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    Beating the speed of light with a stick

    My brother and I were talking about the vast distances traveled by light from stars, and the possibilities for communication over these distances. Then he said something like, "I can beat the speed of light" and proposed that, while light takes years to travel from the nearest star to Earth, a...
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    How to change the fan in a La Cie Brick external HD?

    After only 10 months this thing sounds like a dirt bike. I removed each of the four rubber feet and found no screws. Anyone popped this thing open before?
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    Router burliness required for busy home network?

    Are 3 desktop PCs, 3 notebooks, 2 Tivos, 2 voip phones, and a game console (plus my phone if I'm on the john and just have to have my Champions League football highlights right now) all using the network at the same time considered a heavy load for a consumer grade router? Is there a particular...
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    Internet Connection Sharing woes

    It is so frustrating how you'll get something to work, you change NOTHING, and suddenly it stops working. :confused: At first I tried it over an ad hoc wifi connection between the two computers. Worked great for like two days. Then that started to fail: the guest laptop's Local Area...
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    Combining Ethernet and wireless connections

    Can any advantage be had by using both the wireless and Ethernet connections on my laptop simultaneously? EDIT: I mean I tried it and of course I only have traffic over one IP, but is there some utility to join the two and get more simultaneous connections for a) just web surfing b) ftp c)...
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    Pouring ice

    I left a one gallon plastic bottle of water in the freezer for about four hours. When I took it out it was still liquid, but as I poured it into a glass pitcher it instantly froze, or almost. Made me do a double take. It was coming out of the plastic bottle as liquid, but I'd say 95% of what...
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    Troubleshooting laptop NIC

    Lately I've been experiencing network instability which is most noticeable when gaming online with my laptop - frequent freezes, lag warping/rubberbanding, and occasionally completely drops the connection to the remote server. I've bypassed the router and plugged directly into the cable modem...
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    Can't change default application for .tif files to Photoshop

    It was set to "ACDSee", but when I tried to change it to Photoshop it instead changed to "Microsoft Office Document Imaging File". I can change it to other applications, but when I select Photoshop it goes back to M.O.D.I.F. What's keeping it from changing?
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    Printing 5x7 on HP officejet 6110 all-in-one

    In the printer preferences dialog there is no 5x7 inch paper option. There is a "User defined paper size" option but nowhere to define that paper size. The tech on HP live chat says "Use the HP Director software". In that app, you can say you want a 5x7 print but the paper size options are...
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    21.3" LCD display flickering

    Hello, I'm using my Samsung 213T as a second display on my laptop for the first time and I've encountered an annoying flicker. After a day of troubleshooting I've discovered that it is exacerbated when mid-tone grays dominate the screen. It gets pretty bad if I set the desktop color to the...