The thing is, if there's a fraudulent charge on your credit card, you just don't pay for it while it's being disputed, and you aren't out any actual money. With a fraudulent charge on your debit card, YOUR money from your checking account is gone until you dispute the charge and get the bank to put it back. So while in the end you still get your money back, what happens in the meantime can be a major PITA - like the comment about "bouncing checks" in the GP.
Automatic head parking has been around for a LONG time - Here's the data sheet from the 120 MEGAbyte drive that I had years ago. It came in my 386. Note the following line, about half-way down:
"Turning the system power off causes the WD Caviar to perform an automatic head park operation."
It wasn't a high-end drive at the time, (just a consumer-level IDE drive), and was utterly obsolete years ago, yet it still had the technology to park the heads out of the way when power is disconnected. There's no way that turning off power to a new drive is going to physically damage it. You just might lose the data on it.
some time in americas history, a guy (cant remember who) wanted to make US english simplier and different from UK english and to make it simpler was to drop all the U's in words like color.
I'm pretty sure that was a guy named Noah Webster. His doings may have had some minor effect on the American English language.
Actually, if you read the article, you would see that the NV43 chipset that the 6600 uses is a native PCI Express chip, and they use a bridge chip to make an AGP version of the card. This is why PCI-E versions of the 6600 have been out for a while, but the AGP version just became available today.
From the first page of the article: "The NV43, however, already has a built-in PCI Express interface, so for the AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT, NVIDIA is turning the HSI chip around and using it to bridge between the PCI-E graphics chip and an AGP motherboard."
I don't know anything about your particular laptop, but IBM has very thorough disassembly instructions for their ThinkPad models available. These can be found in the "Hardware Maintenance Manual" for the particular series of laptops. Here's the HMM for the T40, T41 and T42 for example. (Found via a google search for ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Manual.)
I needed instructions for taking apart an older model (unknown issue, which turned out to be a CPU problem), and found IBM's instructions immensely helpful. Why other manufacturers don't do this for their products, I don't know.
Take a look at the third entry under "Processor Vendor" at the Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey.
Looks like this isn't the only place where that's a valid poll answer.
I read the FAQ and it seems as if there's some kind of copy protection:
"Will R-Ban require special players? R-Ban is designed for playback with ordinary CD players. It may be impossible to play them on some car stereos, DVD players, etc. that our customers may have."
Actually, I think that refers to the fact that some car stereos and DVD players (not to mention portable players) won't read CDR discs. Though this is more true about older players than current ones, there are certainly going to be players out there that can't read these discs.
Now, if it had said that they couldn't be played in computers, for example, we'd have to worry more about copy "protection."
On every version since Win95, I remember it moving instead of copying files when dragged elsewhere on the same drive. I just fired up a Win95 VMWare machine, and dragged a few files around on the drive. They were moved, not copied.
Maybe you've changed a setting somewhere?
I just installed 0.9.7 under windows XP. Previously, the cursor that it showed when I hovered over a hyperlink was the same little finger/hand that I've been seeing since Netscape 1.1N or whatever it was that I first started using. Now, under 0.9.7, the hand has been changed to the cursor that IE uses when hovering over a hyperlink. Any idea how to change it back?
Microsoft's TweakUI has the ability to change the location of/Program Files. I don't know if that will fix the applications, but if you have Norton Utilities, run WinDoctor, and it will be able to fix registry entries and whatnot to point to the new location.
Would it be possible/feasible to make something attached to the fan leads to adjust their speed or make them turn off and on depending on the temperature? I have seen window fans and the like equipped with thermostats, so why not computer fans?
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Its trivial to re-enable something if its only disabled.
Clearly it was trivial to install in the first place.
I'd like to see this rifle that can drive a nail.
Here you go - http://www.toolbarn.com/product/simpson/PT-22/
OK, so it's not really a rifle, but it does use .22cal cartridges.
Same here.
The thing is, if there's a fraudulent charge on your credit card, you just don't pay for it while it's being disputed, and you aren't out any actual money. With a fraudulent charge on your debit card, YOUR money from your checking account is gone until you dispute the charge and get the bank to put it back. So while in the end you still get your money back, what happens in the meantime can be a major PITA - like the comment about "bouncing checks" in the GP.
If you have to brake on the highway, either you did something wrong, or the person ahead of you did.
Or there's debris that has blown onto the highway, or an animal, or anything else that you don't want to run over.
Automatic head parking has been around for a LONG time - Here's the data sheet from the 120 MEGAbyte drive that I had years ago. It came in my 386. Note the following line, about half-way down:
"Turning the system power off causes the WD Caviar to perform an automatic head park operation."
It wasn't a high-end drive at the time, (just a consumer-level IDE drive), and was utterly obsolete years ago, yet it still had the technology to park the heads out of the way when power is disconnected. There's no way that turning off power to a new drive is going to physically damage it. You just might lose the data on it.
Actually, if you read the article, you would see that the NV43 chipset that the 6600 uses is a native PCI Express chip, and they use a bridge chip to make an AGP version of the card. This is why PCI-E versions of the 6600 have been out for a while, but the AGP version just became available today.
From the first page of the article:
"The NV43, however, already has a built-in PCI Express interface, so for the AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT, NVIDIA is turning the HSI chip around and using it to bridge between the PCI-E graphics chip and an AGP motherboard."
I don't know anything about your particular laptop, but IBM has very thorough disassembly instructions for their ThinkPad models available. These can be found in the "Hardware Maintenance Manual" for the particular series of laptops. Here's the HMM for the T40, T41 and T42 for example. (Found via a google search for ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Manual.)
I needed instructions for taking apart an older model (unknown issue, which turned out to be a CPU problem), and found IBM's instructions immensely helpful. Why other manufacturers don't do this for their products, I don't know.
Take a look at the third entry under "Processor Vendor" at the Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey.
Looks like this isn't the only place where that's a valid poll answer.
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Read the guide, then get yourself a free iPod.
No, the bug making Impossible Mission impossible was in the NTSC 7800 version. The bug was fixed in the PAL release. See this at AtariAge.
I read the FAQ and it seems as if there's some kind of copy protection:
"Will R-Ban require special players? R-Ban is designed for playback with ordinary CD players. It may be impossible to play them on some car stereos, DVD players, etc. that our customers may have."
Actually, I think that refers to the fact that some car stereos and DVD players (not to mention portable players) won't read CDR discs. Though this is more true about older players than current ones, there are certainly going to be players out there that can't read these discs.
Now, if it had said that they couldn't be played in computers, for example, we'd have to worry more about copy "protection."
On every version since Win95, I remember it moving instead of copying files when dragged elsewhere on the same drive. I just fired up a Win95 VMWare machine, and dragged a few files around on the drive. They were moved, not copied. Maybe you've changed a setting somewhere?
I just installed 0.9.7 under windows XP. Previously, the cursor that it showed when I hovered over a hyperlink was the same little finger/hand that I've been seeing since Netscape 1.1N or whatever it was that I first started using. Now, under 0.9.7, the hand has been changed to the cursor that IE uses when hovering over a hyperlink. Any idea how to change it back?
Microsoft's TweakUI has the ability to change the location of /Program Files. I don't know if that will fix the applications, but if you have Norton Utilities, run WinDoctor, and it will be able to fix registry entries and whatnot to point to the new location.
OK.....I've got a 20MHz 386 around here that doesn't have a CPU fan. What would you trade for it?
http://claancy.cwru.edu/holygrail.mov for the hi-quality quicktime version.
http://claancy.cwru.edu/wolftest.exe
Would it be possible/feasible to make something attached to the fan leads to adjust their speed or make them turn off and on depending on the temperature? I have seen window fans and the like equipped with thermostats, so why not computer fans?
"Damn, I want wireless power..." They have such a thing..... they're called batteries
I didn't know that anyone used CP/M anymore....