jaclaz

Well, the use of "university" in the name is - to say the least - misleading. Some of the most relevant FAQ's from: http://www.ituniversityonline.com/faq/ Basically they help you (hopefully) to prepare you for third party (like Cisco, MS, etc.) certification exams. Their NY office (and "main" address) being apparently in a servcorp suite is not the best thing in the world IMHO when it comes to "reliability", but the world is now mostly "virtual" so you can never say: http://www.servcorp.com/en/locations/new-york/new-york-city-executive-suites/ http://sccom.powerfulcms.com/executive-suites-virtual-offices/united-states/new-york-city/1330-avenue-americas-new-york-ny On the other hand, if you can actually sell something at a face value of 3 or 4 K$ I doubt you would put it on Groupon for 99 bucks http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/268156-too-good-to-be-true?page=1 http://www.groupon.com/deals/it-university-online-la As well having a site through godaddy/Domains By Proxy, LLC and being registered on september 2012 http://www.whois.com/whois/ituniversityonline.com is not the "best" evidence of having 21 years of experience.... I would not call it a "scam", but giving them 3K$ on that info is IMHO a tadbit "adventurous" (the 99 bucks on groupon may do to have an idea on how it works, though personally I would by a few good Cisco books with that money) jaclaz

.... and I thought they were complimentary hankies for tears and sweat.... jaclaz

...and strangely enough the start-up cited her: has survived more than 6 months jaclaz

The Japanese are ahead of us, obviously, as you can use this to touch your screen but it is also useful as a TV remote: http://technabob.com/blog/2012/03/06/terebi-no-te-magic-wand-remote-control/ jaclaz

Basically on a topic over which you have no competence nor experience whatever, you assume your beliefs (which may well be applicable to a number of other products/procedures/fields, of course ) on marketing hype over the advice given by a self-proclaimed expert stranger on the internet? This is very good . You don't want to clean your electronic devices? Good. Then don't do it. You want to clean some contacts with "Universal lotion"? Good, then just do it. As long as you don't whine, that's fine. You were worried about those contacts were corroded. A cycle of treatment to hopefully re-condition them as much as possible and prolong their life was suggested to you, of course a similar (other make/brand) cycle of treatment will have the same or a very similar effect. One only of the steps in the cycle won't have the same effect. One only of the steps in the cycle additionally using a different (possibly completely unsuited for it) substance won't as well work and, as a matter of fact may make things worse. Do whatever you see fit. jaclaz

Sure , it's your contacts that are corroded. Please look in a dictionary corroded: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/corroded and oxidized: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oxidized they are seemingly NOT synonyms of dirty: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dirty You may also want to try some turmeric on them : http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2011/08/08/curry-spice-for-cuts-and-bruises/ jaclaz

Yep, but I guess it would be trivial *somehow* to "filter out" any "touch" that is larger than a pen point. and in any case, if you try it, writing with your hand "suspended" but with your elbow "pivoting" on the desk surface (still no pun intended) or held against your body is not that bad. I just measured my actual workplace. I have a desk with a (telescopic/extending from underneath the desk) keyboard and mouse holder. Between my belly and the keyboard center there around 30 cm (and I can comfortably type with my elbows resting on the chair arm rests). There are almost 90 cm between my eyes and the 22" LCD Screen. <- this is NOT negotiable, as that is where my eyes focus correctly Measuring my arm from the tip of the index finger to my eyes it I get around 70 cm (and I am 1.84 m tall). This means that there are around 20 cm between the tip of my index finger with fully extended arm and the LCD surface and to touch it I have to lean forward quite a bit. I presume that a short-sighted monkey or orangutan, thanks to the combined effect of the LCD nearer and longer arms, might find touch screen a comfortable approach. I do not. BTW, it is tradition that every time the mentioned monkey or orangutan manages to touch the right coloured biggish tile, a banana or some nuts or juice are given to it. I would become too fat . jaclaz

I find difficult reading the specs from a (BTW lousy) picture of the spray can. BUT the actual info from the manufacturer: http://www.agchemia.pl/OnlineShop.aspx Clears how that is as well a three product cycle: de-oxidation <- CRC KONTACT 60 or AG KONTACT S cleaning <- CRC KONTACT WL or AG KONTACT U protect <- CRC KONTACT 61 or AG ??? jaclaz

Personally, and as said, I have had very good experience with using pens as a replacement for the mouse. But this OBVIOUSLY ONLY applies to a "tablet like almost horizontally held" device (like my good ol' Concerto and to my good ol' Sony P910i) or to "traditional" graphic tablets, NOT on the example illustrated in the "Strike Two". If you need to extend your arm and "write" on a vertical or almost vertical surface, such as one may be used to on a traditional blackboard you will soon get tired (and BTW in case of OCR of the handwriting the result will be most likely much worse, as when you write normally on a piece of paper your wrist/hand lies upon the desk and it is not "suspended in mid-air). jaclaz

JFYI: http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKT60.PDF http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKTWL.PDF http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKT61.PDF jaclaz

Here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_rebootnt.php jaclaz

That guide, though good, is NOT the recommended one, which is this one (as sticked AND pointed to in the READ ME FIRST): http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html which is a more complete one. If you need to use a piece of cardboard to press down the PCB to obtain spin up it means any (or more than one) of three things: you used the cardboard on the head contacts AND the cardboard was a bit too thick the head contacts were not properly cleaned you failed to re-tighten appropriately the screws near the contacts The workaround you used is potentially a VERY dangerous one , what you had was a "bad" contact that you "patched" (possibly only temporarily) by pressing a bit on the PCB. That PCB should be disassembled, contacts cleaned and the "springy effect" of the contacts on the disk be verified, then all screws re-tightened firmly before further use of the disk. jaclaz

According to this http://www.whatsmydns.net/ : http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.ronuk.org www.ronuk.org is OK *everywhere* but in India (and resolves correctly to 81.102.255.73) whilst: http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ronuk.org resolves *everywhere* included India to 174.129.88.121 which is one of those "placeholder" (vaguely suspect) sites: http://whois.domaintools.com/174.129.88.121 This however happens only for "A" records. It is possible that you have not set the DNS record correctly. The DNS record A name should be for the name WITHOUT the www. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name And the www is an Alias or CNAME, example: https://support.eapps.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/292/45/eapps-portal---dns-manager Your provider (and their "control panel") may use different approach, however. Check also through this: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/dns-propagation-tracker.pl jaclaz

Which posts? This thread? Why Winpe 2.x? (2.x means "Vista based") I don't think that you can easily "re-use" an already built PE, you should build your own one. What particular thing do you not understand/find missing? jaclaz

Thanks jaclaz

Of course no. Being a "good" app it creates a Q10.ini file for the settings (in my case - NO sound support on my system - the nuisance is that by default - at first run without the .ini - the Sound is "on" and throws an error trying vainly to create a sound with key press). As well on my monitor the text size by default is a little small and I don't particularly like Courier (again the default). But it's just a matter of Ctrl+P and change the settings (and remembering, if "moving" the .exe to also move the .ini with it). jaclaz

Haven't had time to check this out yet, but let me ask you where in your opinion that this editor falls in the scheme of things when compared to PFE32 ( very lightweight ASCII text editor), EDXOR ( a little more featured ) and UltraEdit ( full blown programmer package )? Just wondering though, I will get to it eventually. I see they mention "portable" ( no registry I assume ? ) Always in the market for ASCII word processors with special functions, because I find it easier to have two or three different editors open rather than several instances of the same product. YMMV. It falls in the category of "simplicity". It is simple, Full screen, portable. See here: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/q10-a-full-screen-minimalist-word-processor/ The idea is that when you write (in the sense of "create" something as opposed to "edit a document" or "make it pretty looking") you need no distractions, and nothing like a full screen text editor, with "reversed colours" (but these are customizable, of course) i.e. with a dark background and "amber monitor like" and with nothing else on the screen can help you reach and mantain the needed concentration and help your creativity flowing. There are several Word Processors similar to it (i.e. sharing the same concepts) often called "zen word processors", Q10 is IMHO besides the smallest one, a good choice among them. The more explicit "manifest" for them is Write Room (for Mac only): http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom and that of the correspondiing Dark Room (which needs .Net ), please note the site address: http://they.misled.us/dark-room Talking of the good ol' days, you will have to pry out of my dead hands the copy of q I have. And yes, these were not really "news", or you were not paying much attention : jaclaz

@ChrisR Very good. jaclaz

Yes, all of them that do have a fan sucking air inside them. Of course this does NOT apply "normally" to: tv, cd players, phones, washing machines (as they do NOT normally have a fan, though you would be surprised on how dust - over many years of service - can affect the functioning of a TV ) it may apply to: game consoles, toys (if they have a fan sucking air) It definitely applies to: hair dryers <- but for a completely different reason, which is called "hygiene" jaclaz

Perfect. OP: What you are suggesting is NOT about having blinking text, but rather about cyclically clear and re-display the whole console text area. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : http://www.baara.com/q10/ There is no issue whatsoever with the concept of simplicity, and of having no distractions when working. That is EXACTLY the reason why I don't want tiles telling me what the weather is, or what time is it or how is the Dow Jones going. Anyhow, just as an example, I have open in this very moment: 12 (twelve) Explorer windows 2 (two) Browsers (Opera and Srware Iron) <- the OPera window is maximized to reply here) 1 (one) Virtual Machine (Qemu Manager) 1 (one) Vitual disk driver control panel (IMDISK) 2 (two) Hex Editor (Tiny Hexer) windows, one of which has additionally open a "structure viewer" windows 2 (two) Spreadsheets (Excel) 1 (one) Calculator 6 (six) Command Line prompts (open in different paths) 1 (one) PDF viewer (Foxit) 7 (seven) 7-zip windows (opening on different archives/paths) I may be not particularly "organized" in the way I work, but I can assure you that there are REASONS why I have all these windows opened together and the ability to "tile" them and compare between them (and copy/paste among them). jaclaz

It is a possibility (not necessarily appying to your case). It greatly depends on manufacturing quality and temperature (which you may also read as "on how clean is the board/environment". ) READ the given links, they were posted for this. jaclaz

harkaz, sorry , I don't want to be a nuisance , but could you possibly upload the actual .pdf to some hosting site? For whatever reasons scribd is either slow or buggy (or both) for me, and I have not a facebook account nor I won't make an account on scribd. jaclaz

Look at how many capacitors on that card! A rule of thumb being that an electronic circuit board has as many probabilities to have issues - expecially when aging - as the number of electrolytic capacitors on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Also, just imagine how much dust could hide under them! (and how much dust/dirt could affect the 10-degree rule) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytic_capacitor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytic_capacitor#Reliability_and_length_of_life jaclaz

While I am pretty sure that the PSU has nothing to do with your issue, be aware that the highlighted part does not make much "absolute" sense. The specs of your PSU may be largely sufficient, but if there is an hardware issue with it, now, how it worked years ago (or even until yesterday morning or a mere nano second ago) is not relevant, power supplies fail, components in them decay. And BTW the type of failures of a PSU are typically: will not switch on at all ("catastrophic" failure) will not provide as much power (Amperes) as before, but a smaller amount, often only on some of the different voltage rails ("aging" failure). Of course while the first is very easy to diagnose, the second could be elusive. jaclaz