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WMV joiner

I am looking for a program that will allow me to combine multiple wmv files. Sure, there are plenty of programs like that out there. But I’m looking for one that has a batch feature. Anyone?

Brightkite

Hi,

I’d like to join , but the site currently requires invites in order to become a member. Does anyone have an invite they could send my way?

Thanks!

Brennan

Whats a Good printer to get?

Hey Guys,
I’ve been doing some research on some printers to purchase for a newly formed company.

What we are trying to do is print brochure inserts. We have ordered custom brochure folders already but now we plan to print the inserts ourselves.

What is a good printer for this? a printer that is under 500.00

Thanks in advance
good? under 500? something you’re going to give to customers?

no.
I’m assuming you’re going to want to print in color, so Ink Jet is your preferred option in that case. If you are printing a lot, look for a printer that has a low cost per page. Basically, the main difference that I’ve found is when you get a cheap printer it uses ink cartridges that are half filled while a more expensive printer gets a full cartridge. So, for the same $30 per cartridge you get more prints out of the full cartridge and thus lower cost per page.
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Got a new monitor and am having a strange problem

So my new monitor I got hates me. Reasons I came to this conclusion are: My resolution(s) don’t fit my screen, I have to move the mouse to the top of the screen to go up and see the top of windows, I have to move the mouse down to see my taskbar and stuff down at the bottom, same for right and left sides of the screen. Does anyone have any idea what might fix this or maybe even cause it?

Here’s how I went about installing the monitor, just in case the questions come up and someone might know: I shutdown my computer, unplugged monitor one and moved it to monitor two slot on the video card. Monitor is now on my floor with the new monitor plugged into the monitor one slot. I then turned out power and installed the stuff on the CD that came with said new monitor, drivers and some application that came with it. I hit update drivers and everything is up to date. Rather confusing as either I fail at Google or it just doesn’t want to show me what I want to know.
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Photo of my new pagefile.

Yeah bwoiee.

I have no idea what possessed me to do this, but I bought a 300x CF card and a CF-to-IDE adaptor to use it with, then I set it to be my Z: drive and put a 1.8GB pagefile on it. I figured it would benefit from the virtually-nonexistent random seek times that FLASH memory has, and that 300x (45MB/s) would be fast enough to be useful. I was right; PCMark05 reported a consistent increase in HDD performance of about 500 points, and more importantly, my HDDs are quieter, especially on bootup — which actually matters when your boot disk consists of three fucking Raptors that sound like coffee grinders on a good day.
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google apps?

any of you guys use this at your office?

we just found out that someone had created a site for our company. now that we have have control over it, the ‘create an account here’ button is missing from the sign in page.

any idea on how to get it back?

HTML META pass values

So I have this bit of code written as a php in html:

echo "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]">";

How do i pass it another value that i define (baud_rate=9)?
been doing this stuff for about a week, so if there’s any ideas i’d love em
echo "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]&baud_rate=9">";
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Recommendations for…..

a free cd/dvd/image burning program? I’ve used Nero in the past and was just wondering if there is anything better out there right now? Thanks.
Nero is indeed a bloated piece of crap. I use Deepburner Free.

on XP, nero was excellent. it doesn’t work for me on vista so i switched to cdburnerxp which works, but is shit.
I wish someone would port K3B to Windows. I love that program.

How can I forward email sent to a domain?

I had a website…but there hasn’t been anything there forever.

The only thing I’m using the webspace for at this point is forwarding the email I get at that domain to my gmail account.

If I cancel it, how I can I keep getting my domain email forwarded? Is there a service somewhere?

Thanks
so, you cancel a domain, you still want to be able to receive mail from it?
i don’t think so

what happens if someone else starts the domain back up?
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Gateway laptop burned my nephew

So, my brother was telling me that his son fell asleep with his Gateway laptop running. He ended up getting a bunch of 2nd degree burns on his arms where the fan was blowing out. Now, I know laptops are hot, but that is nuts.
it happens. pretty common on dell and macs.

…. or this is another pun for P07 since he sackrides gateway?
hm i guess cuz of the length of time that it was sitting on his arm for or was it really just that fucking hto?
honestly, i don’t think that gateways really run much hotter than at least some other laptop brands.
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