Bonny, have you tried clearing your browser cache?
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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Ginger - Jan 17, 2009 11:27:36 am PST #8900 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
beekaytee - Jan 17, 2009 3:14:39 pm PST #8901 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Bonny, have you tried clearing your browser cache?
Yep. And I should mention that this is happening on two different computers. My limping G4 home Mac and a blazing G5 on my friend's PR firm's network.
Mystery, I tell you!
Jessica - Jan 17, 2009 4:07:34 pm PST #8902 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I misread a product description and wound up with 2 extra optical digital audio cables. I bought them on Overstock and they were too cheap to be worth returning. Anyone in here want 'em for the price of postage? They're 3 or 4 feet long.
Beverly - Jan 17, 2009 10:01:31 pm PST #8903 of 25501
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
This is a really, really low-tech question, but I don't know where else to go for the information. I have a new canvas messenger bag I'd like to use as a laptop bag. My laptop sleeve fits easily, and with room to spare for peripherals plus things like notebooks, wallet, phone, glasses, water bottle, stuff. The bag seems perfect for this, but I noticed after purchase that the flap has magnet dots on the corners, and corresponding ones on the outer part of the exterior pockets the flap covers. They're embedded in the double-layer fabric, and are about an inch in diameter, thinner than 1/16th inch.
Is that going to be enough magnet to futz with the computer? Given that the laptop is usually only carried, and not stored, in the bag? And there's the padded laptop sleeve, the contents between the sleeve and exterior of the bag, and the contents of the exterior pockets between the magnets and the laptop itself.
I feel stupid for not noticing the lack of velcro before purchase.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2009 6:56:58 am PST #8904 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 left my MacBook on while I was out of town, and two days after I left, my cat tried to listen to a song on iTunes. It was some internet radio station, with the following URL (line-breaks mine):
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOBJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
I suppose my cat could be part of some feline conspiracy to take over the world, and went to this radio station to get instructions, but I maintain she was just curious....
omnis_audis - Jan 18, 2009 7:44:44 am PST #8905 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
clearly she wanted to say hello to Mr. Simpson. The B is just a typo.
beth b - Jan 18, 2009 4:47:41 pm PST #8906 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
So, Matt is away and I am using Skype with a logitech quickcam for the first time. I'm getting a lot of echo --and we aren't sure why.
Liese S. - Jan 21, 2009 8:18:52 am PST #8907 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Whoops. So yeah, this is the tech thread. Over there is the music thread. Not really related at all. What I meant to post here was:
I'm transferring stuff over to my new laptop. And I recreated my email addresses over in Thunderbird and I have one work address right now that's downloaded 13,000 spam messages. Now admittedly, that's the address I use to fill out web forms and is the most vulnerable to spam. And I tend to ignore it until I need it, like today, but still. That's a daggone lot of spam. Guess I'd better get to deleting. Whenever it finishes. Maybe I'd better go take a shower first.
(eta: current status is 3333 of 13,896.)
le nubian - Jan 21, 2009 8:32:45 am PST #8908 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that's an overnight job if I ever heard of one!
omnis_audis - Jan 21, 2009 9:21:21 am PST #8909 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I went to the sound shop this morning to pick up some cables. We got to talking about the inauguration. He learned some info from the company that did the sound/video for the event. With the crowd so far away, they had a ton of delay towers. As the name says, the towers are time delayed to the source. So each tower has it's own delay time. The farthest tower had a **9 second** delay time. That is HUGE! Think about it. If you say, "My fellow Americans..."
...
...
Ya, 9 seconds later, the back section is starting to hear it! Then they had to time delay the video screens to that, so the lips on screen lined up with audio coming out of the speakers. Then you remember, that speed of sound is not a constant, like light is. And that the speed of sound can vary from barometric pressure and temperature.
It's freaking awesome! Totally geeking me out. I've never dealt with sound system delay of more than 1 second or so. Almost always in milliseconds, but never 9,000 of them! Hell, our mixer here at work can only do about 600ms!
Anyhow, I thought it was freakin' cool, and wanted to share.