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YW Moderator-72-
Laptop platforms with built-in cooling fans are also sold.
That said, it can’t hurt, but I’m not saying it’s something that all laptops need.
My almost-five-year-old laptop runs hot, and I’ve never done anything special to keep it cool – just made sure that the vents are unobstructed and the fan is running.
(Then again, a relative who bought the same model at the same time had his fail two years ago…)
Additional info;
It is extremely important that all ventilation holes are unobstructed. Working on a soft surface, such as a bed, blanket or carpet can wholly or partially obstruct vent holes.
There are products sold that raise the laptop to facilitate airflow and cooling (as “kapusta” alluded to).
As with all PCs, heat is the greatest cause of component failure, and laptops are more vulnerable than desktops because of the way all components must be squashed into a small space.
I can’t speak for your particular model, but yes – it is normal for some laptops to get quite warm.
There have even been cases where people wearing shorts have gotten burned by keeping their laptops on their laptops.
In addition, the heat emitted on an actual person’s laptop can cause health related issues.
Running CPU-intensive apps such as an anti-virus scan, excel with heavy calculations and so on can cause the CPU to heat up.
It might be a good idea to make the following notification “sticky” for a week or whatever a reasonable amount of time is, so it doesn’t drop off of the main page before people notice it:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/new-topics-added
that is a good suggestion, another idea is to appoint someone who will post a new thread in the “Around The House” category to keep the awareness factor strong. Now we don’t need someone who is going to say don’t count on me, we do need someone who is going to say I Can Only Try
Gut Shabbos
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Gut Chodesh
Your update speed has been excellent around-the-clock for the past while.
Keep up the good work.
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shhhh, don’t tell the other mods and the editor but it’s because 72 trained 26 and 80
areivimzehlazeh-
From a Computerworld blog:
Google unveiled a major upgrade to their search engine today. Codenamed “Caffeine”, the new search engine improves the index size, the speed of the queries and most importantly, changes the value of search engine rankings.
jO jO-
A poster with the SN “Supertriplesss” is a pilot (commercial, 737’s IIRC).
He has posted on pilot blogs, and a Google search might get you contact information.
Good luck – keep in mind that “there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots”.
abx-
Your interpretation sounds good to me.
veyatziv-
oomis1105-
A short story I read in high school titled “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets” (no actual dead man is involved) is a very well-written example of someone who is given perspective of what’s really important. If anyone is interested, Google it – it’s available online.
Possible meanings:
4) Despite the lofty thoughts that had gone before, the mundane tasks of the real world bring one back down to Earth.
gavra_at_work-
I took a quick look at the Toisfos (thanks to e-daf), and I’m not sure which concept you’re referring to.
He is basically explaining the geometry of a diagonal drawn across opposing points of a rectangle and the area occupied by a 4×6 as opposed to a 5×5.
mepal-
Thank you, but I wouldn’t count my perfunctory research as supplying a definitive answer.
squeak-
Excellent!
You do realize that the “CR detectives” will now try to figure out your new SN.
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P.S. – is Arnold Fine aware of this thread?
Sputnik 5 safely returned to Earth, and the dogs survived the mission. A puppy born to one of the dogs was later presented as a gift to first-lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. (1980)
The circumstances that led to this massive loss of life were unbelievable.
The fire started on board the plane when a religious pilgrim aboard the plane decided that he wanted a hot cup of tea. How did he get his tea? He lit his portable stove in the aisle of the plane. The flame spread out of control, and the plane headed back to Saudi Arabia for an emergency landing.
The plane landed safely.
At this point the plane should have been evacuated, and all or most people aboard saved.
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A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre. (2003)
Among the victims were a mother and her baby from New Square, NY. The baby was a ben zekunim to his parents, and his married siblings were among those who sat shiva.
The bomber was married and had children, which was unusual since the usual suicide bomber is a young unmarried man who is brainwashed into his murderous attack with the promises of an eternal shmutz-and-taiva-party as his reward.
The brutality of the attack, and the number of children who were victims were among the reasons that this got more than the minimal world attention usually given to anti-Semitic terror.
pssst…
For those who didn’t know which gemoroh “feivel” is referring to, Google is a good place to start your search.
Hint – it’s somewhat ahead of where the daf is up to.
(don’t tell him who gave it away)
Haman’s mother had the same name as Avrohom Avinu’s mother
Interesting. This may be because Haman was a direct descendant of Avrohom –> Yitzchok –> Esav –> Elifaz –> Amalek.
P.S. To second what “Jax” said – shkoyach to “feivel” for this thread.
As blissful as ignorance was, I did a little research for the mekor of the minhag we have of breaking a kois under the chuppah.
Toisfos says that this is the origin of the minhag to break glass by a chasunah.
Based on this, my assumption would be that specifically a cup should be used.
I found a few places online that mention the use of a burned-out lightbulb instead of a kois. The smashing of a burned-out bulb (or anything valueless) seems to clearly be incorrect as a method of dampening an excessively celebratory mood.
The lynching of Leo Frank.
Before going into the details of the Leo Frank case, here are a few facts:
1) Leo Frank was 100% innocent.
2) The key witness against him was the actual murderer.
(There are details of this case that are not appropriate for this site and will be omitted.)
Mary Phagan, a worker at a pencil factory managed by Leo Frank in Atlanta, Georgia was found murdered in the factory on April 27, 1913.
Botched police work caused crime-scene evidence to be lost.
Jim Conley, the pencil factory’s black janitor, was caught by the plant’s day watchman, E.F. Holloway, washing a shirt. Conley tried to hide the shirt, then claimed the stains on the shirt were from rust. Conley had a record of drinking and violence.
When confronted with evidence against him and inconsistencies in his story, Conley came up with a new story.
In this version, Frank asked Conley for help in moving Phagan’s body and gave Conley $200. When the police asked where the $200 was, Conley said that Frank had taken it back. Conley also said that Frank told him on the day of the murder, “Why should I hang? I have wealthy people in Brooklyn.”
Two witnesses came forward to incriminate Conley. Will Green, a carnival worker, said that he had been playing a card game at the factory with Conley and had run away when Conley had declared his intention to rob a girl who walked by. William Mincey, an insurance salesman, had met a drunk Conley on the street. He said that Conley, trying to brush Mincey off, said, “I have killed one today and do not wish to kill another.” Mincey had thought it was a joke. Neither man testified in court.
Even William Smith, the lawyer who represented Conley, declared Conley guilty of the murder after the trial.
Dorsey was later elected governor of Georgia.
On August 17, 1915 Leo Frank was kidnapped from jail and lynched.
The lynch mob included many prominent citizens, none of whom concealed their identity, and none of whom was ever prosecuted.
Frank’s only requests were that they allow him to write a note to his wife, that they return his wedding ring to his wife, and that they cover his lower body before hanging him, since he was wearing nothing but a nightshirt. Frank’s last words were, “I think more of my wife and my mother than I do of my own life.”
Frank’s body was eventually transferred to an undertaker and buried in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing New York.
In 1982, Alonzo Mann, by then an old man, volunteered that he had seen Jim Conley dragging Mary Phagan’s body at the factory. Mann swore in an affidavit that Conley had threatened to kill him if he reported what he had seen. Alonzo Mann died in 1985.
After a 1983 denial of a pardon, with Mann’s testimony the Anti-Defamation League convinced the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant Frank a posthumous pardon. On March 11, 1986, a pardon was issued by the board.
(portions cut-and-pasted from wikipedia)
mepal-
Happy birthday & IY”H many more.
ambush-
A light-bulb – what a bright idea!
If the “zaicher lechurban” only requires that something be broken, I wonder why the oilam uses a cup?
havesomeseichel-
The math used in this case is elementary, Watson 🙂
(Ironically, I had to self-learn HS math to help the junior “Trys” with school work, despite the difficulty yours truly had back in the day).
YW Moderator-80-
oomis1105-
Thank you.
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Gut Shabbos.
Mezonos Maven-
1) Every year an equal number of boys and girls are born.
2) No one dies before age 80.
3) All boys are married by age 29.
4) Every boy marries a girl born one calendar year after himself.
5) Every year 20 more babies are born than the previous year (half boys; half girls).
6) This scenario goes on exactly as described above for the past 500 years.
b) Blue marbles (boys) go into a blue bucket, red marbles (girls) in a red bucket.
d) We start with empty buckets.
f) Round 2: 110 blue and 110 red marbles are placed in the appropriate buckets. The 100 blues from the first round are matched vs. 100 of the reds from the second round. This leaves 110 blues (all from the second round) and 110 reds (100 from round 1, 10 from round 2).
g) Round 3: 120 blue and 120 red marbles are placed in the appropriate buckets. The 110 blues from the second round are matched vs. 110 of the reds from the third round. This leaves 120 blues (all from the third round) and 120 reds (100 from round 1, 10 from round 2 and 10 from round 3).
Bottom line:
Whether or not this relates to shiduchim is another story.
mepal-
That was one of my unintentionally cryptic posts.
mepal-
kapusta-
the.nurse (by proxy)-
Thank you for your kind words,
about my poem which was quite terse
my skills are very limited
and my rhymes go from bad to verse 🙂
oomis1105-
Thank you.
Seriously, I think a small wood container with a loose top that the glass goes into would avoid the issue of skidding cups and the potential of a glass shard penetrating the shoe’s sole (not that I’ve ever heard of that happening). Of course, that would mean the end of the standard chuppah photo where the chosson’s foot is in midair and the kallah is smiling and cringing / leaning away at the same time.
(good evening, speedy approver)
Jax-
We aim to please.
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Whadda you say?
Let’s hear it for ?!
His opinions are well thought out and weighty,
let’s hear for the new guy, number 80
His (her?) sense of humor may seem odd,
but we still like you, newbie mod
You have won 1 free “undelete”…80, Champion of the Moderated
YW Moderator-80-
Sure, why not.
veyatziv-
mepal-
Thank you.
aussieboy-
What to believe? Ask your doctor.
I read an article about soda being detrimental to osteoporosis-prone individuals.
The above info is anecdotal and not meant to scare anyone. Ask your doctor if you are concerned.
For the record, yours truly is a big-time diet-soda drinker
Chassanim!
Does the prospect of breaking the glass cup under the chuppah fill you with dread?
Does the thought of an unbroken cup skidding out from under your heel as your chavrusa scrambles after it to position it for another attempt make you break out in a cold sweat?
Now you can be a Chuppah Hero!
(can be bought in a kit with the tnoyim hammer and plate or purchased separately.)
kapusta-
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This tells the browser that you want to display the code “as-is” and not have it interpreted as formatting directives.
aussieboy-
Oooooh, you’re so close.
It isn’t the 2 that gets flipped…
ames-
mepal-
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(no excuses accepted)
This is a very tough question.
Just to look at it from different perspectives:
1) How would you feel about someone setting up a shidduch for you (or your child) without mentioning this issue?
3) How would you feel the couple becoming engaged without being notified of this issue?
4) How would you feel the couple getting married without being notified of this issue?
5) Now, ask yourselves the same questions where the person with the issue is yourself (or your child).
This is a question that needs to be discussed with a rov.
Hatzlocha raba.
aussieboy-
A hint is in the above sentence.
The tragedy of JAL flight 123 had such a high number of casualties because the 747 had been configured to carry the maximum number of passengers possible.
By the time the Japanese rescue team reached the crash site, only four of the 524 passengers were still alive.
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Georgia refused to allow some of its territory -South Ossetia – to be controlled by a separatist pro-Russian group that had declared themselves independent of Georgia.
The Georgian army attacked the separatists to reclaim their territory.
The very next day, Russia invaded South Ossetia, conducted bombing raids against Georgia itself, and eventually forced Georgian forces from South Ossetia and actually invaded parts of Georgia.
Recognizing that they had no chance of winning, Georgia agreed to a ceasefire that effectively removes South Ossetia from their control and leaves it in the hands of a pro-Russian puppet government.
mepal-
Thank you for your kind words.
All-
There is a dedicated thread for thanking the mods for their time and efforts:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/thank-you-mods-and-editor
being modest in nature coupled with being truly humble servants, Mods do not look for or seek in any manner, shape or form public thanks, however we push aside our own feelings and graciously accept thanks in any and all threads just for you… so feel free to lavish glorious accolades upon us (after all we do deserve it) in as many threads as you desire.
Fortunately, he had not taken the opportunity to say anything regrettable to his superiors or colleagues in the intervening time.
Why?
aussieboy-
You’re 99% of the way there.
You still need something else for 07, 08 and 09 to be possible.