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The 3.3 is a bit low, it affects the CPU stability. For the cheap dirty solution, try to underpower/overpower the CPU slightly, check for modifications. If it becomes stable/unstable, try to get the best setting that doesn't fry the CPU. If it fries, I was never here, this post does not exist. Higher voltages tend to heat the CPU but increase stability. The Good Way is to get another PSU from some other computer and swap (no mount, just plug everything and power). Check to see if it works OK. You can also go for an UPS that levels the spikes in the power grid. Also check the cooling on a regular basis (from Windows) and leave it open so you can see what the monitor says when the PC hangs. Pay special attention to case and CPU temperature. Alternately, try to copy from CD to HDD AND from HDD to HDD at the same time for a few minutes (load both CD/DVD and HDD to the peak consumption). If it hangs, it's a power supply issue and the drives drain the PSU when Windows is swapping. Let us know how it works out.

Allow me to clarify. If you have the knowledge and experience to know not only the specs for a computer but understand how it works, then buy components. You pay much more attention to what you do than some bored worker. Also you can build custom configs that suit your needs. No point in having a RAID-able hardware if you never RAID for high performance. No point in having low-latency, 4 times the cost dual channel RAM if you edit documents and surf the net. Looking at specs alone is like trying to fit a Ford truck gearbox to a Ford GT because "they both have the same HP" or "it's still Ford". You have to be able to tell whether 2x256MB of RAM is better than 1x512MB via latency, motherboard support, BIOS support, access time, voltage, minimum bandwidth and so on. "667MHz" is not enough. You get better response from 2x256 well placed than a cheap, slow, 1 Gb RAM block. If you have no such knowledge, buy a brand computer. You lose because you have their config and they never have nothing-but-quality, you always get *something* ready for the trash bin. But brand computers are configured by such experts as mentioned above and they have good stability and uptime, as they test the configurations to death before selling them. What you experienced with the slowdowns and the instability is the classic sign of mismatched components. EVERYTHING in a computer ticks in-sync. Current travels at 300.000 Km/s (roughly). A 3 GHz computer ticks 3 billion times/sec. That's 0.1 meters a tick. Information needs to be encoded, sent and decoded, so actually, even an extra centimeter in a wire can lead to slowdowns, a motherboard can be way better simply because the RAM is 2 cm to the left or because the AGP graphic card is too warm. So basically you are all right. While if done by an expert, a modular computer is better by any standards, it can also be a huge flop that's not covered by anything. If you don't feel like risking, get a branded PC or ask a pro. You can also have a blend of both. Buy the best specs on PSU, MB, RAM and CPU and consider the rest casualties. Then get yourself a nice, fast (second) HDD and DVD and cards. You're very unlikely to go wrong with those. More expensive though. It's very common for high-end PCs to have 2 video cards and 2 sound cards (one on-board and one high-end add-in card).

At 95, it'll not fry, but work erratically. I've had CPUs live years at 85 when idle. * Test for temperature: Put your finger on it as it's working hard. Try to pack (zip/rar) a whole hard drive or something. If you can put your finger on the hottest spot and keep it there, it's not 95. Finger-on-component in CPUs is A Good Thing. Don't remove the cooler though. Note that thermal paste is only efficient if it's a thin, even layer between the wole CPU surface and the whole cooler/sink assembley. If the sink is tilted by 5 degrees it'll go nuts. RUN A CONTINUOUS BENCHMARK. Newer CPUs go into hysteresis by slowing down to the point where they can run at 10% of the speed with minimal cooling (e.g. no fan at all) * Test RAM and MB cooling: RAMs should be cold-warm at all times, never hot. Think warm water as in bath temperature - 35-45 degrees Celsius. MB radiator should feel cold(er). At the very worst, it might feel warmer slightly, NEVER hot. If it's warmer than your fingers, try a chassis fan. * Hook up your chassis fan: it's a case fan, it works at 12 Volts (black for Ground, red for +12 - re-check with the label on the fan if unsure). Hook it up to any of the 12V supplies. Strip an IDE power connector (the 4 pin type)[EDIT: Strip the wire isolation and hook the fan wires in parallel, don't strip the connector away - just thought I was clearer]. The wires are Red, Black, Black, Yellow, +5, Gnd, Gnd, +12 in this order. To hook the fan use one black and one yellow wire for +12V stabilised. You can hook any (sane) number of fans in this manner (parallel). Note there are power connectors that have a mother and a father on each end (extension) and 2 wires coming out that tap into the 12V supply for external fans. I had as much as 4 large (30 cm) fans and 3 smaller fans on the same 500W supply without exceeding the manufacturer's recommended limits. [EDIT: power down before this as a short will fry the PSU 99% of the time. Power down the PC, remove the power cord, then try to power it up - this will empty the capacitors. Then start stripping wires] * Add additional fans for the hot spots. Look up the connections above and add fans that ventilate hotter spots: RAM, HDD, CD/DVDs or Graphic cards. Remember: -- ALWAYS close the case. It's cooler, no matter what you may have heard -- ALWAYS have the fans pump into the case in front/side and out of the case in the back. All chassis and MB manufacturers assume such a flow when designing heat sinks. -- ALWAYS check the flow if air by hand. There are "quiet" fans designed for low power home computers. These fans rotate at 4000 RPM with different blades. You should feel a flow of air behind the fan with little effort, it should be able to move a sheet of paper if pointed at one. If you can barely feel anything, get a better fan. A non-quiet fan can have as much as four times the flow. * Monitor heat in the case with an external thermometer for a few minutes (close case with thermo in, set it to do huge tasks for 15 minutes, read). Try to determine if the MB actually measures like it should. If you get anything over 45 degrees in the case at any time, consider supplemental cooling. As scientists, you should be able to answer this: a CPU designed to work at 60 is cooled with 40 degrees air by a fan at 3200 RPM. Should the case be at 50 degrees, what is the RPM needed? Can the fan provide? I'd hate for this to become a cooling how-to, as I hate my typical long posts, but all the checks and the new hardware should be below 30 Euro including new fans and wiring, not to mention you can conduct the experiments in 30 minutes with no cost. Let us know if it works.

I thought the Moon was a target for a base not a colony. With the independent resources and low gravity and all. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Desktop computers crash. Dedicated systems are much more resilient and given enough time can become predictable. When was the last time you saw a video camera crash? Or a DVD player? They are computers. Files don't "get corrupted" if you know what the heck you are doing. Do you have any idea how resilient and robust storage can be? Ever tried to think up a way to destroy a multi-mirrored NTFS/ext/whatever? There are configurations that can hot-switch storage as hardware fails without you even knowing. There are configurations that can be made to lose 99 of 100 parallel storage systems and still work as designed. RAID, along with error-tolerant file systems are virtually immune to anything below a nuke. They can even sustain crashing into a planet and still work. Think black box and add one or two orders of magnitude in reliability. Remember, they don't have hard disks. Just because few dollars are pumped into this technology doesn't mean it can or should be dismissed.

Why would anyone go for a hybrid between an old fossil and a new fossil? This topic was about the less-than-bright idea of hydrogen power. Unless Hydrogen cars are the promiseland, people will be slow to switch, if ever. And if there is no switch at the horizon, the hybrids will not catch on. Who buys half of pie if you hate pie? (Exclude fads and people who buy the latest of whatever it is). I've never had a thing for hybrids. Neither does the majority of the world. While it sounds OK to have a clean(er) car, nobody is OK with 30 seconds 0-100. Nobody is OK with 90 Km/h top speed. Or no-servo-no-AC-no-nothing. If they were they'd buy solar. Heck, you can double the performance if the car is lighter. Do we get lighter cars? No. What sells? 1.5 ton 150 HP sedans, 2.2 ton SUVs and almost one ton minis. Read my lips. One ton MINI class. Heck, even a gasoline engine can be made damn efficient if you sacrifice performance. We have diesels that are quite effective. What do we sell? 170 HP turbocharged engines that eat about the same as a gas engine. Unless Hydrogen suddenly becomes almost-free, I stand by the dark prediction. Hell, look at the lightbulb. 2% light, burns out like crazy, fire hazard, break hazard, cutting glass if broken, exposed power if broken, unremovable if broken, child hazard, heck, it's a menace. You'd expect fluorescent to be all over it, it's a screw-in replacement, it's cheaper, more efficient, etc. It's not.

NO! I thought the definition of freedom in a society was "your freedom ends where mine begins". As long as you don't heart anyone else, you should be free to do whatever you want. Let's assume I sing like a microwaved cat. Should there be a law against my singling as long as nobody can hear me? Is it OK for me to sing in my basement if I don't bother anyone? Is it OK for me to smoke pot in my basement as long as I stay there while high? What principle could *possibly* deny me that (let us ignore the fact that if nobody knows I can't be prosecuted). There is a difference between morals and misconceptions and/or century-old-myths. Loads of things have been deemed immoral and were later dismissed as natural/OK, let alone evolve into law. I know it tends to work that way but it's no argument. (not personal)

An opinion in a nutshell: Legalize it. Why? * Alcohol is legal. Therefore you can have a bartender say "Ok buddy, that's enough. Go home." You can have a "Don't drink and drive" campaign. With limits and per-load punishment. You can have campaigns, you can have a choice, dosage control, a qualified opinion you don't get while smuggling. * Tobacco is legal. It's poison, it's cancer inducing, radioactive, you name it. You can learn about it, you can get to a doctor is you feel ill, you don't have to hide it. Legalizing provides * more control * fine-tuned legal action * widespread knowledge * income source * discourage to the point of elimination all traffic * age control Other countries have this and they are not all-day-high, no dumb kids, no 100-million-addicted, no nothing. You have access to it, you have to be a full-brained adult. You make a judgment and make a choice. Which you do either way. What would you rather have doing this, a trained adult or a kid? Because banning it makes so much more of a magnet for teens. It is my opinion that over half of the smoking teens do so because it's not allowed/bad. If it would be then it would not be "cool" any more, what's the point of choking on smoke? You can have a gun if you prove you are sane and don't abuse it. You can buy the means to murder other people but can't buy some non-lethal plant you have no intention on using on anyone else?

This is really odd. While bad in itself and the fact that English students need know less than me, who am not native makes me shiver, there are things that seem right. In Physics class, if you demonstrate understanding of vectors and are able to draw them and issue a rule but go amok on calculations and miss the result, don't you get credit, though partial? Same goes for most sciences. It is, however, arguable that while only Physics is based on Physics, everything is based on English (in England that is). OTOH, several countries adopted the system enters he who wants, exits he who can. I doubt such a student, who never grasps reading and writing, will ever go anywhere far; what's the point in enforcing it? And even if a math genius ever rises from that ash, where's the loss in that? Language, unfortunately, is "correct" as used. If enough people do something, it will be acknowledged as correct or accepted. Complex forms are dropped, verbs get regular as time goes and one rarely hears specials being used in real life. Several months in UK and I could count the number of times I heard "I shall" on my fingers. I'll stop before going on forever, still, I'd point out that if there is no standard, how does one define "correct"? Wouldn't the new language become standard and the old one become .. well, the Old English? "I'm just watching the TV". "Awww, dats de ol' inglish. Duude, u r rili oldah then me, we wach de 2be now"

Sorry about the long posts followed by long pauses, I'm genuinely busy. a) America was founded by people running for opportunity and many other reasons, mentality about religions is far from primary. b) The post you are referring to was a general timeline, not an explanation, more of a mise-en-scene (I hope the expression is not too localized). While I understand what you mean, I disagree. How do you tell apart someone kicking and screaming for your life from kicking and screaming as a fit? Not that a parental approach is bad, I just disagree with the reasoning. Loads, and don't start counting because it's still going backwards. And, thanks for the timeline. I admit my history is lacking, I only have general points. But at this particular topic, I must disagree, since: a) Selling weapons and not marking them as Made in USA is not a shock b) AKs are produced all over the world. You can still buy an AK from an US citizen, that does not mean it's made in USA. c) I wasn't referring to the army stocks, I was referring to local group supporting in the area. d) The Automat Kalashnikov is being produced in virtually every country, with Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, North Korea, China, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia being recognized as major manufacturers. You don't have to sell them an M4A1, nor is it recommended you do. Since the AK is the emblem of all terrorists, freedom fighters, cells, etc as being a cheap, reliable, powerful and uniform weapon, you sell them AKs regardless. You can have a Hungarian AK, run out of ammo, pick up a leftover magazine from a -say- Romanian AK and fire away. Same with any other "modified" AK. Besides, a prerequisite of selling both sides weapons is that you don't tag them as being yours. e) I remember some missing WMDs? I'm trying my best to make this discussion as non-local as possible, since I'm really, really, trying to avoid the "yes but your country had an attack in 1865!" and "yes but you were geographically ...". Keeping it general is the only way to make this a discussion of principle as opposed to specification. Because once specified generic arguments tend to fail. My not-so-exhaustive search on Islam - Iraq - Afghanistan - etc and similar sourced attacks on Europe yielded next to nothing. Germany has virtually no such attacks, Hungary was spared, etc. Really, considering EU alone has 25 countries, with Bulgaria and Romania negotiating and others on the way, a -say- Spain is not rule. By comparison, it's smooth sailing out here (in this matter). Note this is a Middle East related thread rather than terrorism. Acts of sabotage during civil war in other European countries don't count as terrorist threats. Which is quite an eye opener considering we were the crusaders. If you really want to know, I'm sure a search will be relevant. Or I can message you. Please understand I'm trying to keep it out of this thread. Which reminds me, I never filled out my location As proof of that, ParanoiA considered them threatening based on their history, yet considers them doing the same unfair. Why would living terrorists such as bin Laden be held accountable for region trends?

Shutdowns and powerups as well as power failures/stops are already tracked by the OS. There are tools that track executables, some are part of various anti-viruses. The Audit feature of the OS can also track quite some info, document on it. Unfortunately I can't recommend software, never needed it. If you are trying to track maintenance, you could do it yourself, provided you have the skill, by launching them from a centralized, logging position, such as a batch file. E.g., Echo %time% Defag ran >> c:\log.txt & start "" defag.exe If this looks gibberish to you, try an antivirus or some other tracking tool. Google is your friend.

Not knowing something harmful opens the door for repeating of the harmful event or even more harmful if not taken care of. A good point, if my gf/spouse/etc ever cheated on me I'm not exactly happy about it, not even 100% sure I want to know. But the implications are different. In my opinion, there is no such thing as "happening". Been there, seen it. There is no loss of control, only a battle. Losing such battles only means that one of the sides is too weak to win. Ergo, it will lose again given time/circumstances. You think forgiving makes it all better? Heck no, forgiving only chooses where you sleep tonight. Some things never change, ever again. The fact that whatever you have is not enough. Maybe it's just me, but IMO people are of principle or not of principle, by formation/genetic/whatever. You can kill once and never kill again, true, but you can't kill once and be trusted with never killing again. I hope I'm not confusing.

You brought up arguments that support certain decisions, or certain points of view, and since I disagree I bring my own points. It was never my point to disagree with YOU, it's just that since you see a point in someone's post you formulate it as a versus position. Perhaps my non-native English is having a role in this. Both for you and whoever else is reading this post, please forgive my sometimes odd arguments, my native language favors "you" versus "one's". I get carried away. a) I'm not condemning US as a failure, I'm condemning this operation as failure. b) I'm unsure as to what "solving" terrorism means. Not everything is solvable to begin with, for various reasons. Let us consider a list of everything ... France has done to stop islamic terrorists. a). Drat. Mmkay, Germany? No ... . Ok, we'll take the other route, who HAS to do something about Islam terrorism. Threatened people. Suddenly there's a whole shorter list. Cut those who had reasons but not as many as to start a full war. We're not all failures. Ok. Sorry to burst the bubble here, but that's just relayed propaganda. What the heck is the backing of all this? How come Sweden doesn't think Germany is Satan? How come Russia doesn't think Angola is Satan? Simple. People don't think other people are Satan just for the kick of it. Someone screamed and nobody listened. Stop selling arms to our enemies, because you force us to buy the same. This gives 10 times the killing, brings stalemates and brings poverty to our people. "bah, who cares about them? they are far away. Heck, how far is FAR EAST? aw. well, far enough". Who here can deny weapon sales? Stop selling cowardly weapons that can be used for terrorism. Stop selling mines, stop selling grenades, go away. Really? Well, you can sell them mines, they can't attack US with mines. What are they going to do, lob them over the ocean? Ok, maybe THIS is just their propaganda, I don't know, I wasn't there when weapon trades were made, so for the heck of it let's assume that neither is true. Nobody sold anything to anybody, nobody did anything to anyone. There is no such thing as weapon sales. Even though I clearly remember articles about mine cleanups in that "area". Now. I don't know how you call these in English, but if you start with a hypotheses and follow logic and you find that you have an impossible result, then the hypotheses was wrong. We'll start with everyone is innocent and get that Islam hates US and nobody else. For me, that's enough to say that SOMETHING, somewhere, some time was unforgivable. Don't presume that everyone tried to extinguish a section of a continent but failed or chickened out. Just for the kick of the example, my country never had any terrorist attacks from any Islam and we had *no* plans of following a vendetta. The reason i push this so much is that this is a pivot in the "nobody else did it so we had to" justification. Nobody else did it because nobody actually had reason to wage war. Statistically speaking there was an attack every 10 years or so in the US so you can't say that until some 20-30 years. Sorry to be the one to say this, but a) US soldiers go to battle praying to our god just as the Iraqi do that praying to theirs. Your belief in justice and God keeps you blowing yourselves up too. They could believe in an un-open-able jar of pickles. Where else would they turn for moral support if not God and freedom? Each fights for each one's freedom. b) I also must point out that both religions are about as tolerant to violence and war. The Koran doesn't teach violence. If you don't feel like reading, there are at the very least Internet sites and documentaries about religion, ignorance is no excuse for accusations. Don't tune to CNN, try Discovery and listen to high priest or whatever they are called talk about the essence and message of Koran. c) Entire regions don't thrive on death. Labeling and name calling doesn't make for a war excuse. I misunderstood your point. I distinctly remember buzz words like "surgical". I also remember someone suggesting that war on terror is not going to be an invasion war, more like a strike to fix things like oppressors and then things will "slide" in as people become drunk with freedom. People are not drunk with freedom. That is the point, in my opinion, where US could no longer pretend it's all good. It's where people started screaming Vietnam. It's where people started to suggest that maybe a base and surgical strikes were better. And it's where whoever makes these decisions decided to go ahead and kill people. I don't believe this to be true. a) The idiot can't be humiliated by his/her stupidity - he does not understand what he/she's missing. b) There are other poor countries that never attacked superpowers No, it's just too simple. Too ... simple, sorry, it's just that this isn't third grade no more. People don't start holy wars because US has better healthcare. Besides, it is my arguably documented opinion that Canada has better unemployment care, Germany has better cars and roads, Japan has better applied technology, Swiss makes for better watches, and so on and so forth. I have always considered US as a mildly balanced country, at the scorn of US citizens I've met. I never held a few opinions against a nation so I'm not saying you feel the same, but the point remains that given some study US is not exactly the spearhead of everything, I'll go as far as to say there are only a few thing you can find nowhere else at same or better, just as with any other country. Why US then? I don't blame US for C-Cola watering down my drink. Or McSomeone for insert-my-rant-here. All I'm saying is it's just not enough to war over. Same fact, different interpretations. They attacked. You say they did it because that are just that bad, they have horns and hoofs and blow fire. I say that there HAS to be more to it. a) Genes are not that different b) People do things for other things, but blowing one self up with ZERO hope of progress hints true hatred, not a favorite past time. c) They do NOT have a complete history line of blowing up civilized, far away countries. Don't mistake neighbor skirmish for terrorist attack on the other side of the globe. I don't have a live feed myself but with all the satellites in orbit I think we can assume they cover the essentials. Nobody cares about Antarctica or the vast water expanses but US's WMDs? I'm pretty sure that's quite high on the list. Also, just because we get scans from civilian satellites doesn't mean the military don't get live feeds of focused areas. I'd go so far as to say that a low quality localized live feed is ten times more useful than a high-resolution shot from last night. Given the budget I'd be surprised if they didn't have it. Wish granted. Let me alphabetize that section. (letters added by me) a) I'm not saying "you" did (see? you ask a question with "we" than ask why you get directed responses j/k ) because I have no proof, I'm saying you needed it. b) Excuses, yes. Reasons, no. You stepped on my toe, now I have an excuse to punch you. Great, except that when we're downtown to the station I'm getting my behind wooped because the officer will say "That's no reson to punch him. You wanted to and used the toe as an excuse, right?". I hope you see my point. You don't get self defense and just holy wars on excuses. You don't get millions to vote "yes" on a paper that says "we want Saddam off, the oil and a few other things. We have no reason to do it, but we have some excuses. That OK with you? Please give up your privacy and live in relative poverty for this. Thank you". c) Keyword being "think". I also think they were. And there's more of us. Not that it matters. It's obvious it was overplayed, I agree. I have no doubts the weapons were sold and stored. I have true doubts that were not destroyed. If they are there, why aren't they launched on the US bases? Or US. You caught them. Do you think they lose children to prove you wrong? d) Yes. If you were to choose between a lie that makes US shine like gold and one slight, forgivable, slip, what would you chose as a lie? The eye poker? Look at the line of events. Read the previous slips/cover-ups/whatever. "Our vigilant and never-sleeping secret service/whatever/generic good guys SAW this happen, but bureaucracy/single idiot/generic bad guys ignored it". 9/11 was on the desk of <x> but nothing was done. Afghanistan was predicted but. Iraq was predicted but. There was a file on Bin Laden and the imminent attack but. Heck friggin' Perl Harbor was the same. Maybe that was the template. Pick any booboo from the US. I'll stop before I let myself loose on conspiracy and terminate my keyboard entirely. e) Because the war was on media. Look at all the theories and all the poking and the measuring and the international experts looking at each atom on 9/11. And holes smaller than the bullets. They've learned their lesson, now that everthing they say is triplechecked. Besides, what better way to blow all this over when it's done with no hangings? Awwww, we're sorry, we could have SWORN WMDs were there. Damn. But you must admit, it it WERE true, it would have been a heck of a reason. You can understand and forget if I was scared. Please note the above replies were on "I'd like to see your take on this". This does not necessarily mean I support the fact that they lied. I'm just saying there isn't enough evidence to the contrary; this in itself means I can't say it was nor can I say it wasn't a cover-up. I do lean towards clinging to a thread so thin it's invisible enough that it might as well not be there. Thank goodness As for me I have no idea EXACTLY how I would have handled it because I don't know exactly what were the true reasons and situations. Assuming everything is as in the media, I would have gathered search parties from all countries and gotten an endorsement from the UN or each country in itself that they will participate in the search and that they would endorse force if Iraq denied access to *any* areas. Also I would have made a contract with Iraq that NOTHING except WMDs and threats to world's peace would be made public. I bet that would have more or less forced Iraq into an escape-less situation where they would either allow the search and destroy of weapons or directly admit possession and declare war on the planet. I trust a) would be the true course of action. Of course, this would assume I have nothing to hide and I am ready to prove it. Then call Saddam's cards.

If he's like me he likes his home cold in summer and hot in winter. A quick look at the PC health should clear it out. In addition, in winter people plug in heaters like crazy (be it home or business) and lines are notoriously spiky and voltages vary. That could also add to the instability. First, get a live motherboard monitor and watch the case temperature and CPU temperature, as well as voltages.Try games, compression and massive file I/O, those tick off the heat factory. If all fails, try to borrow a high-quality UPS that isolates circuits and that guarantees normal flow. If the UPS works you have the option to buy one or replace the power source with a higher quality, more powerful version. PS have their own leveling system, you might have passed over yours.

It's all the adrenalin and the chemicals. For example, after my "big" car crash not only it took me a while to slow down but I was also shaking like crazy. I wasn't scared or shocked per se, I was actually calm enough to pick the pieces of my car off the road to resume traffic. But I was on overclock, high breathing rate, increased vitality, etc, everything one needs to run from a predator. Ah and it is said that fright boost the learning process temporarily so you have the ability to actually learn something from the 1 second process and remember what you did to survive. Nobody ever forgets these moments, you might notice even old people remember such events "like it happened yesterday". I certainly recall my flight/fight moments.

IMHO, it's the load. The smaller the age, the less you have to do, the less you worry, etc. When you are 15 nobody fires you, you don't answer for most of your actions and you have virtually no boots to fill. Also, the more you add to your life, the more you risk if you sc*w up. The more you have to balance each decision, since each year that passes you can't afford to switch careers, can't afford to not get payed, and so on. Take 2 days off, and I mean off. No school, no job, no driving/commuting anywhere, no whatever you do, just get a room somewhere far away and you'll see it will take forever. What you remember of those 2 days is less, true, I also believe it's all in percentages.

OT: Actually, it's three. DRM is an acronym and the dictionary defines an acronym as : A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. (Source: AHD, 2000 edition). Back on topic, Vista is just a souped up XP just as XP was a souped up 2000. Few know 2000 has theme support, like XP, minus the default enable and the XP theme. Scrap the XP theme, moof in the Vista and you have yourself a new Windows. Hurray. Nothing I saw in Vista is different from XP or 2000 in such a way that it can only be done in the OS. All features are just add-ons, libraries and such. Let us not forget that Explorer is basically a placeholder and the the files you view is a web projection via a template. That's why you get IE when you type an URL. Nothing more than marketing. DX10 would work just fine over 2000 if it would be tuned for that. MS games require XP or better. Heck, 99% of drivers work on 2000/XP, and they are quite OS dependent. But not a game. Anyone can quote any magazine they want. Until I see a feature that's not old and customized and/or something that can easily implemented in software, Vista is just XP and marketing. Just like XP is 2000 with 3rd party CD burning. Bundling features and OS makes not.

Power or heat. In any case, sudden reboots of clean installs smells of hardware more than anything else. If hardware wasn't touched, I'd recheck all wires inside, just in case (pun not intended). You can also check the wires not in case, but outside the case too (now it is). Also make sure all expansions are well seated. Graphics card dislodged can also be a reason, e.g.

I'll try my best to touch both. First, the off-topic. First, nice post Mokele - all valid points. That's precisely why tanks are last resort. OMG. Please consider, if they starved for years to make weapons to kill each other, how would they have ten times the recorded history of US? Also, I know it's just your opinion, but shouldn't you worry when a single person deems "regions" as <whatever>? Shouldn't you worry that you make life and death assessments based on media reports and hearsay? Ever been there? Assume not. I'm not even saying it's not true. I'm saying you repeat someone else's opinions and assessments giving them momentum and validity by sheer size of followers. Remember, religion is nothing more than a huge ball of people who believe something with zero proof and hearsay. Billions make up such a ball. Agreeing with no checking does that. I'm not saying go check. I'm saying don't doom areas. Try to limit damage. Let us list the possible reasons: * They WANT to find him, but he's unfindable * They don't WANT to find him. I don't believe in invisible leaders. Sorry, it's just that -all offsets aside- how hidden can he be and still kick? Whatever, I really don't care. Really. I know I'm rude and insensitive, but two people meet on the battlefield. Both ready to die, bot armed with the best their country has to offer. One is a martyr patriot, the other is a maniacal suicidal scum. Which one? All they have is handweapons and explosives. What would YOU use on a tank or large group of people? A Glock? Heck, if I die for my country I'm taking as many bastards with me as I can. Now you see what you did by invading? Terrorist that need be shot are now soldiers defending children. Bad move. This is the price of taking it "to them". Haha. It's not how much you spend, it's how much you can sustain it. If it costs me a cent an hour to produce explosives and I get free martyrs, I can beat US. Heck, I can afford 10 wars on my salary and still upgrade my PC. In Soviet Russia, Iraq drains YOU. We watched them move them but we can't find them? Odd. Do you think we watched them dismantle them too? Here's an idea. Let's paradrop some WMDs on China. We don't want them back, you destroy them. Then we come in search of them and level the country because WE GAVE THEM TO YOU. They MUST be around here SOMEWHERE. No, wait, China is large. Let's pick a country who's arsenal is not nuclear. Let's see ... (turns the globe) That's my point. What if the administration decides my country also needs a spanking? There's bound to be SOMETHING unconstitutional in here. And if it isn't then we ARE the US and it matters not. All right. Enough of this, back on topic. What changed with the war. Pinpointed: * Before the war, there were UN inspectors everywhere that could poke every hole, knock on any door, whatever. You couldn't have a gun under penalty of global war. Now that war is on, you can wave a gun at the satellite and show your behind. Weapons have just been justified. Armies have just been justified. You can no longer have the threat of 100 nations going to war with you if you don't dismantle them. * Before the war, not EVERYONE was against US, even in the Arab world. Sure US was not the friend of all muslins, but heck, some did business with them. GOOD business. Some were indifferent. There was hope. Now? Well, you can see the picture. * The war wrecked ALL of what was built by US in terms of international image, trust, appreciation of rights and freedoms, friends, etc. The international relations are a wreck and it's not just the war, but the things it brought. Who would have believed before all this that the US would deny freedoms to its people? Who would have guessed there would be strip-searches and no-charge arrests? Not only US showed it can make mistakes, it showed it can persist at the expense of its own people. That's a trust that will not be soon regained. * And don't forget. The US was the best thing that ever happen to a terrorist. Three people in a garage with some explosives can only do THAT much damage. And no more. Match them to 6 billion and they are but a molecule in an ocean. However, detonate this at the US and 250 million and one of the best armies in the world immediately throws you in the spotlight, international media, military actions, etc. Something you would NEVER EVER be able to do even if you had a nuke. US has been the ultimate amplifier of power. Nobody negotiates with terrorists for the sole purpose of no encouragement. It's not the terrorists that terrorize. You don't get you phone tapped by terrorists. No terrorist can do that. What idiot who does politics and international relations can't see that? The answer is: none. Nobody this stupid actually keeps a superpower's books. I mean, you have to shave every morning with a razor, you can't POSSIBLY be that stupid. Meaning, someone DID see it. The fact this would happen was KNOWN. Pick a conclusion.

Word saves tracking data with files if you keep hitting Save. So you can later Track Changes and you get deleted text as strike-through. That's why docs grow in size like crazy. Open the document and try to track changes. It's also flushed at some point, depending on SOMETHING, maybe settings, may temp files being emptied, etc. It's also flushed when you Save As. Worth a shot. Otherwise, disk surface and odd recovery techniques will most likely get you garbled data and you'll be better off retyping. 8 pages is not that much damage. Check the size. A 2-pager is somewhere in the range of 25K. A ten-pager is along the lines of 100K (depends, really). You might still get the data out.

Turbines *might* be more efficient, less friction (air, only one joint), etc. I'm not sure. But they suck at compressing air tanks. However, there are setups where turbines are less-than-efficient: turbulence in air flow, very high spin, very low spin, etc. Pistons are not inefficient, but they can pump incredible pressures at any rate needed. Thus they are found in high-pressure, low flow applications, usually backed up by a pressurized container that acts as a buffer. Like the turbine in a dentist's office, water - CO2 applications (don't know the English name, it's when you make tap water into a fizzy drink), tank refills, etc. You find turbines in high-flow applications, like blowers, fans, etc where sustained flow at low(er) pressure is needed. You simply can't blow up a basketball with a vacuum cleaner, in spite of the fact it uses 2 KW. You can blow it up by hand, however. That's why a car has a fan for cooling and a compressor for AC. Not to mention turbines lose their effectiveness if the blades were designed for a different flow. A car turbine (e.g. GT25, IIRC) comes rated for a 1.5-2.2 liter engine. Any lower it doesn't spin. Any higher and it starts spitting blades. And this is the highest quality manufacturing available, oil film axle, etc. So if you have 2.2 bar in the tank, as soon as the pressure drops below 1.5 you're in quite some trouble. (I know I mashed bar in tank and engine capacity, ignore it). You could have adapting blades but it gets really, really complicated.

Try to install (and play) a game. The load usually brings forth any hardware issues. Also, when it suddenly reboots, try to enter setup and check voltages and temperature. Maybe something went haywire. As Klaynos said, did you touch the hardware? In addition, did you even open and clean it, even if nothing changed? Dropped it?

In cars, yes, multi-staging can get serious pressures. In automotive applications, where exhaust air has to escape at a certain rate, restriction is limited and the "serious" pressure is never over 3 bar. To "move" pressure, I'd go for a piston setup, like steam train systems. The pressure in the tank can move a piston which in turn moves a heavy wheel that acts as stabilizer. That same wheel can move a pump on the other end. Just two pistons, a wheel, bearings and valves. You can copy the piston off a steam train or a car piston. I remember a Discovery junkyard thing when they linked two engines together. One turned and they used the other to pump water (I think they modified the exhaust valves or camshaft to avoid compression stage. Something like that). You can redesign it as 2-piston so that one piston is driven by compressed air and the other pumps. You'll find the actual concept is the same as the turbine, except it uses linked pistons instead of linked blades. You can copy most of the design from a boxer engine. Perhaps even refine it to a 4-piston (doesn't need speedup and heavy flywheel).

I'll go for dogs. Siding with the winner is a winner's strategy in evolution. If we die out and they survive, they'll befriend whoever survives. Smart, too, the smartest of the bunch can get intent and guess voice tone (not training). All respect for quids they have no understanding of human families and infant protection.

If you keep getting smashed, don't get a new one, the expenses will be bigger. Let them mash this one up, once they're done, you can change. By the way, the more you polish each screw, the more it gets bent. Murphy's. Yes it's unscientific, but a relative of mine has a S Klasse and they stole his mirrors every 2 weeks. A complete replace was over 800$. As soon as he bought 2 "on stock" to be replaced when stolen, they were never stolen again. I have 2 cars. A newer sedan (blue) and a green classic (20 yrs old). The new sedan carries over 10 minor marks on the paint. I wasn't in the car for ANY of them. They were all in parking lots. The classic has zero dents, not even a tiny scratch(EDIT: until I paint it to my fav color. THEN it'll get bent.). Go figure. I agree with Rhino. It's still there. How cursed can it be? Anyway, bad luck streaks happen. I say stick with it, it'll blow over.