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I'm considering buying my first HDTV, a 32" LCD. Of course the store wants me to buy an extended warranty. The only thing I can see that might wear out is the backlight tubes. What's the usual lifespan of LCD backlights and how expensive are they to replace? -- 72.202.150.92 05:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
It sounds like a bad deal to me. Are you getting an additional 3 years under the extended warrantee (4 years total) or only an additional 2 years (3 years total) ? If you are only getting an additional 2 years, there would have to be over a 10% chance of product failure in each of those years, to justify the cost. Also consider that, if some component fails, you may be able to get it fixed for less money, quicker, and more conveniently at a local appliance repair shop than by making a warrantee claim. They can always squirm out of paying by saying you damaged it in some way. Also, when it fails you may want a new TV anyway, not to fix the "old one". You have a lot more flexibility if you go without the warrantee. Also, since this is essentially a type of insurance, it never makes sense to get insurance on something you can afford on your own, unless you know you are a much higher risk than the insurance company thinks. StuRat 00:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just lost a whole lot of work from the edit window of Wikipedia in Firefox. I'm not sure what happened but by attempting to paste a link as a reference I've got a whole webpage opening up in there, and I can't hit Ctrl+Z or anything. Does anyone know why or how Firefox does this (it has happened before too) and is there any way of getting it back? It's a shame because I had written most of an article, but I can't even get the text back no matter what I do - there is just no going back. Richard001 10:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to write articles in a word processor, then cut and paste them over when done. That way, you have a safe copy if Wikipedia or your browser fails. StuRat 23:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I have a dialup connection in my pc which I use to connect to the internet. The phone number I dial is 172222. I am in India and my area code is 0422. But a few minutes after I have connected, the connection is cut and I hear another dialing sound from my CPU. I did not know what it was at first. But then when I went to the Network and Internet connections in my control panel I saw that a new connection has been created. The name of this connection was "Connection". I couldn't stop it from dialing because it did not display its dialing progress unlike my normal 172222 dialup connection. This new connection does not use any dialing rules and starts to dial automatically with the phone number 3660222. This happens even when I am not connected to the internet with my normal connection. Even when I am offline this connection starts dialing and interrupts whatever I am doing. I deleted this connection but it comes back again and again. Can somebody help me with this. I would be very very grateful to you. Thank you very much. If you need any more detail, just let me know. Thank you.
Hello. I need to buy a graphics card but I am not knowledgeable about it. My computer is a Compaq computer which was bought about three years ago. My friend said that a PC EXPRESS card would not work in my computer and that only an AGP ACcELERATION CARD would work. He said something like that. Please bear with me. I do not know much about these things. Can somebody help me out. What are the specifications which I should say to the shop keeper in order to buy a graphics card? Which company is the best? I need to buy a graphics card that would work with today's games. Will that support my computer which is an old one? And where is the slot inside the CPU where I have to insert this graphics card? Please can anybody explain in detail all the problems and other things involved in buying a graphics card? I would be very much grateful to you. If u want to know my computer's model no. please tell me where I can find it. I do not have the bill with me. Where else I can find the model number? Please somebody help me with this. Thank u.
I turned on my laptop after not using it for a week and all it does is go to a black screen that says no bootable sector on hard drive. Can this be fixed? How? Should I just throw the thing into on comming traffic?-- ChesterMarcol 13:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Are you sure it's mentioning the hard drive? About once a year, I leave a floppy disk in some computer or another and later attempt to boot the computer. The computer then complains that the media can't be booted, I panic for a moment, and then remember that it's probably trying to boot the floppy that I left in the drive. Smarter BIOS programs skip past the unbootable floppy, but that's not true of all computers...
Atlant 17:30, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
It once happened that the Master boot record simply disappeared on the secundary HDD of a computer I was fixing (I think the disk managed to develop a bad block exactly there). TestDisk managed to completely recover it (there were other bad blocks, but nothing else seemed to be hit; writing the new MBR probably allowed a relocation by the drive's firmware). -- cesarb 03:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently doing a research on MMOGs and the codecs, protocols and architecture by whih they function over the internet, but I have yet to get anything conclusive yet.
The first thing I would like to know is, what protocols are used to transport the information generated by clients as they move the controls?
Is there and sniffer or network analyser that can decode the data on individual packets so that I can see the codec myself? Is there any add in to wireshark that will allow me see the codec by which the game data is compressed?
I also want to know what tricks are employed to ensure that minmum amount of data is sentover the network and how latency and packet loss are dealt with in networks over which these games run.
I will appreciate any info I get on any of these questions.
Thank you.
Is that possible anymore? for free that is.
and if not, can i just install windows 98 SE updates and hope they work? thnks much, Xiad e n 22:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Xiaden(not logged in)
I am a Computer expert (in a few areas) and I recommend the latest version of Kubuntu (not Debian), you will also want to check for free upgrades about every 6 months and regularly check the development progress of each upcoming version. Also try out CNR when it is available. Tcrow777 talk 00:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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I'm considering buying my first HDTV, a 32" LCD. Of course the store wants me to buy an extended warranty. The only thing I can see that might wear out is the backlight tubes. What's the usual lifespan of LCD backlights and how expensive are they to replace? -- 72.202.150.92 05:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
It sounds like a bad deal to me. Are you getting an additional 3 years under the extended warrantee (4 years total) or only an additional 2 years (3 years total) ? If you are only getting an additional 2 years, there would have to be over a 10% chance of product failure in each of those years, to justify the cost. Also consider that, if some component fails, you may be able to get it fixed for less money, quicker, and more conveniently at a local appliance repair shop than by making a warrantee claim. They can always squirm out of paying by saying you damaged it in some way. Also, when it fails you may want a new TV anyway, not to fix the "old one". You have a lot more flexibility if you go without the warrantee. Also, since this is essentially a type of insurance, it never makes sense to get insurance on something you can afford on your own, unless you know you are a much higher risk than the insurance company thinks. StuRat 00:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just lost a whole lot of work from the edit window of Wikipedia in Firefox. I'm not sure what happened but by attempting to paste a link as a reference I've got a whole webpage opening up in there, and I can't hit Ctrl+Z or anything. Does anyone know why or how Firefox does this (it has happened before too) and is there any way of getting it back? It's a shame because I had written most of an article, but I can't even get the text back no matter what I do - there is just no going back. Richard001 10:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to write articles in a word processor, then cut and paste them over when done. That way, you have a safe copy if Wikipedia or your browser fails. StuRat 23:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I have a dialup connection in my pc which I use to connect to the internet. The phone number I dial is 172222. I am in India and my area code is 0422. But a few minutes after I have connected, the connection is cut and I hear another dialing sound from my CPU. I did not know what it was at first. But then when I went to the Network and Internet connections in my control panel I saw that a new connection has been created. The name of this connection was "Connection". I couldn't stop it from dialing because it did not display its dialing progress unlike my normal 172222 dialup connection. This new connection does not use any dialing rules and starts to dial automatically with the phone number 3660222. This happens even when I am not connected to the internet with my normal connection. Even when I am offline this connection starts dialing and interrupts whatever I am doing. I deleted this connection but it comes back again and again. Can somebody help me with this. I would be very very grateful to you. Thank you very much. If you need any more detail, just let me know. Thank you.
Hello. I need to buy a graphics card but I am not knowledgeable about it. My computer is a Compaq computer which was bought about three years ago. My friend said that a PC EXPRESS card would not work in my computer and that only an AGP ACcELERATION CARD would work. He said something like that. Please bear with me. I do not know much about these things. Can somebody help me out. What are the specifications which I should say to the shop keeper in order to buy a graphics card? Which company is the best? I need to buy a graphics card that would work with today's games. Will that support my computer which is an old one? And where is the slot inside the CPU where I have to insert this graphics card? Please can anybody explain in detail all the problems and other things involved in buying a graphics card? I would be very much grateful to you. If u want to know my computer's model no. please tell me where I can find it. I do not have the bill with me. Where else I can find the model number? Please somebody help me with this. Thank u.
I turned on my laptop after not using it for a week and all it does is go to a black screen that says no bootable sector on hard drive. Can this be fixed? How? Should I just throw the thing into on comming traffic?-- ChesterMarcol 13:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Are you sure it's mentioning the hard drive? About once a year, I leave a floppy disk in some computer or another and later attempt to boot the computer. The computer then complains that the media can't be booted, I panic for a moment, and then remember that it's probably trying to boot the floppy that I left in the drive. Smarter BIOS programs skip past the unbootable floppy, but that's not true of all computers...
Atlant 17:30, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
It once happened that the Master boot record simply disappeared on the secundary HDD of a computer I was fixing (I think the disk managed to develop a bad block exactly there). TestDisk managed to completely recover it (there were other bad blocks, but nothing else seemed to be hit; writing the new MBR probably allowed a relocation by the drive's firmware). -- cesarb 03:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently doing a research on MMOGs and the codecs, protocols and architecture by whih they function over the internet, but I have yet to get anything conclusive yet.
The first thing I would like to know is, what protocols are used to transport the information generated by clients as they move the controls?
Is there and sniffer or network analyser that can decode the data on individual packets so that I can see the codec myself? Is there any add in to wireshark that will allow me see the codec by which the game data is compressed?
I also want to know what tricks are employed to ensure that minmum amount of data is sentover the network and how latency and packet loss are dealt with in networks over which these games run.
I will appreciate any info I get on any of these questions.
Thank you.
Is that possible anymore? for free that is.
and if not, can i just install windows 98 SE updates and hope they work? thnks much, Xiad e n 22:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Xiaden(not logged in)
I am a Computer expert (in a few areas) and I recommend the latest version of Kubuntu (not Debian), you will also want to check for free upgrades about every 6 months and regularly check the development progress of each upcoming version. Also try out CNR when it is available. Tcrow777 talk 00:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)