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    What do you think of garbage odour?

    Can you describe your situation?
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    What do you think of garbage odour?

    My organic waste sits in a bin inside my garage, and during the warm months (late spring/summer/early fall) the smell is pretty bad, especially during the few days before garbage pickup. I use a little bit of coffee grounds but I'd like to know if there are better ways I could use well...
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    What do you think of garbage odour?

    odour is the Canadian/British spelling of odor. color -> colour rumor -> rumour thanks for the replies, it'd be great if I could have more statistics otherwise I'll be making them up :laugh:
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    What do you think of garbage odour?

    Please help me generate some data for a report I need to write. Thanks.
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    DELETE

    sorry wrong forum...please delete thanks.
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    Car Remote Locking Trick

    actually, if you want to isolate the height factor, instead of bring it to your temple, you should bring your temple down to where your remote is and touch it.
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    Is a Power State Other Than 0 and 1 Possible?

    The reason that ternary machines (eg. Ternak) were dumped was that the physical medium used to store a "trit" (three-state unit value, as opposed to a "bit" which is of two states) used twice as many materials as required to store a "bit". This means that if the materials were used to make 2...
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    Why are 3dmark 200X results so varied?

    I don't think the clock speed variation is enough to justify this. My clock is 2000MHz +/- 0.5, which is 0.025% change It's probably what you have run in the background. Perhaps there were some memory used by other programs that were not freed back to the OS. Perhaps the thread...
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    Ideal computer case?

    LOL I love the description: "Now you can own any noob ever spawned with this ultra-mean case in classic black finish." - of course you can own noobs. seems like the case won't help you own leets
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    Ideal computer case?

    oh, I just wanted to listen to the opinions of others about their ideal cases, but thanks =P
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    Ideal computer case?

    For me, it would be a small, quiet case. Doesn't need to have all the bling, nor do I want quad-SLI to suck my wall outlet dry. Don't need SLI either--single graphics would do fine. Perhaps room for two drives, and maybe an extra expansion slot exluding the PCIe. BUT it certinaly needs to...
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    Power Supply Topology

    woa, thanks for the informative post Can you provide any voltage/current/power limitations of the forward topology? I'm interested in making a power supply. I'm reading up a book ("Switching Power Supply Design" by Abraham I. Pressman) and it tells me that the forward topology is could above...
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    Power Supply Topology

    What topologies do computer power supplies use? I read somewhere that most computers use a Forward topology, but also read in other places that this topology is good only up to ~200W, which obviously isn't enough.
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    Video Card mod (X800gto2 in my case)

    Thought I'd share this with people looking for lower GPU temps but don't really want to buy those third party solutions. I have a X800 GTO2, factory set to 16 pipes, and I get 45C idle/82C full load when scanning for artifacts with ATI Tool (default clocks of 400/490 and default fan speeds)...
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    dvd-rw disassembly safe?

    the wooden frame is actually pretty light. It's made with poplar, the lightest wood I could find at my home depot. I would guestimate the frame at ~1.5lbs. It weighed 4.0lbs with my mobo/cpu/cpu hsf/chipset hsf/2 mem sticks
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    dvd-rw disassembly safe?

    I plan to wrap the drive in something (that's not electrically conductive), so it shouldn't be a worry. ;) it's got front USB ports too! but the power switch is still dangling
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    Value RAM = performance hit?

    regardless of timing reduction/clock increase, the difference between the best ram and value ram is practically at most 5%, or in most cases, 0-2%. Save the money and spend it on another component to get much better returns, or put it back in your wallet edit: I saw a review in the...
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    dvd-rw disassembly safe?

    Thanks for all your insight (so fast too! lol...). Anyway, here's the reply to: TSCrv I wasn't planning to stare at the drive, but one thing I want to distinguish is that you said you were dealing with regular CDROM drives, while I'm referring to a DVD+/-RW, which might (not sure) have a...
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    dvd-rw disassembly safe?

    in order to save space and weight for a custom-built case, I have taken the casing out of my BENQ DW1610 dvd/cd burner to make the optical drive smaller. Does anyone know if this is a laser hazard? It warns: "CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT" Caution: Class 3B visible and invisible laser radiation...
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    help: back up files not opening

    Yep, they can be copied to hard drive. But even then, I cannot preview in thumbnails nor open in paint (which used to be possible). edit: one thing I noticed: in "My Computer", the used space reads 1.84 MB only. When I open the folder to see it's properties, the result is ~4GB (as it's...
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    help: back up files not opening

    I burned a dvd-rw backup with JPGs and movies. After "burn successful" (although I forgot if I verified the data), the DVD contains the right amount of data (~4GB) and the right folder/files. But no files are opening! e.g. JPG files cannot be previewed/opened in paint. I used a program...
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    Are there technical limitations that prevent the integration of AM tuners into portable audio devices?

    AM signals are lower frequency and so have less energy. This makes them more susceptible to attenuation and so they are not popular anymore.
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    "Bi-directional" Torque Converter?

    does this mean that an impeller spinning at 1000rpm would apply the same force to a stationary turbine as a 500rpm impeller would to a -500rpm turbine? To clarify myself, I guess the real question is this: if the function f gives the magnitude of force applied by the impeller to the...
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    "Bi-directional" Torque Converter?

    Torque converters in autos are driven one way only: from the impeller to the turbine. The strength of the coupling is mainly a function of the impeller speed only, since this variable is directly responsible for the centrifugal force accelerating the fluid through the turbine blades to provide...
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    how is it that pc400 (ddr500) ram works in pc3200 mobos?

    i'd just buy budget pc3200 ram. you don't need good ram to overclock--just use a memory divider. the difference in performance? on average, maybe 1-2%. but you save a lot on budget ram compared to ddr500 ram. just spend that extra money on a better video card or save a few dollars.
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    HDD Re-Partitioning?!?

    a program like partition magic from powerquest can merge two partitions without destroying data in either. edit: or you can resize shrink the size of a certain partition, then move all your partitions to the right (assuming your C partition is on the left), then use the newly allocated empty...
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    help: no usb2.0 with sp2?

    Hi, my friend got a new computer and then updated to sp2. but she found transferring music to her mp3 was really slow, and i calculated it was ~0.8MB/s = USB1. Isn't sp2 supposed to provide USB2 already? edit: how can this be fixed? thanks in advance..
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    512mb vs.1024mb

    2GB is usually* overkill. 1GB is good
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    new comp (with pics!)

    Built a custom case to house a new computer! The case dimensions are made so that it can fit in a carry-on luggage for airplanes. Internal specs are: A64 3200+ 90nm Asus A8N-E Maxtor DiamondMax10 250GB 7200/16/SATA Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 Antec 400W Smartpower OCZ DDR400 Premier 2x512MB...
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    Is 400W enough?

    yep. i just built a very similar machine: 3200+ (OC-ed 200MHz), sapphire gto2, 2x512 (@DDR440), a8n-e and i'm using antec's 400W smartpower
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    Ipod Question

    There is a product out there that you can fit your ipod into, which lets you watch movies on the bigger screen that this add-on has. Not sure if this is the same as what you heard though.
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    Looking to add memory and HD to 700m - need help!

    Just beware that it might void your warranty if you do it yourself. Also, you most likely do not need 2GB. Just buy 1GB for a total of 1GB+256MB (the 256 from your original config, i assume).
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    TOMS HARDWARE

    THG has good hardware lists for video cards, cpus and hard drives. Was helpful in deciding what specific components to purchase for a new computer.
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    need help with case buttons and case LEDS

    I'm building my own computer case, and so I have no power/reset button nor the status LEDs. I notice that both the power and reset button have two wires connecting to two pins on the mobo... could someone tell me how that works so I can build my own buttons (and wire correctly)? Also how do...
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    How hot it is your laptop??

    It may be the M-Radeon 7500 above the RAM, but my ram cover is burning hot. I can't touch it for more than 2 seconds after long 3D games (especially if I didn't give good ventilation to the base during that tmie.
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    error on hard drive

    you need to be more specific before i can tell you. please describe this error...what happened before, what happens now.
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    did I fry something? help pls..

    I plugged a secondary ide cable to a CD Drive then gave it the molex connector while computer was on. did I just fry something? Computer turns on, hard drive spins, but no signal to monitor. please help...
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    just bought a cheap computer

    I run XP Home on an old PII-300MHz 4200RPM HDD on 160MB RAM and Ati Rage Pro Integrated 4MB, so I'm sure you'll run XP smoothly
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    Benefits of Onboard audio vs SounBlaster?

    what about those onboard 5.1/6.1/7.1 audio, such as the 5.1 Azalia HD Audio by ADI AD1986A Soundmax codec? are they just marketing hype?
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    2nd cd/dvd burner or just a reader?

    unless your old cd burner is slow, then you can buy a faster one and use your old as a reader?