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    I need a little advice on a network configuration. Any takers?

    I'm hoping to take a job expanding a network at my friend's business. I'm not an IT professional, but what he wants done falls well within my comfort area. He has some professional IT equipment implemented right now and what I'm wondering is: what's the best way to expand his capabilities...
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    Can someone answer a question about SPDIF?

    I'm getting ready to get a new sound card and a set of Logitech Z-5500 speakers, but the sound card doesn't seem to have the same SPDIF connections as the decoder. This leads to my questions. Does a coax digital signal sound as good as a optical digital signal? Also, the sound card says it...
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    Can someone suggest a good 5.1 speaker system with a built in decoder?

    I'm looking to get a 5.1 speaker system with a built in decoder. The planned use is for an Xbox 360 and a pc so I'm hoping to find a system that has at least 2 digital inputs. The problem I'm running into is that not many sites carry them, and the ones that do have a very limited inventory...
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    Buying big ticket electronics online.

    I really want to buy this Panasonic CT-34WX15 TV and my local Circuit City carries it, but there's only a floor model left and they aren't getting any more. I'm not crazy about buying a floor model tv so I turned my searches online. I found several sites on Froogle selling this particular...
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    Why is XP Pro all of a sudden booting up to the profile screen?

    My profile is the only one on the pc, and today when I booted it up it took me to the profile screen instead of booting straight to the desktop. I changed nothing to get it to do that. How do I get it back to booting straight to the desktop?
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    Does anyone here use those electronic insect repellers?

    My girlfriend freaks out if she sees a spider no matter what size. My friend told me to get a couple of those electronic insect repellers that you plug into the wall. He swears by them, but I'm a little sceptical. Plus they go from anywhere between $5-$50. Does anyone here use them? Do they...
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    How do I get USB 2.0 functionality to work.

    When I plug my PSP into my pc, my pc tells me that transfers will be much faster if I connect it to a USB 2.0 port. I'm pretty sure my mobo is 2.0 compatible. When I go into device manager my USB controller has the yellow exclamation mark on it telling me its not working. How do I get it up...
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    Why did Firefox go completely kuckoo on me?

    Firefox was acting a little funny, and so was my pc so I rebooted. When I restarted Firefox it asked me to create a new profile because the default profile just wouldn't do anymore. So I created a new profile, now all my bookmarks, extensions, and preferences are gone. What happened here...
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    Current ATOT @ work member soon to become former ATOT @ work member.

    Was just informed by my boss that the company is revoking all internet access to all employees. Now what'll I do to kill the time? *sigh*
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    So how long until Google releases an OS?

    They seem to be trying to infringe on all that MS sees as holy, so how long until they release an operating system?
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    Handicapped by golf.

    I am a big advocate of giving up on golf. Several years ago I threw my clubs away and I've never been happier. Whenever someone complains that they suck at golf I always encourage them to take the initiative and pitch their clubs and never look back. So to all you hackers out there, next time...
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    How monumentally unfunny is Adam Corolla's new show?

    I thought that the brass at Comedy Central had a sure fire hit on their hands with this one. But being wrong is what I do best. It's just painfully unfunny. Live call-ins from 15 year olds is not a recipe for comedy gold. I can't believe they took Tough Crowd off for this garbage. Corolla...
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    Are there free Linux distributions?

    First off I know nothing about linux so let's just get that out of the way. It is open source isn't it? I know there are different "flavors" of Linux, which are the most used/most popular? Are any of the versions free? Where might I go to find more resources on this topic?
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    Indians vs. Yankees 8/3/05.

    My gf's aunt owns a local jewelry store and managed to pull some strings to get us box seats for Wednesday's game. Box seats are really great no matter where you are, but these were the sh!t. You know how when you watch a game on tv and the camera's perspective is over the pitchers' shoulder...
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    Help me name my fantasy football team.

    The past three seasons my team has been The Cortland Cvnt (my logo was a gaping wet pvssy. Thing of beauty it was), but since I moved out of Cortland last fall I need a new fantasy team name. So we'll play a game of fill in the blank using filthy filthy language. I'd like a name referential...
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    A friend of mine says he has an antenna that plugs into a wired router to give him wireless functionality.

    He has a basic hardwired router, but he says he bought an antenna that plugs into a free RJ45 jack in his router which gives him b/g wireless. I've never heard of such a thing, but if it exists I'm thinking about getting one for my router rather than buying a new wireless router. Who makes...
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    Have you ever shipped anything on they company's dime?

    I had to ship a product to an engineer today. The company I work for has an internal mail system since most of the facilities we ship to are within a few miles of one another. But this engineer lives around Chicago so it needed to be sent FedEx. So I boxed up what needed sent and took it up...
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    Is there a reason Sony Memory Stick Duos are way more expensive than regular old flash memory?

    Other than it being a proprietary technology, is there any good reason that a 512MB Memory Stick Duo is significantly more expensive than 512 of a regular old SD Flash Memory?
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    Battle of the Bands Redux!

    So who will come out on top in this one? Devastatin' Dave or Orleans? Actually, it appears that all the guys from Orleans like to come out on top. But that's besides the point.
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    Does BF2 use Direct3D or OpenGL as its renderer?

    Which is it?
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    Question about BF2 and its use of anti-aliasing.

    Is AA handled by the game different than if I tell the game to turn it off and force my graphics card into using it in the control panel?
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    Can a batch file be written to shut down unused processes in task manager?

    I can't run BF2 on my pretty much state of the art pc. EA suggests shutting down all processes except taskmgr.exe, explorer.exe and any under system, local service, and network service. Can I write a batch file to shut down all processes except those mentioned above? Better yet, is there a...
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    Anyone know where I can find older Catalyst drivers w/o the Catalyst Control Center?

    I've found plenty of older drivers, but what I'm looking for is older Catalyst drivers and Control Panel software (not Catalyst Control Center, they're two different things). If I can't find the Control Panel, does anyone know where I can get an older version of the Rage3D tweaker...
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    Is there a way to get games to run directly from the cd without installing them?

    The other day I was cleaning out my desk at home and ran across my old Fallout 2 disc. Being that it tremendously slow at work I was thinking about taking it in there to play, however, the company's IT policy won't let me install programs. So I was wondering if there's any way to play it (or...
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    Can anyone think of jokes that have been made obsolete by technology?

    So I was at the grocery store the other day and paid for my stuff with my debit card and in the process got $20 cash from the cashier. This led me to think of the scene from The Jerk where the mexicans pull into the gas station where Steve Martin is working and tell him to give them the money...
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    Is Sony going to shoot itself in the foot with the PS3?

    Link Hmm...let's see here...prohibitively costly hardware...check. Lack of development kits...check. Difficult to program...check. No hard drive out of the box...check. Seems to me like they're really taking a gamble on this one. I know the PS2 is huge, but how many people are gonna...
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    Is there a better way to lose your virginity?

    So yesterday my gf's 17 year old cousin called. She just got back from a three week European trip (something to do with school). Anywho she informed my girlfriend that on the trip she lost her virginity to a 35 year old Italian bus driver (apparently this guy was the bus driver for their...
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    Is there a way in XP to lock/password protect individual folders?

    I've got a lot of work on my pc that I don't want the kids getting into, is there a way to lock/password protect individual folders?
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    Anyone know how I could find out what a paticular insect is by description/characteristics?

    In my basement bathroom there's all these little flies. They're smaller than a typical fly, they don't really fly around unless I start to go after them, but when they do fly they quickly land again and every time I find them they're always facing with their heads pointed up the wall and when...
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    I used to think Celine Dion sucked.

    And now I'm glad to say its been confirmed!
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    Does anyone know of a good way to get out of a cell phone contract?

    I've got a year left on my contract and due to the fact that my phone gets no reception at home or work I'd like to get out of my contract. Has anyone had any luck doing this?
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    Firefox and IE spontaneously won't launch.

    Seems like when I boot my pc and start Firefox or IE they launch just fine. Even after I close them and re-open them a few times everything's fine. But after a while if I try to launch either one, neither will open. The hourglass shows that its working but then it just stops. So in order for...
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    Pics of Nintendo Revolution mystery controller?

    Check it out here! ^works now
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    Do Battlefield 2 maps load rediculously slow for you too?

    I posed this same question in some Battlefield 2 forums I frequent, and all replied that their maps load in the 30-40 second range (that's the map load and the verification). My maps take 5+ minutes to load on a brand new pc. I set up a new partition for my pc games (G:\), but other than that...
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    What's your favorite meat?

    If it comes from a pig I'll eat it. But if I had to narrow it down it would most definintely be either bacon (not too crispy, not too fatty) or chorizo sausage. What say you?
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    Let me tell you about the fun I had last night.

    I'm a Battlefield nut. Needless to say I was super pumped yesterday to go pick up my copy of Battlefield 2. So I headed to Circuit City, got my copy and headed home. Before I installed it I decided to clean up my pc, get rid of old programs, clean the registry, update things that needed...
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    How do I delete an active partition?

    Here's how my pc is set up: One 200gb hd with 2 partitions, the partitions are C: and D:. C: contains my original copy of XP Pro and is set as the active partition, D: contains a fresh XP Pro install and is the partition I want to use for running XP. I want to delete the C: partition and...
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    Check out what I got to do today at work. *Now With Even More Pix!!*

    Every year where I work they have what they refer to as excellence week, which is a bunch of patting yourself on the back for a job well done. This year they gave us a project. We had to build a device that would launch a ping pong ball onto a target a certain distance away. They gave us...
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    I can't format a partition from within Windows.

    Like I said, it goes through the entire process (the progress bar fills all the way up) and at the very end I get a message saying the format couldn't be completed. The drive I'm trying to format has an XP Pro installation on it if that helps. Any idea why this might be happening?