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Me as well! :wink: Since I couldn't in all good conscience vote for a Democrat either based on what the party has come to stand for I may very well end up either not voting next election or voting for a third party. BTW, this legislation appears to be a bipartisan effort. I don't call...

Although I'm not an IT professional I would probably let a business know it was in violation of the EULA. However, I wouldn't bother with a home user since they likely wouldn't get caught. Businesses should be held to a higher standard than the casual home user. Nobody here has actually said...

The only thing that bothers me about this list are the exceptions for political calls, charities, surveys, and places you've done business with in the last 18 months. Do not call should mean exactly that, and there shouldn't be an five year expiration once you register either. Just to show how...

I can't believe it. I just checked my inbox and the bastards sent me another message: Dear eBay User, During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete. Please update and verify your...

Now that you brought it up I do remember that thread so sorry about posting again for the same topic. Two warnings can't hurt, though. It's a shame there's so many scam artists out there that you need to keep on your toes all the time.

I don't know that it means anything Mercutio, but your last post was the 11111th in the B&G.

I'm posting this to serve notice to everyone here that if you receive a message similar to the following that appears to be from eBay it is false. A sign on page asks you for personal information or they threaten that your account will be closed. DO NOT fill out any information. This is a way...

That pretty much sums it up. I seem to go in spurts where I'll post a lot on SR and then disappear for a while. I'm a bit more consistent on SF because I can usually find one or two topics of interest. A year ago I think my SR post count was about 200 ahead of my SF one. It was only about 60...

I still post at SR occasionally. The problem is that there just aren't too many topics that hold my interest there any more, and too low a signal to noise ratio. Also, it seems that trolls pop up a bit too often for my tastes. Eugene really needs some industrial strength troll spray.

I've been getting those in my Yahoo inbox occasionally. Also, I've gotten a few things with attachments that the Yahoo virus scan says have virii. Needless to say those are consigned to the bit bucket. I don't get it either. Span and telemarketing are two things which I just can't fathom...

Funny you mentioned that because former Mayor Guiliani adopted "Our city can kick your city's ass" as New York's unofficial motto.

Isn't most of the filtering done on the server side? I know Yahoo seems to block quite a bit of junk mail on it's own. With the dozen or fewer spams I get a month in my Yahoo inbox I generally add the domain name(rather than the complete address) to my personal block list(also taken care of by...

It seems that since evidence on global warming is becoming irrefutable the powers that be are simply choosing to ignore it. This article tells the disturbing truth.

Ahem. I beg your pardon. New York City is spotlessy clean. So clean in fact that we have an abundance of all sorts of unique, native wildlife. Where else can you find rats the size of small dogs and cockroaches as big as your hand? Do you honestly think all these fine creatures would choose...

Thinking about this topic my opinion here is the same as it is regarding extreme overclocking(not to be confused with regular overclocking which is really just running your processor at the best speed it can do without any fancy cooling)-why bother? In six months a single processor system will...

Very interesting analysis Clocker, and thanks for sharing it. I wish PCs were common when I was in school. It would be nice to share some of my projects with everyone here. I still have most of them. Maybe one of these days I'll scan them and use OCR software to digitize them.

Not a bad idea. It must kill the batteries pretty quick though. A 118W, 127 couple cooler running at 9.6 volts draws around 7 amps. Even with the highest capacity NIMH batteries that's only about 12 minutes run time. Peltiers have a way to go before they're practical in battery powered...

20% efficiency in a production cell isn't bad. No mention of cost though. Until these things approach the cost of conventional roofing they probably won't appeal to the average home owner, although I plan to do a cost analysis eventually and see what the payback period would be.

When I used to work repairing taximeters the part of my job that I hated the most was talking to customers on the phone. Besides the fact that most of them had an IQ lower than the room temperature they just weren't pleasant people to talk to(who is when something breaks?). Sometimes I would...

Another thing also. The fan would slow down once the cat got caught by it. It doesn't.

You're right. I remember when I put up two ceiling fans at my sister's place and then had to adjust the balancing weights. These were small masses, less than an ounce each, and not too far from the center. Even so, until they were correctly positioned they still exerted enough torque to make...

We're getting Time Warner which includes the local channels. We also have a roof antenna so reception shouldn't be a problem, although the 5" B&W in my workroom can no longer pull in any channels expect WPIX with it's own antenna thanks to 9/11. My reasons for thinking about HDTV are twofold...

I could imagine that changing a keyboard port would be a PITA. One of my "tricks of the trade" is to use a good quality solder sucker(also called a solder pump). You heat the solder at the joint to be removed(sometimes you need to add a little fresh solder for good heat conduction) until it...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll dig up Mercutio's thread and research some of the links provided here and there. No big hurry since I borrowed my mom's 13" spare TV in the meantime. I'll go to a few stores, compare pictures, choose the set I want, and then wait for a good price on...

No offense taken. My sister's views are close to yours on this subject, although I'm starting to think that her fairly regular depressed moods are in part caused by the incandescent lighting in her house. ;) Ditto for my brother. My guess is there are two reasons you're not happy with the...

Thanks to an improbable set of circumstances I'm in the market for a new television. Last night I was cleaning my room, and rearranging things to accomodate a large used file cabinet which I just finished painting. I had three very small cabinets which were going to be replaced by the large...

I'm guessing by all the goop splattered everywhere one of the electrolytic or even ceramic caps got an internal short, heated up, and exploded. That probably caused R6(the big metal oxide power resistor) to overheat and burst into flames. Very common failure mode. The power supply is probably...

As far as those interesting and/or famous that I've met personally, I can't say I've had any conversations. I saw Nicholas Cage in person once. I was riding my bike around 10 one night and noticed a bunch of bright lights around a private house. I asked what they were doing, and they said...

The reasons the light is not exactly the same are fourfold, possibly fivefold. First of all, the CRI of 90 means that the light is still deficient in some wavelengths. Second, the sun is a point source as opposed to a diffuse one. Third, ambient sunlight can be as intense as 130,000 lux, or...

The older fluorescents ran on magnetic ballasts and flickered twice every line cycle, or 120 times per second. Besides that, the color reproduction was awful, with far too much green. Newer tubes, whether T-12(1.5 inch) or the newer T-8(1 inch), have much better color rendering properties...

Amen to that. One of the first things I did when my sister moved out and I got her room was to change the fixture to a fluorescent one. I hate incandescent light, and besides that, I like any area where I live to be brightly lit. Prior to removing the bulb fixture I had 2 200W bulbs which...

I thought this article might be of some interest since I've noticed some others besides myself have an interest in white LEDs. This is a fascinating development since it puts the efficiency of white LEDs at about the same point as compact fluorescent bulbs and T-12 linear fluorescent tubes...

I thought of a white LED, and it gave up after 29 questions. At least LED was on the list of choices when it finally asked me what I was thinking of.

I'm sadistic but not that sadistic. Besides, cats are well known for their aversion to water. It would be almost impossible for a child of my age at the time to force a 10 pound male cat into a tub full of water. It's hard enough giving the ones we have now the occasional bath, although...

Since I'm sure the usual "no animals were harmed during the making of this commercial" applies here this doesn't bother me. In fact, it's downright hilarious. :lol: As much as I love most cats, I was very tempted to do something like this when we were catsitting for my sister's cat a few...

To the best of my knowledge no new standards are in the works. It is certainly possible, though, to go much faster as the current standard is based on an analog signal under the worst possible conditions. Once a digital signal exists, noise and line quality are almost a non-issues at the...

Actually, I'm paying $9.99 a month for Bluelight. I'd gladly pay up to double that for cable, but not more. I realize I might be getting 30x to 50x the bandwidth, but 90% of what I do on the Internet isn't that limited by 56K. The main thing is downloads, which average about 20 MB per day...

Actually, the peak voltage is the square root of 2 times the RMS voltage, and the average voltage is pi/2 times the peak voltage. So for the good old USA(60 Hz, 120 V nominal) we have peaks of +- 169.7V and an average voltage of 108.0 volts. The RMS voltage is derived from the DC voltage that...

Another 56Ker here. When cable starts to charge reasonable prices($20 or less per month) I'll think about it. The going rate of $50 and up is ridiculous. Some people just plain can't afford that. As I've already mentioned, Time Warner should give a special discount on Road Runner to whoever...

I'm guessing the card had some sort of delayed start feature where all of the bus is in a high impedance state for a set time after it gets power. When you first installed it, it took a fraction of a second after it detected power to start sending and receiving signals on the PCI bus. Luckily...

Merc, Your situation is not uncommon. You were/are deeply in love with somebody who, through no fault of your own, is no longer in your life. Your hope of getting back together may or may not be rational. I only know you through your posts, and I don't know Amy at all, so I can't say whether...

Excellent post, e_dawg, with plenty of sound advice. As I'm sure we all know, the first and hardest part of changing an unhealthy habit or lifestyle is to admit you have a problem. Whether the problem is of your own making or not is irrelevant. It exists and must be dealt with somehow. I'm...

I have 2x256 MB and 2x128 MB modules running on my 440BX board(AOpen AX6B) right now. The key is that only the double-sided 256 MB modules will work. A few months ago I bought single-sided modules and they only recognized as 128 MB. I would imagine 512 MB double-sided modules would recognize...

I wish I could count how many posts or topics I thought for sure would provoke lots of conversation but ended up with almost nobody interested. My only conclusion on the lack of conversation about transfat/labeling is that nobody is interested because a)they already know about it and adjust...

Well, at least the window stays open reminding you that it still is open. Even worse are plug-ins or software that remains running in the background even after you have closed all open windows.

Update 1: Scanner was exchanged today for a new one since they wouldn't exchange only the adaptor. The new one at first just hung there without initializing. I called tech support which recommended to uninstall and reinstall the software. Normally this is a waste of time but seeing as nothing...

This gives new meaning to the words "loaded for bear". :mrgrn:

Monitors really wasn't what I had in mind since they have a regular small plug, not an AC adaptor, and they take a rather large amount of power. Ditto for laser printers. Rather, I was thinking of the small, fairly low power peripherals like scanners, ink-jet printers, speakers, tape drives...

After experiencing the problems that occur when the power supply of a product is an afterthought, as it apparently was with the Microtek 4850 scanner my mom bought, it occurred to me that all peripherals should just tap into the existing PC power supply. Physically, this will mean no more...

The few times I eat bread with butter or make cinnamon toast I always choose butter over margarine. Margarine tastes disgusting. Always has, always will. Ditto for 1% and 2% milk. I'm not going to sweat a little extra cholesterol when a ten mile bike ride more than compensates for it. It's...