What is the box thing near the fan aperture?

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I am not reall dumb. Honest. Or so my mum tells me.

BUT .. what is the plastic box thing I have seen inside a few PC
cases> It is like a four inch cube which is mounted against the
front aperture where a case fan might have gone.

The boxe has some slot type things on the back as if they were to
be used for mounting something or another.

Surely such a thing makes a din if a fan was installed
actually inside them? Or have I completely got the wrong end of
the stick about this box thing/

 

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"Dickens" <dickhead@com.com> wrote in message
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> I am not reall dumb. Honest. Or so my mum tells me.
>
> BUT .. what is the plastic box thing I have seen inside a few PC
> cases> It is like a four inch cube which is mounted against the
> front aperture where a case fan might have gone.
>
> The boxe has some slot type things on the back as if they were to
> be used for mounting something or another.
>
> Surely such a thing makes a din if a fan was installed
> actually inside them? Or have I completely got the wrong end of
> the stick about this box thing/

The box "thing" is a fan cage. The grooves on the back are to use to steady
full length expansion cards, very rare these days, and how much din they
make depends on the fan but I'd agree that they are not the ideal mounting
mechanism.


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Patrick wrote:

> Dickens wrote:
>> I am not reall dumb. Honest. Or so my mum tells me.
>
> Nope, you are not dumb. But, you do tend to piss folks off when you
> cross post to all those newsgroups!!!

You can't remember not to reread their post in other groups? I think I can
remeber the title of their post and no click on it again. And yes he IS
supposed to crosspost rather that repost it individually to different
groups, that does waste bandwidth and server space. There is nothing wrong
with crossposting if it's on topic for all the groups, which this was.

What is he supposed to do, post to one group and hope the person who has the
answer reads that group, if not repost to another?

>
> AND, because I am not certain that you even read one specific newsgroup,
> I MUST POST to replies to them ALL!!!!!
>

Why bother to reply at all if you're not going to even answer their
question?!

Again there is nothing wrong with crossposting if the question is on topic
for the groups it's crossposted to, that's what crossposting was made for.

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"Dickens" <dickhead@com.com> wrote in message
news:94C8D35CB6B121A7D4@208.42.66.156...
> I am not reall dumb. Honest. Or so my mum tells me.
>
> BUT .. what is the plastic box thing I have seen inside a few PC
> cases> It is like a four inch cube which is mounted against the
> front aperture where a case fan might have gone.
>
> The boxe has some slot type things on the back as if they were to
> be used for mounting something or another.
>
> Surely such a thing makes a din if a fan was installed
> actually inside them? Or have I completely got the wrong end of
> the stick about this box thing/

its a spacer/guide for full length cards. wether or not these full length
cards are still available i dont know. the fan does mount inside them
usually, or behind the front cover - thats case specific i think.

 

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CBFalconer wrote:


>
> Your reader, which appears to be Mozilla/Netscape, should mark all
> the entries in other groups as read and not annoy you with them
> again.
>

Especially if you have "view threads with new articles". If he didn't
crosspost it, you -would- see it a dozen times no matter what settings you
used.

I'm not sure what people are thinking when they bitch about someone
crossposting, -that is- the correct way to do it. What's much more
irritating is top posting or not snipping irrelevant text but that's
another topic.

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Daniel James <wastebasket@nospam.aaisp.org> wrote in
news:VA.0000064e.043daeef@nospam.aaisp.org:

> In article news:<407A20A7.8486869A@home.com>, Ric wrote:
>> You would be correct if you had included a "REPLY-TO" group in your
>> header. You didn't, so you aren't.
>
> "Reply-To:" headers do more harm than good.

You mean "follow up to".

> If a question is asked in five groups and anwered in (any) one of those
> groups the answer *should* be visible in all five, so that everyone who
> sees the question can also see that it has been answered. The common
> netiquette advice to use a "Reply-To:" to direct all answers to a
> single group is actually counter-productive.

Netiquette advice is to set a followupto, and mention that in the body.
anyone who wants to read the thread can subscribe to that group. Anyone
who isn't interested need do nothing, unless that group is the one being
followed-upped-to, in which case they can filter the thread out.



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Patrick wrote:

> > Your reader, which appears to be Mozilla/Netscape, should mark all
> > the entries in other groups as read and not annoy you with them
> > again.
> >
> Oh! Oh! NOT so, and I cannot find the option!!!!
>
> OK, now I DO really feel DUMB!
>
> But, I JUST updated, apt-get upgraded, and will look, again!

My lowly ver. 4.5 has that option. Just go to "VIEW", "MESSAGES" and
click on "UNREAD". Messages read in one NG will automatically be marked
as READ in others to which they were crossposted.

 

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Daniel James wrote:

> Any decent newsreader software will notice the cross-post and only retrieve
> the message once, so no real harm is done.

The real harm in crossposting is that flame wars that erupt in one
NG are transferred to ALL crossposted NGs.

 

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Mothball Joe wrote:

> I have this problem with Mozilla. Any message I read in another group
> isn't automatically read in the groups it's crossposted to. Have had a
> good look through the settings TNA..
>
> If anyone knows what I'm missing I'd be very happy to learn!

In my lowly 4.5 (Netscape), it's "VIEW", "MESSAGES", "UNREAD"

 

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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:44:34 UTC, Mothball Joe <nospamplease@aol.com>
wrote:

> > Then your newsreader is broken or misconfigured. Simple.
>
> I have this problem with Mozilla. Any message I read in another group
> isn't automatically read in the groups it's crossposted to. Have had a
> good look through the settings TNA..
>
> If anyone knows what I'm missing I'd be very happy to learn!

Sorry, can't help you myself. I don't use Mozilla, or OE, or anthing you
are likely to use.

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Bob Eager wrote:

> > I have this problem with Mozilla. Any message I read in another group
> > isn't automatically read in the groups it's crossposted to. Have had a
> > good look through the settings TNA..
> >
> > If anyone knows what I'm missing I'd be very happy to learn!
>
> Sorry, can't help you myself. I don't use Mozilla, or OE, or anthing you
> are likely to use.

Then why did you bother to reply?