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I laughed when I read the following line in that link: I'm pretty much a slob except maybe in my workroom where I'm just plain messy. :bglaugh: Not the symptoms of someone with a pervasive pattern of orderliness at all. If anything, my messiness sometimes hurts my efficiency. I know what the...

Absolutely. I'm quite capable of being self-sufficient for months, even years if need be, with little face-to-face social contact with non-family members if need be. My hobbies and other things I do keep me occupied for often weeks at a time. As for any potential partners, what you wrote about...

Privacy and security settings are at medium. I tried turning everything way down with no effect. I just tried the restore defaults with no effect, either. This is a weird problem in that maybe two weeks ago things were fine, and now they're not for no apparent reason. I tried doing a Google...

Here's the add-ons currently loaded: Here's all the add-on used at one time or another (I had to scroll down and make 3 screen captures):

Most of the people I know haven't dated hundreds or even dozens of people. My sister married the second guy she ever dated, really the first since her other boyfriend was one of my brother's friends who actually kept hinting at him to go out with my sister. He was a complete asshole by the way...

I've noticed this problem about two weeks ago. Whenever I try to do a download in IE7, no matter from where, I get the message "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." Any ideas of what can...

I have to take issue with the idea of being "too tentative". A lot of that may depend upon the individual. For someone like me I need to know a person many months and feel very comfortable with them before I would even want to hold hands, let alone kiss or do anything further. It just takes that...

Yes, pretty much that's what I would do if I were redesigning the lighting in a room from scratch. Note though that a single 4x32W fixture in the center of the ceiling of a small room (10'x10') creates nearly as good lighting as the distributed scheme. For a larger room two or more fixtures...

I agree. I've already said several times on CPF that an ideal interior lighting source would be an entire ceiling with a variable illumination level from perhaps 1 to several hundred lumens per square foot. Even at maximum intensity the panels would be no brighter than an average sky. And you...

Except that putting yourself out there doesn't necessarily work if neither you nor the girl can summon up the courage to make the first move. Given that I live in the largest, most densely populated city in the country you would think it would be fairly easy to at least meet potential partners...

From what I understand about the way these actuarial tables work, they tell you statistically if you're a given age now, then you can expect to live a certain amount of years. There is no simple equation. It's just a table based on statistics. Interestingly, the average lifespan is NOT how long...

While I can personally vouch for the fact that exercise increases my energy level, and probably also kept me from committing suicide during the worst period of my life (from about age 19 up to my late 20s), I'll also say that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Merc is...

I can understand where Chewy is coming from. I have nothing against fat people. In fact, since I'm 25 or so pounds overweight I'm technically fat myself. :crap: Yes, I'm trying to lose it, and yes, it's not easy to do if you lead a mostly sedentary life. That being said, I'm still in decent...

Thanks, CityK. Very interesting read. I'm wondering how much cheaper LEDs can get at this point, at least the 5mm indicator ones. Whites are under $0.10 in quantity while red, amber and orange can be had for as little as a penny. If this process can bring greater efficiencies, greater...

I put one on the machine I made last year and I'm putting one on the machine I'm building for my mom. In both cases the only reason is because I happen to have some spare floppies I bought on eBay a few years ago for something like $1 each. If not for that, I certainly wouldn't even have...

Go with the aluminum gutter. If something overheats there's no chance of igniting it like the PVC. Here's some full-spectrum T5 tubes. I'll see if I can find T6s later. You'll probably need to custom rig something to hold the sockets. Overall if you do this with switches it'll cost only a...

Thanks for reminding me about the IceCap ballasts and T6s, udaman. I think I've even seen full-spectrum T6s somewhere a while back. This might be another viable solution to Dave's lighting project. Also, I haven't gotten around to answering your latest emails but I'll try to find time this...

If you go with T5 tubes instead of T8 then I think 4 sets in parallel could be made to fit into a rain gutter. T5 tubes are a different length that T8s, and use a different ballast. They cost more also, but not prohibitively more. Anyway, since the tube is 5/8" in diameter instead of 1" then...

I saw this thread yesterday but haven't had time to give it a decent response. I'll try now. First off, yes, you can indeed dim flourescent lighting. The downside is that dimming ballasts for a pair of lamps run at upwards of $75 (when you can even find them). For the size room you mentioned...

I only changed the GPU frequency. The card voltage was already at 1.5V in the BIOS and that was the lowest setting. It's not heat-related, BTW. The GPU temperature is at most 70°C. The limit is 145°C and the card will automatically clock down as it approaches this. On another strange note...

I'm periodically experiencing the exact same thing on the new PC I set up about a year ago. I think it might be video card related since it occurred very infrequently only after I purchased a new card (it's an EVGA 128 MB Geforce 6200). It mainly occurs when playing 3D games after a few minutes...

It may not be a drive problem at all. About two or three years ago my main PC was exhibiting similar symptoms. First one of the drives was periodically spinning down. Eventually all three of them started to. The number of reallocated sectors started climbing on two out of the three. As things...

From an indestructibility standpoint the stuff made with metal tubes and mesh can't be beat. It's also very light plus easily disassembles in case you move often. The only thing is either you like it or you don't. If you like high-tech decor then you'll probably like it, otherwise you won't. I'm...

I guess the consensus then is that Bose is the best. :rofl: :bglaugh: That old thread also made me LMAO. Talk about not giving up a hopeless argument. :x I was also reminded of yet again of the reasons why Merc holds Prof. Wizard in so much, umm, esteem. On the subject of headphones and...

They should be able to. As udaman mentioned, tire sizes are never exact. The car has to have some adjustment (at least 10% in either direction) to account for this. Maybe there's even some procedure in the service manual for your car to do this, assuming you have it. My brother gets the service...

Well, at least here it saves a good amount of time over doing 70 or whatever the speed limit is since it's a long commute and he's doing it often. In one day 100 versus 70 on a 100 miles each way commute you save 51 minutes. In a week you save over 4 hours. In a year you save the equivalent of...

Increasing tire size is a common way to effectively get "overdrive" without going through the expense of a new transmission. You would drop your RPM from around 5000 to about 4675 @ 100 mph according to the info you gave. As for affecting the accuracy of your speedometer/odometer I believe any...

Your equation seems right. I'm not sure about the examples though. Where does the minus sign come in? (edit-never mind- you were just using the minus sign in between the tread width/sidewall height and wheel diameter numbers. Your math seems correct). Interestingly, bicycle tires are actually...

Happy holidays to all! And here's a few pictures of my house lit up for the holidays:

Either way the kitten will be getting a far better home than he would have staying with the morons who thought he was disposible goods.

That's great news! I'll be looking forward to receiving it. And my mom will be thrilled to have a better system than the old Pentium 200 she's been using. Now on to Newegg to order the rest of the parts for the system....

They use high temperature to fuse the toner to the paper. I've noticed the smell is less than when I first set it up. I've also found a good spot for it. ;) I took apart my inkjet just for kicks and soaked the circuit board with the cartridge contacts on it in lacquer thinner followed by...

Since I have a few spare NICs and SATA isn't terrible crucial right now (I don't even own a SATA drive yet much less my mom) I'll go with the Gigabyte.

That sounds like a good idea if the A64 will be on hold for a while. Just a few questions: Am I correct in assuming based on your post that Soyos have an issue with SATA ports? I checked the specs for the Soyo board and it seems to match what I'm looking for, SATA issues aside. What is the...

That's probably true. So far I've registered on I think seven forums. Four of them are train related and I hadn't posted much to any of them for a while even before my father passed on. I just needed a break from the train stuff. The other three are SF, SR and Candlepowerforums. I haven't...

I bought the printer today. It took a few minutes to set up. Print quality is excellent-photos look better than on my Deskjet 940C and text is tack sharp. Best of all no more runny ink every time the page gets a little wet, plus it's no noisier than my inkjet. So long as this new printer...

Going over the members list I noticed quite a few regulars haven't posted here in a while, sometimes a long while. Anyone know what happened to: Cougtek Fushigi Howell/Cliptin Prof. Wizard flagreen James SteveC honold Jan Kivar That about covers all those with >200 posts who haven't been here...

Sean Astin of Lord of the Rings does the commentary in the US. Yes, he's a celebrity but I think he does a decent job of it. Thank goodness they didn't use Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson or Paris Hilton, to name a few people I wish would just permanently disappear to the far side of the moon.

CityK, Thanks for the TV/video capture lesson. I look forward to your further updates later on. For now that's quite a bit of info to digest.

We have Time Warner cable. Right now I'm using my late father's 30" Westinghouse HDTV in the basement. When the prices come down I may buy a 42" or so 1080p for my bedroom. We can get something like TiVo through the cable company but I'm really not interested mainly in recording programs so I...

No problem at all. I'm aiming to get the machine set up by roughly New Year's but there's really no hard schedule.

Anyone else here watch Meerkat Manor? It's basically live action footage of wild meerkats with commentary. The action is totally unscripted yet it reads like a soap opera. I've been hooked since late summer. The meerkats are also quite a bit cuter than most human actors as well. ;)

The changes must have worked. I'm getting about 800KB/sec steady which is around the highest I can get on my connection from anywhere.

The ATMs by me don't suck the card in to read it so this scam just wouldn't work. I'd probably notice and remove the X-ray film anyway. In fact, if someone ever tried to pull this scam, I might well play along, and then take out the film and card just when they think they've got me.

And it's been working out very well! :) BTW, please let me know when the Biostar board arrives and how much you want for it. I'm assuming the board can take DDR and has a AGP8X slot. The older graphics card I have should be fine for her uses. Somehow I don't think she'll be playing any 3D...

Is any card in particular better for SDTV? Would a card that uses the CPU for encoding overtax my XP2500? What about HDTV? Any card you would recommend? I might put in the difference between what my brother is willing to spend and what an HDTV card costs. Is 2GB RAM sufficient for HD video...

The local BJs has the Samsung CLP-510 for $250 with a $70 rebate good through 12/31. I'm seriously thinking of purchasing it since my HP Deskjet 940C refuses to recognize color cartridges, and therefore won't do anything. HP tech support either refused or didn't know how to tell me to override...

Results for my traceroute: Tracing route to storageforum.net [69.57.180.83] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.48.0.1 3 6 ms 6 ms 8 ms gig0-3-nycmnyu-ubr9.nyc.rr.com [24.29.113.149] 4 8 ms 6 ms...

I got 359 KB/sec. Roadrunner recently upgraded from 5 Mb/sec to 7 Mb/sec. In other words, the download should have been ~800 KB/sec. I still seem to be getting better speeds than everyone else here though.