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This is the first picture of a new designed tatoo machine. Its a registered design of kim, an expert tatooer from spain. It works with compressed air, is faster and less painfull than regular machines. And the most important part, fully sterilizable without the need of dismantle the machine. Just unplug from compressor and put it on the sterilization machine. And of course right or left handed in the same machine.
World Wildlife Fund's Conservation Action Network
ACT NOW TO SAVE LIFE ON EARTH
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TODAY'S THE DAY FOR EARTH HOUR
Dear Everyone,
Earth Hour is tonight, March 29, from 8 to 9 pm local time! Get ready to make it a great celebration for the planet.
Wondering what to do after you turn the lights out? Here are 10 fun ideas to help you, your family and your friends make a change and make a difference today.
1. Host a Green Party
Get your friends together for an Earth Hour eco-party. Fire up the flashlights and battery lanterns, serve organic food, avoid the disposable utensils, use natural décor (like flowers and hanging plants) and have a friend provide acoustic music. Talk to your guests about how you're each reducing your environmental footprint and share ideas and solutions for saving more energy, money and carbon dioxide.
2. Give Yourself an Energy Makeover
Use Earth Hour to make your home more energy efficient: Replace your old light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs; install power strips (so you can turn computers and electronics on and off more easily); and change your air conditioner filters. Or go one step farther and install one new energy-efficient item, like an EnergyStar qualified DVD player. And on Monday, call your local utility and sign up for green power-like wind, hydro or solar.
3. Go Green with Your Kids
Earth Hour is a perfect time to talk to your kids about the environment and why we need to protect our planet from the dangers of climate change. Check out books on the environment from the library and read by flashlight, or head into the yard and have a night picnic. Or how about a night of board games? Check out our downloadable Earth Hour kids' activities.
wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=dYBshWW_5jIYq3dMbpwxvg..
4. Do a Recyclables Scavenger Hunt
Get your flashlights and scour your cabinets and shelves for cans, bottles and cardboard (like cereal boxes) that you don't normally recycle. Make a list of all the non-recyclable containers you're using now (like plastic shopping bags and butter tubs), and figure out ways to reduce your consumption of items that end up in landfills. One easy tip: get reusable grocery bags... and reuse them!
5. Green That Workspace!
Working the night shift? Even if you can't turn off all the lights at work, look around and see what you can unplug, turn down or use less of (like consuming less paper by printing double-sided). Every day millions of computer screens and speakers are left on overnight--shut 'em off! And talk to your coworkers about what they can do to help make a difference, too.
6. Involve Your Local Leaders
If your city or town isn't hosting an Earth Hour event, ask your local government to set up a community "green" discussion this spring. Help organize attendance by reaching out to local environmental and community groups, and come prepared to ask your leaders what they're doing to make your city greener.
7. Clean Up Your Neighborhood
Grab a flashlight and take a long walk through your neighborhood, picking up trash and recyclables as you go. It's a great chance to do some stargazing, too!
8. Unplug and Chill Out
Most of our daily activities--like watching TV, shopping online and texting friends--require loads of electricity, but do we really need to do so much stuff all the time? Take one hour for yourself to just chill... turn off the screens, put down the handheld devices and just take some "you" time to reflect, read or talk to your family. After all, why do more when you can do less?
9. Take Your Temperature
Your thermostat and your refrigerator are responsible for a huge portion of your carbon footprint. If you lower your thermostat by just 2 degrees and set your fridge to 37 degrees F. and the freezer at 0 degrees F., you'll make a big difference.
10. Make a Pledge for the Planet
Earth Hour shouldn't end at 9:01 pm--it's a chance to take a first step toward lowering your overall impact on the environment. So use part of that hour to make a personal pledge to do more--recycle, drive less often, turn off or unplug electronics, and beyond. The only way we're going to stabilize our climate is if we make real changes in our everyday lives. That change begins with Earth Hour, and ends with a healthy planet.
Of course, there are more than 10 ways to make a difference. Visit WWF's website for additional ideas on things you can do every day to help the Earth and reduce your environmental footprint.
wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=PJvSkO5VolcusPws2x35Iw..
Thank you for being a part of Earth Hour and committing to lowering your impact on the planet.
Switching off,
Richard Moss
Managing Director and Vice President
Climate Change
World Wildlife Fund
Very solid setup. Notice the power supply charging the battery I installed inside the pier. A 14ah gell cell battery fits nicely on the top alloy stanchion inside the pier. Unplug the charger connection, plug in the mount connector and you're ready to go 12 hours on a charge.
Unplug and Play: Pemberton and District Recreation Service hosts free Family Event, May 1Share
Apr 21, 2016
Affected Communities: Electoral Area C, Village of Pemberton
The Pemberton and District Community Centre will be hosting an Unplug and Play event on Sunday, May 1 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm as a kickoff event to Screen Free Week.
The event is geared towards creating awareness for families on the importance of balancing technology use with time with family, creative pursuits, recreation and nature. Children today are increasingly connecting to technology and disconnecting from themselves, their close relationships, and nature. Parents are encouraged to participate.
My wife loves her 2010 MacBook Pro because it's the last of the 17" models. I've beefed it up over the years with extra ram, swapping optical drive for an ssd hard drive etc.
It stopped charging the 6mnth old battery though, so I spent $25 on a new Magsafe power board, and got another battery. Now it charges, but still won't start up on battery power, and cuts out after a few minutes if you unplug it. I think it might no longer be a mobile device :(
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bisogna attendere il momento giusto
bisogna saper attendere
bisogna fare spazio nel ripostiglio, spazzare per terra, staccare il telefono ed avvicinarsi alla finestra.
aprire tapparella almeno un po', anche se è notte, e spegnere tutte le luci di casa.
bisogna sedersi sul pavimento, asciugarsi la fronte ed aprire gli occhi.
anche se è buio.
anche se l'alba sembra lontana e il tramonto non è che un ricordo remoto.
bisogna vivere il momento più buio, affinché la luce entri.
bisogna avere freddo per apprezzare un po' di calore.
bisogna svuotare il cuore, per poterlo riempire di nuovo.
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wait for the right moment
learn to wait
clear off your closet, sweep the floor, unplug the telephone and get close to the window
sit on the floor
wipe the sweat from your eyes, and open your mind
even if it's dark
even if the dawn is in the farthest future and the sunset is a distant memory
live the darkest hour, so as the light can enter
let your bones be cold, so to appreciate some warmth
vacate your heart, so it can be filled again
Padova, 2014
Deboxing the Rapunzel Feature Doll. Rapunzel's inner box slides out from the bottom, not the top of the box. First you have to detach the 'try me' switch from the front window by undoing two layers of tape. Once freed from the tape, it can be pushed back through a hole in the box to fall inside the box. The other end of the switch plugs into a socket in the back of the doll, and is detachable once the doll is deboxed. Then the doll is removed from the box, still attached to the inner backing. The backing can free stand, and now the doll is in the clear. Next the doll is removed from the backing. She is still attached to the plastic supports and the Try Me button, and there is tissue paper under her skirt. All the plastic supports have been removed. I left the lantern tied to her hand with clear rubber bands. The Try Me button is still connected to the doll by a long wire, and the tissue paper is wrapped tightly around her waist. To remove them we have to open up the back of her dress. We see the top of the tissue paper and the wire goes under it. To remove the tissue we slip the bodice off her shoulders and move her dress down, so we cut the tape at the top of the tissue wrapping. Then the end of the wire is exposed, where it plugs into a socket in the waist of the doll, below the battery compartment. We unplug the Try Me button's wire, and we can now use the lantern to make the doll sing the full length of her song.
The recently released Disney Store Deluxe Feature Rapunzel Doll. She is part of the line of new 16 inch singing Princess dolls for 2015. They not only sing, but each also comes with an accessory and have other special features. They also come in a sturdy reusable box with a satin carrying handle. They are available online and in stores in North America, and cost $49.95 each. Rapunzel I think is the most impressive doll in the line, and the most different from previous singing dolls of the same character.
Once the 'try me' switch is detached, you trigger the sound and lights by sliding the lantern back and forth a little way along her hand. There is a LED light in the palm of her hand that flickers while she is singing, and lights up the lantern. She sings about 35 seconds of the 'Healing Incantation' song very clearly and just the right volume. The sound is better than any previous DS singing doll that I have heard. The gentleness of the song, with accompanying lights, and the beauty of the doll, makes for a very moving experience. I don't think I will get tired of hearing the song and seeing the lights on this doll.
I found out today that an old friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's 38, a wife, and a mother. My prayers and thoughts go out to her and her family for the battle ahead. Ladies, please do those self-examinations if you don't already do those.
I know 2016 is almost over, but I'm honestly looking at the next few days with a little bit of paranoia and dread. What a year.
As much as possible, I'm just trying to unplug a little.
of course as i am heading out the door to work out (hence the hair), my new computer arrives. way to kill my entire day. but i decided to be good and go work out first, while my old computer backs up onto time machine since it keeps reminding me i havent done it in 91 days. thennnnnnnn macbook pro here i come! i need a name for it. from anchorman. as all my electronics are named. maybe i'll just name is anchorman. thats manly.
ps great timing for a new computer. photobooth is being really weird with its videos, anddd when i plug in the charger, it says not charging. so it keeps dying if i unplug it. funn.
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"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb
That being said, its been really great taking a few hours here and there to really unplug, hang out with my little one, and bumble about the local arts and music festival. Although the music hasn't really been my cup of tea, the precious time spent with a loved one is what its been all about for me. (guess I'll have to head to Europe to catch the music I REALLY want to hear LOL!)
As far as the image, its a little taste of downtown West Palm Beach.....home of Sunfest 2010!
Check it out larger!
Collaborative conversations are at the core of Unplug'd 2011.
Each participant brought a prepared, "Why __________ Matters" piece, which we shared and reviewed in preparation discussion in the larger educational community.
The pieces, together with accompanying videos, will be released in grouped chapters over August and September of 2011, before being collected together into a published document.
Note: The second and fifth photos in this collage are from the Unplug'd11 (CC) Flickr set of Kim Crawford, and were assembled for a co-authored blog post.
My basement flooded a couple of winters ago, and this workspace became unusable. Even the fume hood blower (lower right) succumbed to water damage. Over the past week, I've salvaged the usable raw materials, bought some new materials, and hacked the motor on the blower to make it work again. I removed the motor's rusted out centrifugal switch and replaced it with an external 1-second time-delay relay. This hack works because the motor isn't subjected to variable loading that might cause it to stall; once it's up to speed, it stays there until I unplug it.
South America’s First Luxury Sleeper Train
From May 2017, the Belmond Andean Explorer will operate along one of the world’s highest rail routes in the Peruvian Andes; some of the most breath-taking scenery in the world.
From Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire—traversing the highest plains of the Andes—to the reflective beauty of Lake Titicaca. Take the opportunity to explore the vast Colca Canyon then continue towards the city centre of Arequipa, a UNESCO World Heritage site (or in reverse).
The new train will have capacity for 68 guests in a range of en-suite cabins including two double cabins, 20 twin cabins and 12 bunk-bed style cabins for two people.
There will also be two dining cars, a lounge car and an observation car with an open-air deck for scenic viewing.
Travelling through some of the most breath-taking scenery in the world, Belmond Andean Explorer is designed to connect guests with the abundant nature of the Peruvian Andes. Interior designs, by Inge Moore of The Gallery HBA, are inspired by the texture of Peru’s hand-woven fabrics and the soft tones of the Alpaca wool blended with Andean slate greys create a sense of calm enabling guests to unplug, relax and enjoy the journey.
A selection of four journeys include ‘Peruvian Highlands’, a two night, three day journey departing from Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca Empire travelling across the highest plains of the Andes reaching 4800 metres in altitude, to Puno where guests can visit the remote villages and floating islands on Lake Titicaca and then onwards to the city centre of Arequipa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site – highlights of this journey include a chance to explore the vast Colca Canyon, the dramatic realm of the condor. Or, the ‘Spirit of the Andes’ journey traverses the Altiplano from Lake Titicaca to Cusco, for an overnight escape.
Prices start from $462pp (£320pp) for the one-night ‘Spirit of the Andes’ journey, including all meals, open bar and excursions.
Cabins
Discover true relaxation as you step into your own personal sanctuary. Cabins come in suite/double, twin and bunk bed configurations, each with its own en-suite and shower.
Lounge Car
Invite new friends to gather around the baby grand piano and relax in comfortable seating as majestic vistas drift past outside. Share a lively story from the day’s adventures and enjoy a refreshing drink from the bar.
Two Dining Cars
Serving fresh, colourful and seasonal dishes using locally sourced ingredients from the Peruvian Andes in the elegant dining carriages. Menus are skilfully designed by our chefs from Belmond Hotel Monasterio, Cusco.
Observation Car
The place to unwind, meet new friends and enjoy the views whilst sipping a Pisco Sour from the bar. Breathe in the Andean air from the open deck of the Observation Car as the train travels through the ever-changing landscape.
Windows & Tester Notes
•A window tells me I don't have permission to save notepad to desktop but it saves anyway.
•I like pin to taskbar.
•When I unplug and go outside my home network disappears. I was able to connect to the net. The network stayed when I came back in and unplugged.
•I don't notice a mail. Windows mail or outlook express.
•I'll install 2003 soon.
•I'm glad I can drag files to a folder and they Move like xp used to. I want a move feature.
•Could not load easy media transfer on xp pro machine
•Adobe flash player 9 debugger comes up in mozilla even though I have installed flash PLAYER 10
•I had problems installing an ati 650 made for windows 7 beta software. Uninstall was just as bad.
•I like the video preview box!
•I can't get the ati TV 650 wonder to load from the software disc or from the ati site using a windows 7 friendly download.
•It looks like you didn’t get the message about playing gifs.
•1/28/2009 5:11:15 AM
•Moving @ 50 gb from networked xp pro external hd to windows 7 LT
•69 processes, cpu usage %68, physical memory %51 5 apps open including mozilla with 3 tabs open to my webpage plus two fox web pages which are heavy with video and pics. Firefox at 224,00kpss
•Memory is at 1.93 gb
•1/29/2009 4:43:51 AM I have tried three or four times to open the control panel and get a runtime error. I want to uninstall a program. The control panel view opened but was blank. I had to use the drop down to select.
•Odd behavior tonight. I loaded some movie files from my Sony. Adobe premiere pro didn’t see them so I loaded adobe elements 2.0. It didn’t see them. I tried to rename the ext to .mpg they wouldn’t rename. I tried to use a bulk rename utility but it didn’t see the files… Twighlite zone. I see the files and the media player plays them. I want to cut them but do not understand.
•I started having problems with the forward button on the photo nedia viwer roday.
•1/30/2009 4:10:50 PM
•I like the thumbnail images on the desktop
•2/3/2009 6:57:56 PM
•OK it has to be a windows 7 thing with mo 2003 because I received both of these at the same time watching THE DESKTOP AND THE LAPTOP (LAPTOP HAS WINDOWS 7) . THE DESKTOP, xp pro, WAS FINE. THE LAPTOP RECEIVED GARBAGE. But I am wondering why Bella can send me the same thing and it was OK on Laptop when yours wasn't. So it is not you.
•2/4/2009 6:47:30 AM
•Pop up says ie8 not supported.
•I still haven’t found how to sort by name the icons in the quick launch area.
•I need base system deveice drivers’
•When moving files on a network from xp pro to windows 7 the move starts but often ends in can’t move thumbnail error.
•I like the way 7 easily synched with my moto q however I have trouble turning motoq into a modem.
•I have difficulty opening multiple folders at the same time
•IE comes up but then just disappears, firefox works.
•I can't get to advanced edit in mo 2003 windows 7. erroror h.
•windows 7 bogged dowen deleting duplicate files with dupe locator.
•2/8/2009 1:58:16 AM
•trying to update a techsmith camtasia I get switch to box. Finding the browser didin't help.
•When I try to use camtasia to record a power point presentation I can’t check the record from what speaker hears box.
•Ie won’t stay op[en. It opens then closes.
•Ie7 would not install. Windows said not nsupported
•Won’t work with google chrome.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•2/9/2009 7:00:59 AM
•Sound recorder threw up multiple windows telling me it didn’t have enough temp memory to record. I have @ 200gb free on drive.
•2/17/2009 1:11:46 PM
•An infrared driver update came my way via windows beata notification. However the page disappeared and I can’t get it back. It lead me to a blank web page. I managed to save a pdf of the page with hot links but the links go nowhere. There was no explanatioin as to what the driver fixes.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•I managed to downlload the cir driver from the hotlink.
•I am looking for 3 base system drivers
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•2/28/2009 1:25:37 AM
•I like the desktop random change selection
•3/8/2009 3:48:36 AM
•7 has a problem with video programs. i tried importing an avi video from a networked pc using camtasia and she crapped out on me...AGAIN!!
•shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•3/16/2009 9:09:52 AM
•windows 7 won't let total recorder record sounds heard from speaker only. This is useful when trying to record screen shots with internal sound from a website.
•shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
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•3/17/2009 9:17:25 AM
It’s a sugar coated version of XP that conflicts with my video editing programs. Microsoft has made it harder to move files with no “move” feature. They have taken away the windows picture viewer and gif images don’t work without extra software.
The switch to box wouldn't let me switch mto moizilla on a download for an upgrade to snagit.
shaneksmith1957@gmail.c
4/5/2009 12:19:52 AM
7 crashed while saving a word project and going to open a photo.
shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
4/9/2009 6:17:34 PM
Windows 7 does not like my logitech webcam.
4/18/2009 1:47:39 AM
4/19/2009 9:46:20 PM
7 can feel me closing it down. it crashed as i copy program files so I can downgrade to vista.
shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
Installing windows 7 signature edition on 32 bit and 64 bit. I had to wipe the 32 bit because 7 wouldn’t recognize windows 7 RC. Install of fresh 7 took About 40 minutes. From Vista 64 bit 7 copied and saved programs and data of @ 400gb on my lt and @ 80 programs in @ five hours! That was nice!
10/10/2009 9:39:53 PM
Wipe 7 32 bit because of ati problem. Starting re install
To ready desktop:
10/10/2009 10:08:59 PM
A wipe did not fix the ati glitch on a reinstall.
Windows 7 changed back to windows 7 basic color scheme and the tuner came back on. I had just plugged the tuner into Laptop 2 64bit vista and ati 650 worked. Then all of a sudden the tuner started working again on my 7 lt. Weird coincidence.
10/14/2009 4:21:42 AM
Uninistalling Roxio and using a windows basic or Aero theme in Display settings then re-installing the 650 program over the existing install made the 650 work for me again. I dare not mess with Windows TV tuner!
For those with simple need that don’t need a TV tuner I sugest Windows 7 Ultimate. For those willing to troubleshoot your ATI tuner I also suggest Windows 7 Ultimate!
10/14/2009 11:23:51 PM
A windows 7 update today caused the ati not to work again. It plays but is slow.
10/17/2009 5:16:59 AM
I had to reverrify my activation key on the 32 bit.
I can only network 2 machines that are both on 7.
10/17/2009 10:12:32 PM
A clean uninstall of the 650 then re-install AFTER re-installing roxio fixed it so far.It’s working with roxio now. Roxio’s TV tuner and the ati tuner are working. If you put in ati first before Roxio then Roxio won’t let you install ati.
Hp 7350 photo printer won’t work with hp laptop 64bit and 7 desktop 32bit. No compatible drivers I have found so far have helped.
I can’t figure out how to sort icons in Quick launch with 7.
As you may already know, I'm a cyborg. No, really! I've had medical equipment implanted in my body not once but twice to manage chronic migraine headaches.
The equipment, called a spinal cord stimulator, consists of electrical leads in the back of my neck, wires running down my spine, and the main unit in my lower back. All of the equipment is inside my body and not visible from the outside, but I do have an x-ray of the leads and wires.
Like any piece of electronics, in order to function the main unit in my lower back must stay charged. I recently received requests for a photo of the device I use to charge the main unit. So here it is!
The rectacular "brick" is a battery pack. Most of the time, it is plugged into the wall. When I'm ready to use it, I unplug the brick from the wall and attach the black cable and paddle shown. Then I place the paddle against the skin of my lower back and turn on the brick. Power runs from the brick, through the cable, and into the paddle, through my skin, and into the main unit under my skin. Lighted icons on the brick indicate if the brick has power, if the paddle is positioned properly, and when the unit is completely charged.
The charging process is not painful in any way, and I do it at a frequency of once a day to once a week, depending on how I'm using my implants.
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"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
I am surprised that my eyes are open in this shot, as I have been walking around half asleep all day. I fell asleep in the car like three times today while I was out shopping with my mom. Anyway, we went to Barnes & Noble. I didn’t allow myself to buy anything though because they didn’t have what I REALLY wanted, which is Andrea Gibson’s book Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns. So, I guess I will just have to suck it up and order it from bn.com.
I was really disappointed about them not having the book in stock but THEN, my day was completely brightened up when I found this sweet necklace at Bob’s! I have been searching for a peace sign necklace for a while and FINALLY found one to love. Which, by the way, this shot is for Angie because I was telling her all about my necklace and she wanted to see it. :)
That’s about it. I’m watching Everybody Loves Raymond now and about to update my MySpace since I rarely bother. Add me if you have one! :)
EXPLORE: #364
Today was the first day of a new initiative at church called the "hardware co-op" which provides a computer recycling and re-use solution for the congregation.
The EPA has a good explanation of why this important.
We are going to re-use what we can and recycle the rest through Recycle Force in Indianapolis.
We will extend the option to drop off e-waste to more people as resources permit. I hope to grow the idea by documenting what we are doing in a way that other organizations could easily replicate it.
UPDATE: Over 5 years later, the program is still going. See our website for more recent photos and video of the latest space.
Windows & Tester Notes
•A window tells me I don't have permission to save notepad to desktop but it saves anyway.
•I like pin to taskbar.
•When I unplug and go outside my home network disappears. I was able to connect to the net. The network stayed when I came back in and unplugged.
•I don't notice a mail. Windows mail or outlook express.
•I'll install 2003 soon.
•I'm glad I can drag files to a folder and they Move like xp used to. I want a move feature.
•Could not load easy media transfer on xp pro machine
•Adobe flash player 9 debugger comes up in mozilla even though I have installed flash PLAYER 10
•I had problems installing an ati 650 made for windows 7 beta software. Uninstall was just as bad.
•I like the video preview box!
•I can't get the ati TV 650 wonder to load from the software disc or from the ati site using a windows 7 friendly download.
•It looks like you didn’t get the message about playing gifs.
•1/28/2009 5:11:15 AM
•Moving @ 50 gb from networked xp pro external hd to windows 7 LT
•69 processes, cpu usage %68, physical memory %51 5 apps open including mozilla with 3 tabs open to my webpage plus two fox web pages which are heavy with video and pics. Firefox at 224,00kpss
•Memory is at 1.93 gb
•1/29/2009 4:43:51 AM I have tried three or four times to open the control panel and get a runtime error. I want to uninstall a program. The control panel view opened but was blank. I had to use the drop down to select.
•Odd behavior tonight. I loaded some movie files from my Sony. Adobe premiere pro didn’t see them so I loaded adobe elements 2.0. It didn’t see them. I tried to rename the ext to .mpg they wouldn’t rename. I tried to use a bulk rename utility but it didn’t see the files… Twighlite zone. I see the files and the media player plays them. I want to cut them but do not understand.
•I started having problems with the forward button on the photo nedia viwer roday.
•1/30/2009 4:10:50 PM
•I like the thumbnail images on the desktop
•2/3/2009 6:57:56 PM
•OK it has to be a windows 7 thing with mo 2003 because I received both of these at the same time watching THE DESKTOP AND THE LAPTOP (LAPTOP HAS WINDOWS 7) . THE DESKTOP, xp pro, WAS FINE. THE LAPTOP RECEIVED GARBAGE. But I am wondering why Bella can send me the same thing and it was OK on Laptop when yours wasn't. So it is not you.
•2/4/2009 6:47:30 AM
•Pop up says ie8 not supported.
•I still haven’t found how to sort by name the icons in the quick launch area.
•I need base system deveice drivers’
•When moving files on a network from xp pro to windows 7 the move starts but often ends in can’t move thumbnail error.
•I like the way 7 easily synched with my moto q however I have trouble turning motoq into a modem.
•I have difficulty opening multiple folders at the same time
•IE comes up but then just disappears, firefox works.
•I can't get to advanced edit in mo 2003 windows 7. erroror h.
•windows 7 bogged dowen deleting duplicate files with dupe locator.
•2/8/2009 1:58:16 AM
•trying to update a techsmith camtasia I get switch to box. Finding the browser didin't help.
•When I try to use camtasia to record a power point presentation I can’t check the record from what speaker hears box.
•Ie won’t stay op[en. It opens then closes.
•Ie7 would not install. Windows said not nsupported
•Won’t work with google chrome.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•2/9/2009 7:00:59 AM
•Sound recorder threw up multiple windows telling me it didn’t have enough temp memory to record. I have @ 200gb free on drive.
•2/17/2009 1:11:46 PM
•An infrared driver update came my way via windows beata notification. However the page disappeared and I can’t get it back. It lead me to a blank web page. I managed to save a pdf of the page with hot links but the links go nowhere. There was no explanatioin as to what the driver fixes.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•I managed to downlload the cir driver from the hotlink.
•I am looking for 3 base system drivers
•Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
•2/28/2009 1:25:37 AM
•I like the desktop random change selection
•3/8/2009 3:48:36 AM
•7 has a problem with video programs. i tried importing an avi video from a networked pc using camtasia and she crapped out on me...AGAIN!!
•shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•3/16/2009 9:09:52 AM
•windows 7 won't let total recorder record sounds heard from speaker only. This is useful when trying to record screen shots with internal sound from a website.
•shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
•3/17/2009 9:17:25 AM
It’s a sugar coated version of XP that conflicts with my video editing programs. Microsoft has made it harder to move files with no “move” feature. They have taken away the windows picture viewer and gif images don’t work without extra software.
The switch to box wouldn't let me switch mto moizilla on a download for an upgrade to snagit.
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4/5/2009 12:19:52 AM
7 crashed while saving a word project and going to open a photo.
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4/9/2009 6:17:34 PM
Windows 7 does not like my logitech webcam.
4/18/2009 1:47:39 AM
4/19/2009 9:46:20 PM
7 can feel me closing it down. it crashed as i copy program files so I can downgrade to vista.
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Installing windows 7 signature edition on 32 bit and 64 bit. I had to wipe the 32 bit because 7 wouldn’t recognize windows 7 RC. Install of fresh 7 took About 40 minutes. From Vista 64 bit 7 copied and saved programs and data of @ 400gb on my lt and @ 80 programs in @ five hours! That was nice!
10/10/2009 9:39:53 PM
Wipe 7 32 bit because of ati problem. Starting re install
To ready desktop:
10/10/2009 10:08:59 PM
A wipe did not fix the ati glitch on a reinstall.
Windows 7 changed back to windows 7 basic color scheme and the tuner came back on. I had just plugged the tuner into Laptop 2 64bit vista and ati 650 worked. Then all of a sudden the tuner started working again on my 7 lt. Weird coincidence.
10/14/2009 4:21:42 AM
Uninistalling Roxio and using a windows basic or Aero theme in Display settings then re-installing the 650 program over the existing install made the 650 work for me again. I dare not mess with Windows TV tuner!
For those with simple need that don’t need a TV tuner I sugest Windows 7 Ultimate. For those willing to troubleshoot your ATI tuner I also suggest Windows 7 Ultimate!
10/14/2009 11:23:51 PM
A windows 7 update today caused the ati not to work again. It plays but is slow.
10/17/2009 5:16:59 AM
I had to reverrify my activation key on the 32 bit.
I can only network 2 machines that are both on 7.
10/17/2009 10:12:32 PM
A clean uninstall of the 650 then re-install AFTER re-installing roxio fixed it so far.It’s working with roxio now. Roxio’s TV tuner and the ati tuner are working. If you put in ati first before Roxio then Roxio won’t let you install ati.
Hp 7350 photo printer won’t work with hp laptop 64bit and 7 desktop 32bit. No compatible drivers I have found so far have helped.
I can’t figure out how to sort icons in Quick launch with 7.
To keep the creative juices flowing, I'll be off flickr and other social media for a bit this summer. Be well.
It seems like I have to constantly have something to work on and fiddle with. I love video editing and practice is the best teacher. Plus editing helps me deal with the stresses of my life, which are myriad. The good news is I've learned how to relax better. I de-connect and unplug and get comfortable and listen to a great book or music and float away ,,,,
And there is always some sweetness in life to make me smile, whether it be hearing Hoagie sing his silly tunes or my social studies UIL team coming in first at all practice meets. We are going to the top!! I really think we are! That means beaucoup scholarship money yep. And I'm coaching out of my field. Just think of what that team could do with a real social studies coach! Yikes.
Actually, I'd rather be less busy, but qué será, será. It's my life and I've got to live it.
It's spring like here where I am and I hear the tinkling of the wind chimes outside. Soon I'll feel like a nap, but it will be too late. Dang. I'll probably watch an episode of The Bates Motel. Yea, I've been watching a little Net Flix:) I've also watched 666 Park Avenue, Arrested Development, and a couple of other series which caught my fancy. I don't watch every night, just every now and then cause it's fun.
Y'all have a great weekend and week coming up. I'll be by to see you soon!
James has spilled his tea on his laptop keyboard, and it no longer works. It's unfortunately common for people to spill liquids on their laptops, but the results are very variable, and can include both – electrical and physical damage, ranging from short circuits to long-term corrosion. It depends a lot on the type of liquid, the quantity and how quickly you react.
Water and green tea are at the better end of the spectrum, especially in small quantities. Drinks that include a lot of sugar – which includes anything sweetened with honey – and milk are at the bad end. The problem is that drinks often leave a residue when they dry. The bigger the residue, the bigger the risk. It's often easier to replace a keyboard than to clean it, if the rest of the laptop still works.
A good first response to a spill is to unplug the laptop immediately, if it's plugged into the mains, and then remove the battery as quickly as possible. This will reduce the risk of electrical damage. If the battery is sealed in, the best you can do is shut the machine down. Either way, try to keep the laptop upside down to reduce the risk of liquid reaching the motherboard.
Here how to fix a famous problem with Cadillac 2005-2011(STS-SLS) SHIFT TO PARK problem. After checking the transmission linkage and bushing and not fixed. I found a micro switch in the lever box inside the car which is activated when the lever knob released. To find it you had to remove the transmission lever cover ,and you will find a plug shown in pic#1. Unplug it and locate a blue wire and pink wire on the male side. Also, locate a green wire with white trace and another green wire with yellow trace pic#3.Take a piece of wire as shown on pic#3 and jump the green wires on the female side. Replug it and the problem fixed
OPINION
The Joy of Quiet
By PICO IYER
Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began — I braced myself for mention of some next-generation stealth campaign — was stillness.
A few months later, I read an interview with the perennially cutting-edge designer Philippe Starck. What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? “I never read any magazines or watch TV,” he said, perhaps a little hyperbolically. “Nor do I go to cocktail parties, dinners or anything like that.” He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because “I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere.”
Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2,285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I’m reliably told, lies in “black-hole resorts,” which charge high prices precisely because you can’t get online in their rooms.
Has it really come to this?
In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them — often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen.
Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable (for up to eight hours) the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago. Even Intel (of all companies) experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. (The average office worker today, researchers have found, enjoys no more than three minutes at a time at his or her desk without interruption.) During this period the workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think. A majority of Intel’s trial group recommended that the policy be extended to others.
THE average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen, Nicholas Carr notes in his eye-opening book “The Shallows,” in part because the number of hours American adults spent online doubled between 2005 and 2009 (and the number of hours spent in front of a TV screen, often simultaneously, is also steadily increasing).
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. Since luxury, as any economist will tell you, is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow, I heard myself tell the marketers in Singapore, will crave nothing more than freedom, if only for a short while, from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once.
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.” He also famously remarked that all of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content — and speedier means could make up for unimproved ends — Henry David Thoreau reminded us that “the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.” Even half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, “When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.” Thomas Merton struck a chord with millions, by not just noting that “Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest,” but by also acting on it, and stepping out of the rat race and into a Cistercian cloister.
Yet few of those voices can be heard these days, precisely because “breaking news” is coming through (perpetually) on CNN and Debbie is just posting images of her summer vacation and the phone is ringing. We barely have enough time to see how little time we have (most Web pages, researchers find, are visited for 10 seconds or less). And the more that floods in on us (the Kardashians, Obamacare, “Dancing with the Stars”), the less of ourselves we have to give to every snippet. All we notice is that the distinctions that used to guide and steady us — between Sunday and Monday, public and private, here and there — are gone.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating. And — as he might also have said — we’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines.
So what to do? The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. All the data in the world cannot teach us how to sift through data; images don’t show us how to process images. The only way to do justice to our onscreen lives is by summoning exactly the emotional and moral clarity that can’t be found on any screen.
MAYBE that’s why more and more people I know, even if they have no religious commitment, seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi; these aren’t New Age fads so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two journalist friends of mine observe an “Internet sabbath” every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning, so as to try to revive those ancient customs known as family meals and conversation. Finding myself at breakfast with a group of lawyers in Oxford four months ago, I noticed that all their talk was of sailing — or riding or bridge: anything that would allow them to get out of radio contact for a few hours.
Other friends try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at home. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.” More than that, empathy, as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are “inherently slow.” The very ones our high-speed lives have little time for.
In my own case, I turn to eccentric and often extreme measures to try to keep my sanity and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time). I’ve yet to use a cellphone and I’ve never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day’s writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism; it’s just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”
It’s vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world, and to know what’s going on; I took pains this past year to make separate trips to Jerusalem and Hyderabad and Oman and St. Petersburg, to rural Arkansas and Thailand and the stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima and Dubai. But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
For more than 20 years, therefore, I’ve been going several times a year — often for no longer than three days — to a Benedictine hermitage, 40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don’t attend services when I’m there, and I’ve never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it’s only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I’ll have anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago, I happened to pass, on the monastery road, a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old around his shoulders.
“You’re Pico, aren’t you?” the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we’d met, I gathered, 19 years before, when he’d been living in the cloister as an assistant to one of the monks.
“What are you doing now?” I asked.
“I work for MTV. Down in L.A.”
We smiled. No words were necessary.
“I try to bring my kids here as often as I can,” he went on, as he looked out at the great blue expanse of the Pacific on one side of us, the high, brown hills of the Central Coast on the other. “My oldest son” — he pointed at a 7-year-old running along the deserted, radiant mountain road in front of his mother — “this is his third time.”
The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what’s new, but what’s essential.
Pico Iyer is the author, most recently of “The Man Within My Head.”
Untitled 2009 Olieverf op doek 70 x 60 cm by Ron Schouten (#200).
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2006 BeoSound 3 Portable Radio with SD Card.
Flexibility in placement
BeoSound 3 can be placed upright or hung on a dedicated wall bracket supplied with the unit.
Rechargeable battery
As it is supplied with a rechargeable battery, the unit is entirely free of power cables and can easily be moved from one place to another without having to plug and unplug. BeoSound 3 is a truly portable "place-and-play" product.
BeoSound 3 delivers portable and personal sound with style
In appearance, the new BeoSound 3 portable audio system from Bang & Olufsen echoes past traditions, while on the inside the technology looks to the future. BeoSound 3 is available from November/December 2005.
BeoSound 3 has an FM radio, SD (Secure Digital) card reader and clock-timer elegantly packaged together with a rechargeable battery in the robust, anodised aluminium cabinet. The full-range mono loudspeaker’s performance belies the small size of BeoSound 3, and provides clear rendition of music and vocal broadcasts.
Truly ‘place and play’
The distinctive appearance makes BeoSound 3 stand out from the conventional or ‘retro’ portable music systems available on the market today. “BeoSound 3 is truly a portable concept, built for robustness and with an acoustic design that facilitates sound clarity,” says Brian Stilling Laursen, Product Manager, Bang & Olufsen. “The form appears quite extraordinary at first, and yet in use BeoSound 3 proves remarkably effective with what we call ‘classic transistor radio’ use.”
In addition to the FM radio, the ability to play music and radio recorded on the new BeoSound 4 audio system offers the ease of listening to, for example, CD quality music away from home played on the very robust flash memory SD card. The SD card can also be used when on the move with the BeoSound 2 digital music player.
The large, black handle is immediately apparent to the user. The handle clicks into one of five positions at rest, ensuring no ‘clatter’ against the aluminium cabinet. In addition to the obvious placement standing on its base pretty much anywhere, BeoSound 3 is supplied with a wall bracket that fits tightly around the handle. This enables fixed placement beside the bed, for example, if the user wishes to use the clock, wake-up timer, and stop-timer functionality built in to BeoSound 3.
An experience for now – and the future
All operation of the BeoSound 3 happens on the soft-touch top panel. Soft-touch operation on aluminium was pioneered by Bang & Olufsen on the BeoCenter 2 audio and DVD system, and the absence of protruding buttons and knobs only increases the ease and convenience of carrying and placing BeoSound 3. The motorised antenna rises automatically when the radio is switched on.
Bang & Olufsen aims to be wherever the company’s customers are, with entertainment solutions that do not compromise the quality of the listening experience. “Considering the appeal of the ‘traditional’ transistor radio concept and the addition of the future-secure SD card functionality, we fully expect BeoSound 3 to be a huge hit among both existing and new Bang & Olufsen customers,” concludes Brian Stilling Laursen, Product Manager, Bang & Olufsen.
Introducing the new Apple's Tablet Computer Named IPad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said: "JacksonPollock.org" is one of the best websites to experience the iPad ...
These three beautiful birds were snapped at the amazing Saskatoon Farm late Friday morning, in a big pen at the back of a giant greenhouse filled with flowers, herbs and vegetables.
These images were shot through the chain link fence surrounding the pen, but my camera did a pretty good of focusing past the links on the animals.
The colouration of the male turkey and roosters was just incredible!
Hard drive recovery update:
I have actually managed to recover about 2000 photos so far; what I have been doing is letting the old drive cool down (ie completely unplug it from everything) for a few hours, and then I plug it into my dad's laptop, which I have another hard drive of mine plugged in, and I can actually see the entire contents of the drive!
The only problem is, it seems like it will only copy files for about 10-15 minutes before giving up the ghost and shutting itself down, after which I must wait a while before trying again!
So this is good, I have got some really nice images back, and hopefully the pros can do even more on Monday or Tuesday!
Thanks for all the support, my friends, and hope you are all having a great Sunday!
New singing Rapunzel doll being deboxed. She is identical to last year's Singing Rapunzel, except that she sings 'I See the Light' instead of 'Healing Incantation', and the packaging is different. The Try Me feature is activated by opening the lid, and she sings 10 seconds of the song. To debox her, you have to open the bottom first, so you can unplug the Try Me wire from the front lid. Then you can lift the inner box (to which the doll is attached) from the outer box. She is attached to the inner box and plastic supports by wires, tiny T-tabs and rubber bands.
After the Try Me wire is unplugged from the back of the doll, she can now sing the 45 seconds of 'I See the Light' by sliding the lantern on her right hand. The lantern and plastic flowers in her hair light up while she sings.
I got the singing Rapunzel doll last Friday (July 22, 2016) from the Disney Store, that I ordered during the Friends and Family sale. I have yet to see her in stores (as of July 31, 2016).
Even though I'm not thrilled with the look of the new Rapunzel's box, the Try Me mechanism is rather neat. You first enable the Try Me switch by pulling a long plastic tab in the back. Then there is a switch attached to the hinge of the front cover, which is activated when you close then open the lid far enough. It will cause Rapunzel to sing about 10 seconds of I See the Light, and light up the lantern she is holding and flowers in her hair. I will post more detailed photos of Rapunzel when I debox her. I still have not seen her in stores yet. And the new singing Belle doll is nowhere to be found, either in stores or online.
Now I have singing rapunzel dolls with three different songs. ''When Will My Life Begin'' (2011 - 2014), ''Healing Incantation'' (2015) and now ''I See the Light'' (2016). I wish that other of the Disney singing dolls would have such a variation in their songs.
The fact that all sides are covered by cardboard (except for the oval plastic window in front), makes the box very sturdy. In particular, all the edges and corners are really stiff, so resist damage during shipping. My doll's box came in perfect shape, which I can't say for most of the doll boxes I order from the Disney Store. The box wasn't packed any better than usual (a few airbags on the bottom of the shipping carton), but the sturdiness of the doll's box made the difference. Also this box is much thicker (deeper) than previous singing doll boxes, and even LE doll boxes, so leaves lots of room to position the doll nicely. The new construction also means the boxed doll is bulkier and heavier than previous singing dolls, so may be more costly to ship.
Rapunzel Deluxe Feature Doll - 16''
$49.95
Item No. 6002040901406P
US Disney Store
Released online 2016-07-04
Ordered online 2016-07-14
Received 2016-07-22
I'll take a canoe over a gondola any day -- and a guitar in a canoe with a sunset, with friends? Does it get any better?
My family gathers here every Memorial Day. It's been a tradition since my grand-parents were in their 20's. It's a bunch of old cabins, most of which were built in the 1920's and 1930's. Most don't have running water, and only one or two lights and outlets.
It's a great place to unplug from the world, and recharge. We look forward to it every year.
While hiking, I have been seeing a growing number of people taking only a brief view of the surroundings and then burying themselves in their electronic devices. This ongoing project highlights the need to re-examine our need to unplug and just enjoy the beauty of this world.
Rolleiflex 2.8FX
Ilford XP2 400
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While hiking, I have been seeing a growing number of people taking only a brief view of the surroundings and then burying themselves in their electronic devices. This ongoing project highlights the need to re-examine our need to unplug and just enjoy the beauty of this world.
Rolleiflex 2.8FX
Ilford XP2 400
©2018 Joseph Brunjes
All Rights Reserved.
Do not use without permission.
See more of this ongoing project:
This case is awesome! Harddrive installation is SO EASY! The harddrive cage is removed from the front of the case, and so there's no need to unplug the power supply from the motherboard, and to remove the RAM and maneuver the harddrives through cables and cards (that was an issue with Magic.)
And look how big that fan on the top is!
This case is at NewEgg: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129100
building computer.
Antec computer case, box.
Goliath.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
November 7, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Carolyn decided now that Clint had a job, the time had come to replace her computer of 9 years, Magic. So, she started spec'ing out computer parts for a new computer that would become Goliath.
Carolyn built Magic in 2003 when Clint got her a motherboard for Christmas. She kept her old computer, Mist, which as far as we know, is still alive to this day (and was originally a 286, then a 486, then a Pentium 3). Anyway, Magic had tried to die a couple of years ago, but since Clint didn't have a job at the time, we decided it was best to repair rather than buying a whole new computer back then. So Carolyn found an exact replica of Magic's motherboard on Ebay and replaced the motherboard and the power supply. Magic has been limping along ever since.
But now it is time for Goliath. Goliath came into being at the beginning of November and was up and running by November 13th.
SPECS:
CASE: Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case ($160) (**10** frickin' drive bays!).
CPU: Intel Core i7 (i7-3770) Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Quad-Core (LGA1155 socket, 4 cores, 8MB cache, 77W power consumption) ($300). CPUBenchmark score: 9480. For comparison, Clint's computer Hades that everyone watches movies on only rates 4163 (and 1727 before upgrade).
POWER SUPPLY: Corsair Enthusiast Series CMPSU-850TX (850W) ($140) (5yr warranty)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z77 Extreme6 ($180). 8 SATA ports! Onboard optical digital audio out so her computer is backup for playing music. Onboard video better than my pre-upgrade videocard (Radeon x1950) that Clint tried to give her, so her computer is backup for playing video. (However, the onboard video can only mine at 100MH/s, so it is useless for cryptocurrency mining.) Onboard network.
RAM: 16GB: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series (2x8GB, 240-Pin) ($86) (CAS 9-9-9-9)
HARDDRIVE: SSD: 128G: Crucial M4 ($103) (3yr warranty). Plus all the drives that used to be in MAGIC, before MAGIC crashed.
TOTAL COST: $969.
Ultimately it ended up with a coupld of SATA controller cards, as well as a bluray-burner. We've now burned over 200 blurays.
In other news, Clint decided to get a CPU for Magic for Carolyn's birthday, and she ended up killing Magic trying to install it. It was a mistake to try to mess with the delicate balance that was Magic. Magic died 2 days before its 10-year anniversary. Poor Magic! But it was a good thing Carolyn had already gotten a new computer before Magic decided to kick the bucket.
A run-down of all parts in my new computer, with links to buy them, can be found here: carolyncasl.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-new-computer/
Windows & Tester Notes
•A window tells me I don't have permission to save notepad to desktop but it saves anyway.
•I like pin to taskbar.
•When I unplug and go outside my home network disappears. I was able to connect to the net. The network stayed when I came back in and unplugged.
•I don't notice a mail. Windows mail or outlook express.
•I'll install 2003 soon.
•I'm glad I can drag files to a folder and they Move like xp used to. I want a move feature.
•Could not load easy media transfer on xp pro machine
•Adobe flash player 9 debugger comes up in mozilla even though I have installed flash PLAYER 10
•I had problems installing an ati 650 made for windows 7 beta software. Uninstall was just as bad.
•I like the video preview box!
•I can't get the ati TV 650 wonder to load from the software disc or from the ati site using a windows 7 friendly download.
•It looks like you didn’t get the message about playing gifs.
•1/28/2009 5:11:15 AM
•Moving @ 50 gb from networked xp pro external hd to windows 7 LT
•69 processes, cpu usage %68, physical memory %51 5 apps open including mozilla with 3 tabs open to my webpage plus two fox web pages which are heavy with video and pics. Firefox at 224,00kpss
•Memory is at 1.93 gb
•1/29/2009 4:43:51 AM I have tried three or four times to open the control panel and get a runtime error. I want to uninstall a program. The control panel view opened but was blank. I had to use the drop down to select.
•Odd behavior tonight. I loaded some movie files from my Sony. Adobe premiere pro didn’t see them so I loaded adobe elements 2.0. It didn’t see them. I tried to rename the ext to .mpg they wouldn’t rename. I tried to use a bulk rename utility but it didn’t see the files… Twighlite zone. I see the files and the media player plays them. I want to cut them but do not understand.
•I started having problems with the forward button on the photo nedia viwer roday.
•1/30/2009 4:10:50 PM
•I like the thumbnail images on the desktop
•2/3/2009 6:57:56 PM
•OK it has to be a windows 7 thing with mo 2003 because I received both of these at the same time watching THE DESKTOP AND THE LAPTOP (LAPTOP HAS WINDOWS 7) . THE DESKTOP, xp pro, WAS FINE. THE LAPTOP RECEIVED GARBAGE. But I am wondering why Bella can send me the same thing and it was OK on Laptop when yours wasn't. So it is not you.
•2/4/2009 6:47:30 AM
•Pop up says ie8 not supported.
•I still haven’t found how to sort by name the icons in the quick launch area.
•I need base system deveice drivers’
•When moving files on a network from xp pro to windows 7 the move starts but often ends in can’t move thumbnail error.
•I like the way 7 easily synched with my moto q however I have trouble turning motoq into a modem.
•I have difficulty opening multiple folders at the same time
•IE comes up but then just disappears, firefox works.
•I can't get to advanced edit in mo 2003 windows 7. erroror h.
•windows 7 bogged dowen deleting duplicate files with dupe locator.
•2/8/2009 1:58:16 AM
•trying to update a techsmith camtasia I get switch to box. Finding the browser didin't help.
•When I try to use camtasia to record a power point presentation I can’t check the record from what speaker hears box.
•Ie won’t stay op[en. It opens then closes.
•Ie7 would not install. Windows said not nsupported
•Won’t work with google chrome.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•2/9/2009 7:00:59 AM
•Sound recorder threw up multiple windows telling me it didn’t have enough temp memory to record. I have @ 200gb free on drive.
•2/17/2009 1:11:46 PM
•An infrared driver update came my way via windows beata notification. However the page disappeared and I can’t get it back. It lead me to a blank web page. I managed to save a pdf of the page with hot links but the links go nowhere. There was no explanatioin as to what the driver fixes.
•Shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•I managed to downlload the cir driver from the hotlink.
•I am looking for 3 base system drivers
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•2/28/2009 1:25:37 AM
•I like the desktop random change selection
•3/8/2009 3:48:36 AM
•7 has a problem with video programs. i tried importing an avi video from a networked pc using camtasia and she crapped out on me...AGAIN!!
•shaneksmith1957@gmail.com
•3/16/2009 9:09:52 AM
•windows 7 won't let total recorder record sounds heard from speaker only. This is useful when trying to record screen shots with internal sound from a website.
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•3/17/2009 9:17:25 AM
It’s a sugar coated version of XP that conflicts with my video editing programs. Microsoft has made it harder to move files with no “move” feature. They have taken away the windows picture viewer and gif images don’t work without extra software.
The switch to box wouldn't let me switch mto moizilla on a download for an upgrade to snagit.
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4/5/2009 12:19:52 AM
7 crashed while saving a word project and going to open a photo.
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4/9/2009 6:17:34 PM
Windows 7 does not like my logitech webcam.
4/18/2009 1:47:39 AM
4/19/2009 9:46:20 PM
7 can feel me closing it down. it crashed as i copy program files so I can downgrade to vista.
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Installing windows 7 signature edition on 32 bit and 64 bit. I had to wipe the 32 bit because 7 wouldn’t recognize windows 7 RC. Install of fresh 7 took About 40 minutes. From Vista 64 bit 7 copied and saved programs and data of @ 400gb on my lt and @ 80 programs in @ five hours! That was nice!
10/10/2009 9:39:53 PM
Wipe 7 32 bit because of ati problem. Starting re install
To ready desktop:
10/10/2009 10:08:59 PM
A wipe did not fix the ati glitch on a reinstall.
Windows 7 changed back to windows 7 basic color scheme and the tuner came back on. I had just plugged the tuner into Laptop 2 64bit vista and ati 650 worked. Then all of a sudden the tuner started working again on my 7 lt. Weird coincidence.
10/14/2009 4:21:42 AM
Uninistalling Roxio and using a windows basic or Aero theme in Display settings then re-installing the 650 program over the existing install made the 650 work for me again. I dare not mess with Windows TV tuner!
For those with simple need that don’t need a TV tuner I sugest Windows 7 Ultimate. For those willing to troubleshoot your ATI tuner I also suggest Windows 7 Ultimate!
10/14/2009 11:23:51 PM
A windows 7 update today caused the ati not to work again. It plays but is slow.
10/17/2009 5:16:59 AM
I had to reverrify my activation key on the 32 bit.
I can only network 2 machines that are both on 7.
10/17/2009 10:12:32 PM
A clean uninstall of the 650 then re-install AFTER re-installing roxio fixed it so far.It’s working with roxio now. Roxio’s TV tuner and the ati tuner are working. If you put in ati first before Roxio then Roxio won’t let you install ati.
Hp 7350 photo printer won’t work with hp laptop 64bit and 7 desktop 32bit. No compatible drivers I have found so far have helped.
I can’t figure out how to sort icons in Quick launch with 7.