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    Mentally disabled teen gets 100 years for "sex abuse"

    Story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525751,00.html From the article, the DA said ""I hope people will remember he committed a violent sexual crime against a little boy" However nothing in the article mentioned violence of any kind. It reads as if an older boy with the mind...
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    OpenCL Hardware

    From Apple: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html OpenCL * NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130. * ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870 See bolded part - wtf is a GT130? I have a GT120 in my Pro...
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    Yahoo IM client vs Yahoo IM web access

    Does anyone know if the Yahoo Webmessenger uses the same ports to communicate as the regularly installed software client?
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    Mixing video cards in a Mac Pro

    Can't remember where I read this but I seem to recall that you could not have an ATI card and an NVidia card in the same box at the same time. Anyone know if that's true? Like say an ATI 4870 in one slot, a GT120 in another?
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    VMWare Fusion and games

    ... it ain't happening :) I loaded VMWare Fusion on my new Mac Pro, got it all updated, etc. Installed XP Pro SP3, got it all updated, etc,etc. Then I went to install Runes of Magic, which isn't an overly demanding game from a specs standpoint (DX9, 128Mb video mem) and by spec that all...
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    Apple Store and Stupid Shipping Policies

    So I ordered a copy of VMware and one of the NVidia GT120 upgrade cards (my pro came with one of the ATI2600 cards) from my education store, so I could get my discount. All seemed fine. Turns out the items would ship from two different locations (no problem) via two different shipping methods...
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    I liked the Hackintosh so much ...

    I enjoyed OSX so much during my Hackintosh experiment that when 10.5.7 upgraded hosed my install, I decided to get a Mac Pro rather than try to fix it. Got a refurb 2008 Mac Pro from the Apple Store (8-core) and it's been awesome. Upgraded the RAM, got a new HD (raptor) and an new video card...
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    White AND African-American

    Link to ABCNews article Ok, this ought to really be interesting from a court results standpoint. The guy is white but he was BORN and raised in Mozambique and is now a naturalized US Citizen. He identified himself as African-American and a black girl in his med school class got all...
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    10.5.7 on Shuttle Hackintosh

    well I sucked it up and did the software update on my Hackintosh and got rewarded with a brick. The machine still boots into OSX but nothing I've been able to do in the last few hours will get my sound or ethernet working again. Just FYI folks ....
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    Motorcycle questions here too?

    I have yet to fine a bike maker that has a traditional looking bike but that is mechanically setup like a Scooter - no gears to shift and no rear-brake foot pedal. Anyone know of anything like this?
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    I miss my old car ...

    I had a 1981 Camaro, Z-28. Grey metallic paint, silver vinyl interior, T-tops, man that car was loaded. Ran beautifully, sounded great .. was just an awesome car until I cut a telephone pole in half with it and ended up with the engine block in the passenger seat next to me. Now that I'm...
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    Interesting question on creating a bootable drive

    Something in the back of my mind says this is possible but I'm just not sure how to go about it. Is it possible for me to hook up an external drive to my fully functioning computer and tell my machine to make that drive a fully bootable disk? meaning that it would copy all the currently...
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    SBD

    This thread isn't about that I thought it was about ...
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    10.5.7 and Snow Leopard

    I'm thoroughly enjoying being back in the Mac fold, even if illegitimately. My last experience with a Mac was 0S 9 on a 7500 back in the 90's. Now that I've built this new Hackintosh and enjoying it, I have to hope that the 10.5.7 update and eventually the Snow Leopard (10.6?) will work on...
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    Geothermal energy production

    I've been doing some reading on geothermal energy production and I'm having trouble reconciling something, so maybe the geniuses here can help me :) In thermically active areas (Iceland, near volcanoes, etc, etc) the idea of a geothermal plant is easy to see. Some articles say that you can...
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    Pelosi says enforcing immigration laws is ...

    Story What the hell? The House Speaker says enforcing the law of the land is Un-American? That catching the illegal immigrants and returning them to their own country is a bad thing and that by being here those same illegal immigrants aver "very, very Patriotic"?? Too bad they did away...
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    SMB browsing not working anymore

    When I built my hackintosh this weekend I could see my other Windows machines on the network no trouble. I pulled some files from the shares on those machines easily. Now after I've installed iLife (purchased copy), I can no longer see them in my Network but I can access the file shares...
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    NVidia GT120 = 9500GT

    According to Netkas (here) the GT120 graphics board in the MacPro is just a rebranded/renamed 9500GT. Assuming that's true, does that mean that the drivers included with 10.5.7 to support that card should "just work"? I don't know if the NVidia cards that Apple uses has a special firmware...
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    Temperature monitoring software for a Hackintosh

    Anyone know if there is anything like SpeedFan for the Mac?
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    Shuttle won't POST if memory clock is over 400Mhz

    Shuttle SP35P2v2 barebones P35+ICH9R chipset (DDR2667/800 support) loaded with 4x2Gig ADATA DDR2667/800 RAM The machine boots fine from stock CMOS settings but those are low. I'm not trying to OC the thing, just get the memory up to spec ... If I put the memory speed to anything beyond...
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    Stupid question of the day...

    Are PCI-e 16 2.0 cards backwards compatible to just PCI-e 16 slots? And if so, what do you lose in doing so?
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    Small Form Factor Hackintosh Project

    Originally I gave up on the idea of a Hackintosh because I simply didn't want to mess with it. I wanted a headless Mac (I have my own 24" monitor that I love) and a MacPro was more machine than I wanted. So the new Mini seemed like it was going to work out satisfactorily. However Apple, in its...
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    PSA: credit scores vary between agencies

    So I went to get my annual credit report from the 3 reporting agencies, since that's free by law. I figured heck, it's been years since I looked at my score with those agencies but that isn't free. So I paid the extra $5-6 for each agency this time around to get my score along with my report...
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    MGS4 Online

    So a friend and I were going to give this a shot this weekend but it turned out that to play it online you have to register for a Konami ID AND a GameID on the Konami website. WTF? why doesn't it just use my PSN ID and be done with it? We didn't bother with registering to play online since we...
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    Yay I won my first tournament!

    I was FINALLY able to place 1st in a tournament! I played the demo forever before getting the game via GameFly and man is it frustrating! If real golf is anywhere near this frustrating I can't see how anyone can call it "relaxing" :) Now I just have to find something to spend the $25k...
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    Album search help

    The music would have come out in the early seventies I believe (I was just a kid) but it was saxophone, drum set, guitars, and almost completely instrumental. Sort of a mix of R&B and rockabilly stuff and I would have sworn it was The Ventures but it's doesn't seem to be (I've checked their...
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    RB6Vegas vs RB6 Vegas 2

    I've got both of these (one I own, one currently from GameFly) and both have an online capability. I personally liked Vegas 2 better but I've never played online with any of these games before. Anyone have any insight/pointers to share about multiplayer?
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    Deflation worries?

    CNN Story on Deflation If falling wages and prices are that much of an issue, why not do a wage and price freeze like Nixon did? I don't pretend to understand the ramifications of that so no flames please ...
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    Kitten treated like a football

    http://www.news4jax.com/news/17967392/detail.html I'm sorry but this sort of thing just gives me diaper rash ... if I were King I'd have these teenagers "tossed around" by some 300lb prison enforcers for a few hours and give them a chance to see how much fun it is to be the football ...
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    Forum suggestion

    self explanatory :)
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    WAAAGH Online: Question

    When you first get going on the Isle, how do you meet up with your friends who might have started a character in another race? I mean, you're all on the same realm (Order) but how do elves, dwarves, and the other race (human?) meet up so you can do the PQ's and stuff together as a unit?
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    Broadband cable network design

    I'm looking for reference material on the actual design of a broadband cable modem (DOCSIS) network. The industry specific terminology, basic network diagrams, etc. Anyone know of a source for that information? PS - Yes I'm googling this as well but I might not be using good search terms, so...
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    Another attempt at immigration sympathy ..

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING...en.children/index.html A sad story to be sure but on that I can't bring myself to be moved to tears over it. Personally I don't think the daughter should be a citizen either but that's just me ...
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    Science/Physics in PC games

    I'm posting this here in HT because I'm looking for some hard science answers .... In Half-Life 2, my favorite weapon is the crossbow that shoots the red-hot piece of rebar for a bolt. If you've played the game you know that the time from loading the bolt to the time it gets red hot and ready...
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    Telescope & Lunar observing

    Had lunch with a buddy today and we got into an interesting discussion about a fringe group of folks that are convinced we never went to the moon - that it was all a contrived Hollywood thing. While I have no desire to cater to nutjobs, it did get us thinking: We left a pile of stuff up there...
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    Cooling fan recommendations needed

    not because there is anything wrong with there fans, its just that they only provide a 3-pin header :) I need a fan recommendation that has a 4-pin connector (mobo fan header) that reports RPM and Noctua doesn't have this. How do I know? Cause I bought some and I'm looking at them and they...
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    Somalian Pirate and the Gulf of Aden

    ... Why do ships even go that route anymore without being armed? :) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/...lia.pirates/index.html If the planned route for your vessel takes you near Somalia, why wouldn't you have an armory onboard along with some trained crewmen (or hired ones) to just shoot...
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    Should Saddleback have its tax-free status revoked?

    1. Rev. Warren is not a journalist so he couldn't have be acting in any capacity except as the head of a large church 2. Religious organizations who enjoy a tax-free status are not supposed to be messing in politics, officially endorsing any candidates, encouraging their parishioners to vote a...
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    Does Freeman ever get busy with Aleyx in Half Life 2?

    I haven't played all the episodes yet but its obvious she's got a thing for him :)
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    Clear water cooling fluid

    With all these UV reactive colored additives out there I was wondering if there was an additive for the anti-corrosive and anti-bacterial aspects that left the water clear. Anyone know of one that can point me in the right direction?