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    Generator switch v. Iraq!

    I'm with the Army in Iraq, working as a generator mechanic. My shop just got in a dead generator, if we repair it it's ours to keep. What we're thinking about doing is dropping it in next to the one running our shop as a backup. My thought was hey, we really don't do much (can't speak for...
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    Starting a project, need some help

    A friend made an old NES controller into a belt buckle. Now what he's asking me is, is there any way I can make the buttons play the theme song. What's the easiest way to pull this off? I don't even have a starting point on this because I'm an utter n00b to IC's.
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    My shameless, tactless brag thread for building a passive, 1 stage crossover

    I know jack about electronics and I built a highpass passive crossover, and it actually works. Holy crap. I did it all ghetto, no PCB or anything, wired into an RCA cable (which is what my reciever outputs to). Next up: tiny amp. Which will be 100x more difficult because I'll probably need a...
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    Network boot

    Now, there's external hdd's that run over cat5, and I have booted from them. It takes some tinkering but it can be done. My question is, is it possible to boot through a hub? I would think it would be because at that point networking means nothing, a hub being just a collection of physical...
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    Tonight's Las Vegas

    Just tell me quickly if I'm not allowed to ask this and I'll take it down as fast as possible... Anyone DVR'ing Las Vegas tonight that can bittorrent it later? I missed the first half hour of it.
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    Rudimentary electronics question

    When someone says "The fan is .8 amps", I understand that. What I don't understand is, how much exactly IS .8 amps? Is there any way to rationalize it?
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    IE problem (maybe a bug)

    So a computer that was working last night quit this morning. A virus came up on the scanner and I deleted it. IE won't get a connection now. It's almost like it's set to timeout instantly, because it doesn't even feel for a connection. The lay, though, is mozilla works fine. Anyone heard...
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    DDoS

    Not that I'm sanctioning DDoS'ing, but I bet if ATOT organized a "hit" we could take down damn near any site, excluding MAYBE the top 10 sites. If we joined with /. on it I bet we could take down any site, yahoo included.
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    Vid card HSF

    The scenario is thusly: I have a homebrew slot cooler (basically two clear fans zip-tied together) blowing across my slots (towards the mobo, if you're having trouble picturing it). I also have a slot blower blowing that air out the back. At this point would a very good HS do more than a...
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    Big Visiontek warning (kind of degraded into troubleshooting with the last post)

    I bought a visiontek xtasy ti4600 a couple months back (used), and the fan died yesterday. I read up on their forums and apparently it's a common thing. So I thought, hey, I might as well upgrade the whole hsf on it from the blue orb to a crystal orb. There was paste holding the hsf to the...
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    Free rental at Blockbuster...

    All you have to do is sign up for an email at http://www.blockbuster.com/getemail It's a long form, but it may be a hot deal to some.
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    Supercharged, NOS-assisted V10 Viper Stage IV

    1175 hp! I WANT THIS CAR! 10.1 1/4mi., 1175 bhp, 1150 lb-ft@4300 rpm. Read farther down, this car is so powerful that when the blower kicks in at 120 the wheels lose traction...
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    Violent Crimes: What's wrong with the USA?

    In all of 2001 there were 15,980 deaths due to violent crimes (link). There were 2000 less deaths during the "major phase" (march 19th-may 1st) of the war in iraq! (link, scroll down to the "Iraqi Losses" section) That's a rate of 309.5... deaths per day for the war in iraq, and a rate of...
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    HL2: ti4600, fx5600nu, 9600np?

    Sorry if this has been posted a million times. I have a ti4600 in right now. Would I get better performance in HL2 if I traded for a 5600nu or 9600np? Will dx9 support really matter that much in hl2?
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    Repost, sorry

    Sorry this is a repost of the other 24 post.
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    Set home page from command line?

    I got hit with the luckysearch.net hijack and I'm having major trouble getting rid of it. I was thinking of just enabling a "band-aid" batch file that would runonce on startup and set my homepage to my normal one (yahoo.com). How would I set the homepage from the command line? is it possible?
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    Which would you upgrade?

    1ghz tbird 256mb generic pc2100 ti4600 @ 325/700 (it was higher but I was getting crashes in ET) Should I upgrade the cpu or RAM? I get lag even on low res in ET.
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    Subwoofer picking up radio signals

    Yeah, like the title says, my subwoofer is picking up radio signals. But it gets weirder. It only occurs when I'm in my chair (like I'm acting as an antenna, but I'm a good 2 feet away), and the closer I get the quieter it gets (when I touch the casing it stops completely). I tried putting a...
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    Small photo printer

    Hey, does anyone know of a photo printer that only prints up to 5"x9" photos @ 4800x1200 resolution? I've looked around and the only ones I can find are crap. Preferably inkjet and not color defusion(sp?).
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    The two best feelings in the world...

    1) Logging onto paypal after a long hiatus and discovering $20 you desperately need yet must have forgotten somewhere along the way 2) Flipping through a month-old playboy and finding two (really good) pages that were originally stuck together Your thoughts about these?
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    Britney Spears...

    I just watched her singing "all my people" on leno. It was actually pretty good... with the sound turned off. She's hot. At least she was on that.
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    ti4600 OC's

    What's a good point to hit? I'm at 335/750 right now from stock 300/650, perfectly stable after 12 hours villagemark. Sorry if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find any threads on the topic. I'm using a crystal orb and a homebrew slot cooler, and homebrew ramsinks. I can probably...
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    Sanding the fins of a heatsink

    Would sanding the fins of a heatsink with a coarse-grained sandpaper give it slightly more surface area, and thus slightly better heat dissipation?
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    question about game textures

    This is borderline HT, so just tell me if I should move it. Do textures for games require processing power from the CPU itself, or would only the gpu suffice? If no cpu power is required, would a straight dma line to the textures save a few cycles while playing CS? (I realize that even if this...
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    Heatpipes

    How do heatpipes work? Copper pipe filled with something, right? What are they filled with? Would water work? Are they pure copper or finished with something?
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    Craaaazy deals on newegg

    Check out newegg's front page, there's some uber kickass deals. Just to name a few: A7n8x deluxe for $116 shipped 9600 Pro AIW for $220 shipped WD 80gb SE for $81 shipped Just check out the front page, you'll buy something, I guarantee.
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    Problem with CS

    I'm having a problem with Half-Life, CS, and all the other HL mods. Whenever I join a game and hit escape (like to go to the menu), when I try to return to game it locks up. I have newest directx, and I originally had this problem with my gf4 mx440, but I'm still having it with my new gf4...
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    Bizarre idea

    Would it be possible to run seti@home, dnet, f@h, or other distrib. comp. programs on a PS2, using the linux kit? This seems like a cheap way (for people who already have a ps2, linux kit, network adapter) to get clock cycles... Would it/ could it work? On a related note, does file-sharing...
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    Forum coding

    Are there any forums that allow users to code javascript in their posts? Note: If you like the forum(s) don't post their name. I'm just mad at the world and wanna get a very tiny bit of revenge by posting my "open a million windows" code.
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    Free .tk domain name

    This is just for those that don't know. The island of Tokelau is giving away their .tk domain names. Just head over to http://www.tk for more info. I know almost everyone knows about this, but they emailed me and said to get the word out!
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    Worst... weekend... ever.

    So I was going to the Drive-Thru Invasion concert in atlanta. I live in Charleston, a good 5 hours away if traffic is good. Sounds simple. I'm all for keeping it KISS, but we couldn't, we had to make a 2-hour detour to Greenville, SC, to pick up one of my friends. Hey, anyone ever tried...
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    Network Help (cross-post, sorry)

    Sorry, I posted this in the network forum a while back and got no replies whatsoever, so I'm gonna try it here. I have DSL coming in to my modem, which is hooked to a router / wireless AP, which is hardlined to one computer and radio'd to two more. The hardwired one I'll call computer 4, one...
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    L2TP (I think) question

    Hey, so here's my problem. I have DSL coming in to my dsl modem, hooked up to a wireless AP, lasering to my computer. Now, if I hook a p1 computer to mine through nics and crossover, while it IS getting ICS, it isn't getting DHCP from the DSL modem (which is my dhcp server). So if I were to...
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    Hawking-ish

    Is there anyone on these forums (not just limiting it to OT, it can be any ATF) that's crazy successful, like top of their field, stephen hawking, einstein, michael jordan successful?
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    Weird McAfee Virus Scan problem

    Hey, my neighbor is having a weird problem with McAfee Virus Scan. It keeps creating files in Local Settings -> Temp between 5 and 20 gig. Because of this her computer is severely slowed. Anyone have / had this problem that knows how to fix it? I'm trying to avoid the support chat, as it...
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    Pi question

    I'm reading a book that says the first 10 digits of pi (1415926535) is almost precisely equal to the circumference of the earth, to within inches. Problem is, when I calculate that out I get 268167.9 miles and change, but the exact circumference is 24,901.55 Any idea what I'm doing wrong?