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  1. jonesthewine

    Collection of old CPUs - any uses?

    These are laying around in a box - besides chucking them into the trash bin, are there any uses for these relics? Intel: E7200 Core 2 duo AMD: K6-2 (from 1st computer, 1998!) Athlon xp 2500 Athlon 64 Athlon 64 x2 Phenom
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    Voice Memo Transfer

    Does anyone know of a way to transfer a complete, longish (43 minute) voice memo from an iPhone5 to a MBA...without editing it down to smaller segments? Thanks for any insights & for your consideration.
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    Best way to clone and upgrade a 2011 MBP to SSD?

    I've done the same thing...with a mid-2009 MBP, it's quite easy. Used carbon copy cloner...to make a replica of the OEM HDD drive and copied it to an external drive. Then removed the OEM drive, replaced it with the SSD, and restarted while holding the option key down and selected the external...
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    Apple Care & Manners = huge dividends

    Many have said it before, now it is my turn. Apple Care is a great investment, and good manners open many doors. So far my mid-2009 MBP 13 inch has had the MB, keyboard and lower aluminum housing replaced (I spilled Drambuie on the keyboard, they said they don't cover spills but replaced...
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    Trash - certain files will not empty - help

    - mid-2009 13 inch MBPro, 10.7 - There are two files in my trash that will not empty - they are old Time Machine files - anything else that I delete will empty from the trash, but not these two files ( both are 0 bytes in size ) Can anyone help me find a way to get rid of the files, as it takes...
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    ATT Tethering Plan data doubled

    ...got a text a couple of days ago from ATT, the amount of Data included in the iPhone4 Datapro tethering plan has been increased from 2GB to 4GB per month...with no price increase. They thanked me for being a great customer. Now, at middling 3G speeds, how long would it take me to consume 4GB??
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    iPhone4 email question

    So...when emails that have been received on the phone are deleted, they are retrieved again the next time that mail is opened. Can anyone offer a solution that would prevent the same emails from being retrieved from the server again and again? Thanks for any suggestions.
  8. jonesthewine

    Free AGP video card

    Offered here first, before the Free Stuff forum...I no longer have any AGP boards; but if anyone needs an old AGP card, circa 2005 NVIDIA 6600 series 256 MB with an aftermarket Zalman HSF installed, let me know and I will send it to you. It has a standard molex power connector. ***The card has...
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    Phase Change Memory, anyone?

    found this on SA earlier, apologies if a repost: http://www.scientificamerican....g-memory-chips-in-mass
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    Help Needed: If you run Office 2008 on a Mac, I need a favor

    Please open Word, and go to preferences, then to File Locations, and locate the path and destination folder for AutoRecover files...and then reply back with the info. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
  11. jonesthewine

    vacation = no DC

    11 days of DC free time coming up, so my small contributions to f@h, gpugrid and the monthly TAS projects will be put on hold ....we are Martha's Vineyard bound. See ya.
  12. jonesthewine

    F@H stats gone wild

    The 3:00PM refresh must be off by a decimal point, unless some new super high scoring WUs are out now...16,737 points and 38 WU's....wow.
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    8800GT at 107 C

    ...came home from a trip, and the computer that my kids use (which runs gpugrid and 2 BOINC processes) was showing 107 C on the GPU. The fan slider on the EVGA Precision tool had been shifted down to 20% from the usual 80%. The card's exhaust vent was pumping out major heat. It was still...
  14. jonesthewine

    Reallocating Resources

    The title says it all. Over the past few weeks, all of my GPUs were requiring constant attentions and babysitting to run F@H. Unstable errors, 24 hour shutdowns, etc...all with the cards at stock settings (except for fanspeed). I am tired of watching over them. I tried the GPUgrid application...
  15. jonesthewine

    BOINC and GPU

    I have four GPUs and a PS3 working on F@H...and recently started using spare CPU cycles for WorldCommunityGrid. I was reading at the WCG site about a GPU client. Is anyone here crunching WUs for BOINC with their GPU? Is it an easy setup etc...? Any response are welcome. Thanks.
  16. jonesthewine

    Windows 7 and anti-virus software

    The Action Center will prompt you to install anti-virus software, and when clicked takes you to a page with three options...Kaspersky, AVG & Norton. My experience on two machines is that AVG gets along much better with W7 than does Kaspersky, especially if Office 2007 is installed. I haven't...
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    folding at home GPU client and Windows 7 beta

    I looked around quickly, but did not search thoroughly. Has anyone installed and run the sys tray GPU client in Windows 7 yet?
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    F@H stats - team 198 - Sept 21, 2008

    Since GleeM is taking a (deserved) break here's an attempt at replicating his excellent work. I couldn't figure out how to update the milestone list. Points Total______ 156,392,634 24hr Avg______ 450,328 Last 24hr______ 455,668 Active Users_____ 211 Avg PPD_______ 2,134.3...
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    CPU upgrade ...do I need it, will I notice it?

    Current setup is below, the system is snappy enough, but I want to get another year or so out of it. System Specs: AMD 4600+ AM2 (2.4 GHz) MSI K9A platinum MB 2 x 1GB OCZ PC6400 DDRII GTX 260 @ 600MHz core 19 inch LCD @ 12x10 Vista Ultimate A 22 inch LCD @ 1680x1050 is in my...
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    busting a nut, literally

    here's the link : click me Aug 31, 2008 Man gets nut stuck around penis KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said on Sunday. The nut...
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    news relevant to Folding@Home type research from the BBC

    quoted in its entirety: see italicized paragraph for relevance Cell change 'keeps organs young' Liver cells - Toxic proteins build up in organs over time Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades. A US team thinks it may...
  22. jonesthewine

    6.12 beta8 GPU client expires August 2nd, 2008

    Anyone here have an inside source as to when the next client will be released?
  23. jonesthewine

    F@H servers down?

    For the last 5 hours both machines running the GPU clients can't get work packets - here's a snippet of the log file fromone of the machines: [06:00:58] + Attempting to send results [06:01:14] - Core type used on unit not what server demands. [06:01:14] Successfully sent unit 00 to...
  24. jonesthewine

    PS3 - 1,000,000 step WU

    For quite a while now WU of 100,00 or 250,000 have been the norm. Now it's crunching a million step WU, almost 30 hours of work. How many points here? Any one else get one of these.
  25. jonesthewine

    F@H...server problems

    Anyone else having trouble downloading new work units? Even KakaoStats won't update or refresh.
  26. jonesthewine

    8800GT - with Arctic Cooling NV5 mod

    I have an old 6800GT that died a couple of years ago...and noticed the similarity of its PCB and the PCB on the 8800GT and said 'why not?'. External venting is preferred, right? The power connector on the NV5 doesn't fit the plug on the 8800GT, but a molex-to-2 pin-connector worked and now...
  27. jonesthewine

    USB External Hard Drive - device manager sees it

    ...perplexed I am...a maxtor external HDD connected via USB to a machine running XP shows up under the device manager, and is enabled, but can't be found in 'my computer' and does not show up as an option to 'send to' when a file is right-clicked. The drive is recognized by other computers...
  28. jonesthewine

    the 4 GB non bootin'up blues

    All stock settings on a MSI K9A Platinum MB with 2 x 1GB OCZ Platinum Rev 2 PC2 6400 in dual channel and an A64X2 4600+ running Vista x64...when I add 2 more 1 GB sticks of the same RAM the system won't post Removing 2 of the 4 sticks will let it boot up... I tried but can't adjust the...
  29. jonesthewine

    ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - Socket 939 with PCI-E and real AGP and Socket AM2

    I'm (re) installing Vista and can't seem to find SATA drivers taht can be recognized and installed at the prompts...any one out there care to help me out? TIA.
  30. jonesthewine

    Screechy noise when starting laptop

    It's a Dell Inspiron 8200...passed down to mom, it serves her well for an email and word processing machine. It recently began to issue a very loud, screeching sound when booting up. The noise is definately coming from the speakers. It occurs even when the speakers are muted. Once it has...
  31. jonesthewine

    LCD panel damage

    Short and not so sweet...a computer that had been driving a 17 inch Westy LCD monitor was moved and hooked into an LG HDTV via dsub...all went well, and I set teh resolution to 1360 x 760 or whatever the HDTV needed. After powering off the computer, disconnecting it from the TV and hooking it...
  32. jonesthewine

    Vista Ultimate - reward for Beta Testing

    Just got an email from Microsoft...a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate is to be sent in February as thanks for participation. Hopefully mature video drivers will be available then. Or at least by 2008 when the next round of great video games is released.
  33. jonesthewine

    Adding a wireless router to existing wireless network

    I have a wireless network set up in my house, a D-Link DI 524 which is connected to the cable moden and which covers most but not all of the areas that I want to be covered. I have an older D-Link wireless router which I would like to use to pick up and repeat/extend the range of the primary...
  34. jonesthewine

    Help needed with possibly f*cked *p bios update

    was updating BIOS to 1.20, all was going well, and got to the point where I was directed to reboot the computer...so I hit the reset button on the case, the fans whir and the computer starts, but no post beep and nothing on the screen...total darkness on the monitor...any suggestions please...
  35. jonesthewine

    advice needed for 64-bit migration

    I recently parted out my gaming rig with the exception of the video card (evga 6800gt agp) and one of the 512MB sticks of Mushkin RAM (pc3200).I plan on building a new rig in a month, with a socket 939 CPU and the idea of being able to buy a MB that would let me use the 6800gt now and then move...
  36. jonesthewine

    Pat Robertson says "take out Chavez"

    I find it odd that any Christian, much less a highly visible ministre, would advocate assasination as a means to an end. What ever happened to loving your neighbor, judging not, and tolerating opposing ideas? What would Jesus have to say about this?
  37. jonesthewine

    The jump to 1 gig of RAM..empirical results

    Both of the main rigs in the house already run a gig of RAM, and it's nice to have the snappy response and smooth gaming. A machine that I cobbled together to have something to play with while I "cough" work "cough" in my home office was chugging along with half-a-gig of RAM and an XP 2000+ at...
  38. jonesthewine

    9600 PRO memory issue

    Yesterday, a new Gigabyte 9600 PRO 128 MB arrives from Newegg, advertised as 400MHz core/600MHz memory...the core runs as advertised, but the memory runs at 400MHz (200 x 2) and my question is, is it worth it (performance-wise) to RMA the card for the 600MHz memory? The card is used in my...
  39. jonesthewine

    Westinghouse 17" LCD Monitor LCM-v2

    ...evidently a new range of LCDs from W'house, bought this as a replacement monitor for my kid's rig (replaced 3 year old Kleer 17 "CRT) and what a beauty. 14MS response, 12/10 native res, D-sub only, couple of small but listenable speakers, 350:1 contrast and 350 nits brightness..with their...
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    "This document contains no data"

    It aggravates my wife more than me. Opening a web page results in the above message and a blank page. Refreshing the page will usually result in it loading properly. Any one have a fix for this?