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    Bioshock 2 Themes

    This is probably an odd question, but I was discussing Bioshock 2 with a Clinical Psych. the other day, and she pointed out that the Little Sister/Adam mechanic could very easily be seen as a metaphor for abuse or pedophilia. You, the father figure, are "harvesting" them. This had never...
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    Raid, PCIe + Onboard?

    Situation: I want to create a 5 disk raided storage server. Problem: The motherboard has 2 onboard Sata connectors. Since I'm planning on using software raid, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to drop 300+ on a 8 port sata card I'm just going to be using for just the ports. Would...
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    Sound won't work. With a twist.

    I've got one of the i965 motherboards with integrated sound. Realtek HD audio. I let my little brother install some type of music program, and all of a sudden the sound doesn't work. Here's the weird part: When testing it with realtek's audio manager, it work perfectly. Hardware is...
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    Gmail down?

    Getting errors from Gmail, anyone else? "Temporary Error (502) We?re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won?t be able to log in while these errors last, but don?t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve...
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    Windows Home Server

    So I've heard a few vague things about this, what are its features supposed to be? How would it compare to running a Linux file server say? Does anyone know anything at this point?
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    File Compression

    Anyone know of a file compression utility that'll make use of my 2 cores? I glanced in the free SW thread but no real descriptions. I'd prefer free, but I'll pay if I have to, I'd just like these backups to go faster. And yes I know at some point it's I/O bound, but honestly the program...
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    Alternative Shell?

    So after having the windows shell crash on my for the 3 time today (networkting ftw!) I'm wondering about alternative shells. I'm a minimalist kind of guy. I like my window managers to be like Fluxbox. Light, configurable (preferably with alpha transparency). My pipe dream is to have a real...
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    Network Storage (Non-NAS?)

    I'll be living in a townhouse next semester of college, and I know we'd all like to be able to share things from a central point. Since I'm the resident tech I'll end up setting up the network and what not. What I'd like to do is get an external HD enclosure and be able to attatch it to the...
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    What for Recording?

    My little brother is really into music and what not. He wants a laptop for college, but he also wants the ability to be able to record and edit music. And before you ask: Yes he's deadset on a laptop. No, he won't get a mac. So what does he need? Probably going to get a mixer. Right...
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    XP Home Upgrade...

    Resident tech type geek... Mother wants to install XP Home on a windows 2000 box. Being the cheapest she got the XP Home UPGRADE. According to the back of the box I need 98/ME not Win2k. So here are my questions: Is it just license crap or does the software actually check? Is...
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    YAGT/WTF

    Obl. Pic (Yeah a little pixelated. Eh.) So I dated Angela* about 3 or 4 years ago, broke up, stayed pretty good friends. Fast forward to this August: The then current GF and I split up pretty messily and Angela and I start talking more. Up to this point we'd been talking once or twice a...
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    Share XP Home printer?

    So I'm one of the floor tech types and one of the other guys wants to share his printer with ONLY the guy in his room. We're in a college dorm He's got XP Home, my route of using Share Permissions to set things up is right out. The printer is a usb model btw. Thoughts: Try and use XP...
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    Win2K ACPI/Power?

    So my mother hosed one of the family computers with a virus. Win 2k. Had to do a repair install, however now the restart command doesn't work and the shutdown command does not power down the computer, merely halts the operating system. I looked in Power management and didn't see anything...
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    PSU stupidity

    So I got a modular Hiper psu the other day. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817128003 The mobo hasn't arrived yet, but I'm getting other stuff set up. So I plugged in one of the case fans. Switched everything on... Nothing. These are the tricool 120mm that come with the...
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    Event Viewer Errors!

    I'm running Windows 2000 pro sp4 I was looking at my event viewer a few minutes ago and it's showing the normal items... "Windows Service Pack" "nt Update" etc. Then I scroll down and I see it's been logging disk warnings and DCOM errors. They occur in the log in intervals of between 10...
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    24 cores and XP Pro?

    So one of my friends is planning to build a full server for his college rig. 12 processor slots 12 gigs of ram etc. And he's planning to use it as a normal workstation. I was talking to him about it, and we both agreed he should probably put linux on it; however he may need XP to play nice with...
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    Upgrade?

    So I realize everyone is probably bored to death with "Upgrade" and "What about this Build?" type topics but I've got one too. So here is the deal: I'm going off to college here at the end of the summer. And I'd like to upgrade the old comp. Right now it's running Win2000 Pro and...