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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.]
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...
Ha.
Hee.
Also, heh, everyone should buy monster cables.
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.
I'm gonna download an RSS aggregator/browser. I'm on a Mac. Which one should I get?
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.)
Anyone mentioned the new Yamaha
42-channel/speaker
doodad?
[link]
I don't know about Jess, but I'm bookmarking it.
Funny because I marked ND's post then read this one next.
I'm gonna download an RSS aggregator/browser. I'm on a Mac. Which one should I get?
I use the web-based Bloglines and love it.
iPod devotees rocked by thefts
(Washington Post article on the MSNBC site, so no login required.)
Apparantly iPod theft is way up - don't know if that just a DC problem or nationwide. Thieves used to ignore iPods, but now people who fence stolen goods have found a market for stolen iPods, which is responsible for the recent upswing of iPod iTheft.
The article mostly foucuses on how traumatic it is to have one's iPod iStolen.
(iSorry.)
