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Look, if all you're going to do is retrofit new A/C units to an existing installation, you don't need an HVAC engineer - just a refrigeration mechanic. The HVAC knowledge all goes into the ductwork design and equipment selection. In other words, if you're happy with the performance of the...

Sorry, but they're very possibly telling the truth. If your fan fails, your compressor will be toast unless there's a thermal cutout. And although pricey, $644 for a Carrier fan motor in the middle of Summer is not quite as outrageous as you might think. Have you gone outside and actually...

Chip off the old block, then?

This is 8 inches, but I think it's the sort of thing you mean: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackspur-Small-folding-Step-Stool/dp/B002UYPZ04

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Unfortunately, this reflects my experience, limited and anecdotal as it is. Except that Kaspersky also failed to detect a trojan on my work PC about a year ago. It *appears* to me that tools like Malware Bytes are only useful once your resident anti-malware software has been compromised. And...

So you're back to the tin can with string?

I sort of wondered what it was you were trying to sell us with that. It's OK, I figured it out.

Good point. To clarify further, the hedge gives our ground-floor bedroom (this is a bungalow) a slight vestige of privacy, although that's mostly from the overgrown shrub. Bottom line is we can't see out front of the garage or beyond the said shrub. Not being able to see out front of the garage...

Perhaps I should clarify, I'm not after burglars or vandals. I don't expect to be able to identify anyone - I'm in the wrong place to get face shots of the riff raff that pass by near here. I'm proposing a technological solution to a problem we have with our house: you can't see outside! The...

I wondered if it might be a little messy to connect an IP camera to a regular TV / monitor, but this looks good: http://www.networkcameracritic.com/?p=1049 That Axis is way too rich for my blood - I don't need IR and I certainly don't need the motorized zoom! Looking at other models, I think a...

This may not be practical, but ... I'd like to get an HD camera with some way to achieve a 16:9 aspect ratio and view the capture on either a 16:9 monitor or TV about 5 meters away. Picture quality is my main criteria and I'm only concerned with daylight illumination. Icing on the cake would...

I'm afraid they really can touch you in Australia - the collection agency is the ATO, the local equivalent of the IRS. Not only is it a legal requirement for employers to apply a tithe to worker's wages, the ATO presents you with a bill at the end of the year - whether you made payments or not...

Just to clarify, student loans in Oz already aren't forgiven under *any* circumstances. Merely becoming disabled or contracting a terminal illness won't cut it. Neither will bankruptcy. Soon, common degrees may cost about $100,000. If, through chance or illness, you never earn enough to repay...

Congratulations, especially since you don't live in Australia: Government proposes to tax dead students

Wow, 9 months between posts! You must have been busy / have a life /etc ... For those struggling with context, DB's first post refers to the Honda Gold Wing, while the second is about his Honda VFR750F.

It's the E12 series. It used to be the standard for hobbyists, even when 5% resistors became commonplace. I left out the gold (or silver) bands because it would just confuse the issue. My somewhat feeble point was that preferred resistor (or capacitor, Zener, etc) values are NOT decimal as...

Not really. After brown, the next size would be both brown and red, followed by brown & green, then brown & gray, red, red & purple, and then orange. :scratch:

The specs are only 170° horizontal / 160° vertical. That's been the TN standard for several years now; I guess ones from 10 years ago may have been worse. Ummm, what else would you use a small 4k monitor for? It's physically too small for a big desktop layout and I think nearly all gaming...

The specs are only 170° horizontal / 160° vertical. That's been the TN standard for several years now; I guess ones from 10 years ago may have been worse. Ummm, what else would you use a small 4k monitor for? It's physically too small for a big desktop layout and I think nearly all gaming...

Clocker is correct. Error correction is only one tenth as good as normal drives. Check his linked specs very carefully; Unrecoverable Error Rate is normally expressed as "1 in 10E14" or "1 in 10E15", but WD A/V drives are "10 in 10E14".

My excuse is that I haven't yet been indoctrinated into accepting shit as entertainment, thanks to my happening to live outside the official boundaries of the USA. Unofficially of course, I am a non-voting US citizen. Anyone in doubt should refer to my "nation's" purchase of 72 JSF POS. That's...

So, your catch-cry relates to the time spent waiting for filtration to complete in a Buchner Funnel? Or maybe something to do with the ludicrous number of famous scientists named Buchner? ;)

Is that you, Davin?

Seems like the roadblock is one-sided: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Forum_for_Harmonization_of_Vehicle_Regulations I've been wondering how US manufacturers survive. I guess this bit of local industry protection helps ... Eg. Sealed beam headlamps - good grief!!! How stupid was that?

How much does it cost to buy a phone outright in the US? Here, a top model like the S5 is about US$750!

I'm interested in this because some sort of update a few months ago greatly reduced battery run time in my Galaxy S3. When I first got the phone, I didn't have to stress about charging, but now I have to be diligent and do it every day or get caught short. On the other hand, I was able to just...

Thanks for that CougTek - for some reason, I thought that key finders didn't work with Windows 7. :dunno: Magical Jelly Bean worked perfectly and I was able to run a successfully repair. Cheers!

Is the layout as I described? Mercutio, height isn't my problem, width is. In more ways than one. ;) Do most people have side-by-side, french door, or freezer on top/bottom? We currently have freezer on top with 3 shelves and a fridge section with 5 shelves (I can't find one this big any...

Three and a half years on, what do people make of French Door fridges? Most seem to have a single drawer for the freezer, with an internal mezzanine drawer to stop it just being a giant bin. Stereodude's criticisms make sense to me, but I haven't tried to live with one - the last bottom-freezer...

Four years of daily use is a big ask for any laptop, let alone a student's laptop. I'll predict now that they will upgrade before 4 years is up. If they have the money, I'd go for the T-series (although if you option up the display, you could just as easily get an X1 Carbon). Back in the real...

Demerol's official name is Pethidine. It proved to be a poor painkiller with undue side effects for many people and is no longer a preferred drug. Anecdotally, some people experienced a feeling of well-being the first time they received it, but not afterwards. This did not stop addicts trying to...

Cortisone is not a painkiller!

I've known about Winsxs bloat for years, but assumed there would ultimately be a solution. I'm looking at a Windows 7 PC deployed about 3 years ago where Windows takes up about 24GB of storage, and more than 14GB of that is in Winsxs. I ran Disk Cleanup with the System files option, and it...

Got lumbered with someone's 3-year-old PC that was running slowly. Removed the usual crapware, then attempted to uninstall a well-out-of-date AVG 2012 (only found out afterwards that this didn't happen properly). Ran a ScanDisk before checking fragmentation, which complained about and 'fixed'...

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That could be very useful. Given I haven't bought a ThinkPad for a while, is it still the same connector?

Until the engine caught up with the caboose? ;)

It's 11:30pm (12:30am daylight savings time) at night here. The temperature is 24C (75F) and humidity 80%. Theoretically, it's nearly 1/3 of the way through Autumn. I had to go out and water some shrubs because they're dying (extreme drought). Snow is a long, long way away. :(

Here was I thinking, "CougTek's actually made a mistake!". WRONG AGAIN. :oops: I misread VN248H-P as VS248H-P. The former is IPS, the later is TN. F*** you, Asus.

Mercutio, could you mean the Asus VS24AH-P? (which is another exception to my 9-suffix rule of thumb).

No it doesn't. Apart from the PA series, Asus monitors with IPS panels have model numbers ending in 9, eg VS239H-P.

So 007 managed to drop in after all?

Awesome find, Snowhiker. Not something I'd listen to personally, but certainly a great new experience. Should be right up CougTek's alley. ;)

No, just the most entertaining. :p I did cast around for a better quality version, but decided the content trumped fidelity. I particularly enjoyed the lack of enthusiasm displayed by many of the participants, especially towards the start.

Pffft! If you want alternative interpretations, I'd like to see you top the Russian Police Choir's tribute to Daft Punk. We also got quite a buzz from this "Russian Army Choir" cover of the theme from Skyfall.

I, for one, can't wait for the next installment in how Dave reduces a $40k car to a smoldering pile of junk ... :bigeek:

Stereodude, I don't know what's going wrong for you, but Libre Calc is asking me every time I try to open a text file with Calc. In fact, it's better than Excel, which now always assumes comma separators when opening a CSV file. This burned me just the other day, when I tried to open a file...

I haven't seen 2013. What are the issues?

Snowhiker, you appear to be missing certificate(s) from StartCom. You should be able to export them from another browser and import them into Firefox.