My DVD player has been being a pain lately -- skipping around and pausing randomly, sometimes getting so that it plays about a second of movie, followed by a second of nothing, for a good minute or two. It's happening with any disc I try to play, so it's not that the disc is scratched. The tray to put the disk on was a little dusty, so I cleaned that off, but it didn't help. I'm suspecting there might be dust on the lens. Is there some way to clean that? Or any other suggestions about what might be the problem?
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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Hil R. - Oct 08, 2008 1:32:25 pm PDT #7796 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 1:37:33 pm PDT #7797 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.
I've seen this cleaner thing for CD players that's basically a blank disk with a tiny brush on it. Maybe the same kind of thing would work for DVDs?
omnis_audis - Oct 08, 2008 1:39:33 pm PDT #7798 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I've used it with Qlab machines on macsThat's what we got. Now with the latest MOTU drivers, it seems pretty stable. 30 outputs with one interface. OK, so we got some ADAT expansion i/o, but still! So far so good, and a TON of headroom on the MOTU. We have the faders at -20 and it's still loud. Debating if I want to adjust down the trims in Qlab, but not sure how soft the actual cues in the show are, vs system check music.
Laga - Oct 08, 2008 3:50:03 pm PDT #7799 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I love this idea: Mail Goggles. But I can't figure out how to turn it on. Is it a joke? 'cause I want it.
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 5:41:33 pm PDT #7800 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.
Log into Gmail. Go to settings, Labs. Scroll down. (about 3/4 of the way down. Enable Mail Goggles (one click).
DCJensen - Oct 08, 2008 5:43:56 pm PDT #7801 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Argh, Typo Boy be too fast fer th' likes o' mee.
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 5:45:27 pm PDT #7802 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.
Hah! As if you didn't post before me 99 times out of 100 on this stuff.
Laga - Oct 08, 2008 6:24:57 pm PDT #7803 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
awesome! thanks.
Jessica - Oct 09, 2008 3:29:03 am PDT #7804 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So I checked the log for my OSX install yesterday, and as I suspected, it was hanging on the printer drivers, which is apparently A Thing with Leopard installs.
I'm trying again today and hoping it goes more smoothly, but in case it freezes up again, where do I click to tell it to skip the printer drivers since this computer doesn't have a printer and almost certainly never will?
[eta: Nevermind, it worked this time. Am now crossing my fingers that the FCS install will go smoothly too, now that this computer is, OS-wise, clean and new.]
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2008 5:04:47 am PDT #7805 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.
System lets your plants blog their daily existence
The "Midori-San" is a system that allows a normal houseplant to write entries in a standard blog. In a similar way to its distant cousin, the "Botanicalls" project, the Midori-San uses surface potential sensors to read the bioelectric current flowing across the surface of the leaves. As the current fluctuates in response to environmental factors such as temperature changes, humidity, vibration, electromagnetic waves and nearby human activity an algorithm translates the data into sentences which are posted to the plant's blog. Owners can subscribe to the plant's blog to follow it's story, and even earn the plant some cash by clicking it's Google Adsense Ads. I guess there is such a thing as easy money.
This is cool - I'm tempted to get a plant and do this. Of course, I'd probably end up accidentally killing it... or my cat would intentionally kill it. And then people reading the blog could watch my plant die. Hmmm... would it be worth all the hate-mail?