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  1. Qyöt27

    Overlooked positions

    This can be about either spiritual or political positions. We know the big things that liberals and progressives tend to support, but sometimes it's smaller, less visible issues that get really interesting. For instance, I'm in favor of having a nationally-recognized complementary currency...
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    Anyone have experience with vertical mice?

    For the last few days, my old, trusty optical mouse has been acting up - lagging, deactivating itself (and either taking 15-20 seconds to reconnect or forcing me to unplug it and plug it back in), disconnecting and reconnecting, etc. I figure it's probably because after nearly 12 years of heavy...
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    Microsoft open-sources .NET under MIT License, officially supports it on Linux

    [Phoronix] Microsoft To Open-Source .NET, Bring It Officially To Linux https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet I saw this a couple days ago, figured it would be an interesting discussion here :P. So I'm assuming this means that Mono is now pretty much useless, except maybe as an...
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    How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes Onto a DVD

    How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes Onto a DVD : Discovery News Now, the trick is to combine this with those Millenniata discs that use inorganic dye and don't degrade. They've got some of their disc storage values mixed up, though. They note that a Blu-ray disc can store 50GB, which is true only if...
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    Hard drive mounting brackets

    So as part of what will probably be a recycling of the iMac my parents no longer have use for (mainly because its screen died), there's a spectacularly high chance of me taking the HDD out of it, wiping it, and using it for secondary storage. It'd effectively double the hard drive space inside...
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    A bit of election mirth...

    I present for your consideration: America Daitōryō Senkyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To quote, For anyone wondering, the Family Computer (or Famicom), is the original Japanese name and configuration for the NES. The game was published just before the 1988 election, and...
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    Information about Last Rites

    My grandfather passed away Sunday night, and because he was Catholic we were trying on Saturday to contact a priest to come. We asked again on Sunday morning when we went to visit, and at that point the priest still hadn't gotten there - but he did shortly after we'd left. Since we weren't...
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    Order of Worship

    Something of a light-hearted thread I thought up this morning. A thread to post your church's order of worship for that day. I know many people probably chuck the bulletin once they get home or hand it back so the paper can be recycled, but this could be interesting to just compare and...
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    We really need to lighten the mood

    So I present this: Cravendale - Cats with Thumbs - YouTube
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    How eclectic are your music tastes?

    So I was searching for a way to do a word cloud diagram with my last.fm data. Didn't really find quite what I was looking for, but did find a site with a rudimentary form of it. anthony.liekens.net » Last.fm scripts » User tag clouds The cloud thing isn't as exciting as it could be, but...
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    Tarping your roof

    Has anyone ever done this to reduce their electric bill? Specifically, a white or similarly light-colored tarp to reflect sunlight and keep the interior of the house cool, requiring less energy to run the air conditioner, etc. Our air conditioner is in dire need of servicing or replacement...
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    Arranging columns in a text file

    Or more specifically, doing that using Unix utilities, not a spreadsheet program. Say I have the following in a single text file: #!/bin/bash -x lame --decode "file1.mp3" " faad "file2.mp4" -o " faad "file3.mp4" -o " file1.wav" file2.wav" file3.wav" I want to take line numbers 6-8...
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    "Finish the lyric" game

    The rules are simple. Poster #1 posts one line of a lyric (and can optionally give a hint as to the song's genre, if they think it to be too obscure), then poster #2 has to post the second half and the Artist/Song Title. Then, poster #2 posts one line of a new song, and so on. I'll start...
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    MyAnimeList

    Because I want to let the old thread on this rest in peace, I started a new one. qyot27's Profile - MyAnimeList.net
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    Some rather fitting music...

    I was notified of this free Christmas sampler on last.fm. Figured I'd throw the notice out. http://www.rottweilerrecords.com/ Fair warning: this is mostly of the harder persuasion. Goth, Industrial, various types of Metal, Punk, and also some other light-hearted stuff (like track #9). Due...
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    Dual/Triple Channel RAM and price?

    I was perusing Newegg the other day and noticed something I was unsure about. Based on what the Wikipedia articles on Dual and Triple channel RAM architectures say, I presume that as long as you buy identical sticks of RAM (same size, speed, and type, perhaps more importantly same Product #)...
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    What operating systems do you use?

    Yay, another recurring topic. As the title says. As for myself: Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux (beginning with 5.10; currently using 10.10). I've also played around with other Linux distributions such as Fedora and Sabayon, and use OS X and Vista frequently enough. I also occasionally try...
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    You know, ...

    ...I would be fine with Raisin Bran if it weren't for the raisins.
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    20 random songs

    We've not done this in a while. Put your playlist on shuffle and post 20 songs that come up. 1. Mexican Institute of Sound - "Yo Digo Baila" 2. The Swimmers - "Hundred Hearts" 3. Michael Lynche - "Miss You" (American Idol Studio Version) 4. Jay J - "Every Road" 5. Tony! Toni! Toné! - "If I Had...
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    Favorite song lyrics

    Pick a memorable line from a song and post it. Those kind of one-off lyrics that tend to stick with you whether you remember the rest of the song or not, those that you find interestingly phrased, those with some personal connection, or just ones that stick out as hilariously bad, funny...