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Gris - Jun 17, 2005 10:38:42 am PDT #3442 of 10003
Hey. New board.

how does it rate costwise with SD?

Slightly cheaper. Not a lot. And the capacities are pretty similar: though CF has a 2 GB card, for example, and SD doesn't. it's quite expensive in comparison to the 1 GB. I think.


NoiseDesign - Jun 17, 2005 10:45:29 am PDT #3443 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

CF actually even has 4 GB cards now. I've used them for audio devices.


sumi - Jun 17, 2005 11:35:04 am PDT #3444 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

jon, I switched the right channel to the "b" speaker Uh, slot and suddenly all sound was coming from the right channel and none from the left.

I'll see if I can figure out if (after getting the right wires) I can hook up the receiver through the pre-amp.


Theodosia - Jun 17, 2005 2:24:05 pm PDT #3445 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Is there a decently intuitive shareware program for OSX that will let me make VCD's out of AVIs and MPGs?


dcp - Jun 17, 2005 2:35:18 pm PDT #3446 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I'll see if I can figure out if (after getting the right wires) I can hook up the receiver through the pre-amp.

I can't resist. This reminds me of Flanders & Swann's A Song of Reproduction: >[link]

You've got your negative feedback coupled in with your push-pull input-output; take that across your red-head pickup to your tweeter, and if you're modding more than eight you're going to get wow on your top. Try to bring that down through your rumble filter to your woofer, and what'll you get? Flutter on your bottom!


Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 2:35:26 pm PDT #3447 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Theo, did you look on Versiontracker.com?

This is one of the programs that came up when I searched Versiontracker for "vcd": [link] -- I just don't know if it's a good program or not, since I've never made VCDs.


§ ita § - Jun 18, 2005 7:13:06 am PDT #3448 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's the simplest way for me to expand my XP system partition? I have unallocated space on that drive, and would rather expand it than uninstall apps and install them on another partition.

Partition Magic is, FTR, overkill unless it's the only possible way.


DCJensen - Jun 18, 2005 8:09:15 am PDT #3449 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Well, there is NTFSResize, which might work with a Linux boot cd... [link]


DCJensen - Jun 18, 2005 8:10:23 am PDT #3450 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

And there are others listed here. [link]


tommyrot - Jun 19, 2005 7:51:32 am PDT #3451 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

There's this site that has Windows Media files that I can play just fine on my two year old G3 iBook (900 Mhz, 640 Meg) but my friend Miriam can't play on her brand new G4 iBook (700 something Meg)(The thing just starts and stops, starts and stops). We're both on OS X 10.4, both using Windows Media Player for OS X 9.0.0. We both tried it on the same WiFi network, and we have our WMP preferences set the same way.

Here is one example of one of the problem files: [link]

(In case that link doesn't work, go to [link] and click on '"Sammy The Stem Cell" drops by to talk about the life of a blastocyst.' at the bottom left.)

Miriam says that others are also having problems playing Windows Media files from this site on their Macs, while other Windows Media files play just fine. Also, there's no simple way (that I've found) of saving the file to disk first at this site.

Oh, I'm using Mozilla 1.7 while Miriam has tried the latest Firefox and Safari.

eta: Increasing the buffer size on Miriam's WMP didn't help.