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I had a couple of ceasures and a few heart attacks and I screamed so loud I think I lost my voice ... my neighbors probably think I am completely crazy as not too many follow the lakers here ... they are mostly minesota fans. Extra, Lakers were up by 1 with 12 seconds left. Spurs inbound the ball, lakers have a foul to give, they foul them with 6 seconds left. Spurs inbound again, ball goes to Duncan, shaq's right on his face, near the 3pt line .. Duncan falls back and makes a circus off balance shot to fall in which made the Spurs go up by 1 with 0.4 seconds left. Several time outs later ... Lakers inbound the ball ... and who gets it? FISHER!!! With 0.4 seconds he turns around and takes a shot catching NOTHING but net with the defender in his face!!!! Lakers win! So series is 3-2 Lakers up now (best of 7) Shaq put it best .. "A lucky shot deserves another"

What's the problem with it? I only use the regular one that's free.

Yah you can safely delete anything in temp. Also, you may want to run a full disk check from "My computer" on your desktop ... righ click my computer, then "manage", then in "Disk Mangement", right click on each disk (like C:, D:, ...), "properties", and under the "tools" tab you can do "check now". Some disks will ask you to reboot in order to check. The other method is to type "chkdsk /F" in the command prompt (start->run->cmd). Note that /F will fix potential errors. If you are worried about the contents of temp, copy it to another folder and delete in a few days. But there should be nothing there that is needed unless you put it there yourself. Also note that there are several temp folders. The standard ones are: C:\windows\temp C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp where user can be your login name, administrator, or any other login name you use on the PC. I have not had any problem with quicktime under windows XP so if you uninstall and reinstall, it should work fine.

If you guys are talking about Nick Berg, he was a civilian engineer and not a soldier.

I have actually used foil from a gum wrapper to bypass a burnt fuse on my blazer while offroad once.

Hey! There are no dumb questions. Just dumb people. Thanks for the replies fellas. The heat capacity explanation cleared things for me as the only thing that was puzzling me was how it would stay cooler than the ambient while it didn't stay cool at all ... it just gave off the little heat it had very rapidly.

Azat, I would admit but I never did any homework "Traverse jet flow, eh?" Oh blah ... it's not like it's rocket science ... oh wait, I guess it is! NERD! And no Sevan wasn't a member. The one that showed up at some point was Saro, the other turkey who's 10 years younger than me ... he just signed up to show off how he could solve the puzzles in that math thread that I couldn't

So in other words, the foil is at 425 degrees just like everything else but it gives the heat off very rapidly once the oven door is opened? That would kinda make sense. It is still pretty strange though.

Yes it is. Everytime I take pizza out of the oven I can just grab the foil and take it out of the oven while everything else is 425F degrees in there. Disclaimer: Do NOT try this at home.

By the way, Sevan's advisor is professor Ann Karagozian in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA. Congrats to both for an excellent job!

Link to full article.

Why is aluminum foil that has been in a 425F oven for 30 minutes cool to the touch?

What we shouldn't lose perspective of is whether what goes on in those prisons have actually improved since the US has moved in. I have this strange feeling that they have.

My buddy bought one of those really fancy and expensive white MACs for his fiance after she graduated. After a month or so, it completely crashed and died. I was talkiing to him and it was so funny when he said "it is probably the most expensive desk decoration ever" First they thought it was the hard drive and Apple's solution to anything is of course just reinstall back to factory. So they were worried they were going to lose all their pictures and videos that weren't backed up ... but finally the store decided to take a look at it and I think they found out the controller had failed.

Even worse than Ron Jeremy? I totally agree Azat and I also agree Vava.

Wait I thought you wanted that think you asked me before from here.

Not to sound like a broken record, but another one was released today. Seems as serious as the previous ones. So before the next virus pops up, do yourself a favor and run win update.

I would feel horrible about those reports of abuse if Iraq was known for it's track record for following international law (e.g. geneva convetion ...) but they themselves are certainly not playing by any rules so it's a bit strange coming down on the US for these reports and making the US to be the only bad guy. Are these reports desturbing and are the actions wrong? Sure. No doubt about it. But we are talking about prison and we are talking about a part of the world that is in huge chaos.

Give me a freaking break .. the prisoners here in the US get much worse treatment including daily rapings and being beat up or killed and you want me to feel sorry for a bunch of prisoners of war being paraded around with women's underwear? Oh boooo hooo hooo how sad. I just hope this is enough to ruin bush's chances of reelection as he totally pisses me off.

Your router uses something called "NAT" (network address translation). When you connect to a server, it looks at the negotiated ports and forwards things coming in from the server to the PC that made the request. But if the connection initiates from the server, the router won't know where to route the packets (i.e. to your PC) so that's why sometimes you have to forward the ports to your PC manually. Well, either that, or you put your PC in the DMZ and ALL ports will get forwarded to it from the router. Also, keep in mind that the port connecting from your PC to the router may be changed in the router (using NAT) to some other outgoing port from the router to the server. But what the router cannot do is it cannot use the same outgoing port connecting to the same server for 2 different PCs in your LAN ... because when a reply comes back, it won't know which PC it's for. However, if the request is going to two different servers then the router may be able to figure out which one is for which PC by keeping track of which PC made the request to which server in a table.

In order to set up a TCP or UDP connection between 2 PCs, one needs an IP address and port on one end and and IP address and port on the other end. Once a port is being used on a PC, then no other remote PC or local application can connect to that specific port of that PC. So if you connect to an FTP server on port 21, then that server can't accept any more incoming connections until you terminate your connection. To allow the server to service more than 1 connection at a time, the client and server usually negotiate and pick some random ports and start to communicate using that. This way, port 21 is kept free. Why then use Port 21? Because that's how you can get to the ftp server Port 80 is typically HTTP. When you request a website from a server using your browser, the browser connects to the server through port 80 and they setup a TCP socket on some random avialable ports and then the server starts sending the files requested by the client. Port 80 is freed up for the next client that is going to request things from the server.

One more thing: In windows, you can use the command "netstat -a" to see all current TCP/UDP connections which might help you debug such problems.

Port 21 is the default server port for FTP (i.e. incoming connections). It won't effect a client trying to access a remote server as the client might use any random available port to establish the outgoing connection (to port 21 on the server). After a connection is established, the server and client can be using random ports. So the problem with the router usually happens when the client connects to the server, the server tries to set a connection up back to the client through some port ... but that port doesn't get forwarded from the router to your PC so the connection fails.

SFTP seemed to be available by default on 1&1 after setting up a regular FTP account. You just need an SFTP client. I use SecureFX. The default windows FTP client is very limited. The folder uses IE and it's also fairly limited. If you temporarily need to get them to work, you can put your PC in the what's usually called the "Demiliterized Zone (DMZ)" in the router which means ALL ports get forwarded to that PC. Otherwise, you might have to experiment with port forwarding in NAT and the router Firewall to get some ftp clients to work right.