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.... and what height they can descend to before they run into mountains.-Fred Nerd (January 16, 2013, 05:27 AM)
Sure, if it was a tablet - that thing looks more like a man-sized advertising flatscreen (driven by some commodity windows software) with a tablet/phone-like frame on it?Power glitch at the store? Lazy employees that pulls plugs instead of proper shutdown?Um... shouldn't a tablet type device having a battery negate those options? *Shrug* I got no problem calling it a crash ... Shit happens, Ya know?-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 06:40 AM)-Stoic Joker (January 14, 2013, 11:29 AM)-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 12:29 PM)
Been using such a [different than mouser's] liner for a couple of decades (I bake a lot).-barney (January 12, 2013, 09:20 PM)
Tinman, why are you trying to ruin a perfectly good, high-tech, possibly toxic, $20 gadget with an 8 cent just-as-good solution? Are you trying to make me look foolish?-mouser (January 12, 2013, 07:22 PM)
Actually, that 8-cent solution will cost more, considering the longevity of the $20 gadget
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-barney (January 12, 2013, 08:23 PM)
The potential difference (voltage) across the tip and ring wires is usually around 50vDC when the telephone is not being used (i.e., is "on hook"), and this drops to drops to around 6vDC when it is in use (i.e., is "off hook").
These voltages could be quite handy! I recall seeing one early example of a nifty and compact digital phone with several memories (presumably a hot new feature at the time it was designed) that seemed to have no independent power supply of its own, and was completely parasitic off the phoneline's DC supply. It worked very well too. I think it's illegal to attach such parasitic phones to the PSTN now though.-IainB (January 12, 2013, 02:30 AM)
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The software is simple Audacity, and I only use about five features - the stuff I do is pretty simple, but I do a decent chunk of it.-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 08:19 AM)
I might be wrong but I don't think Audacity does any hardware accelerated processing, (ie. it doesn't make use of any DSPs), so the CPU will be doing it all.-4wd (January 11, 2013, 08:52 PM)
Hmm, so while the sound card has some abilities, are you saying I'm not seeing them?-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 10:36 PM)
The software is simple Audacity, and I only use about five features - the stuff I do is pretty simple, but I do a decent chunk of it.-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 08:19 AM)
LookInMyPC is free, easy to use, and doesn't need an airline pilot's license to figure it out. It can create a comprehensive hardware profile report. It does a lot more too. It's a nice utility to keep on hand.-40hz (January 10, 2013, 05:56 PM)
Okay, here is my report. I turned off a lot of obvious stuff like browsers and hotfixes to keep it short.-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 05:08 AM)
SIW is very easy to use. There isn't a free version any more but you can find the last free build at:
www.oldversion.com/windows/siw/-Carol Haynes (January 10, 2013, 06:32 PM)
I'm liaising with Spider Oak to try and sort the purging issue.-CleverCat (January 09, 2013, 02:37 AM)
For (not even guaranteed) transfer to a new computer, you need such 50$-for-just-one-transfer sw-helmut85 (January 08, 2013, 06:37 AM)
here, it's important to not recreate your previous 60 giga (or whatever) partition on the new hdd, but to use the whole capacity of your new hdd (didn't get an answer ho much space will finally be addressed, controller-wise, but see below)
As for FF portable, you, 4wd, spoke about that version from the beginning; I have to admit I didn't "get" this in time and installed the normal version, but of course, a cache of 50 MB or suche doesn't explain my loss of space.-helmut85 (January 08, 2013, 07:05 AM)
Geeky men, be sincere: when a program is running fine, would you ever abandon your computer???-Giampy (January 07, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Um... What Computer?-Stoic Joker (January 07, 2013, 01:24 PM)
Oh boy, free food! (but I'd have to borrow an old dead phone from someone to play this game, as I have never owned a cell phone)-app103 (January 07, 2013, 04:35 AM)
