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    Best offsite backup provider for small business?

    I have a friend who runs a small business. they run a windows server that hosts a few apps specific to their industry. Databases, lots of fax's that get scanned, saved and archived automatically since they're almost completely paperless. Almost all information generated by the business...
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    Domain Squatters ... would fighting back work?

    Ever tried to register a new domain name that you thought would be unique, only to find some odd looking page already there, with a lot of links to various products, most of which you never heard of anyway? You contact the "owner" to find they want several thousands "as a minimum bid to begin...
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    CNN shows it's liberal bias

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2H170pf3a8 So check out the video of a CNN reporter. For most liberals on here, she's probably their hero as she does her damnest to portray the attenders of the "tea party" as fringe lunatics. In one video i saw of her she makes sure to stipuluate at the...
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    Justice Dept. Investigates Arizona Sheriff for Enforcing Immigration Law

    link This article is just sickening. The left is hellbent on attacking law enforcement for enforcing laws because the law doesn't favor the Democrat's voting base. We all know that the left wants to establish a quid pro quo towards illegal aliens on account of getting their votes later...
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    SURPRISE! Dems Break Promise: Stimulus Bill to Floor Friday

    With Obama as the new president, pushing his so called "stimulus" bill, the floodgates of broken promises and shady dealing has opened. The left has become unrecognizable among a group of prophets of doom, as one after antoher they literally warn of dire consequences unless their stimulus plan...
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    Who will win the 2008 President of the USA election?

    Let's have a roll call of sorts on who is going to win the election, without a poll. Personally, I have no clue, the polls are way too close to tell if you ask me, but I feel pretty confident in Mccain due to so many unknown factors, such as Hillary defectors, unreliable poll history, the...
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    Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama?s aunt

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...ons/article5042571.ece I like Drudge's headline: SPREAD WEALTH AROUND: OBAMA AUNT FOUND IN BOSTON SLUM... Obama is a fraud. Pure and simple. He has no character. He believes in spreading the wealth, supposedly, but not his own. If his selfishness and...
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    Need suggestion for a Powerful Wireless AP/Router

    Two of my friends recently built a new house that's fairly big. Him and his wife run a trucking company and they both run it from their home, so their new house also includes their office. Let's say for a budget of around $500, what is the most powerful draft-N access point that they could...
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    YAPOID (yet another promise of Israel's destruction)

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S...2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Saw this today, from the supreme leader's own mouth. Anyone still think it's good for Iran to get nukes, in the name of world peace?
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    Democrats to let offshore drilling ban expire (next week)

    Link This is good, good news for America and probably good news for Democrats as it would take the energy issue away from Republicans in a large way.
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    A house divided upon itself cannot stand...

    Link Iran is hellbent on acquring nuclear capabilities. Their President, Mamoud Ahmadinjad or however you spell it, has recieved the support of his mullahs for re-election. That, coupled with the vicious hatred he has for Israel and his matter of fact cries that Israel will soon be wiped...
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    "How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis"

    Here's an interesting link. I'd quote some of it but if you read any of it read it all or it's not worth it because the history can't be explained in one sentence. Link More stories like this will come, just sit back and wait. You might not find them in the mainstream media, considering...
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    OI

    In response to the OP: There's so much emotion and preconcieved notions around creationism vs evolution that it's hard to cut through people's defenses long enough to actually present them with real science versus opinions. I've had my own brush ups with atheism though unlike some of my...
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    Why is the Big Bang theory taught in Public Schools?

    As something that Science cannot possibly prove through demonstratable, observable experiments, why are the religious principals of the Big Bang theory, which virtually(or every) single biology book in High Schools and College use as their foundation for the science of cosmic evolution, still...
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    Access DB question about performance

    I've been developing an access database at work (Access 2000 format for compatibility reasons) to use for logging of certain errors and system admin type functions. Which of the following scenario's would produce a faster update: What has to get done: 500 total updates need to be made...
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    Bush ends executive ban on drilling...

    I am so angry at congress right now. These incompentent, lying SOB's in congress, ALL Democrats, need to be voted out of office as soon as possible. You want something to write about? Write to your favorite democrat congressman in the senate and house of representatives and tell them to get...
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    What modern Liberalism has come to...

    I want to point out a few observations based on reading these forums for awhile as well as the news. If you consider yourself a liberal and don't agree at all with some of these, please post why if you care to forgoe the standard intellectually dishonest ad-h attacks and diversions like (well...
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    Where is Anandtech's P45 motherboard review?

    Are the anandtech reviewers even working on reviewing the P45 chipset based motherboard(s)?
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    Memory latency question

    Quick latency question: is 2-2-2-5 @ 400mhz the same as 4-4-4-10 @ 800mhz If RAM1 runs at 400mhz and latencies at 2-2-2-5 and RAM2 runs at 800mhz with latencies at 4-4-4-10 What i'm asking is: Does the latency indiciate the number of cycles, and thus each cycle goes by faster at higher...
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    Obama plays the race card.

    reuters What a douchebag. Wait, that wasn't racist was it?
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    Son, don't listen to those kids, you're not adopted...

    Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live 'Normal' Life I'd like to be there for that conversation.
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    Liberal (entertainment) media bias

    I tend to avoid any kind of "news" coming out of Comedy Central but I watched the daily show tonight along with mind of mencia and the colbert report. Mind of Mencia: Republicans are racist, Mccain is Old The Daily Show: McCain is Old, Hillary has no chance and is pathetic Colbert...
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    Ahmadinejad says Israel will soon disappear

    Link For all our sakes, I hope this guy is just all bark and no bite but I hate to come off as a boogeyman to the Left by simply presenting the facts, but this country is hell-bent on building all the technology infrastructure needed to both build and deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in...
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    Thermal Paste - longevity..

    Short and sweet: I find that thermal paste like Artic Silver 5 or Ceramique becomes less effective over time leading eventually to drastic CPU temperature increases. What is the best thermal paste from a performance/longevity standpoint? I'd like to know of a decent thermal paste that...
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    Awesome opinion column on Obama and the left's appeasement mentality

    jpost This column simply blew me away how insightful and dead on she is about Obama and the left in general. I don't think Hillary is much better but at least she has a little bit of experience with age going for her. The ending doesn't do it any justice. Obama's foolishness, like Pelosi's...
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    Insurance claim question...

    I got into a car accident recently. The cops gave the other driver a ticket and I submitted a claim to his insurance company. I proceded to get an estimate from a local GM dealer and the estimate was for $3175 to repair the damage. The Insurance agency sent an adjuster out to take...
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    Futures Traders Bet on Dollar Gain For First Time Since 2005

    Futures Traders Bet on Dollar Gain For First Time Since 2005 Here's to hoping this is a continued trend for the Greenback.
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    The growing global food crisis...

    link Liberalism, a haven of Enviornmental groups have pushed and shoved and gotten their way with the US oil production. By not being allowed to use our own resources for the last 20 years, we started to provide subsidies to farmers for growing corn for the use for biofuels, aka Ethanol...
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    Report says up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil in Bakken shale (North Dakota)

    Sorry if this is a repost but I'd like some feedback on this and i'd rather not put it into that Oil and Gas thread. link So apparently it's very expensive to drill for this oil, but since prices are apparently double the rate needed to make it profitable ($50 a barrel), the wells being...
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    How about that Global Warming / Climate Change?

    I am a big fan of efficiency. If you can build a widget that is better and more efficient than the last one, more power to you. I am also a fan of the enviornment as far as curbing polution levels go. I don't think we should ever allow our air to ever become polluted to the point of Mexico...
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    Making a 12V fan use 5V

    I got some 120 MM fans in my case and they're kind of loud. Is it safe for the fan and powersupply to switch the leads so it's getting power from the 5V instead of 12V on a molex connector?
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    HOT? BFG 800W PSU @ BB on Clearance YMMV

    I was just checking out my local Best Buy to see if that Rocketfish case was any cheaper when i saw they had a BFG 800W PSU for 85.99 on clearance. They also have the 650W model for 89.99. Edit: I should point out that's not a typo, the 800W was cheaper than the 650W. If I hadn't just...
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    Not so Hot: Corsair TX750watt - 129.99 AR / FS - newegg

    Text This was $144 and change about a week ago, bit cheaper now. I bit for my new rig.
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    Hard Drive Performance Wiki

    I want to make this post so we can collect information on Hard Drives in one easy to read thread about what factors impact hard drive performance and in what way. I don't know too much about hard drives other than the impact of RPM and platter density, and maybe the cache on them. Let me...
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    Lian Li V1000 / V1200 question

    I'm planning on picking up a Lian Li V1000 or a V1200 soon. Does anyone own one that uses it with a Thermalright Ultra 120 Xtreme? My question is: Does the CPU fan shroud still fit with this heatsink?
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    Thinking about buying AMD's stocks

    Would it be correct to say that if AMD could manufacture the Phenom at higher yields, say around 2.8ghz + they would be competitive with Intel again? I'm really thinking about buying a bunch of AMD stock because it's so cheap right now and I don't believe they'll be in the dust forever.
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    HIS X1950 Pro AGP 512MB Overclock

    This card rocks. The stock Clocks are something like 575/780. I use ATI Tray Tools to overclock the card and the highest I can overclock to is 641 / 861. I've overclocked every single video card i've ever owned, all the way back to an ATI Rage Pro Turbo like 9 years ago. I know that...
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    Need some help with C++ Operator Overloading

    I understand the concept of operator overloading in a fairly basic way. Lets say I have a simple box class. class Box { public: float volume; } Then I use 'new' to assign my pointer variable called Box two new Box types: int main() { Box* Boxes[2]; Box[0] = new...
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    7200 RPM Perpendicular Hard Drive's (2.5" Notebook Drives)

    Seagate announced their 7200.2 drive last year already. Techgage reviewed it recently but i still can't find it for sale anywhere, despite rumors it went out to retailers March 12th. Hitachi is supposed to have a 7200-rpm perpendicular hdd out soon too. Anyone know when they're supposed...
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    Are these CPU voltage fluxuations normal?

    I picked me up an Athlon X2 4200+ 939 Toledo core from newegg the other day. Right now i've got it running rock solid at 2.9ghz with 1.45 volts in the bios and i'm currently trying to see if it will stablize at 3.0ghz with 1.525 set in the bios. I'm using Prime 95 and running one copy for...