Thanks, I'll try that. I have a LOT of old tapes that I would like to salvage and xfer to something else if at all possible. Also, Big Lots usually has 4 head stereo VCR's for $29.95 Not bad considering I paid $1,800 for a Curtis Mathis 4h 2ch back in the mid 80's...
I have video tapes that are 10-15 years old and many have a white mildew on them, most are otherwise bad now, they will ruin the heads of any VCR you put them in. Gone forever.
However, I have old full height hard drives from the 5160 days that I can fire up right now and pull data from 20 years later.
CD and DVD has shown's it's miserable failings, I've lost LOTS of CD's that were only a few years old.
It takes a damn long time for the platters in a hermetically sealed HDD to go bad when it's sitting unused in storage.
If they can get them smaller, cheaper and more reliable, I'm on board with this. I just hate to let go of the old ways. I guess some of us suffer the Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to what we've always used and have all our eggs in..
Smoothwall is entirely on-topic. The thing about the ISP is what's entirely off-topic.
The story is about p2p through firewalls. Smoothwall handles any p2p with great ease. I have no stake in Smoothwall, it's free. I just like it a lot. It works really well for home, SOHO and most small M&P businesses. I've installed it for a lot of people and the only complaint I ever had was the CPU fan fell off of a P100 box I installed and burned up the CPU. They called, I was there in 30 mins, I swapped mobo's and in less than an hour they were back online. It's handling a small biz with 30 users behind it and has had 100% uptime for over 18 months. That's pretty damn good if you ask me. My customer paid for the PC, nics, wiring and time.
Personally, I wonder why you are so hung on hardware routers? Got stock in Cisco eh?
Can't help you when you have to work through a firewall someone else controls. Some cheapo ISPs do exactly that.
Most hardware routers have an interface where you can forward a port as needed, anyhow.
Smoothwall has a browser accessible interface. Even the most simple minded can use it to open and close ports.
Besides, if you can install smoothwall, you don't need help from an ISP for anything. If you can't install smoothwall because it's beyond your ability, you have no business playing with a store bought router either..
ISP's tend to be extremely stupid and extremely offshore.
Speaking of, I called my ISP once because I needed to change my account password on the ISP side. Had absolutely nothing on earth to do with my side, THEIR system was rejecting my password. Called RR tech support and instead of talking to someone at the office that's a 5 minute drive from here, I talked to someone in Pakistan who insisted on knowing my OS. I insisted my OS had nothing to do with it, that I wanted to change my account password on THEIR side. Dumbass kept on with "What's version of Windows do you use?" When I finally told them I use Suse Linux his head burst into flames and told me I had to install Windows. I told him to stick his cue cards up his ass and hung up. I called back, mad as hell and finally got a local tech who fixed me up in under 60 seconds.
Being high profile like they are, they present an enticing target. Joe average at home though, presents a very uninteresting target, not to mention hard to find. I'm personally not worried about it, if they were hacked it didn't involve the GPL version, they run the corporate version. And if there is a vulnerability in the GPL version, they'll shortly have a patch available.
Or swap your yellow, cyan, and magenta toners around, and make the corrections in Photoshop to get the desired image with the transposed colors. They'll be looking for the wrong color dots
Hey, now that's a good idea. I have an HP 4500n, it has four carts that appear to be identical except for the toner color.
I may swap yellow and black around and run a few test pages through it, just for sh*ts, grins and giggles. However, I sort of doubt much will come of it, I examined some old printouts from a few days ago with a loupe and a blue LED like they suggested and saw nothing. I think my printer is about 5 years old, it's new enough to do this.
Really though, who would care? I'm definitely a tin foil hatter but unless you are going to send nasty letters to politicians or make fake money, who cares? If you're more paranoid than I am, buy one used with cash. But you're best bet, don't do stuff you shouldn't do... Duh...
I have always disliked LCD screens, the image quality is just poor. I would never own an LCD TV or monitor. I have several laptops but I hook them up to 22" CRT's. Yeah, I know they are big, heavy, hot and suck juice but they please my eyes. (I use 22" Iiyama's and 21" Trinitron's CRT's only)
Watching video on an LCD is a horrible experience, just as watching mpeg video on digitial satellite or digital cable sucks.
I prefer analog anyday. Compressed video looks like crap and compressed video on LCD is unbearable. It looks like kids on acid drew it with crayons and graph paper.
I will always stick with CRT's.. NO LCD screen can compare to the performance level and image quality of a CRT..
And I say that the people that are CLAIMING to represent us DO NOT REPRESENT US and in fact are robbing us "under threat of pain".. (If you understand that.)
Hands off, you greedy bastards. You're not going to tax me and use it to fund your wars and invasions and occupations that all your blood thirsty chicken hawks are hell bent on starting and waging.
This is nothing less than taxation without representation.
Just remember, the American Revolution was started over taxation without representation and they weren't anywhere near as burdened as we are now.
Hell, we would have been better off to let the Britts keep America because the current system is bleeding the people to death to fund the bleeding to death of OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!
Oh yeah, what about all the THEFT that goes on through the phone company? Eh??
My car is 30 years old. It's a 1975 450SEL and I'll drive it for another 30 years.
All these new cars are SH*T. I wouldn't take a new car if it were a free gift nor would I take a new car if you paid me to take it.
Plastic crap made in China assembled in Mexico. Stick that crap up your tailpipe..
I bought a second one just like it so to be sure to have spare parts.
There is no way in hell that I will ever allow any sort of modern crap to be installed in my car, it's factory original and it's going to stay that way. I have no need or desire for modern electronics of any sort in my car, including stereo gear. I listen to AM radio anyway, and only sometimes. Most of the time I listen to the motor and the tires singing...
WTF does everyone want all this automatic crap for? This world has gone insane. I'm 44 years old and I was born on another planet. Somewhere between the time I was born and now, someone stole me away from the planet I was born on and dropped me off on this screwed up world. Nothing in this world resembles the world I was born into..
Please, by all means, let me know when you install solar panels on your roof, and decide to dump your local electrical co.
Trust me, that's another of my ultimate dreams. Since I was 14 years old when I toured an underground home in New Mexico (it was like a log cabin buried under a mound of dirt) I fell in love with "disconnected living"
Nothing in the world would please me more than to live on a mountain in a home made from rocks that is totally self sufficient with no connections to the outside world, save maybe a two-way satellite dish.
I have to say that my RR service has been very dependable, very little down time, not enough to bother me in the least. The speed is magnificent, unlike SBC..
Never overbilled once, never charged for stuff I didn't order or equipment I don't own, unlike SBC..
My only complaint with RR is that they nail me for an extra $10 a month because I DO NOT get cable TV service.
I think it sucks that I have to pay for something I don't get.
That's like paying more for sugar free cookies. Like it costs them MORE to leave it out...
After getting ass raped with broken glass and chainsaws by SBC for many years I finally told them to get f*cked and I took a pair of bolt cutters and a screw driver to my lines. I physically cut the wire at the boxes and removed the boxes from the walls, then standing on a milk crate, I cut the dangling wires at the poles as high up as I could reach. They now dangle cut, swinging in the wind, at my home and at my place of business. I operate totally from cell phone alone now, I have no land lines, no POTS lines.
I would rather take a bullet in the head than connect to SBC in any form for any reason, ever.
However, RR has notified people in this area that RR voip will be available in this area within a few weeks. When that does happen, I plan to have RR voip installed at my office and home. I do quite well operating on cell phones only. Voip would just make it easier to use all my old POTS equipment that is gathering dust, fax, tad, 900mhz cordless, etc... (Not to mention that old POTS phones are a LOT easier to hold on your shoulder, can't do that with a flip phone!)
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Thanks, I'll try that. I have a LOT of old tapes that I would like to salvage and xfer to something else if at all possible.
Also, Big Lots usually has 4 head stereo VCR's for $29.95 Not bad considering I paid $1,800 for a Curtis Mathis 4h 2ch back in the mid 80's...
I have video tapes that are 10-15 years old and many have a white mildew on them, most are otherwise bad now, they will ruin the heads of any VCR you put them in. Gone forever.
However, I have old full height hard drives from the 5160 days that I can fire up right now and pull data from 20 years later.
CD and DVD has shown's it's miserable failings, I've lost LOTS of CD's that were only a few years old.
It takes a damn long time for the platters in a hermetically sealed HDD to go bad when it's sitting unused in storage.
If they can get them smaller, cheaper and more reliable, I'm on board with this. I just hate to let go of the old ways. I guess some of us suffer the Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to what we've always used and have all our eggs in..
Let's all just replace ourselves with machines then die out. Hell, we're moving towards a Cylon future anyway.. Might as well get it over with..
Who's paying you to be annoying?
Equilibrium?
(Kick ass movie, must see!)
Smoothwall is entirely on-topic. The thing about the ISP is what's entirely off-topic.
The story is about p2p through firewalls.
Smoothwall handles any p2p with great ease.
I have no stake in Smoothwall, it's free.
I just like it a lot. It works really well for home, SOHO and most small M&P businesses.
I've installed it for a lot of people and the only complaint I ever had was the CPU fan fell off of a P100 box I installed and burned up the CPU. They called, I was there in 30 mins, I swapped mobo's and in less than an hour they were back online. It's handling a small biz with 30 users behind it and has had 100% uptime for over 18 months. That's pretty damn good if you ask me. My customer paid for the PC, nics, wiring and time.
Personally, I wonder why you are so hung on hardware routers? Got stock in Cisco eh?
Eh, never mind...
Can't help you when you have to work through a firewall someone else controls. Some cheapo ISPs do exactly that.
Most hardware routers have an interface where you can forward a port as needed, anyhow.
Smoothwall has a browser accessible interface.
Even the most simple minded can use it to open and close ports.
Besides, if you can install smoothwall, you don't need help from an ISP for anything.
If you can't install smoothwall because it's beyond your ability, you have no business playing with a store bought router either..
ISP's tend to be extremely stupid and extremely offshore.
Speaking of, I called my ISP once because I needed to change my account password on the ISP side. Had absolutely nothing on earth to do with my side, THEIR system was rejecting my password.
Called RR tech support and instead of talking to someone at the office that's a 5 minute drive from here, I talked to someone in Pakistan who insisted on knowing my OS. I insisted my OS had nothing to do with it, that I wanted to change my account password on THEIR side. Dumbass kept on with "What's version of Windows do you use?" When I finally told them I use Suse Linux his head burst into flames and told me I had to install Windows.
I told him to stick his cue cards up his ass and hung up. I called back, mad as hell and finally got a local tech who fixed me up in under 60 seconds.
Next time you might want to figure out how to do it without skipping a beat. ;)
Arrrrgh! Yeah, someone rang my doorbell while I was composing it..
Redhat and SuSE seem to make you re-install the whole OS.
/home it's own partition.
I don't mind. I partition my drives up, including giving
I've reinstalled several times and skipped a beat.
http://smoothwall.conley-family.com/pages/image004 .html
This guy didn't make the mod, I don't think, he just has some pics of all the mods installed and running
Being high profile like they are, they present an enticing target. Joe average at home though, presents a very uninteresting target, not to mention hard to find.
I'm personally not worried about it, if they were hacked it didn't involve the GPL version, they run the corporate version. And if there is a vulnerability in the GPL version, they'll shortly have a patch available.
Also, another poster mentioned add-ins. Yep. A bunch of them. http://sourceforge.net/projects/smoothiemods/
Smoothwall GPL 2.0 final
POS PC = free from side of road
Smoothwall GPL = free
Problem solved..
Or swap your yellow, cyan, and magenta toners around, and make the corrections in Photoshop to get the desired image with the transposed colors. They'll be looking for the wrong color dots
Hey, now that's a good idea. I have an HP 4500n, it has four carts that appear to be identical except for the toner color.
I may swap yellow and black around and run a few test pages through it, just for sh*ts, grins and giggles. However, I sort of doubt much will come of it, I examined some old printouts from a few days ago with a loupe and a blue LED like they suggested and saw nothing. I think my printer is about 5 years old, it's new enough to do this.
Really though, who would care? I'm definitely a tin foil hatter but unless you are going to send nasty letters to politicians or make fake money, who cares? If you're more paranoid than I am, buy one used with cash.
But you're best bet, don't do stuff you shouldn't do... Duh...
Well, cups has a watermarking on/off option along with several other "goodies" for my 4500n
I have always disliked LCD screens, the image quality is just poor. I would never own an LCD TV or monitor. I have several laptops but I hook them up to 22" CRT's. Yeah, I know they are big, heavy, hot and suck juice but they please my eyes. (I use 22" Iiyama's and 21" Trinitron's CRT's only)
Watching video on an LCD is a horrible experience, just as watching mpeg video on digitial satellite or digital cable sucks.
I prefer analog anyday. Compressed video looks like crap and compressed video on LCD is unbearable. It looks like kids on acid drew it with crayons and graph paper.
I will always stick with CRT's.. NO LCD screen can compare to the performance level and image quality of a CRT..
I sure do.
And I say that the people that are CLAIMING to represent us DO NOT REPRESENT US and in fact are robbing us "under threat of pain".. (If you understand that.)
Oh, so you elected all those people to tax the hell out of yourself and everyone else?
And what of all the APPOINTED people that no one ever elected?
And lastly, when did a congress-critter ever keep it's word once in office?
How about a little refresher course, "Read my lips, NO NEW TAXES"......
Case closed...
Please have a heart attack and die as soon as possible.
Thanks much!
Hands off, you greedy bastards.
You're not going to tax me and use it to fund your wars and invasions and occupations that all your blood thirsty chicken hawks are hell bent on starting and waging.
This is nothing less than taxation without representation.
Just remember, the American Revolution was started over taxation without representation and they weren't anywhere near as burdened as we are now.
Hell, we would have been better off to let the Britts keep America because the current system is bleeding the people to death to fund the bleeding to death of OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!
Oh yeah, what about all the THEFT that goes on through the phone company? Eh??
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/charges.html
My car is 30 years old.
It's a 1975 450SEL and I'll drive it for another 30 years.
All these new cars are SH*T.
I wouldn't take a new car if it were a free gift nor would I take a new car if you paid me to take it.
Plastic crap made in China assembled in Mexico.
Stick that crap up your tailpipe..
I bought a second one just like it so to be sure to have spare parts.
There is no way in hell that I will ever allow any sort of modern crap to be installed in my car, it's factory original and it's going to stay that way. I have no need or desire for modern electronics of any sort in my car, including stereo gear. I listen to AM radio anyway, and only sometimes. Most of the time I listen to the motor and the tires singing...
WTF does everyone want all this automatic crap for? This world has gone insane. I'm 44 years old and I was born on another planet. Somewhere between the time I was born and now, someone stole me away from the planet I was born on and dropped me off on this screwed up world. Nothing in this world resembles the world I was born into..
Please, by all means, let me know when you install solar panels on your roof, and decide to dump your local electrical co.
.
Trust me, that's another of my ultimate dreams.
Since I was 14 years old when I toured an underground home in New Mexico (it was like a log cabin buried under a mound of dirt) I fell in love with "disconnected living"
Nothing in the world would please me more than to live on a mountain in a home made from rocks that is totally self sufficient with no connections to the outside world, save maybe a two-way satellite dish
I have to say that my RR service has been very dependable, very little down time, not enough to bother me in the least. The speed is magnificent, unlike SBC..
Never overbilled once, never charged for stuff I didn't order or equipment I don't own, unlike SBC..
My only complaint with RR is that they nail me for an extra $10 a month because I DO NOT get cable TV service.
I think it sucks that I have to pay for something I don't get.
That's like paying more for sugar free cookies. Like it costs them MORE to leave it out...
And if any SBC stooges are reading this, FU....
Total crap.
Why do people have such a morbid fascination with murder and mayhem? People that feed off this garbage are mentally ill...
After getting ass raped with broken glass and chainsaws by SBC for many years I finally told them to get f*cked and I took a pair of bolt cutters and a screw driver to my lines. I physically cut the wire at the boxes and removed the boxes from the walls, then standing on a milk crate, I cut the dangling wires at the poles as high up as I could reach. They now dangle cut, swinging in the wind, at my home and at my place of business. I operate totally from cell phone alone now, I have no land lines, no POTS lines.
I would rather take a bullet in the head than connect to SBC in any form for any reason, ever.
However, RR has notified people in this area that RR voip will be available in this area within a few weeks. When that does happen, I plan to have RR voip installed at my office and home. I do quite well operating on cell phones only. Voip would just make it easier to use all my old POTS equipment that is gathering dust, fax, tad, 900mhz cordless, etc... (Not to mention that old POTS phones are a LOT easier to hold on your shoulder, can't do that with a flip phone!)
Kiss My Ass.