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mmrmnhrm

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  1. What you want is called a tandem breaker. Takes up a single slot, provides two low-voltage circuits coming off a single pole (as opposed to a double-pole breaker, which takes up two slots and gives one high voltage circuit).
  2. Hats off to your dad and the guys who went there with him. They still don't get the respect they're due.
  3. Pay careful attention to the "This side faces out" label, and use more.
  4. Wat... wut???!? No. You can't power the PC directly from the battery 100% of the time, otherwise you'll drain the battery and have no more power. For the eddification of the populace, 3 types of UPS systems: Offline: These are the cheapest of the cheap, meant for nothing more than saving your work and turning off. What you have on the input is what comes out the output, with a cursory amount of surge protection. When you have a power blip of any sort, it cuts over to battery. Save quick and shut down until the power gets back to normal. Line-Interactive / AVR: Better than an offline, and able to adjust for brown-outs or surges without changing over to battery power. What I'd recommend for most home users, but again, save and shut down if it looks like the power's going to be wonky for more than just a few minutes. Business-type units can have extra batteries slapped on to keep their servers running for an hour or two before shutting down. Online: Bridge-rectifier front end, capacitor-backed internal DC bus, sinewave inverter output. This is the high-end system meant for serious business and network gear. You can almost always strap extra batteries to these, and they're also generator-compatible (unlike the offline and LI/AVR systems, which see the frequency wiggle as bad power and cut to battery).
  5. You've apparently never seen or heard of QueenyLove.
  6. I personally have never had much luck with FM transmitters, though the aux jack on my Civic has been pretty decent. Best I can suggest is to make sure you've got a stereo cable (two colored rings on the plug) between the device and the aux socket. That way if you're sending stereo signals, they don't interfere with each other, and if it's mono (doubtful but possible), you're still covered.
  7. mmrmnhrm

    Lebron

    I'm just waiting to see what the diagnosis on the elbow really is. *NOBODY* just up and heaves a free-throw with their opposite hand on a whim, not even Rodman.
  8. If by "meat" you mean "hot dog," then yes. Except on this one, the dude actually puts his finger against it, too.
  9. Be happy you're not in Duluth. They've got snow
  10. And that was my first... Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, 8in floppy drive, 64k RAM, monochrome white-on-black screen. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/tandy_trs80-model2_2.jpg
  11. 216-368-3888 > @cleveland.freenet.edu
  12. Hmm... maybe I ought to see if any of the modems I have lurking around still work, and if so, throw VBBS on just for shits and giggles. I've still got the install file to Esterian Conquest and some kind of VGA Planets facilitator, as well as 'TheDraw' for making menus. Was co-sysop of 'Capsized Brains', and classmates with the owners of 'Q Continuum' and 'Computer High'. Favorite games included 'Global War' (aka RISK), Solar Realms Elite/Barren Realms Elite/Alpha Colony 6 (I found a very evil exploit in the inflation mechanics which allowed me to basically destroy anybody coming out of the 20-turn protection time, regardless of how powerful they were originally), Legend of the Red Dragon (screenshot kindly provided)
  13. I just wish an officer would take up residence at the Hard Rd exit of the Sawmill Center plaza. There's a "No Left Turn" sign there that would be a total gold mine. And why am I pointing this one out yet again? Because some idjit insisted on making a left into crowded traffic, and held up the whole damned Sawmill intersection during rush hour again.
  14. Andy, what was the stuff you used on my hood, against that paint blob I had painted over the large gravel chip? It might get those water spots out.
  15. I've got a Whistler 1655 you can have for free just for coming to pick it up. Got it maybe 10 years ago, so I dunno if it'll detect current tech, but it does have the three main radar bands (X, K, and Ka) plus laser.
  16. "french military victories" together with the 'I'm feeling lucky' button
  17. I'm not sure if the best part of this pic is.... A- That Linn posted it, and I don't feel the urge to :barf: B- That Linn is too low for the hoes C- The very impressive texture/contrast in the storm cloud (polarizing filter, maybe?)
  18. Or the folks getting pulled over are from out-of-town. Sorta like how *EVERYBODY* in Cleveland knows about the Linndale trap on I-71, yet those guys never have to wait long before finding some idjit to pull over.
  19. Never heard of these guys, and I'm fairly certain Chase's support is handled by/through SARCOM.
  20. How far are you willing to go with these guys? If they choose to fight you just about getting unemployment, it may be time to get a lawyer on retainer to write a nastygram reminding them of their responsibility to pay your PTO, that documentation exists to prove they are perjuring themselves with respect to your unemployment compensation, and continued obstruction will result in legal action seeking a jury trial for statutory, compensatory, and punitive damages. Companies don't like nastygrams very much, especially when faced with the possibility of 12 angry people who, in this economic climate, would love nothing more than to stick it to 'the man'.
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