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• Those urinals rock! My next house I'm putting in one of those flower models. : Porkasaurus
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  lol, that soap dispenser is so wrong. : holycow
  • aaaahhhhahaha : Busta J
  • TEST : holycow
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  bonus points for anyone who remembers the 80s action figure this resembles: http://www.secretsites.de/job... : silentzero
  • http://toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/Ghostbusters/Ghosts/FearsomeFlushComp1a.jpg More like a punc... : peanut-

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  no problems here I'm afraid : losimagic
  • I feel I'm being discriminated against.. : Kenshin_
• Yes and it's upsetting. I bugged this guy to send me some print bids and no sooner did I see that he did ... : sHugamom
• yeah. Everything is FINE in the UK. Bloody fine. : sHugamom

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• i haven't opened my box yet. still mulling over selling it or keeping it. : peon73
• i love mine. askedrelic came over and helped me set the rest of it up last night. horribly overpowered fo... : dahanese

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• Gamespy :( : Fred Garvin
• Was announced last week during GDC. : Fyunch Click
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  Here's the press release, nothing about friends lists: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/i... : aethyr
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    the first paragraph mentions it : Maarten Goldstein
    • oh man, coffee time! : aethyr
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  What ever happened to the original QuakeSpy guys? I mean they have gotta be pissed that GS bought them ou... : Phreakin
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    i thought they were the quakespy guys : Slowtreme
    • yeah me too. : razlebol
• :o looks good. Seems like we are gonna have a community on all 3 consoles. : razlebol
• http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/nintendo-teams-up-with-gamespy-again-for-multiplayer-wii/ God damn ... : rosewood

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• I'd also like to know a reputable brand of actual quality knives, that isn't extremely overpriced. As ... : PlanetPerfecto

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  Where I work they made us take off Firefox and all browsers that weren't IE6. Couldn't even keep a copy a... : baron calamity
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    We had the same problem from one of the TWO teams who administer users machines. The other team which ... : abrasion
    • i can't stand to use IE either : Flying h4x0r
• I don't think I could work with someone that stupid without punching them in the face. : abrasion
• remind him of when Firefox came out. leave it at that : Postal
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  ActiveX is the root of all evil. : metalremains
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    I that that was java/javascript : retardhumper
    • Nope, Open Source. : ChibiJosh
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  I know someone like that - when I said that IE7's best idea was copying the tabs from Firefox he said "oh... : Schnapple
  • Punch him in the face and make him use Opera. : Toraz Chryx
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  A Sales guy asked me too uninstall Firefox from his laptop because: "I hate Firefox." About a week lat... : dognose
  • he probably had spyware an hour or less later. also you should have just changed the firefox icon to an ... : kbnerd
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    I used to be the guy that installed Firefox on people's computers and then lo and behold one guy started ... : redfive
    • hahahaha lol at "FoxFire" : Flying h4x0r
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      There needs to be a way to transmit a real live human virus exclusively through IE. Then we could all hav... : marmite
      • then you can be all like 'IE = AIDS dude!' : Toraz Chryx
• wow. how do you tolerate that kind of lunacy? are you sure he isn't just fucking with your head? : PlanetPerfecto

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  Maybe restart it to try and get a different server? Unless there's some new update out, there's normal... : peanut-
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    also didn't they hire bram and/or switch to a distributed bit-torrent style system at some point? I imagi... : PlanetPerfecto
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      Companies (movie distribution, game demo's, potentially xbox tv shows/movies) that are switching to torre... : AlbinoSquirrel
      • Something tells me Rogers will lose business to WiMax carriers whenever that gets deployed [should come f... : PlanetPerfecto
• why am I getting a sense of deja vu? (srsly, it feels like I've seen this exact chat before). anyways... : Postal

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  Seriously, I still can't believe I'd have to buy a 3rd party app to get Cut & Paste in the Finder... What... : zakazi
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    I just used the "clipboard" feature in plain Finder to copy a file and it worked just fine. Not sure wha... : electroly
    • "Cut", not "Copy". It's a method to move files, not duplicate them. : ChibiJosh
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  I agree with most of those, actually. It's pretty well true that Finder sucks (which is why I use Path F... : Amadan
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    Yeah. I guess I'm just used to windows or whatever but I just don't see how its so far and above better t... : boomstickah
    • "Find Finder Items"? "where" <folder or drive> Whose <name/content/date modified/date created/kind/si... : Hiro
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  lol at the mac'ies "cut n paste is WRONG!! you could have data loss when you cut and then later copy some... : bradsh
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    mac users are too stupid to figure out cut and paste, and thats probably only why they have 1 mouse butto... : headbone
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      Enjoy your generalizing? I guess all my university colleagues who seem to prefer macs are also really stu... : terath
      • Uhhh... yeah, obviously. : basketofkittens
      • no, they are all hipsters : bradsh
• Apple: We don't think you need it, so you can't have it. : Arcanum
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  I havent used MacOS since 8.5 but one of the things I couldnt stand was not being able to rename/delete/e... : cap n KRUNCH
  • MacOS 8.5 has just about no commonality with OS X at all, like, really.. none. :) : Toraz Chryx
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  Bullshit @System Restore. It breaks more than it fixes; and hopefully Time Machine will do much better : Bantis
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    system restore isn't as big as some people make it out to be in my book, but it has absolutely saved me a... : boomstickah
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      you're the only person i've ever heard having success with it. I run an onsite tech support business, and... : Bantis
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        Um, your sample is a tad skewed. Who's going to call you when system restore worked perfect and everythin... : Caboose
        • Yea, but the general consensus has ALWAYS been it breaks more than it fixes. I know its obviously going t... : Bantis
      • I've used it and it works fine. : Fred Garvin
    • System restore has also saved my ass once or twice after something got screwed, and the only option was t... : Modulus
• Most of these things are just a matter of taste. : taronish
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  For the most part, they should have titled the article "Replace Finder Already," and skipped the stuff th... : algernoN8
  • Yeah pretty much, from what I've seen of the leopard betas, at least one or two of those finder features ... : ovrlrd
  • Also, all the "I don't know htf cut&paste works" posts cheapen us all. : algernoN8
• LOL OSX doesn't know 'UNDO'. Geeeez. : Optimus Prime
• Even diehard mac fans know that Finder is probably the most unchanged-undeveloped part of the mac os x sy : Hiro
• That's impossible, Apple is the originator of all PC innovation. : Fred Garvin
• 4 of these 9 are already in the next release. : Slowtreme
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  #1 - Agree to an extent. The first commenter makes a valid point about workflow interruptions in additio... : genom
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    2) I have to say, I highly agree there, that'd be very slick, a very "apple" approach to making sure apps... : Toraz Chryx
    • I honestly thought that's how it worked already, as it follows "Apple Logic" if you know what I mean. : Hiro
• NO WAY! OSX RULEZ M$ SUX!!! : g0nk #2265 : FormerHPB

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  yea i'm a little miffed and nvidia and creative for screwing up their drivers for vista. They had plenty ... : jonin
  • I just got the new YouP software for the X-Fi and in combination with ALchemy, I haven't really had a pro... : Eej
• Ive never been able to get Nvidia's card drivers to work with my system ever since the 6600gt. Sucks for ... : mega man
• Some lols to make you feel better: My motherboard is Nforce and my video card is GeForce 7800 series S... : haiku
• How are the 6800's and vista getting along? : capt tripps
• Think it has to do with the crazy new unified architecture? Have they made any excuses? : cokefiend
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  My 8800GTX works great with the 97.92's in XP, so maybe you should stick to those and try to see if somet... : h0rus
  • I've been using the 8800 GTx/GTS drivers in XP as well for a few weeks now without issue, I don't know wh... : dkrulz
• I cant wait till the new radeon gets released too... We need some competition going on. 8800's prices are... : razlebol

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• Ooooh.. you git tease. : cause&effect
• I still need to play the first one. :( : guido anchovy
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  No we weren't wondering. We just hate you for teasing how much is a ps2 nowadays? : xphil
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    $130 shipped @ Amazon ( http://tinyurl.com/2onek5 ). I paid about the same at a local Gamestop back in D... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      Hmm why buy it online when it is cheaper at the store? : razlebol
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        amazon has free shipping, + it's more convenient if you can wait a few days. : aethyr
        • Isn't it also tax-free? : CrustaR
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  wtf, can't you just play games at work! it's all part of the job amirite : Patch-e
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    Sadly, no. Games work is less than 5% of my job. It's just the sexy part. : MorrisatCNN
    • the sexy part of your job is you! : kbnerd
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  I will cut you into chunks with a lazer scalpel : abrasion
  • All I asked for was a Hydra with lazer beams attached to its head, and instead I got this genetically mod... : RomSteady
• I just beat Hard mode of GoW 1 as Kratos in a cow costume. Great game. : Kenshin_

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• Might be a safari rescue rhino, they shave the horns to prevent poaching... of course, maybe the zoo's s : Lunatic Angelic
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  dont they grow back?! :( : jcutner
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    It's essentially matted hair, so I'd guess so. Also rhino horn isn't sheathed in skin or capillaries (unl... : algernoN8
    • Yea, but I'm willing to bet it ain't easy to hold down a wild rhino and shave his horn off ;) : MagicWishMonkey
• Yeah, I'm pretty sure zoos regularly de-horn rhinos to prevent them from injuring each other or doing dam... : ChibiJosh

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  if you're buying i can stand in : multisync
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    i have no iodine. and of course i'm buying. it's steak and bj day! : dahanese
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      oh shI! : multisync
      • I KNOW HE SAID HE BOOKMARKED IT i've been had. : dahanese
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  A BLT bistro? Must be using that fancy French bacon... : ChibiJosh
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    it's not actually BLT. he has a ton of BLT restaurants. fish, prime, steak... they are really swank. : dahanese
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      Wowzers. Just looked at the menu... I'll have to take my girlfriend there for some special occasion. : ChibiJosh
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        seriously. i had it all planned out. i even painted my toes. :-( : dahanese
        • Let him eat a $3 flank steak from Met. >:[ : ChibiJosh

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  I want. :( : felicia
  • only 10 days to go. : trelain
• So you played Thief last night? : Fyunch Click
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  last night i went to bed fine and this morning both me and my fiancee woke up with scratchy throats. w... : [fry]
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    the exact same thing happened to me today also. weird. : trelain
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      Getting weirder still. Sounds like a shackidemic. : Rich McNinch
      • I woke up with a dry mouth, does that count? Might have something to do with the fan I left pointed at my... : ChibiJosh
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  I dreamt that GeorgeB3DR told us DNF was done. True story. I even checked his post history, it was luci... : romulan
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    I do know that it's gonna 0wn: http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/search.x?user=dognose&query=DNF+0wn : CrustaR
    • O_o I hope for dognose that dnf does in fact own. : voodooraze
• Shit I gotta get my new computer bought'd soon. : Rotten Deadite
• I'm driving to CT to hug you : tomservo

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  gears of war maybe? : fufux
  • not on pc, I can't be competitive in console shooters, I plain suck with the controller. : paravis
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  So your sick of fast FPS but yet you mention 3 faster paces games then the first ones you mentioned? : razlebol
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    reading comprehension -1 : Fyunch Click
    • I got pwned! :( : razlebol
  • "sick of the lack of"... :) : fufux
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  play the gun game! it's a CS mod that's fun. : kbnerd
  • yeah I just played it but seriously. It's too slow and full of randomness/luck. : paravis
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  is huxley supposed to be fast paced? I haven't kept up on it at all but I assumed it would be a slow stat... : Zibro
  • Don't think there is much stats, it is supposed to play like an fps, and it's not really an "mmo" You joi... : razlebol
  • i've watched videos, and it looks like it's up there with UT in speed. : paravis
• Try BF2 with the Project Reality mod. It's pretty badass. : MagicWishMonkey

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  heh yeah, they have new stuff that uses aero in vista. I need to get around to setting that up. what do... : paravis
  • I am thinking I might use it for everything now, the jury is still out though. I had mainly downloaded it... : DarkWolf5
• I can't get that PanelsUI config to work :( : jambalaya king
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  I wish they'd just bite the fucking bullet and allow people to distribute preconfigured foobars. It's jus... : aeg1x
  • Uhhh, that is basically what I just did. Only thing I had to do was put in the color and font information... : DarkWolf5
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  I would heart you if you put up a guide/told us what you downloaded. I want to try this out. : nomaad
  • http://www.fooblog2000.com/ Brunal's PanelsUI config! Here's the updated one, fixes some things ... : jambalaya king
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    This is gonna be quick and dirty, but I promise to cuddle afterwards.... Anyway, all the files you nee : DarkWolf5
    • Wow thanks. I'll definitely check this out :D : nomaad
• I just whipped this up (using someone's uploaded cfg on the foobar forums :P) Pretty spiffy I say. It... : paravis
• looks awesome. i love foobar2k : wtf242
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  The default theme isn't ugly at all. Not everything has to look shiny to be considered good looking. I gu... : h0rus
  • I like shiny things. : asylumn
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  http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9966/clipboard03dx2.png this layout has served me well for probably... : jujubees
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    <3 Emotion : tomservo
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      I don't think that's the GTA Emotion if that's the one you are thinking of. Also check out these postcard... : sigpro
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        :O Where did you get those? : tomservo
        • Draconic hooked me up for my WE : sigpro
• http://knepus.googlepages.com/foobar2k.jpg Columns UI and albumart. I like to keep stuff simple : knepus

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• That is really awesome. : trelain
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  http://getfirebug.com/ That way you don't need to do any Ajax calls or other silly stuff. And you get ... : SilverSnake
  • Firebug + Web Developer Toolbar (w/EditCSS) is heaven : suqur
  • this is like browser independent firebug : sikander
• Cool. An option for when I can't use Firebug : action roommate
• time to remove all your posts :< : askedrelic
• This should take that whole "screenshot of a real news story" bit to a whole new level : Schnapple

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• Haha Google shares are valued at $451.12. I'm no stock broker, but that's fucking retarded. I predict a... : Phil
• I suppose it was inevitable. : CrustaR
• Yes...obviously Google is INTENTIONALLY violating copyright...because, you know...they have mind control ... : darklox
• Gee, didn't see that coming. : Fred Garvin

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• have you gotten your turtleneck and beret yet? : Fyunch Click
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  that store is the gayest store ive ever been in besides that one time when i went shopping for leather ch... : bozer
  • They actually carry those in larger Apple stores. : peanut-
  • I recently went to one and can 98% confirm the guy serving me was batting for the other side - not jokin... : abrasion
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  http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/12 : Fred Garvin
  • wooohoo cant wait. i've always been better than other people anyway! : disembodied potato
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  Are you equipped with Dave Matthews and Coldplay CDs? Birkenstocks? Two dogs? (preferably Golden Retrieve... : tomservo
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    i think you need to update your snobiness, i don't think people really listen to dave matthews anymore. : Mr.SEX
    • he lose brain : mikecyb
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      My snobbiness was a joke because I like categorizing people :o( They call him "Dave" : tomservo
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        oh i know it was a joke! but if we're going to be making derisive comments we need them to be as biting ... : Mr.SEX
        • hahaha oh okay :D : tomservo
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      also i sat here for about 5 minutes trying to come up with a suitable replacement for dave matthews band ... : Mr.SEX
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        John Mayer? : peanut-
        • ^^^^^^ I would like to scream at the top of my lunnnngss : tomservo
• ahahaha. This is a entertaining thread! : FormerHPB
• start driving a hybrid and sniffing your own farts. : metalremains

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• I'd keep the Oct 2006 one. but they'll both break eventually : aethyr
• Does one of them have the new quieter BenQ drive? : ThomW
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  you shouldn't have called them and had 2. : sigpro
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    Right. "A spare" : ThomW
    • pretty much. : sigpro
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  I congratulate you on your honesty, you're a better man than I. : abrasion
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    Oh yeah! You kept the second. Did they ever find out? I was talking to a tech lead at the Service Centr... : manlyman
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      Or was that someone else? Can someone confirm? : manlyman
      • I know silent wolf ended up with an extra one. I'm pretty sure another shacker may have also. : sigpro

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  Also, what do peeps recommend for silent midtower cases? : Ride-My-Rocket
  • ^^^ This is what I want to know. I'll probably be buying a new PC in the next 6 months to run Vista,... : Hiro
• I like my Antec Solo case. very nice, decent room inside, pretty quiet. : Fyunch Click
• bumping because i think people here probably have awesome (quiet) cases and i would like to own one as we... : knitemare

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• Dammit. I really want to get a puppy. :( : SilverSnake
• Nose like a licorice gumdrop : dognose
• oh my god cutest thing ever. EVER. : Yanks