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My 15+ year old washing machine died. I took it apart and it appears to be the clutch assembly failed. I doubt that it is worth repairing, so I'm going shopping to see what exists, how much they cost, etc. Hopefully I can find a good black Friday sale on one. Anyone, want to give me their...

All Inkjet printers are considered totally disposable printers by me. I actually seriously consider replacing the printer rather than replace the cartridges when they run out of ink.

Rollers age and wear out! Try getting a roller kit from Printer Works. They tend to be relatively inexpensive (less than $50) and are very likely to make your pickup and feeding problems disappear. They include instructions but you'll still have to have some minimal mechanical skill to...

I've only had two main printers in my life. both were expensive printers in their day. The first was a LJIII which died when a circuit board failed. I replaced it with my current main printer, a LJ5 that I bought new which was made Jan 15th, 1996. I bought used a duplexer, 500 sheet paper...

In my googling, I did find this article somewhat interesting: It is about the different firmwares versions being shipped for the SF-1222 controller

I did a little googling. It appears that it is just marketing. The drives have 64GB of flash but format out as a 60GB drive i.e. 55GB. It is stuff like this that creates class action suits ...

No other manufacturers are doing 64GB SandForce drives drives too (or they are all lying) using the SF-1222 controller: Adata 64GB SandForce SSD

Are you sure that the 128GB drive is SandForce? It does not say that in the specifications and the write speeds don't match normal SandForce numbers.

No the logic can't be extrapolated backwards. The purpose of taxes in the US is to pay for the govt. supplied services and service the debt. If things keep going the way that have been, it may be that eventually the sole purpose of taxes will be just to service the debt and all the federal...

Guys, the whole point is to deter behavior, regardless of income. If the fine is a fixed amount then it deters differently depending on income. The person that makes 1M/Yr could care less if there is a fine of 1000 while the person making 10K/year cares much more. If you make the fine a % of...

That is a price that fits the "too good to be true category". Note they are out of stock which I suspect will never be in stock at least at that price.

I like and use Extreme Power supply calculator

have your tried installing a WINS server (on the Linux master browser machine perhaps) and then have all the local machines connect to that?

Me, I have a dual analog/digital quartz movement watch. I actually have a whole bunch of watches, but that one is my favorite. you can tell it is my favorite from the fact that the plating is wearing off giving it a two-tone color. However, the buttons on it are all clogged up and no longer...

HD's and RAM are both priced like commodities. In my observation they have been for a very long time. For the most part, the differences between brands are small so that most people only pay attention to size and price.

My opinion: Unless you are doing something very unusual, the difference between minimal ram and top performing ram is in the 5%-10% range on overall computer performance. It is not worth the price unless your OC requires it or you are doing high performance processing that is RAM-limited...

The research isn't very hard to do: NewEgg Search for fanless video cards

disgusting data? Gimme, gimme, gimme! :joker:

I don't want to be personal but how much did they cost? I've always thought that putting high end specialty parts on a stock car use for normal use as to be excessively expensive. But that is just my biased assumption. I liked the do-it-yourself NAV system repair story here using Alpine...

It is cumulative over time. Think of it as a turnover rate that is 32x faster. if you can maintain it over time then your capital usage is very very efficient. You can sell things with a much much lower margin (because you can sell far more), be incredibly competitive (lower prices) and still...

My assumption is that they do want it to sell out quickly. Faster turnover == higher profits because they get to reinvest their capital quicker.

AV drives are not very different than a regular drive. They have slightly different firmware to optimize sequential reading and writing for streaming data. Specifically they are designed to buffer data so as to eliminate streaming pauses during seeks (both for reading and writing). A normal...

It worked when I bought 5! So basically it took 45 minutes to sell out.

That really is a very good price for 2 TB's. That would be a good price for a 1 TB drive.

7/28/2006

Using todays prices, that solar system is going to cost substantially more than the car.

Using todays prices, that solar system is going to cost substantially more than the car.

You have a 720,000 RPM drive. I wouldn't call that normal. Normal is 5,400-7,200 with high speed at 15,000 RPM. Now I see why you think flash is over-rated.

Well, I have carefully read the EULA and unlike previous subscription services from Microsoft the current Technet EULA does not seem to require the removal of the software when the subscription ends. At least I see no mention of it. That being said, it does have explicit limitations like it...

There is no inherent reason that the batteries need to have the same charge capacity. The recharging system could have a much larger AH rating and thereby not equalize at a point below the full charge of the smaller car battery and not totally discharge either so the lifespan would not be...

Technically, it is not forever. The license requires that you uninstall when the subscription ends. That being said, currently it is effectively impossible for Microsoft to enforce that clause. Maybe someday, their update program and during activation will check against the expired...

Ultra caps may work, but super-quick discharge of a set of batteries would produce high heat and that would probably kill the batteries in short order making that cost ineffective.

The point of comparing folder to folder was to exclude a whole host of potential issues. Things like extra files or data being added by some other activity. If the number of files are identical, the sizes are identical, compression isn't a factor, then we can look at simply file system...

I don't know why you are resisting my suggestion the test takes less than a minute and is totally non-destructive. Try the MFT size ...

I really wanted a comparison between folder and folder rather than folder vs drive (like vs like). When comparing folder or file vs drive you can get into the situation where an individual file/folder could be one bite in size but the minimum size allocated to the drive is your cluster size...

until you spill something and it dribbles down onto the electronics. Also, few rack mounted machines are as quiet as a coffee table.

Click on the original folder and choose properties. Do the same on the duplicate destination folder that has changed size. Compare the two windows and their numbers, specifically number of files, # of folders, file size, and file size on disk. While it is not perfect, it may give you a clue...

Do you have multiple OS's sharing the same drive? Files from another OS can also allocate space on a HD that are invisible, depending on security. For that matter, on a single OS, if you try, you can effectively totally hide files, from non-administrators, using security and while you can't...

I assure you, that corn started on the planet Earth and no where else. Mars is too cold to grow Corn, while Venus is too hot and the other planets and moons have equally difficult problems growing corn. Even if it did start somewhere else, how did it get here. Very few, if any, of the kernels...

I've never had a problem installing flash on a 64 bit system. Chrome or Internet Explorer matters not.

check to see if the Recycle Bin has anything (that will show up as less space on the HD). Go into recycle bin properties to see if it automatically reserves space for the Recycle Bin. Next, check System Restore for it can allocate space on a drive too. Also, check for Shadow Copy settings (the...

I really don't see lots of purpose in speculating now, since it is to be released 10/22/10 and that should release all the review sites from their NDA's. I can wait a day ...

The problem is not PDF's - there are numerous ways to deal with that: Some better, some worse. It is with Adobe Flash where there is really no good way to avoid currently. Eventually, perhaps HTML5 but that isn't ready yet.

And they don't work in Vista/Win7 because they never wrote drivers and the old XP drivers aren't compatible.

I think a good objective measure of frequency of slow periods and their seriousness is the number of duplicate posts that happen. A good running setup will post quickly enough that people do not feel the need to press the submit button again. That really only shows a fraction of the problem...

I'm a real temp fanboy, myself.

You shouldn't need to install a lot of junk if you can find the inf file. You should just be able to install the Windows monitor driver directly from it.

See if you can find a monitor.inf file for that specific monitor rather than using the generic P&P. I can tell you that you can definately use a single-linked DVI cable for a 1920x1200 (horizontal form factor) or 1200x1920 (Vertical form factor) in that I'm currently running a 1920x1200x60 on a...

They are not saying how much is stored on the SSDs, but rather how much has been written to the drive over its lifetime.

Very cool! But I worry about Oracle now owning Open Solaris and the long-term consequences.