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    OT: Job Offer

    Hey all, a little off topic, but I'm happy and I want to share! For those that were involved in the Seti mini-race, you know that I disappeared for a few days as I moved from Rolla to Minneapolis. I'll be graduating with my PhD in a week and my wife and I moved early since she had a job. Of...
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    Heading out of Town

    Good afternoon TeAMmates! I just thought I would let people on the SetiClassic and Dimes projects know that I may be out of touch for a while and my production may or may not go down. I am going to graduate this fall and will be leaving town in 2 days for Minneapolis.(I am jobless, but my...
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    New Orleans

    For those who know anyone who stayed as I do, here is a quick update. Literally in the last couple of hours the levies to Lake Ponchartrain broke. While the French Quarter had survived relatively intact till now, it is slowly fillng with water from the lake. On the news this morning it...
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    FINALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well, so I just got done drinking a couple of beers on my advisor and I am done! Just passed my PhD dissertation defense in Ceramic Engineering. I'm off to have a couple more drinks with my wife and to hug my daughter. ok, so I have 2-4 weeks worth of corrections to work...
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    Paul Harvey this morning

    So I'm flipping through stations on the way into the lab this morning, and I stop on a little local station as they are going through the schedule of events for this weekends county fair. They then stop everyone and say "it's time to break for Paul Harvey!". Ok fine. He starts spewing some...
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    MFIHWMDT

    Ok, My Fisrt I Hate Writing My Dissertation Thread. 50something pages down, and 20 or so to go and then edit/rewrite the whole works including adding references before I go to sleep tonight so my advisor can take the first 2 of 4 chapters on a plane with him sunday morning.(plus a couple...
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    Curious if anyone else has seen this

    Well, a buddy of mine installed HL2 from the CDs onto an A64 system running XP64. While trying to play, he seems to be moving ~2x the speed he should be. This same thing happens when he connects to an online game. It's really kind of odd and I was just curious if anyone else has seen...
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    Bluetooth Adapter

    I've been considering either a wireless or bluetooth cordless mouse/keyboard for my laptop. I would rather not use a USB dongle for a variety of reasons. Anyone know if there are or where to find PCMCIA card bluetooth adapters or wireless combos for laptops that would put the wireless...
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    Stand-Alone CD Burner

    Well, this isn't exactly computer hardware, but I thought I would give it a shot here. My wife and I are considering getting her parents a stand alone CD burner for their stereo system so that they can record some of their really old LP's to CD.(they have a computer, but getting them set up and...
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    Myst IV on a Laptop

    I'm looking into buying the new Myst game as my wife and I have had a lot of fun with the prior three. However, Ubisoft if pretty explicit on their websit that they are not supporting mobile video cards in any way. We just purchased a Dell laptop from one of the crazy deals with a Radeon...
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    Current Version of DirectX?

    Well, I just got a demo disc of some nikelodian(I know it's spelled wrong) games to take a look at for my daughter. Interestingly enough, the disc says the requirements are a DirectX 10 compatible video and sound card. The latest version is still 9.0c right? Have they even released the specs...