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Anty, Mort's Russians are indubitably extracting the Mikhail. Very naughty. If only Uncle Ron were within easy distance, he'd be there like a shot, reading the riot act...
sure! That's what I thought as well Ron, surely a new hard drive is no more than £50, the barstewards, I did think of sending the Welsh Taffia in .... However, she will get her mitts on the cds for a cool £120 (!!!) and then needs to find a new computer it seems (complete absence of smiley disgruntled emoticom) |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department.  However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. |
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« Reply #482 on: 17:11:24, 14-05-2008 » |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department. However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. Why should I wish to slip a 80GB into my pocket or baG? |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department. However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. Why should I wish to slip a 80GB into my pocket or baG? If your house burns down, you will still have your data in your pocket or bag! |
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« Reply #484 on: 17:27:49, 14-05-2008 » |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department. However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. Why should I wish to slip a 80GB into my pocket or baG? If your house burns down, you will still have your data in your pocket or bag! Quite frankly, if me house burns down, Beethoven's Eroica will be the least of me worries, I would be be more worried about losing Dr. Robert and The Blow Monkeys (note lack of rueful smiley emoticom) but my Building Society details would take preference to any music! |
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« Reply #485 on: 18:10:36, 14-05-2008 » |
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Also used here, along with several earlier versions of the Western Digital "My Book" USB2 drives. I have found them very reliable so far. They are pretty quiet and have good ventilation for passive cooling. |
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« Reply #486 on: 18:19:49, 14-05-2008 » |
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Nine variations in the study right now, Bryn: not all connected, admittedly.
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« Reply #487 on: 18:21:09, 14-05-2008 » |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department. However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. Why should I wish to slip a 80GB into my pocket or baG? Anty, what I would strongly recommend for PC setup is on of these. You plug your PC into the main control socket and all your peripherals, including any power supplies for external hard drives, into the slave sockets. When you shut down your PC, or even when you put it into standby, the Intellipanel powers down all the peripherals. No need to switch them off separately. [Oh, and the 'problem' of bulky power supplied which would cover one of the 'spare' sockets is easily resolved. Just plug a simple 4 socket extension (a couple of quid in Tesco) into one of the slave sockets and use that for the bulky power supplies. That's what I do, and have had no problems powering a total of ten peripherals, along with this laptop.] |
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« Reply #488 on: 19:04:08, 14-05-2008 » |
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Oh blimey, now what is a slave socket? And do do I really want to know?
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« Reply #489 on: 19:20:27, 14-05-2008 » |
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Oh blimey, now what is a slave socket? And do do I really want to know?
Read the customer reviews at the page linked to. |
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« Reply #490 on: 19:25:58, 14-05-2008 » |
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Ho Anna,
buy something like an Icy Box and an internal hard drive. Just make sure you get the correct configuration - i.e. a SATA drive for a SATA box or IDE box / IDE drive
Any other questions, just ask...
Err .... Jonathan, never heard of SATA or IDE .... Why an internal hard drive? If the computer gets hit by lightning surely that wouldn't help? Just been looking on Amazon and I see they are not expensive. Now, if someone could have a look there and recommend which external one I should get for the least outlay I would be grateful. I'm on XP Home 2002 Version if that's relevent. Sorry Anna, should have made it clear - the icy box or whatever encloses what is an internal drive and connects it as if it's an external one! SATA and IDE are just the way your PC connects to the hard drive. IDE is normal but SATA seems to be the newer method and is better in some indefinable way! |
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« Reply #491 on: 09:53:08, 15-05-2008 » |
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Thanks for that Ron, unfortunately it uses an AC adaptor and I am rather challenged when it comes to the spare wall plugs department. However small USB drives that don't need a separate power supply are very handy. I've got 2 80GB drives which are very easy to slip into your pocket or bag to take with you. Why should I wish to slip a 80GB into my pocket or baG? If your house burns down, you will still have your data in your pocket or bag! Quite frankly, if me house burns down, Beethoven's Eroica will be the least of me worries, I would be be more worried about losing Dr. Robert and The Blow Monkeys (note lack of rueful smiley emoticom) but my Building Society details would take preference to any music! Ah... well, you see, my Building Society details are stored on my computer... |
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« Reply #492 on: 14:10:25, 15-05-2008 » |
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Just noticed a faint but significant burbling noise coming from my (new) PC speakers. Thought maybe they were too near the Bband Hub but now 30cms apart and that hasn't helped.
Any ideas folks on curing this? The two small ones are under/behind the screen, the woofer is on the shelf under, 60cms from the tower.
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« Reply #493 on: 14:32:14, 15-05-2008 » |
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Burbling noise might be digital interference, John. Although it's coming from the speakers, it might not necessarily start there, though, just like the rest of the sounds that they produce. It might be a reaction to something closer to your PC, for example, or even inside it.
Move the speakers temporarily as far away from the hub as you can: if they still burble, then the problem lies elsewhere.
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« Reply #494 on: 16:27:27, 15-05-2008 » |
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May I interrupt these burblings to ask whether anyone has any experience of these mobile broadband setups (where you have a little USB stick that - I presume - connects itself to the mobile phone transmitter network)? Are they worth the dosh? If you have it can you use the stick on all your computers if you have more than one?
I was just thinking I might invest in such a thing because I should perhaps stop parasitising my neighbours' bandwidth when I'm at home, plus it seems to be getting less reliable <grumpy-but-also-somewhat-sheepish>.
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