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    No country for old men!

    I just got done watching the movie. I heard from some people that they were confused by the ending. I have to admit I was confused by it as well. I did read some reviews about it and I got some of it, but I'm not 100% clear on it. Anyone care to explain? I thought it was a good movie and I'm...
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    GPS system. Which is better overall?

    I have both the TomTom one LE 3rd edition and Garmin nuvi 200. I never owned a GPS system before. I hear Garmin is better, but I also read that the TomTom is a good brand. I'm trying to decide which one to keep and which one to sell. I need your opinions on which is a better GPS system overall...
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    Torrents!!!

    Damn all the good bit-torrents site are getting shut down. It's sucks.
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    Suggestions for a new LCD monitor!

    I was wondering what do you guys think of the Samsung 2232gw and the acer ACAp241wbd. I want a 24". I've seen these monitors at a electronics store but I want to know your opinions. The only thing I don't like about these monitors they give off glare and I don't like that. If you guys got other...
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    Looking into buying a new digital camera. Opinions plz!

    I know a little about digital cameras. I'm looking into getting a good camera. What i'm not looking for is a slr because I don't need anything that good. I'm looking for a camera that is between a point and shot and a slr. A 12x optical zoom or more that takes good pictures, a fast processor...
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    Re installing MS xp

    I want to do a fresh install of MS xp. The problem is I have a newer version of xp installed right now and the xp cd i have is a older version. Because of that it won't let me re-install xp using the older cd. I do have sp2 just on a different cd. So how can I go about doing a fresh install? The...
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    Monitor flickering

    I just noticed that my view sonic A90f+ crt monitor (19inch) monitor is flickering around the edges of the screen. Its kinda hard to explain it. I want to say its kinda like a light vibrating look to it. Is this bad? I have the resolution set at 1152 by 864 and I have it set at the highest hertz...
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    Headset mic problem

    The problem is I can't get the mic to work. I can hear sound but I can't talk to anyone (when playing cs.). I'm using a splitter and that one is hook up to my xfi sound card and the other end of it I have my headset hooked up which has 2 male jacks, 1 for the sound and the other one for the mic...
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    Transformers!!!

    The worst movie I've seen. I want my money back. I almost walked out of the movie theater. That's how bad it was. If me and my buddy did plan out seeing another movie that day we would of just left and seen another movie. I mean it started out pretty good even thought shia labou or whatever his...
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    Over heating issues!

    I just turned on my pc and i opened up smartguardian to check the temp. My cpu is at 31c pwmic which I don't know what it stands for was at 47c but now at 41c, and my chipset which I think is my mobo fan, but i'm not to sure was at 52c. Since it's over 50c the smartguardian was beeping because...
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    Fresh install.

    I plan on to do a fresh install of my pc. It's kinda of running slow. The question I have is if I do a fresh install of my pc will it erase my mobo's bios latest update?
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    Sony DVD drive

    For some reason my sony dvd drive is not able to read my dvd's or cd. I have some programs burned to a dvd and I can't access them. It use to work but now it's not reading it anymore. Any help would be great.
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    PC not reconizing my external HDD???

    I have a external HDD converted to external. I formatted it as fat32 because some idiot said I need to convert it to fat32 for a mac pc to reconize it. But someone else told me that you dont' have to do that. Now I want to format back to NTFS but my pc isn't recognizing my HDD. I'm using USB to...
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    Something is constantly running in the background

    What's up geeks? Well i'm having some weird issues with my computer. It seems that my hdd is always running something in the background. I open up my task manager to check what's running in the background but I dont know any difference as usual. My my cpu seems to work a little harder than...
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    Holographic stroage???

    So I just read about holographic storage. What are so great about them other than being really expensive? I also read that they have a holographic disc for 150? That's way too expensive for a disk.
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    Thinking about getting a new up convert dvd recorder.

    Right now I just have a regular dvd recorder (pioneer). Since I bought my 42 inch plasma (panasonic TH42px60u) i'm thinking about getting a new dvd recorder that can up convert my dvd movies. At the moment i'm staying away from hd dvd and bluray. I'm going to wait for a while until prices start...
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    HEROES!

    This is for the fans of the show HERO. This past episode "6 months ago" talked about each of the characters past. This one is about hiro. When he went back in time to save that chick (the waitress from the diner in texas) from getting killed by sylar, shouldn't that girl noticed who was hiro? My...
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    Problem with IE6

    Hey fellas i'm having trouble with my IE6 browser. I use both IE6 and the latest version of firefox. The problem is when ever i open up IE6 and want to go to google or some other site, it keeps shifting me to firefox. I never had this problem before. I've been using firefox for about a year now...
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    Our soliders at there finest!!!!

    Our soldiers at their finest. No wonder some of them hate our guts. Shouldn't we be better than this? You have a lot of idiots server our country. link
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    DON'T DRINK and DRIVE

    http://www.lenet3000.com/saburido/
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    An inventer was murdered

    The guy that could possible changed the world was murdered. He was the guy that made cars run on "WATER". Here's the link. I think he was killed by a Government agencies. I mean imagine if this technology would of taken off. It would cripple the oil industry and anyone that has money into oil...
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    I need some help with my new Plasma.

    Hey fellas this post was probably already posted but i'm going to do it again Laughing . I just bought a Panasonic TH-42PX60U. I got a really good deal. Fry's were selling them for $1290.99 and Bestbuy did a price match. I read that the first 100 hrs keep the contrast ratio down to 50 percent or...
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    PC is freezing after playing NS

    Right now I have azureus running. It's not eating up a whole lot of memory. But when i'm playing a game i'm not laggy or anything. BUt after when I quite my game, my pc freezes for a few minutes. This normal? never exprienced this before.
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    Ink cartridges

    Hey guys do you know where I can get a good deal on ink for my printer? The model is HSC 750 hp (black 15 and color 78). I tried looking on the net but so far the deals arent' that great. Any help would be great. Well I found a link that sells remanufactured ink. The price is really good. I...
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    Questions regarding firefox 1.5 and IE

    I hope this is the right thread. Well I noticed when I'm browsing the net using firefox or IE, i noticed the memory usage keeps getting higher and higher. Is this normal????? I noticed because i get laggy? Any ideas?
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    vid card running hotter than usual?

    Hey fellas I have a BFG 7800gt oc and when I first installed the graphics card the temp on the card was usually about low to high 30c. But now it's running a little hotter, somewhere around low 40's c to 50's c? Can anyone help me out why this is happening? Any info would be great. Thanks.
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    Black spot during CS or NS

    I know the subject sucks but I couldn't think of anything else to say. Everytime I play CS or NS especially I always get black spots. In CS when I play the map aztec, in the rain i see balck spots. What is causing this? THe driver that I have for my 7800gt is like 91.25 I think. Never had happen...
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    Possible spyware!!!

    Hey fellas my comp is trippin out. My mouse moves around by itself, when i open up my web browser (fire fox, IE), it starts to go wacky. When my comp is loading I see "lucallbackproxy" 4 of them loading on my comp??? What the hell is that? I did google it and I read that it's a spyware deeply...
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    Getting Errors with my memory

    I did a test and it said there is a error with my ram. Not sure what to do. I have ocz mem, 2 gig platinum. the case latency is set on auto in the bios. I beleive it's 2-3.5-5-2. What could be the problem. I did a memtest a while back ago for 7 hrs and everything seem fine.
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    Computer restarted by itself???

    I was just browsing the net, and i'm was dl stuff using azureus, and then all of sudden my computer just restarted by it self??? Can anyone figure out why this could of happened??? :confused:
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    Fan Controllers!

    Hey fellas I plan on buying the zalman 9500 led hsf. I also want to get a fan controller as well. Can you guys recommend any fan controllers? If you guys have any links, reviews.
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    PC not shutting down???

    Ok wow for some reason I was shutting down my pc. But it's not. All my tray icons are shut down but my pc isn't???? This is very strange. Any idea's? I was shutting down my pc but didn't. All my tray icons are shut down but my pc isn't???? This is very strange. Any idea's? I was downloading a...
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    Laggy problem with my dual core.

    I was playing steam (natural selection) and I was running my nod32 anti-virus, and both my cpu's were running 100% and I was getting some pretty bad lag. The reason I was doing this, well simply I can. I figured I wouldn't have laging problems but I was definetly having one. Any ideas why?
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    half life 2

    I just started playing this dam game. I can't figure out this one place. It's part where your on a crane and you have to knock down that bridge. Well after when i do that, what are you suppose to do next? The bridge is busted so I can't cross it. Hella lost.
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    CPU update???

    I went to amd's website to get a patch for my opty175. I went there but I really don't know which update to get cause they are several different patches. Which patch should I dl?
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    Bios update???

    Well I finally got my new pc set up. Look at my rig. I beleive I have the lastest bios version for my DFI lanparty UT ultra-D 11/14/2005. I seen some other rigs and some people has older bios. Does it make a difference in having the lastest on or not? I got my from dfi.com?
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    Update for my vid card

    Apprently I dont have the lastest update for my vid card. I went to nvidia website and all i get is updates for the 7800gtx but not the 7800gt. here's the lastest updatee: forceware 81.89, latest bios: 5.70.02.13.07. Any help fellas would be great.
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    Tests results!!!

    Well I ran 3 tests. For prime95 I had my options set: Options/torture test/custom, in "memory to use" I had both cores set at 820mb's. PRIME95: 38 hrs, 46 min, 0 errors, 0 warnings. 3DMARK05: 7093 3DMARK06: 3868 What do you guys think? Good or no good? This is my first time...
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    How can I change my user name?

    What do i need to do inorder to change my user name w/o deleting my account?
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    NOOB needs help

    My new sig set up. Opty 175, 2gb corsair pc3200 xms platinum, DFI lanparty UT ultra-D, OCz modstream 520w, BFG 7800gt oc. I read that corsair dont like DFI or visa versa which sucks becaue I bought them and cost me a arm and a leg. Now I'm hearing I need to do all kinds of stuff to the mobo and...