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  1. t0rek

    How much do you seed?

    Just wondering if you only leech and close your torrent client, or instead seed for a while or until a ratio is reached. I usually seed until I get a 1.0 ratio, what about you guys?
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    5.1 Stupid Question

    OK, everyone knows that speakers 5.1 surround speakers positions are 3 frontal speakers: left, center, and right. And two rear speakers, left and right, of course. But where's the recommended location for the subwoofer speaker. I heard it is recommended to put it on the floor, and that is the...
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    DTS Sound test and stuff

    I use Media Player Classic for video palyback. It works with 5.1 Dolby Digital playback so far. However I just got a movie with DTS sound, and I'm not sure if the rear speakers are giving away the sound. So I am wondering if you guys know where to download a test file, for it. I currently don't...
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    External Accesories and gadgets thread

    Hey, just opened this thread to see what external accesories and gadgets you people have. We always talk about our main system specs (CPU, mobo, RAM, videocard) but let's talk about the other stuff, like what display do you have, keyboard, mouse, display, etc. Let's also talk about what gadgets...
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    I am losing my DVDRW drive?

    I was about to watch some anime, so I loaded a DVD, and was surprised that the thing wast stalled reading the thing and didn't work. So I rebooted with the same results. Since I was using Vista, I rebooted again, this time using XP and the thing worked, so I was curious and went back to Vista...
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    Videocard question

    A friend of mine, got a new videocard. It's a Radeon 1650Pro AGP: http://www.amazon.com/HIS-X1650Pro-DDR2-Graphics-Card/dp/B000PCBGNI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1198894992&sr=1-1 As you guys should already know this kind of card would not require to be connected to the PSU if it was...
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    E-Mail Client Recomendation

    Now that Gmail uses IMAP I'm interested in using an e-mail client application. I know how to setup them properly. However, I haven't used them intensively. So it's just for basic stuff, just read and send e-mail. I have Office 2007, but the Outlook thing seems very big a complex to me, so it...
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    I Need a Registry Expert!

    My friend has an USB drive, but suddenly it stopped working on her notebook. The USB drive works flawlessly in any other PC, including mine. Any other USB drives or USB devices work fine on her notebook. The USB drive just simply doesn't appear using Windows Explorer. So far, I've tried this...
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    I survived death

    I must say that I didn't cry when I tasted it... http://www.deathsauce.com.au/megadeath.html
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    Otakus

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=wM-e5p5nPbI
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    Soundcard recommendation

    I'm planning to buy a set of 5.1 speakers, and in order to get the best of them I have forget about of my current onboard sound. Almost everyone that has a PCI soundcard has a Sound Blaster. I know it's very ood hardware, but they are being criticized too much lately for poor drivers support...
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    Merging SRT subtitles into DVD

    As the title says, I can't figure out how to merge SRT subtitles into DVD video format. Anyway to do it?
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    Rebuild of Evangelion trailer

    It's already old news, but for those you don't know, there will be for new movies that will retell the story of Evangelion, and the series wil be called "Rebuild of Evangelion". There's a lot of info about this in Wikipedia, for those that want to know, here's a link...
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    Rammstein song?

    I got a file called "Rammstein - X" but I can't find any info about the song, or if it's even really a Rammstein song, and I'll attach the file with low bitrate, so do you guys have any info about the song?
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    Problem with filenames

    I friend of mine burned me a DVD using Linux. Now when i access the files in Windows, they are there and work, but filenames have weird names, but they are ok on Linux. How I can fix that?
  16. t0rek

    Windows Sidebar not loading

    I have a weird problem, the Windows sidebar is not loading on startup, is configured to do so. I ran msconfig and is listed there to run on startup, what else can I do?
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    Triple Booting Question

    Yes I know, lot of t0rek's threads. I'm in vacations right now, so I have plenty of time... Back on topic, I currently have three partitions, one is used by Vista and stuff, other i used by XP, and other for miscellaneous stuff. I have plenty space in the third one, so I'm planning to install...
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    Utorrent Vista problem

    I always have the "listen error" in the status bar, with a red "!" sign. According to uTorrent FAQ found on therir homepage it means I'm just using the bundled Windows Firewall, and uTorrent have permissions there. Well I'm able to dowload stuff but this is starting to piss me of because it...
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    Codec Stuff / Hardware acceleration

    I some Matroska files that has H264 video @ 720p, and that's needs a lot of processing power to decode. My CPU has the power to do it, but since I have a 7600GS, I want it to use the hardware acceleration it offers. The files are MKV container files. Do you guys know where I have to start? I'm...
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    MP3 Player recommendation

    I'm planning to buy a new MP3 player, a simple and little one. I'm not interested in video playback, just wanna have a very compact thing to play my music. So far I looked into these two: Creative Zen Nano Plus Sandisk Sansa Express But I haven't decided yet. Which one do you think is better...

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