Archive for August, 2009

Whos has better quality sunrooms ?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 4 Comments

We are either looking at the Oasis Sunroom by Joyce Mfg. or a sunroom by Patio Enclosures. We have convinced ourselves to by a vinyl sunroom as compared to a aluminum. Joyce only makes vinly where Patio Enclosures expertise seems to be more with aluminum. They make a vinyl sunroom, but they don’t seem to make a big effort in selling that style. Any information would help.

Is it Vinyl, or plastic?
What is warranty against fading? What is the glass warranty? What about workmanship (leaks) warranty. I have dealt with both, Each has their faults.
Good Luck

Is it feesible to spray paint an old CRT monitor of mine black?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 11 Comments

I have an old Bage coloured CRT monitor that I think looks a bit out dated now. I was wondering whether I would be able to spray paint the outer casing black to fit in more with the rest of my computer. The entire plastic enclosure detatches from the actual workings so damaging the electronics is not a worry. What I would like to know is whether the paint will stick to the plastic or whether it would simply drip off. If the latter is the case, would I be able to apply something to make it stick before hand?
If however it would work could I please have some advice on how to go about this. Please help! Cheers! :)
Sand the case a little bit so the paint has something to grab into. And do it by coats, 1st layer go easy, then 2nd apply more and so on.

is it advisable to use an external hard drive enclosure?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 4 Comments

I recently had my old desktop die on me, and i will be replacing it with a new one shortly. if i buy an external hdd enclosure, will the new desktop be able to read the hdd right off the bat so i can get at my old documents?
thanks for the answers guys. have any of you been thru what i’m planning to do? the answers sounds like theoretical ones. i don’t want to spend 40-50 bucks on something that will not work. i need to confirm if somebody did put an old hdd in a drive enclosure and that the new computer was able to access the data. thanks again

Yes. it will recognize there is new hardware, which is your external HDD. You can get all your saved files from the drive.

What driver do I need for Win98 to access a laptop harddrive in a USB enclosure?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 1 Comment

I have an old compaq laptop that doesn’t work, and I’ve taken the harddrive out and put it in a USB enclosure. When I plug it into my XP machine, I get a warning that I could destablize my system. So I decided to access it with my older, Win98 machine so if anything goes wrong, it won’t matter as much. But apparently I need a driver that is not included. Is there some kind of basic, universal driver I can download, or do I need one that is disk-specific? If so, what additional disk info do I need to identify the correct driver?

connect the drive in your xp machine and ignore the warning, immediately when windows recognize the data in the drive, run in ‘command prompt’ a fixing checkdisk, in the command screen type ‘ chkdsk x:/f ‘ and enter, where ‘x’ is the letter of the unit that windows recognize your usb drive, may be e, f, g… etc.. after doing this the usb drive will be completely safe..

if you anyway want to explore the drive in windows 98, then look in the label of it the brand of manufacturer and look for a driver in www.driverguide.com.. it’s free and it has thousands of drivers for any device, just will take a moment to register

good luck

Did the Enclosure Acts in the 17th and 18th Century have anything to do with the New World?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 2 Comments

I’m writing my APUSH essays and the Enclosure Acts are in the topic of "The Impact of the cultivation of Tobacco in Virginia on English Colonies during the 1600s and 1700s." But I didn’t think that the Enclosure Acts had anything to do with the colonies. So, I’m very confused. Please help me. Thanks.

Julia,
The Enclosure Acts drove many tenant farmers in England and Wales from those regions. The Acts basically facilitated removal of those farmers from their "holdings" as small farms were called, and left them poor and without a means of support in the English cities. Their small holdings, sometimes no larger than an acre, were fenced or walled in and made into grazing lands. These pasture lands required no tending except the occasional shepherd.

The demand for wool was increasing and the farmers were out of work and luck. The property owners didn’t care and the government could see no solution, save throwing them in debtor’s prison.

When moving them to the colonies was given as choice between prison and poverty, most moved to those colonies, usually to become laborers on tobacco farms or in the Carolinas as woodsmen. Ship’s stores were a big business as well, with wood and pitch being principal among those products.

Most of the farmers came to the colonies as "indentured servants." They had to repay their passage from England by working for seven or more years until they had worked off that expense. The colony of Virginia then promised them 40 acres (or thereabouts) and so many pieces of silver or gold. The land was conveyed by grant to be theirs from henceforth, meaning that the governments could not take it away as long as the taxes were paid.

Needless to say, the colonial expansion, begun in earnest in the early 1600’s exploded as the farmers joined the rush to settle the Americas, specifically, the Southern colonies.

Hope this helps. Email if you need more explanation.

A couple of sites perhaps would help as well:

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Enclosure+movement

General but good information in farlex

http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01419/agriculturalrevolutiontext.html

A little more detail in thinkquest. Also good info.

And, of course, Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

Need a good pair of subwoofers that can play from 20-600Hz and work in 0.60-cubic-foot enclosures?

August 28, 2009 - 1:18 am 1 Comment

Mounting under dash behind kicker panels and being used with 2 Veritas AW1-66VD horn drivers mounted under dash
hoping to use 10s but 8s are ok
only speakers in car. 2 seater trunk up front/engine out back.

Jl Audio TW5 subs are perfect for this custom install.

Vantec Firewire800 Hard Drive Beeping Part 2

August 26, 2009 - 2:09 am No Comments

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DabbaTZhN5s

This beeping happened when I ejected the firewire enclosure. And as it spun down the beeping kept going. I had to manually turn it off. This also happens when the enclosure is idle for a long time and then parks itself or goes to sleep. Power settings are set to NOT put disks to sleep. What’s going on here. Sometimes when it sleeps it doesn’t beep, but will always never come back from sleep and cause my Mac to beachball until I manually turn it off, wait a bit, and then turn it back on.

Hard drive is Seagate 7200.10 320gb. I’m not aware of the HD or the enclosure having it’s own power savings settings. Does anyone have an idea? The chipset of the enclosure if Oxford 934DSB.

Check Part 2 for even more drastic beeping.

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[LIVE] Yuuwaku, Honey - HydexGLAY Jack in the BOX (sub español)

August 26, 2009 - 2:09 am 15 Comments

Descárgalo en http://ichigonofansub.blogspot.com

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Apple’s Macbook Aluminum Unibody Enclosure creation

August 26, 2009 - 2:09 am No Comments

How Apple manufactures the new MacBooks!

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CNC milling into plastic enclosure - CNC frézování do plastové krabičky

August 26, 2009 - 2:09 am No Comments

English: Plastic enclosure CNC milling - the mounting hole for a current protector.
Česky: CNC frézování plastové krabičky - otvor pro proudový chránič.

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