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Emily Blunt needs to be in more stuff -- nm - prayformojo Oct 22, 08:03 1
- I love how when Michael Buble was stupid enough to cheat on her John Krasinski saw his chance and was smart enough to sweep that goddess off her feet. - Deevil Oct 22, 08:05
Microsoft planning Blu-ray accessory add on? -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:57 1
- hasnt this been known? they want to have an external bluray drive, like they did for hd-dvd - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:59
Western Digital 1.5 TB Internal Hard drive $99.99 at NewEgg.com -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:52 3
- Greens are great for network or external storage, but a bit slow for desktop computers ... just so people know. :) - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:55 1
  - greens dont work well in a raid, - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:55
- green drive, 3yr warranty. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:54
Panda Express: Free single entree plate when you buy a 2 or 3 Entree plate. Coupon: -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:50 [Image] 1
- Panda meat is delicious. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:55
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- Or, they could just put them all on the field and threaten to cough on the other team if they try to tackle them. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 08:02
- B12 shots! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:55 1
  - Vitamin D! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 22, 07:57
- oink! -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 07:53
- They've still got 3 days to recover. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 07:52
- I love starting Aaron Rodgers -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:51
is the upgrade from 10/100 to gigabit networking worth it? - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:50 9
- If you're regularly transferring large files between computers on the LAN, yes, it is -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:51 8
  - hmm, ok. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:52
  - Yeah, I think that's probably the primary use-case ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:52 6
    - Well, I've seen people ask about upgrading their LAN to gigabit when all they do is access the Internet so... - oblique Oct 22, 07:54 5
      - well, I have one weekly database backup at home that is 8gb - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:57 3
        
        I picked up a nice Dell PowerConnect switch on eBay for really cheap. Had two gigiabit ports plus 24 10/100. Combined this with the gigabit ports on - oblique Oct 22, 07:59 2
        
        well, I was only gonna have it running between the new computer and server. - tRuMaN Oct 22, 08:02 1
        
        hmm, the ps3 does have gigabit ethernet - tRuMaN Oct 22, 08:03
      - exactly, those people don't have a valid use case. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:55
Oh oh. Civilization is coming to Facebook -- (link) - oblique Oct 22, 07:46 1
- *twitch* -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 07:52
Andie: Somalia Pirate inspiration ... -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:43 1
- when come back, bring pie -- nm - prayformojo Oct 22, 07:44
victory for rent regulation in NYC -- (link) - znufrii Oct 22, 07:42 2
- Woo hoo!!! Finally a win for the tenants of this city. It seems like we always lose these cases. -- nm - Krusty Oct 22, 08:02 1
  - Of course, they'll just go to the legislature and get them to change it in the end so they don't end up having to pay any money to tenants... - znufrii Oct 22, 08:04
Torontohenge is this weekend... -- (link) - oblique Oct 22, 07:39 1
- cool. -- nm - Andie Oct 22, 08:14
Has ST seen this WWII vet talk in Maine about marriage equality? -- (link) - TWuG Oct 22, 07:36 [youtube] 4 1
- That was great! -- nm - Krusty Oct 22, 08:04
- awesome. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 07:48
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- Yeah, it's like a Jimmy Stewart moment. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 07:37
Windows XP was released October 25, 2001 ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:34 8
- I love that Apple is a lot less aggressive with their system. You can actually upgrade Tiger (10.4) to Snow Leopard (10.6) for $30 - Guigue Oct 22, 07:51 6
  - A lot of those are just basically service pack upgrades though, which MS gives away for free. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 08:03 1
    - I didn't want to argue the price really, I was more trying to say that they make things simpler - Guigue Oct 22, 08:07
  - I bought the Win7 upgrade for $50. And Vista to 7 is just as comparable as Tiger to Leopard -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:56 3
    - Isn't the Win7 upgrade $100+? -- nm - Guigue Oct 22, 08:00 2
      - Like I said, I bought mine for $50 pre-order at Amazon. I don't know what anyone else is paying. Costco as a 3 pack for $130 I believe - oblique Oct 22, 08:02 1
        
        i got two copies for free, from pc companies. - tRuMaN Oct 22, 08:04
- (Maybe the october babies thing holds true for Windows releases, too) -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 22, 07:35
I'm updating my Amazon wishlist and I can't decide whether to add "Up". The first 10 minutes seems like a must buy, but it seems like getting the last 86 minutes is just overkill. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 07:34 1
- There's about 12 minutes in the movie that make it 100% worthy of me paying for it. - Will Hunting Oct 22, 07:35
dear coworker: keep your air purifier in your own office! Along with your decorations!\ -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 07:33 2
- Air purifiers make things smell so...metallic. Don't like it. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:46 1
  - It's the ozone they generate. Ozone is NOT something you want to be breathing. -- nm - TWuG Oct 22, 07:51
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- Thursday is my Friday -- nm - ceregon Oct 22, 07:39
- take tomorrow off and make today Friday. -- nm - decline Oct 22, 07:34 4
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    - *jealous* -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 07:41 2
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        I hope you do better then I did last weekend - it was murder!! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 07:47
Walmart offers a $20 eGift Card when you pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for $59.82. Select in-store pick up to save on shipping, otherwise i -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:32 2
- What's the 10% off code from Amazon? Anyone have that? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:34 1
  - I don't know, it's from ECA but apparently it's down - GWAA Oct 22, 07:35
ST is hospital smarter - can you normally visit a person who is in ICU? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 07:31 8
- Limited times and # of people...but yeah. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 22, 07:33 2
  - Didn't they only let immediate family in for something like 5 minutes at a time? -- nm - kelly Oct 22, 07:52 1
    - Yeah, 5 minutes at a time; and max of 2 people per.... - Will Hunting Oct 22, 07:57
- Yes but the hours are very limited. The hospital I worked at required you to wash before you entered the ICU. -- nm - Krusty Oct 22, 07:33
- I was able to visit my sis in ICU earlier this year. They allowed a small group. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 07:32 2
  - *giggles* she will get a kick out of then when I tell the nurses I am her sister - Epiphany Oct 22, 07:41 1
    - heh-heh... -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 07:46
- I think it tends to be immediate family only in the ICU. -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 07:32
In case you didn't see and I'm sure many of you may get asked. You *cannot* upgrade from XP to Windows 7. Tell your friends and family so they don't - oblique Oct 22, 07:29 13
- This is correct. Msoft says you need to do a 'Custom (clean)' install - which equates to backing up, doing a fresh install, and then restoring -- nm - decline Oct 22, 07:32
- that tis what I thought, but mop told me I was wrong. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:30 11
  - luckily, I am going from 64bit home premium to 64bit home premium, so I can just upgrade. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:51
  - Here's the chart of the upgrade options. Notice the XP line -- (link) - oblique Oct 22, 07:32 9
    - *This* is the reason a lot of people don't upgrade. - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:48 5
      - 64-bit to 32-bit is a big deal. Every driver has to be replaced, I'm not surprised it's a clean install only -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:49 4
        
        Most people (I would think) don't know about this stuff. They want to put in discs, and run it, and it be done. - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:51 3
        
        I think it's more of the face that the installer won't offer you to upgrade to 64-bit. Tthere isn't separate 32-bit and 64-bit upgrade CD. You just - oblique Oct 22, 07:53 2
        
        I don't even know what the difference is - or how to tell what kind I have. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 08:05 1
        
        You're the perfect candidate for the "keep the OS that came with the computer" strategy. :-) -- nm - mara Oct 22, 08:06
    - Wow. A lot of the upgrades need a clean install. -- nm - Guigue Oct 22, 07:34
    - So you can buy the upgrade version, but you need to do a clean install -- nm - Guigue Oct 22, 07:33 1
      - Yes. XP and Vista qualify for upgrade pricing -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:34
Water report-After getting a water bill 3 times our usual amount, I asked the water company to come out and re-check the meter. They did yesterday, - prayformojo Oct 22, 07:17 [Backboard]
Facebook opens the door for gifting music, branded sports "items", and charity gifts in Facebook Gifts -- (link) - oblique Oct 22, 07:11
the writeup at sellout.woot is pretty funny today - decline Oct 22, 07:11
Borderlands effing rules. That is all. -- nm - Shaun Oct 22, 07:09 2
- agreed. - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:44
- agreed. I am having a lot of fun with it. got blessed with an amazing 'purple' sniper gun last night in one of those gun chests. nm - Jovian Oct 22, 07:24
Amazon is confusing me. My Windows 7 preorder was supposed to be delivered today. Still shows as not shipped, and they sent an email saying... - Ender Oct 22, 06:50
So, in honor of Windows 7, did Don Homer name is kid Seven? -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 06:45 13
- George Costanza woulda been furious -- nm - prayformojo Oct 22, 07:18
- I think his wife won the name argument. Being called Public Option just isn't right. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:15
- have you used 7 yet? is it worth upgrading from XP ? -- nm - decline Oct 22, 06:49 10
  - I don't know that I would run out and upgrade an XP machine unless that machine was purchased in the last year or two (maybe). XP was released in 2001 - oblique Oct 22, 06:58 4
    - oh sure on older machines. I just bough my pc 3 months ago and avoided Vista because of it's problems - decline Oct 22, 07:01 3
      - You can't upgrade from XP to 7. It would have to be a reinstall -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:02 2
        
        hmm. that's a bit more complicated, but i don't really have much on that pc yet. Thanks - decline Oct 22, 07:07 1
        
        I guess technically you could find an upgrade disk to Vista and then upgrade to 7 from there but that seems...problematic -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:08
  - FWIW, Who should and who shouldn't upgrade, from PC Mag. -- (link) - mara Oct 22, 06:54 4
    - For the basic consumer it basically comes down to: Get it when you get a new computer. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 06:56 3
      - Yeah - I've never gotten the point of upgrading. I figure when I get a new computer, it'll have the new OS. - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 07:03 1
        
        I think the upgrade option is really for those of us who build our own computers or the enthusiasts who must have the latest. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 07:08
      - That's pretty much going to be my approach. - znufrii Oct 22, 07:00
Next week on Glee, Emma rubs petri dishes filled with ebola on her face while Will feels a growing physical attraction for Tanaka. Because character - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 06:34 29
- One more crack like that and I will go to the shelter and get you a kitty cat... -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 06:54 10
  - I wanted to throw things at the plasma when (spoils) - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:01 8
    - Just because it's an hour long doesn't mean it's not a sit-com. -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 07:04 7
      - When did Puckerman become such a wimp? In the first ep he was throwing kids in trash bins and threatening Finn. This guy couldn't take care of - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:08 6
        
        At heart, Puckerman is a lover, not a fighter. A lover with big guns. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 07:33
        
        He's trying to impress the hot jew. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 07:09 3
        
        Yeah, I should add I watch for her as well. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:11 2
        
        I would like to make it known I appreciate Glee's judicious use of the miniskirt -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 07:11 1
        
        Wonderful thing! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:13
        
        Kinda seems like he was only the tough guy when he had the rest of the team on his side. - Jim Oct 22, 07:09
  - She's BACK!!!! -- nm - Jim Oct 22, 06:58
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  - and it also brings the funny fairly often -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 06:37 16
    - Well, Jane Lynch does. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 06:39 15
      - Puckerman was hilarious last night. - Dano Oct 22, 06:46 13
        
        *nods* And his song made me wish he was the lead -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 06:47
        
        I can't help but think that people are trying to take this show seriously. - Jim Oct 22, 06:46 11
        
        I think the show tries to take itself too seriously at times. - Inigo Oct 22, 06:54 2
        
        I don't know...I really liked the way they handled Kurt. i thought it was one of the better moments of the show. (spoils) - Jim Oct 22, 07:08 1
        
        Which is fine, but like I said it can't be breezy fun anymore if it gets that serious. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 07:14
        
        yep. be breezy about it and you get plenty of entertainment. -- nm - Max Oct 22, 06:51
        
        Me too. It's total escapist fun. I enjoy it no matter how silly it gets. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 06:49 6
        
        And I'm convinced that last night's episode was all about showcasing Matthew Morrison's dancing. -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 06:50 5
        
        he should at least do an SNL Digital Short with Justin Timberlake -- nm - Max Oct 22, 06:55
        
        I also couldn't help but notice the episode was WAY better without the (spoil) - Jim Oct 22, 06:52 3
        
        *spoils* - Ender Oct 22, 06:55 2
        
        Good. Also, the previews last night showed (spoils) - Jim Oct 22, 06:56 1
        
        good on both. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 07:04
      - *ding* It is sometimes painful and sometimes funny and sometimes awkward...just like High School -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 06:43
if one was going to be a "somali pirate" for halloween, what would one need? - Andie Oct 22, 06:32 8
- dripping bullet hole in the forehead. -- nm - Max Oct 22, 06:51
- Rags for clothing, an AK-47.... -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 22, 06:49
- Tattered shorts and vest (no shirt), fake tat's, red or green beret with vague military symbol on it, AK-47 -- nm - decline Oct 22, 06:45
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  - hmmm, tricky to convey STDs thematically. - Andie Oct 22, 06:34 3
    - Fake cold sore, scratch a lot. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 22, 06:41 2
      - Pirate costume...not Paris costume. -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 22, 07:12
      - Was going to write "And whenever you're in the bathroom loudy yell "OH GOD IT BURNS!!!" so people on the other side of the door can hear you." - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 06:42
Happy Birthday to Diva and Don Homer V2! -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 06:24 5
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - lileve Oct 22, 07:25
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Krusty Oct 22, 07:08
- Happy Birthday Diva! -- nm - Andie Oct 22, 06:33
- Happy Birthdays! -- nm - Dano Oct 22, 06:31
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - MDH Oct 22, 06:29
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