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    I saw the sunrise this morning.

    I live in an "encyclopedia home." It's very tall and thin. 4 stories if you include the basement (basement exits to grade, front door is in the front of the first floor and also at grade if you were wondering). This means I have a lounge behind my master bedroom with a view of the whole...
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    Anyone install light sensing outdoor lamp fixtures?

    I have a lamp like this and a lamp like this. Both are too short on the inside to have a separate light sensor installed like this. I was wondering if any of you have ever bought fixtures with integrated light sensors and if there were any you'd recommend.
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    Can you use a gift card to buy another gift card?

    I was just thinking... I have $50 in gift cards to a store that I know sells gift cards to other stores that would be far more useful to me (home depot? lowes?) Anyone know if you can do this?
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    Philadelphia considers speed cameras on Route 1

    http://cbs3.com/local/local_story_297234156.html I pray to god, if there is a god, that this falls on it's face. People who get hit by cars while trying to cross freeways deserve to die.
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    Poll: Do you hate it when people bump dead threads?

    I know this is technically a repost, but all of the threads that asked this question have sunken into the archives.
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    Question about fresh stucco and vandalisim

    background information here I was walking to work this morning and noticed that one of the freshly rehabilitated homes that just got a brand new stucco facing out front in the pattern of this, now has a giant penis drawn into it and the words "john is a lovely human" scrawled in. The whole thing...
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    MLK would be rolling over in his grave

    I came home from work today on this rather bitter Philadelphia evening with my new BNC/Ethernet tester in hand and went straight for my junction where the cable comes into the house. I want to work up a complete tracing of all of the cable in my house. Before I go any further, here's the...
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    Man, Chinese electronics manufacturers are so funny

    Man, Chinese electronics manufacturers are funny! I got a BNC/Ethernet similar to this one, but with individual led's for each pin with this company's branding and website on the back. It was only $8 shipped and I was successful in directly soliciting someone selling it on overstock auctions...
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    Now this is the kind of cash back I'm talking about!

    Now that Citi's Dividend Platinum is officially nerfed, I've been looking into other cards. Out here in the mid-Atlantic, we have a convenience store called Wawa. Their credit card is 10% cash back on all Wawa purchases for the first 90 days and 2% on all other purchases, going to 4% and 1%...
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    Agree or disagree: "There is no future (at least that's "well paying") in the day to day IT grind"

    "There is no future (at least that's "well paying") in the day to day IT grind. The dot-com boom is over and high paying IT jobs are getting really scarce. Nobody is making "the big bucks" anymore. Move up or get out while you still can. The days of one income households where the breadwinner is...
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    Spelling Nazi's rejoice!

    Firefox 2.0 means the end of almost all spelling errors on ATOT!!!!!!!!!!! :champagne;:champagne;:champagne;:champagne;:champagne;
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    Ford Ranger, New for $9999

    I saw a commercial on tv yesterday for the stripped-stripped down Ford Ranger for 9999 before TTL. As far as I can tell, that's without AC, without Cruise Control and without a lot of features, but I can't help but wonder: Are power windows standard on the Ford Ranger now? I can imagine...
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    poll: What to make for Sunday night dinner

    mmm eating like a king tonight :( At least I have plenty of :wine: or :beer: to go with whatever I decide to do
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    Eagles just lost to a 62 yard FG?!?!?!

    What a terrible game. That 30 yards of penalties was BS. Good comeback, but what a crappy way to loose :thumbsdown:
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    Anyone with a VAIO and Media Center 2005 want to help me out?

    Trying to reinstall media center on the gf's laptop, but I don't have media that will match her cd key on the underside of the laptop. Sony's reps told me that there is a specific, cusomized oem version they image at the factory, presumably with it's own product ID code/Microsoft product code...
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    What is your #1 Gripe about Microsoft?

    My number one gripe is the idea that install cd's come in different flavors (corp, retail, oem) and cd-keys must be mated to these. If I show up to a client's site and he has an XP Pro box with a genuine sticker on the side, and I only have a corp or retail install cd and his is OEM, I can't...
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    I can't wait to for the weekend to start

    Been a pretty crappy-feeling week. I can't wait to just go home and go to sleep. What about you? Big plans?
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    Would the ATOT Feminists answer a few questions?

    Hi all, A few questions for you. If there were an abortion ban in all of the social establishments in your city, would you support it or oppose it? If someone said that this would help the children. Would you contradict it? What are the main reasons that you abort your children...
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    Black guy avatar alert!

    :evil: Made you look! ;)
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    Must be nice to be 12.... and completley spoiled....

    This is a video of two 12 year olds going to town to destroy a Creative Zen Vision W. It sells for $300 and came out, not even 3 months ago. Every unit out there is still under warranty. The kids said that it's broken because they didn't "safely remove it" when they disconnected it from windows...
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    The Creative Zen Vision W thread

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16855102012 I don't have a laptop or any kind of portable video player. I have a business trip coming up in a few weeks that I don't want to approach without something <shudder> Why is the W so much cheaper than the regular model? Is that...
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    ATOT Philly Meet?

    Is there any interest? Without getting too specific, I'm pretty centrally located (minutes from multiple interstates) and will take responsibility for organizing if there is interest. I just pulled a date out of my ass: Who would be up for Saturday night, November 18th? Dave and Busters?
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    Which action hero do you envision yourself most like?

    Duke Nukem here... if it wasn't for that little thing called physics, I'd beat the sh!t out of the whole universe and "still make it back in time to watch Oprah." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem http://www.driverzone.cz/tapetygamesy/Duke_Nukem_004.jpg
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    Anyone from ATOT in Minneapolis (Minnesota I think)?

    I just found out I'm going there for a business trip next month and I'm wondering if there's anything worth seeing/doing there?
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    Good lord it's slow on here this morning!

    AMUSE ME!!!
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    Where to dispose of a mercury switch?

    I just upgraded my thermostat and now I have a mercury switch with ~10ml of the stuff. I want to dispose of it as environmentally friendly as possible. Where should I take it? locked because the thread is 4 years old -DrPizza
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    Yet another stolen joke: $500 to anyone who can drink 10 pints of Guinness

    A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give five-hundred American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back." The room is quiet and no one takes...
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    Anyone having trouble with paypal?

    :confused:
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    Poll: Philadelphia @ New Orleans... 3 point spread (afaik)

    1pm EST FOX Distribution map (Eagles/Saints game for most of you) 1pm EST CBS Distribution Map 4:15 EST CBS Distribution Map I think the eagles can do it personally... They appear to me to have gotten into a rythym and have recovered from that Giant's loss officially with the win...
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    What's in your wallet right now?

    Drivers licence University ID Three or four of my business cards Amex Blue Cash Super-G Gift card Wawa Visa Card Wachovia Gold Visa Check Card Health insurance card Best Buy reward zone card Club cards for Acme and Super-G Cash OH yeah, I forgot my RFID key card for work
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    I thought PNY was a reputable memory brand? WTF?

    I just bought 2 512mb pc3200 sticks from Best Buy at $52 each. I figured after shuffling some ram around, I'd be able to get to 256+256 in my media pc (2-slot VIA KM266Pro) and 512+512+256 on my VMware server (3-slot NForce2). Last night, I came home, pulled the 256 from the Via box and the...
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    VMware questions

    First, is VMware Player more resource efficient than VMware server when running just one guest OS on a 2003 host? Currently my server only has 512 megs of ram, but I'm going to take it to 1280 when I get home. Just two Windows XP Pro sessions previously slammed memory utilization on the box...
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    I had a nightmare last night :(

    I spent all of my money on a black, 2007 Toyota Camry and everybody laughed at me. It drove like ass too :( One of my ex'es was in my dream too and she was preggers What does that mean?
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    Best eFax service for a small shop that doesen't host its own email or domain?

    Anyone have any reccomendations? It has to be robust. Ideally, I'd like to see some software I'd install on each of their pc's so they can print to the fax service and all incoming faxes should be able to be forwarded to a list of email addresses.
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    How many cell phone minutes did you use in your last billing cycle?

    Last month for me: 128 daytime 2138 total (incl nights and weekends)
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    Are our accounts safe with this cookie fvck up? MODS, Please STICKY SOMETHING

    well???? Sticky with some answers please???
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    24/7 big box stores?

    I already do 95% of my grocery shopping between 11pm and 2am. I was just reflecting on how awesome it would be if home depot or lowes was open 24/7. I don't think I'd sleep on the weekends... It's not common for walmart's to be open 24/7 in the north east, so we pretty much only have 24/7...
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    Citicard Dividend Platinum Information: 4 Days to go @ 5%!!!

    Including my purchaces for today, I have $30.80 in pending cash back with my Citicard. I learned a few things today. First, Citicard's website, under Rewards > Unbilled Activity calculates everything at 1%. They correct this at the bill's printing for the 5% (soon to be 2%) items...
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    Who would have thought you'd need gobs of ram to run vmware

    My box (server 2003, 512 ram, barton 2500, nforce2) running vmware has two windows xp professional environements booted up and its almost completley locked up with page file thrashing :( Why does DDR1 have to be so expensive right now??? :(
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    Took some serious thinking... evaluate my new home network

    The office just decided to pay for me to have a 6 meg cable connection at home, so I have to rethink my network setup... diagram At the router, all of the systems except for the uTorrent VM system will be bound to the cable wan port in IP. The uTorrent VM system will be bound to the...