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  1. Fred Seger

    Hard Drive Life Span

    as long as you protect it from electrical surges and didn't physically damage it - i.e. dropping it,moisture etc. It should last quite sometime, probably decades. The interface would be obsolete before you'd have to worry about the HD data IMO.
  2. Fred Seger

    mp3 download service - suggestions

    I use yahoo music. $7-$10 a month. I don't use it with a portable music player. I believe they have a free trial if you wanted to give it a shot.
  3. Fred Seger

    HELP - Need some "used car sales" movie clips

    I've always liked the car salesman scenes from True Lies
  4. Fred Seger

    Hot water recirculators

    I've got a hot water recirculator and I love it. On mine the pump is installed on top of the water heater and the "last" facet get a valve installed on it. Also has a timer to set it to only run during "normal use hours". The valve is adjustable so you can set how hot you want it right away. I...
  5. Fred Seger

    deregulation backfires in Maryland

    what do you mean? That the CF bulbs really don't use less energy or that the energy cost saved doesn't offset the cost of the bulb?
  6. Fred Seger

    Winter Olympic Events you would eliminate

    Another vote for figure skating.
  7. Fred Seger

    web filtering software

    I just installed a program called Naomi on my daughters computer. http://www.radiance.m6.net/ It's very simple, but free and seems to work - how good I don't know yet. You might also check out the links at the bottom of the page above for other useful software.
  8. Fred Seger

    Awesome Christmas Light Video

    Day after I read this the guy two house down from put up all most hte exact same thing. It's great we don't have to go anywhere to look at good lights. I don't think anybody knows about it yet as traffic isn't up at all.
  9. Fred Seger

    Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 - SciFi US broadcast thread

    If only we could get it in HD in the US.
  10. Fred Seger

    Algae in swimming pool. How to rid?

    Letting the filter run is very important for getting the water clear again also. And clean it often ( if its a cartridge filter).
  11. Fred Seger

    Cooking Question: Crispy Chicken Strips

    My favorite way to make chicken. 1) coat with flour 2) dip in beat eggs 3) coated in (3/4 cornflakes sorta groundup - 1/4 parmasaen cheese) 4) have enough oil to at least cover half chicken pcs - flip as necessary the parmaseam cheese relly adds flavor and the cornaflakes add crunch
  12. Fred Seger

    Batteries

    Actually mAH is a thousandth of an AH not a millionth. And most consuumer battires aaa,aa,c,d run at 1.2v per cell regarless of composition (li-on, nimh, alkaline etc). As explained above, mAH will tell you how long it will run at certain current. Generaly the higher the rating, the longer it...
  13. Fred Seger

    America's Latest Idiot

    Actually there are green laser pointers that they started selling about a year ago in astronomy catalogs/websites that are more visible than the standard red laser pointers. They're not much more powerful but the spectrum of light makes them more visible. On a clear dark night it seems to...
  14. Fred Seger

    Cleaning X1 color wheel - big improvement

    With about a 1000 hours on my X1, the picture was getting dimmer and dimmer and the colors seemed very poor. I figured it was just the bulb getting old and getting dimmer, and I was just trying to throw to big a picture with this little low lumen projector. The picture was getting so bad that I...
  15. Fred Seger

    What's the most you've ever won on a scratch off?

    My old roommate won $100,000 last year on a $10 scratch off
  16. Fred Seger

    Directors First dvd???

    As Good As it Gets
  17. Fred Seger

    Experiences with Progressive car insurance?

    I've had Progressive in the past. Always very prompt about claims. At least in Ohio they have there agents drive out to see your vehicle a couple hours after you call. I claimed 2 back windows and 1 front window in my truck all within about 3 months and the adjuster( i think that's the term)...
  18. Fred Seger

    *** Official THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Discussion Thread

    Although I didn't laugh out loud, I did laugh at that gollum line.
  19. Fred Seger

    DVD authoring software

    I second dvdlab for authoring - very good and affordable
  20. Fred Seger

    Question about Forrest Gump film if you've seen many times, or have dvd ?

    As far as I recall, Forrest plays against the chinese at the championship or something. He plays a soldier once in the hospital after his million dollar wound. And he bounces it alot by himself against walls and such. I think that's the extent or table tennis in the movie
  21. Fred Seger

    computer problems

    If you can't get IE to start working properly switch to Slimbrowser or Mozilla web browsers( both are free)
  22. Fred Seger

    Folded Horns?

    Reasons most people don't use horns. 1) Construction complexity. Easier to build a square box than a tractrix profile horn. 2) Size - like you mentioned 3) Design - a new set of calculations and equations are needed. 4) Limited drivers with that said - I love my LAB horn subwoofer...
  23. Fred Seger

    I-tunes Question

    So I want to a buy Mary Chapin Carpenters cd - but they are all "partial albums". there are no buttons to buy the entire album like on most other cds' I've seen. So you can buy partial albums or what?? Is this a bug in my windows software or do they do this on albums that have more than ten...
  24. Fred Seger

    Has anyone tried the Trikke 3 wheeler?

    I saw that commercial - how much did one go for
  25. Fred Seger

    Got my X1, what are you using for screen??

    I used matt white painted screen for a month or two and then I got a dalite HCCV screen 54"x92". It improved the black level on my X1 (which was already better than the XGA LCD it replaced). The DIY screen I used with the LCD just dimmed the picture to much. The HCCV kept the picture brighter...
  26. Fred Seger

    $5k ... buy a used car or use as a downpayment on a new car?

    Don't let little cars fool you. Sometimes they have more room than "mid sized cars". I 6'4" 250 and I fit in my friends Honda CRX just fine. I would buy used and probably would spend over the $5000 you have saved up already.
  27. Fred Seger

    Remo Williams DVD - MGM screws up BIG TIME!

    NO SALE :thumbsdown:
  28. Fred Seger

    All Infocus X1 technical issues (merged thread)

    Try a Neutral Density glare filter. which will reduce light output and also rainbow effects. or try a gray screen, which has about the same effect as a filter. or a larger screen. ( if possible of course ). When i got my X1, I never really saw rainbows but would get headaches after watching a...
  29. Fred Seger

    Who has an X1 and likes it?

    I loved my X1 until last weekend when it decided to throw a permanently green tinted image. I had to send it back in to get it fixed. Luckily I hadn't sold my old projector, a Toshiba XGA LCD. So I setup it up. I immediately noticed how much better the X1 was even though it was a lower...
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