Well, in case anyone is interested in an update, these Philips bulbs did arrive. And I was wrong, they are not vaporware.
The light from them is good. But they are a little bit longer and bulkier than the traditional chandelier bulbs they replaced. They make the chandelier and hanging...
Hmm. Now Amazon is saying my order will be delivered on 6/25 (even though I used Prime shipping). And the bulbs are showing as "In stock on June 24" on Amazon.
I still think these might be vaporware.
For the filament LEDs I already have, they're not perfect but I like them. And I hate the thought of paying twice for electricity for the old fashioned bulbs. Once to light the bulb and twice for air conditioning to remove the heat they produce.
Update: they appear to exist as vaporware but they're not in stock anywhere.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-40-Watt-Equivalent-B11-Dimmable-Warm-Glow-Dimming-Effect-LED-Candle-Light-Bulb-Bent-Tip-E12-Soft-White-2700K-3-Pack-536664/309686121
Edit: I see they're in stock for the first time...
I want my house to be all LED. I'm just about there but I can't find any good LED bulbs for my chandeliers. I like them to turn more orange when you dim them, like traditional incandescents do. I really like the Philips Warm Glow bulbs and use them as much as I can in all my fixtures.
But...
Awesome info. Thanks!
Happen to know of a way to replicate sending on UDP port 9 on Windows, with a throughput measure? Or maybe a linux command for my ubuntu guest virtual machine?
I'm thinking maybe netcat / nc, but I'm not so familiar with it.
Hello,
I'd like to use my windows laptop to measure and diagnose my Wi-Fi performance. I've been diagnosing my Wi-Fi network using Wi-Fi Sweetspots for iphone (description here: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-speed-test-your-local-wifi-router-performance-from-a-phone/).
It shows an...
Hello,
I'm pleasantly surprised to see my WNR2000v1 is stable as a wireless AP with its stock firmware. Wondering if there's any benefit to switching to OpenWRT.
Background:
The thing had been flaky as anything as a wireless router. Reboot every day or two, and a thousand dropped...
Problem Solved!!! Many thanks to Fernando 1 over at nForcersHQ! Link: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/can-t-boot-off-intel-ssd320-in-dell-e521-nforce4-t75157-20.html
That's very strange. She has the exact same problem, that it can be used as a secondary drive using the plain Microsoft SATA drivers but not as the boot drive?
It's a strange problem -- why would it work as a secondary drive but not as the boot drive?
I can boot from it using the nvidia...
Edit: WOO HOO! PROBLEM SOLVED!! (see below)
Hi everyone
I'm having trouble getting an intel ssd320 80GB to work as the boot drive on a dell e521 (edit: nForce430/410 southbridge) with Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
Executive summary of the problem: the machine will not boot off the SSD once I...
I suppose that depends on processor speed versus access times. And the likelihood of the processor being idle at that time.
Of course that might drive power consumption up, assuming the cpu wattage under load versus idle is more than the hdd wattage spinning versus idle (probably a safe...
I don't know... when high prices are caused by flooding, I think absorbitant might be the best way to describe it. :biggrin:
Yes, it seems plausible that they might be able to get away with some horizontal output restrictions for a very short while. The key is to have no communication or...
very informative thread. My thought was also that hard drives don't protect you from power loss on the info it's currently writing.
It seems the newness of SSDs is causing people to be cautious and think up what potential problems they could have--not realizing that existing tech. often has...
Well, there's some debate about whether the freezer trick works. But the bottom line, to my mind, is that if you've got a dead drive and you're definitely not going to pay the money to go with data recovery service, it's worth a shot...
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd condemn all OCZ drives, but I would definitely think twice before getting an older one like the vertex plus with the old Indilinx controller. You'd be in for both speed and reliability issues, most probably.
Personally, I'd get a used 80gb x25-m g2. I did that awhile ago for my dell d620 laptop and couldn't be happier. Rock solid, nice and quick. And it's got the disk optimizing utility to schedule the once-a-week TRIM. They've gone down in price on ebay since then, too. Hovering around $80 for 80GB.
Prices are definitely being held up by system manufacturers and manufacturers of value-add products that contain hard drives snatching up any available stock of OEM drives. You can see this if you look at the bizarre situation of sales flyers right now with portable hard drive and external...
I would have thought any chance of FTC action against Intel is long gone, after the main complainants, nvdia and AMD, dropped/settled/resolved their suits.
But now that AMD is bowing out of the high-end CPU market, it's impossible to say what will happen. Who's likely to compete with Intel...
Hey Zap
I've just googled my way through installing my intel x25-m g2 on my winxp laptop. I'm happy to share my findings, in the hope it will help out some other people in a similar position. So I've written it up here:
Quick and Dirty Windows XP SSD Howto
Note: lots of the credit for...
yep. In this case, I think it's partially the reviewers' faults. I haven't seen anyone--including Anand--mention the reliability problems with the Sandforce drives. But the errors seem prevalent, more than just isolated anecdotes (see messages from OCZ & A-Data cust. serv. depts. above)
what I mean to say is, that if there are resume from sleep/bsod problems with the C300 (check other threads in this forum for examples) then you might not want it in your laptop. Depends on your usage pattern.
is there a reliability difference? Is the C300 as reliable for things like resume from sleep, etc.? I've heard the Sandforce have problems with that, though it might be just with XP? Not sure on that.
Just for kicks and giggles, I decided to bench my new (used) x25-m g2 80gb using my usb2.0-to-sata adapter before installing it. I used my trusty dell d620 laptop. Even limited by the USB bus it still managed to outdo the internal 5400rpm sata hdd in sequential, and demolish it in random...
@tal: :)
@davidh: well, of course you could be right. But I still find what I said above pretty persuasive, given that companies would lose a heck of a lot more money by pulling all their products off the shelf than by replacing things piecemeal and telling their users to wait for a fix...
You're equating this to the normal RMA process that companies use to handle unavoidable error rates and faulty hardware. But take a look around the newegg reviews when someone has a bad experience with other hardware. Companies normally say, "sorry for your negative experience, we'll be happy...
I'm not so sure it's not the controller. Take a look at the quotes I quoted above from the Customer Service Depts. of both OCZ and A-DATA about the problems they're having with their Sandforce drives.
hey man, it's cool, I didn't mean anything by it. :)
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