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'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users
jonney02 writes "BBC News is running the following story 'The average home computer user is bamboozled by technology jargon which is used to warn people about the most serious security threats online.' "
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My internets are slow. I don't know what to do. I can run my microsoft works, and that goes fine. But when I start up my internet my entire computer slows down. I asked the boy that sold me my computer at best buy, and he said I should put more ram in it. So after I got my computer back from him installing the ram, it is a little faster, but the internets are still slow.
If your oil levels are getting low, then your engine is already in poor shape. Oil should not be consumed in any significant way between scheduled oil changes, unless you're running an oil/gas mixture 2-cycle or similar. :)
By "better ones" you must mean "not better ones". I change the oil in my modern, lean-burning engine every 3000 miles or so (the filter gets changed ever 3K), and I drive that car hard. 5 quarts go in, and 5 quarts come out (4 in the pan, 1 in the filter). I'm not sure where you read that good oils lose up to 25% of their volume under any semblence of normal use, but I'd cancel my subscription immediately. Or, switch to Royal Purple, and maybe invest in an oil cooler.
The PCV system is supposed to catch the contaminated unburned air/fuel mixture that inevitably slips past the rings during every revolution, and to keep that blowby from building up pressure in the crankcase. Pressure would counteract the rings' ability to seal in the cylinder, causing more blowby and less efficient operation (and increased oil consumption).