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reless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.31.178

When a Windows computer is configured to get an IP address from a DHCP server but is then unable to connect to one, Windows will automatically assign it an IP address of 169.x.x.x. This provides a usable ip address so you can connect to local computers, printers, etc., without any user intervention.

(The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) reserved the IP addresses 169.254.0.0 through 169.254.255.255 for automatic private IP addressing).

Download Windows XP ModeDownload Windows XP Mode with Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Check to make sure that the device you’ve jumpered as Master is plugged into the end of the ribbon cable, (the black connector), and the device jumpered as Slave is plugged into the middle connector, (the gray one).

(The blue connector on the far end of the ribbon cable plugs in the motherboard).

http://www.LogMeIn.com

“Micro USB”, “USB Micro” and “Micro B” are all referring to the same connector. (The new ‘standard’ connector for cell phones).

The following WesternDigital.com page has a replacement 18″ cable for your ‘My Passport Essential’:

http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayAccesoryProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.9265600/productID.169044800/parid.13092300/catid./categoryID.14162000

As you can see, one end has the standard male ‘USB A’ connector that plugs into a USB port on your computer and the other end has the “Micro B”/”USB Micro”/”Micro USB” connector. (The new ‘standard’ connector for cell phones).

Comparison

Adapter

Newegg.com: StarTech UUSBMUSBMF Micro USB to Mini USB 2.0 Adapter M/F
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200524&cm_re=microusb_miniusb_adapter-_-12-200-524-_-Product

Micro USB will be the Standard

Wikipedia: USB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb

Mini and Micro
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The cellular phone carrier group, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP), have recently endorsed Micro-USB as the standard connector for data and power on mobile devices.[22] These include various types of battery chargers, allowing Micro-USB to be the single external cable link needed by some devices. As of January 30, 2009 Micro-USB has been accepted by almost all cell phone manufacturers as the standard charging port (including Apple, HTC, Motorola, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Research In Motion) in the EU and most of the world. Worldwide conversion to the new cellphone charging standard is expected to be completed between 2010 to 2012.

In addition, on 22 October 2009 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced that it had embraced micro-USB as the Universal Charger Solution its “energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution”, and added: “Based on the Micro-USB interface, UCS chargers will also include a 4-star or higher efficiency rating—up to three times more energy-efficient than an unrated charger.”[23]

PCMag.com: 17 Mobile Companies Adopt Micro USB Standard
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341261,00.asp

Mineral Oil Submersion Cooling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoDmDWpFptY

Google: submersion cooling
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How to save camera batteries … and possibly delay the onset of gray hair(?):

[indent]Use a card reader[/indent]

Another way to get to it is to right-click “My Computer”, (either on the Desktop or in the “Start” button), and then select “Manage”.

You can also type in diskmgmt.msc in Start>Run.

Or, forget all of the hassle and simply use GMail.

Wherever you go, if you’ve “got ‘net”, there’s your GMail.

(Great built-in SPAM filter too).

I know it’s very “Old School” but on every new (or used) drive that I get, I do the DOS FDISK (to set up the partitions) and the DOS Format, to not only format the drive, but to certify that it is working correctly and can reliably store data. Only then, when a drive has been ‘certified’ (to my satisfaction) will I put it into a system.

The MS-DOS (MicroSoft Disk-Operating-System) ‘FDISK’ program is only capable of creating FAT(file-allocation-table)12 and FAT16 partitions. FAT16 can support only 2 GB per partition. It is limited to a maximum of 65,525 clusters with 32,768 bytes per cluster. 65,525 x 32,768 = 2,147,123,200 bytes [~2GB].

MS-DOS versions 4.0 and later do allow FDISK to partition hard disks up to 4 GB (gigabytes) in size. But because of the 2 GB partition limit, a hard disk between 2 and 4 GB in size must be broken down into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB.

The derivative of ‘FDISK’ that shipped with the original version of Windows 95 is also limited to FAT12 and FAT16. The one provided with Windows 95B and C, Windows 98, and Windows ME is able to manipulate FAT32 partitions. Windows 2000 and later do not use ‘FDISK’. They use the Logical Disk Manager, as well as DiskPart.