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    Cookie problem in IE

    Just FYI, I was having the problem on IE6 on two systems until I cleared cookies.
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    Vacation Price Tracking

    I know this has probably been covered before in detail, but the search feature sucks. Anyways.... Does anyone know an easy site to track prices of hotel/airfare over time? I'm looking for some kind of graphical info about trends in pricing, querying all the major travel search engines...
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    Any Air Conditioning Experts?

    I have a slight problem. I currently have 100A service to my house. That seems to be enough most of the time, but 3 or 4 times I have had the 100A breaker trip while the A/C is starting up. This is (obviously) in situations where a lot of other stuff is running in the house, so it is at...
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    What's with all the eBay scams?

    What's with eBay lately? The last couple of times I have gone on there and searched for any medium-to-high ticket items, at least half of the results are from hijacked accounts. All over the listing it says to reply to "xxxxx@gmail.com" or "xxxxx@aol.com" instead of using the "contact...
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    YACT: Bringing a car out of storage

    So, I moved out of an apartment a few months ago, and my old landlord approached me about buying a car from him. I said I "might" be interested, depending on what it was. He takes me out to the alley, and opens up a garage. In the garage sits a '53 ford, in pretty decent shape. He said he...
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    Airmchair Critics: Post your Oscar predictions!

    Calling all airmchair movie critics: Post up your picks for Oscar night here! After Sunday, we will take a look at our predictions vs. popular critics........... Check here for a list of nominees. Scoring will be based on all categories, if you do not post a prediction for a specific...
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    Dell SB Dimension 2400 2.53/256/40GB/CDRW $349 AR *Updated*

    Go to small business, click on "Outrageous Deal - $349 Dimension 2400" E-Value Code: 6W300 - 4d24h6a Specs: Dimension 2400 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.53GHz with 533MHz front side bus Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition¹² Mail-In Rebate Offer: $200 MAIL-IN...
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    Chicago Indoor Racing : Anyone been to similar places?

    Chicago Indoor Racing For the lazy, it's basically an adult-oriented go-cart place. Carts are 1 inch off the ground and go 30-35 mph on an indoor track with nice tight turns and everything. 18 and up only, driving briefing required prior to ride, no drinking if you want to drive (they...
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    "Priceless" commercials

    We were just discussing how sick of those mastercard "Priceless" commercials we are, and it got me to wondering: What was the first "Priceless" TV commercial? I've been digging around the net forever, and can't find it. Can anyone remember?
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    Longshot: Any ATOT jewelers out there?

    If there are any jewelers out there, make yourselves known... I have a few industry-ish questions for ya... *puts on flame suit* (just preparing for the inevitable here)
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    Triathlon Nutrition

    My mother (57 yrs old) is actually going to do her first triathlon this coming Sunday (Sprint distances). She has been training for like 6 months, and can complete any 2 of the legs back to back no problems, but has never done all three legs together. Basically, she is worried about nutrition...
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    Wireless Authentication Type / Preamble?

    I am currently creating a wireless configuration application for in-house use. Basically, I have a list of the variables that need to be set on the device. I have basically coded everything already, but there are a couple of options which I am not sure about. I am creating the front end and...
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    Hiding "Computer Locked" Box in XP

    Anyone have a nice hack to remove the 'Computer Locked' Popup box in windows XP? Basically, I want to display my blank wallpaper on the screen when I lock the computer instead of having the wallpaper with the big "computer locked" dialog box in the middle.
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    MS Project 2000 + Tablet = Crash

    Has anyone else tried to run MS Project on a tablet (XP Tablet edition, of course)??? I can open one project, but if I have one open and try to create a new one or open a second one Project crashes... throwing up the obligatory non-descript "Microsoft Project for Windows encountered a problem...
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    100 Pack Thumbscrews $6.26 + Shipping @ the Geeks

    This was posted some time back, went OOS very quickly. Now back in stock. Linky $6 shipping kinda kills the deal, but ~$12 for 100 thumbscrews is still reasonably hot. EDIT: $6.26 reflects the price after 10% code, you know where to find that...
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    Speeding car vs. Wisconsin State Trooper

    Does anyone know what the formula for calculating speeding tickets is in Wisconsin? This saturday I was on my way up from Chicago to go paintballing in southern Wisconsin. I was across the border and about 5 miles away from the paintball place. I was going 83 in a 65... which for the traffic...
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    USB 2.0 and DOS

    I have an external USB 2.0 hard drive that I need to be able to ghost machines from. I have everything working fine on it... it boots from USB, goes directly into ghost and begins imaging the drive. The only problem is that I can't find DOS support for USB 2.0, so the transfer is stuck going...
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    Saddam ALIVE in Russian embassy?

    Ripped from English Aljazeera: Completely the truth? Doubtful. But who really knows....? It's been said before and I'll say it again... somewhere between western journalism and middle-eastern journalism is the truth. Who knows where that truth is on this issue....
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    Multicast specifics ??

    Does anyone have a good general explanation of the theory behind a multicast driven download? We have a version of ghost at the office that runs multicast, and one of the firmware engineers wants to implement a multicast system for downloading to hardware. What i'm really looking for is a...