Hello people. I have an oldish 800MB hard drive here which is still working (it stores some audio files). Recently, after a power surge, it developed a "bad block" (4kb marked as bad), but it still works correctly. Q: What is a "bad block" in a hard drive? Physical damage?

I am looking for a very small MP3 player that records voice? It goes not have to be the very smallest MP3 player in the entire world. But I do want it to be as small as I can get.

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Hi, Can anyone reccomend a decent product or kit for building a DMM that runs off a PC sound card ? I have a perfectly good DMM, but I want to measure voltage fluctuations over a period of time (say 24 hours), and obviously I need a way to record this data. I have a simple server (P300, 64MB,...

Hi, I have a fairly old (circa 1980) marantz stereo receiver, which has an annoying humm to it. I reduced a lot of the hum by replacing a couple of large caps in the power supply, but it still humms and the only time it doesn't is if I firmly hold the heatsink attacked to the amplifier chip.. ...

I dunno, this university newsgroup server is like crap. It stopped getting new messages for two days, then it went down for another day, and now it's back up and it looks like I've posted some stuff multiple times. Oh well. Sorry about that.

Hi, I have a wiring loom with at least 25 wires, and I need to check voltages on each of them. They all terminiate into a couple of plugs, in which the pin sockets are far too small to get a mulimeter probe into. It's simply not practical to cut each one, test, and re-solder (not to mention...

Hi all, I have a logitech z-340 speaker set and I want to get the grille off the front of the sub so I can take the speaker out and hopefully get at the power transformer inside (assuming it's hidden as it's not mounted on the PCB and the AC in wires go all the way inside the box and not to the...

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Hi all, I'm looking for a way to stop RF interfence in a taxi, from the 2way/computer, etc on weak radio stations. The whole setup includes a 2way, taxi meter, computer (used for dispatch), and security camera all integrated together. Whenever the equipment is turned on, weak stations (such as...

It's not computer hardware, but I don't know on which group to ask. I'm having doubts what shaving device to buy. This are my shortlisted ones : panasonic es518a braun 3770 philips hq 468 micro + philips hq 444

I want to get something like a pen cam ("spy pen") to record business meetings secretly. Are there any very small cell phones with camera which might be nearly as small as these? http://www.pakatak.co.uk/shop/product.asp?P_ID=431 http://www.pakatak.co.uk/shop/product.asp?P_ID=414

Looks as though my POS IBM HD is about to go any day now. So, I'm planning on reinstalling XP Pro on a new HD and was wondering what I should back up, so that I'll have most if not all of the settings, both for Windows and for my programs. I know it's a rather broad and general question, but I'd...

Hello, I have been asked by a charity in my home town to consult on getting a computer system in to manage their rota of slightly over 300 volunteers filling about 180 different duties (time slots) in a week. The biggest problem they have without a doubt is getting the 60-80 year old volunteers...

I apologyze because I understand that maybe this is not the right newsgropu, but I'm not able to find out a more appropriate one. My problem: I'm unable to record any videos on screen, even if I've tried to do it with a lot of programs, both free and shareware. I mean: if I try to record a video...

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I'm trying to program a Java Applet on my Linux computer using javac. As such, I'm using a web browser (specifically, Mozilla) using the Java Run-time environment test my applet. However, no matter how many times I hit the "Refresh" button in the browser, it doesn't update the applet. This makes...

Hello, * How menay users buy linux hardware? * Will they pay more to have Linux supported by hardware shops? * Or to have open driver? I wrote a small, online, open poll about, about that topic, if anyone is interested. If anyone have ~15 minutes to fill it in (or ~5 minutes for the short

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