yep.. after installing the game on my only profile I have for this computer, the administrator accound "phillip", I cannot play vampire bloodlines because when I click any shortcut it gives an "access denied - please log in with administrator access. I wanted to go to their website for help...
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    Economics Homework, please help!

    So we get a question about maximizing the utility of pizza and beer. pizza is $ 6 and beer is $ 1.5 , if a budget constraint is $ 18000 maximize the utility. That part is straightforward, the Utility fucntion is Z * B so zb = U 6z +1.5b = 18000 Marginal rate of substitution is 4b...
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    Econ problem, please help!

    The question is about maximizing utility of pizza and beer. Budget contraints and stuff. Question goes: Suppose that the price of pizza equals 6 dollars and the price of pizza is 1.5 dollars. Her salary is 18000 dollars, maximize the utility where U = zb . so you get 6z + 1.5b = 18000...
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    food poisoning sux

    My bro just got taken off in an ambulance... hope that a night in the hospital fixes him up. I think it already ran its course with me, I haven't thrown up in a good 6 hours now. Anybody know if Tylennol or some other painkiller could help with queasiness/nausea? Anybody know if hot...
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    Cipher

    dqn nxm yo dqn gycvm Aqybvm kn xnjc...
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    Stupid walmart wont' give me WoW

    I work at a Lan gaming center. About 10-15 people here are all interested in playing this game the night its out, and being some of the first ones on the server. Getting the good names, etc. Wal-mart has the game at their store now. A friend of mine recently got a job there and told me...
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    WoW guild

    If your in eastern time zone, not an idiot, above the age of noob, and are interested in playing WoW, check out my guild at hidden leaf guild. I don't usually post guild recommendations or anything, but it'd be nice to get some more people as technically inclined as most of the fans of AT, so I...
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    Explain user ratings to me?

    How come some people have user ratings and others don't? How come some people have negative user ratings?? How come I can't vote on some peoples user rating? What significance does a user rating have on anything? Sorry, been buggin me a lot lately is all.
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    WoW open for da public!

    World of Warcraft Stress test has begun. Characters from the stress test carry over to open beta, which then carry over to the actual release. So if you shell out a few bucks now to fileplanet (requires a subscription) you can play the game a bit early. Just thought some of you would like...
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    5$ to the first one to find me...

    I want to purchase this game for my dad. It was a great game he had from like 20+ years ago. It was a triangle shaped board in which you got to pick where you placed properties when you bought them. It is not This new version! I will paypal you 5$ if you find me a place to buy it.
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    I played halo 2 for 3 minutes.

    Somebody I know has halo 2. I got to play it briefly. That is all.
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    Jedi knight 2 troubles

    About 2 years or so ago I had jedi kngiht 2 jedi outcast running on my system. I loved the game. Let a friend borrow it- it got fubar. I have purchased the game again. I am now running into the same problem I had last time I wanted to play the game, but this time I'm not finding a way to...
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    Google your name - contest

    Post your screen name in google. ATOT name, whatever. it can only be in ONE LANGUAGE - select preferences on google to do that. There is some German guy who is also bigblades that throws mine kinda off if I don't only do it in English. I have 107 web pages for "bigblades" Who's got the...
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    Hard Drive Crash.

    My hard drive, is dead. I lament not only the hard drive, but the 150 gigabytes of movies, games, music, and of course, nefarious porn, I had stored upon that. My documents from high school, my photoshop collection of about 3500 images, my piano recital when I was 16... all are lost. Time...
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    I am the flexible!

    I just, in a moment of what is almost divine flexibility, touched my arms behind my back. Bending one reaching down my back elbow up, and the other reaching, elbow down, up my back, I was able to grip my fingers together. I'm a former fat@ss so like, being able to do something that requires...
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    Gainesville LAN party

    Lan party in Gainesville Florida from the 29th through 31st. It is located at a LAN gaming center that I work at called wysiwyg gaming I wasn't gonna put this down on the forum as a LAN party since its a business doing it, but I figured some of you might wanna know. Its 35 bucks for 3 days of...
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    Magic the Gathering

    I recently started playing the card game that started them all, magic the gathering. It has been a lot of fun, I got started playing my campers when I was a counselor this summer, and enjoyed totally handing the lil' bastids their butts on a regular occassion (usually with their own cards.)...
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    Who is going to play WoW?

    I've been playing the WoW beta at work for awhile now, and am planning on buying that when it goes gold as my next big MMORPG. (Played Anarchy Online and Shadowbane for years.) I was wonderin' how many others were planning to get the game from anandtech.. If its a lot maybe we could form...
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    Nerd Quiz - Link?

    There was a "test how nerdy you are" type test I took awhile back online, but I forgot the darn link. It was like 40 multiple choice questions covering movies, comics, books, etc. It was like 40-50 questions. I wanna find that quiz to send to a few super nerdy friends from work, but I dunno...
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    Baldurs Gate 2 - revisited

    I beat the game 3 times. A lawful good fighter, a lawful nuetral sorcerer, and an evil mage/cleric. Now, granted this was one of the best games ever made, but where do you go after beating it three times? I present to you: The Big Picture Its a mod that encorperates 3 fairly large modules...
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    I need a speech topic!

    I have to give a persuasive speech on tuesday, and I really need to come up with a topic so I can research it today. It has to be trying to persuade the audience to do or not to do something. I've been sittin here thinkin about it for an hour and have come up with a few ideas, but none that...
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    My roommate is weird.

    Ok, so my brother (brxndxn) and I are sitting in my room, talking to our room mate Chris. He proceeds to tell us a story of how his dad once, in a fit of rage, beat a kitten against a stucco wall. This is of course a most interesting thing to us, and we are intrigued. He, in his normal...
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    Any Ideas for a starting LAN Gaming Business?

    I just started working about 2 weeks ago at what I consider to be the coolest part-time job ever. I am working at a LAN caming center right near my college. It has 42 computers all hooked together and connected to t1. Has great computers, charing 5 dollars an hour (or far less if you buy...