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    Iron Man Blogging Competition

    Hey, so starting April 1st, we'll be doing this contest to see who can blog the most consecutive days. This is actually the fourth year we've done this. It's fun and the winner gets bragging rights. It's free; no ads, no iPod schemes. There are some rules, but they're pretty basic. If you're...
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    What motherboards will fit in this old Shuttle case?

    I have an SK41G (specs). The stock motherboard (Shuttle FX41) recently went kaput. Are there any boards I can replace it with? I'd be happy to get another FX41, but I can't find any for sale. Whatever I put in there needs to work with the SK41G's "ICE/heatpipe" CPU cooler (i.e. processor has...
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    Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls

    Okay, so a friend turned me on to this song a couple days ago and I've been listening to it quite a bit lately, but I can't quite figure out what this lyric means: Damn all these beautiful girls They only wanna do your dirt "Do your dirt"? I tried searching Urban Dictionary, but the only...
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    Iron Man Blogging Competition

    For the past two years, I've been doing this "Iron Man" blogging thing every April. In 2005 it was just between me and a friend to see who could post every day for the longest stretch. In 2006, we opened it up to some other friends and internet acquaintances (we had seven participants that...
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    Getting a domain name back

    Okay, so this small business I do work for sometimes had a domain name a couple years ago. They put the URL in their phone book ad and on some stationary. Through some mix up, they accidentally let the domain expire (management says they paid *someone* in regards to the domain name, but I think...
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    Quick question - nursery rhyme

    I can only remember a fragment of a nursery rhyme that goes "Home again, home again, jiggedy jig." Could someone link me to the whole thing (or at least tell me what it's about, or who's supposed to have said that line)? I googled a few variations on the phrase and the term "nursery rhyme," but...
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    Router suggestions

    Could someone please recommend a wired router that lets me do the following things? - Configure QoS to give VoIP priority - Only let certain MAC addresses have internet access - Only allows access to URLs on a whitelist Thanks in advance!
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    I'm going to New York on Friday

    I've had two different people tell me not to "dress like a tourist" while visiting the Big Apple. What does that mean, exactly? It's not like I'm going to wander around staring at the sky in a bright hawaiian print shirt and Bermuda shorts... But I do tend to wear light colors. Does this mean I...
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    Making a program always start with certain process settings in XP

    I have a program that needs special settings when I run it on my main machine -- specifically, I have to set the priority to high and "set affinity" so that it runs on only one CPU. I've been doing this manually from the task manager's process tab, but I was wondering if there's an easier way...
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    Nepotism

    Suppose you found yourself unemployed and someone (a friend of a friend) offered you a job that's substantially better than what you think you could get on your own. They semi-jokingly intimate to you that, since they outrank the person doing the hiring, they can make sure you get hired...
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    Problem with DVI output staying primary (vs. VGA)

    I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 with the latest drivers for my x800 GTO. I can't seem to get it to use the DVI as the primary display for any real length of time -- every time I restart or finish playing a fullscreen game, it starts using the VGA output. Occasionally, I can get it to go back to...
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    Quick cooking question

    I'm making some ice cream that calls for 2 cups of heavy cream and two cups of light cream. But I only have a quart of heavy cream and a quart of half and half. In what ratio/volumes can I mix them to get the equivalent of what the recipe calls for? Thanks
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    Can't get video card to display w/ DVI

    Hi. I just put together a Shuttle (FX43) with an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000 AGP card (has both VGA and DVI ports). I can't seem to get the card to display anything through the DVI port. I've scoured the "Nvidia control panel" and the Display Properties > Settings > Advanced area, but I can't find...
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    Lockup problem, have tried many things; upgrade question

    I've been experiencing random lockups on my main machine. The screen just freezes, system won't respond at all, only a hard reset reboots. At first I thought it might be my RAM. Ran MemTest overnight -- no errors. So then I thought it could be my OS (Win 2K SP4), so I upgraded to Windows XP...
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    Mind transfer

    Would you get your brain scanned and turned into a computer program that could then be run off a "prosthetic brain" installed in your body? The scanning process destroys the original brain, but the program behaves exactly as you would in any given situation. The prosthetic brain is effectively...
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    Random lock ups... advice?

    Okay, so here are the symptoms: While in Windows, my computer will randomly lock up completely. That is, everything on the screen will freeze, numlock doesn't work, can't move the mouse cursor, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work. The only way for me to reboot is to hit the reset button. These lock ups...
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    Aw

    Hey ATOT, I ran across this old Spacemoose strip and thought of you. And for anyone offended by it: Text
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    Amusing news story

    Okay, the actual story isn't that great, but I thought this little piece was really funny: Text
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    Hey guys, I just want to ask some non-inflammatory questions...

    Does God exist? Is George W. Bush a great president? Should circumcision be performed on all infants? Is abortion wrong? Should the US have a national healthcare system? And I think we can all agree homosexuality is wrong.
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    Did you ever laugh at something and feel guilty immediately afterwards?

    I did. BTW, any idea what the hell this is from?
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    Haha, any of you use this?

    Noticed this link on another board: fastseduction.com Any of you heteros actually use guides like this? I can't believe how much information there is there (and how obsessively multiple guys have worked to compile it). Anyway, thought it was kind of amusing. Really bored this evening.
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    Post pics of your recent meals

    Text -- dinner from Friday... fried chicken breast topped with mozzarella, side of spinach with butter. Not much to look at, but very tasty. Text -- last night's dinner. Sauteed some mushrooms, snap peas, and spinach together in extra virgin olive oil with lots of pepper and tarragon, then...
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    What's the happiest song you know?

    For me, probably Tenacious D - Friendship. Or ABBA - Take a Chance on Me. I think Amateur Transplants - London Underground is also really cheerful even though the lyrics are just angry...
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    Boxers or...?

    Probably a repost, but nothing showed up in a search. Why do I want to know? I'm bored.
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    A stolen joke

    A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees three men sitting at a corner table. He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says: "I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her...
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    Question about segregation

    I was just watching some stuff my TiVo picked out for me and saw an ad for this Lifetime original movie, "For One Night." Apparently it's about this highschool where they have two proms; one for white students and one for black students. Some girl played by Raven Symone tries to merge them into...
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    Are guys who wear Carharts coats really just wussies?

    'Cause one time I saw one get a manicure.
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    Some amusing images

    Hopefully at least one of these will make you smile. So lonely Law & Order Batman Best kids' Halloween costumes ever It's a trap Anyone out here?
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    Question for people currently in a relationship

    Just wondering when you exchanged I-love-you's.
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    Any Battletech fans out there?

    MegaMek is an unofficial online version of the boardgame... anyone familiar with it? Want to square off?
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    Holy cow, how is DreamHost still in business?

    They just quadrupled storage and octupled bandwidth... just look at my new account properties: 20 gigs storage and nearly a terabyte of transfers per month... for EIGHT freakin' bucks a month. WTF... how can they do that? That's got to be the best non-free hosting deal in existence... anyone...
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    An interesting little science fact

    Did you know the force of gravity actually increases as you move deeper into the Earth up to a certain point? 3,550 miles from the core it's 1.02 Gs; 2,150 miles from the core it's 1.09 Gs. Wacky, huh?
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    What pet names do you call your significant other?

    Me: Usually "tastycakes," occasionally "my hunky paisano." :P
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    Carson Daly... how is he still on the air?

    I watched this show a couple times like a year or two ago... seemed like it was an hour? Has it been cut down to 30 minutes since then? Anyway, he's doing these Conan-ripoff bits (exact same delivery) but the writing is terrible. He actually got booed by his own studio audience. You can even...
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    Win 2K reghack to move Unlock Computer dialogue

    Anyone know a reg-hack or anything to change where on the screen the Unlock Computer dialogue box appears? I want to put it more in the lower left. BTW, I'm using Win 2K Pro SP4. Thanks
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    Amazon's obsession with Asian dating...

    Went to go pre-order Civ 4 and found some weird search results... http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/hjo3/civ4_amazon.jpg
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    There are some guys painting and smoking

    And the combination of cigarette smoke and latex paint smell is surprisingly pleasant.
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    Beefy - The Nerd EP

    Might not be everyone's thing, but by all means max out his site's monthly bandwidth allotment. :D I'm really not a fan of rap, but I like some of his songs. Admittedly, I'm a tad biased. Here's the link: http://www.beefyness.com/nerd.php If you like it, email him. He really gets a...
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    Cool Mac software

    I've used PCs for a really long time, but I recently bought an iMac (needed it for some classes I'm taking that involve Mac-only software). Anywho, right now it's just got Adobe CS2, StuffIt, some codec stuff, and my MP3 collection on it (waiting for some other software to arrive). What're...
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    Just curious...

    I see stories and links from these places reposted on ATOT constantly. Just wondering how many people realize it's old news.