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    Camera advice...

    Look, of COURSE I'd prefer a DSLR, but I simply cannot afford one. So, for a decent point and shoot... OLYMPUS SP-800UZ 14 MP 30x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom 4288 x 3216 max resolution 2gb internal memory $299 at NewEgg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16830111378 The...
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    Windows 7 Pro - All links broken

    This is a fun one. Every single link in my Start Menu, desktop and task bar has become the link to the same program. I am quite sure it's not the application itself (Paint.net), something happened that made all my links point to the same program. If I right click/Properties any of the links...
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    Outlook 2003 PST password problem - *NOT* a forgotten password issue

    I have a PST file I've been using as an archive on Outlook 2003 for the past 3 years, there has never been a password on it, it has never asked for a password. I rebooted my PC this morning (no it wasn't the first time in 3 years) and it is now asking for a password, I tried all of my...
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    Is Excel 2003 password encryption strong enough?

    First, I apologize if there is a previous post with this information, I searched and did not see one. I need a bit of advice, I would like to send an Excel 2003 spreadsheet with sensitive information in it through email and need to know how safe it would be, I have researched this and am...
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    Asp.net, PowerPoint, and my undying soul

    We have a website and we are trying to imbed PowerPoint presentations into it for training purposes. Remote user logs in, goes to the training portal, selects the presentation, clicks through like normal. We have some special transition effects and screen captures which run automatically and...
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    New build will not POST or display video

    I can't seem to find this exact problem anywhere on the internet, so therefore its never happened to anyone ever! But seriously folks, I've built plenty of PC's before, cheap and gaming rigs, this one falls somewhere in between. I put together this exact same build (specs below) 3 weeks ago...
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    Video streaming software

    I am trying to find some decent software to load onto the server we are going to use to host the videos. We plan to load several dozen 5 minute videos, we could have several hundred people accessing the videos at any given time. The OS will probably be Windows 2003 Server (or a variation...
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    20 pin PSU in a 24 pin motherboard

    Ok, I have done plenty of searching and reading, and I just can't get a definitive answer... I'm building a new PC, here are the specs: Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard Intel Core2Duo E4500 Allendale 2.2 GHz CPU 1 (not doing SLI yet) eVGA GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB PCI-E x16 2 GB Crucial...
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    Nero DVD burning failure

    I'm using an external USB DVD burner (generic no-name) which came with Nero 7.5 Express software. It's worked fine on other cd and DVD burning ventures but currently I'm trying to burn a very small data disk and it keeps getting about halfway through, freezing up, then failing with a "Device...
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    Microsoft Project 2003/2007 purchase

    My company is looking into buying Project, as far as functionality everything we need to do can be done with 2003 but when we talked directly to a Microsoft rep he led us to believe that licenses for 2003 weren't available anymore. From doing a basic search I found quite a few options of...
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    User Acceptance Testing

    Does anyone know where I could find a generic template for a software-based User Acceptance Test plan? I've looked in the obvious places but I can't find a generic, basic one anywhere.
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    Car alarm question

    My car alarm suddenly went on the fritz, every time I turn it on by locking the doors with my keyless entry remote it waits a few seconds then goes off. I believe it's an aftermarket alarm, it has the usual multi-tone alarm but no horn honking sound when it goes off and the lights don't flash...
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    Adobe form with drop down boxes

    Quick question, can you create an Adobe form with drop down boxes in Acrobat Standard? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, I just need a second opinion. Assuming the answer is no, what Adobe software can do this, I know Adobe Form Designer, etc can do this, does any version of Acrobat do this...
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    cheap high speed internet in the Tampa Bay area

    Anyone know of decently priced high speed internet? Both Verizon DSL and Bright House cable offer 768 Kbps download and 128 Kbps upload for the same rate of 29.95 a month or 3 Mbps download and 1 Mpbs upload for 45.95. ATAT offers a couple great plans but they don't offer them, ponces...
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    Exchange 2003 forgotten password (not mine!)

    One of our employees here changed their password this month and forgot what they changed it to. I can go in and que it to change the next time they log in but of course without the current password they can't log in. Our lead IT guy has been able to reset it to a specific password in the past...
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    Overworked and underpaid, is my bosses reasoning valid?

    At my job I'm the sole onsite IT person for about 50 people, I handle all the usual technical issues in the office completely by myself and pass the severe network issues on to the IT people at our office in another state, I'm also responsible for the onsite issues with the 6 servers we have...
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    Winchat

    I'm trying to get the chat program built in to Windows to work on my office network (winchat.exe). I've done everything I'm supposed to do to get it to work but it never connects to the other PC's. I made sure the messenger service was on, as well as Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM. I made...
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    Why do they log off just when it's getting good?!

    Why is it every time I get into an argument in P&N the people I'm arguing with log off right after I come up with a staggeringly good response? They need to hurry up and log back on so I can keep telling them how wrong they are! Someone pick a fight with me, right now! Bring it. AnandTech...
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    House Minority Leader John Boehner Calls Immigration Bill a 'Piece of ....'

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274994,00.html House Minority Leader John Boehner, in a shockingly blunt admission Tuesday night to a small group of Republicans, called the immigration bill praised by congressional leaders and the White House a 'piece of s---," FOX News confirmed...
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    Excel 2003 question

    Ok, say you have 2 rediculously large tabs chock full of info, and you want to combine all text in every cell from tab 1 with the text in the corresponding cell on tab 2, other than by going into each cell, copying the text, and going into the matching cell on the other tab and pasting it in...
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    Excel 2003 question

    Ok, say you have 2 rediculously large tabs chock full of info, and you want to combine all text in every cell from tab 1 with the text in the corresponding cell on tab 2, other than by going into each cell, copying the text, and going into the matching cell on the other tab and pasting it in...
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    Jerry Falwell is dead according to his office

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412/ The Rev. Jerry Falwell ? founder of the Moral Majority and the face of the religious right in the 1980s ? was in ?gravely serious? condition Tuesday after being found unconscious in his office, a Liberty University executive said. Ron Godwin, Liberty's...
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    I'm bored, someone tell a joke to amuse me!

    So these 2 cannibals are eating a clown, then one of them looks over at the other one and says "Does this taste funny to you?" Next?
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    Political Compass

    This is actually a spinoff from shadow9d9's thread, I thought the quiz I advised him to take should be shared with the masses, so without any further ado: http://www.politicalcompass.org/ After answering six pages of questions regarding a range of issues this will evaluate you on 2 scales...
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    Darwinism and You

    Putting aside the one issue regarding where our species came from, to a certain extent Darwinism seems to exist. Animals evolve over time, clearly, and either become able to cope with their environments better or worse. Clearly this is a process that can be shaped, that's what study in...
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    DHCP problem

    OK, I know exactly what is happening, but I cannot find out why. I've checked all the common reasons but most of them don't apply, here is the situation. Every once in a while I connect a PC or laptop to a standard, basic Linksys switch (EZXS55W to be exact) and sometimes it gives me the...
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    Who would win...

    The Star Trek vs. Star Wars thread got me thinking... Who would win in a fight, Han Solo or Indiana Jones? Now Indy has probably led a rougher life so he's more used to street fights, but Solo was an Imperial officer, and he's obviously had his backyard brawl run-ins, it's a pretty even...
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    Is my PC overheating or am I losing it? Or both?

    My primary HD crashed the other day taking my O.S. with it, I just got a new SATA WD (not a Raptor but still decent), got the O.S. back on, got the antivirus and spyware programs on today, and just reinstalled Everest, which immediately told me my CPU was hitting 90 C. I immediately turned...
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    FBI loses 3-4 laptops a month, auditor says

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17115660/ WASHINGTON - Between three and four FBI laptop computers are lost or stolen each month on average and the agency is unable to say in many instances whether information on the machines is sensitive or classified, the Justice Department's inspector general...
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    Marine withdraws Iraq murder plea

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6344535.stm A US marine who was the only member of his squad to plead guilty to murder over the death of an Iraqi civilian has asked to withdraw his plea. Cpl Trent Thomas made his request via his lawyer at the last minute, as the court was preparing...
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    SMART

    I remember seeing an article about SMART a couple days ago asking if it was any good, thought I'd share this story... A few days ago one of my HD's crashed, naturally it was the one I used for my OS and programs, not one of my slower storage drives. I ordered a new one (WD Raptor SATA 10K...
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    Dual monitor problem

    At my company a few of the managers have 2 monitors booting from the same PC. They all have identical PC's, HP Compaq DC5100 SFF's. One monitor runs from the integrated Intel 900 chipset video card, the other runs from an EVGA FX5200 PCI card or 5500 card I installed. 1 PC has no problem...
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    Laptop boot problem

    I searched for a similar situation to this but couldn't find anything so I apologize if this has been dealt with before, but... My friend has a Compaq Presario R3000. Her husband tried to upgrade the hard drive in it from a 30 GB 4200 RPM to an 80 GB 5400 RPM. When they try to boot from...
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    Adobe Acrobat software for portable installation?

    My company is looking for something that would let us plug a portable hard drive into a PC, run a program that would add a PDF printer to the system (similar to how Adobe Acrobat adds an "Adobe PDF" printer) which would let us print files to PDF, store them to the portable hard drive (either...
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    Flight Simulator X

    I know there was just a post about this so I apologize for making a dup thread but I can't find the original post so... My friend wants me to build him a decent FSX rig. Originally he wanted one that would be able to play the game with the settings maxed, but now I know that with today's...
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    Regarding the Downing Street memo / minutes

    A sum up of the Downing Street memos (and yes, I know this has already been discussed, bear with me): The Downing Street memo is a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002. It states that the US government did not hold the...
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    Some disturbing facts about the US Electoral Process

    Did you know.... 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the...
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    Sound but no video with Nvidia DVD Decoder and WMP10

    I apologize in advance if this has been answered but I've tried everything I've read thus far and nothing has worked. Specs: AMD Sempron 2600+ 1GB RAM XP Pro SP2 370 something GB's of HD space Chaintech Geforce FX5900XT Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX DirectX 9.0c All...