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What's the failure mode? Does it look like the electrolytic caps in the supplies are bulging? That might be symptomatic of too much heat. Incidentally, with the push to have quieter power supplies new supplies will have less airflow, and therefore higher internal temperatures, than many noisy...

Cable clips? Cable hangers? If you post a picture maybe someone here knows the name.

Horseshit was actually one of the reasons people gravitated to automobiles back in the 1920s. Of course, we're not ever going back to horses in cities. It's frankly as bad as cars, and PETA would never allow it anyway. ;)

Read it a few days ago. Great article. We're basically going back to the past here, making cities as they were before automobiles took over.

Actually most of the vehicle miles and gas usage are outside of big cities. You can effectively ban cars from some of the large cities in the US but it will hardly make a dent in gas use. That said, the transition to electric vehicles is inevitable. Big oil only succeeded in delaying it, not...

Actually if you mostly get around the city by walking, biking, or public transit having cars around makes things horrible. Cars are tools, but like any tool there are good and bad uses. Private automobiles are better suited for rural and some suburban areas. Inner ring suburbs and cities would...

Yeah, it is pretty pricey here: From Date To Date Elec Use (Kwh) Elec Demand (Kw) Con Ed Electric Bill Amt ESCO Electric Supply Amt Gas Use (Therm) Con Ed Gas Bill Amt ESCO Gas Supply Amt Total Bill Amt 03/27/2015 04/27/2015 810 0.00 $128.60 $107.75 7 $26.17 $4.63 $267.15 02/26/2015...

Just a rough estimate. Also, the rebates cover something like 40% IIRC, so the system might cost $35K before rebates. Your average power usage might be higher than mine. I'm sizing mine for roughly 1500 kW-hr month average. Based on my location, I would need a 10 to 12 kW system. In any case...

I tend to think the main use for these would be in conjunction with solar panels rather than shifting time of use. We don't have smart electric meters, either, but the economics might work if we did. Right now we're paying about $0.30/kW-hr flat rate. That includes the delivery charge. Now if...

While we're on the subject of price, raw batteries cost more than a complete Powerwell unit will sell for. For example, here is a 640Wh LiFePO4 cell selling for $370. 10kWH worth would be nearly $6,000, and that's without any additional electronics needed to interface to 120VAC. Often not having...

I'm seriously considering it along with an installation of solar panels.

My niece is graduating with a combined music/education degree from CW Post next week. No idea what she'll eventually be doing (most likely teaching music) but she seemed to enjoy the process of getting a degree.

My last one was in 1980. I've seen some lifespan tests where regularly seeing a doctor actually adds negative numbers to your life. Given how many people die from routine screenings or the long-term effects of prescription drugs this probably isn't far from the truth. Back when modern medicine...

I can give you two bits of advice. One is to do as much as you can with your life as soon as you can. Given the condition which runs in your family, if you don't start a career and earn a decent amount by your 30s or 40s, you may never have the chance again. I know this because I was afflicted...

I think writing to the drive a lot is key to not losing performance. I cloned my drive as a copy of the three partitions I had on my old XP install. As such, I generally only write to the two data parititions occasionally. I've noted over time performance drops. It jumps up when I defrag a...

This document on the Samsung migration software might answer some of your questions.

I don't know if anyone here with Samsung Evo 840s experienced a performance drop but I did. HDtune showed STRs under 40 MB/sec in some portions of the drive. Apparently, this is a known issue with these drives. Samsung issued a fix, although there may be a need for another fix down the road. In...

I used testdisk in the past to help me fix a bad partition table. It's not too user friendly but if you read the documentation you might be able to figure it out. BTW, the Windows update problem you mention might simply be caused by a bad partition table. I'm seen all sorts of weird problems...

If you run VMs you can consume an insane amount of RAM. I've nearly maxed out my 16GB running 2 or 3 VMs at the same time. Other than that, it's rare I go much over 4 or 5GB. I happily lived with 3GB in my old Athlon XP3200 machine until 2 years ago. Given that I had XP installed, I couldn't use...

That's exactly what I was thinking, and no I don't think the Samsung migration software resizes partitions automatically.

Would anyone here be able to suggest partition resizing software which apairofpcs might be able to figure out how to use on his own? Based on my reading of the problem, I think all we might need to do is resize the Windows partition. I helped him with the original cloning process but apparently...

If true that's pretty depressing news on two fronts. One, it's sad to lose someone who was a big part of the forums at one time. Two, 57 is too young for anyone to die. Here's hoping that obituary Merc found isn't his, although I doubt there are two people of the same name and age in a...

Actually Walmart is a famous example of how government programs benefit the wealthy. If the programs you mentioned didn't exist, Walmart and McDonald's and many other companies which pay low wages would have to pay more, which in turn would mean the wealthy owners would get less. And practically...

I've heard this before but most of the things poor people buy like food aren't taxed now and wouldn't be taxed under a sales tax scheme. Also, isn't the current combined 15.3% FICA tax highly regressive? BTW, in NYC a living wage would be more like $75K and up, not $15 an hour. They'll never...

I was reading up just now on back door Roth IRAs and I got a major headache. The whole thing doesn't seem to make a bit of sense to me. You put money in a nondeductible traditional IRA. Since the money wasn't deducted you pay taxes on it. Then when you convert to a Roth you have to pay taxes on...

I had a similar situation doing my mom's taxes last year but I just read up a bit. The only time things might be too complex to do it yourself would be selling shares of stock or mutual funds which were purchased at various prices. It then becomes a question of which purchase price and sales...

Especially when that $35,000 is regular wages. I might understand an accountant getting someone who files as an independent contractor a much lower tax liability by taking "liberties" with business deductions but if all you have are W2 wages there isn't much you can do beyond claim the usual...

Most power supplies tend to be slightly more efficient at 240V than 120V, and hence generate less heat. That said, Cougtek is right-these supplies often use marginal components and/or have poor quality of assembly. I've taken apart some cheap supplies which failed and more often than not it's...

I always do my taxes myself if for no other reason than I don't want a stranger knowing my business. Also, the hard part is generally already done because I keep track of expenses as they occur during the year with a spreadsheet. Making decent money is a mixed blessing. Now I owe out 5 figures...

They came to $33.73 each with tax from Amazon. I ordered a pair. Now I should be good on backup space for the next few years. :)

I just tried buying one. It shows up as $59.99 in the shopping cart. Is this Tiger Direct's idea of a late April fool's joke?

That's disgusting. Unfortunately for some segment of the population, religious freedom means making laws which basically force even those who don't beleive in your religion to adhere to some of its tenets. It's no secret some large segment of the religious right would turn the US into a...

One more thing about discrimination. Obviously if you're fat or Asian or black everyone can plainly see it, and hence potentially use it to discriminate against you. Stereotypes aside, there are rarely strongly visual indicators that someone is homosexual. The wedding cake example of course is...

Sure, you can find all kinds of examples of gross heterosexual sex. That wasn't my objection. My rationale here is the biological purpose of sex is procreation. Obviously species evolved to find sex pleasureable because you needed that in a survival situation or it never would occur. Now that...

SD, I think Merc's point is more about a business offering services to the general public which decides not to offer those services to some group because that group offends the owner. As an example, if you sell wedding cakes then you have to sell them to whomever wants one and is able/willing...

It sounds to me like 3D NAND will eventually result in dramatic price reductions per GB. The article did mention 10 TB SSDs in the next few years. If they were to cost the same per GB as today's SSDs there wouldn't be much of a market for them. I'm reading between the lines and assuming a 10+TB...

If they're in decent shape they might be worth quite a bit more than a dollar. You might want to check eBay just to see what similar bills are going for.

I'm in the same boat. I think we're at the state where the integrated GPU in most processors is adequate for 99% of the population. Certainly I haven't found myself wanting for more graphics power with my A10-5800K APU. Well, maybe marginally when I get into a scenery intensive area with train...

You might be right but I suspect at this stage OLED is more mature. Regardless, a technology which emits light is superior to one which selectively filters a backlight, like LCD, in terms of contrast and viewing angle.

Well, prices for lower end 4K monitors are starting to get under $500 even now. There's the Dell UltraSharp UP2414Q I was seriously considering eventually which is now around $800. Like everything else in this business, early adopters pay more, those who wait might get it at 25% of what the...

I'm sure the price will come down. Actually my ideal monitor if I had to check all the boxes might be 4096x3072, 24 or 25 inches, and OLED. Still, what you linked to would be quite nice if the price were in the $500 or less area.

From my own personal perspective I have no use for these huge monitors given that I have limited desk space and need to sit about 15 inches from my monitor to view it clearly. I like the idea of higher resolution 4:3 monitors but a 36" to 40" 3840x2560 would suffer from the same issues that my...

Yep, most of them sucked back then.

Lucky you had teachers who didn't object to the use of Liquid Paper. Many of mine said an erasure or use of Liquid Paper was an automatic fail. I spent many a day retyping pages of term papers where I had made only one or two typos. Computers with word processor software and nice printers were...

I doubt I could put out 400 watts for 6 minutes. Maybe 2 minutes tops if I'm feeling great. According to my Schwinn 240 I peak in the 800 to 900 watt area but I can only manage that for a few seconds. Still, it comes in handy jackrabbiting up to 20 mph to get out of the way of motor traffic just...

:santa: Merry (belated) Christmas! :reindeer: :tgif:Happy New Year! :drunk:

I'm probably only a semi-weirdo by the standards of the people on this site in that I only have 3 disks and 2.75 TB of local storage on my machine. That's a 2 TB mechanical disk, and 240 and 500 GB SSDs. I suspect the trend towards keeping data only on the cloud might be short-lived. Once one...

You could try the Arnold Schwarzenegger Soundboard. When they ask info about the computer, respond with "My CPU is a neural net processor". Lots of choice phrases there you can have fun with.

I'm sure one of these people called me at one time or another but I never pick up numbers I don't recognize. If someone calls from the same number more than a few times they have the "privilege" of being added to my block list so my phone never rings again when they call. Here's a better...

I was one of those people and I stand by my words. With V-NAND now on a roadmap to increase in density enough to make ~10 TB 2.5" SSDs practical by 2017 or so at around what 1TB SSDs cost now, I think we're seeing the last few years of mechanical hard drives. There's not too many tricks left in...