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    Exercise - Muscle Growth

    Fascinating thread. I don't have access to a gym, but I hope to find a way to put some of this info to use with my own improvised routines. Do any of you have advice for someone who is, at the moment, pretty out of shape and hasn't access to a gym or weights? I'm trying to come up with a...
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    What is the Highest Temperature Possible?

    Notwithstanding the upper limit imposed by c, what temperature would be required for an atom to vibrate so rapidly its constituent sub-particles were no longer able to remain bonded?
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    Images not rendering in FF or Thunderbird

    Still have 96 days left till ZA Pro runs out. Plus, this has been going on for a long time now.
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    Images not rendering in FF or Thunderbird

    It's not just their site, that was just one example. Also, it's been happening for a while, and during the time it's happened, I have viewed text-based portions of the site, without any problems at all.
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    Images not rendering in FF or Thunderbird

    I'm trying to troubleshoot a WinXP system wherein images won't load for some sites, but will for others. Even different images of the same type will sometimes work or sometimes not. It's consistant from site to site, so one site will work completely, while another will show NO images at all...
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    Is my video card dying?

    Hard to say, but my vid card did something similar when it died a while back. Is yours still in warranty?
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    Is my video card dying?

    Hard to say, but my vid card did something similar when it died a while back. Is yours still in warranty?
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    A real Time Machine.

    Several things, though I won't be detailed, as I'm too lazy to look up the appropriate references at the moment: First, the speed of light may or may not be a constant or a quantity; our current understanding of physics does indicate the former, but since said understanding is only guaranteed...
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    Delayed Write Failures on multiple drives/controllers

    The termination on the SCSI drive's good, and the Raptor I already know is shot. What puzzles me is that the SCSI drive only did this AFTER I moved the contents of the Raptor onto the SCSI drive.
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    Delayed Write Failures on multiple drives/controllers

    I'm getting delayed write failures in Win2K SP4. They happen almost solely when playing Planetside or Arcanum. The drive on which my games and swap file were located, a WD Raptor(74G), started around this time to make a weird whining sound, so I moved all the data off it onto another partition...
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    Help please - good PDA

    Umm, help, please?
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    Help please - good PDA

    I didn't know if this was the right board, but I couldn't see another more fitting. Please tell me if it's not. Anyway, I need to find a good workhorse PDA, something that's pretty user-friendly, but also reliable and relatively price efficient. I'm a desktop techie, but know next to nothing...
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    Serious video problems

    Where can I get a copy of DX8 these days? Besides, it shouldn't matter as long as the game uses DX8 interfaces, which these games ought to - they're older than DX9 by a good margin. Also, I've had this card work with this same system config in the past, so unlikely it's a conflict of that...
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    Serious video problems

    Not a power supply issue, power levels are adequate and stable. As for the card, I don't know, but I don't have another to test it, so I need to try other things first.
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    Serious video problems

    I've got Win2K SP4 on an Athlon Barton 2500, with a gig of RAM, and a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB. The problem is that all 3D games I load are unplayable. The symptoms range from 0.2 frames per second(literally) to torn/missing/overlapping polygons to corrupted textures, etc. The sound appears to...
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    IRQL errors and memory/CPU faults

    And if that's the case, what am I to do? How can I confirm this?
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    IRQL errors and memory/CPU faults

    I ran the latest version of Memtest86 for over ten hours, completing every test at least once, most twice, and didn't get a single error.
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    A7N8X SATA controller hanging at boot

    I'm using the A7N8X Deluxe 2.0, and have a WD740 SATA HDD. The problem I have is that when booting, the system hangs for about thirty seconds while it tries to detect a drive attached to the secondary onboard SATA controller, when I only have a single drive attached to the system. In other...
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    IRQL errors and memory/CPU faults

    Hello folks, thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this. I'm trying to track down a system error or three that occurs with my system. I have the following system specs: Athlon Barton 2500 OC'd to 2100 MHz(have tested it at slower speeds too, no difference) 1024 MB Corsair LLPT XMS...
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    the next major power source?

    Sadly, what "should" be developed and what "will" be developed do not coincide. The most efficient energy generation I can think of would be a cylendrical chamber with a piston in the center being oscillated by synchronized, alternating energized noble gases. The idea is that if you expose a...
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    ISP rant...

    I might be more convinced I didn't work for an ISP myself; they tend to have terrible policies and simply do whatever they can get away with. For fifty dollars a month you'd damned well be getting some fast speeds or good service; whining about bandwidth when you're already overselling your...
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    A quick grammar question about "websites"

    Google knows. Google is all powerful. Lol.
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    Browse faster than ever before. **Easy IE Tweak Inside!**

    To whomever asked why not to use Opera, or said they used it, or something like that: I don't like Opera nor even think it's a good idea on anyone's system period. It's a resource hog, likes to call DLLs and set them to AboveNormal priority without the main thread changing so the process...
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    nVidia and Slackware question - help?

    Folks, I really do need some help with this.
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    How many explorer do you have open?

    None, I use Phoenix.
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    nVidia and Slackware question - help?

    Uhm, help? Also, another question: I'm using a Linksys LNE100-TX LAN card, but when I try to get Slack to recognize it it says there's no card on the system. I know it's seated correctly, and it works with the tulip.o module, so what gives?
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    System Info: Conflict/Sharing

    Please post technical issues on the TECH SUPPORT forum. IT IS THERE FOR A REASON.
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    Juice spilled on the laptop (@)&U$)(!&

    Sugar + circuits = dead circuits I once spilled mountain dew on a keyboard and by the time I had opened the keyboard up to clean it the pathways on the keyboard sheets were black.
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    nVidia and Slackware question - help?

    Folks, I am running Slack 9 and when I try to install the latest nVidia drivers for the Geforce, I get the error that it can't find a precompiled module and needs the source code. No biggy, already installed it. Then while it's building it gives me an error that it can't find nvidia.o I've...
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    HoloGraphic Storage

    It won't be pennies at first. Well, it will be, but probably several hundreds of thousands of them(IE, ~$4000). That's how it always is; the first few who buy something pay huge amounts so the company gets some return on its R&D. I am reading up on the latest developments; they've solved a great...
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    Slackware 9 Driver issue

    Bah. I just found out that you can't install RPMs in Slackware. Am going to have to resort to alternate means to fix this. Lots of fun.
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    Slackware 9 Driver issue

    Uhm, boot?
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    Slackware 9 Driver issue

    I'm a wee bit new to Linux, but maybe someone here has encountered this. I'm trying to install the A7N8X driver for Linux using RPM, am getting the error: Dependency fail: (insert driver name).rpm requires /bin/sh I looked and there is indeed an item sh in my /bin folder so am rather puzzled as...
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    Anybody lose their nforce audio?

    The sound in my A7N8X skips sometimes. I use my TBSC instead for that reason.
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    possible to get electricity without wires?

    Tesla's ideas actually were less hazardous than the current technology when you factor in second-level threats present in our current approach. However, his technology is VERY imcompatible with the current infrastructure; if you built a high power device based on his ideas it would destroy every...
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    Has there really been such a great development the last 20 years?

    Shal, you obviously either do not know what you are talking about or dealt with incompetent programmers. I don't know which, but if I were a programmer myself I'd be liable to skin you alive for such an insulting comment.
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    Has there really been such a great development the last 20 years?

    My GOD, this is SO true!! I remember back a few years ago even when things were a great deal more complex; I was still under my technophobic parents' control and thus could not participate, but I would discuss PC-related things with friends who could. It was amazing how ingenious programmers...
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    Has there really been such a great development the last 20 years?

    I agree that advancements have been made on the fringe. IE, optical cables, CDs instead of floppies, etc... like I said before. It's the core things that are so very similar to their predecessors in terms of underlying concept; and thus the peripherals must emulate them in order to be...
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    Picture on a CD

    Where would it be best to find one of these CDRWs then, Peter? If the quality is that great I would be very interested to get ahold of one.
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    Nirmanweb.com - comments on newbie website...

    Not too bad; the colour scheme and layout are sensible if a little off-beat. The pages are not very space efficient however, and since there is not a ton of content it seems more optimization is in order; I strongly suggest you do experimentation w/ alternate layouts and schemes while the site...