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    Great example of government waste

    Our county recently decided to jump into the 1980's and adopt a 911 style addressing system for rural residents. This was initially a great idea becuase the old Rural Route system wasn't implemented properly and was a confusing mess. My business makes quite a few rural deliveries every day and...
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    Motherboard CPU compatibility

    Hello, I have a Dell system that's needing an upgrade and while Intel's website says that the g33/g31 chipset is Quad core capable, Dell's website is showing the max processer to be the E8400. I know Dell's boards are a proprietary design that may or may not support what the chipset does. Is...
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    Warm - Dell Vostro Laptop for $449

    I finally gave in and got one for the wife, couldn't pass this up. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but for the price its a pretty solid setup. It's even got the 6 cell battery. If it wasn't for Vista I would call this hot. Link PROCESSOR Intel® Core? 2 Duo T5470 (1.6GHz...
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    Question for the Self-Employed

    I'm just wondering how my fellow entrepreneurs are holding up with the economy being the way it is. I'm sure that regardless of what you do/make/sell that we are all feeling the stress of the economy, whether business is still good or not. As for me, I'm in the restaurant business, and while...
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    Attention all TALL people

    I had an incident at work today that really bothered me. A tall gentleman came in today to pick up an order. By tall I mean quite possibly the tallest man I've ever seen in my life, and I've been to several NBA games. Anywho, when he came in I greeted him normally and went to go check on his...
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    I had a classic bonehead moment with my wife

    We were in the car yesterday when my wife said "Dear, this really depresses me, take a look." She handed me her drivers license photo from when we got married and her newest license. I looked and explained that she looks wonderful and that new picture's just bad because she was still preggers...
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    Anyone see Wild Hogs yet

    Did John Travolta try to look like the badass from Gears of War, or did they design the guy from GOW to look like Travolta? Throughout the entire movie I thought I might see Travolta pull out a lancer and saw someones ass in half. Give me a minute and I'll post some pics, the resemblance is...
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    Anyone else see Korn on MTV last night

    So they had the new video of "Freak on a Leash" on last night after the show my wife was watching, so I stayed up with her so I could see the video What a waste of time that ended up being. That was the worst damn thing my ears have ever heard, seriously. I used to really love Korns music...
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    I'm proud of the NFL players this year

    Don't know if you guys feel the same way, but I was very impressed with the overall level of sportsmanship this year. Sure there were still the usual small fights on the field, and I'm not considering activities off the field, but I've got to give the players credit brecause for the most part I...
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    Cigar smokers check in

    I'm buying a box of my usual Don Thomas tonight, but want to try something different. What better way to choose than to ask you fine folk :) Price limit is $50, so take that into account. If its expensive, make sure you can get it in a five pack. Not big on flavored cigars, except the...
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    Anyone make an internal mini-DV tape player

    I think this would be easier than hooking up the DV camara, especially when your going through many tapes in one sitting. I can't seem to find one, but surely I"m not the only one whose thought of this. Anyone ever seen one before?
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    Saw a car at Wal-Mart today

    but I live in BFE Illinois. Why would anyone transport a car from Hawaii to here. I just paid $425 to get one here from Fl, I can't imagine the cost for a boat trip over. Can anyone think of a logical reason for that? Wouldn't it be cheaper to sell the car in Hawaii and buy a similiar one...
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    Microsoft extends warranty on ALL Xbox360's

    Looks like all of you that paid for repairs will be getting a refund check within 10 weeks also. Here is the link Looks like MS is actually going to make right on this, good job :thumbsup:
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    Bought a car on Ebay

    The auction ended today, I planned on flying down tonight and driving the car back tomorrow. However, the dealer won't have the title ready til monday, so I've had to cancel my plans. Now I need to get the car shipped, but have no clue on the who's, how's and when's. Anyone know of a...
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    Need program to shrink my dvr-ms files

    I'm an idiot and didn't adjust the recording quality of my media center recordings and now I have a bunch of shows I need to shrink to put on DVD. I know it will be a slow process, but what is the best program for this? I won't be doing any editing, though that might be handy. I'm basically...
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    My cable company is incompetent

    My cable company decided to upgrade the firmware on all of their cable modems earlier this week, apparently without testing it first. On all modems that have integrated VoIP this caused a MTU limitation of some sort, which wreaks havoc with most sites I try to visit. Thankfully AT is one of...
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    Vista 5728 and AIW X800 questions

    Hello, I've go Build 5728 running pretty smooth with a couple of exceptions. I haven't found a driver for my AIW yet, has anyone got thier tuner working? I also cannot get my xbox360 to sync up with Media Center/Vista. I even tried bypassing the router with a crossover cable, and vista will...
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    Sata troubles - Fixed

    Hello all, I just installed a Sata-II drive to complement my 2 Sata-Raid drives on a different controller. My MB is an Asus A8V Deluxe. I have my existing raid set up on my Promise controller and was wanting to add the other drive to the Via controller. My MB detects the drive during...
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    YART - Yet another Rant Thread

    I think I know what it's like to be a celeb, kinda. My wife and I have 6 month old twins, both boys, both adorable. Them combined with our two other children aged 6 and 7 can make for a hectic trip to the store/restaraunt/wherever, leaving us frustrated or at least in a hurry to get home to...
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    Software Licensing Agreement

    If you purchase a program from a retailer and disagree with EULA what are your options to get your money back? Most stores won't refund opened software, so its a no go there. AFIAK the store should HAVE to refund you if you don't agree, since your forced to agree to it in order to use it, and...
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    Another How To

    I have several games that have to have the game CD in the drive in order to play. I've always found this a hassle but dealt with it til now. I purchased Prey this week, and my Dvd/cd drive is starting to go out. Rather than buy a new drive just to play my games, is there any way to create an...
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    Starting a website

    The small business I manage is finally going to have a presense on the web. Nothing fancy, a site has already been designed, all I need to do is find a hosting company and get it set up. What are my options with hosting? Is the $7 good enough for a business card type site? This is...
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    Clicking links to threads that contain page numbers

    There are few things I fine more annoying on the this forum than links people make to other threads that contain page numbers. I list 200 post per page in my preferences, and when others that list fewer link to a page on a thread, it borks my browsing experience. Lets say a thread has 250...
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    Logitech MX3100 keyboard/mouse combo $65 shipped AR

    ZipZoomFly has this combo for $99.99 shipped 2nd day with $35 MIR. I was looking for a MX5000 til I saw the bad reviews, but this one has great reviews and a much better price. LINK
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    New spammers in Hot Deals

    Moodytoom, hooper and rossyvip and spamming and bumping each others post. Getting rid of them/him would be great. Thanks
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    Using Clockgen gets better results?

    I had always thought that for the best stable OC you had to use the boards bios. I have an A8V Deluxe that is not a great overclocker and usually run below HTT 245 or it's not too stable. Playing around with clockgen has gotten me much better, stable results at lower operating temps than bios...
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    Raid Failure

    I've never heard of this before, but was just putting together a new system after my old MB fried. I lost my Raid 0 array due to the system change so set up a Raid 1 so I'd never lose 5 years worth of data again. After installing XP and all service packs and half of my programs in an all...
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    Problem with xp home

    I have a computer I want to sell but don't have the original disk to intall the OS. I have a valid product key on the side of the case. How can I install a fresh, LEGAL copy of xp home? I have tried downloading a copy of xp home online, but the product key won't work, I'm guessing because...