Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


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Dana - May 06, 2009 1:32:42 pm PDT #9895 of 25505
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Can Audacity convert WAV to MP3?


amych - May 06, 2009 1:43:00 pm PDT #9896 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Can Audacity convert WAV to MP3?

It can if you have the LAME plug-in that allows you to save mp3's. It may or may not be easier for you to just convert them in iTunes by right-clicking on them.


Dana - May 06, 2009 1:47:00 pm PDT #9897 of 25505
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Yeah. At the moment, iTunes is on the non-responsive computer, and I'm entertaining wild ideas about capturing all the stuff I have on cassette tape that I don't want to lose.


amych - May 06, 2009 1:49:38 pm PDT #9898 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Gotcha. In that case, Audacity with LAME will work just fine. (And it'll do great with the capture jobs as well.)


flea - May 06, 2009 1:51:36 pm PDT #9899 of 25505
information libertarian

LAME is not a good acronym if you want to promote the idea that your program is useful. Just sayin'.


amych - May 06, 2009 1:52:53 pm PDT #9900 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I have thought this for many years. Somehow, they don't listen to my snarky brainwaves.


DCJensen - May 06, 2009 5:46:21 pm PDT #9901 of 25505
All is well that ends in pizza.

Our current TV was found by me literally on top of a dumpster piled high with leftovers after a church rummage sale.


Jessica - May 07, 2009 4:50:35 am PDT #9902 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Bah - went and picked up a DLink router at lunchtime (802.11n, on the overwhelming recs of the hive mind) and the damn thing won't even turn on. Dead like a dead thing that is dead. So it's back to Best Buy to exchange it for one that works tomorrow.

(DLink v Belkin V Netgear v Linksys? I've had good luck with Linksys routers in the past, but they're far and away the most expensive brand on the shelves.)


Gudanov - May 07, 2009 5:24:28 am PDT #9903 of 25505
Coding and Sleeping

I have had a terrible time with Linksys of late. The last time I got a linksys router I had to return two of them before I got one that worked at all. The first one dropped the WAN connection every 10 minutes or so, the replacement started smoking after a few minutes, the second replacement worked alright, but still dropped the WAN connection every few days.

My dad had trouble with a Belkin.

In both cases we ended up with a Netgear router and they have worked great.

My BIL has had trouble with DLink, but he's always tweaking his equipment so I think he'd have trouble with any brand.


Jessica - May 07, 2009 6:23:50 am PDT #9904 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I CAN HAZ INTERWEBS!!!

Apparently there was water in one of the lines on the roof. It has now been replaced and all my HD channels have returned. Huzzah!