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• Can you do it server side on ruby? : shirif
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  http://pear.php.net/package/Mail : danws6
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• <a href="mailto:feedback@yoursite.com?subject=website%20feedback">click here</a> : hankyJR

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• Think someone had the gain set a little too high when recording that. Also I prefer the Mario Land (or wh... : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RLHRZ0370Q : umegastar
  • ^^Yes, this one is awesome. : Wikus Van De Merwe
• This was the first game I got for the gameboy. I think I was like 11 or 12 and I thought it was hard as ... : pnkrckjoe
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joh2k1F4k6M&feature=related : Crabs Jarrard
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  Some of the stuff made by artists these days is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4i5FSPH9o... : DrWaffles
  • ha, I used to listen to a lot of Nullsleep while coding. : zakazi
• Not really good, but man does it define sitting with a GB playing games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... : zakazi
• Jurassic Park. Riding a huge nostalgia wave right now, but this music is pretty bodacious. http://www.... : Happy Doodle Muffin
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  dudes are still making music on that hardware, too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPq_Eo_lLhs http:/... : Veegeezee
  • Wow. If I heard that on an old NES I would have flipped out. Good stuff. : mikefr24
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  Wow, that was a great game. I still use the save password that I got just before beating that game as my... : TroZ
  • You know what's crazy? Back when I was eight, playing this on the original gameboy, I got tired of lookin : Wikus Van De Merwe
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  I love Ocean's robocop music for the gameboy : boring gegtik
  • That game was WAY too fucking hard. The 2nd level where you have to match the face parts in the computer?... : Wikus Van De Merwe
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdmmglXU9g : Vimn
• Tetris. How could it be anything but this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCCQxVBfyM : pgharavi
• I love chiptunes. : Vorlonesque
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpPWNOhJtqs : greasyjohn
• This isn't from a game, but I wrote it on my gameboy using LSDJ loaded onto a gameboy cartridge: http:... : CyCo_PL
• I would hear Pokemon music play even if I had stopped playing. : Total Exodus
• I loved that game. I beat it many times. : mikefr24
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  Super Mario Land has some great music too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUGPr9zlXPo&feature=related : mikefr24
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    Greatest Mario game of all time, period. I still have a copy of that game too and my gameboy lol/ : Warbird12345
    • I still got mine. I had to fix the screen a while back because it has vertical lines in it. : mikefr24
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  Final Fantasy Adventure, aka Secret of Mana prequel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aM2TtyX4iQ : Magitek
  • This and also final fantasy legend 2 aka saga 2 : razorblade79
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  Have you seen Trash80's Arduinoboy? It's a circuit for turning the Gameboy in to a MIDI controllable inst... : gingerninja
  • lolz, someone beat you to the gameboy beatles band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewtGdK56Ko : CyCo_PL
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  ZELDA (Ending): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGrBQuNy8s#t=2m40 : Durajim
  • Best version of the theme :D : Durajim
• Wow, I got front page'd!! THANKS SHACK! I ♥ you all!!! : Wikus Van De Merwe

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  For some reason this reminds me of a flight I took from Houston to London a llooong time ago. It was dark... : Visceral Monkey
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    I suppose it's the same as boats. They all use the same shipping/flight lanes : Strid3rtheGreat
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      Yeah, I would imagine so. Still, when your out there in the middle of the dark and see another plane, I h... : Visceral Monkey
      • They have flight lanes and paths they travel plus rules about minimum separation. : LoioshDwaggie
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  looks like an a340 below, i think : FrayLo
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    No it's an air plane : Strid3rtheGreat
    • Oh, now that you said it I see it too! : Lukiopimp
• looks like a hole in the window : alexpr
• Nice shot!! (you got a bullet hole in the window!) : dodob

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• I know I'm not the only early adopter retard around here with a droid, cmon. : KxRook
• My Droid only got bad when I installed third party ROMs. Reception has been fine and battery hasn't chan... : sukabljat
• mine still works fine, i usually have 4 bars unless i'm at work. : boomdeath
• Either of you in major cities? : KxRook
• Mine has been dropped so many times it only works in speakerphone. Other than that it works great and no ... : hashd
• my droid1 is still pretty flawless, got it the week it came out. : sreyes22

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  If it's going to be connected to a projector for 9 hours, why don't you just plug it into the wall during... : BlackCat9
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    VGA Adaptor takes up the slot for the power. Anyway, I can't downgrade. Fuck. : kramweil
    • Oh, that's a good point. Someone needs to make a charging dock that has a VGA port on it. : BlackCat9
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  I'm going to bed and not charging my iPad. It's at 82-81% now. Let's see what it is in the AM. : edgewise
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    The external display to a projector is the battery drainer, I believe. : kramweil
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      Really? If the main display is off, then it should last quite a bit longer than when it is. : famine101
      • The main display is now kept on for Keynote. It's the same usage I am putting it through, where I have... : kramweil
  • Mine seems to drain about 5% between when I go to sleep and when I wake up. : BlackCat9
  • for posterity's sake, I woke up and it's at 82% : edgewise

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  Most modern graphic card have scaling options in their drivers men. What's your gpu? : shirif
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    I've got a 460gtx. According to the nvidia control panel help file, the display scaling options should b... : lechuck59
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      Annnd there are none. Okay. I guess I'm out of luck. : lechuck59
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        For what it's worth, I've an ASUS VE248H, and I'm running Windows 7. : lechuck59
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          I don't have a nvidia card anymore but with my 8800, I remember some scaling options in the driver contro... : PointlesS76
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            Also make sure you're in advanced mode (or whatever it's called) instead of basic. : PointlesS76
            • There is no Basic/Advanced mode in the latest drivers... And the setting your looking for should be u... : Shadowdane
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          what are you using: VGA, DVI or HDMI ? : azuvatar
          • HDMI : lechuck59
    • This sounds promising : http://blog.bruteforcetech.com/index.php/archives/494 : shirif
• The latest nVidia drivers seem to do it automatically now (don't know why it took so long). I've played a... : ShoCon
• If all else fails, the controls for the monitor should have some options. : overkill
• Look at your monitor settings. Most modern, widescreen LCDs allow you to set content scale. My monitor ha... : Goblin au
• my Dell monitor had stretch to fit set on it no matter what resolution, so I had to turn that off. other... : jimmy_legs

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• I don't know, but let me know if it works. I'm not expecting iDOS to do any 3d games very well. Even Wolf... : BlackCat9
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  Is there no way to mount your CD drive in iDos? : dognose
  • I'm sure there is, but I don't know enough dos to try it.. :( : Snif DeCrac

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  What is this thing? Is it a...hand? GIVE ME ALL YOU'VE GOT, HAND! : ConfusedUs
  • lol : Godhatesfatpeople
• Looks terrible. : baron calamity
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  what is this ? why is he wearing magneto's hat : GloriousCow
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    Because he is Magneto. : baron calamity
    • it looks like magneto's son is playing dress-up : dirge23
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      if he's young magneto why does his outfit look all futuristic and shit : GloriousCow
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        director Matthew Vaughn say the costumes "are like these cool 60’s James Bond." I don't see it ei... : baron calamity
        • A 60s helmet would be a football helmet painted gold. : cerealSAM2
• what character is this? whoever designed that helmet botched it : dirge23
• Looks hokey... really after seeing the first promo shot, its pretty obvious it'll suck, I had to think ab... : Q-ball

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• Nice. : RomSteady
• nice ! : shirif
• holy shit awesome : Downforce
• O_O : Godhatesfatpeople
• really well done. very good : lokdown
• Wow, great use of taunts. : pigvomit
• :D This is great : kikilupo
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  These are amazing. They surpass the originals. Haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-MKyb_h3I&featu... : pigvomit
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    Heavy Bieber fucking kills me, every time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmIzxO0-n4&feature=related : laurgasms
    • That is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too well done. : Happy Doodle Muffin
    • hahaha. man, this is hilarious : Mmmmmoo
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  YESSSSSSSS : Moonbase Commander
  • Oh God, NOPE. : Moonbase Commander
• Fucking awesome. : disposition
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  Charlie is in the real video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U : supermonkeyballz
  • hes got a lot of tats and been workin out : supermonkeyballz
  • who cares about charlie that is way too much hot chick for one video. Thank god rhianna and megan fox are... : goatboy
• Holy crap that's talent. : bling1bling
• this is awesome : wendigo
• Wow... Me likes. : ramshot
• Hahahaha, this is awesome! : Aldebrand
• ^_^ : felicia
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  A++++ : terath
  • Also, hell yes: http://www.youtube.com/user/mymapagainstyourcash#p/u/1/j52Rrv-3bw0 : terath
• I have never heard the original--and don't care to--but I really liked this. Catchy! : Wikus Van De Merwe
• Top marks! : node
• haha, this is excellent. : pixelat3d
• lol why is this listed under suggestions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQp5l4-sfFA : gyokuro
• this is fucking amazing! : marmite
• Lol. Hahaha. : Snipergen
• awesome! : mmaster_pw
• Excellent! : baron calamity

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  Play hardcore, problem solved. More difficulty, less shots to kill = less actual or perceived hit detecti... : moe6
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Milleh
  • I cannot snipe in that game, I believe because of that. So I just rep the medic :D : disposition

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  Yea, I've yet to find a game like that I can do. Peggle, We Doodle, and the like I am all about. : rosewood
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    Peggle and MovieCat are my go-to games. : dognose
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      Moviecat, we doodle, angry birds and 1000 rogues : Visceral Monkey
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        I wish MovieCat could let you omit comedy and chickflick. I would 0wn that game so hard. : dognose
        • This is why you play it on an iPad with a friend! :D : dodob
    • Oh and KaPowie. : dognose
• This is why they are 99 cents, right? : Nixx2004
• Need a startup to make a plug in control setup for iOS devices. analog stick and a few buttons that cradl... : afrochops
• and the games that require touch screen controls keep getting more advanced. why people are buying them,... : dantastic
• Yup. Touch screen controls are fucking terrible for games. : boarder2
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  Scrabble is what the iPad gets used for 90% of the time I shit you not : d fluke
  • I play Scrabble on my iPod Touch every day on the way to work :( The balance is way off though - norma... : peanut-
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  I find they're ok on the iPad if done well, but on the iPhone, you're better off using gyroscope or accel... : BlackCat9
  • those did look pretty effective. : Slowtreme
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  Need to design games around the inputs available, not design the inputs around the game. Good: Angry b... : jake
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    cod on ios?! : spiderfill
    • CoD: Zombies. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/call-of-duty-zombies/id338057689?mt=8 : BlackCat9
  • I bought Fruit Ninja the other day after hearing a lot of excited talk, but I think it's shitty. After le... : peanut-
• I find minigore quite convincing I'm waiting for a linear oldschool scrolling shooter with bosses and cov... : imperator
• Dungeon Hunter 2 does a pretty good job of it. : tsuba
• controls sucks especially for 3d games, i think games on smartphones should stick to simple 2d games : hanged_man
• Has anybody played SF4 on the iphone? My friend keeps saying he's going to buy an Iphone just for that ga... : thecray
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  That's a general rule for mobile games if they use on screen virtual buttons : razorblade79
  • Rule #1, Do not use on-screen virtual buttons. : dodob
• Street Fighter IV and Real Racing 2 really work. Doom Classic too. : kramweil
• They will suck as long as devs try to use traditional control analogs. Reminds me of the music industry ... : dael
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  GameDev Story. <fin> : geedeck
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    They need to make more games like this. : baron calamity
    • It's pretty much the perfect iPhone game imho. I actually feel guilty for buying it on sale now. :( : geedeck
• I found the controls for SF4 on the iPhone were pretty good - better than I expected in fact. : skitfish
• I don't usually have problems with them. : prime8

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• hmm, looks like it could be good : bad_fish
• Picard: "That was... thrilling, Number One." : Wikus Van De Merwe
• Hmm, it appears there's no QuickTime support in ChromeOS. : Agrona
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  Ugh, QT crashed FF again. : Fred Garvin
  • Why do you even install that junk? Quicktime Alternative still works fine. : Sludgehead
• I read the book. It's Roswell meets twilight... Yuk. : ArtilleryMarker
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  hahaha orange and blue : Sailor of Fortune
  • It's true, now that I know it's EVERYWHERE : FiReaNG3L
• That looks pretty bad. : dodob
• Timothy Olyphant, WHAT UP! : MeestaNob
• michael bay, i'll pass. : disembodied potato
• flash version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5djHG3hPu0 : GloriousCow
• I thought that was Dolph Lundgren in the poster and was all excited for a second. I'm a sucker for crappy... : TrulyVexed
• looks pretty lame plotwise at least. Maybe if i was 13 years old it might look cooler. : gyokuro
• maybe if you're a 13 year old girl. I shot all the promos for that movie and it is clearly an attempt to ... : rodneystubbs
• Girlfriend read the books, said this looks like shit already. : Nerdsbeware

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  what song is that? sound cut out for me at like 2min and i was enjoying the song :(. Festival looks coo... : StolenNosferatu
  • whoa yea...the encode got messed i guess...i'll have to re-rencode :( Santogold - Lights Out : vassili_zaitsev
• Can't view it on my phone, but I did get a kick out of donuts being the preview image on a video titled n... : tinfoilhatter
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  What the fuck is ice wine? : Albemuth
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    It's a dessert wine that's chilled before serving. Also it apparently is made from grapes that have been ... : famine101
    • Traditionally, yes. The grapes are allowed to freeze naturally on the vine and are pressed while still f... : Arcanum
  • a syrupy concoction of the devil : vassili_zaitsev
  • very very syrupy sweet dessert wine. no thx : supaLink
  • Desert wine / womands wine. : Lukiopimp
• Nice video! : dodob

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• thats nice. : StolenNosferatu
• Too Fast Too Furious: Chatlog Drift : paulatreus
• This is the kind of story known by my friends and I as a "Dane story". Sounds good to share in your head... : NGFodder
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  That would have made a great fukung gif. : tinfoilhatter
  • If I tried it again I'm sure I'd end up slipping the curb and driving into the bank : rosewood

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  KeyRing for Android lets you scan all those rewards cards and put them on your phone with one app. It own... : ConfusedUs
  • I know, but a lot of scanners seem to have a problem with this. My GNC card didn't work when I used some ... : yoonix
  • I tried this with two of my cards, neither worked at the register. Needs a better implementation! : Rasnowl
• You need cardstar sir. : rnpvenom
• Me personally? If I was in charge of promoting a company card I would push this shit into the stratospher... : HL3dsx

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• That is amazing on the outside : timaste
• that's awesome : smoove
• Whoa. : ConfusedUs
• God I bet the food is so fucking good in there : dognose
• Not exactly rejecting material things, are they? : greasyjohn
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  Lol, what the fuck is with Keanu, and what Quake game is that one dude from? : locater16
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    You're probably looking at Bumblebee. : greasyjohn
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      Standing on Anakin's podracer, not rocket ships as the subtitle suggests. : Rich McNinch
      • lol nice catch : rodneystubbs
• I took the wrong pill. : orgcaptainnemo
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  That is impressive, the hands reaching up is pretty damn disturbing though. : shortbuscaptain
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    yeah, i'm going to have nightmares of them pulling in that little girl. also has anyone here seen the seq... : rodneystubbs
    • Return to Oz is FILLED with nightmares : Shangman
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  I wanted to see this temple while I was in Thailand, but all the natives there said that it wasn't that i... : BlackCat9
  • man, there is just nothing that cool looking in the US. (man-made at least). Although a totally different... : rodneystubbs
  • I'm gonna be in Chang Rai in roughly a week or two, will ignore the locals and snap some pics for the Sha... : sonicdeathwalrus
• They forgot to mention Mandelbrot : Draugluin

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  The Box - very neatly packed..a little too neat :/ http://www.shackpics.com/files/01_thebox_fbyy15ibnvpr... : IcomeINpeace
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    Some good quality product pics you made there! : surround
    • thanks! : IcomeINpeace
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  So general ignorance; if I understand WE correctly we randomly are assigned people to dump regift give r : On the Brane
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    Message sikander. : ant_hillbilly
    • done, thanks :D : On the Brane
• WE is fun! : quazar
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  Sweet! Looks like a pretty good haul . . . I haven't gotten my WE yet - nor have I heard anything f... : fuzzydamnit
  • I assume you message your sender via shackapp? : IcomeINpeace

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  Tell them to suck a bag of cocks and pay to ship it back to them and send you one that works. : ant_hillbilly
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    They didn't test it before they sent it out? : ant_hillbilly
    • they are supposed to - I fear that the boxing day sale backlog meant that corners were cut : Milleh
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  *update* running prime95 alone seems to be ok, but furmarks always hardlocks, this latest time it shut th... : Milleh
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    Or bad videocard. The power on thing could be a bad PSU or just bad connection on the 2-wire power butto... : agcrouton
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      Too bad i dont have a spare video card to test with : Milleh
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        You could try underclocking the GPU/Memory on the card. What do you have? : agcrouton
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          6950, though now the whole thing won't even turn on, so looks like ill rma this shit back later this week... : Milleh
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            Hate RMA'ing stuff. But NCIX are pretty swell guys from my experience. : agcrouton
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              yea :( how does it work if they pay for shipping, they give you a label to print off or something? Tha... : Milleh
              • Yeah, they'll send you a link to an RMA label, you just print and slap it in a FedEx/UPS pouch on the sid... : agcrouton
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            From what i've read any drivers that support the 6950 will detect furmark running and put the gpu into po... : nem00
            • hmm, well that supports my faulty psu theory even more then : Milleh
• LOL, that's what you get for buying Canadian! : Crabs Jarrard
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  Does it have an ASUS P67 motherboard in it by chance? : jingletard
  • p7p55d-e lx - why do you ask? : Milleh
• All signs point to power supply issue i think, boooooo : Milleh
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  Won't even power on now. PSU : Milleh
  • Yuck -- I have a P7P55D based system and I have one of these power supplies and love it: http://www.c... : Dolemite
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  Sounds like the power supply may not be strong enough for all of the components involved. : Dolemite
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    It's 600W though, total system draw for the sum of my parts comes in at around 400W. : Milleh
    • Actually, total consumption is closer to 300 than 400, so in terms of absolute supply I should have way m... : Milleh

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• I've always used Turbotax Deluxe and find it pretty easy and intuitive to use. They have a free version ... : riptyde
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  TaxACT.com does your federal return for free, and charges you for the state one. Since I live in Texas (... : jimmy-buffett
  • This is what I use. It works well enough. : SuperKoopa
  • This is what I do (also in Texas). Super easy and free. : nurglich
  • been using this the past few years : opengl128
  • Been using this since 07. I'll continue to use it until I move to a State that has a state income tax. : coraldayton
  • recommended. just filed my taxed last weekend and they were approved 2 days ago. : varsindarkin
• just pay an accountant to do it. : shirif
• This is the first year that I just don't feel confident doing my taxes anymore. 1. Between my wife an... : virus
• Tax act is good, it's only like $17 maybe. Although as an future accountant I urge you to seek professio... : i38warhawk
• I've used TurboTax the last few years and been happy with it. : hirez
• I've used turbotax and taxact several times over the last few years. Turbotax would be the way to go if y... : boarder2
• turbotax.com is the big daddy : watcherxp
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  Turbotax and I've already filed mine. : Strid3rtheGreat
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    wow, you've already gotten all your documents?! I think I've received my first one today! :/ It always dr... : bad_fish
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      By tax documents you mean W-2's, Then yes. My tax situation is simple as hell and only requires me hit th... : Strid3rtheGreat
      • you lucky son of a bitch :) : bad_fish
    • One of my clients told me last year that he didn't have to send out his 1099 statements to vendors until ... : laurgasms
• in Canada www.taxchopper.ca is nice and simple : lord_omega
• Don't bother to file -- they'll just send you a bill in a few years. : Dolemite
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