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    Found: Black widow in apartment

    Ok, I've always had a bit of insectophobia in general, but spiders, especially the really creepy kind, have always held a special spot on my list. A couple weeks ago I had the front office send in the exterminator to take care of some little bugs I'd noticed (one maintenance guy called them...
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    Topic says it all... let 'er rip! Image Almost forgot... feel free to photochop =)
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    Suspicious-looking SanDisk cards

    I hope I'm just being paranoid, but I figured that it couldn't hurt to ask around and get some input on my situation. I've been shooting with SanDisk CF cards since my first digital camera and have always had flawless performance from them. Yesterday I added to that with two new 4GB Ultra II...
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    Apartment management nightmare

    So I moved into my own place towards the end of last month. Aside from other issues that I haven't yet had a chance to bring up to the apartment management, one glaring issue has become a bit of a headache. Short Story: dryer doesnt work, maintenance useless. Full story: June 27th...
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    Warm: Sandisk 2GB CF Ultra II $39.99 @ BB

    Linky The same card is more than $20 more at the Egg (reference.) Possibly hot for those who just got shiny new CF-using, large file making DSLRs for Xmas =) Edit: $34.99 at Costco . $19.99 after $15 coupon that came in the mail!
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    Occasional HDD grinding with new Raptor

    I recently picked up a Raptor X on the hot deal @ Best Buy and have been loving it, but it seems like something just isn't right. I did a clean XP Pro SP2 install on the drive (after mucking for an hour to find a floppy disk, reconnect my floppy drive, boot to my old HDD, copy the SATA...
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    Banned from WoW

    Alright, let's start off with my WoW history, albeit brief. I played WoW from day 1 and lost 76 days of my life to it (actual in game timer.) I ran a guild, and still technically do, although I quit and allowed my subscription to expire about a year and a half ago. Out of the blue, I...
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    Newcomer to Folding@Home

    It's been ages since I've done anything in the distributed computing world and figured that now is as good a time as any to change that. I used to crunch for the SETI team here but that died off for me for still unknown reasons. Right now I'm only running FAH on one machine, but I'm...
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    PXE booting on existing network

    At my work we have an existing Wintel network with a couple thousand PC's on it. Currently I believe DHCP is being spit out by a win2k server running the standard dhcp service. In our office we have a standalone switch that is seperate from the network. On that mini-network I set up...
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    Should employers recognize Brainbench certs? (With poll!)

    After doing contract work for most of my working life I have seen employers who run the gamut of certification requirements, from no certs needed to 'You must be J#KDK(SDLK#$KXD+ Certified for this position.' With the emphasis being placed on certification these days, and with the costs of...
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    ESPGame.org

    This is a game where you and a random person on the net are shown identical images, and both of you have to come up with words that describe the image. The goal is to both come up with at least one identical word. Just gotta pray that yer partner doesn't suck it big time. ESP Game Link
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    Wierd and seemingly intermittent XP internet connectivity

    For about the last month a single Windows XP Pro system of mine has had no issues getting online, browsing the web, email, sharing files of the LAN, etc. Out of the blue, the system started having an odd problem that I haven't ever seen before. The system will be chugging along happily, then...
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    Convincing a charity to say yes

    Ok, here's the situation. I've decided that instead of paying out the rear to some millionaire hotel owner to use their banquet hall, I'd rather work with local charities to hold LAN events that can put that money to use in much better ways. Yesterday I contacted a local food bank/community...
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    Accepting payments on a website

    I'm looking for some sort of service/system that would allow me to take payments on my website for lan parties. To say the least, PayPal sucks and has sadly been the only affordable and "trustworthy" payment provider in the past. Any ideas on providers that would at the very least allow me...
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    ATOT Effect Requested

    Just switched to a new machine for a shoutcast stream, and need to kinda load test it. Right now it's streaming a live talk show of sorts but normally runs industrial music. Anyway, it's a 128k stream, so i'm hoping that it shouldn't kill the connection too easily... =) The stream...
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    How to get a new website design without paying moola

    First off, apologies to those who responded age ago for a thread where I was looking for a logo for this website, and never really followed through with it. This time, we mean it! Anywho, my website is getting a bit long in the tooth and needs a new facelift. Some of you may have already...
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    WoW - Free Teamspeak server for everyone to use

    Seems that chat can sometimes be a serious PITA to use when you're busy running/attacking things, so I decided to slap up a public Teamspeak server for WoW players to use. The addy is ts.lan-central.com and is open to anyone playing the best MMORPG ever created =)
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    How to ship a $500 video card - Update! Now with pics!

    Ok, so I'm getting this nifty Leadtek 6800 Ultra. This is a fairly expensive piece of equipment. The person sending it to me, however, could not find the box that it came in. If you are this person, do you: A) Find a box, stuff it with padding, and shove the card in B) Stick a stamp to...
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    Returning to SETI

    So is BBR still giving TA a run for its money these days? I haven't crunched for a little while now, but I've currently got an A64 3200 (Newcastle) and a dual 2.8 Xeon rig that pretty much sit idle that I could throw in if need be. The A64 box wouldn't be a problem at all, but the dual Xeon one...
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    Iomega Jazz media...

    Adul insists that Jazz drives used media that was 'basically a miniature hard drive' suggesting that the media inside the cartridge was a solid metal platter. True or false? Anyone got any pics of an opened Jazz cartridge?
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    How much to charge to create wireless access for local Hotel

    While speaking with the hotel that is to host our next LAN party, the sunject of setting up wireless internet access for two of the hotel's banquet rooms came up. The hotel seems to be very interested in trading services to some extent. Basically, they need wireless internet for two banquet...
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    Transfusion - LAN Party - Phoenix, AZ - Halloween Weekend

    LAN-Central.com is throwing its next LAN party in Phoenix, AZ. We've got space for 70+ gamers, tons of sponsors, and a rock solid network and servers. The party is a two-day event that's gonna cover Halloween Weekend (October 30th and 31st.) So if ya love gaming, sign up!! More info is at...
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    Shoutcast Stress Test - Need AT-Effect

    I'm getting ready to start hosting a friends shoutcast station on my server and i'm, as always, curious to see how well the server will handle the load if traffic were to be a bit higher. The stream is standard Shoutcast so any mp3-capable player should do the trick. The stream is located...
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    Wanna get $7.5 Billion?

    So, it turns out that Google is the 'big brother' we are all told to fear and hate. These darwin-candidates believe they are going to blackmail Google for $7.5 Billion. In their own words... Talk amongst yourselves!
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    Search Engines Say The Darnedest Things

    I was doing a little reasearch for something that I'm writing, and wanted to find out where "I will not go quietkly into the night" came from. Expecting google to be it's usual useful self, i plugged in the following: "i will not go quietly into the night" poet Exactly as above. Here is what...
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    Dell Network Hardware: Opinions?

    I recently (read: less than 2 days ago) ordered two Dell PowerConnect 2324's from the Dell website and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival. In the meantime, in typical idiot-fashion, i started reading up on the product. I haven't been able to find much information about these switches, let...
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    LAN Party - Phoenix, AZ - Saturday, May 22nd

    It's that time again... that magical time when we throw another LAN party! This time around we've got space for about 40 gamers, and will be going from about 8-10AM til midnight'ish. Admission is $20, and all the drinks will be provided (sorry, no beer or whiskey!) The location, for those...
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    Barton 2500 pwns!

    First off, yes I know I should have gone for the mobile version, but i'm into that whole instant gratification thing, and Fry's doesn't carry Mobile Athlons here in Phoenix, soooo... Picked up a 2500+ Barton core, and Abit NF7-S yesterday.... compared to a Biostar board (nForce 2) with an...
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    SETI O/C Question(s)

    Ok, I've got a decent understanding of what it takes to O/C a machine, but I'm not sure what specific tweaks help with SETI production. Anyone know of anything specific that would boost output without pushing my machines over the edge? (Athlon 2400, 2-512 sticks of mushkin pc2700, nf2 biostar...
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    Top Ten Reaons Not To Buy From Dell...

    Number 10!... Ok, so I search on fw to find that Dell has the best price available for the newest Belkin Nostromo n52. I figure why the heck not, and on Friday the 6th of February I place my order. Total came out to barely $25, plus $9 since I chose 2nd day shipping. Here we are on Monday...
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    Sprint PCS is teh suxx0r

    So I left ATT for Sprint when ATT wouldn't give me any decent deals on a new phone (I had been with them for over three years, and still on my original phone, some Panasonic junker...) I've now been with Sprint for about 3 months. Just last month I called them to apply an employee discount that...
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    Server Beach, any takers?

    I've been holding off for a while, but i'm finally to the point where I want to make the dedicated server thing happen for LAN-Central.com. Adul, DeathByAnts, myself, and one or two other people are looking to grab a server from SB pretty soon, and I know that I would like to find some people...
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    SETI Chat Room?

    I couldn't find anything in the way of an IRC channel for the SETI TeAm, so I thought i'd register a channel over on a local Linux Group's IRC server. If anyone is interested, you can connect to irc.lan-central.com (just a pointer to pretorian.ath.cx) on port 6667 and join #TeAm-SETI If there...
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    Celeron VS. Duron

    I already know that Celerons are notorius for crappy WU production, especially my 700mhz Celeron that takes 12 hours and 30 minutes per unit. My question is... How much of an improvement would I probably see switching to an 800mhz Duron? I'm not expecting lightning fast units from such a...
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    Participation rate... contact idle members!

    Adul was mentioning something about the participation rate on our team being in the neighborhood of 27%. If this is anywhere near the case, is there any way that we could contact all of the idle members by email? I would think that it certainly couldn't hurt to rally existing members back to...
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    Extra SETI crhuncher boxes dirt cheap!

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1193147 Found this over on the hot deals forum. 2.6ghz celeron, 80 gig HD, 256mb ram, and a cd burner (w00t.) Nothing spectacular, but for $200, that's not bad at all. Just a heads up for anyone looking for a super-cheap cruncher box.
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    Linux cluster vs. seperate systems

    This is just my mind wandering as always, but how would a Linux cluster fare when it comes to SETI crunching? I've always wanted to play around with clustering a little and this would give me an excuse to learn a little bit. Basically, I'm wondering if I would be better off with an 800mhz...
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    The *Original* fish/aquarium thread. Today's Guest, Bala Sharks...

    Ok, I know i'm retarded for taking any advice from the drones at Petsmart, but they told me that Bala Sharks and Tiger Barbs are very compatible in that you can keep them in the same tank with no problems such as fin nipping, chasing, cannibalism, etc. So here I am with a tank that's got two...
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    Rules to know when driving in Phoenix

    Before you dismiss this list as a joke, ask someone you know who has lived in Phoenix for a little while. No... Really. 1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is: "fe - niks." 2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Phoenix has its own version of traffic rules...the...
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    Nissan Recalls (In my case, 2003 SER) GRRR

    Looks like the car I just bought a little while ago is among the lucky few who are being recalled for some repairs/reprogramming. Something to do with the pre-catalyst. (I'm a car expert, can you tell?) Link Anyone else who has a Nissan might as well check out this link to be sure they...