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Yes and how does it handle failures.

My understanding is the insurance companies write the policies but they are provided/underwritten through FEMA. State Farm used to administrate them as well. I'm not sure who does it now. Indeed I will, once I find it. It will be a few days of cleanup before I can go through stuff. Last...

No flood insurance as it isn't usually offered if your not in the flood plain and apparently if you are not in it and get the coverage, it does not cover all the damage. So I'm not even sure I could get coverage that would have paid for all the damages.

I feel your pain Handruin. But let me add this: State Farm said I'm not covered for any of the damage.

Reporting in from Exton PA here. Power out since 10pm last night. Despite diligent effort to try and get the generator working practically all day yesterday, it was non functional. So I tried to bail the water manually from the sump pump and dump it in the sink. This worked for only a couple...

Somehow changing a bad wheel bearing turned into over a 1K repair on my 2001 Subaru Legacy.

Youngest son (6) decided shoving a pair of goggles, some pokemon cards and a couple hot wheels cars in the toilet was a good idea. The goggles were too far in. I didn't get them out till I took the toilet off the floor and got them out from the bottom.

Can't you just remove it?

Here's a wakeboarding shot I took recently while on vacation in the outer banks of NC.

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To counter those horror stories, we bought a HP dv6-2157us for about $530 a little over a year ago. It died just a few months out of warranty as in motherboard needed to be replaced. HP charged $348.74. But they never charged my credit card. When I called them up about it they offered to...

I have no solutions, balancing a household budget is hard enough.

A household can have a budget but then that gets blown by unexpected medical expenses or household repair or even car repair. Similar happens for the US. In times of economic downturn, the social safety net costs more. In times of war, the defense costs more. Natural disasters also are...

It is more important that the two are completely different types of income. Tax laws are complicated making tax revenue variable. Versus your salary or hourly wage is pretty easy to figure out and pretty steady for most people. Taxes come from many places but I'll just consider the income tax...

Income for a household comes from employment or investments. Income for the country comes from taxes.

Personal debt and US debt are not even the same type of thing. You can't compare household finances to that of the country. Which is why I'm sad that politicians seems to do this on occasion.

and picasa, which has had raw support for a while. I use that for image selection and export/upload. I use other software for processing the raws.

I use NOD32 and usually recommend it. But twice in the last couple years, I have seen it miss stuff on other people's computers. I know nobody can be 100% but the times it does miss, then I have quite a bit of cleanup work. And a full scan takes hours so nobody does weekly full scans to catch...

When I had to confirm ownership, they had two options for verification of ownership. 1. just asked me to put a file on the website itself. 2. was the dns record

The wii doesn't do HDMI. It does component I think. 420p is its limit. That said, we needed two HDMI one for the BR and one for the cable box. I would not go down in TV size. Especially with the black bars on most movies. I thought I wouldn't get black bars with my FullHD set, but there they...

We had one of those WD scorpio black in our HP laptop. It started developing bad sectors just over a year. I have a seagate 500GB in my work laptop. Been running probably 2 years without issue, and that is with many hours of the day on it and daily transports between work and home.

+1 on the Google Apps gripe. They give some spiel about it needing to be tweaked for business. But there are plenty of us on google apps that aren't businesses. That and they don't have multiple account sign in for picasa. I have to log out and log in to another account to access my picasa...

Piyono is taken care of. Howell, I just need an e-mail address to send the invite.

PM me your e-mail.

The original paper is from Jan 2010. Why don't we have these already? Saw this on reddit yesterday and read the original paper. The air cushion is small, they compare it and its mechanism to that of a hard drive and the heads floating above it. So we are talking very small cushion of air and...

I have AHCI set and TI2010 worked fine with mine, though it is the G33 chipset with intel ICH9R I think. Is your TI 2010 all patched up to the latest version and then a new boot disk made?

Do you have to have a clean drive to run these benchmarks on? Everybody in crucial forums seems to run AS SSD so I guess I'll run that as there is comparison data.

Windows on samsung F3 1TB. I guess I should have timed some stuff before to use as the baseline.

What benchmarks should I use to test my new SSD?

All reinstalled with the Users folder on the D drive as welll as the ProgramData folder. I used the answer file for the sysprep method in the first link I provided. I did have to remap some drive letters during the audit mode of the installation. Ninite was great for installing a bunch of stuff...

I thought the EA one wasn't bad. But having only a touchscreen interface for tetris is problematic I think.

Yes, there are just so many little things tweaked here and there I didn't feel like reinstalling. And what good are backups if you can't restore them? But I'm looking at it like an opportunity to clean house.

Thanks, found that. There are two methods used: 1. Change the registry ProfileList entry 2. Symlink the Folder. This program appears to use the first method. I was leaning toward the second method (explained in the lifehacker article). But I think I was leaning that way because I wasn't going to...

So I'll be reinstalling windows 7 on my new ssd and then I want to move the users directory to my 1GB samsung drive. The way I currently have it setup is to just add the My Files directory on that drive to the library and set it as the default. But stuff still gets written to the Users folder...

I use RDP for file transfers day in and day out. But it is SLOW and thus is only used mostly for files under 10MB. For more than that we use what equates to an internal web based ftp service.

Newegg shipped me my C300 SSDs via newegg saver shipping. This was DHL which then transfers to the USPS for delivery. It spent about 19 days with USPS before getting to me yesterday. In the meanwhile, I filed a claim for a missing shipment as I usually get my stuff from them in like a day or...

My two 64GB crucial C300's still haven't arrived, ordered them on the 14th for $90 each from the egg. They've been with USPS since the 16th.

Went to some fireworks last weekend. The shots at the end are the best I think.

I would have used VBA in excel itself.

This kind of stuff has been in the news before. Glad to hear they seem to have the bugs worked out. But when will we see a drive for sale? 5 years?

It was probably limited by the rental company.

I got the subsequent update 4.24.651.1. Netflix works now.

Does wireless N still work for you? People are reporting various issue with this update. Most well known is netflix app is borked for video playback. Supposedly another update is being pushed out to fix issue with the last update but it may only fix netflix.

Returned the tiffen filter kit, bought the $75 b+w polarizer. Should get it soonish. Regarding the 35mm 1.8 lens. I normally shoot with the 70-300mm VR lens. I _really_ miss the VR. My first outing resulted in many blurry photos. I thought it would be fine and just use a larger aperture...

Only 5400RPM. Though I guess a laptop with an SSD and one of these wouldn't be bad.

Relatively inexpensive with the emphasis on relatively. I guess for the usage of this lens it will mostly be indoors and maybe outdoor nature shots. So the UV filter is probably not necessary. I see 18 B+W 52mm circular polarizers on B&H. Should I get the $48 dollar one?

Well the UV filter was dirty at the edges and won't come clean. So that filter kit is getting returned. I really just wanted the polarizer and UV filter. I wasn't really sure what the neutral density filter was for. I plan to keep the UV on the lens all the time. I have a $15 tiffen on my...

Bought the 35mm 1.8 for $260 from B&H with a 52mm tiffen filter kit for $50. There were none at the local best buy. Should arrive in the next couple days.

Marvell has something like this built into one of their controllers I think. I posted about it some time ago. http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8508&highlight=Marvel

What nikon body are you talking about? I'd consider it but I only have about $400 maybe. I really want the D3 or D3S for their high iso performance but they are thousands of dollars even used.