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  1. mubs

    Any PMPs or Six Sigma Green/Black Belts here?

    Thanks for the response, folks. I've had my eye on getting PMP certification for a long time. I know I can pass all of the exam stuff; never a worry there (I'm not belittling the exam; just confident in myself). There's one very major glitch. They want at least 4 years of actual project mgmt...
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    Any PMPs or Six Sigma Green/Black Belts here?

    No, no, please don't tell me to use Google. TIA!
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    ghost readme.. good for a laugh

    Thanks, Merc & honold.
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    Certifications

    Congrats, JoJo! Good for you! LPI...Lines per inch. Care to educate the ignorant?
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    ghost readme.. good for a laugh

    Care to elucidate if it isn't too much of a bother?
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    headphone recommendations

    Come on guys, quit sniggering. What does Bose mean in your lingo?
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    How fast is your Internet connection?

    My service is 1500 max 384 guaranteed download, 128k upload. I typically get ~ 900kbps download :( This is with the local telco who provides both my DSL line and the internet access. I pay $40/month for the whole package for a 1-year commitment, got free DSL modem and filters. With the same...
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    headphone recommendations

    Prof: I don't know you well. But it seems strange to me that you would stick to the refrain that Bose is great. Some of us hold the contrary opinion. Experience counts. I know serveral people that bought into the Bose mystique and plunked down money for their speakers. When I heard them, they...
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    headphone recommendations

    You talking dirty again, honold? :lol:
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    headphone recommendations

    Jeeze, I made my comment before reading Merc's links!
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    headphone recommendations

    Bose has made and still makes plenty of lemons. Their marketing hype, mystique and image overshadows their product performance 50:1.
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    Please rip me off?

    A friend sent me the following via email. I don't agree with every bit, but it made me think and certainly laugh. I quote: Subject: Fw: Andy Rooney's tips - Telemarketers Andy Rooney's tips re. Telemarketers Three Little Words That Work !! (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."...
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    Frickin' techie miracle

    'Course not, Free - the PATA spec included this capability from day one. Buck really intended to say that Merc was going to hot swap an XP1700+ overclocked to 2700+. Not that there's any problem with that either.
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    Frickin' techie miracle

    Whatcha gonna do next, Merc? Walk on water?! :mrgrn:
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    Getting In Shape

    That was very beautiful and inspiring, jtr1962! Thank you for sharing and for so eloquently expressing what is so difficult to say.
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    Getting In Shape

    I read this stuff eons ago in an even older issue of Playboy. I don't know if there'd be a copyright problem; it's at least 23 years old. There was no PC around or copier handy, and I wrote all this down by hand -- a labor of love. Read it all, or it's no fun. There's a cadence/rythm to it...
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    Memory Upgrade : 256 MB Dimms on a P2L97

    I guess it depends on the chipset revisions, or when the board was made? I also have an Abit BH6, purchased soon after it was released, and it has only 3 DIMM slots, supports only 384MB. IIRC, it does support 256<B DIMMs.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    I love the way you guys phrase things here! I actually went to several car parts stores looking for those manuals that would tell me how so I could do it myself, but either this problem was not even mentioned or had something silly like "take off door panel, replace, put panel back on again"...
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    Memory Upgrade : 256 MB Dimms on a P2L97

    I have 4 x 256 MB Crucial non-ECC, non-registered PC133 sticks running in my Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL 440BX board. Stable as the Rock of Gibraltar.
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Blake, thanks for the detailed info! Basically, I shopped around like crazy, calling on the phone. The dealer wanted to replace the assembly + motor for ~ $340+. All others, including AAA approved, said labor would range from ~ $90 to $200, with parts extra, and no clue as to how much the parts...
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Sorry to hear about the clutch, tim. Noise is relative. My '94 Camry is significantly quieter than my wife's '99 Civic LX, which has unbearable (for me) noise (road & wind) and harshness levels. We don't listen to any music in it, and have to shout at each other. But compared to your Jeep, it's...
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    System Builders, note: AMD launches Opteron white box system

    At the Inquirer.
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    Why not power peripherals off the PC power supply?

    Shocking, I say! Absolutely shocking!
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    Polar Bear attacks Submarine

    New menace to wildlife!
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Absolutely. That was the reason for my comment that I felt that Hondas were sluggish. 99% of my driving is in the city. And in CA, where you have to merge into a bunch of banshees flashing by, it's painful to drive a sluggish vehicle. My car is a '94 Camry V6 Automatic with 160k miles (it's the...
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Merc, Fushigi already said everything there is to say, but in a nutshell, reliability & warranty + safety & efifciency. While this is not automatically true for every new car purchased, with a little bit of care in the selection, these objectives can easily be achieved. And honestly, I think a...
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    Pre-Sale: Asus nforce2

    I've got to harass somebody,right (ask honold, he'll tell you :mrgrn:) Thanks for helping out, Steve! Thanks, Howell. People sometimes seem to paint me in blacks and whites (mostly black) while my conviction is that it's all gray, different shades of it. And for the record, I'm not anti-govt...
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    Pre-Sale: Asus nforce2

    You're the biggest waste out there. With the sway you have over words, you ought to be writing, man. (shakes head in disgust at talent wasted)
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    Ever wanted to know the thoughts of car fans?

    Looks way cool, Doug! And I'm sure it has better than the fabulous Honda handling. Enjoy, and post your comments back!
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    The motherboard to car analogy project

    I've always wondered about the "e pox" name. Yeah, they're not a Western country, but still.
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    Linux newbie can't install Mandrake 9.0

    Gosh! I didn't know I could do that, zx! If I did, I would have tried that for sure. Lol, one learns something new everyday! Thanks, pal! In a side note, I installed FreeBSD 4.8 late last night in a VM, and boy, is that sucker fast! I had to pretty much short-cut the install (had to shut...
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    Chattanooga Flood Pictures

    Why're you having power probs, Merc? I thought power in the U.S. was something you took for granted - like the air we breathe.
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    Windows XP IDE fix

    Yes, according to the KB article.
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    Linux newbie can't install Mandrake 9.0

    For the umpteenth time. I'm trying to install in VMWare 4.0, from my Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM drive (which has worked flawlessly so far). Virtual m/cs in VMware use the BX chipset (which is what my real m/c is anyway!). I first downloaded the .iso files from an unofficial mirror (which I found on...
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    [NEWS] Toshiba To Show Off Blue-Laser Drive

    You proved what I suspected all along, Blake! If it's got Bismuth in it, it's got to be pink......
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    Getting In Shape

    Oh, would you, please, honold, please???? You're such a sweet guy!
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    Software Licensing for charity

    See Techbargains for a bunch of deals. There's a closeout on Lexmark printers at Dartek. I believe the limit is 5 rebates per address.
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    Getting In Shape

    Honold, I hear what you're saying and don't diasagree with it. But there's something more, isn't there? I'm no expert on health and dieting. But what little I do know says that the body has a preference for fat over muscle. When you starve (almost to death) for instance, it will use up muscles...
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    Getting In Shape

    Honold, congrats, you're that 1 in 10 million that can lose weight without exercise! I could do it at will when I was younger; but you'll find that as you grow older and the blubber settles in it's not that easy any more. Besides mild exercise is beneficial in other ways like keeping your heart...
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    Recommendations on good books to read

    Tuesdays with Morrie
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    Getting In Shape

    Only because you believe it so be so. Eating in moderation is a good beginning, but more important is some kind of regular physical activity. That will "wake up" your metabolism and get your internal gear running more efficiently. For a person that "abhors physical activity of any kind", the...
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    Spring Time

    Beautiful! Thanks!
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    Nero 5.5.x.y and DVD Video

    And thanks, Merc!
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    Nero 5.5.x.y and DVD Video

    Tell me you're joking, Blake. Isn't Little Mermaid animated?
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    All-Day Portable Power (to come)

    Ha ha, you guys is funny! I hadta put in dat disclaimer; somebody *ahem* complained tvice in a row abote me last coupla links.
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    Nero 5.5.x.y and DVD Video

    What does "pops a boner" mean? Sorry for being naive. :oops:
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    So, um, where is everyone?

    So vatcha doin there, fella?
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    All-Day Portable Power (to come)

    Here. Varning: That's at Business 2.0. Bevare of pop-ups, unders and the like.
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    Getting In Shape

    We all are. If we'll only try. We humans are unique creatures. For thousands of years, we've had the same exact set of problems. Yet each one us thinks our problems are unique in the world, and are insurmountable. Show me one human being who doesn't feel they're deprived in some way. Those that...
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    2003 Server

    All good things must come to an end?
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