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    Strange pheonomenon with USB hard drive?

    Wasn't sure where to ask this, but maybe someone here has a clue. I have a 2.5" 1TB Samsung drive in a USB enclosure that I use with my laptop. It's been working with no issues since september, but suddenly in the last few days I started having an issue where the drive would randomly...
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    out of curiosity...

    is there something about having a PhD that lets you not respond to emails at all, or respond to them months after they were sent? FUCK professors. /rant.
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    Original IBM PC, and other old computers

    They were throwing out a room full of old computers at my university, and well... I just had to take a bunch of them. I'm sitting here right now with a few original IBM 5150 PC's from 1981 (the original version), and a few HP Vectra A's from 1986. They're all in perfect working condition, and...
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    i got someone elses account??

    I imported my password to the new system, but it gave me a different account. I'm supposed to be theman, joined March 2005 with 4500 posts, not theMan joined 1999 with 2 posts. what's the dealll???
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    particle spin (any experimental physicists out there?)

    How do/did they actually determine the spins of various elementary particles experimentally? For example, how do they know the spin quantum number of the electron is ±1/2, or that all fermions have half integer spins? How would you determine this experimentally? something with spin magnetic...
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    i want to train a raccoon army

    Does anyone have experience training raccoons? I want to train legions of raccoons and then send them after people I don't like. What's the best way to do this.
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    random collections agency calls

    I've been getting these calls on my cell phone since around this July some time. They always called between 7-8am, so I was never awake to answer the phone. I'd get these creepy robotic messages about how they were a collections agency attempting to collect a debt (strance, since I don't have...
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    calculate density of a powder

    Let's say I take a solid piece of pure aluminum, with density ~2.7g/ml, and grind it down into a fine powder, lets say 400 mesh (37µm particle size). How can I figure the density of this powder under STP, i.e. in regular atmospheric conditions with no added pressure? The powder is not...
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    fun with an old tv

    I recently found an old Zenith AC/DC black and white television, circa 1978. I want to do something really cool/artsy with it, but i'm not quite sure what... I was thinking of somehow syncing it up with a stereo, but i'm not quite sure how to go about that. any ideas? i don't have that much...
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    electronic components improve with age

    My last build, an A64 3200+ winchester (2.0ghz), built in early 2005 has been relegated mostly to internet surfing. About a year ago, i had returned everything to stock settings (after I had been running it at 2.7ghz for the years before that). Anyways, the other day, i decided I wanted to...
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    help switching hard drive controllers

    I want to switch from one SATA controller on my mobo to the other for my boot drive. I loaded the drivers onto a floppy, booted to my winXP installation CD, and hit F6 to install 3rd party sata drivers. i selected the driver off the floppy and hit enter. then, some stuff happens, and i get...
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    EXTREMELY inexpensive and effective notebook cooling

    I've been working on adding my Macbook pro (core 2 duo T7500) to my folding@home team, but seems the thing just can't handle all the heat running the CPU at 100% all day puts out. My CPU temps were getting up above 80C, which was not acceptable... So, with some stuff I found around the...
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    proper current for a case fan

    I'm building a little cooling setup for my laptop, because I want to use it as another folding@home machine, but it gets too hot. I've got it all designed, i just need a power source for a Antec 120mm case fan I found lying around. So far i've been able to find a 12v 500mA DC power adapter...
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    how to format a CF card in a camera

    I just sold an old canon digital camera, and i'm throwing in a 512mb CF card. but, the card has got some pictures on it, and I have no card reader. I connected the camera, but I can't get windows XP to treat it as a drive so i can format it or securely remove the pictures by some other means...
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    will this work?

    I need to prepare some DKDP, (potassium dideuterium phosphate). I have already prepared concentrated deuterated phosphoric acid. I sat down and thought of this reaction, but I don't know how well it would actually work, and considering good purity D2O costs somewhere around $2000/L, I don't...
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    who is he?

    The second thing he did was to go to the store and find an apple which was placed under the tree. There he was able to discover something no worse than the thought of going to town and eating his bill and finding a house of his own. When the world was out of touch with him, he was then finally...
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    anyone ever been a cashier?

    how come when you pay for something in cash, say, give the cashier a twenty, they always go, "ok, out of twenty?" like it's some kind of question. obviously i just gave you a twenty. why are you asking me? you'd think a cashier of all people would be able to recognize what a bill looks like...
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    This is why I'm against the regime in Iran

    How dare they repress beauty like this? How can they put a veil on [deleted]? Let me [deleted]. And [deleted] Persian women are HOT. oh.... probably NSFW. ------------------------------- You have been around long enough. See you in a couple of days for knowingly...
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    credit card company FAIL

    I got a letter in the mail yesterday from my CC company. It's a letter that says something to the effect of "Did you ever wish you could write a check and pay for it later? Now you can." Enclosed were about 6 legit checks I could write and would be charged to my credit. Then, I took out...
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    Europe in the winter

    I'm trying to plan a trip to europe next winter with a few college friends. I'm going to be leaving just before thanksgiving and returning on x-mass. So far the plan is to begin in Berlin (because 2 of us are going to be there for the semester, and I have family there), and we have no plans...
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    CALL OUT THREAD: theman

    The second thing he did was to go to the store and find an apple which was placed under the tree. There he was able to discover something no worse than the thought of going to town and eating his bill and finding a house of his own. When the world was out of touch with him, he was then finally...
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    hitchhiking

    i'm in the beginning stages of planning a hitchhiking trip across the country. i have no previous experience hitchhiking. anyone have some tips/advice for me? initially i was just going to walk out of town one day and stick out my thumb, but i realized i'll need a bit more planning. anyone...
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    I lost a friend today

    Back in middle school, the two of us were inseparable. We were two awkward nerdy kids who along with a few of our less intelligent friends would go around doing all kinds of naughty things. Sticking metal into electrical outlets, flooding bathrooms, pranking teachers. We never got in trouble...
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    DAMN it's hard to get a job

    I got a connection for a fairly decent job last week, and I email this guy on monday morning and sent him my resume and all that. He gets back to me monday night and asks a bunch of questions and says he'd like to see me and he'd have time on thursay or friday. it sounded very positive. I...
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    just watched Requiem for a Dream for the first time

    I must say, it was a bit of a letdown. It started off well, but then by the end it was just so inaccurate it seemed silly. firstly, was the elecroconvulsive therapy scene just thrown in to be extra "shocking"? they don't do ECT on people like that woman, it's reserved for severely depressed...
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    HAIR

    first of all, let me say that i'm quite drunk, so you should be impressed with the lack of typos in this post--though i will surely abstain from the use of capital letters. so, i'm 19 years old, and there's hair growing on me. only... its kinda weird, see. for some reason, the left side of...
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    why does metal get hot when you bend it?

    i was sitting here bending the handle of a fork back and fourth, and it got so hot after about 3 seconds it burned my finger. what causes this heat? friction inside the metal?
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    70s italian progressive rock???

    I didn't even know this existed... but i started listening to it a couple days ago and its amazing. who knew?
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    special relativity / metric equation

    i'm taking a class on special relativity right now, and there's one thing that's really bugging me. Say you start from rest (event A) and accelerate to a relativistic speed and then crash into a wall (event B). your watch will measure the proper time interval between A and B. If you're in...
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    pimple in my ear!

    AHHHHH pimple in my ear! why must i be tortured so? IT HURTS!!!!!! SON OF A.... PAINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    rabid skunk?

    i live in a suburb. i went outside around midnight tonight to grab something out of my car which is parked at the end of the driveway. when i get out there, i see my neighbor's dog across the street (a large golden lab) is loose and is sort of jumping around and lunging into the street. then...
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    arm wrestling

    which muscle(s) do the most work while arm wrestling, and what exercise can i do to strengthen them? i have to beat somebody... edit: i just looked up arm wrestling on wikipedia, and i found this. maybe it's not such a good idea after all. thoughts?
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    what kind of deodorant do you use?

    I usually use a few spritzes of wolf urine. it really helps me attract the ladies. how about you guys? --- I'm afraid to know what type of women are attracted to wolf urine as a deodorant. Zim Hosein Off Topic Moderator.
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    whitey tighties and proud!

    i want to proclaim that i'm a proud wearer of those underwear which are both white and tight, commonly known as whitey tighties. would all the other members of ATOT who are members of the WT clan please stand up with me? we are tired of being disrespected for so long, we want respect! we are...
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    mind controlled computers

    i recently read an article in science news about monkeys with brain implants who could control a robotic arm just by thinking about it, and could use the arm to grab and eat food. is this the precursor to computers that are entirely controlled by the human mind? instead of moving the cursor...
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    Ahh, high school...

    I'm in high school taking the required "us government" class... and i'm just having a little debate with a few people. Do you guys think it's appropriate to talk about communism vs. capitalism vs. socialism stuff in a class about the united states government? i mean, the class is supposed to...
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    Need help buying external HDD!

    I am going to get a 500gb external for backups and to install games on (my laptop HDD is only 120gb, not enough for games and other files together). I will probably store large files on it also like movies, shows, etc. So it needs to be a pretty fast drive. I am pretty sure I want a firewire...
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    Just went out and bought Orange Box. Can't install anything!

    I went out and bought orange box today and brought it home. put in disc 1, and set up a steam account (i didn't have one before). Now, when I try to install anything, I keep getting a message saying "the steam servers are too busy to handle your request." and it is trying to download the game...
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    Help me to draw concentric circles.

    I need to print out a page that has concentric circles of a certain size. This is for a template so i can cut something out. (I am building something... :) ) Anyway, I need to find a program that will make this. I need the outer circle to be 152 mm and the inner to be 124 mm. (That's the...
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    Data Recovery Help. HELP!

    I have been having bootup problems recently, and I have to press the restart button on my computer at least a couple times before it actually starts up. it usually just goes to a black screen. A couple weeks ago, I started up, walked away, and when I came back it was running Chkdsk. It booted...