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    Bluray player in a PC: How do you watch movies?

    Maybe you could try this slightly more wonky method [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgu4TuARy7M]. There's also plenty of grey market keys for PowerDVD going cheap on eBay. If I decide I ever need to play a Bluray on my PC that's probably where I'll go.
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    Bluray player in a PC: How do you watch movies?

    There are plugins for VLC [http://www.labdv.com/aacs/] though I'm not sure how reliable they are. The most reliable route is probably to use PowerDVD though it's not free unless it comes bundled with your computer or drive.
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    external blue-ray player

    From what I understand VLC only plays unencrypted Bluray by default. There are plugins you can use but I don't know how reliable they are. Maybe you should seek out a drive that has PowerDVD bundled with it just to cover your bases.
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    The Escapist Classic Videos: Doomsday Arcade Ep. 01

    Everybody go subscribe to Michael Shanks [https://www.youtube.com/user/timtimfed] and watch his new show Wizards of Aus. It's good. Lost my shit when other Michael made a cameo.
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    Email Problem

    Check your SMTP settings in your account settings. Use port 587 with TLS enabled or 465 with SSL enabled. Not sure if it needs the authentication method to be normal password or password transmitted securely so try both and see what works. I will warn you though - actually using the shitty...
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    I Idiotically Deleted my D: drive. How Bad is That?

    It's nothing important. A recovery partition just let's you reinstall Windows without needing a disk. You might want to download a copy of Windows so you can still do that if something fucks up.
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    Popular Grand Theft Auto Mod Tool OpenIV Shuts Down After Take-Two Sends Cease and Desist

    I did out of curiosity but it's gone. "There are no reviews for this product" Not sure if this is unprecedented or not. edit: Nope the store's just fucked up and nothing has reviews. It's not in the Wayback Machine however Googles last cache tells the story.
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    Selling PC, tips for wiping OS SSD?

    Shift+F10 when you are selecting what partition to install Windows on during the installation will bring up command prompt. Cleaning with diskpart will zero out everything so nothing should be recoverable. This will do more than a standard quick format which only recreates the required partition...
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    Selling PC, tips for wiping OS SSD?

    Just format the drives when you're installing Windows. I don't recall if there is an option to do a full format in the installation wizard (I believe it defaults to quick format and there may not be an explicit option for a secure format) however if you Shift+F10 you can using command prompt and...
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    I'm having first-time connection troubles with my new PS4 Pro

    Tether it to your phone or if you can't then find someone with a phone that can.
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    Hacker Gets The Fabled "Nintendo PlayStation" Working

    Talk about a small install base...
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    weird computer problem

    It's a pretty vague problem but given that the screen freezes but the sounds continues I want to say it could be the GPU. If you have both a dedicated graphics card and onboard video I suggest you try running without the graphics card and see if the issue persists. Also update your video drivers...
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    LAN, slower than wifi

    So you're using Ethernet over Power? I can only recommend testing different wires between your desktop/router and the adapters and making sure they're plugged firmly into a wall socket. If you can move your desktop to the router and plug it in directly that would confirm that the issue is...
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    How do Apple get away with removing basic tech, and calling it "progressive" and "courageous?"

    Have you tried installing a custom ROM? I recently switched from the stock firmware on my S5 (where I'd already rooted and disabled pretty much everything) to Cyanogenmod 14.1 and it's a massive performance improvement. Also are you familiar with iSyncr? It hooks into iTunes and lets you sync...
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    Report - Destiny 2 is Coming to PC

    My dad works for Activision can confirm. And Wirt. And Griswold. And The Summoner and Blood Raven are the other two player characters. Pretty much everybody comes back.