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    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    pradeep expressed reservation at using paper as a wedge out of concern that it might catch fire. lunar understated that if it were hot enough in there to burn paper, the drive will not last long. My response was an implied, "No shit. :) The ignition point of paper is 451 degrees C; not much is...
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    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    Are you trying to tell me you think hard drives are sexy "hot"? And what exactly would "burn" mean? :)
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    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    Are you trying to tell me you think hard drives are sexy (hot)? And what exactly would "burn" mean? :)
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    iPhone syndrome

    Competiton is good. Your daughter has which one?
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    Happy Easter Folks

    He is not here, He is risen.
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    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    Fahrenheit 451 is not just a book. That's in Celsius.
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    Something Random

    Heh, my favorite dream car growing up was the Ford GT40. I still have dreams of building an electric replica.
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    English Is Our Language... Learn It

    The available research indicates your blame is misplaced.
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    Most recent system for Windows NT4.

    +1 You could also use XP as an the base OS since you are more familiar with it.
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    Who runs this place?

    Fixed.
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    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    Your gf didn't eat the crap convenience food we have for the majority of his life either.
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    Something Random

    The child of a friend of mine was allowed to have OJ without brushing before bed. Good thing he has another set coming in.
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    Something Random

    Last time I was at the dentist they warned me to stay away from the hard bristled brushes. Said they don't clean any better but wear the teeth down. I hadn't really thought of that before.
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    Something Random

    Possibly friends of friends of friends. Possibly adcadet allows FB to access his email contact list.
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    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    That.
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    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    For anyone interested: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution airs 8PM tonight on ABC. http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution
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    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    What does that mean in Oz? 'Cause that means something different in the US.
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    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    I can sympathize though it still requires UI design time to find the place to put that x-tab and make it look right.
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    Something Random

    No concern for firearms and bodily harm?
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    Who runs this place?

    Yeah, but considering their longest running logo was a surprised tiger in a circle Coug and I didn't guess too badly. :D
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    Something Random

    It depends how often the ejection nozzles are cleaned. Sugar promotes bacterial growth and there will be some on some parts of the equipment. They could have a water only cleaning cycle at night or even flush hydrogen peroxide though.
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    Something Random

    That's awesome! For everyone I know who has had significant weight loss eliminating soft-drinks has played a significant part. I am unfortunately moving in the opposite direction.
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    Something Random

    There's a chemical reason for that. http://www.learn-about-tea.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup.html
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    Online backup

    I recommend choosing someone that will allow you to mail them media to seed the first backup. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes."
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    Who runs this place?

    I had thought Detroit tigers but the color scheme is wrong.
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    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    I have a Plantronics bluetooth headset that works fine with the voice recognition on my phone.
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    dSLR thread

    I could be interested in the Rebel or something else Canon based that might be left over from the game of musical cameras.
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    Reliable FW 800 Card, PCI or PCIe

    I have one I don't need. I'd have to check on the speed. Interesteed?
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    Cable Modemery

    I've never felt as much the dunce as to read this chat and have no idea what it means. : )
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    Thunderbird 3

    Good luck with that. Sometimes people are more ambiguous than they think they are. As you've noted; overuse of pronouns are a big part of that.
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    Thunderbird 3

    I prefer my business communication to have the deliverables up front with as little background as necessary. An executive summary if you will. A full explanation could follow. And since we are posting real examples: What happens when a company changes ISPs and no one checked to make sure that...
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    Thunderbird 3

    And how many subject line characters does it take to be thorough?! It must look like Sufjan Stevens song titles! I really hate that. It really screws with the information management forcing me to use search rather than scanning subject lines. I mean its not like you are waiting weeks for...
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    Thunderbird 3

    Dammit, late to the party again ; ) Top posting just makes sense. Maybe should design mail clients to start at the bottom. It makes for a good punchline but horrible readibility.
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    Thunderbird 3

    I use Thunderbird. Once a quarter or so I open it up and verify that my Gmail contacts have been successfully backed up. Otherwise I use the Gmail or mobile Gmail interface heavily and extensively. I haven't had a client that needed a POP3/IMAP client in a long time. I don't even feel bad...
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    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    No YOU! 10char
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    Interview prospective peers

    : ( Late to the party as usual.
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    Interview prospective peers

    And to reduce confusion further its full name is ISO/OSI model.
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    Interview prospective peers

    I guess I never saw this. It depends on the experience. Setting up a Citrix farm is not the same as administrating a farm. If an admin has 5 years of administration I would expect that admin to have setup a test farm and built it up to a working environment from scratch. But the admin likely...
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    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    I see what you did there.
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    Something Random

    I thought the minimum length for CAT cables was ~3m due to reflections. Has this changed?
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    Twitter..wtf?!?...do U tweet?

    Or do you actually mean "been arrested for crimes"?
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    Twitter..wtf?!?...do U tweet?

    You mean you are out with a lady friend and some other lady mistakes you for her man and assaults you out of jealousy AND mistaken identity. :p
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    Swapping Laptops

    You might get better results with using some virtualization and transport the VM back and forth.
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    PSYCHO CLIENT

    BEST POST EVER!
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    Change search page for bad URL

    FWIW, dlinksearch.com seems to be utilizing opendns. Domain Name: DLINKSEARCH.COM Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC. Whois Server: whois.moniker.com Referral URL: http://www.moniker.com/whois.html Name Server: AUTH1.OPENDNS.COM Name Server: AUTH2.OPENDNS.COM Name...
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    Council rates

    Additionally, there are the companies out there burning chip wood and other manufacturing scrap occasionally backfeeding into the grid. Also, its probably already been meantioned but the ability to upgrade efficiency, either power generation or environmental protection, is far easier at a...
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    USB flash drive recovery

    As a last resort quick format followed by data recovery?
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    Something Random

    +1
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    Passive FTP on IIS7

    But when the windows firewall is turned off the field to specify ports is non-active. Luckily I ended up not needing it.
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    Passive FTP on IIS7

    We'll chalk this one up to the fact that MS FTP client still doesn't do passive mode and Cisco SPI removes the need to manually specify the data ports and its been 5 years since I set up an FTP server. Hard to keep up with all this change.....
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