I just found a bunch of iOmega zip drive disks (the 100 meg kind) in a closet as I was cleaning it out. Obviously nobody has those drives anymore... is there a cheap, easy way to get that back, or should I just throw them out?
posted by BuddhaInABucket
on Jan 22, 2008 -
16 answers
When I was a child I was exposed to some very early anime. I remember fragments of it, but not what it was called, the plot or any reall relevant details. The general theme seemed to be that an evil...thing was trying to control the world. His primary henchman was a man whose power was to turn people into...mannequins seems to be the best fit.
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posted by Pontifex
on Dec 30, 2007 -
7 answers
Is PCIe 1.x x16 a viable technology for a gaming PC intended to last for the next 3+ years? What about DDR2?
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posted by cyrusdogstar
on Dec 27, 2007 -
10 answers
When your sleep is frequently interrupted and your memory and focus suffer, how do you get back up to speed?
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posted by EastCoastBias
on Dec 25, 2007 -
27 answers
I recently added 2 gigs of RAM to my PC but Windows Task Manager/System properties do not recognize it, while BIOS and Crucial.com do. What could be causing this issue?
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posted by bostonhill
on Dec 20, 2007 -
11 answers
Probably easy iPod question: my iPod has more available memory than my computer does. How do I use all the space on my iPod without maxing out my computer's hard drive?
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posted by Pater Aletheias
on Dec 7, 2007 -
19 answers
Where is this idea from? "You can be a connoisseur of anything, even driveway gravel" I have this paraphrased idea in my mind that I swear I read somewhere. However, I can't seem to remember its source.
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posted by k7lim
on Dec 3, 2007 -
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How much memory can my computer hold?
My computer specs:
Dell XPS 600
OS: WinXP Professional 5.1 SP2 (Build #2600)
CPU: Intel Pentium D , 2.99 GHz,
1024KB Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (1920x1200x32bpp 60Hz)
I went on crucial.com and their scanner said my computer can have up to 8 gigs of memory but a friend of mine told me that XP can actually only hold 3 gigs of ram. How true is this?
I currently have 2 gigs of ram and I was looking to go as high as 5 mainly because I work with After Effects a lot and rendering is a pain in the ass.
Thanks in advance everyone.
posted by cheero
on Nov 25, 2007 -
14 answers
How can I force Windows to allow an application (Stata) to allocate itself more memory, when I have plenty of unused physical memory?
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posted by matthewr
on Nov 18, 2007 -
12 answers
I'm trying to find the title of a movie which frightened me as a child (40's/50's) In the movie, a young girl's mother has died & she has nightmares or fantasies about a killer who wears a feather. At the climax she sees the shadow of that feather coming for her & it turns out to be a lady's hat(the woman who is about to become her evil stepmother)maybe played by Bette Davis? & she is saved by her father.
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posted by comfortinsound
on Nov 13, 2007 -
5 answers
Is Firefox churning my Powerbook? When I have more than a few tabs open, I hear (and see- on my little menubar app) heavy hard drive activity. It feels like it gets stuck in some kind of endless swap and the performance of the machine seems to suffer. More importantly, the noise drives me nuts. I suspect Firefox memory management issues. I know Firefox has a bad rep in this dept. Suggestions? Tweeks? Opera?
posted by Area Control
on Nov 6, 2007 -
18 answers
So it's
NaNoWriMo and I didn't do my research beforehand! Help child psychology buffs! What kind of memory / memory loss is typically exhibited in adults who lost a sibling at preschool age (aprox 4 years). More details below.
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posted by DecemberRaine
on Nov 3, 2007 -
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Whenever I think of a person out of the past (I'm 67, and have an excellent recall of schoolmates and even casual acquaintances from the distant past) a mental thumbnail photograph of that person always pops into my thoughts. Accurate in every way. I find almost no names in memory without full face photographs, probably thousands of them. My question, is this a rare ability or is it common?
posted by fkeese
on Oct 30, 2007 -
9 answers
My iPod and iTunes are no longer cooperating. Every attempt to sync maxes out my memory use and hangs the iTunes app.
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posted by grabbingsand
on Oct 17, 2007 -
3 answers
Why is my laptop limited to 2Gb total memory, according to the specs? It has 2 PC2-5300 DDR2 memory slots, and the manufacturer sells a 2Gb card for it (in addition to 1Gb cards). Maybe a dumb question, but why can't it take two 2Gb cards? It's a Toshiba Satellite L45-S7423.
posted by DarkForest
on Oct 17, 2007 -
10 answers
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Great, Columbus=1492, got it. What else you know? I'm looking for silly and/or clever ways to remember history.
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posted by iamkimiam
on Oct 15, 2007 -
55 answers
Is there a scientific name for the information gap between an event and the traces that we have of this event?
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posted by bru
on Oct 1, 2007 -
18 answers
I know many people, including myself, mistakenly repeat events in our lives to the same individual. However, I have a friend who constantly tells me same things repeatedly. Not nag me to do things, but tell me things that we’ve already discussed at length either verbally or through email.
For instance, his car was broken into and his radio was stolen. He told me the day it happened and gave me all the facts. Then a week later, he raised the case again saying he had to go to the store and look for a new radio because his was stolen and he repeated all the facts. Then in an email the other day he told me that he bought a new radio for his car because a few weeks ago, his was stolen. He brings it up as if I’ve never heard it before. He doesn’t just do it with negative events. He does it if he gets a cool gift, or promotion, etc. I’ve told him before that he does this.
I started feeling that I wasn’t important enough in his life for him to remember our interactions. I mentioned it to another friend and they laughed and said that he does it to them too which started to get me worried. Is there a psychological/medical reason that my friend does this and should I be worried about their health?
posted by anonymous
on Sep 27, 2007 -
35 answers
My mother remembers events incorrectly, but is
convinced this was how it happened.
Is there a term for this? What can it be a symptom of? Is it common?
Is it psychological, neurological, sth-else-ical?
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posted by ClarissaWAM
on Sep 17, 2007 -
46 answers
My 2Gb SD card stopped working under Windows, works with the camera and Ubuntu, what's the problem?
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posted by tseo
on Sep 13, 2007 -
15 answers
Can I do anything with this read-only USB flash drive, or should I just write it off as a lost cause?
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posted by misha
on Sep 2, 2007 -
6 answers
How do I fix it if Vista is causing my new off-brand laptop to choke while playing DVDs?
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posted by letahl
on Aug 22, 2007 -
4 answers
Does such RAM exist in a single 2GB DIMM: 200-Pin DDR SO-DIMM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Notebook Memory?
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posted by drinkspiller
on Aug 2, 2007 -
6 answers
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.5 and Roboform extension v6.9.4. When I visit Gmail, I get a ridiculously high memory spike, usually about 200mb. Why is this?
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posted by Rabulah
on Jul 28, 2007 -
2 answers
Scientists out there, what are the best physical constants or material properties to have memorized for back-of-the-envelope calculations?
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posted by SBMike
on Jul 17, 2007 -
25 answers
Sometimes when I smoke marijuana, my short-term memory remains nuked for 1-2 days after I smoke. This symptom doesn't seem to be correlated with the amount of marijuana smoked, and does not reliably happen when I smoke the same marijuana twice (i.e., it's not bad/different weed that causes it). It usually happens when I drink moderate amounts of alcohol in addition to smoking, but not always. Does this happen to other people? Is this harmful? Is it possible to counteract this effect? Does this mean I should completely stop smoking marijuana?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 23, 2007 -
26 answers
My name is Christian. It seems that whenever someone mistake my name for another, they mistake it for François at least 80% of the time. Why?
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posted by jchgf
on Jun 3, 2007 -
50 answers
Upgrading memory - is the price difference between DDR PC3200 and DDR PC4000 worth it?
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posted by jbickers
on May 31, 2007 -
10 answers
