Well, if you don't mind using Windoze (ick, not the best thing to use for quasi-embedded applications), you can grab WinAMP, the WinAMP on TV plugin, and the IRman plugin, and grab yourself an IRman online for $35 or so last I checked... I always forget where the IRman website is, but I'm sure Google will tell you... I guess WinAMP on TV has a nice little interface that works much better on a TV than any skins you'll find... and the IR reciever is nice, works great... Grab a remote and punch in the buttons.
2. If an ATAPI zip works, this may solve the remove the HD thing to load songs.
Is this really a good idea? I used my Zip drive to backup some files to transfer between computers, and I deleted the files from the first computer before checking whether the files on the Zip disk were working fine. The disk had hit the (carpeted) floor a few times because of the Ultra-Springy(tm) eject on my drive, but nothing more than that... most of the files ended up being junk when I tried to copy them onto the 2nd PC. I doubt it would work in a car audio application... but it would be fine for home use. Besides, they're only MP3s...
Everyone keeps saying ground-loop isolators will help reduce noise, blah blah blah... I picked one up a while back for my trunk-mounted MP3 system, and it sounded like shit... it put a buzzing into the audio so nasty I swore it was overloading something and was going to blow an amp or something... Did I maybe have a defective part? There's no way in hell you can hook the damn thing up wrong... but here's another solution: Hook a wire up to the case of the player and ground it directly to the car's frame. It usually kills any ground loop trouble you might be having.
Was at the Best Buy in Appleton, Wisconsin yesterday... they had them in stock too. Perhaps you have to go shopping in the Midwest to find these things? =)
Q. Will the Genica player read CD-RW discs?
A. No the unit will not read CD-RW.
They probably mean it only plays MP3 CD-RW's, not music CD-RW's, but it's still odd.
No, it probably means it doesn't read CD-RW's. It's probably one of the cheaper laser set-ups they have in low-end laptops. Those machines won't read a CD-RW disc burned in standard CD-R format (without multisesssion even) simply because of the characteristics of the substrate used. (One obvious clue: The color is different.) I recall the Adaptec driver for Windows to read CD-RW's in standard CD-ROM drives said the drive needed to be multiread compatible. It's the same reason your old CD player can't read your CD-R's and my in-dash CD player can't read music CD's burned onto a CD-RW disc.
(Good thing I hit preview... I was typing 'disk' instead of 'disc'...ick. It's too early to be awake...)
Search for those 90-degree slot adapters so you can plug in your sound card and have it lay flat, parallel to the motherboard... I'm going to pick one up for my project, but I can't find the link to the site I found that was selling them at the moment. You could use Google, just as easily as I could, but I'm sure I'm lazier than you, sooo... I'll search later, and you can search now if you feel like it. *grin*
Here's something I found searching for the Photoshop plug-in "Mr. Sid" I've seen used by one of my consulting friends to really cut down file size of images for print media... It looked like it was based on fractal technology (and I'm sure it is somewhat), but it was referred to as the "infant child" of JPEG 2000 - so I guess this won't be anything new.
It's called Genuine Fractal 2.0, and it's made by the Altamira Group. It's also a Photoshop plug-in. They make some pretty huge claims, but I've seen this stuff work, and if their output is anything near as good as Mr. Sid, it should be sweet. Here's a clip from the site:
You need only between 15MB and 40MB of RGB data to capture an image for any size output. For example, you could scan a 4" x 5" transparency at 600 dpi to produce a 20MB RGB file, do all your image editing at that scan resolution, then encode the image. Depending on the image, your encoded file will typically be 2MB-10MB. Now, if you need to output the image at 450MB and 60MB, you can generate both resolutions from the same encoded file.
For smaller print-quality output, you can start with a 4MB-5MB original, encode to less than a megabyte, then render the image easily and beautifully to 20MB.
For screen-resolution output, you can start even smaller. For example, using Genuine Fractals' 50 Web Graphics options, a 640 x 480-pixel original compresses to between 10KB and 150KB and renders a high-quality image for quick full-screen display on the Web.
ICQ is a piece of shit. Its official clients are buggy, feature-bloated, and even less standards-compliant than AOL's software.
ICQ crashes on me once in a blue moon. AIM crashes on me about once every week or two.
ICQ being feature-bloated means I can do more shit than I can with AIM. Yes, there are a ton of features I don't use too, but some other people do.
As for standards-compliance, ICQ's servers have never blocked 3rd-party clients from communicating - they just made the separate client-to-server and client-to-client protocols a pain in the ass to both implement.
Not that it matters anymore, now that AOL is putting ads in ICQ... Anyone see a banner ad other than the stupid Network Solutions dot.com stuff yet?
Hey, thanks for the tip... Now, any idea how to get rid of the blank spaces where the ads used to be? I'm guessing maybe this whole thing is possible so AOL users don't have to view a bunch of stupid ads telling them to join AOL...?
Actually, I CAN see burn-in on some color monitors that do nothing but sit at the same screen most of the time (computer-based learning terminals at Wal-Mart come to mind)... It's still physically possible on some monitors - but it's gotta sit there turned on for a damn long time, wasting electricity... I guess you're damn stupid if you don't have your monitor turn off when you're not using it though, unless it is displaying some sort of pretty screen saver...
A big steel plate grounded to earth should deflect/absorb the EMF that's frying the computers... That's the only idea I can come up with as well. However, hiding it under the carpeting or whatever would probably create the need for a raised subfloor, unless you can install it below the floor...
...if you have e-mail from mostly the same people, I find my way to be quite useable. Once I read a message, I dump it into a folder named after the person I got it from... Generalized mail gets thrown in various other folders such as "Online shopping", "Passwords", "From my ISP", etc... everything else gets thrown in "Misc".
Your library of e-mail sounds complicated enough to warrant dumping into a nice PostgreSQL database or something and writing a frontend to search the thing... You could use Perl... I'd probably play with PHP on my web server. That's about the best idea I can come up with.
Thanks for making me feel better... Charter just rolled out cable modem service here, and I was afraid they were going to be a bitch about hooking computers up and shit... not that they can tell whether I'm using NAT and shit... am I gonna have to let them fuck with one of my computers and shove a network card in it and set it up on Windoze just so I can shove in a router and change all the settings back again, or will the techs just not care? I guess the ONE installer around here got the job because the other ONE installer sucked ass at it while he was putting it in at the guy's house... I could go for a new job...
My e-mail always seems to get through, except of course when Hotmail craps out on me... (damn Microsoft bastards...) Perhaps you're thinking of ICQ? I can send a message to someone who's online, have it show up in my message history, and they never got the damn thing... =) Go figure.
You know what? That's a damn good point... that's the best way of explaining this bullshit I've seen so far... I think I'll do that too. Thanks for the idea.
You know, IBM wouldn't be having this problem now if they had checked all the code with CSE HTML Validator first... It bitches every time I forget to put alt=" " on my spacer.gifs (hey, it works and it gets the point across...) Not to mention the large number of HTML parsers on the web that will check your site for you... I can't believe IBM doesn't have an HTML parser that would complain about the pages not being HTML 4.01 compliant... were they designing for version 3.0 of the spec like I used to or what? I mean, come on... SOMEONE should have known better. I'm gussing IBM was given the responsibility of handling the tech stuff, and the Olympic Committee was inclined to trust them... they're only one of the largest computer companies in the entire world with tons of experience...
To help them build excellent computer skills, Apple PowerBooks and VitalBooks are mandatory.
That's nice, but I know damn well MY dentist uses a DOS-based system without the mouse and pretty pictures... all having to read your books on the stupid PowerBook is going to do is be damn annoying.
Anyone else think maybe they decided to develop it for the PowerBook because it sounded cool (with the word Book in it and all)...?
I was hanging around talking with the Radio Shack guys as a friend and I so-often do... and the guy pointed to a Compaq spitting out some full-motion video on a nice LCD... I saw an MSN logo... I thought, "Ok, what's the big deal?" Then he explains how MSN is offering satellite 'net access and the Fond du Lac store was the first one to have it working in the state of Wisconsin... (this was a few weeks back) The guys were pretty proud of it... then they told me it did upload as well, and I thought to myself "damn... I could get rid of that 2nd phone line..." Of course, we should have cable modem access in a few weeks... they finally rolled it out and I have 2 friends who got it hooked up last week... They told us it would be 3 more weeks when we called... I'm guessing there's quite a waiting list.... but anyhow, I'm babbling... I just spent 20 minutes looking around to see if anyone else had posted about Radio Shack having the setup in the stores... I figured I'd post something anyhow... It's Sunday morning, no one's awake... I'm bored. Somehow I don't think MSN is going to make much money around here, with cable and DSL now being rolled out everywhere... oh well.
And is it just me, or is this thread looking a little more childish than most? Must be that Sunday-morning shit...
I'm sure plenty of you have heard of Opera... it happens to zoom rather nicely. I use it when I have the display switched over to my TV, so I can zoom in and actually read the writing on web pages at that horrible resolution... comes in pretty damn handy.
Have you actually tried this? The POTS phone system supplies power to devices connected to it (hence, phones don't need to be plugged into an outlet...) This is also true for modems, especially some PC card modems that draw ALL of their power from the phone system. Hooking 2 modems together doesn't mean there's any power from an outside source to actually power the line. I've tried this more than once and never gotten it to work... Including turning off dial-tone detection and all the good stuff...
I thought the phone company required those filters to be installed when the DSL was hooked up... and even now that some of them are letting people hook up their own DSL from the home end, they still provide you with filters to install? *shrug*
No, DHCP is MUCH simpler than fixed IP addresses - just ask Microsoft. I had to set up Win98 Internet Conncetion sharing for lack of a free computer to use as a proxy... I got it running after screwing with it for a while and being sure to NOT follow Microsoft's 'simple' directions in the help file... It defaults to DHCP... I wanted fixed IP's... so I followed their nice little instructions to turn off DHCP, and assigned my machines IPs... only having 3 machines, you can be sure I didn't screw that up and get conflicts. Would it work? Hell no. I tried for hours. Then I said fuck it. So now I've got my nice little 4-computer network, and I get to guess which address the FTP server is running on at the moment. Fucking annoying.
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Eh... I decided to visit CAJUN again from a link below, and they had a link to the slot adapters... so, here you go:
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Well, if you don't mind using Windoze (ick, not the best thing to use for quasi-embedded applications), you can grab WinAMP, the WinAMP on TV plugin, and the IRman plugin, and grab yourself an IRman online for $35 or so last I checked... I always forget where the IRman website is, but I'm sure Google will tell you... I guess WinAMP on TV has a nice little interface that works much better on a TV than any skins you'll find... and the IR reciever is nice, works great... Grab a remote and punch in the buttons.
Everyone keeps saying ground-loop isolators will help reduce noise, blah blah blah... I picked one up a while back for my trunk-mounted MP3 system, and it sounded like shit... it put a buzzing into the audio so nasty I swore it was overloading something and was going to blow an amp or something... Did I maybe have a defective part? There's no way in hell you can hook the damn thing up wrong... but here's another solution: Hook a wire up to the case of the player and ground it directly to the car's frame. It usually kills any ground loop trouble you might be having.
Was at the Best Buy in Appleton, Wisconsin yesterday... they had them in stock too. Perhaps you have to go shopping in the Midwest to find these things? =)
(Good thing I hit preview... I was typing 'disk' instead of 'disc'...ick. It's too early to be awake...)
Search for those 90-degree slot adapters so you can plug in your sound card and have it lay flat, parallel to the motherboard... I'm going to pick one up for my project, but I can't find the link to the site I found that was selling them at the moment. You could use Google, just as easily as I could, but I'm sure I'm lazier than you, sooo... I'll search later, and you can search now if you feel like it. *grin*
It's called Genuine Fractal 2.0, and it's made by the Altamira Group. It's also a Photoshop plug-in. They make some pretty huge claims, but I've seen this stuff work, and if their output is anything near as good as Mr. Sid, it should be sweet. Here's a clip from the site:
ICQ being feature-bloated means I can do more shit than I can with AIM. Yes, there are a ton of features I don't use too, but some other people do.
As for standards-compliance, ICQ's servers have never blocked 3rd-party clients from communicating - they just made the separate client-to-server and client-to-client protocols a pain in the ass to both implement.
Not that it matters anymore, now that AOL is putting ads in ICQ... Anyone see a banner ad other than the stupid Network Solutions dot.com stuff yet?
Hey, thanks for the tip... Now, any idea how to get rid of the blank spaces where the ads used to be? I'm guessing maybe this whole thing is possible so AOL users don't have to view a bunch of stupid ads telling them to join AOL...?
Actually, I CAN see burn-in on some color monitors that do nothing but sit at the same screen most of the time (computer-based learning terminals at Wal-Mart come to mind)... It's still physically possible on some monitors - but it's gotta sit there turned on for a damn long time, wasting electricity... I guess you're damn stupid if you don't have your monitor turn off when you're not using it though, unless it is displaying some sort of pretty screen saver...
A big steel plate grounded to earth should deflect/absorb the EMF that's frying the computers... That's the only idea I can come up with as well. However, hiding it under the carpeting or whatever would probably create the need for a raised subfloor, unless you can install it below the floor...
...if you have e-mail from mostly the same people, I find my way to be quite useable. Once I read a message, I dump it into a folder named after the person I got it from... Generalized mail gets thrown in various other folders such as "Online shopping", "Passwords", "From my ISP", etc... everything else gets thrown in "Misc".
Your library of e-mail sounds complicated enough to warrant dumping into a nice PostgreSQL database or something and writing a frontend to search the thing... You could use Perl... I'd probably play with PHP on my web server. That's about the best idea I can come up with.
Thanks for making me feel better... Charter just rolled out cable modem service here, and I was afraid they were going to be a bitch about hooking computers up and shit... not that they can tell whether I'm using NAT and shit... am I gonna have to let them fuck with one of my computers and shove a network card in it and set it up on Windoze just so I can shove in a router and change all the settings back again, or will the techs just not care? I guess the ONE installer around here got the job because the other ONE installer sucked ass at it while he was putting it in at the guy's house... I could go for a new job...
My e-mail always seems to get through, except of course when Hotmail craps out on me... (damn Microsoft bastards...) Perhaps you're thinking of ICQ? I can send a message to someone who's online, have it show up in my message history, and they never got the damn thing... =) Go figure.
You know what? That's a damn good point... that's the best way of explaining this bullshit I've seen so far... I think I'll do that too. Thanks for the idea.
I think Micron can kick their collective asses in court without our help/money... but I accept donations... =)
You know, IBM wouldn't be having this problem now if they had checked all the code with CSE HTML Validator first... It bitches every time I forget to put alt=" " on my spacer .gifs (hey, it works and it gets the point across...) Not to mention the large number of HTML parsers on the web that will check your site for you... I can't believe IBM doesn't have an HTML parser that would complain about the pages not being HTML 4.01 compliant... were they designing for version 3.0 of the spec like I used to or what? I mean, come on... SOMEONE should have known better. I'm gussing IBM was given the responsibility of handling the tech stuff, and the Olympic Committee was inclined to trust them... they're only one of the largest computer companies in the entire world with tons of experience...
To help them build excellent computer skills, Apple PowerBooks and VitalBooks are mandatory.
That's nice, but I know damn well MY dentist uses a DOS-based system without the mouse and pretty pictures... all having to read your books on the stupid PowerBook is going to do is be damn annoying.
Anyone else think maybe they decided to develop it for the PowerBook because it sounded cool (with the word Book in it and all)...?
I was hanging around talking with the Radio Shack guys as a friend and I so-often do... and the guy pointed to a Compaq spitting out some full-motion video on a nice LCD... I saw an MSN logo... I thought, "Ok, what's the big deal?" Then he explains how MSN is offering satellite 'net access and the Fond du Lac store was the first one to have it working in the state of Wisconsin... (this was a few weeks back) The guys were pretty proud of it... then they told me it did upload as well, and I thought to myself "damn... I could get rid of that 2nd phone line..." Of course, we should have cable modem access in a few weeks... they finally rolled it out and I have 2 friends who got it hooked up last week... They told us it would be 3 more weeks when we called... I'm guessing there's quite a waiting list.... but anyhow, I'm babbling... I just spent 20 minutes looking around to see if anyone else had posted about Radio Shack having the setup in the stores... I figured I'd post something anyhow... It's Sunday morning, no one's awake... I'm bored. Somehow I don't think MSN is going to make much money around here, with cable and DSL now being rolled out everywhere... oh well.
And is it just me, or is this thread looking a little more childish than most? Must be that Sunday-morning shit...
I'm sure plenty of you have heard of Opera... it happens to zoom rather nicely. I use it when I have the display switched over to my TV, so I can zoom in and actually read the writing on web pages at that horrible resolution... comes in pretty damn handy.
Have you actually tried this? The POTS phone system supplies power to devices connected to it (hence, phones don't need to be plugged into an outlet...) This is also true for modems, especially some PC card modems that draw ALL of their power from the phone system. Hooking 2 modems together doesn't mean there's any power from an outside source to actually power the line. I've tried this more than once and never gotten it to work... Including turning off dial-tone detection and all the good stuff...
I thought the phone company required those filters to be installed when the DSL was hooked up... and even now that some of them are letting people hook up their own DSL from the home end, they still provide you with filters to install? *shrug*
No, DHCP is MUCH simpler than fixed IP addresses - just ask Microsoft. I had to set up Win98 Internet Conncetion sharing for lack of a free computer to use as a proxy... I got it running after screwing with it for a while and being sure to NOT follow Microsoft's 'simple' directions in the help file... It defaults to DHCP... I wanted fixed IP's... so I followed their nice little instructions to turn off DHCP, and assigned my machines IPs... only having 3 machines, you can be sure I didn't screw that up and get conflicts. Would it work? Hell no. I tried for hours. Then I said fuck it. So now I've got my nice little 4-computer network, and I get to guess which address the FTP server is running on at the moment. Fucking annoying.
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