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  1. Howell

    Budget upgrade challenge

    You remember incorrectly. :) The 1.4G Tbird is rated for 72W. The P4 2G Est. max power dissipation is ~100W. Incidently, the 3000+ Barton is rated for 74W. Additionally, Interestingly, many of the P4 based celerons are rated for more than 74W and quite a few of the Xeons are rated for more...
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    Burt Rutan and space flight

    The story The ship looks kinda alien with all of those windows in the front. A picture
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    MP3 portable players

    I have decided to buy the Frontier Labs Nex IIe. I like that it accepts 2 AA batteries rather than a single AA or two AAA. I like that the CF memory is interchangable with my digicam. I is compatible with the IBM microdrive and "all future CF technologies". I like that it is light completely...
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    MP3 portable players

    I have two concerns with HD based models. One, that I will find the weight annoying when I'm running. A typical HD based model seems to weigh about 6.5oz(185g) as compared to 2.3oz(65g) for non-HD. Two, that the device will find the shock annoying when I'm running. :)
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    MP3 portable players

    Well, I've never owned one and I just started looking yesterday and I don't like making hasty decisions.
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    Not your Father's Cadillac

    Wlecome back, Joe. I've been considering low rolling resistance tires recently. I'm think the low friction coefficient benificial to reducing the rolling resistance while traveling would be detrimental under braking. I'm not aware of any uni-directionally low rolling resistance tires, or...
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    Not your Father's Cadillac

    Even this assessment is assuming a stable average price in gas over the 15 year period.
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    [NEWS] - Canterwood stumbles at the gate.

    I assumed that was a cut and paste from the source, ie. professional journalists. Sorry, I should learn to just keep my trap shut.
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    Not your Father's Cadillac

    If I have done my research right, 88 Acura Final drive ratio: 4.20 : 1 87 BMW Final drive ratio: 3.73 : 1 My impression is especially related to 1st gear. The vehicles are the same age with mine having more miles on it. So, the FDR was the big difference?
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    Poking fun at the grate leader

    The funniest stuff in life is the most absurd! I think it's pretty creative.
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    Better luck next time, Wings fans

    Ok, I admit to not following them to closely. I only vaguely remember that Bowman retired. BTW, are you aware of how many curent Wings played together as Blues? I started getting interested in hockey after I read an article about Hull and Oates playing for the Blues.
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    Not your Father's Cadillac

    I drove my cousin's '87 325 and I was disappointed after driving my car. It felt like it had no accelleration. I'm not sure I know how to read the specs but I'm guessing my car felt so much peppier because of the gearing. BMW http://www.geocities.com/empower99/specifications2.html ACURA...
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    Better luck next time, Wings fans

    Don't believe it! The Wings are as bump and bang as old Pistons teams. Bunch of thugs if you ask me. I'm pretty conflicted now in that I'm a huge Hull fan.
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    MP3 portable players

    I'm looking to buy a little MP3 player. I figure I need about 3-4 hours of playtime. I would like to take it running so small and light would be good. I presume using an HD for storage would be too suceptable to shock. I already have a digicam that takes compactflash but I'm open to other forms...
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    Building a perfect single CD for drivers

    A whole lot of modem and NIC drivers cause you can download a lot of small stuff from the 'net. An HTML page with urls to the locations of the drivers. + NTSP6a, SP3 for 2K, IE6
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    Anybody know Perl?

    If you'ld like to take a stab, ${swroot}/ddns/config contains #!/usr/bin/perl # # SmoothWall CGIs # # This code is distributed under the terms of the GPL # # (c) The SmoothWall Team close(STDIN); close(STDOUT); close(STDERR); require '/var/smoothwall/header.pl'; my %settings; my...
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    Not your Father's Cadillac

    I agree about the looks. Also the Chysler Crossfire is due to come out soon. Supposedly, It is the first vehicle born of the Daimler-Chrysler marriage.
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    [NEWS] - Canterwood stumbles at the gate.

    No, I had to read it three times as well to get the intended meaning. It would have been unambiguously writen as: Or the "apparantly" could go at the end of the sentence. No offence intended anyone, I'm just bored and nit-picky.
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    Australia to get SUV's

    What do they reclaim it from?
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    Anybody know Perl?

    I'm customising my smoothwall and contributing code. I know no perl. But, I've just figured out that there is a code difference between parrenthses and curly brackets despite how similar they look at high resolution.
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    [NEWS] - Canterwood stumbles at the gate.

    Three cheers for ambiguous grammer. And these people call themselves professionals.
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    Australia to get SUV's

    Would you go for 4-track drive?
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    Anybody know Perl?

    I think I have a syntax error.
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    Australia to get SUV's

    That's not a noife. This is a noife: For scale, the tires on the earthmover in the middle of the road are 12 feet tall.
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    Phoenix browser name change

    Sound like that particular town should change its name. I'm not sure I'd want to visit Assweasel, AZ.
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    Where's 2003 server?

    This is part of being self employed not a reseller persay. Pops is also a BA accountant. Small World(TM). Perhaps only a business license is required. I know I can not by from the local wholesaler with out a tax ID. Suffice to say the MS definition is quite liberal.
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    [REVIEW] CoolerMaster Aero 7

    Is it just me or does that thing look a little loud?
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    Where's 2003 server?

    What are the legalities of being a reseller? I'm not sure I have enough volume.
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    What's happening to this country (US)

    And so our non-US viewer can get the warm cuddlies: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8879
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    What's happening to this country (US)

    I think the new language added, "intent to defraud", is a signifigant step in the right direction. Now the burden of proof will be on the arresting agency. Some states have already passed more restrictive versions though. Of course, it seems that they can just haul you away for no reason at all...
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    Where's 2003 server?

    What is the cheapest way to legally get MS software to test drive for possible implementation?
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Yeah sometimes they are integrated. Clutz! Say no more. Actually, a little while after I posted I had the thought that some people might not be keen to tear into their own car. Then there is the whole issue of cost effectiveness.
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    Realtek AC97 SPDIF

    Maybe there is a jumper or software setting to reverse the two applications.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Lemme guess, the motor seems to make the proper noises (ie. it operates) but the glass does not respond. And the lemme also guess that the loud noise you heard was the window free falling to the bottom of the track. I have this problem currently. It used to be that the rear window motors did...
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    network connection question

    I agree. Or you could build a smoothie.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    FWIW, there will be an M6.
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    Speaking of which: http://www.sierratimes.com/03/02/28/arpubmg022803.htm
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    The first car I ever really wanted was a Scirocco 16V.
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    Outlook blues....

    Did you happen to look for a corelation with the people who had email addresses as well as fax numbers? Hopefully you get the gist, I'm to tired to word it correctly.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    I didn't mean to imply that I had ruled it out. Just talkin' is all. Actually, I've sat in a Passat I think and I was surprised to find it had enough room. And I like the look of the VWs. If I had to go buy a car today it would probably be a BMW 325/23 or maybe 318. If I was concerned about the...
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    Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc4 released.

    er.. not recently :oops:
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    Birthday

    Althought the domain name was not registered until Jan 22.
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    Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc4 released.

    Also, I imagine it shouldn't be too bad on dial-up since you are mainly downloading text files (the sources) and not binaries. Granted, I don't know how big the source files are but at least they benefit more from modem compression.
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    Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc4 released.

    And this is the very reason it takes so long to intstall. Since it installs just about everything from source it has to compile just about everything. I understand KDE is a particularly big program. Besides, the speed benefit Merc meantioned, the system used to install software is related to...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    I only log in as Cliptin if I'm at work, where I don't login automatically, and I forget. :-? I'm trying to decide if Iraq's disinformation minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf would get different treatment if he stood at the microphone with a sock on his hand. Somehow, I think not.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    I have also read that the Italians take the same attitude toward build quality as you describe for the Germans. Perhaps I'm using a unjust benchmark. I've been driving my Legend for 5 years now :o . I bought it for $3900 at 150,000 miles. Now, at 210,000 miles, my maintenance costs have been...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    For all those who say we don't get full reporting, I'd say you're right. NY TIMES
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    I may have to change my approach to these discussions. I had assumed that everyone was following the events from several news sources, both pro and con, and compiling an opinion from the various sources. After reviewing the responses in the thread, it seems not everyone is following the details...
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    I'm actually a Jetta and BMW 3-series fan like you. Whenever you get the time to take some more pictures be sure to let us know. No rush. :)
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    honold, You've got to get a full side view in daylight for proper comparison. You aren't a used car salesman by night are you. I will have to say that e_dawg has pretty much shied me away from any european automakers with his post sometime above. I guess it will be Japanese for me. Now which one.
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