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If you're gonna do the quality headphones road I'd suggest you look at Grado headphones as well as Sennheiser. Grado's look like they're from 1940 still but they're some of the most highly regarded headphones around, I have a 8 year old SR80 and they still sound amazing for $100. Only downfall of the Grados is they're low(32 ohm) impedance, and you probably won't get much volume with intergrated/onboard sound - some add-on sound cards will drive them just fine tho. Or just buy/make a $20 headphone amp

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My ISP still hosts a usenet/nntp server, tho they have been threatening to get rid of it for years. It's rather nice as I can pull a full 50MBit/s down from it. I use the now sourceforged MicroPlanet Gravity reader which has support for yEnc'ed files.

Use this, Anti-Virus software usually deletes it on sight to either disable it or add it to the exclude list. You'll also need to know what type of licensing Office was purchased with. If it was pre-loaded at the factory or purchased as a Medialess Licence Kit(MLK) you can download it again. If it was purchased retail you'll need to find a retail CD/DVD to reinstall it. Office 2010 MLK Download Office 2007 MLK Download EDIT: If you want your autocomplete file - the one that when you start typing in an email address it automatically fills in the rest - you'll need your .nk2 file. It can live in various places depending on the version of Office and the version of Windows.

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Disappoint I am - the demo is very locked down super linear with like 15 minutes of play for a 5.4GB download. Makes the game look fun tho, just lame 5.4G demo that you can't really do anything in.

You do know that the 802.11ac stuff is out right? The replacement for 802.11n, that is. Most of the 802.11ac routers start at $130 or so now, offering 1300Mbit/s+ connection speeds for a 2x2 MIMO unit, if you're gonna buy you might want to spend the little extra and get the newest(still to be ratified, however) standards.

Actually if you just go to the Bleeping Computers forums someone will walk you through the removal process for free, you may even get me as I'm one of the helpers. If you're more confident in yourself here's some tools commonly used by myself and on the forums. Hijackthis - The old classic, very useful for quick tune ups along with MSConfig(Windows Key + R, type "msconfig", press enter) IceSword - Anti-rootkit, useful for when things like ComboFix won't run gmer - Anti-rootkit, same one combofix uses (catchme.sys), useful on the hard stuff TDSSKiller - kaspersky's 0Access/TDSS remover - doesn't catch all the variants but does a decent job. Select the unsigned drivers option to give you a quick list of drivers that can be gone through to make sure they're valid adn signed. RogueKiller - French, this fixes some of the TDSS/0Access variants - one of the newer ones that doesn't create a hidden partition, also fixes the infections that like to mark every file hidden(Often seen with Trojan.FakeHDD). OTL - Link with info page, as stated like HiJackthis on steroids Gparted - A bootable CD/USB partition editor - useful for the TDSS/0Access variants that create a hidden, bootable, non-deletable partition. Usually less than 10MB and visible on diskmgmt.msc Delete the TDSS partition, set the windows bootable, then run TDSS killer. rkill - Kills many known malware processes allowing you to remove them, very useful for stuff that still starts in safe mode unhide - Useful after a Trojan.FakeHDD infection as many of the varients set every file as hidden, Roguekiller can do it too Nirsoft.net - So many free tools, many useful in windows active directory enviroments, favorite include ProduKey - pulls license keys for many microsoft products, network compatible. AsteriskLogger, WirelessPassView, MailPV, SniffPass, and more, all password recovery tools, anti-virus tends to delete all them so disable it. ShellExView allows you delete stuff out of your right click content menus, very cool. USBDevice, lets you view USB devices and set drivers, useful for Android rooting. NK2Edit - lets you edit, import, export, etc the Outlook auto-complete files, very useful as users are often times idiots and use autocomplete for their contacts and it doesn't get backed up. Lots of other cool stuff too. Process Explorer - Sysinteral's best utilty, great for performance issues and finding file permission problems, and infections. Plenty of tutorials on the web. Rootkit Revealer - Sysinternal's rootkit utility, bit dated these days but I still use it now and then. WinDGB - Microsoft's now obsoleted official debugging tools. Wanna analyze a BSOD and have a crash dump, here is how you do it. Plenty of tutorials on the web for it. PSTools - Sysinternal's command line utility. Lets you run any binary on any computer in a domain environment, including remote command prompt. Very useful with NirSoft's NirCMD, use these two all the time. Malware Byte's Antimalware(MBAM) - The cat's meow, removes all sorts of infections, paid for version optional. Run this after ComboFix. CCleaner - Great for removing temporary files, you can use the registry section if you want, not really needed. Defraggler - Great replacement for the windows defragger, run msconfig, ccleaner, remove all your restore points, and run defraggler, general tune-up with just that. NoScript - This stops all JavaScript/Flash/etc from running without being allowed first, available on Firefox and Chrome. People who get repeat infections get this, plus some training on using it. Blocks 90% of PEBKEC infections with five minutes of training. ntpasswd - Bootable CD that lets you reset windows password, doesn't work for Active Directory/Domain password. ntregopt - Reduces the size of the registery, rarely used these days as only Win9x/ME had issues with large hives. Every once in a blue moon I'll seen an XP machine where the software hive has grown over 150MB and I'll run ccleaner to remove dead links and ntregopt to actually reduce the size of the hive. Also has ERUNT, which is a scriptable utility for backing up/restoring all of the hives, used by ComboFix. YUMI - Easy way to create a bootable USB drive with multiple boot options, including booting multiple ISOs and Windows Vista/7 installers. McAffee, Norton, AVG removal tools - Seems like half the time Norton won't clean uninstall itself on a clean machine, on an infected machine lots of AV software will fail the builtin uninstaller or it won't run from Safe mode. nlite - Lets you take an XP .iso and ripout services, languages, drivers, and insert drivers, service packs, hotfixes, etc. The XP .iso for my work laptop is 203MB, 13 running processes on boot. There is also vLite for Vista which *kinda* of works for Windows 7 as well. Angry IP Scanner - Great little IP scanner, quick, tiny, most AV software deletes it on sight. SpaceMonger - Great free visual file size utility - lots of other free ones out there that review better but I've been using this one for years and it's only 100KB. Side note, if you disable your antivirus and run ComboFix and it fails to finish, you're just about guaranteed to be infected If you do use it, consider making a donation, the guy spends a ridiculous amount of time keeping it up to date and working.

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So... is anyone else excited for this? If you've played the original it keeps the real-time geoscape view, and the turn based isometric combat. The videos/screen look awesome, and from the way it's going if you pre-purchase you'll get Civilization 5 too. If you haven't played the original it's called XCOM: UFO Defense and it's available on steam for $5, and it's frikken awesome if you can deal with the fact it's from '95.

Nope, lost the right half of my right eyebrow when I hit sand on my Raleigh doing about 35 mph, lost the rear end and hit face first into the pavement losing a portion of the eyebrow/cracked eye socket. Followed it up when a year later I was bombing a down a large hill on my old Trek 1000 going a good 40mph and a spoke broke on the rear wheel deforming it, when the deformed section of the rim hit the brakes the wheel taco'ed(exploded) and I went over the bars face first into concrete splitting open the exact same scar on my right eyebrow. Both times I was riding clipless and the bike dragged me along with it as I didn't get out in time. EDIT: Added the "weird" geeky stuff I do I have over 2,000 wikipedia edits and handful of barnstars and typically spend 25 hours a week reading wiki and making changes. I have been an active contributor to FreeBSD for 13 years now. I have a large antique computer/game console collection, with a Texas Instruments TI-990/12 being the most rare of the computers - a half rack miniframe with 2MB of SRAM, complete with Nixie style LEDs for address/data indicators, a 16 key hex input panel, a big green "GO" button and big red "STOP" button, and original 240k bill of sale plus 900k ram upgrade/serial port bill of sale. Recent acquired a working 8" HDD for it and 1/4" OS tapes, looking for a TiBus ethernet card for it now. Most rare from the game consoles would be my RCA Studio II Home TV Programmer complete with all games in boxes with manuals. The CPU used in the RCA was made via "Silicon on Sapphire" which made it radiation resistant - Voyager I used the exact same odd little RISCish CPU. Also I am a dork.

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It worked as in just about every motherboard out there you have to populate Channel A, Slot 1, with the largest DIMM in the set you're going to be using. If you would have checked your motherboard manual usually they have a memory population table showing supported configurations. Also note that since you only ordered a single DIMM you're stuck in single-channel mode meaning your memory is now running half as fast, bit of a downgrade. You should order a second 4G DIMM, put it in Channel B, Slot 1, then put the 2G DIMMs in Channel A, Slot 2 and Channel B, Slot 2 so you get your dual channel memory back. As for the reported memory speed in CPU-Z, lots of DIMMs feature higher speeds that aren't JEDEC compliant or your motherboard isn't aware of those speeds. In CPU-Z hit the SPD tab and look at the different profiles the RAM, you may have to manually set your timings and voltage in order to obtain the fastest speed. Another thing to note is all DDR3 DIMMs are 1.5V if they're JEDEC compliant - they may have profiles supporting higher speeds at higher voltages but they'll still include a default 1.5V profile.

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That's an old motherboard, PCIe 1.0. The card should still work fine with it however, but you never know there may be some incompatibility. That PSU looks like an old cheapo, do what Fk said and check the rails. More than likely 12v1 is wired to the 4 pin motherboard connector, you should look at the power connectors, a lot of times they are labeled, in your case perhaps "12v1" and '12v2". I'm guessing that video card uses two 6 pin PCIe connectors and your PSU only provides a single 6 pin connector so you are using at least one 4 pin molex to PCIe 6 pin adaptor. I'd unplug everything but a single DIMM, the 20(4) + 4(4) pin motherboard connectors, and the video card. If you're using the 4-pin molex to PCIe pin adaptor move it to a different bundle of cables and retry.

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http://pastebin.com/nfVT7b0Z http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/04/1241258/anonymous-leaks-1m-apple-device-udids All over Hacker News and the rest too, love the fact they used the recent Java exploit to gain access, whoops.

I just played through Phantasy Star I, II, and IV like 9 months ago for like the 20th time I'd put SimCity 2000, Warcraft II, Populus/Populus II, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island II, the whole Kings Quest series, TIM: The Incredible Machine, Sid Meiers Pirates(bit more 80s, CGA graphics, w00t), X-com 1/2, the early Wing Commander games, Worms on the Dreamcast, Fallout 1 and 2, Age of Empires(quite possibly the only game I was ever good at ranked in the top 50 on Zone ). That'd be my top list off the top of my head.

I'm assuming that your internet connection was garbage in general when it happened, not just your connection to the GC server. If you're on a laptop I'd suggest plugging it in directly to the router and disabling the onboard wifi, if that doesn't resolve it I'd plug it directly into the modem. If you're on a desktop(or laptop) you can download NetStumbler and it'll produce a graph of your wifi signal strength, if the signal strength goes to garbage or drops out you can narrow it down to either the router your local machine - with bets on the router. After a bit of Googling it looks like that DIR-825 has had numerous hardware revisions and firmware upgrades to fix various issues, I would check and make sure if you have the newest firmware from it's web interface - http://192.168.0.1 - and perhaps even flash it with DD-WRT.