I don't know about Jess, but I'm bookmarking it.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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DXMachina - Apr 16, 2005 3:09:14 pm PDT #2468 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
NoiseDesign - Apr 16, 2005 3:30:43 pm PDT #2469 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
There's also a whole thing about lots of gear having what's called the "Pin 1" problem, which has to do with the manufacturers not properly connecting the audio ground to the chassis of gear. You can often make odd hums go away from running a clean grounding line to a screw on the chassis of the gear. I'm kinda convinced this is going on with my Tivo and may be doing that soon.
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2005 4:03:07 pm PDT #2470 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Whoot! Good, ita & Laura, glad I could help.
Suela, that sounds like an awesome program. Useful all the way 'round.
ND, you need to come help us design our fantasy studio. You know, when we build the house we're going to build with the money we don't have on the land we can't buy.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2005 4:55:12 pm PDT #2471 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
As for the hum, larger wire won't really help this. Here's what can help. Make sure that you don't have long lengths of wire coiled, and then near some sort of AC line.
The funny part is, I used to know this, because it's really important on film sets. I've just been in post-production too long.
You don't need to was money on stuff like monster cable
Oh. Well...they weren't that much more than the RadioShack brand ones. And they sound is so much better than what we had before. The hum's gone, probably just because these are so much better shielded than the old ones.
(I also discovered that the reason we weren't getting very good bass out of this system is that I never turned on the subwoofer. Funny how much that helped...)
[eta: Oh, and the guy at the Apple store completely talked me out of getting the stereo connector kit, on the grounds that the dock is basically a $40 piece of plastic, and totally useless for anything except making the iPod stand up. So I just got the cables, which work great.]
DCJensen - Apr 16, 2005 4:59:29 pm PDT #2472 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
My Windows XP machine keeps telling me to download a newer Malicious Software Removal Tool from Microsoft.
Hmmm... I wonder when it'll remove Windows...
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2005 5:00:36 pm PDT #2473 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha.
Hee.
Also, heh, everyone should buy monster cables.
NoiseDesign - Apr 16, 2005 6:12:24 pm PDT #2474 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Years ago the AES (audio engineering society) did a speaker cable shoot out. It was a blind test. The winner? A set of jumper cables pulled from someone's car. More copper sounds better.
Rio - Apr 16, 2005 7:15:04 pm PDT #2475 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
I'm gonna download an RSS aggregator/browser. I'm on a Mac. Which one should I get?
Gris - Apr 16, 2005 8:04:53 pm PDT #2476 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Hmm. I think NetNewsWire Lite is the most popular one. Me, I like the interface of Newsfire more, though I've had some stability issues (that may be corrected by now, I've not used it for a while as I've mostly switched to Livejournal feeds and read things on my friends page.)
evil jimi - Apr 17, 2005 12:56:04 am PDT #2477 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.