Replaced two burners on the stove. Had a bad thermostat in the dryer a while back that I replaced for $16. Before that it was a $4 thermal fuse. I like not having to buy new clothes dryers!
Could have used one today. Got rear-ended by a big F-150 in my little Corolla and the jerk drove off. He pulled over until I put my car in park then whipped around me and drove off. :evil: Luckily he was only doing like 10-15mph when he hit me, but it still shook me up and my back is still tight. Fo...
Finally had time to test it out. No change at all in the attenuation/SnR when running straight out of the maintenance jack into the modem and straight to a computer. Guess that rules out house wiring once and for all. I was still getting dropped packets/timeouts while pinging google, youtube, etc.
That line attenuation is somewhat bad, you must be quite far from the DSLAM. I would bet the lag you are reporting is actually the DSL losing sync and resyncing. You should insist ATT sends a tech out to your house to check the lines both outside and inside your house. You can also test it by remov...
Thanks for the ideas and tips folks. I don't know anyone with a DSL tester. At work all we've got is T1/T3 stuff. I have replaced the modem, as stated, with no change in behavior. I'll have to try out the tracert + pinging up the line without the router connected tomorrow and see what turns up. Here...
Everything lags or whatever it is. The videos stop buffering and games stop responding. Sometimes we'll get a "this page cannot be displayed" message. I've got a new Netgear modem that didn't fix the problem. If it's packet loss, what could be causing it and why can't the phone company see...
I hope someone here can help me out. I'm at the end of my rope with this problem. Please bear with me and this wall of text! Our AT&T DSL was fine up until the end of January. Now we're having an intermittent problem where the internet will stop functioning for 5-20 seconds and then come back li...
Fairly certain the damage was caused by the sonic boom and didn't have much/anything to do with the disintegration of the meteor. Jets breaking the sound barrier can break windows - this was just a really big and fast jet ;) Definitely wasn't from the smallish pieces reported to have made it to the ...
Resident lightning magnet back with another field report. I drive around a lot for work and got caught in a thunderstorm from hell this afternoon. I was in it for like 10 miles doing 15-20mph and the constant lightning and 100 yard visibility sure made it exciting. I was coming up to a convenience s...
Neat stuff folks! While nothing so cool as a fulgurite was found I did notice an odd gray dusting on some chunks of clay. Through my macro lens it certainly appears to be melted something ... I don't think there's very much, but there are bits and pieces of quartz/sand which I suspect is where the g...
I'm sure everyone's had something get zapped before, any one want to share? We just had a strike 50 feet from the house into a tree. There doesn't seem to be any major damage to the tree trunk, but there's an 8 inch deep trench running about 10 feet along a major root. I had just unplugged all our c...
Woohoo! I watched the stream of the presentation this morning and the guy was so excited throughout the whole thing you could tell that all he wanted to do was shout out, "we found it!!!"
I don't know a thing about laptops so I'm asking here. Move if needed. My sister and her husband play Runescape and their old laptop was no good even before their daughter spilled her juice on it. :lol: The old one had the integrated graphics on an i3 processor from a year and a half ago and would o...
Here are a couple shots of the Venus transit on Tuesday. Anyone else watch it or take photos? Clouds almost ruined it for me, but there was just enough space between them and the horizon to snap off a few shots before the sun set. If I was smart, I would've bought some solar filter material for bett...
Just swapped the keyboard out for a wireless Logitech MK710 with the unifying receiver thing and fixed the long boot time. Wondering what the problem is with old USB and the bios...
I was looking at this forum a week ago for info on building such a computer, but kinda had to figure it out on my own. We've been using my 8 year old Pentium 4 machine for the family computer for too long so I decided to build a new one. I thought putting together a mini ITX system in a tiny case wo...
No input on sleeping pills. I find if you exert proper physical whatever, like running and working out you will sleep just fine. A 5 or 30 min jog is better for you than any pill. Funny story about not sleeping that wasn't cured by working out. When I was unemployed after college I'd wake up, work ...
I'd like to experience that sort of cold once in my life just so I can do like the fella in Brian's Winter and have my pee freeze before it hits the ground.
I was interested to note a couple years back that one morning it was 100 degrees colder than a July afternoon that got up to 112.
what about something like this? http://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-3063-RD-WHT-Gallon-Covered-Pitcher/dp/B0000BYBYM We've had many over the years for juice and sweet tea. I don't guess it's as fancy as the one you linked, but it's got a lid that closes completely. I bet you can get one at Target or Wa...