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    Cleaning old cat pee out of floors

    Hi, I just bought a house (fixer upper) and the previous owner had several cats as pets. It seems that in one particular closet on the second floor the cats decided to pee as much as they wanted and the owner didn't do anything about it. It's been two weeks since the owner moved out and I've...
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    moving a load bearing wall in a doublewide

    Hello, I'm looking at buying a house, and I found one that's a good deal, except for one thing. In the bathroom There is a load bearing wall that was not possitioned correctly over the floor supports when the house was first built. Because of this, the floor in the bathroom sank three...
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    wine compatibility

    So, I'm looking at building a linux rig, but before I do, I'm currious about wine. It supposedly lets you run windows apps in linux, but from looking at their web site it looks like a signifficant portion of the API is still unimplemented. I read somewhere that you can use windows .dll files to...
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    uATX integrated mobo for linux use

    Hi. I'm looking at doing a build for a linux system. I would like to build a uATX linux system. (Haven't decided the flavor yet. I'm new to linux) Anyways, I want to keep the system low cost. In the spirit of that, I would like to use an integrated graphics board. I haven't decided intel or amd...
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    Flash memory

    Did anyone else notice that flash memory has almost doubled in price in the past two weeks? What's up with that?
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    how to send data out a different NIC depending on its destination

    I've got several computers all running Windows xp. They all have 2 NICs in them. Right now I'm only using one of the NICs and they're all connected to the same network which is also connected to the internet. What I want to do is hook up a second network between all my computers and when one...
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    C# Listbox programming

    I have a listbox in a form. When the application is run, the user can press a button that adds items to the listbox like this: private void UpdateRuleList() { this.listRules.Items.Clear(); ScriptAction scr; int i = scripts.scripts.Count...
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    AMD to stop making video cards?

    So I was reading an article about AMD and Intel technologies and the state of the industry in EE times today. They say that AMD is bleeding fast and AMD should stop making standalone graphics cards to stop the bleeding. My thoughts were WTFBBQ :confused: What do you all think?
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    Do they make these?

    I can't seem to find any info on this anywhere. What I'm looking for is a device that has several USB 2.0 conectors on it which you plug in USB thumb drives into. Then there is an IDE output connector which you attach to the computers IDE port. The point of this device is that it will provide...
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    Battlefield 2 connection problems

    I have the following: 939 X2 3800+ Epox nforce4 mobo integrated GB networking ATI x850 2GB PC4200 5 HDs I've been getting "your connection has been lost" errors very frequently when playing online. My roommates do not have this problem when we're all playing together. The one guy has...
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    Nights in the spring

    Ok, so it's 62 degrees outside and dark. I have this strong urge to go outside and run and just absorb the cool night air. Does anyone else get that around this time of year? Unfortunently I have power systems homework I have to do instead.
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    Windows XP prefetch enhancement

    Is there a program out there that will work with XP to give it similar prefetching functionality to vista? I have 2GB of memory which I rarely use all of and I'd like to cache my frequently used apps there. I don't want to use a ramdrive because then I have another drive letter and the memory...