Wasn't there an article a week or two ago with a link to a story about the incomplete stolen secret formula from someone other than the IEEE, making this the 3rd time since November?
You know you're getting old when you remember when they were just the IEE.
"These guys tried to take an unethical shortcut and it bit them."
Actually, it wound up biting us, the end user. The evil capacitor companies have probably had to change their names a few times to stay in business(while the good companies whose names they "imitated" are probably wondering if they will have to change names because of the collateral damage), but enough of the boards from several different companies managed to avoid breaking down until a day or two after the warranty expired that the motherboard companies will survive, but thousands of consumers are stuck with products that are beyond economical repair.
You can say that we have no complaint once the warranty expires but if we all knew for a fact that everything you bought would break and have to be replaced as soon as the warranty expired, if not before then, would we have made the same purchases we did? You expect everything to not cause you any replacement expense during the warranty period and most of it to survive a reasonable length of time afterwards so that you might have to buy a new VCR within a year of warranty expiration, but not a VCR, a television, a DVD player, a printer, a monitor, a scanner, a motherboard, a processor, a modem, a sound card, a stereo receiver, a cassette deck, a CD-RW, and all your other electronics gear all at once or one right after the other.
Before you try to remove solder with wick or a vacuum device, add some more solder. This adds fresh flux and makes removal of the new and old solder mixture easier, even if you're using Radio Shack crap.
Not everyone has been as fortunate with Abit boards as you. BX6s and BP6s seem especially at risk, and if the warranty has expired they can't be bothered.
Actually it's very old news and it didn't start with motherboards, camcorders have been winding up in trash cans due to being beyond economical repair for a few years now.
"And they have made a virus that can infect any, and I MEAN ANY, electronic device."
There are days when I almost believe that, after having to swap all the parts in all of my computers around to chase a problem that disappears as mysteriously as it appeared only to have my VCRs start acting up. I'm expecting it to jump to the electric start lawn mower next.
"CD-R(W) really is a pretty good replacement now: a CD-R is nearly as cheap as a floppy, it can be written fast, and just about any machine can reliably boot from it."
But you can't fit it into a shirt pocket and it's a lot more likely to get dirty or damaged. Now if the original CD (the audio one) had been in a shuttered case like the 3.5 floppy and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket the data variants that would have come from it would have been much more acceptable.
Sorry, Ms. Rosen is going to be busy running for elective office. I'm not kidding, I saw her on a talk show the other day discussing a number of issues unrelated to the RIAA. She didn't announce any intention to run for anything, but she's obviously positioning herself for a run for some office and based on what I heard and saw she's going to be a very effective candidate.
The question here is how much heat can be removed how quickly regardless of the processor involved. If the processor puts out x amount of heat and this setup can remove y amount of it, it should be able to do that for any processor that puts out x amount of heat. Besides, if the new processors ran any hotter than the old socket 4 waffle irons, overclocking would be far and away the prime cause of house fires.
If you were doing this as an experiment to see if it's workable or not, wouldn't you try it out on old equipment before risking the expensive new stuff?
Some people saw it as a brilliant creative medium, but a lot of them just wanted us to shut up and play the records. Sometimes other announcers were the only people aware of how brilliantly creative you were.
I'm going to have to go take several showers after I post this 'cause I'll feel so unclean saying anything in defense of those people, but by tailoring the show's playlist to the dreck most requested in that community they are serving their local audience to a greater degree than if every station carrying the show ran exactly the same content.
Admittedly inserting a Michael Jackson song instead of whatever the other cities heard in that slot stretches the definition of "operating in the public interest" almost beyond recognition.
"Besides, isn't EarthLink heavily involved with broadband themselves? I think if EarthLink was smart they should ally themselves with AT&T Broadband, Time-Warner Cable and Cox Cable to become the primary ISP for cable-modem connections."
Earthlink owns part of Sprint or Sprint owns part of Earthlink, I forget which.
In my neck of the woods Sprint bought up the local telco (Carolina Tel and Tel) several years ago. I can't get any flavor of DSL (they've been saying "real soon now" for years) despite living about 2000 feet from a reasonably new switching station. The only available broadband is through the local cable monopoly (AOL Time-Warner) who offer Roadrunner (which they own), AOL (which they own), or Earthlink (which has a financial stake in the local phone company monopoly which doesn't offer DSL).
My former dial-up ISP (Volaris), which I wound up with as most of the local ISPs got merged and swallowed up, went belly-up and handed all of us over to Earthlink, who dropped all but one of our many legacy e-mail domains (currently being supported for free for about another 30 days by the saints at mpinet.com just because it's the right thing to do, bless them). So Earthlink has several thousand "new" dial-up customers, but we aren't an increase in the total number of people accessing the internet, we just got moved from one column to another. Although I'm not particularly thrilled with Earthlink the company, I've had only positive experiences with the people there with whom I've talked when I finally got through to an actual human. No doubt they're the ones most likely to be kicked to the curb in the downsizing.
Would I rather have a broadband connection instead of dial-up? Not badly enough to get it from or through my local cable tv monopoly, especially at nearly twice the price.
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You know you're getting old when you remember when they were just the IEE.
Actually, it wound up biting us, the end user. The evil capacitor companies have probably had to change their names a few times to stay in business(while the good companies whose names they "imitated" are probably wondering if they will have to change names because of the collateral damage), but enough of the boards from several different companies managed to avoid breaking down until a day or two after the warranty expired that the motherboard companies will survive, but thousands of consumers are stuck with products that are beyond economical repair.
You can say that we have no complaint once the warranty expires but if we all knew for a fact that everything you bought would break and have to be replaced as soon as the warranty expired, if not before then, would we have made the same purchases we did? You expect everything to not cause you any replacement expense during the warranty period and most of it to survive a reasonable length of time afterwards so that you might have to buy a new VCR within a year of warranty expiration, but not a VCR, a television, a DVD player, a printer, a monitor, a scanner, a motherboard, a processor, a modem, a sound card, a stereo receiver, a cassette deck, a CD-RW, and all your other electronics gear all at once or one right after the other.
On the other hand, perhaps you have confused the Temptations with the more obscure 60's group, Red Glow and the Filaments.
Perhaps your knowledge of Motown got scrambled by those singing raisins.
Before you try to remove solder with wick or a vacuum device, add some more solder. This adds fresh flux and makes removal of the new and old solder mixture easier, even if you're using Radio Shack crap.
Just be sure to plan another upgrade for the day before your Abit warranty expires 'cause after that they can't be bothered.
I never overclocked my BX6, but it still turned into an expensive paperweight.
Not everyone has been as fortunate with Abit boards as you. BX6s and BP6s seem especially at risk, and if the warranty has expired they can't be bothered.
As to your problem, try this guy
http://home.att.net/~garyheadlee/services.htm
I haven't done business with him yet but I've got enough electronics background and experience to tell that he seems to know what he's talking about.
Unfortunately? That's what it's supposed to do. The ideal is to flatten out all of the ripple. (insert joke about being flattened out by Ripple here)
I hear they have this amzing new invention: floppy disk drives that plug into USB ports. Maybe you should try one of them."
So he should have to go into his own pocket to make up for his employer's cluelessness? What's next, calling him greedy for expecting a paycheck?
Imagine having to search as hard for an unvandalized floppy drive as you do for an unvandalized pay phone.
There are days when I almost believe that, after having to swap all the parts in all of my computers around to chase a problem that disappears as mysteriously as it appeared only to have my VCRs start acting up. I'm expecting it to jump to the electric start lawn mower next.
But you can't fit it into a shirt pocket and it's a lot more likely to get dirty or damaged. Now if the original CD (the audio one) had been in a shuttered case like the 3.5 floppy and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket the data variants that would have come from it would have been much more acceptable.
Well if that isn't a good enough reason to avoid USB I don't know what is.
Please read up on Douglas Englebart and Xerox PARC.
Sorry, Ms. Rosen is going to be busy running for elective office. I'm not kidding, I saw her on a talk show the other day discussing a number of issues unrelated to the RIAA. She didn't announce any intention to run for anything, but she's obviously positioning herself for a run for some office and based on what I heard and saw she's going to be a very effective candidate.
If you were doing this as an experiment to see if it's workable or not, wouldn't you try it out on old equipment before risking the expensive new stuff?
Some people saw it as a brilliant creative medium, but a lot of them just wanted us to shut up and play the records. Sometimes other announcers were the only people aware of how brilliantly creative you were.
Admittedly inserting a Michael Jackson song instead of whatever the other cities heard in that slot stretches the definition of "operating in the public interest" almost beyond recognition.
If you're using a BP6 I'd suspect capacitor disease as soon as anything else.
What about Doc, Miss Kitty, and Chester? Are they the next to be kicked to the curb?
James somebody, writes a column for Scientific American, interesting and entertaining.
Exactly. Kinda like when Katz discovered Slashdot :-)
Earthlink owns part of Sprint or Sprint owns part of Earthlink, I forget which.
In my neck of the woods Sprint bought up the local telco (Carolina Tel and Tel) several years ago. I can't get any flavor of DSL (they've been saying "real soon now" for years) despite living about 2000 feet from a reasonably new switching station.
The only available broadband is through the local cable monopoly (AOL Time-Warner) who offer Roadrunner (which they own), AOL (which they own), or Earthlink (which has a financial stake in the local phone company monopoly which doesn't offer DSL).
My former dial-up ISP (Volaris), which I wound up with as most of the local ISPs got merged and swallowed up, went belly-up and handed all of us over to Earthlink, who dropped all but one of our many legacy e-mail domains (currently being supported for free for about another 30 days by the saints at mpinet.com just because it's the right thing to do, bless them).
So Earthlink has several thousand "new" dial-up customers, but we aren't an increase in the total number of people accessing the internet, we just got moved from one column to another.
Although I'm not particularly thrilled with Earthlink the company, I've had only positive experiences with the people there with whom I've talked when I finally got through to an actual human. No doubt they're the ones most likely to be kicked to the curb in the downsizing.
Would I rather have a broadband connection instead of dial-up? Not badly enough to get it from or through my local cable tv monopoly, especially at nearly twice the price.