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    thumbdrives

    Flash drives and encryption Most flash drives can take a beating, my sandisk 1gb cruiser has survived being ran over, left in a parking lot during a 100 degree day for an hour, wash and dried at least twice with no data loss. In fact the only time I have lost data is when I've taken the disk...
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    CPU Upgrade-Worth it?

    Probably not, but maybe :) From the human perception point of view, you won't notice any difference. Applications might load 1/100th of a second faster, excel will calculate faster, but you won't really notice any speed gains for most of your computing. Looking at the raw speeds from PCStats...
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    CPU Upgrade-Worth it?

    The video card will bring your gaming experience to respectable levels, more so then just the CPU upgrade alone would do. Where the CPU upgrade will help is with your video capture and editing. In particular, when you convert video from analog to digital, or if you need to resize the video...
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    Pinging a specific port

    You're looking for a port scanner. I use nmap from http://www.insecure.org/nmap I haven't used the windows version, but the unix versions are top-rate. For best results, scan your pc twice. Once from the inside (on the computer itself, if you need to, otherwise another machine on your local...
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    What maps do you want?

    Seeing as this is going to be a PDF product, is there any chance of having one or two large format maps (ie: 32"x28")? I can't think of any really good reason to have large maps, other then I have access to a large format printer, and I think that large maps would make for a cool prop.
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    Campaign World Submissions - Who Entered?

    Lots of people posted their entries in this thread: Merged WotC setting search Winners/Losers thread And d20zine had a special edition that featured some of the settings.
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    Ted's Cave

    I think people are refering to the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56538">Encounters with the Supernatural?</a> thread.
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    Advice on Opening a Game Store!

    These are my observations from being involved in a couple of small startup companies (all ISPs), hopefully they will help you: 1) Get everything in writing. One ISP the owner had the habit of making verbal deals, and invariably there were disagreements. I can imagine the same thing happening...
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