I had to do something like this over the weekend. I have an old Quantum drive that uses special jumpers (a different size than every other jumper I've seen, smaller pins spaced farther apart), which, of course, got lost. I soldered a piece of wire in place for the jumper.
That drive will always be master!
No Swiss Army/Leatherman tool would've helped here, because the pins were too short to bend together as the parent suggested. I did use needle nose pliers for holding the wire in place briefly.
Really? I've had decent luck with their phone service during business hours (got a clueful tech right away). In off-hours, I got someone who didn't know as much -- she wanted to check my software config immediately after admitting that service was down in my area -- but she wasn't THAT bad.
I've gotten some scans from Cox, maybe once a month. Tripwire blocked the scan and my firewall now drops their IP.:)
I used Mandrake's installer to partition my new laptop's hard drive, which runs XP and so probably has an NTFS partition. Worked perfectly -- just watch to make sure that you actually specify your root partition in a primary partition - I had to redo mine after all my Linux partitions ended up in the extended partition.
I considered going laser when I bought my last printer, but I wanted color printing, too, and didn't want to spend that much for a printer I don't use that frequently.
I bought an HP OfficeJet v40 and haven't had the problem of ink drying out like my last inkjet printer (a Canon BJC-4100). In fact, I just replaced the first ink cartridge (after about 2 years) a couple weeks ago...
On the downside, it's not photo-quality printing, but it's good enough for most other purposes. And having a FAX machine was extremely handy when I was buying my condo.
By the way, I didn't intend to flame, but the mods didn't agree.
Anyway, even my terrible Cougar hasn't yet broken down on me and left me stranded--its problems have been more idiocy things like slow coolant leaks, noisy brakes, etc., not stuff that disables the car. I'd have no reservations about driving it cross-country today if I had to.
Yep, it is crap. But not because it's a Ford, because it's a Cougar. They had a bad start, then Ford cancelled them, and now Ford has moved on to it's new child, the Focus.:)
Another way of looking at "high resale value" is that they're overpriced when you go to buy a used one. When I bought a used car a while back, I found that I could get a lot more car for less money than going with Hondas. And there was no gaurantee that buying a used Honda would net me any more quality than a used Chevrolet - who knows WHAT the original owner did to the car?
Note to mods - Flamebait? My message was not intended to be flamebait but simply another way of looking at the issue.
You need to check your math and the features you're getting. Honda and Toyota almost always cost more than other manufacturers for similar cars once you get similar features.
Example: Even if you assume I've paid for every repair, I still paid less for my Mercury Cougar than I would've for a Toyota Celica (I know, Toyota, not Honda, but same thing holds), and I have a car with a lot more features and power than the Celica.
We use it all the time in my office to meet with a remote office. I can't believe that we're the only ones on earth using videoconferencing for this type of task.
Yeah, I have one with phono inputs, not that I have a turntable. I was just wondering whether the filtering that the pre-amp does could be done in software, thereby removing one link of the chain, possibly improving quality (or at least keeping degradation minimized). Then again, these are albums we're talking about, so degradation is a fact of life...
Side question: are you recording straight from the turntable or going through an amp first?
If straight from the turntable, how are you correcting the sound? Does Audacity have that option? (I have it installed but haven't look for that feature.) That'd be cool if it did.
I know one that has a 4-digit UID, around 1100 or so. Of course, the AC knew one that is even lower, but I'm not sure she counts, being a friend of Rob and all.;)
For some reason, you comment reminded me of an incident I was involved in in Athens, Georgia: I was on the University of Georgia cycling team, and we were having some pictures taken of us at the arch, the entrance to the UGA campus. When the traffic light stopped the traffic in front of us, our photographer walked out to the middle of the street (there was a small median in the middle) to take wider angles. The light finally turned green, but the photographer wasn't done, so we figured we'd have to wait for another cycle.
But no. The cars at the front of each lane of traffic waited for her to take several more shots. No one blew horns or anything. After the photographer finished, we waved to the motorists by way of thanks.
So this explains the odd behavior of mine yesterday. The display showed it counting down in hex digits, then it put something else on the display (I don't remember what), and it finally reset itself, flashing code 6680 as it usually does when it crashes.
At the time, I figured Cox was doing a software update to it, but now I find that it's a serious bug.
Maybe they can make the scheduling a little smarter at the same time, like, say being able to record a certain program only once a week at a set time, repeating weekly. If I want to record the Simpsons on Sunday night, I either have to manually program it every week, or it'll record all Simpsons episodes on each week (the local Fox affiliate plays 3 episodes every weekday), which interferes with other recordings. (After all, VCRs managed this trick two decades ago...)
Thanks for the corrections (you and the other posters).
All I can say about SUVs is this: I have a sporty (not a sports car, but sporty) 1999 Mercury Cougar. These things were meant to be a relatively fast car for the price point at which they were sold. I'll be doing 80 mph on the DC beltway in my Cougar...and someone in an SUV will still pass me, maybe even weaving in and out of traffic.
Totally insane. What's really amazing is that more people haven't died as a result of this type of driving.
Yeah, I remember putting "Crazy Train" into it on my PCjr. Played pretty well, too.:)
Actually, you can still download and run it - just look in the abandonware sites. I was playing with it a couple months ago, but I couldn't get the sound to work, which detracted from the overall experience somehow...
At least two of the three examples you cited just reminded me of the media being out of control: they took a relatively minor problem and blasted it way out of proportion to whip up a frenzy.
Explorers w/Bridgestone tires - have you ever seen how people drive SUVs? They drive them like they're sports cars. Except they aren't sports cars - they have a higher center of gravity. If you lose a tire at 80 mph, even in a sports car you're going to have problems; a vehicle with a higher center of gravity just makes it that much easier to roll it. Also, how many people do you know that religiously check their air pressure? Finally, I still haven't seen proof that those tires were actually systematically defective; please point me to evidence if you have some, because I like to follow these issues. (I'd really like to see rollover/death statistics for other SUVs compared to the Explorers, but I haven't seen that information yet.)
GM Side Saddle fuel tanks - all I really remember about this issue is one of the networks rigging a demo with a small charge rather than having it explode on its own. That kind of detracted from the seriousness of the problem for me. Also, like the Corvair, those fuel tanks met the crash-safety standards in effect as of the time the vehicles with them were manufactured.
Spy 1: "s...l...a...s...h-" Spy 2: "Damn! He's going to/. again! All right, let's go. EXECUTE EXECUTE EXECUTE!" Spy 3, at your home: "Step away from the keyboard, G4! We know what you've been up to!"
Just trying to keep things in perspective: what's someone who's going to the trouble of keylogging you really going to find?
If you're a crime lord or into child pornography, you'd have to be pretty dumb to use a wireless keyboard, and the police would find another way to tap you.
Your credit card, bank account info, etc? There are much easier, more efficient ways to get that information.
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I had to do something like this over the weekend. I have an old Quantum drive that uses special jumpers (a different size than every other jumper I've seen, smaller pins spaced farther apart), which, of course, got lost. I soldered a piece of wire in place for the jumper.
That drive will always be master!
No Swiss Army/Leatherman tool would've helped here, because the pins were too short to bend together as the parent suggested. I did use needle nose pliers for holding the wire in place briefly.
--RJ
Really? I've had decent luck with their phone service during business hours (got a clueful tech right away). In off-hours, I got someone who didn't know as much -- she wanted to check my software config immediately after admitting that service was down in my area -- but she wasn't THAT bad.
:)
I've gotten some scans from Cox, maybe once a month. Tripwire blocked the scan and my firewall now drops their IP.
--RJ
We've all read Tekwar, even if we don't like to admit it. :)
--RJ
Hey! I'm a statistician, you insensitive...zzzz...
--RJ
Sing. That's what I did when I cycled. :)
--RJ
I used Mandrake's installer to partition my new laptop's hard drive, which runs XP and so probably has an NTFS partition. Worked perfectly -- just watch to make sure that you actually specify your root partition in a primary partition - I had to redo mine after all my Linux partitions ended up in the extended partition.
:)
Then, I rebooted and installed Slackware.
--RJ
I considered going laser when I bought my last printer, but I wanted color printing, too, and didn't want to spend that much for a printer I don't use that frequently.
I bought an HP OfficeJet v40 and haven't had the problem of ink drying out like my last inkjet printer (a Canon BJC-4100). In fact, I just replaced the first ink cartridge (after about 2 years) a couple weeks ago...
On the downside, it's not photo-quality printing, but it's good enough for most other purposes. And having a FAX machine was extremely handy when I was buying my condo.
--RJ
10% plus interest on your car loan, don't forget.
By the way, I didn't intend to flame, but the mods didn't agree.
Anyway, even my terrible Cougar hasn't yet broken down on me and left me stranded--its problems have been more idiocy things like slow coolant leaks, noisy brakes, etc., not stuff that disables the car. I'd have no reservations about driving it cross-country today if I had to.
--RJ
Yep, it is crap. But not because it's a Ford, because it's a Cougar. They had a bad start, then Ford cancelled them, and now Ford has moved on to it's new child, the Focus. :)
Another way of looking at "high resale value" is that they're overpriced when you go to buy a used one. When I bought a used car a while back, I found that I could get a lot more car for less money than going with Hondas. And there was no gaurantee that buying a used Honda would net me any more quality than a used Chevrolet - who knows WHAT the original owner did to the car?
Note to mods - Flamebait? My message was not intended to be flamebait but simply another way of looking at the issue.
--RJ
You need to check your math and the features you're getting. Honda and Toyota almost always cost more than other manufacturers for similar cars once you get similar features.
Example: Even if you assume I've paid for every repair, I still paid less for my Mercury Cougar than I would've for a Toyota Celica (I know, Toyota, not Honda, but same thing holds), and I have a car with a lot more features and power than the Celica.
--RJ
We use it all the time in my office to meet with a remote office. I can't believe that we're the only ones on earth using videoconferencing for this type of task.
--RJ
Err...I'd rather date a student that's happy than a professional pulling down a half-million that isn't...
And I bet many guys would agree. (Okay, the half-million might be a stretch.)
--RJ
I just want to say, as the person that posted the parent comment, I absolutely love your response. Thanks!
--RJ
Yeah, I have one with phono inputs, not that I have a turntable. I was just wondering whether the filtering that the pre-amp does could be done in software, thereby removing one link of the chain, possibly improving quality (or at least keeping degradation minimized). Then again, these are albums we're talking about, so degradation is a fact of life...
Thanks.
--RJ
Side question: are you recording straight from the turntable or going through an amp first?
If straight from the turntable, how are you correcting the sound? Does Audacity have that option? (I have it installed but haven't look for that feature.) That'd be cool if it did.
--RJ
I know one that has a 4-digit UID, around 1100 or so. Of course, the AC knew one that is even lower, but I'm not sure she counts, being a friend of Rob and all. ;)
--RJ
For some reason, you comment reminded me of an incident I was involved in in Athens, Georgia: I was on the University of Georgia cycling team, and we were having some pictures taken of us at the arch, the entrance to the UGA campus. When the traffic light stopped the traffic in front of us, our photographer walked out to the middle of the street (there was a small median in the middle) to take wider angles. The light finally turned green, but the photographer wasn't done, so we figured we'd have to wait for another cycle.
:)
But no. The cars at the front of each lane of traffic waited for her to take several more shots. No one blew horns or anything. After the photographer finished, we waved to the motorists by way of thanks.
I miss that town.
--RJ
So this explains the odd behavior of mine yesterday. The display showed it counting down in hex digits, then it put something else on the display (I don't remember what), and it finally reset itself, flashing code 6680 as it usually does when it crashes.
At the time, I figured Cox was doing a software update to it, but now I find that it's a serious bug.
Maybe they can make the scheduling a little smarter at the same time, like, say being able to record a certain program only once a week at a set time, repeating weekly. If I want to record the Simpsons on Sunday night, I either have to manually program it every week, or it'll record all Simpsons episodes on each week (the local Fox affiliate plays 3 episodes every weekday), which interferes with other recordings. (After all, VCRs managed this trick two decades ago...)
--RJ
Thanks for the corrections (you and the other posters).
All I can say about SUVs is this: I have a sporty (not a sports car, but sporty) 1999 Mercury Cougar. These things were meant to be a relatively fast car for the price point at which they were sold. I'll be doing 80 mph on the DC beltway in my Cougar...and someone in an SUV will still pass me, maybe even weaving in and out of traffic.
Totally insane. What's really amazing is that more people haven't died as a result of this type of driving.
--RJ
Yeah, I remember putting "Crazy Train" into it on my PCjr. Played pretty well, too. :)
Actually, you can still download and run it - just look in the abandonware sites. I was playing with it a couple months ago, but I couldn't get the sound to work, which detracted from the overall experience somehow...
--RJ
At least two of the three examples you cited just reminded me of the media being out of control: they took a relatively minor problem and blasted it way out of proportion to whip up a frenzy.
Explorers w/Bridgestone tires - have you ever seen how people drive SUVs? They drive them like they're sports cars. Except they aren't sports cars - they have a higher center of gravity. If you lose a tire at 80 mph, even in a sports car you're going to have problems; a vehicle with a higher center of gravity just makes it that much easier to roll it. Also, how many people do you know that religiously check their air pressure? Finally, I still haven't seen proof that those tires were actually systematically defective; please point me to evidence if you have some, because I like to follow these issues. (I'd really like to see rollover/death statistics for other SUVs compared to the Explorers, but I haven't seen that information yet.)
GM Side Saddle fuel tanks - all I really remember about this issue is one of the networks rigging a demo with a small charge rather than having it explode on its own. That kind of detracted from the seriousness of the problem for me. Also, like the Corvair, those fuel tanks met the crash-safety standards in effect as of the time the vehicles with them were manufactured.
--RJ
Good luck getting contractors to write code for the gov't then...
--RJ
Spy 1: "s...l...a...s...h-" /. again! All right, let's go. EXECUTE EXECUTE EXECUTE!"
Spy 2: "Damn! He's going to
Spy 3, at your home: "Step away from the keyboard, G4! We know what you've been up to!"
Just trying to keep things in perspective: what's someone who's going to the trouble of keylogging you really going to find?
If you're a crime lord or into child pornography, you'd have to be pretty dumb to use a wireless keyboard, and the police would find another way to tap you.
Your credit card, bank account info, etc? There are much easier, more efficient ways to get that information.
--RJ
I've had a wireless mouse for years - it works perfectly, and lasts several months on a single set of batteries.
It's a Microsoft Intellimouse, Wheel, PS/2 version. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I do like how the Microsoft-branded mice work.
Perhaps your mouse was defective or something...or maybe the batteries you were using were from a bad batch...
--RJ
We did stop trying to please you. You bitched about that, too. ;)
--RJ