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Worlds creepiest thickest potato chip

My grandfather found this in a bag of Herr’s potato chips today.  At first I thought some bread or a cookie had fallen in the bag.  But after a quick smell test, it is indeed some freakish form of potato.

Photo credit amandoo
Bidding starts at $25.

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Verizon FiOS | how to setup remote control to change volume on the set top box (STB)

I plug my FiOS box into a 22″ Acer monitor using an HDMI to DVI cable.  I have an old Boston Acoustic 2.1 computer speaker set that I plug in for sound.  Changing the volume required standing up and walking over to the speakers.  Commercials are approximately 470% louder than regular television programming, so it’s [...]

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VirtualBox vboxdrv | Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-14-server

I recently upgraded my kernel which broke VirtualBox, I got the following error:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing
‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This [...]

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Moving MySQL to a new server (Ubuntu Server 8.10)

This short guide will help you move all users, databases, tables, etc from server1 (current server) to server2 (new server).
Stop the mysql service on both servers:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Setup a temporary directory in the home folder of your user on server2.  (This is because we don’t have root access remotely.)
mkdir ~/varlibmysql
On server1:
sudo rsync -axv –progress –stats [...]

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Ewok

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Very short open blog to manhattan bagel grills

Dear grills,
Why are you sat? Why do you go to bed so early? I got up at a respectable time this morning and drove to a new manhattan bagel closer to home.
Arriving at 2:02, and having a close time of 2:30, you grill, were already off.
Now I am drivin to willow grove [...]

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Extension cord fail

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What we made for dinner when they sprayed us for west nile virus

So the PA DEP is spraying Montgomery, Bucks, and other counties for West Nile tonight and tomorrow night from 8pm-12am.
This was our natural reaction for dinner.

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Photosynth hath been released!

Now you can jump inside your photographs in 3D:
Photosynth Blog

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Who popped their aluminum water bottle?

Freezer = poof / boom

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