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Micky <NONONObobbyburns1111@gmail.com>: Jun 17 09:07AM -0400 On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:10:00 -0400, Micky   >Great. I'll replace it. Easy enough.   >16volts 1000uF, I suppose the bag of caps in the basement for the last >30 years are too old to use???? If so I'll buy a new one.   I had two never-used caps of the right size in the basement and I was too impatient to try to test them, so I just used one to replace the original.   It didn't work.   Finally someone suggested what I already knew and forgot, to test the speaker with a battery. It clicked the first time the battery was touched to the plug but not again. Then clicked again when the plug tip and ring were shorted to each other. So the speaker was good and probably always good. I should have done this first.   And that means the left channel of the amplifier probably has a problem.     >That still leaves the possibility that something about the first-pair >speaker that works broke and it didn't pass the sound on to the other >one. They use different channels of the same amplifier.   That appears to be the case.     >But it was hard** to open the speaker, so I'll do the cap first.   The grill along with its grill cloth was glued in place in the first speaker, and I had to break two of the four plastic prongs to take it off, which was needed to find the screws and take off the back. I suspect the other one is glued too and don't want to break it open, especially since it's going to a friend who only, for some reason, wants one speaker. At least for now. So what good would it do to fix it. I'll keep the second speaker, which has an RCA plug on it.   Thanks for the help.

jurb6006@gmail.com: Jun 16 04:41PM -0700 OK first have a laugh. My PC at work has a touch screen, not that I ever use it. Normally it shuts down after do many minutes, but today there was a fly there and when it landed on the screen it turned it back on.   But my question is about Acrobat reader. The newer versions, some asshole decided to make the hand cursor change to the select mode after a few seconds. In every other $%&*& of that SOB I have been able to find the setting to turn that "feature" off. This thing is Win 10 and running the newest version of Acrobat Reader. Unfortunately it is a gun free zone, the proprietor o a business has the right to make it illegal to bring guns in, otherwise I would consider shooting the damn thing.   Joking of course, I would not willfully destroy someone else's property.   They took it away a while back, supposedly to upgrade it. It had some strange ass PDF viewer on it that just hung when I tried to view a file so I had to get the reader. Acrobat Reader DC I think.   I have been having trouble finding old versions of programs these days. For example I would like Firefox 23. Oh, and let's not even go into what I can't find in the new version of that, which is what I run at work.   Another thing is that with all the wires strung all over the bench I would rather have a tower than a laptop. Last job, something I carried off the bench caught a wire and pulled the laptop off the bench and broke the screen. They didn't really care, it was an old XP machine and wasn't all that fancy. Of course by the time I got to it it had viruses and the homepage had been hijacked. In fact on work PCs I just put Google into the bookmarks now, screw a homepage.   All I need is to be able to find, download and view PDFs almost exclusively. In fact most of the time from now on if I have to post a question here or on another forum I intend to do that on their time. Bout time I make an email address for that in fact.   All in all though, I do have to admit that it seems like Win 10 is better than Win 8. I have found it easier to find certain things. For example I can't believe how slow most mouses are. (is it mice in this particular instance of use ?) There is limited space in my world so I want the mouse as fast as possible. The setting was moved around but I found it. On their time.   Why the hell couldn't they have just converted Win98SE to NTFS, cleared the 130GB limit, put in UAC and left the rest of it alone ? Just charge for the updates. There are a bunch of things I have not yet tried in Win 10, and I almost don't want to because I know I am going to find something that you just can't do anymore. But you can probably keep up with your twits. Can you direct text to a phone from a PC ? If not, they are really fucking this shit up. I know you can email, but a real time text ?   Anyway, I am going to have a few beers and get ready for the flames, commentary and whatnot. Hopefully someone knows how to get rid of that totally annoying "feature" in Acrobat Reader. Before I just take the thing home and shoot it in the backyard.

JW <none@dev.null>: Jun 17 05:57AM -0400 On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:41:50 -0700 (PDT) jurb6006@gmail.com wrote in   >OK first have a laugh. My PC at work has a touch screen, not that I ever use it. Normally it shuts down after do many minutes, but today there was a fly there and when it landed on the screen it turned it back on.   >But my question is about Acrobat reader.   Why bother? Try http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

kropelka@gmail.com: Jun 17 03:36AM -0700 > All I need is to be able to find, download and view PDFs almost exclusively. In fact most of the time from now on if I have to post a question here or on another forum I intend to do that on their time. Bout time I make an email address for that in fact.   I just use Evince, it's theoretically document viewer for Gnome desktop environment but Windows version works just fine. It's lightweight, opens PDFs, Postscripts and so on without a problem and it's open source so no nagging to buy premium version, spyware or joy of finding right download site (or right button, not one that's really part of some ad) that doesn't want to use their own "downloader" to load crap into your computer like typical windows free desktop app. Works on Windows XP onwards.   Best regards, -- Karol Piotrowski

Tim R <timothy42b@aol.com>: Jun 17 05:20AM -0700 We're using W10 at home, but it's not demanding use, mostly my wife checking Facebook and email.   My only complaint was that a DVD wouldn't play. Apparently it's a known bug. There may be a workaround but I installed VLC and that works fine.   Also, when it goes to powersave it disconnects the wifi, and you have to manually reconnect. There's probably a fix for that I haven't found, but really it's no trouble to click the button again.

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Jun 17 04:03PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet Mr.E wrote: >> learn something every day.   > The FRU 13N2590 is a desktop FRU. The thinkpad group was "fishing" > for a knowledgeable repair person for Lenovo.   Ahh, ok. I guess if I'd looked at the fan size I would have maybe noticed. However the "12 Volt" thing jumped out at me first.   w/r/t desktop fans I just match physical size, number (and function) of wires and rated current draw or volume of air moved. Sometimes only a few of the preceeding. ;) -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

isw <isw@witzend.com>: Jun 16 08:24PM -0700 In article <4aa2c184-028c-4103-ab9b-1b2d88b411c9@googlegroups.com>, > want to get out of the house.   > Personally I would rather work for a place that wants to make money. In fact > HAS to make money because that makes me more valuable.   Why don't you just write up the purchase order and take it to be approved, instead of carping about it?   Isaac

"Gareth Magennis" <soundserviceleeds@outlook.com>: Jun 16 09:55PM +0100 I'm well glad I'm in a position to refuse to repair this kind of bollocks.     Gareth.                 "N_Cook" wrote in message news:njtpl8$9cm$1@dont-email.me...   On 16/06/2016 00:07, Gareth Magennis wrote:   > You might want to reconsider that. Isn't that restricting the amps > headroom?   > Gareth.   yes, going the wrong way, so removed. On the air-movement lack of design, instead of drilling small screws through the h/s for the pcb mounting screws, they deep milled off the corners so making it even less likely the air will pass through the restriction of the h/s vanes

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