You might be picking up interference from some radio station because of unsheilded speaker wires acting as antennas (antennae?), and the radio signal getting de-modulated by some non-linear part of the path, but, if you've got a steady hum, that sounds like a fault in the power supply filtering that's letting some AC or some DC ripple through, or maybe a bad bypass capacitor in the audio section somewhere. Take it back where you bought it and have them plug it in there to see if the problem follows the hardware or stays at your home. If it still has the problem at the store then it was bad out of the box--make them take it back and give you a good one. If you bought it mail order then go to a couple of different friends places with it and try it there to see if location makes a difference. Even the specifications link doesn't say if this thing has to plug into the wall or if it can run on battery power, but if it can, see if using batteries instead of wall socket AC makes a difference.
"Of course, we could always hope that MS would realize their software licensing is not in the best interest of the consumer and turn it all around....but it's statistically safer to bet on being struck by lightning 12 times in succession..."
Let's see, get struck by lightning or go through a Windows "upgrade". Tough call.
If he's running a K6-2, chances are the mobo takes SIMMs, not DIMMs. Try buying 1.5G of SIMMs at that price. Don't count on finding many SIMM socket motherboards that can take anywhere near that much memory, though.
It's probably a violation of several federal laws to write on dollar bills or otherwise "deface" them, but as long as you're at it, make it "In God We Trust, all others pay cash".
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"I don't think this guy is going to send out the elite dell stormtroopers to get you."
It's worse than that. He's going to send the Dell fairy to spend the Christmas holidays in your home.
Not only does the phone company have their own power, they have their own wires to deliver that power with. The average cell tower is dependent on the electrical company for the wires to deliver the power and the power except perhaps for a little uninterruptable power supply with the equivalent of a motorcycle battery that lets the computer running the tower electronics shut down safely.
The cell phone problem isn't damage to the tower, it's loss of electricity to run it. When the lights go out for half the city so does the power to the towers. The phone company, however, has both their own generators and more lead-acid storage batteries than you can count to provide backup to power the phone lines and the phones you have plugged into the wall.
One of the main reasons that radio stations (especially the high powered, expensive to operate ones) existed prior to advertising via radio is that the companies who manufactured radios started the stations to create demand for their product.
And furthermore, the next time a hurricane takes out the electricity and the power to the towers in range of my cell phone (where I live it's when, not if), my land line will most likely still be working.
When you say local energy company I assume you mean the people from whom you buy electricity. If that electrical company didn't have fiber run along the same right of way as their electrical lines is there some other electrical company to whom you could turn for this service, or, just like the phone company and the cable company, are they the only company of their kind allowed to use the right of way?
If not, how many different electrical companies are allowed to run thier wires and fiber in the same trench or on the same poles? 2? 10? 25?
"When looking at DSL, you can go with any of several providers."
Or in cases like mine you can be equally unable to get DSL from anybody, because, in spite of my situation of living only two blocks from a switching station built only ten years ago, Sprint (the current owners of Carolina Tel. & Tel.) doesn't offer any flavor of DSL (not even with themselves as ISP) in my neighborhood (they've been saying "real soon now" for years), and if the phone company doesn't offer DSL there ain't no other way of getting it 'cause they own the wires.
'"I can't find an ISP who'll give me what I want....'
Exactly. Anybody who is willing to go into business to sell him something he wants and is willing to pay for can't do so because they are blocked from access to "the last mile".
How do you go about obtaining permission from and compensating the people or companies who own the rights to the various songs and performances that comprise your mixes?
If that pension fund owns more shares in the company than you own, they own a bigger chunk of the company and you need to think twice about calling it "your" company. As far as they are concerned, telling you how to run the company is simply protecting their investment.
Apparently he saw your post 'cause now it says "phenomena", which, being preceeded by the word "both" (implying more than one phenomenon) is correct, as it is the plural of phenomenon. Unless you were implying a lack of phnomenalness altogether.
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If you bought it mail order then go to a couple of different friends places with it and try it there to see if location makes a difference. Even the specifications link doesn't say if this thing has to plug into the wall or if it can run on battery power, but if it can, see if using batteries instead of wall socket AC makes a difference.
E-mail me if you need further info or advice.
Actually John Doe is much more a plagarizing of Coronet Blue than it is of The Pretender.
One advantage of being on dial-up: I read through the text of the article and was done and had the page closed before the picture loaded.
Obligatory Brockovich quote "I hate lawyers. I just work for them."
Let's see, get struck by lightning or go through a Windows "upgrade". Tough call.
Actually you should fear the BOFH.
(Backhoe Operator From Hell).
I would, but my work blocked that address. Huh."
Probably because it reads it as partSEXpress.
Don't forget to include the "avoid shooting Iranian civilian airliners" TSR.
There's someone else on Slashdot who has had a similar (but more gracefully worded) sig for 2 or 3 years now and, if I'm not mistaken, a lower User#.
If he's running a K6-2, chances are the mobo takes SIMMs, not DIMMs. Try buying 1.5G of SIMMs at that price. Don't count on finding many SIMM socket motherboards that can take anywhere near that much memory, though.
It's probably a violation of several federal laws to write on dollar bills or otherwise "deface" them, but as long as you're at it, make it "In God We Trust, all others pay cash".
It's worse than that. He's going to send the Dell fairy to spend the Christmas holidays in your home.
Not only does the phone company have their own power, they have their own wires to deliver that power with. The average cell tower is dependent on the electrical company for the wires to deliver the power and the power except perhaps for a little uninterruptable power supply with the equivalent of a motorcycle battery that lets the computer running the tower electronics shut down safely.
The cell phone problem isn't damage to the tower, it's loss of electricity to run it. When the lights go out for half the city so does the power to the towers. The phone company, however, has both their own generators and more lead-acid storage batteries than you can count to provide backup to power the phone lines and the phones you have plugged into the wall.
One of the main reasons that radio stations (especially the high powered, expensive to operate ones) existed prior to advertising via radio is that the companies who manufactured radios started the stations to create demand for their product.
Good catch, though.
And furthermore, the next time a hurricane takes out the electricity and the power to the towers in range of my cell phone (where I live it's when, not if), my land line will most likely still be working.
If not, how many different electrical companies are allowed to run thier wires and fiber in the same trench or on the same poles? 2? 10? 25?
Or in cases like mine you can be equally unable to get DSL from anybody, because, in spite of my situation of living only two blocks from a switching station built only ten years ago, Sprint (the current owners of Carolina Tel. & Tel.) doesn't offer any flavor of DSL (not even with themselves as ISP) in my neighborhood (they've been saying "real soon now" for years), and if the phone company doesn't offer DSL there ain't no other way of getting it 'cause they own the wires.
Exactly. Anybody who is willing to go into business to sell him something he wants and is willing to pay for can't do so because they are blocked from access to "the last mile".
Of course not. We've got W. to do it for us.
How do you go about obtaining permission from and compensating the people or companies who own the rights to the various songs and performances that comprise your mixes?
It's those horribly complicated mistakes of which they are capable that are the problem.
If that pension fund owns more shares in the company than you own, they own a bigger chunk of the company and you need to think twice about calling it "your" company. As far as they are concerned, telling you how to run the company is simply protecting their investment.
Apparently he saw your post 'cause now it says "phenomena", which, being preceeded by the word "both" (implying more than one phenomenon) is correct, as it is the plural of phenomenon. Unless you were implying a lack of phnomenalness altogether.