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• Reverse for me, I'm left-handed. :) : Lone Swordsman
• don't wash your ears. : Dave Mustaine
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  Patrick Bateman: That's a very expensive glass of Chardonnay you're NOT drinking there. It isn't poisone... : paddle 2
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    American Psycho was so good!!! : Utopia
    • 7 YEARS LATER I AM STILL AS STUPID HOOOORAAAAYYYYYYY I COME FROM THE FUTURE IN THE FUTURE ALL MEN ARE 2 P... : Utopia
• leave the bottle of wine uncorked, wine is supposed to breathe. : Gladiator
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  i am a bastard child so I got no advice Thanks you jerk : rosewood
  • anytime! Thanks! -Wolfy : Wolfanoz
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  Don't eat yellow snow :| : drucifer
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    FRANK ZAPPA WAS YOUR FATHER????? : Wolfanoz
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      I am not Dweezle :D : drucifer
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        how bout Moon Unit? : Lynn Minmei
        • AHMED DAMNIT!!!! AHHHMEDDDD!!!! : Wolfanoz
• Don't brush your teeth with your tie on. : kenmis
• customers will ask you to do the work now, and put off the payment for as long as they can. So true, ... : the archvile
• if it looks like shit and tastes like shit, then it's probably shit : jo-papa
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  life sucks, then you die. : corey
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    Life's a bitch then you marry one then you divorce one THEN you die : jo-papa
    • lofl COMEDY GOLD : maynard854

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• Hey I was about to post that. Shiznit. Yeah weird innit?? : haikeebah!
• heh.. http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2942484 : e1ghtball
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  #2531, KindGirl.com"forwarder" content="fox.nz.att frame name="thepage" src="http://www.shacknews... : supermonkeyballz
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    hmm interesting... : Mr.Fusion
    • ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║âÂ�... : Mr.Fusion
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  Yeah WHAT THE FUCK MAN! WHAT THE FUCK! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WIERDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! Feeling a littl : Nemo_NX
  • ::grabs bat and runs to corner:: whoah there cowboy.. : Mr.Fusion
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  http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=kindgirl.com&SearchType=do : Trilinear
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    hmm.. lets give em a call... Harsch, Matt 344 Hodgson St Oxford, PA 19363 US 610-932-9986 ... : Mr.Fusion
    • sc0re! : supermonkeyballz
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      If dialpad was still free, I would let Arnold handle this : MacGyver
      • Haha, that would be great to do that then post it on the Shack. : Poor Yurik
• if he went to washington state university his aim name is HARSH111 and his email is harshworld@hotmail.c... : supermonkeyballz
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  it could be a script that puts the site from where you came as a forwarder.... someone put up a page a... : Mousey
  • www.geocities.com/mike_waldner/kindgirltest.html : AllYourBase
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  nah takes you right back to shacknews... : Mr.Fusion
  • REALLY??? : DIE_KUH

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• lol you weird! : telex

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• * B E S T B U Y ' d * again : verbatim
• what the fuck kind of ass backwards business practices does best buy use? : Gladiator
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  Even better! I just talked to the manager of the store on the phone... "...i dunno sir the video card... : ghost in my shell
  • Jesus christ did Best Buy kill your parents or something? Because you seem to hate them for really stup... : arizona bay
• SEE YOU RIP OFF THE SYSTEM, YOU FAIL BY THE SYSTEM! I WANTED ONE TOO DAMMIT : GiantCapitalistROBOT
• Did you whine this way when your girlfiend wouldn't let you fuck her? : freqq28
• The one on wendover? Their employees are among the stupidest in retail. : creeping_death

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• 1600x1200 32-bit 85hz Samsung SyncMaster 1200NF 22" The monitor can do like 2048@75hz... I pl... : Vantage
• 1280x1024 32 bit 100hz 21" Hitatchi .22 dot pitch : V0lk
• 1024x768 16 bit 75Hz Optiquest Q71 17" : rookieone
• why woudl you run 32 bit color depth ?? I don't get it?? : rookieone
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  2056x1536 32bit 80hz IIyama Vision Master Pro 510 22" I have two of them, now all I need is a d... : Adrenaline
  • Iiyama makes damn good monitors : diehlr
• 1152x864 32 bit 85 Hz NEC MultiSync XV17+ 17" This monitor is old, but it keeps going. Until it b... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
• 1024x768 32 bit 100Hz 19" Viewsonic PF790 : snackula
• 1280x960x32x85hz 21" NEC XP 21 (oldish 21" NEC) Wanting a Phillips or Sony 21" - unfortunately supe... : abrasion
• 1600x1200 32bit 75hz Viewsonic G790 19" : haccess
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  1024x768 32bit 85Hz P.O.S. Optiquest : Paranoid Android
  • *LOL* http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2942743 : rookieone
• 1280x1024 32bit 85hz Iiyama Vision Master Pro17 : nomaad
• 1280 * 1024 / 80Hz HP Pavilion Mx90 19" monitor Make no mistake though my tower was put together by me. : tension
• 1024x768 60hz 15" SVGA monitor (no name) : kabex
• 1600*1200*32 viewsonic g810 21' : Oog 
• Sony Trinitron 17" Running low right now... 1024*768 at 100Hz. Something happened to it and I can't cha... : xianarchy
• Compaq 17" 1024 16bit. : scion
• 2056x1536 @ 60 hz : josecuervo

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  STOP IT! : MacGyver
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    OR I'LL BURY YOU ALIVE IN A BOX! : Experiment IV
    • YOU LACK DISCIPLINE! : MacGyver
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  Yeah, ever since I installed XP, about every second time I quite HL, it makes it to the desktop, which i... : Vantage
  • this is 100%, every time, it shows the stop error and reboots on me. : kenmis
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    If NVidia don't fix their drivers under XP on Athlon machines soon I'm going to FIREBOMB THE FUCK OUT OF... : nudel
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      oooookaaaaay, no XP for me. : nofxsux
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        I've been running XP for almost a month and no crashes or problems yet. : MacGyver
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          Yeah it's not everyone. Seems to be a connection between GeForce2 (or all nvidia cards?), AMD and VIA an... : nudel
          • Uh oh, I just got a new machine... GeForce2 TI, AMD Duron, VIA board & XP Professional. Haven't had any ... : Afterglow
      • No no, it's not that bad. HL is the only game I have a problem with, and it's only when I close it.. so... : Vantage
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  I have a similar problem. Ever since I upgraded my computer it will reboot when I quit Halflife. One s... : boolean
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    i've heard of other shackers having the same problem for quite a while now. i'm trying the newest driver... : kenmis
    • Give us an update on your progress when you do so please. Maybe all these errors are related on some le... : boolean
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  new nvidia drivers that are whql'd on microsofts update site. version 23.12 I've been using them for a c... : brutal
  • do they do OpenGL? : nudel

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• i'd rather he bake us magic brownies : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  I can't think of anything to write about : Maarten Goldstein
  • Try "Welcome back to the shack. Here's your damn first post. Get on with it." : verbatim
  • use an old first post, no one will know the difference : Gladiator
  • write about Bob de Jong who fucked up his 5000meter ice skating! : scion
  • the dutch dude won a gold medal in speed skating !! : rookieone
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  I think steve should do a write up on Condition Zero, it's about time shack has another "feature" : scion
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    he already said he put his own deadline at thursday : Maarten Goldstein
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      Ohh 5 more days! I hope he makes it in such a shot time ;-) : scion
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        probably not :) : Maarten Goldstein
        • anyway watch Malcolm in the Middle in 5 minuts on net5, it's gonna be a funny episode (and gives you ins... : scion
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      when he said "thursday", he did mean this thursday... right? : verbatim
      • Haha :), good point, who knows with Steve? : land

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  That's a super sweet pic : wumpscut
  • Creepy looking sky! : wumpscut
• that is extremely cool : vodor
• I assume you mean YOUR MODEM.... : overtoke
• hey if i had 45 hours to sit and watch it, i would! : Chrono Trigga
• super 360'd : e1ghtball
• wow, looks very nice. : sikander
• Sweet picture! : c0bra
• Badass pic. : Trilinear
• * G I A N T P A N O R A M I C V I E W ' D * : Don Vito Corleone
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  that's cool. What's with the communal backyard? : darweidu
  • My dad used to park his boat in the back yard, so that's why there's no gate. There IS fencing in the ve... : klerck
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  Stop playing with your camera and clean your room, chucklehat. : cwlc98
  • Hahahaaaa. Maybe a panoramic shot of your room next? : The Key
• awesome : headache

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• A cow walks into a barn... *rimshot* : haccess
• it was on BBC last night! \o/ : scion

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  then how are you posting this? : mrraist-
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    parents computer :( it was a ibm 60gxp...it started clicking earlier, and then i started making these... : Kiwi Man
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      just wondering, in case i get a dying drive how do I back it up before its all lost? : xianarchy
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        hook it up to another computer, use normal file copy operations, and cross your fingers. I was lucky; m... : the archvile
        • I assume I can copy them right from this computer since I got two drives, if the drive without the win2k... : xianarchy
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          If you have a linux computer laying around (I know I do) and enough HD space: dd if=/dev/(hard drive ... : verbatim
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            what is the "dd" command ? : rookieone
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              http://www.bsdi.com/bsdi-man?dd(1) : verbatim
              • AHA !!! THX : rookieone
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      it might be too late; either the platter surface could be damaged, or the heads could be chopped off (a ... : the archvile
      • dammit! this is not supposed to happen to a 60gxp >:( : Kiwi Man
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  he got more than one? : xianarchy
  • ^^ wrong replied : xianarchy
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  is it spontaneously parking itself? : the archvile
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    i don't know what that means. it started making grinding noises, so i tried shutting down and the com... : Kiwi Man
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      grinding is bad. Very bad. : the archvile
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        NOOOOOOO :( : Kiwi Man
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          Grinding isn't *always* bad mind you. In skateboarding, it's a good thing. But, since you're not ... : Mentu
          • INFORMATIVE : rookieone
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  were you running this drive nonstop? : the archvile
  • pretty much, for the past couple of days. using it during the day, downloading at night. three nig... : Kiwi Man

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• Thats weird.... : The Key

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  works here : rookieone
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    yeah i know it's up, my friend who's on the same cable line can log on i can't >:( : xianarchy
    • reinstall : rookieone

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  top of the list is services.exe. Dunno what it is though ... : rookieone
  • all the services in Win2K. If you installed tlist from the Win2K CD, you can type "tlist -s" in the com... : the archvile
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  Remember, trillian does 4 IMs and IRC. 11MB isn't too bad all thigns considered. : mrraist-
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    yeah but i got everything but icq and yahoo off. It just surprised me that even though I had a couple o... : xianarchy
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      What is 11MB if you have 256MB or more of RAM?? : rookieone
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        I got 128. It matters. Yeah I should buy more, its cheap : xianarchy
        • AH, in that case it matters, i agree. I have 512 MB so i could care more about RAM munchers : rookieone
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  I reckon ICQ uses 20+ mb of memory : FunkyBass
  • Not only that, but the ICQ client is either A. Bloated (2k+) or B. Overrun by porn ads and half-broken (... : geedeck
  • they fixed that with icq2001 ICQ2001b 5.05 build 3619 win2k currently using: 5.4 megs of ram. ... : batkiwi
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  that's odd, mine's using 6,524K with MSN, AIM, and ICQ connected : haccess
  • http://home.carolina.rr.com/haccess/trilluse.png : haccess
  • ok its down to 4MB now. *pats Trillian on the head* : xianarchy

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• 59.5 GB 12,206 files : usurpah
• 6,45 GB (6.926.505.496 bytes) 1.246 Files, 101 folders Good enough for me. : nomaad
• 3.41 GB (3,670,215,280 bytes) 931 files, 17 folders : Lynn Minmei
• 3.18 GB (3,425,150,178 bytes) 683 files, 11 folders : evil-cow
• 16.7gb 307 files 2 folders : Theos
• 3.96 GB (4,261,822,464 bytes) 717 Files 45 Folders : Paranoid Android
• 5,871 Files (463 Folders) 28.2 GB (30,307,155,017 bytes) : Deathlove
• 7.45 GB (8,000,045,056 bytes) : ventro

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• HAHAHAH!! You read /. : usurpah

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• ahah true : ventro
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  hey wasn't tara reid in one of those games? : Bob Jones
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    ah yes, the obligatory wigger : AllYourBase
    • Tara Reid's a wigger? Dude she's so whitebread, she makes iron kids look like wheat. : Bob Jones
    • WTF? Perhaps you're confused on the definition of 'wigger' Fred Durst= Wigger Kid Rock= Wigger ... : Mentu
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  *scratches his stubble* I remember when I was young, many many years ago, you could actually see a wh... : Mentu
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    It's not rigged, it's just the way things are. Why are there so few black quarterbacks? Why does hocke... : Bob Jones
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      There are quite a few black QBs in football now, and more coming every year Asians, by and large, don... : Mentu
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        We took over baseball? Look out in the streets sometime dude. Hispanic kids are by and large the only ... : Bob Jones
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          I disagree that they even play it more, look at little league world series, mostly white : AllYourBase
          • Well dude all I can say is that's just the way things are. Unless you believe in the myth that every ra... : Bob Jones
• just like the NBA! : Old_Fart
• I want Rick Smits back! : scion

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  very pretty. still doesn't beat the r34, but i'd still love to own one : ^-SeaWolf-^
  • the r34 is a jap muscle car. the fron looks soooo.....demonic... its got power.. jsut loking at it gives... : evil-cow
• WHOA my jaw just dropped to the floor : rookieone
• http://www.quickspice.com/scstore/images/rice-sushi-nishiki_lg.jpg : usurpah
• looks like a Celica from the side heh : xianarchy
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  this car is pretty much the main reason why i love the gran turismo games so much. : evil-cow
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    heh yeah, i fell in love with the skyline after playing GT. : ^-SeaWolf-^
    • ditto... : evil-cow

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• Heh, I always want to play Starcraft at LANs, but when we play it, I suck. Guess I'll never learn :p ... : nomaad
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  which new mouse? : Clay
  • it's the intellimouse explorer that now takes 6000 pics per sec : AllYourBase
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  There is no such thing as "Single Player Quake 3" : rookieone
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    but serious sam CO-OP must be the bomb : rookieone
    • oh yeah it is. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  Hurrah !! Hurrah !! : rookieone
  • too bad I was only able to watch the last few minutes. But it's another hockey night tonight. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• *checks bank account* Well, thats not going to happen :( : Mentu
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  you can import cars.. : evil-cow
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    yeah, but that is one risky business : rookieone
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      heh not really.. its waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper to imoprt it.. : evil-cow
      • afer importing and everythign it should come around to $70K at MAX. you buy one here, yes some private s... : evil-cow
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        haha, yeah, but would you buy a car that you haven't even seen ?? I wouldn't. BTw who assures you that ... : rookieone
        • normally ppl go there buy em, and then bring em back... only a fool would buy a car based on pictures...... : evil-cow
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  They're coming to the US soon, under the Acura brand name. Probably won't be as powerful, but still... : geedeck
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    it's infiniti, the I35, and yes it will be as powerful. but it's not based on the r-34 design since it'... : ^-SeaWolf-^
    • yeah its infiniti I35 not acura. : evil-cow
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      the new redesigned skylines are also coming to N.America.. here's the link : evil-cow
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        http://www.supercars.net/cars/2001@$Nissan@$GT-R%20Concept.html : evil-cow
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          that is disgusting. i would never set foot in one of those :( poor skylines : ^-SeaWolf-^
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            thats the concept. the actual one isnt that bad... : evil-cow
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              i would hope not. personally i'm not a big fan of the new trend most cars seem to be taking. These new... : ^-SeaWolf-^
              • http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2942896 : evil-cow
        • ^^ not updated yet... its not a concept anymore... they're confirmed for production and will be here in ... : evil-cow
    • Ah, right on. yeah, I dig the Japanese cars like that, but I'm thinking my next car is going to be eithe... : geedeck

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  Liar! I will chop off your hand! : oo7|bond
  • made you look :) : whippy
• you made me look : tension

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• delete it then : accused
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  if it's empty then it's ok. : rookieone
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    uh.. just noticed.. its got another folder in it called 'CMSCP' it wasnt there yesterday so i said it wa... : evil-cow
    • look if there isn't any system file in it. If not then you can delete it. Should it be used by windows i... : rookieone
• if you delete it, they will come : ^-SeaWolf-^

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• Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Gamecube is going to have so many unique titles, it's reall... : geedeck

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  windowlicker. We had this thread a billion times now... : scion
  • err, sorry then:) link? : mad-d00d
• On : diehlr
• Start as you mean to go on : nomaad
• on, boygirl, ventolin : gegtik

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  www.doom9.org : rookieone
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    Ok, I might be missing something here, but all I see on that site are programs that let you combine AVI... : Mentu
    • Yeah, you could be right. I use their stuff for DIVX butnever got too far into any of the other guides o... : rookieone
• tmpengc : haokah
• Premiere? : ventro
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  www.riphelp.com, everything you could ever need : moshman
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    I must be a moron, because I look there and don't see programs for joining MPEG clips.... I DLd MPEG ... : Mentu
    • Never mind, I think I found one I am smrt. : Mentu
• Can't get off quick enough eh? : skynet

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  Terminate him. Terminate with extreme predjudice. I used to be loathed when I called tech support fo... : Mentu
  • You know, I used to run a callcenter for a software company. I'm understanding, and nice with them: I kn... : freqq28
• Say the magic words: "Can I speak with your boss?" : geedeck

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• how the heck did I miss this ?! Funny !! : klerck

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• *STEPHENHAWKINGTAMPON'D* : kaibosh
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  3.544e-16 of a light year. : CoBeL
  • 3.7 metres? : nomaad
• From one end to the other. : I=O=N
• Twice the distance from the centre to one side. : abrasion
• no shorter than the Planck length. : snackula
• As long as it is. : skynet

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• see you in a month.... : mrraist-
• have a good vacation : supermonkeyballz
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  next time do it like this : Is the Ocean's eleven soundtrack worth getting ?? we wouldn't know how you... : rookieone
  • or hell, even talk like you want to go and actually buy it.. we'll never know the difference.. : mrraist-
• um that's kinda like asking about warez as far as the rules go. You'd be better off just asking if it's ... : haokah
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  I don't see what everyone's complaining about?! MP3s were cleared, remember? : klerck
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    right. that's what i thought. initially steve said they were warez, but then he changed his mind. : snackula
    • and it was that same night, not like it was a long time later :) : Paranoid Android
  • no, I didn't know they were cleared. cool! : haokah
• Plus you can download some of it at cdnow.com :) : skynet

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  Haha, you don't read any overclocking advices, do you?? They would have told you to be extremely careful... : rookieone
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    I guess it took out the cpu, I left the battery out for 20min while the case was unplugged. Still nothin... : haokah
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      Another reason to never try to OC my machine... That sux dude. Good luck. : Former_HPB
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        Why?? OC#Ing is OK as long as you take it slowly and are careful. Haokah just went up too fast, thass al... : rookieone
        • Not worth the risk in my book. Especially with new, expensive CPU's... : Former_HPB
        • this is true, I've oc'd before. I was just thought I'd take a ( what I didn't think was too much, but ob... : haokah
• you should have gotten an Abit KG7, my 1600xp has been running at 1800 speed (146fsb) now for about 3 mo... : Adrenaline
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  Is there a reset jumper for the BIOS? Sometimes there is a jumper on the MB that will reset the BIOS to... : quix
  • already done that with the cmos jumper. also unplugging the battery for a while with the case unplugged ... : haokah
• bbl, time to go to the store... : haokah

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• Heh, I'm seeing that guy in practically every movie these days. I saw Boogie Nights the other day, he wa... : nomaad