There is no inert gas inside a hard drive, it's just plain ol' air, albeit extremely clean air. Hard drives have a vent (which is a filter with extremely small holes) which allows the air pressure inside and outside of the drive to remain equalized.
In many cases that just couples the vibration to the chassis better. However, if the fan is vibrating the hard drive severely enough to cause damage then there is something wrong with the fan.
But seriously folks, are those things made to drive a 75 Ohm or a 50 Ohm load? (One of these days I'm gonna slap a couple of "rubber duckie" antennas on some old 10base2 cards and see if that works.)
Seriously, if what we're talking about here is going to be a wall mounted glorified thermostat, plan on it being used by an elderly arthritic in a dark hallway and it should work fine for everybody else.
Other worthless advice available at cost. E-mail me at earthstink.
There are plenty of switching power supplies from the late 80's and early 90's still working fine, so it's not inherent to aluminum electrolytics, it's inherent to aluminum electrolytics that weren't built the right way out of the right stuff, which of course you're more likely to get when the manufacturer goes with the lowest bidder. These faulty components will usually wait until the warranty period has elapsed and even a slim chance of obtaining schematics, parts lists, and other service info no longer exists.
As for your adventures with the mysterious jumping phantom hardware virus you have both my empathy and sympathy.
I've been seeing instances for over a year now. Ask anyone who repairs camcorders about a "fishy" smell. They've been seeing it even longer.
And I've officially named it "capacitor disease", by the way.
P.S.Watch out for stuff that at some point during shipment gets left where it might have been exposed to below-freezing temperatures. Water-based electrolyte is one thing, ice-based another.
"...a router that was marketed as "clean" and "cosmetically perfect" as well as "don't have facilities to test"."
Didn't all that leap out at you as blatantly obvious weasel words? He has a computer but no way to plug this thing in and see if the motor spins when you squeeze the switch?
Re-read that article some more (it is rather confusingly worded). Grace bought stuff from Neeley, then posted negative feedback about Neeley. Neeley then replied to the negative feedback with his own harsh words. We don't know for sure whether the buyer's complaints were true or not, and that has a lot to do with whether the buyer slandered the seller or the seller slandered the buyer. Or maybe being in print makes it libel instead of slander.
Besides, the important part is the way the buyer has tried to rig the suit to get the government of California on his side:
The lawsuit also demands that buyers and sellers, who use aliases in eBay transactions, register their screen names with the state of California as fictitious business names, and that eBay be forced to collect state sales tax.
In other words, if that provision of the suit had already been in effect, when I bought that pair of speakers from somebody who turned out to live here in the same county in North Carolina, California would have gotten some of the money even though North Carolina didn't collect any sales tax on the deal. Then again, if you have to register with the state of California just to buy something off of eBay, it might be a good time to unload your eBay stock.
Straight democracy is majority rule. Sometimes the mob is in the majority. Demcracy needs to be tempered with protections against the tyranny of the majority.
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We did do some good in Europe but before you brag on the U.S.-Panama relationship too much you might want to look into how Panama came into existence in the first place. Here's a hint: The idea for the canal came first.
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"After we were taught this in the Canadian militia, we all got to strip and assemble the regiment's rifle."
You all got naked and played with a long straight firm object? Maybe you should away from carrots.
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Kennedy's secretary Lincoln and Lincoln's secretary Kennedy both agree that you're reading way too much into it.
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"It's like saying that someone who's a Californian or Floridian isn't American."
Your example would have been better if it had included a resident of a North or South American country other than the United States of America.
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Clarke worked with RADAR during WWII but he wasn't born long enough ago to have been around for its beginnings.
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Prior to December of 1941 there was a war going on in Europe and Japan was jumping ugly in Asia. When Japan attacked the U.S. and Germany foolishly declared war on the U.S. a few days later, that's when it became a World War, when the other side of the globe got dragged into it. As for being late to join the war effort (the U.S. wasn't under any treaty obligations that I know of to join into combat), you might want to read up on Lend-Lease and the strong isolationist sentiments of which FDR risked running afoul in implementing Lend-Lease.
And the other single biggest cause seems to be either the mysterious jumping hardware virus or capacitor disease.
The mysterious jumping hardware virus is where you start swapping in known good parts to find the bad one and when you return the known good part to its original home it doesn't work anymore and it cripples something else in its original home and the problem just hops around from machine to machine and doesn't go away until you have disassembled every computer you own or have access to and tried every possible combination of parts until you wind up with everything back in the original configurations, at which point, if you haven't fried anything with static (or re-installed a bios chip backwards) or broken some plastic part of a connector or flexed a wire once too often, everything works again, with you none the wiser as to what caused the original problem.
Sometimes the mysterious jmping hardware virus jumps species and disables VCRs and other non-computer electronic stuff and they don't start working right again until you've done a bunch of unplugging and replugging of them and gone through everything to get the computers working agian as well.
Capacitor disease causes slow failures and can result in permanent destruction jumping from part to part and machine to machine.
"Yes, and we all know that cat's colouring and markings change as they age too, right?"
I'm pretty sure that a calico starts out that way and stays that way, at least ours did.
Considering that only female cats can be calicos and that cloning a female calico got another female but not a calico, doing some more cloning of the original and of the clones might lead to some discoveries of previously inknown or even unsuspected stuff about cloning in particular and genetics and DNA in general.
Okay, so Finland won't have any decent web sites anymore, but do they think that they can either impose this law on sites in other countries (rotsa ruck) or block access for the entire nation to sites in other countries? What if someone makes a long distance call to a dial up provider in France or Sweden or wherever? (Yeah I know that gets expensive really fast but some people will do it anyway.) Even China's having trouble keeping their people from checking out un-authorized sites, how's a country like Finland where the populace doesn't fear a bullet in the back of the head for any little infraction going to handle the uproar over blocked sites? It's not as though they can keep people from finding out that there are sites to which they are being denied access.
If they're the solid type okay, but on the folded over prongs it's not a work-around, it's the way they should be in the first place regardless of what into which they get plugged.
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There is no inert gas inside a hard drive, it's just plain ol' air, albeit extremely clean air. Hard drives have a vent (which is a filter with extremely small holes) which allows the air pressure inside and outside of the drive to remain equalized.
In many cases that just couples the vibration to the chassis better. However, if the fan is vibrating the hard drive severely enough to cause damage then there is something wrong with the fan.
Happened yesterday?!? Are you posting from the future?
But seriously folks, are those things made to drive a 75 Ohm or a 50 Ohm load? (One of these days I'm gonna slap a couple of "rubber duckie" antennas on some old 10base2 cards and see if that works.)
I think those guys were pulling your leg a bit but it is true that VHF television signals will go through pine trees that stop UHF tv signals dead.
Seriously, if what we're talking about here is going to be a wall mounted glorified thermostat, plan on it being used by an elderly arthritic in a dark hallway and it should work fine for everybody else.
Other worthless advice available at cost. E-mail me at earthstink.
As for your adventures with the mysterious jumping phantom hardware virus you have both my empathy and sympathy.
I've been seeing instances for over a year now. Ask anyone who repairs camcorders about a "fishy" smell. They've been seeing it even longer.
And I've officially named it "capacitor disease", by the way.
P.S.Watch out for stuff that at some point during shipment gets left where it might have been exposed to below-freezing temperatures. Water-based electrolyte is one thing, ice-based another.
Didn't all that leap out at you as blatantly obvious weasel words? He has a computer but no way to plug this thing in and see if the motor spins when you squeeze the switch?
Besides, the important part is the way the buyer has tried to rig the suit to get the government of California on his side:
In other words, if that provision of the suit had already been in effect, when I bought that pair of speakers from somebody who turned out to live here in the same county in North Carolina, California would have gotten some of the money even though North Carolina didn't collect any sales tax on the deal. Then again, if you have to register with the state of California just to buy something off of eBay, it might be a good time to unload your eBay stock.
Better that than being called the Dell Christmas Fairy.
Straight democracy is majority rule. Sometimes the mob is in the majority. Demcracy needs to be tempered with protections against the tyranny of the majority.
We did do some good in Europe but before you brag on the U.S.-Panama relationship too much you might want to look into how Panama came into existence in the first place. Here's a hint: The idea for the canal came first.
You all got naked and played with a long straight firm object? Maybe you should away from carrots.
Kennedy's secretary Lincoln and Lincoln's secretary Kennedy both agree that you're reading way too much into it.
Your example would have been better if it had included a resident of a North or South American country other than the United States of America.
Clarke worked with RADAR during WWII but he wasn't born long enough ago to have been around for its beginnings.
Prior to December of 1941 there was a war going on in Europe and Japan was jumping ugly in Asia. When Japan attacked the U.S. and Germany foolishly declared war on the U.S. a few days later, that's when it became a World War, when the other side of the globe got dragged into it. As for being late to join the war effort (the U.S. wasn't under any treaty obligations that I know of to join into combat), you might want to read up on Lend-Lease and the strong isolationist sentiments of which FDR risked running afoul in implementing Lend-Lease.
It's not a doll, it's a toy. Don't you keep up with tax court cases*?
*and X-Men stuff in general
The mysterious jumping hardware virus is where you start swapping in known good parts to find the bad one and when you return the known good part to its original home it doesn't work anymore and it cripples something else in its original home and the problem just hops around from machine to machine and doesn't go away until you have disassembled every computer you own or have access to and tried every possible combination of parts until you wind up with everything back in the original configurations, at which point, if you haven't fried anything with static (or re-installed a bios chip backwards) or broken some plastic part of a connector or flexed a wire once too often, everything works again, with you none the wiser as to what caused the original problem.
Sometimes the mysterious jmping hardware virus jumps species and disables VCRs and other non-computer electronic stuff and they don't start working right again until you've done a bunch of unplugging and replugging of them and gone through everything to get the computers working agian as well.
Capacitor disease causes slow failures and can result in permanent destruction jumping from part to part and machine to machine.
All hail the transforming power of the great god Krylon!
"...the last thing we need is a new production strategy for cats."
Especially when the original production strategy works entirely too well.
I'm pretty sure that a calico starts out that way and stays that way, at least ours did.
Considering that only female cats can be calicos and that cloning a female calico got another female but not a calico, doing some more cloning of the original and of the clones might lead to some discoveries of previously inknown or even unsuspected stuff about cloning in particular and genetics and DNA in general.
Okay, so Finland won't have any decent web sites anymore, but do they think that they can either impose this law on sites in other countries (rotsa ruck) or block access for the entire nation to sites in other countries? What if someone makes a long distance call to a dial up provider in France or Sweden or wherever? (Yeah I know that gets expensive really fast but some people will do it anyway.) Even China's having trouble keeping their people from checking out un-authorized sites, how's a country like Finland where the populace doesn't fear a bullet in the back of the head for any little infraction going to handle the uproar over blocked sites? It's not as though they can keep people from finding out that there are sites to which they are being denied access.
If they're the solid type okay, but on the folded over prongs it's not a work-around, it's the way they should be in the first place regardless of what into which they get plugged.