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    First Time Computer Build on My Own. Please Advise!

    ***UPDATED MY POST, PLEASE CHECK POSTING BELOW FOR CURRENT PROPOSED SETUP*** First time computer builder here. Looking for input and ideas. I plan to use this as my primary gaming machine, my goal is to be able to run sc2 at max settings, and some other recent fps type games also at max. I...
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    Need Housing Advice, Going to Texas A&M

    the area, and would be able to give me ideas of what i should do. Im going to be going to Texas A&M in the fall, as a graduate Mechanical Engineering student. I basically want the cheapest option avaliable, I am single, and dont really care too much about the living conditions, I assume...
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    Moving to AU??

    I live in California right now, but i wanna move to australia and work there for a couple years as a mech engineer/ Does anybody know if i would be required to get like a visa, or a green card or something.
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    Cow Bacon

    I have never been a fan of the chicken on the pizza, I mean if your gonna be throwing meat other than pepperoni, it might as well be a big steak you cut up and put on there instead. For some reason tha pizza thread made me think of bacon, and I am wondering if there an analogous version of...
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    Swim, Bike, Run

    I hear its 2.5 mi swim, 105 mi bike, and 26.5 mi run. School is coming to a close for me. I should be getting my degree this quarter, and I have been feeling lately that it would be rad if I were an IronMan. If anyone has any experience with this race, or any suggestions on how I should...
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    OMG my computer wont turn on, what do i do?

    I came home today and my computer will not load up windows. When i power it on, at first it would just cycle through the motherboard screenshot I am not sure what motherboard i have, but looking inside my case i see EP-9NPA+ULTRA im gonna look that up and see if i can find anything...
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    Assault/Battery Charges

    A couple days ago I was teasing my brother (I grabbed above his knee and would squeeze it cuz hes ticklish there) , and he punched me in the neck, then I told him that if he did something like that again that i would hit him back, only it would be alot harder. Then he mocked me, and i was a...
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    WTF is wrong with my trucks CD player???

    ... most of the way up, and then it just starts saying cd error, and spitting out my cd's. I felt the cover part, and it felt pretty hot, but the radio still worked. Im gonna assume that the heat has a lot to do with the cd not playing, because when the truck had been sitting all day, it...
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    TEXAS Grad School

    Hi, I wanted to know if anybody here could tell me about a good Mechanical Engineering (My interest is Robotics) Graduate school that i could go to. I do not know anything about Texas really other than its big, the women are beautiful, and i could get a gunrack for my Explorer. Please...
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    Text messaging from my desk

    Does anybody know if there is a website that would allow me to send text messages to someone's phone, with out having to use my phone, and pay for the messages sent?
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    Hell yea!!!

    Bear Mountain should be opening up this weekend!!! and Mtn High is already open!!!! Woooo woooooo!!!!! :thumbsup::shocked::roll::heart::clock::cookie: http://www.bearmountain.com/bearmountain_snowreport.php http://www.mthigh.com/pages/snowreport.asp
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    I had my brother give me a mowhawk

    Over the weekend, I had my brother cut my hair, and he gave me a mowhawk kinda as a joke. I thought it was rad, and kept it. Now its Monday, and I still have it, but im wearing a hat at work today. I am 23, but I work at a Power Plant, and the average age here is 53 or so, and I would...
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    Need advice on Recommendations for my best friend

    So one of my best friends who i will refer to as Kz is not doing anything productive with his life, and seems to be going "down hill" Heres his story. Kz is 23 years old and has grown up in South Orange County (CA). He graduated HS back in 2002 and has been in and out of CC ever since just...
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    Help me change my clock back

    While im sure it is in my owners manual, I was wondering if anyone else here drives a stock 2003ish ford explorer, and can just tell me how i change the clock.
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    Boost My Wi Fi cantenna questions

    My friend and I would like to see if we can network our computers. His house is about 100m from my house. We basically want to build 2 cantennas, and point them at eachother. I've done little research, I am slightly familiar with WiFi technology. Some of what I know is from this site...
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    Boost My Wi Fi

    My friend and I would like to see if we can network our computers. His house is about 100m from my house. We basically want to build 2 cantennas, and point them at eachother. I've done little research, I am slightly familiar with WiFi technology. Some of what I know is from this site...
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    Wahoo's ?

    I'm taking this girl out tonite, and I wanted to go to Fat burger, but she said it was greasy and last time she went the grease dripped on her leg and burned her (lol). So she recommend Wahoos, and I said that i didn't mind. I asked what wahoos was, and she told me it was a mexican place, with...
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    **I Need Ideas for Personal ad**

    Hey guys, me and my friend thought that it would be funny if we posted a personal ad for our other friend that we don't really get to see much anymore because playing WOW has turned him into an anti social orcish rogue whore. He works part time as a security guard, Thursday-Sunday 3-11pm, is...
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    I need some Classic Car advice

    I have a 1975 chevy camaro and I am trying to sell it on Craigslist. The problem is, I have not gotten many hits. I would like to put the car on auto trader, but it seems that AT only dates back to 1980 so i don't think I can sell it there. Does anybody know of some other good relatively...
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    My Half Dome Pics

    Went to yosemite a week or so ago, and hiked half dome with my brother. Here are a couple pics. Text Text I got more, but i cant seem to upload anymore pics from work....
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    OMG Work Out at work!!!

    So I just went to some lame safety meeting and they spoke a bit about electrical safety, and workstation ergonomics. They talked about taking breaks for 5 min or so every 45 minutes you sit at the computer, by moving around and they also talked about taking some sort of "micro pauses."...
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    Yosemite - Half Dome trail

    Hi, I am going to hike up Half Dome tomorrow or friday. Its like 17 miles or so. Has anyone here done this trail? I would like to know how long this will take, and what i should bring, besides food and water. Edit 1 My friend will be hiking up with me and my brother, but he has...
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    Did anyone ever see "Windy City Heat"

    I am wondering if anybody ever saw, or maybe knows where i can get a copy of the movie "Windy City Heat"? It was a movie put out a few years ago. I believe that Adam Carolla worked on it, but i can never seem to find any info on it. I saw parts of it, and remember it being very funny.
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    Calling all Australians/New Zealanders

    I live in Southern California, US and am nearing the end of my Educational Program at UCI. I will soon have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and would like to move out and live in australia with a couple of my friends one of wich is an Electrical Engineer (Master), the other does not yet have...