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Add "less than 9 Watt" to the search keywords to limit the awful number of verified accidents that you will find with your keywords . Also add right before your addition (that would become 1.b ): 1.a SECURE the fan with at least four bolts to the case and fix the case to the bench using straps, vises or similar before connecting, make sure that the bench is bolted securely to the floor AND to a wall, there are cases of small fans that took off taking the case and the bench with them. jaclaz

Sure . Lots of people from South Korea also fear those http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death http://konglishadventures.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/the-rumored-fan-death/ jaclaz

No, that's by design and for your own good. Next release of the OS you will only be able to access MS news. jaclaz

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD of course a LiveCd does not really *need* to be Linux based, as an exampe there are several PE 1.x, 2.x or 3.x derived from either XP/2003, Vista / 2008, 7/2008 R2 with added features including sound support, but they need to be "built" from your source and this procedure is not as easy as getting a pre-built Linux based Live CD. jaclaz

Also handy: jaclaz

Sure , low power computer case fans are known as the third main responsible of accidents on the job and sixth at home accordingly to a recent survey. http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=484942 When testing these: the standard advice is to get to Antarctica (and have a looong range remote to switch it on) jaclaz

Choose here: http://software.opensuse.org/122/en between LIVE KDE or LIVE GNOME Or use a USB stick: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick jaclaz

It seems to me like the result of the usual "infinite monkeys approach" that most people new to scripting tend to use initially . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem obviously the probabilities to get a correct command line are much higher than re-writing all of Shakespeare's plays , but still they are infinitely low . jaclaz

Maybe you are focusing to the specifics and not to the generic. What you want to do, which is "How do I remove lines from a HOST file?" is a sub-set of the generic "How do I remove lines from a plain text file?". The latter has TWO different answers: there is NO provision without using third party tools to delete lines from a plain text file what you can do instead is to re-write the text file omitting the lines that you do not want Typically this can be done using a FOR loop and either the FIND or FINDSTR commands. FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('type "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"') DO ECHO %%A FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('type "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"^|FIND /V "www.etcetc.org"') DO ECHO %%A>>"%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts1" FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('type "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts1"^|FIND /V "etc etc.org"') DO ECHO %%A>>"%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts2" FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('type "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts2"^|FIND /V "update.etcetc.org"') DO ECHO %%A>>"%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts3" NOTEPAD "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts3" Within limits, you can use more FIND /V on the same command in the FOR loop, if all you have to do is to remove three lines, you can do it in one command. then, once you are satisfied with the result, you delete the original file and rename the temp file, like: del "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" ren "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts3" hosts Take some time on: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/find.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/findstr.php What I don't understand is if these lines (site addresses) are always three, are always the same three, etc. etc. or if you need to call the command with a parameter (the line/site address to be deleted). jaclaz

We are getting at every post nearer to : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/quotes?qt=qt0247572 What one normally do would be: connect the fan to a 12V DC power source (directly coming from the PSU observe if it starts spinning if NO goto 10 if Yes goto 5 let the motor warm a little, let's say by having it spin 15 minutes connect it through a multimeter to the same power source measure the amount of current it absorbs at start and when fully spinning if current is within specs, goto END and mount it to the case if current is above specs goto 10 remove (carefully) the label of the fan remove the little retaining washer underneath disassemble the fan from the motor clean whatever residual of oil/grease is there spray the bearing with some WD40 or similar apply a tiny quantity of Superlube grease or similar re-assemble the fan goto 1 jaclaz

My bad , I didn't scroll on the senslessly whitish/low information density/designed by a pre-school kid page . Now that I read the "right" data you were referring to, yes, they make no sense. My average NT 4.0 BSOD's (number of BSOD/months) are (for a few machines I have total and "logged" control): 0/142=0 (data since April 2001 running 24/7) My average Windows 2000 BSOD's: 0/119=0 (data since March 2003 running 24/7) 0/87=0 (data since August 2003 NOT running 24/7) My average Windows XP BSOD's: 2/52=0,0385 (data since September 2008 NOT running 24/7) As a matter of fact this should be halved, since one of the two BSOD's was due to hardware fault jaclaz

That is not about BSOD's (which could be an actual measure of the stability of the OS) they are about application crashes that are very likely to be associated to the actual application (and NOT to the OS in which they run). Check the home page of this wonderful "it's like magic" app: https://www.soluto.com/ and guess WHO exactly could be the users base. JFYI: http://blog.soluto.com/ And - for no apparent reason - a link to the personal blog of the Chief product officer at Soluto: http://roee.co/2012/03/06/what-i-wouldnt-do-to-welcome-windows-8-into-the-world-hello-metro/ I have a completely different idea of "casual sampling" and "independent survey". jaclaz

But you failed to post these data. No, what you are basically missing, and I am trying - at this point desperately - to try telling you is that if you connect a (say) 24 V device (or a 36 V or a 48 V or a 5 V or *whatever* voltage) to a 12 V outlet, the max voltage present at the outlet will remain 12 V, it is what "comes out" of the outlet and not the specs of the device attached to it. The specific device (fan) can run continuously at 12.8 V but it is designed to be powered at 12V (i.e. it has a target of being operated at 12 V though it can accept as low as 6V and as much as 12.8V). Power absorption is another matter, if you attach a device rated for a higher power absorption (but within the right Voltage specs) to a power outlet, the device will attempt to get more power (up to it's own specifications). As a matter of fact when you connect a load to a voltage output, the voltage level might drop a little, but NEVER increase, if your motherboard ouputs 12V (as a matter of fact, if you had a mutimeter, you would measure on it - as said - most probably 12.2 or 12.3 V with no load connected to it and exactly 12 V or more likely 11.9 V with a "heavy" load connected) you will NEVER be able to get 12.8V from it. Examples (simplified, and in order to let you understand) in case of BOTH an unprotected/unlimited power supply and of an unprotected/unlimited device: Power supply specs: 12V 1A hence 12W If you attach to it a device rated 6V 1A (6W) continuous, the device will burn in no time (because the voltage operating range of the device is greatly exceeded) . If you attach to it a device rated 12V 1A (12W) continuous, both the device and power supply will work for years without issues (this device may well have peaks or "MAX" of up to 40% more than standard absorption - or even higher "transient" current spikes without any consequences to the device or to the power supply) If you attach to it a device rated 6V 2A (12W) continuous the power supply OR the device will burn in no time.(because the voltage operating range of the device is greatly exceeded OR the current capabilities of the power supply are greatly exceeded) If you attach to it a device rated 24V 1A (24W) continuous the power supply is very likely to burn (because the device will attempt to draw more current to compensate for the lower voltage) Additionally voltage and current are linked together by Ohm's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm's_law that is the same, written differently, that gives you V x A = W (when talking of DC, NOT AC) http://www.csgnetwork.com/ohmslaw2.html the MAX current that device will draw is 0.70A at 12V, if you supply it with a higher voltage, let's say 12.8V it will draw LESS current, i.e. 12 x 0.70 = 12.8 x X -> X=~0.66 A If you attach to an outlet (BTW surely protected from overcurrents) rated for 12 V 0.74A that particular fan, it will run normally at 12V (and NOT at any higher voltage) absorbing normally 0.51A with the possibility of peaks up to 0.70A. The outlet can provide UP TO 0.74A at 12V (8.88W), the device will nornally use 0.51A at 12V (6.12W) with peaks up to 0.70A at 12V (8.40W). You are well within the specs. jaclaz

Also, generically speaking, do not forget the power of collective knowledge (and experience) : jaclaz

As a matter of fact that seems a lot a (BTW an IMHO badly designed) GFXboot image from a GRUB or grub4dos and has nothing actually to do with XP or any other MS Operating System. Specifically the use of a bootmanager such as GRUB or grub4dos (or Syslinux/Isolinux/memdisk) is logically contrasting with the idea of "unattended". These programs give you boot choices, and there must be someone "attending" the boot process in order to take these choices. Of course you can add a "fully unattended" XP setup to a multiboot device, but his is not in any way different from making the multiboot device and adding to it a "plain", "normal", "attended" XP setup. jaclaz

From the linked to: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/05/christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-windows-8/ I find this a good one: jaclaz

Well, you could use it to also experimentally measure the current absorption of a fan, or the voltage level coming out of fan motherboard header ..... More seriously I simply cannot conceive the idea of someone dealing with electronics mods (or assembling PC's) having not at least an el-cheapo or el-cheaper multimeter handy. Particularly with "loose" connectors such as (example): http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=49396 I personally would never even think of connecting them before having made triple sure of which is what with a multimeter . (exchanging data connectors is not an issue, but +5 V, the - and the GND make all the difference between a working something and that peculiar smell of burned chips - no, not potato chips - that usually translates to "bucks flying out of the window") And now, for NO apparent reasons and spuddenly : jaclaz

Good, this one, then: http://www.delta-americas.com/products/FanUploads/Specification/AFB1212HHE-CF00(REV00).pdf it says that the power consumption is 0.51 A and consequently (at 12 V) 6.12 W, with a MAX of 0.70A/8.40W. You didn't post initially this info. That fan will normally use 0.51 A with PEAKS of 0.70 A. Your motherboard provides (your specs that I did NOT check) 0.74A or 8.88W and provides a 12 V level. You are well within any limits and you can safely use that fan attached to that motherboard. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/quotes?qt=qt0373704 jaclaz

Naaah, been there, done that (remember to search ): "My" link is - strangely enough - still valid . jaclaz

Well, it's OK, he is asking a 2nd opinion . JFYI : jaclaz

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Just in case : http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/0/8/c0872b4c-ddfc-4dbc-b3e5-ef385a4d349e/wucsp.exe jaclaz

Just for the record, in the good ol' times I used for a few years a Compaq Concerto. It had an optional 4 Mb of RAM added to the base 4 Mb and it ran Windiws 3.11 (and Windows for Pen Computing 1.00) exceptionally well , CPU was a 486/33Dx. I talked about it a bit in the "windows 8 deeper impressions" thread. Two or three years later I tried upgrading it to 20 Mb (by swapping the 4 Mb extension with a 16 Mb one) but with Windows 95 it became slow as molasses, evidently the CPU was not fast enough. That thingy there, having already a Pentium and a (relatively) fastish one should be OK with WIn95 but the 16 Mb are on the very low side. I would guess that if it can "backfitted" with Win 3.11 it will fly, really 8 Mb were all that were needed with 3.11 for "normal" use (exception made for graphics programs, etc, as usual) The idea of running Win98 with it is "pure folly" IMHO, to give you a term of comparison, another laptop I used to have, an Extensa 355 came with Win95 and 16 Mb, I tried 98 after having added 32 Mb (total 48 Mb) and still it wasn't as snappy as with WIn95. So IMHO (and if some drivers are found/issues are solved) the idea of running 3.11 on this thingy here is not at all a bad idea . jaclaz

Which motherboard? Which case? Compare with (as an example): http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/600167.aspx Or with : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/307986-10-where-plug-bias jaclaz