Actually, I'd prefer to do what I've always done. I bought a 1/8"-minijack-to-1/8"-minijack cable and plugged one end into the line-in port on my Mac (and later, my PC, the Mac's a server now) and the other end into the headphone out (yeah, I know, it's amplified, bad idea... but aux-out was already in use) of my stereo system. Then I downloaded and installed Audacity. The rest is fairly simple. Get the levels nice with some test runs (like setting that pesky headphone out...:X ), then record everything else as usual. (Just hit "record" in Audacity. It adds the tracks for you and everything.) Once it's done, save it as WAV/MP3/OGG/whatever.
So, to recap: 1. Get a cable to connect your stereo to the computer. 2. Get Audacity. 3. Set levels and record. 4. Enjoy.
You shouldn't use this to "5. ??? 6. Profit!!!" though.
If you want edits, well, go for it. Just remember to work on a copy. Welcome to the wonderful world of amateur audio engineering.:)
Time to scold the mods... This isn't funny. It's practical.
And for once, there would be a reality show that isn't complete drivel. Hell, even I'd watch it, and I'm one of the few that usually finds watching TV to be painful.
I have that same problem at my office. I've been looking at a few solutions. I've found 2 that seem like they'd work well.
1. Norton Ghost - Since it's a single particular user's machine that keeps getting it, this would work well. He will, of course, bitch about losing his pictures every time we wipe the drive, though.
2. RIS - F12 is your friend, I've learned. At least during the boot process. Having a RIS setup would make installation quick and hopefully painless. (Yeah, right.)
There's another CoolWebSearch-like BHO out there that keeps redirecting you to t.rack.cc, which CWShredder doesn't fix. It also tends to cause the HD to thrash so much that it kills the drive. We've chewed through 3 HD's on that particular laptop in the last year. (It's a Toshiba. Maybe they just suck.)
Actually, I see more men driving regular pick-up trucks. All the SUV drivers are women.
Which means that too many American women have small dicks.
Oddly enough, every TV portrayal (yeah, realism...) of a husband shows a henpecked, beaten down man wishing his wife would just shut up and quit berating him. This is the kind of attitude we teach our children to have, not to mention that it tells adult men that a total bitch of a wife is "normal". Which brings us back to those goddamned, testosterone-pumped, evil, SUV-driving, amazon-bitch soccer moms we see everywhere.
While I don't think that women were treated fairly 100 years ago, I also don't think that it's right to inflict even a fraction of the same on anyone now. It's all about balance.
SUV drivers are anything but a sign of balance. Few people need one, yet marketing has told the masses otherwise. Once again, America's values are fucked up. Balance, people, we need balance. And people that think for themselves.
Oh, and keep your genetic engineering to yourself. I don't need a bigger penis.
Most of the time, people will choose a Ford instead of a Toyota because Ford has designers that don't consistently produce cars that make you understand exactly why the term "Butt Ugly" was invented.
Seriously, does anyone think those things are attractive? At best they're the style equivalent of a 1985 K-car. More commonly, they look more like a rolling pile of dog crap.
Honda at least has some designers that aren't blind. Get one of those instead and spare my poor eyes.
Oh jeez. I haven't heard that song in a LONG time.
Some corrections, though: - 30 blocks. - 2000" is 166 2/3 feet. Remember, that's diagonal, so the screen is actually 100 feet tall and 133 1/3 feet wide. (That song is from 1993 or 1994, so HDTV and widescreen weren't a big thing yet. So I assume it's a 3:4 aspect ratio, giving us a 3/4/5 right triangle to calculate our height and width from the hypotenuse.)
Send him a copy of the Declaration of Independence and a musket ball. Include a self-written statement of your displeasure with recent policy.
Be sure to mention his voting record for or against the policies that displease you. List every item he's voted for or against, along with missed votes. Count missed votes in the "against" column.
I just dumped an old 19" Dell POS in the dumpster at work a few months ago. It smashed all to hell on the way in... very fun. Then I cleaned out the warehouse and threw some old crappy parts and boxes on top of it. We never got a complaint or even an invoice for the disposal of "hazardous materials".
My advice: find a small office/industrial park nearby and pay a quick visit to their dumpster at about 10pm, preferably on Friday. As long as you don't get too greedy and hog their entire dumpster (don't put more than 1 thing in at a time!), you won't get stopped. And you won't get caught at all. Just watch out for security cameras. Most small businesses don't have them, but a few do.
Funny, I was always under the impression that they mined lead out of the ground in the first place! So what exactly would be the problem with putting it back where it was?
Same goes for mercury. Where does it come from? How about uranium? The ground? No way... I don't believe it. That horrible, harmful stuff couldn't possibly come from the ground...
Really, I fail to see the environmental impact of this stuff. The only argument I've ever heard is that it pollutes drinking water. Guess what... that's not the environment's problem. That's a HUMAN problem. The grass has no problem using the water and getting rid of the lead. Fish aren't wiped out by mercury in the water, it merely removes the weak. Uranium hardly causes widespread panic by causing green, glowing birds. Nature doesn't give an airborn rodent's posterior about these "pollutants". It's the chemical compounds that we manufacture that cause most of the problems, not the nearly-pure heavy elements.
So while an unbroken CRT is relatively safe to humans, even a broken CRT is relatively safe to the ever-so-beleaguered environment.
1. Everyone else is going to switch to US Dollars. (Those $ thingies. You do realize that's our currency symbol, don't you? It's a tall 'U' and a regular-height 'S' overlapping with the top and bottom cut off. It was later simplified to a single upright bar. You foreigners can come up with your own symbol for your own money, or you can use our money, but you can't have it both ways!)
2. All other countries will become US states, complete with a 2-letter postal code. I suggest "IQ" for Iraq to start with. Later, we can add "GB" for Great Britain, "FR" for France, "OZ" for Australia, and we're gonna have to work something out for India, since IN, ID, and IA are already taken. Maybe "II" for India.
Actually, you could have users 23098203, 20934865, 94832029, and 12893573 all share the exact same nick. You wouldn't need to differentiate between "FragBastard" and "Frag_Bastard". You wouldn't need to exclude spaces from names, either. Imagine that... you could actually name yourself "Frag Bastard" and not fear the total breakdown of XBox Live's user database when the game puts your name up in lights.
It's called good design, and far too few programmers (yes, even/. geeks) bother with it. It's a "who cares" attitude, and I hate it with a passion.
Hey, this proves that Mac users get pussy. Hmmm... maybe that would be a good codename for 10.6... MacOS X "Pussy"... "One in the Think, two in the Different."
Speaking as an HVAC support technician, I can tell you that USB thumb drives are indeed the lesser of two evils a vendor would require you to deal with. Your other option is to open your network up to something like LapLink, PCAnywhere, or Remote Administrator.
And a few other things here... 1 - They wouldn't change the system without your permission. This includes setpoints, programming, graphics, etc. The Owner is liable to keep FDA regulations. The servicer is liable to the owner to provide a working system. Trust me when I tell you, service and support guys don't like to get sued. They usually take the most cautious path possible.
2 - They can't make any changes that you can't make. Don't let them tell you otherwise. I don't know of any manufacturer that doesn't sell the product to you. The service techs are from a dealer. They don't own that software. If they act like they do, find a new vendor.
3 - Disabling USB support won't get you anywhere when they just use your server connection to the HVAC system for a man-in-the-middle transfer. Your server is connected by a wire (with or without switches, routers, or other network junk) to the gateway module. A laptop posing as a gateway module can transfer files to the server. A laptop posing as a server can reprogram a gateway module. Wires and switches can't do anything to stop it, not even with address filtering. Changing the laptop's address will make it work either way.
We've had to do this with several of our customers. Now, we just write it into the contracts and service agreements that they will provide or allow us to provide easy network access. Then we work with their network guys to set up Remote Administrator. They don't restrict our USB drives, either. And some of our customers have a lot bigger worries than pleasing the FDA.
Speaking as someone who just took a Toshiba laptop in for "official" repair today after a "bad blocks" message and a bit of tinkering, I must point out that the hard drive in the particular model of Toshiba laptop I was working with was under a cover on the bottom of the laptop held by two screws. The cover plate was stamped with the words "Hard Drive". Inside the compartment was, you guessed it, the hard drive. It was held in place by a couple of small screws, and connected via a ribbon cable.
It's not anywhere near as technical as removing a HD from a Powerbook (personally, I did surgery on an old Lombard model from 1999). That involved such difficult tasks as "removing the keyboard by holding back two spring latches and pulling it upward", "unscrewing the cage that holds the hard drive", and "plopping a new drive in place of the old one". The toughest part of that ordeal was finding a Torx-8 wrench.
You make a good argument, yet you missed a detail.
The name "Safari".
Apple makes everything automagical, sometimes at the expense of security. Their recent exploits were nothing more than a few protocol handlers that could've run amok. Protocol handlers. For standard protocols (except the help one). They made protocol handlers dangerous by making them do things without user intervention.
Now, of course, this doesn't mean that all platforms will have to install these plugins automatically. But knowing Apple, most of the functionality will be wrapped up in the plugin itself, possibly torpedoing any attempt to keep the clueless type of users informed of what's on their machine (there will probably be a preference pane in the app that shows a list of installed plugins and gives you an easy way to remove them, but you'll have to know it's there).
ActiveX isn't your only worry. This plugin architecture is a form of homogeny that will span platforms and ensure that malware is a write-once-run-anywhere thing if it's not handled correctly.
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Actually, I'd prefer to do what I've always done. I bought a 1/8"-minijack-to-1/8"-minijack cable and plugged one end into the line-in port on my Mac (and later, my PC, the Mac's a server now) and the other end into the headphone out (yeah, I know, it's amplified, bad idea... but aux-out was already in use) of my stereo system. Then I downloaded and installed Audacity. The rest is fairly simple. Get the levels nice with some test runs (like setting that pesky headphone out... :X ), then record everything else as usual. (Just hit "record" in Audacity. It adds the tracks for you and everything.) Once it's done, save it as WAV/MP3/OGG/whatever.
:)
So, to recap:
1. Get a cable to connect your stereo to the computer.
2. Get Audacity.
3. Set levels and record.
4. Enjoy.
You shouldn't use this to "5. ??? 6. Profit!!!" though.
If you want edits, well, go for it. Just remember to work on a copy. Welcome to the wonderful world of amateur audio engineering.
Time to scold the mods... This isn't funny. It's practical.
And for once, there would be a reality show that isn't complete drivel. Hell, even I'd watch it, and I'm one of the few that usually finds watching TV to be painful.
I have that same problem at my office. I've been looking at a few solutions. I've found 2 that seem like they'd work well.
1. Norton Ghost - Since it's a single particular user's machine that keeps getting it, this would work well. He will, of course, bitch about losing his pictures every time we wipe the drive, though.
2. RIS - F12 is your friend, I've learned. At least during the boot process. Having a RIS setup would make installation quick and hopefully painless. (Yeah, right.)
There's another CoolWebSearch-like BHO out there that keeps redirecting you to t.rack.cc, which CWShredder doesn't fix. It also tends to cause the HD to thrash so much that it kills the drive. We've chewed through 3 HD's on that particular laptop in the last year. (It's a Toshiba. Maybe they just suck.)
Actually, I see more men driving regular pick-up trucks. All the SUV drivers are women.
Which means that too many American women have small dicks.
Oddly enough, every TV portrayal (yeah, realism...) of a husband shows a henpecked, beaten down man wishing his wife would just shut up and quit berating him. This is the kind of attitude we teach our children to have, not to mention that it tells adult men that a total bitch of a wife is "normal". Which brings us back to those goddamned, testosterone-pumped, evil, SUV-driving, amazon-bitch soccer moms we see everywhere.
While I don't think that women were treated fairly 100 years ago, I also don't think that it's right to inflict even a fraction of the same on anyone now. It's all about balance.
SUV drivers are anything but a sign of balance. Few people need one, yet marketing has told the masses otherwise. Once again, America's values are fucked up. Balance, people, we need balance. And people that think for themselves.
Oh, and keep your genetic engineering to yourself. I don't need a bigger penis.
Most of the time, people will choose a Ford instead of a Toyota because Ford has designers that don't consistently produce cars that make you understand exactly why the term "Butt Ugly" was invented.
Seriously, does anyone think those things are attractive? At best they're the style equivalent of a 1985 K-car. More commonly, they look more like a rolling pile of dog crap.
Honda at least has some designers that aren't blind. Get one of those instead and spare my poor eyes.
Oh jeez. I haven't heard that song in a LONG time.
Some corrections, though:
- 30 blocks.
- 2000" is 166 2/3 feet. Remember, that's diagonal, so the screen is actually 100 feet tall and 133 1/3 feet wide. (That song is from 1993 or 1994, so HDTV and widescreen weren't a big thing yet. So I assume it's a 3:4 aspect ratio, giving us a 3/4/5 right triangle to calculate our height and width from the hypotenuse.)
I love it. Mod this one up. Way up.
So... you hate spawnkilling? So do I. I wish they'd nuke those spawnkiller bastards.
Damn campers.
Hey, I just bought an iPod. Go figure.
Then again, I still don't have a cell phone.
Send him a copy of the Declaration of Independence and a musket ball. Include a self-written statement of your displeasure with recent policy.
Be sure to mention his voting record for or against the policies that displease you. List every item he's voted for or against, along with missed votes. Count missed votes in the "against" column.
Ah, but it is. We don't like rape, especially prison rape. But we do wish it upon our worst enemies.
Hehehe... I have over 500 of those, and I don't download the ones I don't like. All hail Disco Dan!
Metroid Metal has some good stuff too.
An iTunes Music Store user, perhaps?
;)
"Blue (Da Be Dee)" was the number 1 downloaded dance song for ages on the iTMS.
I think the Vengaboys' "We Like to Party" has overtaken it now.
I bought both.
I just dumped an old 19" Dell POS in the dumpster at work a few months ago. It smashed all to hell on the way in... very fun. Then I cleaned out the warehouse and threw some old crappy parts and boxes on top of it. We never got a complaint or even an invoice for the disposal of "hazardous materials".
My advice: find a small office/industrial park nearby and pay a quick visit to their dumpster at about 10pm, preferably on Friday. As long as you don't get too greedy and hog their entire dumpster (don't put more than 1 thing in at a time!), you won't get stopped. And you won't get caught at all. Just watch out for security cameras. Most small businesses don't have them, but a few do.
Funny, I was always under the impression that they mined lead out of the ground in the first place! So what exactly would be the problem with putting it back where it was?
Same goes for mercury. Where does it come from? How about uranium? The ground? No way... I don't believe it. That horrible, harmful stuff couldn't possibly come from the ground...
Really, I fail to see the environmental impact of this stuff. The only argument I've ever heard is that it pollutes drinking water. Guess what... that's not the environment's problem. That's a HUMAN problem. The grass has no problem using the water and getting rid of the lead. Fish aren't wiped out by mercury in the water, it merely removes the weak. Uranium hardly causes widespread panic by causing green, glowing birds. Nature doesn't give an airborn rodent's posterior about these "pollutants". It's the chemical compounds that we manufacture that cause most of the problems, not the nearly-pure heavy elements.
So while an unbroken CRT is relatively safe to humans, even a broken CRT is relatively safe to the ever-so-beleaguered environment.
Other inevitable switchovers:
1. Everyone else is going to switch to US Dollars. (Those $ thingies. You do realize that's our currency symbol, don't you? It's a tall 'U' and a regular-height 'S' overlapping with the top and bottom cut off. It was later simplified to a single upright bar. You foreigners can come up with your own symbol for your own money, or you can use our money, but you can't have it both ways!)
2. All other countries will become US states, complete with a 2-letter postal code. I suggest "IQ" for Iraq to start with. Later, we can add "GB" for Great Britain, "FR" for France, "OZ" for Australia, and we're gonna have to work something out for India, since IN, ID, and IA are already taken. Maybe "II" for India.
Ph33r our imperialist pigness.
Actually, you could have users 23098203, 20934865, 94832029, and 12893573 all share the exact same nick. You wouldn't need to differentiate between "FragBastard" and "Frag_Bastard". You wouldn't need to exclude spaces from names, either. Imagine that... you could actually name yourself "Frag Bastard" and not fear the total breakdown of XBox Live's user database when the game puts your name up in lights.
/. geeks) bother with it. It's a "who cares" attitude, and I hate it with a passion.
It's called good design, and far too few programmers (yes, even
Fear the great Barbie Girl of doom!
Hey, this proves that Mac users get pussy. Hmmm... maybe that would be a good codename for 10.6... MacOS X "Pussy"... "One in the Think, two in the Different."
Wow... that's a pretty dense thing to do.
Speaking as an HVAC support technician, I can tell you that USB thumb drives are indeed the lesser of two evils a vendor would require you to deal with. Your other option is to open your network up to something like LapLink, PCAnywhere, or Remote Administrator.
And a few other things here...
1 - They wouldn't change the system without your permission. This includes setpoints, programming, graphics, etc. The Owner is liable to keep FDA regulations. The servicer is liable to the owner to provide a working system. Trust me when I tell you, service and support guys don't like to get sued. They usually take the most cautious path possible.
2 - They can't make any changes that you can't make. Don't let them tell you otherwise. I don't know of any manufacturer that doesn't sell the product to you. The service techs are from a dealer. They don't own that software. If they act like they do, find a new vendor.
3 - Disabling USB support won't get you anywhere when they just use your server connection to the HVAC system for a man-in-the-middle transfer. Your server is connected by a wire (with or without switches, routers, or other network junk) to the gateway module. A laptop posing as a gateway module can transfer files to the server. A laptop posing as a server can reprogram a gateway module. Wires and switches can't do anything to stop it, not even with address filtering. Changing the laptop's address will make it work either way.
We've had to do this with several of our customers. Now, we just write it into the contracts and service agreements that they will provide or allow us to provide easy network access. Then we work with their network guys to set up Remote Administrator. They don't restrict our USB drives, either. And some of our customers have a lot bigger worries than pleasing the FDA.
Note that Mikey-boy decided to wait until after Apple's WWDC Stevenote to announce this, removing as much PR backlash as is possible.
Jobs isn't one to let it go, though, so there will probably be some carnage. Do not taunt Happy Fun Steve.
Auto-vacuum? So it sucks even without user intervention? Sounds like Microsoft might've sponsored that little "innovation".
"Ha! I kill me!" - ALF
Speaking as someone who just took a Toshiba laptop in for "official" repair today after a "bad blocks" message and a bit of tinkering, I must point out that the hard drive in the particular model of Toshiba laptop I was working with was under a cover on the bottom of the laptop held by two screws. The cover plate was stamped with the words "Hard Drive". Inside the compartment was, you guessed it, the hard drive. It was held in place by a couple of small screws, and connected via a ribbon cable.
It's not anywhere near as technical as removing a HD from a Powerbook (personally, I did surgery on an old Lombard model from 1999). That involved such difficult tasks as "removing the keyboard by holding back two spring latches and pulling it upward", "unscrewing the cage that holds the hard drive", and "plopping a new drive in place of the old one". The toughest part of that ordeal was finding a Torx-8 wrench.
You make a good argument, yet you missed a detail.
The name "Safari".
Apple makes everything automagical, sometimes at the expense of security. Their recent exploits were nothing more than a few protocol handlers that could've run amok. Protocol handlers. For standard protocols (except the help one). They made protocol handlers dangerous by making them do things without user intervention.
Now, of course, this doesn't mean that all platforms will have to install these plugins automatically. But knowing Apple, most of the functionality will be wrapped up in the plugin itself, possibly torpedoing any attempt to keep the clueless type of users informed of what's on their machine (there will probably be a preference pane in the app that shows a list of installed plugins and gives you an easy way to remove them, but you'll have to know it's there).
ActiveX isn't your only worry. This plugin architecture is a form of homogeny that will span platforms and ensure that malware is a write-once-run-anywhere thing if it's not handled correctly.
(-1, Tinfoil Hat)
Wow. They must not collect much data, then...
Excel can only have 255 tabs per worksheet. Maybe they have a whole Access database full of Excel worksheets with 255 tabs each.
Ow. That one made my head hurt.
They needed to give you guys a TLO (Timed Local Override) button.