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Can today's desktop computers and flat-screen monitors operate safely and seamlessly in ambient temperatures between 80 and 100 degrees F? Is it ever dangerous (for the health of the computer and/or screen) to do so? Bielle ( talk) 00:35, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, folks. Well, there goes that argument for getting air conditioning. Sounds like the computer is more at risk from wildly shedding cat. Bielle ( talk) 16:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
hi,
i have always used torrents for downloading and uploading movies and tv shows, and was quite happy with the speed i got (200 kbps), but suddenly, a week back, the speed dropped to, like, 20, or sometimes, even 10. but when i download from megaupload or a normal download through my web browser (chrome), the speed is back at 200.
can anyone explain the drastic difference in speed?
thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.233.58 ( talk) 03:47, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
You might want to randomize the ports you're using, or switch clients. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 03:23, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I saw the above (unanswered at the time of writing, doesn't bode well for getting an answer here!) question on extending a wireless internet connection with two routers. My question is related, but different. Imagine a situation where you have a row of houses, say...5. Every house has an internet connection and a router. Is it possible to bridge these all together, sharing the cumulative internet speed equally to any and all IP addresses given out? Assume for simplicity that each house uses a different provider and therefore aren't hogging the same bandwidth for that street. My limited knowledge of how these things work tells me that one router has to be "master" and all others are clients, so would that preclude the internet connection from the clients from being routed to the overall network? -- Rixxin ( talk) 16:04, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I didn't know if I caught a virus while on spam patrol (I was vetting a known spamming IP's edits and the links they put up).
Basically the system (a Windows Vista) suddenly without warning started the soft shutdown process (i.e. windows closed one by one). When the system rebooted, the BIOS loaded fine and the power self-on test seemed to be okay -- no fatal errors by text, but when it starts time to load the bootloader it starts making very loud beeping noises.
I used a ubuntu flash drive (I also have ubuntu on the system) to try to diagnose the problem. I am going to try to change the default bootloader to Linux to see if it's merely a corrupted boot sector, but I've never had a problem like this before. I tried reinstalling grub (without changing configuration files) on the master boot record. This fixes the beeping problem, which makes me think it's a boot sector virus. However, grub won't load and the screen is blank. I can boot from the ubuntu flash drive successfully though, and it sees everything.
elle vécut heureuse à jamais ( be free) 17:46, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I would be grateful if a user could please answer the following two questions. 1) how do I convert a song downloaded as mid to mp3? 2) how can I crop a photograph saved as jpg and also how can I enlarge it? Thank you. Simonschaim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:39, 18 July 2011 (UTC).
Thank you Finlay McWalter. I found your information very helpful. Simonschaim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:35, 19 July 2011 (UTC).
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Can today's desktop computers and flat-screen monitors operate safely and seamlessly in ambient temperatures between 80 and 100 degrees F? Is it ever dangerous (for the health of the computer and/or screen) to do so? Bielle ( talk) 00:35, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, folks. Well, there goes that argument for getting air conditioning. Sounds like the computer is more at risk from wildly shedding cat. Bielle ( talk) 16:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
hi,
i have always used torrents for downloading and uploading movies and tv shows, and was quite happy with the speed i got (200 kbps), but suddenly, a week back, the speed dropped to, like, 20, or sometimes, even 10. but when i download from megaupload or a normal download through my web browser (chrome), the speed is back at 200.
can anyone explain the drastic difference in speed?
thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.233.58 ( talk) 03:47, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
You might want to randomize the ports you're using, or switch clients. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 03:23, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I saw the above (unanswered at the time of writing, doesn't bode well for getting an answer here!) question on extending a wireless internet connection with two routers. My question is related, but different. Imagine a situation where you have a row of houses, say...5. Every house has an internet connection and a router. Is it possible to bridge these all together, sharing the cumulative internet speed equally to any and all IP addresses given out? Assume for simplicity that each house uses a different provider and therefore aren't hogging the same bandwidth for that street. My limited knowledge of how these things work tells me that one router has to be "master" and all others are clients, so would that preclude the internet connection from the clients from being routed to the overall network? -- Rixxin ( talk) 16:04, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I didn't know if I caught a virus while on spam patrol (I was vetting a known spamming IP's edits and the links they put up).
Basically the system (a Windows Vista) suddenly without warning started the soft shutdown process (i.e. windows closed one by one). When the system rebooted, the BIOS loaded fine and the power self-on test seemed to be okay -- no fatal errors by text, but when it starts time to load the bootloader it starts making very loud beeping noises.
I used a ubuntu flash drive (I also have ubuntu on the system) to try to diagnose the problem. I am going to try to change the default bootloader to Linux to see if it's merely a corrupted boot sector, but I've never had a problem like this before. I tried reinstalling grub (without changing configuration files) on the master boot record. This fixes the beeping problem, which makes me think it's a boot sector virus. However, grub won't load and the screen is blank. I can boot from the ubuntu flash drive successfully though, and it sees everything.
elle vécut heureuse à jamais ( be free) 17:46, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I would be grateful if a user could please answer the following two questions. 1) how do I convert a song downloaded as mid to mp3? 2) how can I crop a photograph saved as jpg and also how can I enlarge it? Thank you. Simonschaim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:39, 18 July 2011 (UTC).
Thank you Finlay McWalter. I found your information very helpful. Simonschaim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:35, 19 July 2011 (UTC).