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Thanks time and jtr for the responses. time: The CFL throws light everywhere, including gobs of light on the ceiling when mounted as a downlight, and on the sidewall when mounted at a 45 degree angle facing downwards. All my LED bulbs have some sort of covering at the bottom half of the...

I did. We don't get Cree here; the only "international" brand available is Philips. And they're supposed to be the best available here, considering all aspects. At more than 2x the cost (street price) of an "equivalent" CFL, LEDs are way too expensive now for me. I got these two as an...

Smart kid (and smart parents!). Cool rig too.

Well, LED bulb replacements for other types would be pretty useless if they were directional, right? The two bulbs in question disperse light like any incandescent, CFL or halogen would. The only reason I can think of for the anomaly is that the CFLs are 26 months old and the LEDs are brand...

The perils of rooting.

In the first case, 2700k vs 3000k isn't a lot. In the second case, both CFL and LED are 6500k.

Shit. WD can't do anything right. Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws

Strange stuff I bought my first LED bulb a month back. It's 3-watt 3000k 270 Lumens, and sits 2 feet away from a CFL that is 23-watt 2700k 1550 Lumens. The switches are next to each other, so I can very easily do an A/B comparison. Based on spec, the LED is about 17% the Lumens of the CFL. But...

Tsk tsk. Exposed stuff with the little one running around. What is that tall black thing in the back? A radiator / heat exchanger? But the stuff going into and out of it don't look like tubes carrying fluid. And what is that single ram-stick like thing standing vertically in the foreground?

Sheesh Merc, you must be kidding. My doc bro's medical practice in S. CA has about 8 employees, and he provides them all insurance! Every company I worked for in the US, from a small sw firm to an internet startup to a $400M one provided insurance. Of all the gazillion companies out there, you...

Even if you're not bone lazy. Let's say you're sick for a week. These things just stop working because they're lying on a table or desktop and are not being moved. Or if you have a couple of watches and wear the other one for the few days you're traveling. Has happened to me plenty of times; I...

IQ from the NIKKOR 200-500MM F/5.6E AF-S ED VR seems good. With a DX body that's 750mm of reach for a decent price.

Wasn't dental and vision insurance always a separate thing you had to have? All of the companies I worked at in the US offered general health insurance + dental + vision insurance as additional options. AFAIR, ears were covered by general insurance. Of course all this was 1.5 decades ago.

Ain't so simple! What clocker said. The days of "cheap, clean diesel" are over. Now for ICE vehicles, it's gasoline. Or electric, hydrogen fuel-cell and such technologies with their own unique problems. I'm glad I bucked the trend here and bought a gasoline-engine car a couple of years ago. I...

No need to wait. See below. This is what happened to me too. What saved me was that my Windows Update settings are set to "Check for updates, but don't download or install them". This allows me to inspect what was offered. What happened with me was that the Windows 10 Upgrade did not show; I...

Loses Radeon vet Phil Rogers to Nvidia

VW plans to go electric; but 2015 engines also suspect, possibly creating a second violation of EPA regulations.

Soviets keylogged Selctric typewriters!

Crap. After this Tuesday's patches, which I updated just now, I have a "Upgrade to Windows 10" on the Windows Update screen (which the reboot automagically went to) with a "Get Started Button". So it looks like the script that disabled it was circumvented by MS. Grrrrrrrrr. Why can't they get...

Like in the US, there is much cry here for the govt. to back off since it inevitably screws up things and is 99% inefficient. So no public health stuff en masse. It does exist in the form of primary health care and govt. hospitals for the poor etc. You can certainly take modern plumbing for...

Yes, it seems so. There is much info on the net about how the density of diesel + the high compression in diesel engines result in too much NOx. It can be fixed with urea injection and special cat cons, but is expensive to do so, negating the fuel efficiency of diesel. At the outset, I'll state...

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Good or bad, depending on your alertness and luck. Everything's gone totally commercial; the intent is to bill, bill, bill, especially if you have insurance. But many practitioners are exceptionally good - on par with the best. And diagnostics and latest procedures are as good or nearly as good...

The net is awash with spoofs on VW. Here's one.

I'm about twice as old as you are and haven't had one. Yet. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

Gosh! Thanks DD!

I agree. I've had cards fail in phones too. Seems the environment is not conducive to their health; probably too hot for them inside. I too have been thinking it's beyyer to buy a phone with more built-in storage than to stick in a memory card. In the case of Android, many apps don't like being...

Yikes! The engine bay is supposed to be pretty crapmed as is, how the heck did this guy manage that ??!! Why? He's an enthusiast. You don't have to be a nut to enjoy a car that handles well. I own a car that does exactly that, and when I'm on the highway at legal speeds, I enjoy it's grip...

Aah, indeed Fushigi was the handle I couldn't remember, thanks Merc. At one time I even knew his real first name. He just completely disappeared; was quite active when he was around. Hope he's okay.

It is an enormous PITA. Images save most of this hassle, but mine was crappy. Now I've made an image at every step, asked for it to be chaecked as soon as it's made, then separately validated the image. This is another PITA, but hopefully will save an even bigger PITA down the road.

Pradeep and our friend from Chicago - I forget his handle, he hasn't been around in a decade - are the original "hawk-eyes".

No dice putting the image I had made some months ago back. The imaging sw kept telling me it was corrupt. Maybe the corruption happened when I was having drive problems on my desktop; I had moved the image file from the laptop to my desktop. I always verify the image to make sure I have a good...

I have AdBlock on my Chrome Browser. Yesterday I got a pop up from it saying I should allow ads from my favorite sites. I realized something had changed. I closed the pop up. Maybe I should un-install it and go with uBlock Origin. My Firefox install has uBlock; maybe I should switch that to...

Are Windows Updates shown in chronological order with the most recent first?

chkdsk finally finished - after a total of 2 hours on a partition 443 GB in size, 64 GB used. Unfortunately when I went to take a peek it had booted into Windows. I ran Crystal DiskInfo and the SMART info said the disk was good, except temperature was 51C. Write error rate was 23,114 decimal. No...

4 hours of Memtest, 4 passes of 14 tests each (the defaults) found 0 errors. Running chkdsk /b now (command prompt after rebooting). Fairly quickly jumped to 27%, and has stayed there for the last hour. Not a good sign, I guess. It doesn't show any details of what chkdsk is doing, unlike the...

Not exactly; IMAX with laser: Superb contrast, 4K resolution, and huge colour gamuts I'm sure SD & DD will be buying one each as soon as it is available for the consumer.

The stupidity continues: RFID chips in driver’s licenses

How hackers can access iPhone contacts and photos without a password

North America is out of IPv4 addresses—for really real this time

This guy is obviously a Mazda Miata fan. Sadly, I have never driven one.

Thanks guys. I checked the disk and it was ok. I did suspect RAM, and it'd be a nightmare if it is. I plan to work most of the day on it to get it working. Will update when I have something meaningful to report.

Downloaded a tool from MS to reset the stack; didn't help.

Sorry, ignore, I just Googled it.

Thanks DD. Tried #1 & #2; didn't help. How do I do #3?

Thanks DD. How do I do #3?

Whining on battery but not on mains indicates the whiner is sensitive to voltage. Have a spare new battery to test with?

Sorry for the long post. Daughters Lenovo IdeaPad, 2 years old, running W8.1, has been chugging along merrily. A couple of days ago it froze on her; I don't know what she did, but she got it running again and used it that evening and the next day. She did complain that she couldn't print...

Bozo, the script is supposed to hide updates that have been removed / disabled, so you shouldn't be seeing the same updates again unless MS changed the KB #.

The local Amazon copycat (founded by two ex-Amz employees) bought out a fashion dress portal and later made it pure mobile app only. Now they are pontificating making their entire website app-only. The IT crowd (tech-savvy, with high purchasing power) is up in arms because they make a lot of...