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I can't get to sleep.

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- Samalama
- Post #2
- Nov 9, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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can you pay in a check to a bank that isnt your bank?

Well you can cash a check at practically any bank, but if you're trying to deposit the check into an account you have with Chase then you'll have to go to a Chase branch.
- Samalama
- Post #3
- Aug 22, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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A few Win 7 questions before making the switch

Switching to a Release Candidate? Why not just wait until October? But to answer your questions... 1. I would recommend 64 bit, especially if you are running or intend to run more than 4 GB of RAM. 2. I cannot answer this one. Too unfamiliar with their version numbers. 3. From what...
- Samalama
- Post #2
- Jun 4, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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3AM hangovers....

who drinks wine? malt whiskey ftw
- Samalama
- Post #5
- May 31, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Bank Question

Well, overdraft protection essentially means that if you overdraw your account then your bank will immediately pay the remainder of what is owed. However, most banks only cover you up to a certain amount, in my case it's $500 I believe. So if I were you, I wouldn't worry about it too much...
- Samalama
- Post #2
- May 29, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Windows 7 on primary computer?

Anyone who chooses to run a beta OS as their primary system is only asking for trouble =/
- Samalama
- Post #4
- May 25, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Steam crashing in Win7 RC1

Well I'm running 7100 32-bit and Steam works just fine, TF2 as well.
- Samalama
- Post #2
- May 15, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Dual boot question

Sure, just use a partition manager to remove (or reformat) the partition XP is using. Then when you're installing Windows 7 just recreate the partition. After the installation, Vista will be dual-booting with Windows 7, and XP will be no more.
- Samalama
- Post #2
- May 10, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 95 Setup

Well I just checked my old Windows 95 CD and Setup.exe is in the root directory. Screenshot
- Samalama
- Post #2
- Apr 17, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What have you got on underneath?

here's Arch with Ratpoison And here's Windows
- Samalama
- Post #39
- Mar 15, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Free Red Hat Server?

Yep, CentOS is based on the same source code as Red Hat Enterprise and is updated with stability in mind, unlike Fedora which is updated to be fairly "bleeding edge."
- Samalama
- Post #4
- Feb 3, 2009
- Forum: Open Source
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Free Red Hat Server?

I believe you're looking for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a commercial OS and therefore cannot be downloaded for free. The last noncommercial version of Red Hat was Red Hat 9, which then branched off into Fedora Linux. Edit: I just came across a 30 day trial version of RHE on their...
- Samalama
- Post #2
- Feb 3, 2009
- Forum: Open Source
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Better File System

Good thinking :)
- Samalama
- Post #7
- Jan 29, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Better File System

Yep, and here's a link for the driver TheStu mentioned. Oh, and with a 4kB block size, ext2 will support a max file size of 2tB.
- Samalama
- Post #5
- Jan 29, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Better File System

I believe ext2 can be used on both Windows and OSX, as well as its intended OS, Linux.
- Samalama
- Post #2
- Jan 29, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems

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