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Remove Filter  | I just found the coolest new BOINC project (BOINC projects are distributed projects that use your spare computer cycles to solve HUGE computational questions from SETI to Malaria to climate research) - it is called Quake-Catcher out of Stanford University. They send you a sensor that you screw to your …  |
| | I just bought 2 new games - EYE, which I recently started playing and am enjoying a great deal and the latest Deus Ex, which is the first game I paid full price for in years. I pre-ordered it months ago and then forgot about it. I generally only play …  |
| | I just bought a new netgear wndr3700 router and am trying to get my g.f's laptop up on it. I can set the wireless pc card to full wpa2 protection but it can't seem to connect. It sees the router but the connection fails. I tried setting it up with …  |
| | Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let … |
| | Shots fired on I5 Seattle (5-6 shots - probably more - definitely semi-auto.) AK47 - 2 suspects, one captured concussion grenades Motorists on freeway for about 2 hours seems like spotted on both sides of f-way ah - 2nd guy surrendered but does not have weapon No injuries reported (I … |
| | every once in a while FF will insert a local chrome address into my address field - this is the error: [QUOTE]Firefox can't find the file at [B]jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties[/B]us.ard.yahoo.com.[/QUOTE] I bolded the inserted text. Does anyone know why that happens? and how to stop it?  |
| | While looking for Cheech Wizard (see other thread), the vagaries of the internets lead me to this [URL="http://www.myspace.com/migumusic"]drummer Yuko Araki[/URL] now in the group mi-gu. Don't know why I am inflicting this on you but I kind of like "Lazy" and some of the stuff she does with other groups … |
| | I fell in love with the drama of vacuum coffee brewers- the designs are a couple of hundred years old. Once you go for the glass brewer, then you gotta get the [URL="http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm"]Klein bottle/mug.[/URL]. Of course, a true [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rifKlq5hc"]klein bottle [/URL] - as you can see, a klein bottle is … |
| | [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA"]Too much time on my hands[/URL] [URL="http://guntotingliberal.com/"]Too many blogs to read[/URL] Sometimes, I wish I could go shopping but I am a guy w/o a job and the same pair of shoes for years. Obama updates his FaceBook Page: [COLOR="Green"]“brb inauguration lol”[/COLOR] |
| | The title is a literary allusion (gawd, I love it when I get all literate and intellectual). I was perusing my list of blogs and found some interesting things but what really caught my eye was a link to the conservapedia.com. I had been there once a long time ago … |
| | Why did the Forum Highlights get moved so far down the page? It used to be right under 'Subscribe' (IIRC). For a while I could not find it, but this is just me. |
| | I just received this message:[QUOTE]This forum requires that you wait 5 seconds between searches. Please try again in 42 seconds.[/QUOTE]; if I am supposed to wait 5 seconds, why force me to wait 42 seconds (unless it is punishment for being to quick to click). |
| | I am! I happened to slip into my Control Panel and saw that I had a bunch of hits to my reputation that I did not know about -- is there a bell or flag or something that tells me when my rep has been updated? When I first thought …  |
| | I can't seem to get the 'increase indent' button to work I suppose I could use the [QUOTE]wrap quote around text[/QUOTE] button that is not what I want to do, [INDENT]trying the indent here[/INDENT] - nope still does not work. b-t-b, is there a [strikeout] [/strikeout] kind of marking? |
| | [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]Well, I finally got all the pieces so that I can build my own pc kit. Here are the pieces I have: G-Force 6800GT (gpu) AMD 64 3200+ Athlon 939 Zalman Ultra cou cooler fan ASUS A8v Deluxe MOBO Maxtor diamondmax 200gig S.ATA Kingston AK2/1gb ddr400 (installed in the blue … |
| | [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]I am building my 2nd kit (built 1st one in 99 - still going strong but it won't run either Deus X2 or 1/2Life2 so...). My first question: is it worth $100 to buy the cpu/MoBo/memory pre-built and tested (with free 2nd day shipping)? Would it be better to go … |
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