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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Raid Config issue
« on: January 21, 2011, 08:43:22 AM »
You have to rebuild a server which had 2 sas 146 gb disks.

One of them breaks down and you have to act. There is another disk available, different size and different speed. Will you use that one in your raid config and risk performance issue? Or go for one disk and take a redundancy risk?


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Anarchy / Facebook
« on: August 17, 2010, 04:56:27 PM »
Which of you lovely people is on Facebook? I think of making a page and international relatives make me look cool.

Same goed for linkedin of course  :mrgreen:

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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Important! Must read!
« on: February 19, 2010, 06:36:33 PM »
NO JOKE...

READ AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs.

If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Please share it with everyone that might access the Internet.

Press the forward button on your email program and send this notice to EVERYONE you know.

Let's keep our email safe for everyone



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Anarchy / Happy New Year!
« on: January 01, 2010, 12:34:46 PM »
A happy new year to all of you!
I myself had a beautiful meal followed bij some WII play. Decent lighting of some firework and then topped it of with emptying some champagne bottles.

What did you lot do?

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Flamer's Corner / Noobs
« on: November 21, 2009, 06:11:27 PM »
How annoying.

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Entertainment / Bonding
« on: November 17, 2009, 07:49:01 PM »
I liked the joke:

A visitor from Holland was chatting with his American friend and was jokingly explaining about the red, white and blue in the Netherlands flag.

“Our flag symbolizes our taxes,” he said. “We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bill, and blue after we pay them.”

“That’s the same with us,” the American said, “only we see stars, too.”

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Entertainment / Buckcherry
« on: November 15, 2009, 03:48:02 PM »
Clicking through some rock vids on YT i found a band named Buckcherry. I really like their music. Any words on them? Found some info on their official website and WP but I have no idea how big they are. So, are they well known?

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Entertainment / Bill O' Who?
« on: August 21, 2009, 03:55:32 PM »
Who is this Bill O' Reilly? There was an item on Dutch tv about how he is bashing our little capitol and how some Dutch guy is reacting to that.

Look on youtube for "the truth about amsterdam" for background info

Who is this fossil?




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Homework Help / How it's done, Part Two: Modifying mp3's for dummies
« on: July 10, 2009, 03:28:09 PM »
When modifying MP3 files downloaded from youtube or grabbed from other sources there is mainly two things you want to change, cut out parts like comments and applause and modifying the volume.


How to do that??


Very simple:


Download Direct Cut here:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_software/mp3_tools/mp3directcut.cfm

Install the program and start it up.


In this case I took Kevin Skinners performance on America's got talent because I secretly love country ....

The start file is the youtube video downloaded and converted as posted earlier.

Click file/open and choose the file.

Then push play and wait for the moment you want your new mp3 to start, click "set begin"

then ffw or wait till the desired end, then click "set end"

You see a part of the file with diagonal stripes, that's your selection:





Then click edit and choose "crop"

Voila, long introduction talk and jury comments are cut off and you have your song.


Volume:

It's very irritating when you listen to a bunch of mp3's and you constantly have to adjust the volume because one is loud and the

other almost complete silence.

It's very easy. We take our file

Choose edit and then "normalize"

The program checks your file and suggest the amount of Db that would make a nice volume level.

Click Ok and you're done.

If you want it to be louder you can play with the "Gain" option.



There are a few other nice features but that is for you to find out.This is just a short how to..








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Homework Help / How it's done, Part one: Record music from youtube.
« on: July 02, 2009, 03:13:07 PM »
Wow! You see a cool video on youtube and you definitely want that one on your MP3 player.How to accomplish that:

First you go here:

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm

Download and install the free converter. Start the program and your internet browser.

Go to youtube and find your favourite video. Copy the link from your address bar.

Go to the converter and press the "paste" button. Optionally you can choose a different music quality.

The file will download and a few minutes later you have your mp3.


Note: 256 kbps only makes sense if you watch/record HQ youtube video's


Must haves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1lQckuU0Y#noexternalembed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHretilk00o#noexternalembed












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Entertainment / Be honest and play fair.
« on: June 05, 2009, 03:32:29 PM »
Of course you can look it up but the aim of this little game is useless info.

If you honestly could answer this question within 10 secs you can do the next one.


"What was Tom Cruise's call sign in Top Gun?"

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Anarchy / Say Hi thread
« on: May 25, 2009, 09:30:33 AM »
Hi Detta ! :-D


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Anarchy / The Shoutbox
« on: March 13, 2009, 07:30:42 PM »
The new shoutbox gives a very nice twist to the forum. Of course things get typed there which are humorous, insulting, stupid etc.

so this is a Hectar thread for the shoutbox

This one made me *almost* spray my sip of wine over the keyboard


"[Today at 02:26:49 AM] BizB: waitwhat?

so, flame away


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Flamer's Corner / Abraham Lincoln
« on: May 18, 2008, 07:24:51 PM »
so.....

I watched national treasure part 2 tonight, being a history addict i browsed the internet for facts that would lead me to a next victory in Trivia

I looked up Abe to refresh me and:
It is very widely known that the reason you are looking at this page is because you are doing a school project,a nd I would like to inform you that this website is not a verifiable source. Imagine, if you will, that my intentions were worse and I had changed all the legitimate facts on this page just to make you fail. I could, you know. I already wrote all of this, right? Enjoy your project. And use another source.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a month after the war's end. Before his election as President, Lincoln was a lawyer, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.


remarkable

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Entertainment / Red Hot Chili Peppers
« on: April 13, 2008, 03:47:49 PM »
Last night Dutch tv broadcasted an excellent RHCP documentary. Of course voice over is jibby jabbie for you folks but if you like the peppers it's an hour well spent.

http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/

You'll know where to click

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Anarchy / Natalee Holloway
« on: January 31, 2008, 05:35:17 PM »
Since it has been discussed before I hereby drop a link which sheds some light on the case:

http://www.volkomenkut.com/

This is a transcript of the dutch crime reporter with the attorney of Aruba


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Entertainment / Rather funny
« on: January 23, 2008, 04:31:41 AM »
This one has been around, but for those who missed it:

http://www.vkmag.com/videos/videos_als_internet_een_party_zou_zijn/




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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Enlighten me please
« on: November 09, 2007, 05:21:59 AM »
I need a quick method to replace 300 normal.dot template files with a new one. Does anyone of you know what is the quickest way to accomplish this ?

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Anarchy / Now that's smart !
« on: September 14, 2007, 03:09:50 PM »
2 weeks ago we had our yearly village festivities. That means a big tent, live music and loads of beer.

Example picture:



Of course with that comes a lot peeing and there at not enough toilets available. Now the fine for peeing outside is 60$. But since they didn't want a lot of hassle and possible agressive behaviour, they lowered the fine to 5$ for that night .

Note: peeing inside on the toilets is 25 cents.

All money coming from the fines that night would go to charity. They raised over 1500 $ and there was no trouble at all.

That's smart !

When was the last time you tought, "hey, that's smart !" ?


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Flamer's Corner / What do you wish for ATM ?
« on: September 14, 2007, 05:00:09 AM »
A printer/copier helpdesk person who DOES know something about the products they sell.



And fresh coffee...

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Entertainment / Connections ???
« on: March 23, 2007, 02:56:41 AM »
Frank Zappa vs. Mother's Finest.

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Entertainment / What's up with Poker ?
« on: January 11, 2007, 08:16:29 AM »
I know some of you play online poker. Do you still do it with the new laws in the US and if so which website ?

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Anarchy / Google Earth Locations.
« on: August 30, 2006, 06:18:04 AM »
Got an interesting Google Earth location ? Post them here:

Attached is where I live.

Rename the .txt to .kmz

@chris: is it possible to enable .kmz as uploadable filetype ?

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Anarchy / A new job part 2
« on: August 01, 2006, 03:51:08 PM »
Hello  Folks,

I got a new job at Microsoft and it ended today. For the last three months I was product manager for the new internet explorer. Version 7 was coming up and I tought I had everything covered. One part was to claim several internet domains so people could be informed about our wonderful new version. One month ago my boss reminded me that in geekworld Internet Explorer is often called IE among the incrowd of the internet. I thanked him for the tip but forgot about it. Now I am fired

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