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The steps you took to determine the cause of the problem were exactly what I would have done. While the laptop was open I would have resoldered the power plug connections just in case it was a solder joint problem. By resolder I basically mean just apply a hot soldering iron to the joint and...

Nice to know somebody in a position of some influence supports this idea. You need to be licensed for so many other things requiring far less responsibility than raising children. I just don't understand why more politicians aren't for this. By allowing to procreate only those with the money...

Literally everything I backup on CD-RWs is in zip files. I really haven't had any problems with corruption. Sometimes it even makes sense to zip relatively uncompressible things like jpgs before backing them up on CD-RW. The reason here is that I've seen InCD choke when you have many folders...

I didn't even know radar guns could read that high. I don't believe there's ever been a road car that could get anywhere near 300 mph, so it's not like there would be much need to. In fact, the only land vehicle that would possibly be doing that kind of speed and might be running close enough...

Krispy Kremes are sickeningly sweet as well as greasy. Dunkin Donuts are pretty good, especially their crullers. The only thing is they make me constipated if I eat more than a few. :bibber:

Exactly, Howell. And roaches are seemingly always in heat, unfortunately. :(

I honestly don't think many people in the US would know the alternate expression of buggered. I certainly didn't, but then again I never had much need to. In certain contexts "Get that little f*cker" or "Get that f*cken thing" are perfectly acceptable. My mom used the latter expression all...

You're kidding? Any technical reasons why not? You mean I'm stuck with inkjets forever(I print photos once in a while) unless I want to go for those printers with the crayons? :cry:

I've never been a big fan of those all-in-one things, either. The basic problem is that by cramming three things into one case you need to replace or repair the entire unit if any one of those three things fails. Another good reason is that you usually get pretty much the low end on...

A small crowbar works nicely for that as well. Hit three or four times, stir and shake lightly. If the message not to mess with you doesn't sink in repeat ad infinitum. Good to see you getting in shape. Trust me, you'll feel better about yourself. Should you ever decide to take up cycling...

Try booting in pure DOS mode and then delete the file from there. You'll have to use the 8.3 equivalents of the folder and filename, obviously.

For the longest time I visualized Tannin looking like Paul Hogan as well as sounding like him. I even visualized him paraphrasing the famous line in Crocodile Dundee. It went something like this: I post one of my 2 or 3 page pathetic attempts to imitate Tannin or SR or SF. He comes right...

CRYPTIC ATM MESSAGE: There has been a critical error at address 3BD7:56A9 in the module bankteller.vxd. It may be possible to continue and obtain your money by pressing ENTER. If that fails you may restart the machine by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL. Please note that this will cause the current...

Belated congratulations from me as well. :beer: BTW, it's really hard voting for a moderator around here as any of the regulars will do just fine.

I would say going for an advanced degree would make sense if you(or rather your parents) have the money for it. The job picture isn't pretty right now plus you're that much more marketable with a masters. Another thing to think about before choosing a field(should you go the advanced degree...

1)Keep the M/B and RAM, and just replace the processor with a Powerleap 1.4GHz Celeron upgrade. That's what I did on my machine. Less chance for things to go wrong than replacing the whole M/B, and you get to use your old RAM. Maybe consider maxing out the RAM on the machine as well. My...

Actually I do. Just PM with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you. You can put it in this thread if you want. I'm not able to as I don't have any place to host pictures. P.S. I remember seeing those cats on the FVWM developers site. Some of them had very short lives, and came to very...

Use an Asian eye instead of a Caucasian one? Maybe that will be less disturbing as less of the eyeball is showing. I really can't think of anything else that would go as well with your screen name except some type of eyeball. I find nothing wrong with your avatar, either old or slightly...

The internal sensor is said to compensate for sudden changes in rotation or speed. I don't know how it would handle printing on non-flat surfaces, though. i's full body tattoo idea might be out, at least for now. ;) BTW, I came across this in Electronic Products magazine, which is one of the...

I thought this was very interesting. The printer can supposely print on any print media through a process called Random Movement Printing Technology. An internal navigation sensor compensates for hand movement, and the output is said to be comparable to standard digital printers.

I get the exact same thing happening to me when I give extra change to get back a whole note.

ROTFLMAO! :lol: :mrgrn: :lol: Thanks, Merc. I needed a good laugh after watching the depressing 9/11 ceremonies yesterday.

I've been using the software that came with my first scanner. It is basically a slightly limited version of Ulead PhotoImpact. The Photo Plus Explorer automatically makes thumbnails each time you go into a new folder. You can select pictures in each folder to be deleted, copied, or moved. I...

I don't see any need to torture or humiliate them either. If they can't be rehabilited just dump them on an island and let them fend for themselves. Long-term incarceration is a waste of money.

The thing is that the clerks always enter the cash tendered into the register, and the register calculates the change due. In fact, many of them are helpless calculating change if they don't do this. If she couldn't tell a $20 bill from a $5 bill then something is seriously wrong here. Maybe...

Except of course our resident mascot Tea. :mrgrn:

This really doesn't surprise me, and it extends to other types of technology as well. I've heard something like half the people don't know how to record on their VCR, which is one reason why they offer to sell tapes of a show right after it airs. And then you have all those digital clocks that...

Do you really expect any differently with the kinds of graduates most schools are turning out these days? I few weeks ago I went a fast food place and the total bill came to $4.36. I handed the clerk a $5 bill. She handed me back 64 cents change and $15 in bills. Putting aside that the...

I was disgusted beyond words when this whole thing started, and I was a staunch supporter of the attacks on Afghanistan. The war with Iraq is something the US cannot afford now, either financially or politically. It simply wasn't as pressing a national security concern as it was made out to be.

You have my sympathies. Something similar happened with Tiger. When we bought her into the vet the second time because the lumps on her throat weren't getting smaller, the vet basically said the situation was hopeless. She was too weak to operate on. I made the decision to make her as...

I empathize with you. Reading between the lines I can see you are very attached to your dog. I know the feeling. I can only wish for the best for both of you. If nothing else you've known for a long time that he wasn't in the best of health, and hopefully, at least on a subconscious level...

This dovetails nicely with the coming of robotic waiters in maybe 10 or 20 years. The robot can receive a signal directly from the empty glass and refill immediately. I just hope they don't extend the idea to plates or people will be fatter than ever. :lol:

I know it may seem cruel to say this, but the idiot deserved it for being such a, well, idiot. Why is it that I never cease to be amazed by the boundless depths of stupidity that we humans will sink to? I'll bet Tea is reveling in the fact that she's not a person now.

As far as I know this type of cartridge doesn't have an expiration date. I personally don't think that concept will last too long or be very popular with consumers. What happens to the poor slob who hardly uses his/her printer and then discovers one day that their nearly full $50 cartridge is...

Me too.

I've tried those steps with no luck. From what I managed to find on a few bulletin boards the kind of error I've been getting is fairly common for the 6578 cartridge but I haven't found any fix for it. Basically, the printer thinks either no color cartridge is installed, or the improper one is...

I've been going crazy the last month trying to get my printer to print consistently. The black cartridge(hp 6615) is very inconsistent-sometimes it prints fine, sometimes some lines are missing, sometimes it doesn't print at all. Not way to tell in advance since it can print fine and then a...

I wonder about that myself. I personally feel better about optical media than magnetic media, but it seems optical media isn't the long-term solution many thought it was. At least optical disks aren't affected by stray EM fields. Thus far, I've had no problems with any optical media, and most...

:lol: I doubt it. All joking aside, though, provided the system only affected those who break in, and there was adequate warning of it should the Fire Department ever need to enter the premises, there might very well have been no basis for criminal charges or a lawsuit. The government uses...

Those 100-year claims are based on testing at high temperature and humidity, and then using an equation to correct for the lifetime at 25°C and normal humidity. While this method may work reasonably well for estimating the life of ICs the correlation doesn't necessarily hold for CDs. I tend to...

IIRC crime rates stopped going up during the last term of the Dinkins administration(c. 1993). Murder rates are now at levels not seen since before I was born. This isn't to say things can't be much better, but at least I feel reasonably safe walking the streets in 90% of the city. As for the...

Yep. I read about a guy who owned a store and was sick and tired of getting broken into. One day he decided to connect his store gate to 240VAC after he closed up. Next time somebody tried to break in they were electrocuted(good solution if you ask me). Anyway, I think he served jail time...

The solution to stolen car stereos is simple-take them out when you first get the car and put a "NO STEREO" sign in your window. Now you won't have to worry about someone breaking your window or otherwise trashing your car just to steal the stereo. As a bonus, you have one less driver...

Actually, I can tell you exactly what is missing. Remember basic physics-acceleration=dv/dt and change in acceleration, also known as jerk, is da/dt. A manual shift car has lots of rapidly changes in acceleration whereas a CVT just has a initial quick build up following by a slow dropoff as...

I think you've been misled a bit here. Most trolleys and electric MUs(i.e. subway cars) aren't really constant power. Rather, they have a quick burst of acceleration up to 20 or 30 mph, often at a constant acceleration rate, and then the power tapers off really fast after that, often to less...

They said something similar when we were pushing 20 Gb/in² and then 40 Gb/in², etc. Maybe IBM will come up with another form of pixie dust. The concept is essentially correct, though. Sooner or later we will not be able to make bits any smaller. The only question is at what areal density...

It's not that I dislike them(I think they're cool), it's just that I tend to think that the R&D money might be better spent getting fuel cell vehicles to market sooner and speeding up the conversion to a hydrogen economy. That would also make US involvement in certain parts of the world...

Our friend Tesla first thought of and attempted this. Here is a description of how the system works. He actually built and tested a working prototype of the system in Colorado Springs c. 1899. This account of his life tells of his many experiments, including that one(scroll about halfway down...

Actually, if the voltage was high enough you might have been able to get by with very thin wires, or perhaps a large very thin flat plate the entire width of the road(like a sheet of aluminum foil). Not very significant cost-wise, and the highways should have been built better anyway to...

Just to correct one thing, the torque curve of an electric motor is way different than that of a gas engine. A gas engine has a torque curve that looks somewhat like a flattened parabola with the maximum occurring slightly under the maximum power RPM. To a first approximation it is a constant...