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    Just started playing Elder Scrolls IV GOTY for 360... any tips?

    Loved Fallout 3, was told this is in the same vein, different setting. Can you get a house of sorts in this one... or is there a safe place to stow my crap?
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    Do I need any special model/brand of HD/CPU to upgrade a MBP?

    So I was hoping to buy an iMac in the summer... but when I started looking at prices I realized that the iMac I WANT is not the iMac I want to pay for. Rather than plunk down $2000-$2500 for the iMac I'd want, I think It'd just be better if I did a small upgrade of my Mac Book Pro, starting...
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    Best case/cover for Touch?

    I started a new job this week that's pretty boring so I picked up an iPod Touch to help me get through it with my sanity. Naturally I wanna keep it protected. The place is actually fairly clean, but I'll be moving plenty and it might bump against some machinery while it is in my pocket...
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    Stupid Annoyance of the day... It's not just that Illustrator crashed...

    Stupid Annoyance of the day: Illustrator just crashed on me. No big deal, I'm smart enough to know that it happens and that I should save early and often. The kicker though is the dialogue box that comes up when it happens... it goes something like this: Okay... why bother putting a...
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    YALaidOffT: Got the axe on Friday. :(

    Title pretty much sums it up. Half of my department got taken aside on Friday and we were told that they can no longer offer us employment. We get 2 weeks of pay and vacation paid out, at least. I figured they were going to have more layoffs in the coming months, but everyone was pretty...
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    A little picture to describe my day

    B2D.jpg Enjoy. I think.
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    Where would a person get started in writing programs for OSX?

    I took some programming classes back in college but never really did anything with it. I always wanted to pick it back up and build on it but my PC went kaput back in the spring and I've more or less become Mac only... so I figure I might as well start fresh with something I can actually use...
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    Anyone up for some Gears 2 Horde/Co-Op @ 6p EST this week?

    Add me if interested. I seem to be getting NO luck with the game setting up a co-op or horde match AT ALL. Probably be a lot easier if I just find some people to play. GT = Cohort Brian. Post your's if you add so I know who is who, please.
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    YATGT - "Thanksgiving" lunch at work tomorrow... to care or not to care...

    So my company has a nice thanksgiving tradition of about 25% of people bringing in food and the 75% that didn't bitching about the quantity and quality of food and taking a heaping plate full that usually ends with some people getting seconds before other people can get out of meetings and such...
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    Can I access my Mac partition's files when I boot in to Windows?

    See topic title. I just wanna know if I can get to my music (and a few select files) when I boot in to Windows via Bootcamp.
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    Advice for someone looking to purchase a home in the spring (maybe earlier?)

    I'm hoping to start house hunting early Spring '09, if not earlier. I've been spending the last year getting my finances in order and I'm flat out tired of renting and not building equity. I've been checking my credit every 4 months rotating from the three agencies and best I can tell...
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    So I had a minor f*** up on my state taxes and...

    So I had a minor fuck up on my taxes and while I admit that it was completely my fault (I accidentally typed 4 instead of a 7 in the hundreds column while doing taxes online on my AGI) there's one thing that really gets me about it. Being off by such a minor amount caused an excess refund and...
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    Better topping combo, ketchup & mustard OR butter and syrup?

    See topic title.
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    iTunes store -- downloading files at home AND at work...

    How do I make this happen? If I download something from an account at home, is the ONLY way to get the file on my work computer to take the file with me then authorize it there? Why can't I just download it from the iTunes store again?
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    The Cincinnati Bengals set themselves up for dissappointment

    http://news.cincinnati.com/app...9/SPT02/808190330/1066 I just don't get it. The guy screws up more times than most any other player in the NFL and the Bengals are just asking for it to bite them. The guy is trash and it really disappoints me that any team, let alone my hometown team...
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    Friend needs help finding someone to code a site

    I have a friend living in the Florida Keys that has a business idea revolving around a website and he is in need a person, group, or company to code the site from the ground up. In my not-quite-experienced opinion I'm guessing that to get the site launched will take at least a hundred hours of...
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    Anyone else having problems with signing in to iGoogle?

    It keeps saying that I've been signed out as soon as I log in. :- Does I suck at internets? NVM... working now. Must have just been some connection probs.
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    Quicken for mac

    So after trying a few free personal finance apps and the trials of some others, I found most of them quite lacking in features. I was thinking I would just bite the bullet and buy quicken because I know I can count on it to do everything I want. I was curious if buying a used copy is...
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    How much do scalpers charge for Yankees tix outside of the stadium?

    Friends and I are visiting NYC next weekend and we wanna see the Reds in Yankee Stadium (Since we're from Cincy and it's probably our only chance to go to Yankee Stadium) One friend was supposed to be getting tickets from a co-worker but ended up not getting them, and we were wondering if it...
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    Trouble with Mac Mail

    This is baffling the hell out of me. A co-worker was receiving email fine and dandy until about 9am and then it just stopped. The connections were not changed, I don't think any software updates were made, and the login/password has been verified by checking mail via web mail. Mail seems...
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    100% Stumped here... can't even think of what else to try.

    I've been trying for a solid month to fix my shuttle XPC. Came home from work one day and it just wouldn't boot. The system had been 100% stable for 2 years. The system gets NO response when I hit the power button. However, when I remove the video card the system turns on. So my...
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    Remove some car parts in an attempt to improve MPG?

    Some of you may have seen some threads I've posted in OT about my quest to become a cheapass. (Long story short, ultimate goal is to reduce monthly expenses to buy a house in Fall 08/ Spring 09.) I've managed to adjust my driving habits a bit that I can now go slightly over two weeks without...
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    I need a new Desktop wallpaper.

    Getting tired of my current one. Cheesy and stupid drawings please apply. I enjoy the irony of having a some UN-L337 wallpaper while being in the graphic arts. Edit: It's for work.... so SFW ONLY, please.
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    Reducing Gas bill to near 0?

    So I got the E-Bill for my utility company yesterday and the charges were as such: ~ $42 for gas, ~ $25 for electric. ~ $67 total Now, the heat has been off in my apartment since well before the previous billing cycle, so to think that I spent $42 on gas is somewhat odd to me. My...
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    Computer won't start up... doesn't turn on with video card in.

    Dunno if this is the best forum for this but I got home from work today, went to turn on my computer and the fans and lights came on for a second but immediately died. I tried plugging it into a different outlet, switching on/off from the PSU... and got similar results every time. I took...
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    Help me advise my dad on which card to buy

    My old man is asking for my advice on which of these six cards he should get... He has it narrowed down to this list only: 01G-P2-N793-LR 512-P2-N756-TR 512-P2-N757-TR 01G-P2-N795-TR 512-P2-N773-AR 320-P2-N811-AR The kicker about my dad is that he doesn't do anything that would...
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    Best Font Management Utility?

    Hey all... For those that don't know, I'm a production artist at a printing company and I'm installing a dozen or so fonts to my machine everyday. I clear my fonts folder about once a month and just put the defaults back in, but it proves to be a waste of time as I end up putting a lot of...
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    Stumped on a recursive fuction in PHP

    So I'm working on a script for my BF2 Clan's website to display Ventrillo info and, long story short, I don't know how to set it up so it can search through an unknown nesting of channels. as in... I can hard code it with nested loops to go through 3 levels, which is what we have, but if we...
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    How to dispose of old fireworks properly...

    See topic title. I have an ammo case full of bottle rockets/firecrackers and they are at least 5 years old. They've been in their plastic wrap and in that ammo box about the same length of time but seeing as they've been stored in a garage that has gotten to 0 degrees and as high as 100...
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    What would be the best way to invest a mere $10 for a length of a year?

    So my friends and I... during the course of some drunken BSing, decided to have a contest where each of us starts with an initial investment of ONLY $10 and, given only a year's time, tries to make the most out of it. The obvious "high risk" scenario is to play the lottery or gamble with...
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    Free McSkillet Burrito This Thursday and Friday (2/28, 2/29)

    http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/e...mcskillet_burrito.html Saw a commercial for this yesterday, I'd assume it's national since it's on the web. I wouldn't eat one of these things if they paid me but I figured some of you might be interested. Moved from Free Stuff moderator allisolm
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    Any advice on finance software? Recommendations, preferences, etc?

    Macbook Pro running Leopard, if that makes a difference. Does anyone have any recommendations for financial software, preferably one more designed for individual use, rather than for company or hardcore investor use. I used Money2003 for a while before I switched to an apple laptop, but it...
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    Is there a site or tool that lets you check the usage of CSS objects/classes in your .css file

    So over the years of of being a somewhat lazy designer and using a few different theme-able webscripts I've made a somewhat long CSS file. I would like to know if there is any tool that will scour my site and tell me what classes in my style.css file are unused so I can get rid of them, or if...
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    Will a slow-cooker (Crock Pot) be okay on "Low" overnight?

    See topic title. Wanna go out with friends, might end up crashing at another friend's place, just made the chili and it has to stay on for at least a couple hours. It's a really basic slow cooker with just a "off, warm, low, high" dial.
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    Meeting some friends in the STL area at the end of february

    Back in September one memeber of my group of friends moved to Kansas and we figured it'd be fun to meet up in St. Louis from time to time since it's a decent halfway point. What are some good ideas on things to do in February? We had planned on touring the AB Brewery, how long should we...
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    "Disgust" smiley...

    Can we change the name/code of the disgust smiley? Whenever you use it, it always picks up the :D smiley before it reads in the rest of the smiley code. Example: :Disgust; Or we could change the "Big Grin" smiley to specifically be " :-D "
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    YAWH(Web Hosting)T - Cheap and featureless is fine with me!

    I've been using E-Rice (www.e-rice.net) for a few years now and I have to renew in January, and as much as I love rewarding good service with repeat business I can't help but thinking that it's almost TOO featureless. (Gotta keep it cheap somehow, eh?) I mostly use my site for personal blog...
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    Markku sings

    http://severink.pp.fi/karaoke/MP3/ It'll probably die fast if bunches of people check it out. Highly recommended is "Take on me"
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    Any reletively unbiased websites to compare political candidates?

    Any quick links? I've been doing a little research but it's a bit hard to weed through the crap and tell whether a website is trying to favor a particular candidate or not. News articles are undoubtedly biased and not a proper gauge of a candidate's standpoints or beliefs. Maybe we...
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    You know the people that don't want to make noise in the restroom while others are there?

    I love to make them wait in agony. It's a challenge for me. I'll get comfortable just to make them suffer. Some dude lasted 10 minutes today before I decided I should just get back to work. Sorry for pooping thread. I just find it funny that people are so embarrassed...