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    Bay Area Residents

    OAK can't fly as far because they have shorter runways. I tried to take OAK to Hawaii once and they stopped at SFO to gas up. FYI
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    is it possible to die with honor in this day and age?

    It is always possible to die with honor. It is up to the individual to actually do it.
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    so i was just fired from my job

    You think you got problems? <RANT> I lost my job April 30, figured the wife had something to do with it. She hung herself on the back patio 2 weeks ago. She stopped paying bills last Oct. House is about to foreclose. Gas is off, using a campingstove to make dinner. Loosing a job for no...
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    Baking Potatos

    Yeppers, all potatoes will be done at the same time. If they are not going to al be eaten at the saqme time wrap them in foil. They stay moist much longer, and will take overcooking much better.
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    Idiot coworkers strike again.

    Funny shyte. Anywho, you should pay for your own party> Period You need 2 wait 'till you ahve funds. Meanwhile get to know your neighbors and invite them when you have the real one.
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    I want to learn how to weld.

    Get a good helmet, the lens should be gold plated. Thick heavy leather gloves are a must. Wear long sleeves, or better yet a shopcoat. You will get sunburnt very easily!! You might want to try one of the unshielded rigs first (no gas but still feeds rod) they are very cheap. There is a...
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    What is a good strategy for eating at a buffet?

    Haha, so true. What I like to do is eat salda/fruit/cottage cheese first plate. Next is beef, chicken, ham. Third plate is taco, lasagna, whatever looks ok but not sure of taste. Fourth plate is other stuff that looks good, and more meat - whatever was best. Next is a bit more salad -...
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    Do hard drives contain hazardous materials?

    Aside from the solder already mentioned, nothing is really hazardous in a hard drive. The acrylic and resin can be bought at a hobby shop for under $10.00. A cute trick is to take a drive that still spins and replace thew cover with a sheet of acrylic or plexiglass. It's fun to watch them...
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    Free hosting site that will accept 600MB uploads?

    Might want to look at this :) free hosting edit: that's not the one I was lookink for. Somebody here was doing free hosting for AT members. If I can find it will post back.
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    Raid level

    Safest would be to build 2 raid 5 arrays with 3 disks each and then mirror them. However this would only give you a net of 1TB. Only problem is that if you delete the wrong files, or get a virus it's now on both sets of disks. Best would be single raid5 with some kind of backup like a tape...
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    Anyone know how to tell if a screw/bolt/nut is stainless steel?

    As a general rule the types that are magnetic are mostly used for cutlery and knives. Nuts and bolts are made of the non-magnetic alloys.
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    6-4-07 DRAM chipmakers suffer worst quarter since 2001 on lackluster Vista sales

    Personally I don't care for Vista much yet. I did wait about 2 years to get XP, so I'm not much of an early adopter. I think I'll wait until more work has gone into it and more add on's are supported. BTW, how do you get rid of it when you buy a new laptop that installs as soon as you boot...
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    Running Cat5 underground?

    Networking forum would have been better for this. Ethernet is a 1 volt signal. The problem with using copper between buildings is called ground potential. The fact that your building has metal walls would make this even worse. Running copper for ethernet between buildings is a big no-no!
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    I wish i was a pig, so that you could believe me...

    I thought this was a pab thread when I read the topic :P
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    Help choosing perfume or scented oil for wife?

    Get a bottle of CK one. You can both use it and it smells different on different people.
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    Fixing a damaged AGP connector?

    Back in high school we built a bunch of strobe lights. On some of the pcb's the traces got fubarred so we just used a pencil to fix them. Graphite conducts really well.
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    Can someone recommend a ~$200 *ANALOG* LCD?

    I picked up a Viewsonic @ office depot 2 weeks ago for about 180.00, 17", speakers, vga and dvi input. Last week I got 2 at Fry's (outpost.com) for 200.00 each, no speakers, vga and dvi input.
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    Can you convert from firmware RAID 5 to hardware?

    Probably not gonna happen. The raid on the p5b are southbridge SATA ports, the Highpoint has one of thier (proprietary) controllers. Back up that data and then move the raid. Looks like one sweet card though.
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    Hard Drive Arguement, Need help here.

    Shouldn't have included SCSI in the op, it's a completely different animal. Think of it this way; SATA- 1 drive per bus, PATA- 2 drives per bus, SCSI- up to 14 drives per bus. SCSI can and does saturate bus bandwidth easily. As far as SATA 1 vs 2, agreed. :)
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    Maxtor HDD with burned PCB - Question

    It's very possible it would work, as long as the bad component didn't burn out the motor. If you can get it cheap it's probably worth a try.
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    Help Renaming with Command Prompt

    How about Copy hi.txt hello.txt ? Command line doesn't always do what you expect if you don't use the old 8.3 naming convention.
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    Beyond radioshack..

    If it's for outdoor lighting Lowes and Home Depot have a decent selection. Oh, yeah, they have lots of indoor stuff too.
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    Connecting Burner to Controller Card

    The PATA connection will also work with optical drives. Maybe try it in a different slot. If it still won't boot disconnect the optical and see if it boots than. The add in card may need drivers loaded before it actually works with drives?
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    How to tell if you are running at USB 2.0?

    What Mathias99 is saying is that a USB 1.0/1.1 port can't run any faster than that. A USB 2.0 port can run @ 2.0, but if you plug in a 1.0/1.1 device it will only run at that speed. The newer speed device is backwards compatible.
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    Gift suggestion for a 26 year old male

    Most guys don't have enough nice shirts, you could try macy's or Eddie Baur. But my personal vote would be for one of those tiny RC cars that recharges on its little stand. I'd have it cruising around on my desk :) And props to the Mod(s), especially considering the OP is female, but also...
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    Can someone figure out my GED math test for me?

    General Equivelancy Diploma = High School Proficiency = Diploma Congrats :)
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    I just got an email for a sweet deal from Newegg...

    Looks like no cookie= linky no work? edit: worked the second time :confused:
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    So I had a vasectomy on Friday...

    Had mine done 17 years ago on Holloween. Ended up carrying my 9 month old most of the night to trick or treat. A few beers later and an ice bag wasn't feling any pain.
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    *** ATOT ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY ***

    OMGHI2U Now, where's that one about "my cpu is cold with crystals?"
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    "PC's get more virus's than Macs'"

    don't be obtuse Don't be stupid windows has 2.mk installs + Apple has how many? edited cause I didn't want to come off as an a*ole, there's just a lot more of MS than anything else
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    A dozen eggs w/ an exp date in 2 days.

    Try one now to see weather it sinks or floats. When bad the opposite will happen. I know that I have used eggs at least a month after expiration and they were still good.
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    Handheld GPS questions

    If you're trying to locate a tunnel, why are you already in it? Or am I missing something?
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    Using SATA with PATA?

    I would highly recommend that you remove the power from your 2nd drive before you do anything.There are two reasons. A) Windows install might pick the wrong drive, this especially happens with SATA drives. B) windows frequently decides on it's own lettering, usually happens with mixed SATA...
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    Dumb question, but i need to ask.

    I would highly recommend that you remove the power from your 2nd drive before you do anything.There are two reasons. A) Windows install might pick the wrong drive, this especially happens with SATA drives. B) windows frequently decides on it's own lettering, usually happens with mixed SATA and...
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    My parents restored their computer before I could get to it. HELP!!!!

    Sounds like word thinks it's a .txt file. Make sure you name it with the original name. Also try opening with the same version of word it was created with. Contrary to most of the posts here you can reformat a drive and restore the whole thing using gdb or spinrite. The only thing that won't...
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    Who makes the best KVM Switches?

    Avocent hands down in mho. They used to make the kvm's for Compaq and have had no problems with them for 8 years now. The new ones have usb/video @ server side and a rj45 @ kvm side, makes cabling much neater.
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    uh, uh, uh,

    Yeah, had a prof that did that, drove me nuts. Had him for two Novell classes I took.
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    Using MSDN licenses on a live network

    Do it, then report them. On Toms hardware there is usually a banner ad in the middle of the page you can click on to report. You (supposedly) can get up to a 200,000.00 reward. 1. install software 2. report company 3. collect reward 4. profit :)
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    UPS problems with electrical generators

    I have only used commercial grade stuff. Never had any problems though. (Cat deisel about the size of a motor home out back, Powerware 30 KVA in the phone room)
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    French surrender after 20 minute stand-off

    <----------------- P&N is that way (for all the quote nazi's)