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What about phones? I've read that when you erase everything on the phone or do a factory reset (all through the phone's menu), nothing gets erased, only directory / pointers. It appears when the phone is connected with a cable to a PC with the right software (typically people who repair phones)...

Glad for you. Hope it all goes as you expect.

What's great is it does what it's supposed to do, so many years running. The interface is not that great; there was a learning curve I went through. I doubt you'll glean much from a screenshot of a small-window VM. For the last many years, I pretty much use it to only print out the calendar. I...

Not sure of what you want a shot. Calendaring program interface? It running in a VM? I was wrong; it's older than 1996. I print a two month calendar per page and it gets put on the fridge with magnets. It lists my and the wife's family members' birthdays, wedding anniversaries, birth and...

That was a good overview, thanks Coug.

's why I still use a circa 1996 Win 3.1 calendar program. Tried many successive versions and versions from other vendors, they were all horrible. I use it in a Win XP VM running on Win7-64. Amazingly, it will run on XP, and when Y2K happened, I was terrified it would fail. The moon phases part...

Interesting stuff. More than twice as efficient as CFLs, and on par with LEDs (today). Though it doesn't say, I suspect it is cool running like fluorescent tubes and not hot like LEDs. That gives FIPELs an advantage in certain applications. Once mass produced, I suspect it may be cheaper than...

Apparently they are clueless. More important, North Korea and China are fanboys of each other, so any positive press (even if satirical) gets their attention immediately.

Lunar, the cpu fan blows air onto the heat sink. This air dissipate in all directions. Since the CPU is located near the top of the board / case, I have two exhaust fans at the top of the case. I think this is good.

DD< I don't understand what you're saying. If you actually look at it, there are only two 140mm low speed fans pulling in air from the front, and one 140mm and one 120mm exhausting air from the top. The inside two fans are merely directing the air pulled in by the two front bottom intake fans...

I've got two fans in front of the drive cage, and two in the back of the drive cage in push pull configuration. I've always been paranoid about keeping my drives cool, and this way they are at room temperatures as they were in my old case. Never have had a drive fail on me so far. The fans at...

Thanks. So, should I move to Win 8 (I just moved to Win 7 from XP) for the reasons Tannin and you mentioned? I would be very interested in the speed enhancements related to storage / windows explorer, but am leery of incompatibility with programs. The $40 upgrade is available here as well.

Just for grins, I downloaded the Win8 compatibility checker and ran it on my new machine - built a month ago with new motherboard, / CPU / RAM. The checker says "Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver" not compatible, and does not offer any suggestions or workarounds. H-E-L-L-O! I'm...

Heeeeeeeeeeeee's baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Take care you guys in NorCal.

Why is this in the Something Random thread, DD? This is the case I bought for my new setup. They lie about the cooling though; you can't stick in as many fans as they claim, and certain combinations of fan sizes (140, 120) won't fit together. The wiring on the motherboard side is totally...

The S4 is avilable here now; about $82.4k at today's exchange rates. 3.0L supercharged V6 with 7-speed DSG. It is not clear if that includes road tax or not (probably not). Over here lifetime road tax is payable upon registration, which varies from 8 to 20% depending on the state in which the...

I'm more concerned about security than running out of RAM.

Things are getting interesting! In about 5 years, we can have it anyway we want.

It's sad that Mozilla has virtually halted work on a 64-bit version. ARS Techinca has a good article why that's a bad idea.

This Philips LED system seems awesome; check it out.

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The Onion strikes again!

hanks Santilli.

Thanks guys, I feel comfortable buying them now.

Fushigi! (John). Thanks Merc, had a mental block there. Thanks Bozo. Maybe someday I'll try the cheapest one and see how it performs.

I've never heard of TP-Link before. Newegg sells at least one product, Amazon a few, and they are widely available here. Are they any good? Overall, reviews seem favorable. I need to replace my ADSL wired modem soon, and was thinking of buying the TD-8840T. Solves my other problem of not...

Gosh. How do the buoys record wave height? If it's via communication with a satellite, the precision is astounding.

I'm sure Merc would absolutely love that!

Merc, can you be a little more specific with the recipe? Type pf oil, quantities used, etc. ? I think a lot of us suffer from the shaving routine, and I'd like to make my own magic concoction as well.

I thought the Hawkeye name was trademarked by Pradeep and our friend from Chicago who hasn't posted in years (I forget his handle & name, but he was using monitors with super ultra high resolutions like Pradeep).

Sandalwood oil is e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e! I like that fragrance, and was using a soap made with sandalwood oil. However, the price has risen steadily, and I've switched to a common, everyman soap now.

Years ago, there was an article that said boffins had figured out how to make your drink (beer, soda) go ice cold when opened. Unfortunately the idea never took off; probably too expensive to implement. In similar vein, I have wondered why nobody has invented a gizmo that dispenses warm shaving...

My only RMA experience with GB in circa 2005 was bad. They just sent a flaky video card back saying nothing was wrong with it.

Is Tea back in town from her wanderings?

Microsoft hands Windows 8 Pro to pirates by mistake Permanently activate Win 8 ...

News here.

I hope you realized my post was tongue-in-cheek.....

I've got a 10GB Maxtor and a 20GB Quantum Fireball if you're interested, Merc. I know Tannin collects these for his HDD museum, and I PMed him many, many full moons ago, but never heard back from him. He must still be wandering in the remote parts of his land.

I broke down and bought a Fluke 115 True RMS DMM; I really didn't need the expense at this particular time, but what to do! It was the cheapest True RMS Fluke I could buy here. Repeated measurements at various times of the day show a max of 248 VAC and a min of 235 VAC. Frequency ranges between...

jtr, you may want to download SysInternals Disk2VHD and Virtual PC 2007 right now; who knows when versions will change and Converter may not be able to work with the output of the the new version. Od course I have them saved and can provide them through a file upload/download service. Disk2VHD...

It's kinda painful for me to quote each person and irritating for the readers, so I'll consolidate my replies. DB, getting another multimeter is the first priority. I don't even know what I'm dealing with otherwise. Howell, my multimeter has a rotary switch that lets me select multiple ranges...

Intead of 40mm axial fans, why don't they use crossflow (tubular impeller) fans? These could run the width of the back of the 1U, run at a lower speed but provide adequate cooling for less noise.

jtr, thanks for the inputs. I always thought my multimeter was reliable, but numbers now are so off the wall I'm beginning to doubt that it has become defective (but how?). I need to get another / better one for my own peace of mind and credibility, and to show the clowns here. I was thinking of...

Max, there are about 450 apartments in this complex. I'm absolutely sure we have our own transformer(s) on premises. Getting the utility to do it is out of the question; it'll be easier for me to pluck my hair and teeth out one by one. Retaping ours is a long shot too; I'll have to prove that...

My PC has an APC Back UPS RS1500 line interactive UPS is front of it. Oddly, the voltage is the same at the raw wall socket or coming from the UPS. Right now it's 313VAC!

I don;t think my USP will geive me a report; perhaps, I'll have to look into it. I haven't hooked up my UPS' monitoring line to my new PC and installed the APC monitoring sw yet. Will do that tomorrow. That should at the very least give me a snapshot look at various times.

For anybody going this route in the future with a dead PC and a working boot partition: 1) Attach the drive to your system, and boot your system to its native OS, taking care NOT to boot into the OS you want to convert to a VM. If this does happen, you may be fried, as happened with me, but I...

Thanks Chewy! Been busy with social stuff for the last couple of days, couldn't get back here. My problem's SOLVED! Maxburn, you da man! On a lark, I reconverted the physical partition to VHD, built a basic Virtual PC 2007 with it, fed that to converter. Then following Max's advice, before...

No dice, Bozo. I downloaded Acronis True Image WD Edition (Build 14.184) and ran it. VMW Converter says: "The source parameters are invalid" Don't know if it is because the source is corrupted (I doubt it) or because the Acronis version is different - VMW Converter supports only Acronis True...