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    Visio Image to OLE

    Does anyone know how to take a VSD file or a BLOB of that file and convert it to an OLE object to store in an Access database?
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    Girl drops out of college because of Ubuntu

    Linky Original Story Edit: Added link to the original article.
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    Drawing Sprites

    I know I could just google some but I wanted to know what people that draw sprites recommend.
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    Web Processing Service

    Right now we are trying to provide some geoprocessing services for some analysis engines, that are currently stood up on an ArcGIS server, under the generic OGC WPS standard. Here is where I'm at: I've taken the XML schema files for the response XML our server is supposed to send back to the...
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    Holy Crap...I'm guessing no happy hour specials for these

    http://consumerist.com/tag/fan...e-spirits-in-the-world
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    Firewall Information

    I'm about to purchase a simple firewall. The specifications state that the maximum nodes it can handle are 10. When we told Dell that our network had 15 workstations he said we would have to get a firewall that can handle 25 nodes. However, this doesn't make sense to me. The workstations go...
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    What is a good Anti-Virus solution?

    See title and summary?
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    Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition

    I have a friend who's uncle wants us to install and configure his network. Both of us have no experience in networking or configuring networks. My technical is background is as a software developer and about a year as a part-time computer technician. The uncle wants us to configure a network...
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    GIS

    does anyone have any experience programming GIS stuff using ESRI products?
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    Evil Eye

    http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/07121401.html very cute kid.
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    Asian Train

    http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08040701.html
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    A video in the spirit of the upcoming Tax Season

    Don't know if any of you have seen this show from 2004, but I'm sure it still applies to crap that is happening now with companies and taxes. It's pretty disgusting what they do and the common man ends up paying out the ass for their greed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tax/view/
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    Coded Domain and ComboBoxes

    I have a geodatabase with fields set as coded domains. What i'm trying to do is to populate a combobox with the coded domain values from the database. I have no problem extracting the coded domain values but can not set the combobox to populate it with the data. I know I can create a class...
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    Spatial Analysis - Curves

    I'm still relatively new to the GIS world and wanted to know if anyone has done or knows of ArcMap allowing real-time calculation of curves. Let's say I was to capture GPS points for a road segment; I want the system to automatically calculate the curvature of the road when it crosses some...
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    vegans kill baby

    http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/050207/D8OSG0281.shtml retarded....i don't understand why they wouldn't just breast feed, if anything. it's her own breasts not the breast of another animal.
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    clearance = raise?

    i just obtained a ts clearance and was wondering if that usually results in an increase in salary. i know that many people jump ship once they get one to get higher pay. so does that mean there is a chance they will up my salary to keep me with them?
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    .NET 1.1 vs. 2.0

    I haven't worked with 2.0 so I am not sure if migrating our existing code from 1.1 to 2.0 will inject lots of significant defects. Could anyone tell me, to their knowledge, if there is backwards compatability? The primary things we are concerned about is the Text Masking for our existing masks...
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    help with power supply

    i am looking at buying a modular power supply and was looking at sunbeam/casegears power supplies. does anyone have any info on them? are they quiet, reliable, etc.? any help would be appreciated. thanks.
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    Scratches in Acrylic Surface

    my lcd screen has an acrylic face and there are a few light scratches on it from abrasion. is there any way to refinish this surface to remove them?
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    Removing scuffs from PCB

    I have some scuffs on the pcb of one of my video card and wanted to know how i could remove it. It is completely away from any circuits but looks unsightly.
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    Info on Infiniband and Hypertransport Bus Systems

    Hi, I have to write a term paper comparing and contrasting the various bus systems including pci, agp, infiniband, and hypertransport and describing their implementation for my electrical engineering class. Could anyone give me a link to a good online source and possibly any books I can read as...
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    Fastest Socket 370 Celeron that can SMP

    Just wanted to know what the fastest celeron is able to SMP.
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    how do i know i joined?

    i tried to join the seti@home team but i'm not sure if i did it right.
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    Dual Pentium Pro System

    Ok everyone has been giving me bad feedback about the K6-2 and 3 processors. I have one pentium pro cpu somewhere so i was thinking how a dual pentium pro setup would do. Any better than celeron's or k6-2's?
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    Dos on Win2k

    I seem to be having trouble running some old dos games that I have. Either it doesn't run or sound does not work. Can anyone help?
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    Questions on my cooling config for Radeon 9700pro

    Ok...out of all the forums I read I think the ones here are the most knowledgeable so any help would be appreciated. I was trying to get the Zalman ZM80 heatpipe but I accidentally ordered the ZM50. The site I ordered from is being gay and would not change my order when I notified them well...
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    explanation of memory timings?

    hi, i have never been familiar with what the memory timings exactly do. i've been fiddling with it to squeeze more performance out of my computer. right now i have it set at 2 - 2 - 2 - 5. but i really don't know what that means. i know that i probably don't wanna take cas down to 1.5 unless...
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    Cooling for AiW Radeon 9700pro

    hey...i've been thinking bout gettin rid of the stock heatsink/fan on my card and i'm not sure what to get. I've taken a look at the zalman heatpipe but it looks like it's too big for an all in wonder card and i've heard that it may be bad for the memory chips. could someone give me an...
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    dual pentium 3s

    I have been thinking of building a dual pentium 3 system (xeon or non, doesn't matter) for server purposes, secondary gaming machine, etc. I just wanted to know what kind of performance could i expect and what would it compare to? I have noticed that pentium3 cpus are still fairly costly and...