RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Dodge
Crap, I'm moving to Seattle Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:57 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Spokane - Original Messa

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
My next door neighbor just moved up there. Small world - Original Message - From: "Julian Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:37 PM Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hey, no shit... I just live a little north of you. I'm in Elk.

Re: [H] Hard Drive Failure

2005-08-17 Thread warpmedia
If it's hot to the touch, wait for it to cool & try again to backup the data. rls wrote: For the condition you describe - you would have to send it back to a service that would actually remove the platters and install them in another drive casing. The cost for that would be steep and probably a

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Eli Allen
There is no known way of using man made fusion reactors. - Original Message - Helium3, however, which could be harvest and we know how the process works, is fairly to very viable.

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Julian Hale
Hey, no shit... I just live a little north of you. I'm in Elk. Julian At 04:57 PM 8/17/2005, jeff.lane wrote: Spokane - Original Message - From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Hardware List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Y

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Well said. - Original Message - From: "Bill Cohane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote: Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 18:29, Greg Sevart wrote: > ...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil > DOMESTICALLY, and the majority of the remainder comes from Canada, > Mexico, and Venezuela, we wouldn't need to replace 100% of our oil > consumption with oil from the ANWR. Even if we onl

Different take on RE: [H] Inexpensive blank DVD media

2005-08-17 Thread rls
My advice for those that burn a number of disks --> Buy Good or Great 8X media - the cost savings from going to 16X to 8X more that offsets buying the great media. Then buy another DVD burner --> at $50 you will offset the media cost differential. Then either copy to both burners at once - or ru

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Decker
Nope, drilling in the ANWR was dropped from the energy bill before it passed. (Drilling for/pumping oil has been permitted in other parts of Alaska, mostly the North Slope area, for a long time.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset S

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
Ball lightning is real - I have seen it. Bill Cohane wrote: So Physicists have pretty much debunked cold fusion. Interestingly, the DOE (Dept. of Energy) still occasionally gets suckered by cold fusion claims. These guys still seem willing to spend our tax dollars on research grants for thing

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread nobozoz
As of this afternoon, LA, CA area average unleaded regular gas price is $2.77 per gal. _jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Quilhot Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:04 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices 2.799 Jack

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:45 PM 8/17/2005, FORC5 typed: drug cartel ought to be looking here :{) new black market There was a James Bond movie where they put some drug into gasoline then distilled the gasoline once it arrived at it's final destination. I wonder if that added horsepower but I would be afraid to p

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Reeves
Helium3, however, which could be harvest and we know how the process works, is fairly to very viable. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Cohane Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:45 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices At

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Quilhot
2.799 Jackson, Michigan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices 2.53 here in Phoenix Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-032

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Cohane
At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote: Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific world standing on it's head for sometim

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
drug cartel ought to be looking here :{) new black market At 05:00 PM 8/17/2005, Analyst Poked the stick with: To really get your blood boiling, gasoline in Venezuela is only 25 cents a gallon. Anybody want to captain a tanker full of gasoline back to the U.S. ? (Talk about ridin' a rocket) Vinc

RE: [H] Hard Drive Failure

2005-08-17 Thread rls
For the condition you describe - you would have to send it back to a service that would actually remove the platters and install them in another drive casing. The cost for that would be steep and probably a month turn around. "-Original Message- "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- "

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Al
Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Too bad the US wouldn't kick the shit out of Saudi Arabia then, and get the > price here down to a better level. You say that so nonchalantly, like the lives involved are worthless. I don't understand, Al

RE: [H] Sygate scoops up Sygate... (Symantec scoops up Sygate)

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:13 PM 17/08/2005, James Maki wrote: (I corrected the subject line) I guess this will be the end of a free version of Sygate Personal Firewall and the beginning of the product being screwed up.. Has Symantec ever acquired any product and then made real improvements? (Norton, Central Poin

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:17 PM 17/08/2005, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Gas prices expensive??? Here in Saudi Arabia the state price (i.e. nothing less or more than the state price is available at any gas station) is .90 halalas (cent equivalent of a riyal(dollar)) per liter. i.e 1 Gallon = 90 US cents. BWAHAHAHAH!!! A

[H] Hard Drive Failure

2005-08-17 Thread Brian Weeden
I came home after I was away for a few days to find a SATA HD in one of my PCs not responding. On reboot the BIOS hangs trying to find the drives and then eventually gives up and doesn't detect it. When I got the case open I knew it was bad. It makes a clicking sound repeating every couple sec

Re: [H] Sygate scoops up Sygate... (Symantec scoops up Sygate)

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
No - Original Message - From: James Maki To: 'The Hardware List' Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: RE: [H] Sygate scoops up Sygate... (Symantec scoops up Sygate) (I corrected the subject line)   I guess this will be the end of a free ver

RE: [H] Sygate scoops up Sygate... (Symantec scoops up Sygate)

2005-08-17 Thread James Maki
(I corrected the subject line)   I guess this will be the end of a free version of Sygate Personal Firewall and the beginning of the product being screwed up.. Has Symantec ever acquired any product and then made real improvements? (Norton, Central Point Software, Winfax, Ghost, etc.).   Jim

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Spokane - Original Message - From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Hardware List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices You don't live in Washington do you? Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
OOPSyou and Ben. Long day... - Original Message - From: "Gary Udstrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices Ethanol is a boondoggle. It has been demonstrated that it takes more fossil

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Right, Gary. I agree with you and Russ. I was just giving an example of one way to tell the oil cartels to take a hike. Jeff - Original Message - From: "Gary Udstrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Greg Sevart
and that: "the roughly 10 billion barrels of oil expected to be found there would be the equivalent of JUST SIX MONTHS OF U.S. CONSUMPTION" http://www.sacbee.com/news/special/power/032001abraham.html Vince ...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY, and

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:58, Ben Ruset wrote: > Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? No, it is supposed to be jammed into the upcoming budget bill. > I consider myself an environmentalist and I support drilling in Alaska. You'll likely be disappointed. Spence Abraham, who was this administratio

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:26, Ben Ruset wrote: > Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the > mideast. You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes > to only pay transport and taxes. > > >From: Zulfiqar Naushad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:

[H] Sygate scoops up Sygate...

2005-08-17 Thread Francisco Tapia
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/sXQaBx5Sybx8rO/Symantec-Scoops-Up-Sygate-Technologies.xhtml I've been using Sygate for quite some time, and it's been an excellent product.  I currently run the Pro version on my home system, and have found it to be a great value, When the sasser exploit hit mach

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread joeuser
Brazil beat us to the punch with the Ethanol thing - they are WAY ahead of us. Friggin sad too. Ben Ruset wrote: I am all about Ethanol. Unfortunately in the US the corn farmers are pushing for it. Making Ethanol from Corn is the most inefficient way of doing it, and supposedly yeilds less e

RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Dodge
You don't live in Washington do you? Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:44 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hell, we can grow

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Dodge
2.53 here in Phoenix Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:24 AM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices I paid $2.45US/gallon on Monday. Bobby -

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
hope so, especially since Canada is drilling not far from where we want to drill. but that is only a beginning, lot more to do. I suspect the Caribou population may double. fp At 01:58 PM 8/17/2005, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? I consider myself an environm

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
The oil companies probably had them killed or paid off. >From: "jeff.lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 16:00:17 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices >Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years >ago that claimed they had ma

Re: [H] PC won't boot/bad caps

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
bad caps on mb's in my pile Abit Asus MSI DFI ECS Compaq Soyo Epox I do not believe any body is immune and I often wonder about other electronic gear like TV's etc. Power supplies I have not kept a pile on fp At 01:19 PM 8/17/2005, Francisco Tapia Poked the stick with: Sounds like power to me, I

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific world standing on it's head for sometime until they discovered that it was

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? I consider myself an environmentalist and I support drilling in Alaska. >From: FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 15:55:00 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices >PPL here bitch about the prices but are not willing to doanythi

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary Udstrand
Ethanol is a boondoggle. It has been demonstrated that it takes more fossil fuel is used to create Ethanol than it provides in return. Ethanol programs are nothing more that governments subsidies for ADM. -Gary jeff.lane said the following on 8/17/2005 3:43 PM: > Hell, we can grow ethanol.

Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
I am all about Ethanol. Unfortunately in the US the corn farmers are pushing for it. Making Ethanol from Corn is the most inefficient way of doing it, and supposedly yeilds less energy than what was spent in producing it. Making Ethanol from sugar cane, as Brazil has done, makes MORE energy than

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
PPL here bitch about the prices but are not willing to do anything about it. Non new refineries in 30 years, and no drilling in Alaska. me, I'd say piss on the Saudi's ( no offense ) , let them see if they can squirt that oil on the sand and grow food with it !!! >:-} if it were up to me I'd cut

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Fuel cells are a very good alternative and should be practically available in the near future. Jeff - Original Message - From: "Christopher Fisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:39 AM Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices On Wed, 17 Au

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we are getting screwed! The oil companies have been crying for years that oil prices are way behind inflation. I say, so what! I thought the idea was to keep inflation down in the first place. The Government needs to include fuel and food in the

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the mideast. You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes to only pay transport and taxes. >From: Zulfiqar Naushad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:29 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: [H]

Re: Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
So then if you're already filling your tank, what's the point of cracking more? Seems like it would add needless expense, complexity, and weight to the vehicle. >From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 15:00:37 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas p

Re: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread Francisco Tapia
Sounds like power to me, I've had PCs come to me where the fans all worked, but the system woudln't even post, some had issues w/ the cd/dvd drives not ejecting... I would plug them into known good PSs and that was the problem everytime.  I had a 300w Antec on my Epox w/ Amd2000xp, after 2 1/2 year

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Zulfiqar Naushad
Gas prices expensive??? Here in Saudi Arabia the state price (i.e. nothing less or more than the state price is available at any gas station) is .90 halalas (cent equivalent of a riyal(dollar)) per liter. i.e 1 Gallon = 90 US cents. BWAHAHAHAH!!! Almost every car here in Saudi is a V6 or

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:51 PM 17/08/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a station? Because cracking hydrogen requires more power than you can generate on current solar panels small enough to fit on a car roof. IIRC, there's a company here that sells

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a station? >From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 13:56:41 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices >At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > > >>Did someone repeal

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread joeuser
Were saying it was running about 2.00 and under just a year or so ago. Henrik Tived wrote: so what were you saying about your high gas price ?? :-) -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread joeuser
Same here in North central Kansas (rural) took 60..0 to fill up today and then I was told it'll be higher by the end of the week. Freaking BS. Gary Udstrand wrote: Between $2.49 and $2.69 a gallon at the stations that I drive by on my way to the office. Nothing like a $100.00 fill up to sta

RE: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
first response for me, had a ecs k7s5a pro this week with 6 bad caps, also check in the power supply for bad caps. fp At 08:06 AM 8/17/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with: Check the caps on the MB to see if any are bulging. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From

Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: The energy to crack the water was from solar panels mounted on the roof. Apparently they have a similar system now hybridized with a gasoline engine in a 7 series. Again, why? Just use the damn electricity from the solor panels to power the car, none o

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote: Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry? It takes more energy to crack water than you get back when recombining the hydrogen and oxygen. I think that report was a misunderstanding of the technology. The idea is to use solar power

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Ben Ruset wrote: A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry? It takes more energy to crack water than y

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
I was referring to fission technology (U235). Since fusion is years away. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 007 Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:26 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices The most fuel efficient cars

Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
The energy to crack the water was from solar panels mounted on the roof. Apparently they have a similar system now hybridized with a gasoline engine in a 7 series. http://www.bmwworld.com/models/750hl.htm >From: Christopher Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 13:39:10 CDT 2005 >To: The H

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( This doesn't make sense. It takes energy to split water into Oxygen and hydr

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( >From: 007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Aug 17 13:26:05 CDT 2005 >To: The Hardware List >Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas pri

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
The most fuel efficient cars use heavy water. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:16 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: > It's

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:23 PM 17/08/2005, Bobby Heid wrote: I hope you meant $30/barrel! LOL. Sorry, barrel. :) T

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Bobby Heid
I hope you meant $30/barrel! LOL. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices There was a study in Canada that found that the re

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting record profits. So I really wonder how much of this is an increase in oil price, and how much is just an excuse to charge more for gasoline. I look at it this way, assuming that a gas company wants to

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:02 PM 17/08/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: I paid $2.55/gal for Regular today. I just wonder if we'll ever get back to the $1.50/gal days again. As harsh as it sounds, low gas prices are a lot more important to me that supporing anybody's agenda or liberating other countries. There was a study

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
I paid $2.55/gal for Regular today. I just wonder if we'll ever get back to the $1.50/gal days again. As harsh as it sounds, low gas prices are a lot more important to me that supporing anybody's agenda or liberating other countries. It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting reco

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary Udstrand
Higher octane needs usually result from higher compression in performance engines. This higher compression can result in the fuel igniting (in the absence of a spark from the plug) before the piston reaches TDC (well, actually the engine should fire prior to TDC. It is just firing earlier than it

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
As I understand it, the modifiers are using one or both of the following technologies: 1) Using Lithium batteries (similar to the ones used in camcorders). 2) By adding more batteries they are modifying the computer system(s), so they use less gas and more battery power. There is a third part

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Veech wrote: $3.00 + in LA, and I had to buy a car that uses premium! Wonder how much damage I'll do to run it on regular? Most people don't realize that premium gas is just regular gas with some anti-knock compounds added. Modern engines have anti-knock sensors, so if you accidentally fill up

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Brian Weeden
On 8/17/05, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:58 PM 17/08/2005, 007 wrote: > >Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon. > > > >Cost of modification is about $14,000 > > Sweet Jesus. Is this something that is relatively easy to do? I want > 250mpg. :) >

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Hayes Elkins
Rock on, but where are you getting your juice from? http://cbs5.com/consumer/consumer_story_225005357.html "Backers of plug-in hybrids acknowledge that the electricity to boost their cars generally comes from fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases, but they say that process still produces f

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:58 PM 17/08/2005, 007 wrote: Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon. Cost of modification is about $14,000 Sweet Jesus. Is this something that is relatively easy to do? I want 250mpg. :) T

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary VanderMolen
I paid $2.73 for regular at a discount station yesterday (Bay area). Gary VanderMolen

Re: [H] Check out this Dell deal, expires 8-17

2005-08-17 Thread Veech
Yeah, checking around I see that they've been that low in the past, as recently as late July. I'll wait around to see if it goes on sale again, no rush. Man, what a nice monitor. I've been with a 17" CRT for ages. Looking at getting one of those hot rod GeForce 7800 cards, hoping they're co

Re: [hardware] Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Steve
In my area  (Sydney) price starts on Wed morning  @ AU$1.18/litre for regular unleaded i.e.4.72/US Gallon or US$3.60. Add another 0.07/l for Premium. By Tues its dropped to 1.10/l. Then the cycle repeats. And the government & the oil companies say there is no collusion? yeah...right Diese

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
Modified Toyota hybrids have been known to give 250 Miles/gallon. Cost of modification is about $14,000 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hayes Elkins Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:57 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Al
"Veech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $3.00 + in LA, and I had to buy a car that uses premium! Wonder how much > damage I'll do to run it on regular? Check into buying a pint of octane buster to use with the regular grade gas. HTH, Al

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Brian Weeden
See, this is the beautiful thing about capitalism that I tried to explain to my Canadian girlfriend. Unfortunately in the world we live in the vast majority of people are not going to do something simply because it is the "right" thing to do or is for the good of everyone. They need an incentive,

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
It's all about math. Here in the US we pay less for gas but use our cars more often. (Except in a few cities like NY and DC). At the end of the day all of us have equal ratio in gas expenses. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Davids

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Hayes Elkins
It's getting near $3 here in metro DC. I get a particular feeling of cynicism when I see soccer moms spend over $120 to fill up a useless land barge who's closest activity to off roading was encountering a DC pothole on the way to Starbucks. The "Support Our Troops" stickers usually affixed ad

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Henrik Tived
Guys, stop complaining, Denmark has for the last decade paid close to US$2 per litre if not more DownUnder (Australia) we are currently paying $1.12-1.20 aussie dollars per litre (USD$0.77 = AUD$1) so what were you saying about your high gas price ?? :-) Henrik - Original Message

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Veech
$3.00 + in LA, and I had to buy a car that uses premium! Wonder how much damage I'll do to run it on regular? - Original Message - From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:14 AM Subject: [H] Gas prices Our gas prices climbed $0.06 per lit

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Davidson
Don't complain. 1 Gallon (US) = 3.79 litres 1 litre = ~£0.90 (from the BBC news site as of last week) 1 Gallon = ~£3.41 = ~$6.16 How's that! :( > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Thane Sherrington > Sent: 1

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Bobby Heid
I paid $2.45US/gallon on Monday. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:15 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Gas prices Our gas prices climbed $0.06 per litre yesterday, s

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary Udstrand
Between $2.49 and $2.69 a gallon at the stations that I drive by on my way to the office. Nothing like a $100.00 fill up to start the day. :-O -Gary Thane Sherrington said the following on 8/17/2005 11:14 AM: > Our gas prices climbed $0.06 per litre yesterday, so we are at $4.27 > US per gal

[H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
Our gas prices climbed $0.06 per litre yesterday, so we are at $4.27 US per gallon now. Just wondering what you're paying down in there. T

RE: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Dodge
Check the caps on the MB to see if any are bulging. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Jones Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] PC won't boot Built my wife

RE: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread 007
Take out the CPU and reseat it. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry Jones Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] PC won't boot Built my wife's PC about a year ago. Epox MB with an Athlon, 2 stick

Re: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread Winterlight
then both hard drives. I have tried booting with just one stick of memory. At this point I am at a loss for what might be wrong. Could the CPU be dead? The motherboard? Or does it sound like a power supply problem? Jerry Sounds like a dead motherboard

Re: [H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:46 AM 17/08/2005, Jerry Jones wrote: each hard drive individually and then both hard drives. I have tried booting with just one stick of memory. At this point I am at a loss for what might be wrong. Could the CPU be dead? The motherboard? Or does it sound like a power supply problem? I'

[H] PC won't boot

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry Jones
Built my wife's PC about a year ago. Epox MB with an Athlon, 2 sticks of 256MB RAM, 2 hard drives, DVD drive, and a Radeon 9800SE vid card. Recently when she turns on the PC it usually will not boot and just makes a sound that is kind of an alternating high then low beep. Hitting the reset butto

RE: [H] Inexpensive blank DVD media

2005-08-17 Thread Bobby Heid
Just found this: Verbatim 16x DVD+R/-R (100 ct) at OD for $37.99 http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?pos=110&catid=18&threadid=50 8625 Are these any good? Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Tuesday, Augu

Re: [H] Inexpensive blank DVD media

2005-08-17 Thread Greg Sevart
The problem isn't so much doing the scan...there are a handful of tools out there that can do it, and a handful of drives that support it (and a handful of those that can scan with any sort of consistency). The problem is being able to interpret the results properly, based on the speeds, drive u

Re: [H] Inexpensive blank DVD media

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:36 PM 16/08/2005, Greg Sevart wrote: Have you performed PIE/PIF and PO scans on these discs after some time has elapsed since burning? A simple "successful burn" is not nearly sufficient to determine if the burn was a quality How do I do a PIE/PIF or PO scan? T