158361931
submission
olddoc writes:
Between my wife and I we have 3 credit cards that we use a lot. Many online businesses store our card for easy checkout. In the past 6 months we have received fraud notices from the card companies 3 times. Typically there is a $1 charge in a far away location. Once there was a charge for thousands of dollars at a bar. The card companies seem to pick up the fact that they are fraudulent even though once it was described as "chip present". What can we do to cut down the number of times we have to update all our ongoing bills with a new card number? We have never lost money to fraud, just time.
3947201
submission
olddoc writes:
I remember reading about cosmic rays causing memory errors and how errors become more frequent with more RAM.
That was in the days of 512MB systems. Now home PCs are stuffed with 6GB or 8GB and no one uses ECC memory in home PCs.
Recently I had consistant BSODs with Vista64 on a PC with 4GB and I tried memtest86 and it always failed within hours.
Yet when I ran 64bit Ubuntu at 100% load and using all memory it ran fine for days.
I have 2 questions:
1) Do people trust a Memtest86 error to mean a bad memory module or motherboard or CPU?
2) When I check my email on my desktop 16GB PC next year, should I be running ECC memory?
97100
submission
olddoc writes:
I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off.
A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever!
Does anyone know how to make them pay? What devious methods can I use to get even?
Can I sign up for a phone number that will drive up their costs when I call the toll free removal number?
What have other readers done?
