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    does anyone have any experience with a 'chatroom trivia bot'?

    so i had this crazy idea: im a med student and we all spend a lot of time in the library studying things that are really boring and I suddenly had the brilliant idea that wouldnt it be awesome if we could get like a chatroom bot, write all our possible exam questions in it, have it constantly...
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    two bioshock problems

    1) I formatted yesterday b/c vista 64x would not work with my iphone, so i went back to 32x. installed the latest drivers for my nvidia card. now the game is not running as well as it was on 32x before.. beforei had it maxed out running flawless, now, even with vsync and some of the higher...
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    bioshock wont let me change resolution

    i have a 22" widescreen LG and everytime i try to change the resolution to anything in bioshock the game minimizes and stops responding.. anyone know whats going on?
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    computer nightmare

    A while back i posted about how my motherboard would not cooperate with both my sticks of ram. Long story short I found out that particular board had issues iwth ram over 1.8V so i RMA'ed and got a new board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?Item=N82E16813131180 ASUS P5K LGA 775 Intel P35...
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    vista 64x vs 32x

    Right now i have the 32x windows vista and right away i notice it wont recognize all 4gb of ram i have. So thats a bummer since i spent money on 4gb are there any other significant reasons to fork money over to newegg or someplace for an oem vista 64x? Software -> operating systems...
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    microsoft process kill utility error

    this has been happening a couple days now.. I keep getting this error popup saying microsoft process kill utility has stopped working. But i close it and another pops up a few seconds later and eventually it gets out of control boggin my computer down to slow speeds. does anyone know how to...
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    are there any cheap ways to get tv on your computer

    i walked into best buy and the tv tuner cards there were like $150, that sounds ridiculous to me. Are there any cheap ways under $100 that i can do this without getting a horrible image? i dont need HD or anything because my room only has the cable, no box or anything.
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    Ive gotten 4 BSOD's since i built mynew computer on tuesday

    They go through really quickly so i couldnt tell what the errors were, but im99% certain they were not the same ones every time. i run windows vista, and i know vista has had some issues with this.. but the last message said: APC_Index_Mismatch Does anyone know whats going on with this...
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    Do they design any mice for people with Carpel Tunnel?

    I developed carpel tunnel a couple of years ago from baseball and it bothers me from time to time, i was wondering if they designed any mice I could look at to make computer activities easier.
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    How much electricity does your computer use?

    Im living on my own for the first time awaiting my first energy bill. I have had the habit of always leaving my computer on. Is this a bad idea now that Mommy and Daddy arent paying the electric bill anymore? I dont know how much energy computers use when theyre idle, does anyone know?
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    are any of the new MMOs commin out gonna be worth it?

    Im trying to do anything i can to stay away from wow. i played it a long ass time, as well as ffxi, liked both but am sick of both now, but i love mmo's tabula rasa and other mmo's seem on the way shortly. anyone think these games will be any good? i also never played EQ2, maybe i should...
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    help i cant seem to get anything on my monitor

    i just spent the last couple of hours trying to put my system together and im pretty sure i got everything connected right. I power the system on and everything seems normal, no strange beeps or anything. but nothing comes up on my monitor. Ive made sure the video card is securely in the...
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    Yet another building a PC thread, any advice much appriciated

    Hey everyone, Im a lurker and don't post much but I thought I could use the experts advice here. This will be my first rig I'm building by myself, my old computer just died. Anyway, I picked this out myself and did as much checking that everything is compatible with itself and windows...
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    I need a recommendation for a new cell phone

    Ok here is basically what im looking for the phone must be small (preferably NOT a flip phone but this isnt that big of a deal) I would like AOL instant messenger software on it (preloaded or downloadable), a built in camera, and a way to turn ur MP3s into ringtones (this is the least...
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    i need some headphones, any ideas?

    im looking for a new pair of headphones since my previous ones like exploded somehow (dont ask). $50 is my price range noise cancellation would be nice cant be ear bud ones cause i wear hearing aids any advice is very much appriciated, thanks! i found these two headphones but...
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    Need advice on a new monitor

    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=24-002-040&depa=0 $565 for a 22" NEC/Mitsubishi CRT with superbright mode i wanna make sure im buying a great product for the money im spending on this, which is A LOT i also wanna know: does this monitor stay cool or is an...
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    Trouble with my motorola surfboard cable modem

    ok im trying to connect my computer to my motorola sb4200 surfboard cable modem via USB i have the plug and it has worked before but for some reason the internet wont connect i go to network properties and it reads connected there but internet still doesnt work it also looks fine in device...
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    ok i got mlbtv to work on a proxy!!! but i still have one question

    After i initialize the game after activating a proxy in the cleveland area, the game works fine and i can watch the game however, as you would expect, webpages run at a snails pace and its impossible to do anything whie im watching the game however i noticed that if i turn the proxy off, the...
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    Grr i still cant get mlbtv to not blackout my games :(

    I need some method of not allowing them to see my ip, if i can at least do that, they'll ask me for my CC which i can type in and ill be fine however, so far i tried a firewall and i tried a BESS proxy and no luck with either anyone else have any idea?
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    How do i block outside programs from tracing my location?

    I want to be able to use mlbtv to watch yankee games but they like track you and sinceim in NY i get blacked out i go to college here and live out of the blackout zone. and we dont get ANY tv channels here :( howcan i block them so they cant see my ip or whatever so they ask for CC...
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    can the videocard in my laptop be upgradeed?

    I have a dell inspiron 8500 pvi 2.4ghz with a geforce4 go ti4200 64mb video card from what i hear, this is dell's first laptop capable of a video card upgrade. Is that true? if so, is it worth getting the 9600pro mobile when the price comes down a little bit, cause i love ati and i am...