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Interesting. I would have thought if cat hair got into the grooves of the GPU heat sink, the same would have happened to the CPU heat sink. Any idea why it didn't? His cat probably used to sit on / near the PC because of its warmth. Fortunately mine don't come anywhere near.

Aaah, the joys of parenting.

Bought a dozen Eneloop XX AA batteries from a local source. 2nd gen - HR-3UWXB. Has a sticker on the back of each package that says "Imported and Marketed by Panasonic", and maximum price listed at $15 (current exchange rate). That's a tad lower than Amazon's price, and it seems everywhere else...

Nice review, but a bit too syrupy, and as you pointed out, probably not wholly objective. Biggest concern would be durability / longevity of American cars. Can't beat the Japanese for that.

She's a stunner. Buy that sawed-off shotgun. Now.

Big company stonewalling: General Motors Misled Grieving Families on a Lethal Flaw The Cobalt ignition switch debacle.

That was really interesting, Merc! An outlet for the stuff in the dark recesses of some people's minds. Some were very good - the platform staircase, 110-Montouk, Golden Idol.

A couple of SMs I had sometime in the past (I don't remember the names) tasted like iodine. Yech. With some of them, I guess it is an acquired taste. Amrut Fusion won the 2nd best SM in the world award a few times and is produced by a local brewery. No supplies locally for many years since all...

Nothing at all wrong, SD, just appreciation. I am just amazed that you found it and revived it. Most people, including me, would have just created a new thread. Even I didn't remember this thread till you revived it.

Stick with it, Coug. There are far too many good people unemployed.

Wow, a four year old thread comes back to life!

Mrs Brown's sticky situation - BBC comedy

One guy's take on how Malaysian Airlines MH 370 "disappeared".

Thanks P5. What a dick of an installer! I'll wager you're not the first one to run into this. MS doesn't do basic checks, looks like.

What happens?

Now, now, guys, calm down...

A current Linux OS running an XP Guest OS in a VM?

I guess those #s are Ampere-Hours? So these were Eneloop XX cells?

I uploaded the dcos to Google Docs. How do I share it with you, Handy?

I almost died laughing reading this. One of the best-written pieces I've read in a long time: Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey Interesting stuff: See What’s Cooking in the Cognitive Kitchen

Aren't VW group cars notoriously fickle about mods / changes because everything and anything is connected to the ECU and talks with it? If a device (or even a bulb) is something it doesn't recognize, you will be flooded with error codes. I know for a fact that this is true for Skoda vehicles...

I've read that if a cell is just sitting around for months/years, it will eventually develop crystallization. I have some Eneloops that have sat around; I tend to recharge and reuse the same two or three sets. Oddly, I found that I had 8 brand new AA and AAA Eneloops purchased more than 6 years...

In general, charge at 33% or 35% nominal (not minimum) capacity, and discharge at 25%. This slow charging puts in more of a charge and keeps the batteries cooler. But: older / infrequently used cells need a higher charge to break up crystallization which won't get broken up with a lower charge...

So you finally had surgery all by yourself, without a companion? You're mighty cryptic, LM.

I've never considered laptops before for these reasons. Looks like when my current desktop (about 15 months old) is due for replacement I'll have to take a good hard look at at whatever laptop is available then that is as good or better. The price would be the main deterrent, and the shorter...

Nice and fast right now; pages load almost instantly!

My flashlights have completed their long trans-oceanic journeys and have finally landed in my hands. Quick looks: Sunwayman D40A Neutral is awesome. With the Nitecore NFD40 White diffuser, it puts out a wall of light! Haven't had a chance to try it in proper conditions. Very happy with this...

I'm glad there wasn't major damage, DD. And congrats on the fine job with the phone mount!

Very valid points, Chewy.

I hated the ribbons in the beginning, but have gotten used to them now in Office 2010. I still prefer the Office 2003 interface though; once the toolbars were customized, I could do 95% of what I needed without going to the menus.

Hopefully it just needs a ton of resets?

Ouch!

Thanks. It may be something in-between. It's not DNS lookup etc. The legend in Firefox at the bottom left says "Waiting for storageforum.net". It is slow today as well, but better than the recent couple of days.

Site is veeeery slow right now. Was even worse 20 hours ago when I decided to stop waiting and just closed the browser. As a check, other sites across the big pond work fine - amazon.com, news.com, etc. Of course, they might be Akamai-ized, I wouldn't know.

Newer laptops have a single combo jack for both mic & headphone. If yours has one such, make sure to get a compatible headset.

I have a keychain light that's with me always too! The MX25L3 looks like fun, but the battery chemistry doesn't work for me. Not yet, anyway :pirate:

Welcome, pfrcom! Thanks for the comments on the Sunwayman D40A and the Jetbeam BC20. Every user experience shared is useful. I bought the D40A as my "power" flashlight. No plans to keep it in the pocket. I also bought a Zebralight SC52W as my "pocket" light. Remains to be seen how well it...

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I should be able to get my hands on my Sunwayman D40A Neutral + Nitecore diffuser in about a month. Thanks for the review and for confirming I made a good choice.

There is only one other forum I sort of frequent (at a lesser frequency than SF). They have a "Thank You" button for each post (except your own posts) that you can click. When you thank somebody, you can see all the others who have thanked that poster for that post. The # times a person has been...

There is only one other forum I sort of frequent (at a lesser frequency than SF). They have a "Thank You" button for each post that you can click (except your own posts). When you thank somebody, you can see all the others who have thanked that poster for that post. The # times a person has been...

Goose isn't our cat; she's the apartment cat (been here since it was built ~ 8 years ago; we moved in only last May). She visits for food and rest. What helps is that the adolescent and grown up cats can come and go as they wish because of the access via all the jumping they do. The wife's fed...

Thanks.

Here's Goose with her latest litter: She was renamed Goose because of her silly behavior. From nearest to farthest, the kittens are Samba, Soda, Patch and Brownie. Patch was named that for obvious reasons and has the mother's colors, but with more orange. Soda got that name because when...

This ain't football. It's "Grab-the-ball-with-your-hands-and-run". Ducks.

Aah, sir, but if the card is bogus, it's the merchant that has to eat the loss, not MC or Visa. This type of thinking is typically short-term. If the merchants want to be around for the long haul, they need to time-travel to the present era. That includes that behemoth, Amz.

How are the felines handling it? Staying strictly indoors?

Don't they have get-togethers you can join? One place I worked at early on has these Friday the 13th gang-ups to which people even more ancient than I am show up. People in their eighties, seventies, down to their forties. Retired, fired, people who left, people that were still working when the...

Sad. It'sd happening in most parts of the world, DD. Especially underground aquifers that filled over millions of years have been sucked dry in 120 years.