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hooah posted:Is it normal to have to power cycle my cable modem and/or router once or twice a week? My internet keeps going out. No. Do a bit of troubleshooting by checking the routers functions and ask here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=170
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DVD Drive posted:What's that thing that happens to some Jews where when they're talking their voice sometimes gets lower and it sounds almost like they're yawning? Is it some kind of disorder? I'd love to see a clip of an example. Israeli Jews? New Yorker Jews? Russian Jews?
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Feb 25, 2011 05:45
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hooah posted:Is it normal to have to power cycle my cable modem and/or router once or twice a week? My internet keeps going out. are you with comcast, and you use a bittorrent client?
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Is there a better mp3 manager than MediaMonkey? I've been using it for quite a while and now I am kind of sick of it. The interface is really clunky and if I add 50 songs it could take me over an hour making sure everything is labeled properly.
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Drevoak posted:Is there a better mp3 manager than MediaMonkey? I've been using it for quite a while and now I am kind of sick of it. The interface is really clunky and if I add 50 songs it could take me over an hour making sure everything is labeled properly. Define "mp3 manager." If you want a free, well-organized, lightweight, easy to use music organizer and player, I recommend foobar2000. If you want something that does all of that and can sync to your mp3 device, then give Mozilla Songbird a spin. I'm not sure how good it is for doing that though, but Mozilla products tend to be pretty solid.
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I'm looking for the ID on the song deatures at 22:28 on this nifty little compilation I saw on Reddit: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/1-Singles-Through-the-Years-Five-Second-Version-3242 It's one of those songs you can't go a year without hearing somehow, but I just have a bunch of garbled nothing when I recall the chorus in my mind. Anyone know what is is. That thing says "5 seconds of every number one" when the song I want to ID is only like a second 
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John Q Russia posted:I'm looking for the ID on the song deatures at 22:28 on this nifty little compilation I saw on Reddit: Mama Told Me Not to Come, Three Dog Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4
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thelightguy posted:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101016104847AAmIvwk Gotcha. I appreciate the effort you put into getting the idea into my thick head head. I thought others had taken up the slack, but instead everyone has stopped doing that now. This, I did not know. Amazon Payments will be added to my other choices (Google Checkout, Paypal)
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Gravity Pike posted:Mama Told Me Not to Come, Three Dog Night Thank you Gravity Pike! That was bothering me.
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Feb 25, 2011 07:19
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When you were a kid, did you ever feel disappointed to receive a product that was labelled 'Brand Name: For Kids!' as if you were just given the crappy version of whatever that thing was?
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Feb 25, 2011 08:00
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:No. How would I go about checking router functions? I'm running DD-WRT. redreader posted:are you with comcast, and you use a bittorrent client? Time Warner, through Roadrunner, and yes I am using a bittorrent client.
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Feb 25, 2011 08:34
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Mak0rz posted:Define "mp3 manager." Foobar2k is an all around awesome media player though, low resource, fully (ridiculously) customizable, and I'm sure has a few options for iPod Sync as well as library management.
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hooah posted:How would I go about checking router functions? I'm running DD-WRT. I have the same problem if it makes you feel better, though not as frequent (usually, though it can be worse), and a friend who has Roadrunner who's reported similar problems from time to time.
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About the router/net connection issue: I have it when I torrent and when I don't torrent it doesn't happen. It seems to happen (for me) when I'm on cable. I've used the same router on ADSL before and never had that problem, but when I switched to comcast this problem started appearing. Reset my router and modem and it's all ok until I start torrenting again. I suspect it's the ISP detecting that I'm torrenting, and killing my connection.
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Feb 25, 2011 09:49
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redreader posted:I suspect it's the ISP detecting that I'm torrenting, and killing my connection. That's exactly right, though they've lost a court battle on this matter, I believe it's still in appeals. Try googling "comcast torrent fix".
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Feb 25, 2011 09:51
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DVD Drive posted:Is there a website where you can set up a list of tv shows you want to know when their next season will start, instead of having to check each show's Wikipedia page or whatever? I use followmy.tv and it's pretty good.
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Are the Haribo gummy soda bottles supposed to smell like feet that've been bathed in rc cola?
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revolther posted:Just to clarify things, Songbird is in no way a Mozilla product. It's developed by a fluctuating group of extension developers that go by the name "Pioneers of the Inevitable". It's a glorified set of media player/manager/iPod sync extensions skinned & shoehorned into Firefox's liberal plugin system. It's pretty bloated, has the normal Firefox memory leak problems, and crapperware in most ways. Dang, wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the heads up. For the record though, Firefox doesn't have a memory leak anymore as far as I know. Yes, it eats up more memory with continuous use, but it's intentional and for caching reasons and can be disabled entirely.
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Can you get a ticket for backing into a parking space on private property? I know you can on public property but a friend was telling me that "once there is a sign" you can't do anything about it. So if there is a sign in a lot that says no silver cars and you park your silver car there you can get ticketed/towed?
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b0nes posted:Can you get a ticket for backing into a parking space on private property? I know you can on public property but a friend was telling me that "once there is a sign" you can't do anything about it. So if there is a sign in a lot that says no silver cars and you park your silver car there you can get ticketed/towed? I've never seen a ticket from such a thing, but you can certainly get towed. And then paying to retrieve your car from the tow lot might end up costing more than a ticket would have.
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b0nes posted:Can you get a ticket for backing into a parking space on private property? I know you can on public property but a friend was telling me that "once there is a sign" you can't do anything about it. So if there is a sign in a lot that says no silver cars and you park your silver car there you can get ticketed/towed? My understanding is that if you get towed on private property, you can just go and retrieve your car because you didn't authorize the tow. (This doesn't count for city handicapped parking on private property.) And you can't get a ticket.
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redreader posted:About the router/net connection issue: I have it when I torrent and when I don't torrent it doesn't happen. It seems to happen (for me) when I'm on cable. I've used the same router on ADSL before and never had that problem, but when I switched to comcast this problem started appearing. Reset my router and modem and it's all ok until I start torrenting again. I suspect it's the ISP detecting that I'm torrenting, and killing my connection. On cable it's easier to build up more connections which can clog up your router's memory too. And once that happens, your connection will go to poo poo until the memory gets cleared out, usually by power cycling. Consider upgrading to a newer router, it really should help.
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I have a 8' x 3' window in my bedroom loft. It has blinds, but in the morning the sun just goes right through them. What do you think the most cheapest and efficient way to cover up the window would be? I'm thinking of buying sheets of construction papers but I need a second opinion.
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fishmech posted:On cable it's easier to build up more connections which can clog up your router's memory too. And once that happens, your connection will go to poo poo until the memory gets cleared out, usually by power cycling. This is the most likely scenario if the router is failing only when torrenting. An easy way to diagnose this is to observe your max upload (download a torrent with a lot of seeds and peers) and then set your max upload to ~50% and/or find your setting for maximum connections and half it. Cable modems are notorious for this with torrents. ChubbyEmoBabe fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Feb 25, 2011 |
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Busy Bee posted:I have a 8' x 3' window in my bedroom loft. It has blinds, but in the morning the sun just goes right through them. What do you think the most cheapest and efficient way to cover up the window would be? I'm thinking of buying sheets of construction papers but I need a second opinion. If you don't care about how it looks; tin foil is the tweaker approved way to block out 100% of light.
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Busy Bee posted:I have a 8' x 3' window in my bedroom loft. It has blinds, but in the morning the sun just goes right through them. What do you think the most cheapest and efficient way to cover up the window would be? I'm thinking of buying sheets of construction papers but I need a second opinion. The simplest solution is to buy a large, somewhat dark, bedsheet. If your window is mounted within a steel or iron frame within the wall (usually covered by plaster or some drywall) all you need to put it on is a set of decently strong magnets, too.
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Busy Bee posted:I have a 8' x 3' window in my bedroom loft. It has blinds, but in the morning the sun just goes right through them. What do you think the most cheapest and efficient way to cover up the window would be? I'm thinking of buying sheets of construction papers but I need a second opinion. I had the same problem in my bedroom. I ended up buying some frosted window tint for bathroom windows from the hardware store for like $14 and putting it up in the window. It looks great and really diffuses the light enough for the blinds to be effective. It's not blacked out but definitely dimmer.
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redreader posted:My question is about USA and 'freedom of speech'. As far as I can tell, the only difference between USA and other first world countries is that some speech is classified 'hate speech' in other countries, that you can say in the USA. WBC would not be legal in most first world countries. Is that the only difference? I mean, you can say you 'loving hate the queen' or whatever in the UK and I don't think it's illegal, is it? In Germany you can definitely get a ticket for calling a police officer "a loving nazi" and such. I think tickets go up to a couple thousand dollars too if I remember right.
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Busy Bee posted:I have a 8' x 3' window in my bedroom loft. It has blinds, but in the morning the sun just goes right through them. What do you think the most cheapest and efficient way to cover up the window would be? I'm thinking of buying sheets of construction papers but I need a second opinion. Judging by the fact that you're thinking of buying construction paper, I imagine you don't give a gently caress how it looks. Dark contact paper works but will be a bitch to remove. You can get light-blocking curtains fairly cheap at Wal-mart or Target if you don't want it to look like a drug den, though.
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What FLAC>MP3 converters are out there for free? Any google searches point to actual FLAC to MP3 converting programs, but they cost 30$ after you do your "3 Free Conversions". Im sure theres some small program out there that does this conversion and more, for the dirt low price of free. Does any program come to mind?
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Off the top of my head, Audacity will open FLAC files and lets you save as mp3s. It's all opensource freeware, though I think you have to download the free LameMP3 plugin separately
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Avocadoes posted:What FLAC>MP3 converters are out there for free? Any google searches point to actual FLAC to MP3 converting programs, but they cost 30$ after you do your "3 Free Conversions". Im sure theres some small program out there that does this conversion and more, for the dirt low price of free. Does any program come to mind? foobar2000 can do this, but as revolther stated you have to get the lame codec separately.
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We have an old Sony Trinitron kv32fx65u TV and we're trying to find out the weight of it for a new TV stand. I can't find the information for it anywhere. It's a big, huge thing and it weighs a shitload but that's not really exact enough! Can anyone tell me where on earth we can find this information out?
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I've got a blog on Wordpress (pretty small, mostly friends who read it), and this last week I've been getting referrals from URL shortening sites, which I've never had before. What gives?
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Rathen posted:We have an old Sony Trinitron kv32fx65u TV and we're trying to find out the weight of it for a new TV stand. I can't find the information for it anywhere. It's a big, huge thing and it weighs a shitload but that's not really exact enough! Can anyone tell me where on earth we can find this information out?
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Yeah, around 145 pounds.
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Is there an online thesaurus out there that actually gives you words that have the same suffix as the word you put in? For instance, if I searched for 'having', I'd want it to show me 'possessing', instead of reducing it to 'have' and showing me 'possess'.
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elbow posted:I've got a blog on Wordpress (pretty small, mostly friends who read it), and this last week I've been getting referrals from URL shortening sites, which I've never had before. I don't know what's going on exactly, but going to a couple of those shortened links goes to some dodgy websites rather than your blog.
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Does anyone have any information on a Fisher Price set called Educational Blocks Step 3? The only thing I could find on the web was a site that told me what came in the box and about the name change. http://www.thisoldtoy.com/l_fp_set/toy-pages/0-99/79-Young-Bldrs-blocks.html Everything except the box it came in has never been exposed so the pieces are still the way they were they day they shipped out. I'm trying to scrape enough money to get by so I thought I might try and sell it if it's worth anything.
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I have a philosophical question: If someone is an atheist, and they don't believe in a supreme being or an afterlife, or maybe they don't identify themselves as belonging in a certain group as believing in anything, then what is the point of living or trying to live a long life? Your memories will turn to dirt. If you live to see your great grandchildren, you get pleasure from it, and your grandchildren will get pleasure from it too, but after you die they will be sad for a little while but when they die that chapter ceases to exist. There is no difference in the life of a 15 year old who dues or a 115 year old who dies because death is a guarantee. The difference is in the lives your presence changes, either good or bad. I am not trying to be morbid or e/n or anything like that. The idea just popped in my head this morning.
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