connie,
try this for the second issue:
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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le nubian - May 13, 2008 6:19:42 pm PDT #6198 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 4:12:40 am PDT #6199 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not a request for help - just a "WTF was he thinking?" sorta' thing....
A guy at a client's office called my boss - he had taken some resumes in Word .doc format, exported them to spreadsheets, and then tried to export the spreadsheet data to an SQL Server database.
Huh? Apparently the tabs in the resumes resulted in the various data being put in various columns without trashing things too much, but the export to SQL didn't work right.
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 4:18:45 am PDT #6200 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
connie, what do you mean by "generic cassette player"? It needs to have some sort of stereo line out.
You will probably need something like this: [link]
It's got two RCA plugs on one end and a stereo 1/8th inch plug on the other. The 1/8th stereo plug goes into the "input" of your sound card and the RCA plugs go in the "line out" plugs of your cassette player.
That's assuming your cassette player has RCA "line out" plugs. If it doesn't, then it gets trickier, but you might be able to use a stereo headphone jack, in which case you'd need a cable with 1/8th inch stereo plugs on both ends.
Connie Neil - May 14, 2008 4:52:58 am PDT #6201 of 25501
brillig
Thanks, Tommy, I wasn't sure what to look for in a cassette player. I've got several Walkman type players around the house and wasn't sure if they'd be sufficient.
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 4:54:29 am PDT #6202 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Walkman-type player might work. But you'll need to carefully adjust the volume on the Walkman in order to get the volume correct on the computer.
Connie Neil - May 14, 2008 4:57:14 am PDT #6203 of 25501
brillig
My twenty-year-old Prairie Home Companions may yet be listenable.
Typo Boy - May 14, 2008 8:58:41 am PDT #6204 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
XP SP3 - how bad is it?
Have they fixed the bugs?
Does it hurt performance?(Some of the reviews say it increases performance.)
Does it add crippling DRM?
Or were the problems just the usual thing with a major update? Mostly already fixed? What was not fixed will be fixed soon?
Currently have automatic updates set to "notify". I'll wait a few weeks before downloading and installing, to give time for more bugs to be caught and fixed. Is that sufficiently paranoid, or do I need to wait longer?
Sounds like they are importing the crippling "are you sure stuff" from Vista: [link]
Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2008 10:58:00 am PDT #6205 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
How do you back-up an external hard drive? I have an external hard drive with all my music and videos on it, and I would just about shoot myself if anything happened-- but do you get a second external hard drive??
Gudanov - May 14, 2008 11:05:47 am PDT #6206 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Kinda depends on how much data you have. You could always burn DVDs if you don't change the data much and there isn't an overwhelming amount of it. Otherwise a second external hard drive is pretty much it.
I have this little guy, NAS 200, with two mirrored hard drives to store important stuff on. I don't know if a network device makes sense for you though.
Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2008 11:24:40 am PDT #6207 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Right now I have 104G. Is that too much to burn to DVD (I am thinking yes?) I have a lot of TV downloaded from itunes, and I would actually like to rip a lot more of the stuff I have on DVD. I feel like I am a bit done with purchasing physical DVD's, as I pretty much destroy the beautiful boxes anyway.