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    Credit cards with good rewards

    I almost exclusively us my debit card now and the processing fee is lower for debit cards.
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    Credit cards with good rewards

    There is a website that I have used in the past for this very purpose but I can't remember it's name. It had more than 50 cards in a nice table with all the important information easy to find. that's how I found the AMEX with 0% interest on balance transfers for life. Those days are long gone...
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    Credit cards with good rewards

    The processing fees to merchants are higher for Discovercard than for MC/Visa. So the merchant needs an incentive to offer sales with DC. That incentive used to be that customers preferred using DC due to the cash back. AMEX used to charge still higher fees with the incentive that you could...
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    Folding@Home

    If the fiber fell out that easily wouldn't it go back in that easily with help from you and a ladder?
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    Something Random

    That's what she said? :)
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    problem Computer crash when processing large amounts of data

    Well, I'm glad you were able to get some answers even though in the end you may never know exactly what was happening. Ideally, we pay someone to figure out what will work and in return they give us an HCL. If a vendor is inept in developing their HCL then I don't give them my money. You and I...
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    Something Random

    Would shooting through a tinted window do that? He appears to be pretty high above even the roof of that bus or RV. Maybe shot through a helicopter canopy.
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    Rain and flood

    Maybe I'll wait 'til Tuesday for the Congrats. :)
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    Rain and flood

    I'm glad the storm was less than expected and hope you guys have little water damage as well. The strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in the 20th century was one that hit the Florida keys in 1935 with winds estimated at 200mph. It removed the grass. :0
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    problem Computer crash when processing large amounts of data

    Thank you time. I envision this arrangement only as a temporary limp-along solution until you can obtain 6 sticks of HCL approved and tested memory from a company of quality. Buck has suggested some replacements. I see this temporary because even if your system stabilizes one or more channels...
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    Rain and flood

    Cylcones are no picnic for the coral reefs either.
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    I have a T510 maxed out with 8G memory and running several VMs but no SSD. The larger 15" screen is helpful and very portable. I'd recommend it.
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    Something Random

    All yuppies have olive oil. :)
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    problem Computer crash when processing large amounts of data

    The motherboard manual does suggest filling the memory slots in the following order for best performance:. a1,b,1,c1,a,2,b,2,c2. You have three memory channels and they are suggesting you spread your memory across the channels. This is all well and good if all of your sitcks of memory are of a...
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    Something Random

    Bunch of Chicago wusses. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-snow2lsd20110202071217,0,2905048.photo
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    FS: 2GB Crucial DDR2 800 sodimm ct25664ac800

    $35 shipped
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    problem Computer crash when processing large amounts of data

    You might give your memory a thorough testing if you haven't recently. One of the stick on the upper end of that 16g may be flakey. One other cheapish thing to try would be an add-in sata controller.
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    problem Computer crash when processing large amounts of data

    You've done a lot of good work there to narrow down the problem and good ideas for getting more information. Let us know how it turns out.
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    SSD question

    *predictable EOL.
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    SSD question

    At the very least it should be more predictable.
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    Best Video Card Brand

    :)
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    HDD Acoustics

    These cats like this tool with the benefit that the setting change stays through a reboot. Though I don't have personal experience.
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    question Need help conderning HP MSA 2000

    It looks like a monitor shelf to me. Are those mounting holes I see? How wide is it? What does the other end look like?
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    problem Attempting to rebuild Snap Server Raid

    It is unclear what your goal is so we need to establish that first. What we do know is: You had an Overland Storage Snap Server 410. The server itself died but you think the drives are good. You will have access to the data from the tapes in 48rs. Where do you have the drives connected now?
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    Audio Equipment

    I just read the Monster cable vs coat hanger test the other day. :)
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    WHY would anyone pay 400-600 for a 3g phone?

    There was a time when one of the selling points of the AT&T network over Verizon was that you could be on a call and access the 3G network at the same time. I've just learned that this is also a limitation of the Sprint network. I also just learned that as a function ofthe way it works CDMA...
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    Maybe, but I haven't changed anything in there and I can't find anything. Do you guys have both of them enabled in the driver? Driver 15.1.19.0
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    Something Random

    Wow! Thanks for sharing!
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    One thing I have found that is annoying: I can not freely use both sets of mouse buttons with the touchpad. It seems that when I use the nipple buttons it disables the touchpad for a couple seconds. I thought the smaller touchpad size was fine but the larger one is fine too.
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    Third Party Batteries

    All of the casings I've seen are glued together. You are likely to destroy the casing just getting it apart.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Looks like Marvell was not the only ones thinking ahead. I think it makes total sense. The Momentus may only be relevant for laptops and other single drive systems in the future.
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    Marvel HyperDuo

    It is essentially using the SSD as controller attached Read/Write cache. Since the SSD will not be filled up with file data there be more room for the TRIM function to even out the wear.
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    Outlook Auto Archiving

    4 minutes? What decade is this where you have to have "sync phone" as one of your task items? Computers should be allowed to do what they do best without my intervention. You can have those features for free with Gmail even with your own domain for a maximum of 50 people. The major hurdle is...
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    I appreciate the quality hinges on the Lenovos for sure. I think it is one of those little details of Lenovo quality. Watch the video for at least 15sec for teh funneh.
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    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    I think you hurt the moths feelings with your aggression.
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    Somebody at Lenovo has a sense of humor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMec4_DZOp8
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    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    Undoubtedly shocking for the moths.
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    Glass Speakers

    Very cool looking and over 5 foot tall and over 3 feet wide. That's a resonating sculpture.
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    Outlook Auto Archiving

    My contact updates never take that long. 10 seconds at most.
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    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    I don't think so. What's the label say on the cream you've been applying? ps. I had to look up "notifiable". :)
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    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    I have had to replace iPhone3 screens which require removing the screws. And also I agree with Sol.
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    Outlook Auto Archiving

    Why would anyone want to maintain a central repository for their contacts that will sync wirelessly to their phone. That's just crazy! Yes, gmail will sync mail, calendar and contacts as it implements the activesync protocol but that anyone would want that is crazy. Just crazy!
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    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    I now have an iP4.
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    Beep Codes

    If had video during/after the beep then I would believe memory. If not then video. But, like Chewy says it is very dependent on the BIOS. The motherboard manual should give beep codes.
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    Third Party Batteries

    I did not realize you reset each battery; I thought you were just inserting it fully charged and going off the "time remaining" reading. Yeah, I would trust a battery reset.
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    Outlook Auto Archiving

    I believe there is an auto-archive setting on each folder that overrides the global setting by default. My information is a few years old and so may not be relevant.
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    Rain and flood

    Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant US historian (1885 - 1981)
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    Third Party Batteries

    I am actually finding a bunch of cheap batteries online matching my FRU that are only 4400mAh as compared to 4800. That's 91% of the original battery. Merc's runtime numbers of 2:45 and 3:15 come out to 85%. It's not close but not too far off. In order to hit the 91% mark the runtime numbers...
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    Third Party Batteries

    Are you fairly confident in the numbers you found?
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    Third Party Batteries

    Is there some sort of cd-based test suite for batteries? If there is I'll run it on my month old battery.
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