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    HTPC card help

    Hey guys, been out the loop for ages and need some advice my parents just ridded their old computer onto me this weekend as they have no use for it anymore. its actually the remnants of my gaming machine from a few years back. anyway, my plans are to try make it into some kind of...
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    connect ADSL and satalite at the same time?

    How can i connect an ADSL line and a Satalite link to the same computer then switch between them via software on the computer? can i do this with a switch? i assume you can have both connections active and just disable one of them within windows depending on what you want?
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    MBP's and these supposedly faulty 8600M's

    im sure you lot must of heard the news stories about the entire glut of 8600M GPU's, the ones used in laptops, are supposedly all bad due to a defective material being used in manufacturing. apparently this is leading to premature failures, especially on those that get a lot of heat cycling...
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    Build for brother

    My bro wants to build himself a new computer for uni (now i already explained to him the merits of laptops and the dell out let, but he's quite set on this so im gonna see what i can come up with for his budget) he also wants to take it to LAN's now i've done builds before, so im no...
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    firefox on mac.... why so resource hungry?

    i dunno if this is just me or this is a global thing, but FF on my mac regularly saps 20% just to sit there an do nothing. i had a regular forum page open on a forum i go to alot and its needing 20% to show a page that is comprised of just 3 colours. red, white n dark grey by comparison...
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    Warranty ends and right on cue.... failure

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/masona/2439179738/sizes/l/ well i dont know what to say.... my cars broke, my kitchen cupboard fell off the other day, my macbook pro is on the verge of the fritz and today my camera packs in. almost as if on cue the warranty ended and the failure began check...
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    MBP 15.4 inch display going nuts!

    this just happened today my screen had a massive fit whilst i was watching a streamed episode of scrubs on my external display http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH46ZHF4JMM starts about 20 in and gets prgressively worse its all fine and dandy now tho :confused:
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    got my first flash.... now how do i use it properly?

    any good sites for learning how best to employ a flash? i just got a slightly used speedlite 430ex off of ebay, it should be arriving on my door step in the morning. i got a little bit of money left over from the purchase so what cheap but worth while additions should i get. i read...
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    am i eating right for what i do?

    me n my friends here at uni have decided to go enter the world champs for speed lifesaving. now we have the qualifying times but wanna improve. i wanna step my game up, more training and eating right. i dunno what to eat or whether im eating enough or eating too much. if i put like a idea...
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    am i doing this right?

    at uni we have this session called hour of power.... from the name you an guess its ooohh about an hour long. anyway its been ripped from some 4x4 fitness thing, apparently its quite popular around the world but i have no idea if it is or it isnt basically consists of doing reps, using...
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    boot camp crashed part way through partitioning

    what am i gonna do? i bought leopard and one of the main reasons for the purchase was so i could make proper use of boot camp the one program that i actually wanted to work properly has basically forced me to hard restart my machine mid way through a partitioning. so now OS X thinks the...
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    can i do this

    so i hear upgrading isnt the way to go.... most recommend a fresh install. but i dont want to have to spend ages getting things back how i liked. is it possible to do this 1) make a read only back up of my MBP hard drive (ends in .dmg, so i assume this is right) 2) have leopard install do...
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    How to make a XP Pro install disk with all the updates?

    i wanna use boot camp, but cannot be faffed with the multitude of updates for XP is there a way i can make like a consolidated disc with the updates on? i do have a proper legal XP Pro SP1 disc and license, but theyre on SP3 or something now arent they?
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    cannot get Adobe Lightroom to work

    i have no idea whats going on. OSX has worked flawlessly up until now i tried the LR demo and kept getting "error when changing module" errors. i got these errors immediately after install. the library module was pretty much bare, i couldnt import anything, and clicking on the other modules...
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    How to make logo's etc for my photo's

    how do i make a logo of my name or something that i can overlay on my photo's? a few of my photos are starting to get used frequently now, especially the break dancing ones so i want people to know that they are my shots. at the moment the company that made all the break dancing clothing...
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    camera mount specifications

    hey guys i need a little help on bigger video camera's theres the threaded mounting hole which is either 1/4 inch or 3/8 inch (i think) and then there is sometimes a locating hole forward of this hole does anyone know where i can find the distance between these two.?
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    going to upgrade to leopard

    hey guys, was gonna upgrade to leopard on launch day but just didnt get around to it... was just as well really seeing as there were a fair share of little problems. i assume now that all is well and ironed out? i have a 2.4ghz MBP 15.4incher, i just upped it to 4Gb of ram and its flanked...
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    any laser guru's here?

    trying to do some past exam papers and there is a question about how a birefringent material can be used t stabilise a HeNe laser. typically the notes given to us by the lecture (with the guarantee that this is all we need for the exams) dont cover birefringent materials at all, and only very...
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    just got a sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM f4-5.6

    just picked one of these up the other day was umming and ahhhhing for a while because some one was also selling a canon 70-300mm USM f4-5.6 IS on ebay for £250 (which is nice price) and was considering taking the plunge...but then figured id get more use out of the wide sigma. weathers...
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    Any place where i can get concise info on business systems?

    im doing engineering but we have a business module and im struggling to get my head round it. it all seems so needlessly drawn out with waffle that i cant actually understand what im reading. is there anywhere that provides concise info on these things? i really dont understand business, it...
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    cant play some tunes in iTunes becase of authorization

    itunes keeps telling me that i have already authorized my account on 5 computers, so all the music i purchased i cant actually listen to. now it probably is true that i have authorized it on over 5 computers..... thing is its not physically 5 computers. its 2 computers my old pc, which...
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    sliders in VB6

    how do i create sliders? i cant seem to find anything about creating them on the web.... probably looking in the wrong places mind
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    Parallels maxing out CPU all the time

    i dunno whats up with this thing, i have word open with one document and thats all, and parallels is ploughing the cpu core (only one core mind since its not multithreaded yet). by the looks of it, its parallel tools causing the problems, but im guessing i cant just shut that thing off or...
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    need some help with VB again

    im getting confused about what things i have to pass to the search function our lecture notes do have examples however they are kinda seperate... ie one example of a search function thats taking data from some code we cant see and one example of passing an array to a function but then not...
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    Digital video/image Stabilization

    hey guys im doing a project that requires me to build a handheld steadicam a bit like the Tiffen Merlin, but obviously improve up on it. really the projects kind of looking to see if it even can be improved at all and whether or not hand held steadicams have pretty much peaked...
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    VB help

    hey, need a little help with input boxes my lecturer said to us that if we make a input box pop up and ask for a number, the first thing he will do is put in a letter or nothing at all and press ok to see if we have coded in error checking or whatever what he hasnt done, despite telling us...
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    need a media PC kinda thing.... advice please

    hey, i need a cheapo pc for media duties wont be anything too strenuous, very likely to be non-HD material so i see CPU power not needing to be too hefty but what kinda machine do i need to play just general video (of nearly all formats) via streaming? the plan really is to stream media...
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    how big can i print this?

    got a shot that was originally 10mp, then i cropped into it to ger the shot looking how i wanted it. however the shot is now only around 2.8MP so how big could i get that without it being noticably bad? the shot will be used to produce a board of so far unknown size, it will then be signed...
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    what to do with £2000

    i have some dough saved up and want to get more out of it. i can either take out an online saver with HSBC which will pay 6.08% (gross)/ 6.25% AER (not that i know the differece) on whatever is in the account on a monthly basis. or, with the help of a friend who plays the stock market with...
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    How much memory can the intel 915 chipset handle?

    my dad wants to upgrade his laptop, its a Sony Vaio VGN-FS115B. its a Sonoma platform laptop so that means the intel 915GM chipset and dothan CPU. intels chipset bunff tells me the chipset supports both DDR and DDR2 in dual channel configuration and that it can handle up to 2Gb. on this...
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    wish list

    here's my camera equipment wish list. i am happy with my XTi for the moment so i wont be changing that but i wish for.... sigma 10-20mm digital wide angle Tamron 28-75 F2.8 Canon 70-300mm F4-5.6 IS (very good quality optics, though not the best built) battery grip a decent flash i...
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    give me a f***ing break....

    why? because the red arrows are too british and my offend foreigners. what a load of bollocks. i swear the people running this place are biggest bunch of talentless, skill-less hacks in the whole world. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007421005,00.html i cant actually say...
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    Check out my shots from my weekend at the British GT

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/m...ets/72157601845472671/ :D theres a stack more to come as well, took around 700 pics per day and i was there 2 days. if your wondering why they are mainly all astons, thats because my friend actually races the number 1 car and is doing very well this...
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    haha best projector evar!

    http://www.trustedreviews.com/...ort-Throw-Projector/p1 should make for alot of entertaining inuendo's and cheap gags about penis'
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    Slow CD reading in parallels

    so i was installing Office 2003 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein the otherday and it took bloody ages! RTCW later turned out to be complete waste of my time seeing as it didnt even load without spitting out errors. but it was just sooooo slow to install, the CD drive must of been doing 1x...
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    Bugatti Veyron for hire

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bugatti-...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem what a rip £150, 000 deposit £20,000 rental fee per day maximum of 50 Miles driven per day must be 30 to 60 year old, full UK licence with 6 points or less 6ft 3in max height and 18stone max weight (this is for all their...
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    i am sorry but....

    $100 for 1m of HDMI cable is utter nonsense. how do monster cable even think they are going to sell those cables at $100 per meter? http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3084 scroll down to mid-bottom, Monster are aiming to clear up the confusion of HDMI cables (not sure...
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    Whaddaya think ?

    went to a place known as South Gare on sunday, its basically a little jut of land/beach/rocks hiding behind the blast furnace of the steel works. http://www.flickr.com/photos/m...ets/72157601845472671/ theres some shots i took. usually i'd tweak a little in PS, but this time i thought they...
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    VM ware, parallels and bootcamp

    so, i have tried all 3 and ran into headaches...usually centered around windows activation since XP thinks that they are all seperate, different computers. so to do away with that i need to pick one. i put bootcamp there because i thought id like to try a couple of games out on my SR MBP...
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    SLR cleaning

    i had little strands of cotton or fabric or something in my view finder, they werent on the bit where you put your eye, but the bit that sits above the mirror, so they must of floated up there when changing a lens. now, i tried to get rid of these with a cotton swab.... in hindsight i should...