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    $50 iBooks Hot hot hot

    For anyone living near Richmond, VA.. one of the school districs is apparently offloading its old supply of iBook G3s for only $50. There is a one per person limit, and its cash or check only. Specs are: 12" iBook G3 500Mhz 320Mb ram 10Gb HD For more info go here and click on the...
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    Dead HD?

    Ok, so the back story of this all is that my friends iMac G3 seemed to suffer a nice HD failure. The bad side of this is that she never backed up any of her work from the past four years of school, and now before she graduates she needs to compile a portfolio of essay she's written over her 4...
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    Cell phone causes speaker feedback?

    So heres the deal, my roommate recently installed a pair of Altec-Lansing VS3121 speakers. Well, for some screwed up reason whenever anyone in about a 1.5meter radius uses their cell phone the speakers start putting out the static. The onyl problem I can think of is that for some reason...
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    Ghost drives

    Ok, so I haven't been able to find out a reason for this yet, so I'm asking all you guys. I'm using Win2K pro and whenever I tell the OS to stop communicating with my usb drive, the drive isn't completely unmounted. It says that its stopped, and I can remove it with no issues, but explorer...
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    MY summer internship

    Ok, so this is for the chem/geology/bio majors out there... I finally got word from one of the places I applied!! I'm going to South Africa for 7 weeks to work with bacteria that we get to sample from one of the gold mines. I'm so excited and yet nervous because I've got so much stuff I now...
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    Weird iTunes issue

    Ok, I'm just wondering if anyone has any idea about this. I have been trying for the past two days to get iTunes to burn a CD of some songs that I downloaded and imported. Each time it would get part way into the first song (about 5 seconds) and then spit the disc out. I tried messing with...
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    Electronics gurus... please help

    Ok, here's the background, I'm working on refurbishing an old ('75) SEM at my University. One of the switches on the unit is missing and so I have to replace it. The problem is, I'm having a rather hard time trying to deciper from the schematics what kind of switch I need and how to wire it...
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    New Blockbuster Rant: New Pricing Structure!!!

    Ok, I did a search and didn't see anything else on this so I just thought I'd mention it to let everyone know. First off, I'm in the Mid-Ohio region so I'm not sure how this will effect everyone else since Blockbuster doesn't (or at least didn't till yesterday) have a set price structure...
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    LotR: The Two Towers. Extended Edition

    Ok, so I just finished watching the extended edition and I must say that it is a great improvement over the theatrical version. The only scene I didn't like was the one with Denethor and thats just b/c I don't like him in the books or the movie. I think the Flotsam and Jetsam scene was the...
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    Hauppage WinTV PVR250 $99

    Hey, I see that CompUSA has the Hauppage WinTV PVR250 for $99 after $20 instant rebate and $30 MIR. I looked on Circuit City's website and they still have it listed for $149.99 w/ free shipping. The one thing I'm wondering about is will Circuit City PM this soon? BTW, this is good until the...
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    quicktime converter?

    Is there anything out there to convert a mov file into another format? I believe Premier can accomplish this but unfortunately I can't afford it, or a high enough quality A/V card that distributes it along with it. I've searched for stuff but haven't turned up anything that looks good or...
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    Freaky board temp.

    Yeah, so I restarted my computer after having it on for over a week because DVD's were getting choppy. Well when I restarted, Asus probe came up immediately and said the core was at 143C. Pretty cool huh... It dropped back to normal within a few second but its pretty cool that it happened...
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    Elijah Wood + Gay = Hillarity

    Ladies and Gentlemen... My friend sent me this last night.. and she almost killed me when I didn't immediately look at. I gotta say though, this site is really freaking funny.... Elijah Wood is Very Very Gay The flames from all the little teeny boppers is hilarious... and the flame wars are...
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    Dell Centrino minus the wireless?

    Ok, Since I couldn't come up with a good thread title I'll explain my situation. I'm looking at "creating" the best laptop for my friend. She's going to Australia for next semester so she can't take her desktop. Now I know that for a system to be labeled Centrino it has to have the wireless...
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    Up the Arse!!!

    Ok, for one, I'm talking about Arsenal. Oh yeah people, you heard me right. Arsenal all the way. Bet all you Red Devils thought that you had it in the bag after 23 mins. All I gotta say is never underestimate us. Henry baby, best forward in the league. Equal on points, superior goal...
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    I lost my best friends duck...

    So here's the story. One of my friends's birthday is coming up and I thought it would be cool to create a little story about how the puppy i made for her at Build-a-Bear went about a day at our college. I took a bunch of pictures of the puppy in all different location around campus: walking...
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    How much does this suck?

    So today was when we all needed to do room selections for next year at our college. Well my roomie had work and I had class so we had to skip it, but thats not the point. One of our friends showed up at the place where you choose your room and was wating for the 3 other people she was going to...
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    $1,000,000 challenge

    Ok, I just read through that other post and had to create this for myself. Evolution is a theory, which means that we can provide evidence to support it but not prove it. This means that the burden is on others to disprove it. Since there is an overwhelming amount of data that supports...
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    Sound review

    The topic of sound Found this over on Tom's. Its a good read for all of you who have been asking about sound quality of Soundstrom. This should clear up most of your questions. I would have liked to see, however, a mark for actual/current implementations of Soundstorm. But you get an idea...
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    Has anyone seen my sanity???

    Yeah, after 3 days and a total of 7 hours of sleep in that time I'm pretty sure that my sanity has run off. So, if anyone has seen it, can you please let me know... cause I miss it dearly, not to mention my friends and g/f are about to have me seriously committed. If just being kind isn't...
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    I want my MTV!!!

    Ok, so not really, but is anyone else out there getting a little annoyed with Bush interupting the TV schedules whenever he wants? I know the 8pm time block has huge viewership so everyone would see his little talk, but why should those of us that don't want to watch him have to suffer? We...