At 10:36 PM 16/08/2005, Greg Sevart wrote:
Have you performed PIE/PIF and PO scans on these discs after some time has
elapsed since burning? A simple successful burn is not nearly sufficient
to determine if the burn was a quality
How do I do a PIE/PIF or PO scan?
T
The problem isn't so much doing the scan...there are a handful of tools out
there that can do it, and a handful of drives that support it (and a handful
of those that can scan with any sort of consistency). The problem is being
able to interpret the results properly, based on the speeds, drive
Just found this:
Verbatim 16x DVD+R/-R (100 ct) at OD for $37.99
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?pos=110catid=18threadid=50
8625
Are these any good?
Bobby
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Sent: Tuesday,
Built my wife's PC about a year ago. Epox MB with an Athlon, 2 sticks of
256MB RAM, 2 hard drives, DVD drive, and a Radeon 9800SE vid card. Recently
when she turns on the PC it usually will not boot and just makes a sound
that is kind of an alternating high then low beep. Hitting the reset
At 11:46 AM 17/08/2005, Jerry Jones wrote:
each hard drive individually and then both hard drives. I have tried
booting with just one stick of memory. At this point I am at a loss for
what might be wrong. Could the CPU be dead? The motherboard? Or does it
sound like a power supply problem?
then both hard drives. I have tried booting with just one stick of
memory. At this point I am at a loss for what might be wrong. Could the
CPU be dead? The motherboard? Or does it sound like a power supply problem?
Jerry
Sounds like a dead motherboard
Check the caps on the MB to see if any are bulging.
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:47 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] PC won't boot
Built my
Don't complain.
1 Gallon (US) = 3.79 litres
1 litre = ~£0.90 (from the BBC news site as of last week)
1 Gallon = ~£3.41
= ~$6.16
How's that! :(
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Thane Sherrington
Sent: 17
Guys,
stop complaining, Denmark has for the last decade paid close to US$2 per
litre if not more
DownUnder (Australia) we are currently paying $1.12-1.20 aussie dollars per
litre (USD$0.77 = AUD$1)
so what were you saying about your high gas price ?? :-)
Henrik
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See, this is the beautiful thing about capitalism that I tried to
explain to my Canadian girlfriend. Unfortunately in the world we live
in the vast majority of people are not going to do something simply
because it is the right thing to do or is for the good of everyone.
They need an incentive,
Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon.
Cost of modification is about $14,000
007.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hayes Elkins
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:57 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: RE:
In my area (Sydney) price starts on Wed
morning @
AU$1.18/litre for regular unleaded i.e.4.72/US
Gallon or US$3.60. Add another 0.07/l for Premium. By Tues its dropped to
1.10/l. Then the cycle repeats.
And the government the oil companies
say there is no collusion?
yeah...right
Diesel
Yeah, checking around I see that they've been that low in the past, as
recently as late July. I'll wait around to see if it goes on sale again, no
rush. Man, what a nice monitor. I've been with a 17 CRT for ages.
Looking at getting one of those hot rod GeForce 7800 cards, hoping they're
I paid $2.73 for regular at a discount station yesterday
(Bay area).
Gary VanderMolen
At 01:58 PM 17/08/2005, 007 wrote:
Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon.
Cost of modification is about $14,000
Sweet Jesus. Is this something that is relatively easy to do? I want
250mpg. :)
T
Rock on, but where are you getting your juice from?
http://cbs5.com/consumer/consumer_story_225005357.html
Backers of plug-in hybrids acknowledge that the electricity to boost their
cars generally comes from fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases, but
they say that process still produces
On 8/17/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 01:58 PM 17/08/2005, 007 wrote:
Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon.
Cost of modification is about $14,000
Sweet Jesus. Is this something that is relatively easy to do? I want
250mpg. :)
Veech wrote:
$3.00 + in LA, and I had to buy a car that uses premium! Wonder how much
damage I'll do to run it on regular?
Most people don't realize that premium gas is just regular gas
with some anti-knock compounds added. Modern engines have
anti-knock sensors, so if you accidentally fill
I paid $2.55/gal for Regular today.
I just wonder if we'll ever get back to the $1.50/gal days again. As harsh as
it sounds, low gas prices are a lot more important to me that supporing
anybody's agenda or liberating other countries.
It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting record profits.
So I really wonder how much of this is an increase in oil price, and how
much is just an excuse to charge more for gasoline.
I look at it this way, assuming that a gas company wants
I hope you meant $30/barrel! LOL.
Bobby
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
snip
There was a study in Canada that found that
The most fuel efficient cars use heavy water.
007.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:16 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
It's
A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the
water into hydrogen within the car itself.
Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :(
From: 007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 13:26:05 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It
cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself.
Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :(
This doesn't make sense. It takes energy to split water into Oxygen and
The energy to crack the water was from solar panels mounted on the roof.
Apparently they have a similar system now hybridized with a gasoline engine in
a 7 series.
http://www.bmwworld.com/models/750hl.htm
From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 13:39:10 CDT 2005
To: The
I was referring to fission technology (U235). Since fusion is years away.
007.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:26 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices
The most fuel efficient cars
Ben Ruset wrote:
A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the
water into
hydrogen within the car itself.
Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :(
Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry?
It takes more energy to crack water than
At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote:
Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry?
It takes more energy to crack water than you get back when
recombining the hydrogen and oxygen.
I think that report was a misunderstanding of the technology. The idea is
to use solar
Were saying it was running about 2.00 and under just a year or so ago.
Henrik Tived wrote:
so what were you saying about your high gas price ?? :-)
--
Cheers,
joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a
station?
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 13:56:41 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote:
Did
At 04:51 PM 17/08/2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a
station?
Because cracking hydrogen requires more power than you can generate on
current solar panels small enough to fit on a car roof. IIRC, there's a
company here that sells
Gas prices expensive???
Here in Saudi Arabia the state price (i.e. nothing less or more than
the state price is available at any gas station) is .90 halalas (cent
equivalent of a riyal(dollar)) per liter.
i.e 1 Gallon = 90 US cents.
BWAHAHAHAH!!!
Almost every car here in Saudi is a V6
So then if you're already filling your tank, what's the point of cracking more?
Seems like it would add needless expense, complexity, and weight to the vehicle.
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 15:00:37 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject:
Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the mideast.
You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes to only pay
transport and taxes.
From: Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:29 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List
Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we are getting screwed! The
oil companies have been crying for years that oil prices are way behind
inflation. I say, so what! I thought the idea was to keep inflation down in
the first place. The Government needs to include fuel and food in the
Fuel cells are a very good alternative and should be practically available
in the near future.
Jeff
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From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas
PPL here bitch about the prices but are not willing to do
anything about it. Non new refineries in 30 years, and no drilling in
Alaska.
me, I'd say piss on the Saudi's ( no offense ) , let them see if they can
squirt that oil on the sand and grow food with it !!! :-}
if it were up to me I'd cut
I am all about Ethanol. Unfortunately in the US the corn farmers are pushing
for it. Making Ethanol from Corn is the most inefficient way of doing it, and
supposedly yeilds less energy than what was spent in producing it.
Making Ethanol from sugar cane, as Brazil has done, makes MORE energy
Ethanol is a boondoggle. It has been demonstrated that it takes more
fossil fuel is used to create Ethanol than it provides in return.
Ethanol programs are nothing more that governments subsidies for ADM.
-Gary
jeff.lane said the following on 8/17/2005 3:43 PM:
Hell, we can grow ethanol.
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years
ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe,
perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific
world standing on it's head for sometime until they discovered that it was
bad caps on mb's in my pile
Abit
Asus
MSI
DFI
ECS
Compaq
Soyo
Epox
I do not believe any body is immune and I often wonder about other
electronic gear like TV's etc.
Power supplies I have not kept a pile on
fp
At 01:19 PM 8/17/2005, Francisco Tapia Poked the stick with:
Sounds like power to me,
tinfoil
The oil companies probably had them killed or paid off.
/tinfoil
From: jeff.lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 16:00:17 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several
hope so, especially since Canada is drilling not far from
where we want to drill.
but that is only a beginning, lot more to do.
I suspect the Caribou population may double.
fp
At 01:58 PM 8/17/2005, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with:
Didn't drilling in Alaska just
pass?
I consider myself an
2.53 here in Phoenix
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:24 AM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices
I paid $2.45US/gallon on Monday.
Bobby
You don't live in Washington do you?
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:44 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices
Hell, we can
Brazil beat us to the punch with the Ethanol thing - they are WAY ahead
of us. Friggin sad too.
Ben Ruset wrote:
I am all about Ethanol. Unfortunately in the US the corn farmers are pushing
for it. Making Ethanol from Corn is the most inefficient way of doing it, and
supposedly yeilds less
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:26, Ben Ruset wrote:
Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the
mideast. You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes
to only pay transport and taxes.
From: Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:29 CDT
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:58, Ben Ruset wrote:
Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass?
No, it is supposed to be jammed into the upcoming budget bill.
I consider myself an environmentalist and I support drilling in Alaska.
You'll likely be disappointed. Spence Abraham, who was this
and that:
the roughly 10 billion barrels of oil expected to be found there would be
the equivalent of JUST SIX MONTHS OF U.S. CONSUMPTION
http://www.sacbee.com/news/special/power/032001abraham.html
Vince
...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY,
and
Right, Gary. I agree with you and Russ. I was just giving an example of one
way to tell the oil cartels to take a hike.
Jeff
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From: Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject:
OOPSyou and Ben. Long day...
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From: Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices
Ethanol is a boondoggle. It has been demonstrated that
(I corrected the subject line)
I guess this will be the end of a free version of Sygate
Personal Firewall and the beginning of the product being screwed up.. Has
Symantec ever acquired any product and then made real improvements? (Norton,
Central Point Software, Winfax, Ghost, etc.).
Jim
No
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From:
James
Maki
To: 'The Hardware List'
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:13
PM
Subject: RE: [H] Sygate scoops up
Sygate... (Symantec scoops up Sygate)
(I corrected the subject line)
I guess this will be the end of a free
At 05:17 PM 17/08/2005, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
Gas prices expensive???
Here in Saudi Arabia the state price (i.e. nothing less or more than
the state price is available at any gas station) is .90 halalas (cent
equivalent of a riyal(dollar)) per liter.
i.e 1 Gallon = 90 US cents.
BWAHAHAHAH!!!
At 09:13 PM 17/08/2005, James Maki wrote:
(I corrected the subject line)
I guess this will be the end of a free version of Sygate Personal Firewall
and the beginning of the product being screwed up.. Has Symantec ever
acquired any product and then made real improvements? (Norton, Central
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Too bad the US wouldn't kick the shit out of Saudi Arabia then, and get the
price here down to a better level.
You say that so nonchalantly, like the lives involved are worthless.
I don't understand,
Al
For the condition you describe - you would have to send it back to a service
that would actually remove the platters and install them in another drive
casing. The cost for that would be steep and probably a month turn around.
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drug cartel ought to be looking here :{)
new black market
At 05:00 PM 8/17/2005, Analyst Poked the stick with:
To really get your blood
boiling, gasoline in Venezuela is only 25 cents a gallon.
Anybody want to captain a tanker full of gasoline back to the U.S. ?
(Talk about ridin' a rocket)
At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote:
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several
years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean,
safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the
scientific world standing on it's head for
2.799 Jackson, Michigan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices
2.53 here in Phoenix
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
Helium3, however, which could be harvest and we know how the process works,
is fairly to very viable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:45 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices
Ball lightning is real - I have seen it.
Bill Cohane wrote:
So Physicists have pretty much debunked cold fusion. Interestingly, the
DOE (Dept. of Energy) still occasionally gets suckered by cold fusion
claims. These guys still seem willing to spend our tax dollars on
research grants for
Nope, drilling in the ANWR was dropped from the energy bill before it
passed. (Drilling for/pumping oil has been permitted in other parts of
Alaska, mostly the North Slope area, for a long time.)
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My advice for those that burn a number of disks --
Buy Good or Great 8X media - the cost savings from going to 16X to 8X more
that offsets buying the great media.
Then buy another DVD burner -- at $50 you will offset the media cost
differential.
Then either copy to both burners at once - or run
On 17 Aug 2005 at 18:29, Greg Sevart wrote:
...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil
DOMESTICALLY, and the majority of the remainder comes from Canada,
Mexico, and Venezuela, we wouldn't need to replace 100% of our oil
consumption with oil from the ANWR.
Even if we only
Well said.
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From: Bill Cohane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices
At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote:
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in
Hey, no shit... I just live a little north of you. I'm in Elk.
Julian
At 04:57 PM 8/17/2005, jeff.lane wrote:
Spokane
- Original Message - From: Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: RE:
There is no known way of using man made fusion reactors.
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Helium3, however, which could be harvest and we know how the process
works,
is fairly to very viable.
If it's hot to the touch, wait for it to cool try again to backup the
data.
rls wrote:
For the condition you describe - you would have to send it back to a service
that would actually remove the platters and install them in another drive
casing. The cost for that would be steep and probably a
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