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    recommendation for wireless mouse/pointer

    I am hoping someone can recommend a wireless device to send mouse clicks to a laptop/PC that may be far from the presenter. How far? At least 50 feet, though about 100 would be the best. The most important thing will be that it work reliably, because this will be part of a mobile setup that will...
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    Hot Enough? CompUSA Mid-Tower ATX Case - $30

    CompUSA Mid-Tower ATX Case For thirty dollars, if it holds together it's a good deal, right? It's cheaper than anything else I see locally and didn't find it in any active threads. Personal digression: I need to swap an already-built PC into a new case, because it is in an...
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    where to find old SFF pcs

    It looks like I may be in the market for an old (read: cheap) SFF pc. All I need to do with is is run Linux and play wave files, so speed, gee whiz video cards, and hard drive space are not really important considerations. Is there any place I can look or any good, older models to search for on...
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    Please help me choose/build an audio kiosk for my local museum

    I'm volunteering at the local museum to help put together an exhibit about the expieriences of some Holocaust survivors who relocated to our little town. We would really like to have a small listening station for visitors to listen to eight short interviews. Currently, we're looking at...
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    seeking mailing list software for snail mail

    I have a client who is interested in starting up a mailing list for keeping in touch with their customers. I'm honestly not too familiar with mailing lists, other than some limited experience using mail merge in Word. What's the best stuff out there? This is a fairly small business, so I don't...
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    saving troubled laptop hard drive

    A friend brought me his laptop when he stopped being able to boot into Windows XP. He was getting blue screens after the windows logo first appeared, and safe mode wasn't working either. Since there was no sensitive data on the drive, I tried first installing a fresh copy of Windows but the...
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    the election is over - is there an index of newspaper headlines?

    I'm thinking about putting together some kind of project that features election-related newspaper headlines from around the country. Is there anywhere out there that parses news sites for headlines? This is really specific, but I am hoping someone else has gone to the trouble of automating this...
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    DEA agent shoots self during gun safety class for Orlando kids

    Mostly just funny. Even with all of the disturbing things going on intentionally within the government these days, it's comforting to know there's still room for that good ol' fashioned ineptitude.
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    locating elusive network printer

    I'm trying to add a new PC to an existing small office setup that uses a networked Lexmark printer. Everything has gone fine so far -- Windows 2000 did a fine job of autodetecting proxy settings for the internet, and I can see in Network Neighborhood all of the other computers in the office...
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    need help catching plagarist

    I'm in a creative writing workshop, and one of the stories I'm critiquing is only a slightly digested regurgitation of a short story I read a long time ago in my eigth grade english textbook. It's a quasi-science fiction story about a family (whose name is maybe an anagram of saccharine) who go...
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    iso freeware guitar tuning software

    I'm trying to find something that is simple and will just produce a given pitch for me to tune to.... as to *why* I haven't been able to find this yet, I do not know. I'd really appreciate any links from other tuners out there.. mark
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    so -- which screen name should I go for?

    (Assuming I figure out how to create a poll...) So which should it be -- foundharmonic or myplainsong? Or are they both really ridiculous?
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    best place to buy posters online?

    I'm looking at allposters.com but is there anywhere else I should check out?
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    finding nemo pics bird

    having trouble finding the link to the birds from finding nemo with the text "pics" written on it... anyone got the link?
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    everything disappears

    At some time in the night, my home network ceased to function somehow. Though all of the PCs say that they have a valid LAN connection, none of them can see each other (be pinged or show up in Network Neighborhood). The PC that I'm using as a router still has working access to our cable modem...
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    desktop & navigation dissappear in win2k

    I was taking a look at what is being loaded upon startup for a win2k pro sp3 system in order to kill some adware with a piece of software called Startup Control Panel by Mike Lin. I unchecked a few things I was pretty sure were unnecessary, but when I rebooted, no icons appeared on the desktop...
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    sound drivers for msi kt3 ultra2

    Anyone know where I can find drivers for the onboard sound for a KT3 Ultra2 (MS-6380E)? This is what I've found at MSI's site and it doesn't seem to have the driver I need.
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    never had a credit card -- any suggestions?

    I've never had a credit card, since I generally try to make purchases once I have the money to pay for them :D But I'm getting the point where it might be nice to build up some credit, so I was wondering if anyone out there could suggest a card that would work well for me and maybe has some...
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    website for finding cell phone combatibility?

    The phone I got with my new Verizon contract is crap... I'd like something a lot simpler and more reliable, like the Nokia 5165 I used to have, so I'm thinking I'll try to find something on ebay. However, I'm in need of a page that will help me figure out what phones I can use with my service...
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    looking for irc applet and conent management scripts

    I've been searching for about an hour for an irc applet for my site. All the ones I've found either require a relay on the web server, are abandonded/not supported, or are commercial. I just need something that lets a user connect to a remote irc server from their browser window and is free for...
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    LAN supplies (ahhh.. OT for OT)

    I've been searching through the Hot Deals forum, looking for links to buy supplies for my first LAN installation. Basically I just need 20-25 RJ-45 plugs for patch cables, 5-10 RJ-45 wall jacks, and possibly a crimper. Total cost for this @ Home Depot is almost $100.00 so I figured that someone...
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    evaluate a story?

    It's so weird to post this on a forum, but I simply cannot find anyone who's available to take a look at this story. In one of the silliest assignments ever, I am supposed to write a five-page tale in the style of early Nathaniel Hawthorne. Could anyone give this a look over and point out...
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    roomates == satan?

    Need some opinions on this... This semester, three other guys and I decided that we didn't want to continue in the dorms and got an apartment together. I've known one of these guys since I was 13, I've been hanging out with another throughout high school and we roomed together last year on...
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    cheap decibel meter

    I can't find a cheap decibel meter anywhere on the web... anyone know a site where I might find one?
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    PII Slot 1 350mhz CPU -- worth keeping?

    The motherboard of my old Dell desktop died, but the slot 1 350mhz pentium II is still in working order. Is there any point in keeping this thing (ie some real cheap source for a motherboard)?
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    looking for email provider

    I'm hoping to get some recommendations (or a link to a review site, haven't found any good ones yet) to find a free or inexpensive email provider. I've been using hotmail for a long time as my general/personal email account, but recently I've gotten more and more annoyed by the ads, the...
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    hot deals coupon rules (clarification needed)

    Recently there was a deal posted in the hot deals forum that involved a printable coupon, however a link was not posted in the thread for this specific coupon by the time I read it, so I posted request that someone PM me a link to the printable coupon, and my post was deleted. I don't beleive...
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    PNY 256mb PC2100 AR @ Office Depot 24.99

    First time posting in this forum, didn't see this exact deal already so... Just happened to notice this today, sticker cost was $59.99, $5.00 instant rebate, $25 MIR, which seems odd since I was looking at the CC PNY thread and someone mentioned a $20 OD rebate on DDR RAM. I'm almost dead...
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    svc sells refurbished parts?

    Since the GC68 highly rated basic heatsink was out of stock, I ordered a goldengate 40 heatsink and a generic 60mm fan as a starter combo for cooling my new Athalon XP 1600+. I got the package today, and I noticed first that spinning the fan blades makes the entire fan assembly gyrate a bit, as...
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    info on bunta.com?

    I placed an order at bunta.com on the 10th, got an email saying it would be shipped on the 11th, but checking the order status every day and it's still saying 'checking inventory.' never got a tracking number for the ups shipment. i have emailed their order status email as well as submitting a...
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    newbie ISO heatsink/fan/misc advice on first PC

    After lurking around here for a while, I'm about to build my first PC and was hoping for some advice. So far I have: $29 Comet Case (from Hot Deals forum) w/one case fan AMD 1600+ AGOIA from NewEgg MSI MS-6380E KT3 from Bunta Some questions: 1. With this case I received the 400w Duro power...
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    apartment wiring causes pc death?

    For almost a year, my main PC was a Dell Optiplex PII 350mhz that I purchased for cheap when a corporation went out of business and had to liquidate. I was running it with two 256 SDRAM chips, an old Maxtor 4x CD-R drive, an SB 128 PCI card (well, I added that around January), the original 4.5...