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We waste a lot of kinetic energy when we walk from place to place throughout the day. Some of that kinetic energy can be harnessed and used to charge personal electronic devices such as mobile phones, personal game consoles, music players, etc..
The motion of the legs and feet can be used to move a conductor across a magnetic field to generate electricity. The generated electricity can be stored in batteries. The batteries are connected to inductors in the pockets of the pants.
The personal electronic devices, that have inductors connected to their power supply, can receive the energy, transmitted by the inductors in the pants pocket, and charge their battery with the received energy, when one of these personal devices is placed in the charging pocket of the pants.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Recovering from the crash of my Windows 2000 PC's Hard Disk
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I recently added an one terabyte NAS to my network. As soon as I hooked it up and configured it, I transferred all my data files to the NAS. Then I deleted the data from my hard drive.
Before the move, my hard disk was so full that I was not able to do a decent disk defragmentation.
Now with a lot of free disk space, it was time to do the disk defragmentation that my disk needed.
After doing so, my system crash on the first reboot.
After a lot of time diagnosing the problem, I discovered that there were bad sectors on the disk drive and the defragmentation moved some of system files into the bad sector.
I reformatted the disk and re-installed the operating system.
Unfortunately, the operating system on the installation disk does not have almost 10 years of updates.
I pointed my Internet Explorer to the Microsoft Windows update web site. Unfortunately, the Internet Explorer on the Windows 2000 installation disk does not support the features on the web site.
Auuuuuugh!
I had to download and install the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (the browser that I normally use) and use it to download the updated Internet Explorer that's compatible with the latest Microsoft Windows update web site.
After installing the latest version of Internet Explorer for Windows 2000, I was finally able to update my Windows 2000 O/S with the latest patches.
I recently added an one terabyte NAS to my network. As soon as I hooked it up and configured it, I transferred all my data files to the NAS. Then I deleted the data from my hard drive.
Before the move, my hard disk was so full that I was not able to do a decent disk defragmentation.
Now with a lot of free disk space, it was time to do the disk defragmentation that my disk needed.
After doing so, my system crash on the first reboot.
After a lot of time diagnosing the problem, I discovered that there were bad sectors on the disk drive and the defragmentation moved some of system files into the bad sector.
I reformatted the disk and re-installed the operating system.
Unfortunately, the operating system on the installation disk does not have almost 10 years of updates.
I pointed my Internet Explorer to the Microsoft Windows update web site. Unfortunately, the Internet Explorer on the Windows 2000 installation disk does not support the features on the web site.
Auuuuuugh!
I had to download and install the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (the browser that I normally use) and use it to download the updated Internet Explorer that's compatible with the latest Microsoft Windows update web site.
After installing the latest version of Internet Explorer for Windows 2000, I was finally able to update my Windows 2000 O/S with the latest patches.
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