First, I've been gone for a long time, in case anyone cared.  In the past four years, I managed to get married, join the Navy as a Nuclear ET (Electronics Technican - means I operate the reactor) get through school, get on a boat (USS Missouri), and be fully qualified.   In news related to...

I'm in need of a large format printer (that is, someone to print it for me) for something I plan on hanging in my house: Internet Map. The geek inside me likes it, and the wife approves of the minimalist styling. So it's a go. Going to print it at 36x16", but I need someone to print it. I was...

I purchased a NJB2 from 1911 awhile back, and was quite thrilled. 10GB is more than adequate for my needs, and after getting Notmad Explorer, started eagerly filling it up. Well, no. First I had to finish converting my FLAC images to single tracks, and then I had to go about re-learning LAME...

Just what the title says Current issue; Volume 22, #4. Winter. "Sears Portrait Insecurities - Security holes in Sears Portrait Studio" - by Stephonovich. I wrote the article a few months ago when I first got the job, and never thought anything happened with it. No emails or anything. Then...

My beloved POS has been sitting defunct for the past year or so. We never got it registered here in NC when we moved, and I've been commuting with an '85 Ford Ranger (admittedly fun) which gets 18 MPG. $25 a week in gas. My Escort gets mid-high 30s in mixed driving. It can crack 40 with...

I was bored, and so set about creating a program on my TI-86 to compute a Fibonacci series, allowing the user to specify the amount of recursion. My problem is the limitations of TI BASIC, the native programming language. Currently, I have something like this... ClLCD Input "Start...

In the spirit of Bangra's recent contest, in which sweet victory was almost mine (terrible, aren't I?), I decided to make a similar yet opposite contest. I won a $10* Slappa gift certificate in their giveaway, and don't really have a use for it. Not that i don't like Slappa, but I already have...

Anyone else excited about this? Trailers here. I've never read the graphic novels; actually, I'd never heard of them, but I may just have to. The movie looks amazing. And that was before I found out Jessica Alba was starring

I recently discovered the joy that is NES/SNES music, and while it's great, I'd love to be able to encode it into a somewhat standard format, for a few reasons. For one, NSF/SPC decoding takes a fairly significant chunk of CPU power; about 20% of my XP 2000+. Even worse when you use Foobar's...

Posted this over at Gentoo Forums (as it's Gentoo related), but no bites after more than a day. Suprising for them. Anyway, I figured I'd try here. Rather than post it all in it's entirety, post is here. Basically, it's a problem with GRUB and distCC, completely non-related. I know I'm one of...

Anyone have any experience printing up business cards? I've got some sheets I found laying around, perforated, Avery 8376. 2x3.5" cards. The design is here (PSD, 609KB), if anyone's interested. What I mainly need help in is finding a template. I tried making one of my own, but it didn't work...

Some of us have discussed various Linux Distros on and off in various topics, so I felt a dedicated topic would be interesting. I've listed all the distros I've used, with a brief opinion and rating. wallijonn, I apologize in advance for the Ubuntu bashing Figured the forum needed another...

I'm trying to figure out how to disable keyboard input to a program (ideally not OS specific, but the main target for this is Windows). I Googled and looked at Experts-Exchange, but all the solutions I found required an external .dll or .exe. I want something that's embedded in the program...

I'm currently in the midst of repairing an aluminum cone 10" speaker from my Hartke Kickback 10 bass amp. Dimed it one too many times, it seems. Got a replacement Eminence speaker, but it's not matched to the porting, so it just doesn't have the impact, plus you get bass farts at anything past...

Poorly named title, but I couldn't think of a better way to put it. Also, if this should be a different forum, feel free to move it. That being said... How many of you have both a full album rip and singles from said album on your HD? I've got some that I ripped as singles from various...

My grandpa has a turntable (Pioneer PL-A25), and since my parents fondly remember records from their day, they bought some while garage saling, and we hooked it up to his Marantz SR7000 receiver. I hooked my CMoy and 280 Pros up to that, in turn. Now, mind you, the records aren't in the greatest...

I dunno, I'm kinda feeling introspective right now, and it's now in the AM, so I might as well post. Rather fits in with the recent "What are you listening to currently?" threads, as well. I was sitting here browsing various websites, with music playing in the background, when I had this...

Sorry to cross-post, but I realized it'd do better here than in the Discman Repair thead. In my defense, I did delete that post, or rather, replace it with a notice pointing here. Anyway... I need to get a hold of a few IC's for my AZ6832/17. It died a few months ago for no apparent reason...

First, not sure if this should go in Member's Lounge or Headphones. Feel free to move as you see fit, mods. Anyway, the website Dan's Data has just posted a (favorable) review of the HD 280s. He's been doing quite a bit of headphones and amps recently, so perhaps hi-fi will be accepted by the...

Does anyone have any info on the above CDP? Googling turned up nothing, nor did a search here. My grandpa has one, and it sounds very decent running through his Marantz receiver. All I can tell you is that it's a black 5-disc changer, manufactured in Japan on December '91, with two RCA jacks for...

For an unknown reason, my AZ6832/17 died during camp about a week ago. When I try to play a CD, it spins for awhile, and the display reads 'E'. I assume this means Error. I discovered a troubleshooting mode by hitting Play, Stop, FF, and RW at the same time. (may be of use to people in the...

Just wondering; what do Head-Fiers wear in the way of jewelry? I don't wear anything other than the very nice (IMO) Android Ultra Watch, but soon plan on taking an old low E string from my bass and stringing a guitar pick on it, and wearing that as a necklace. Bear in mind the low E (on mine...

Went a bit OT in Edwood's PCI bus thread about this, and since I'm bored, it's 5:20AM and I'm still not tired, I shall post. Did anyone see Lindsay Lohan on SNL last Saturday? I didn't even know she was on until I saw these. (screenshots, you perverts. Not 'these' these. Or, um, rather...

In response to Tuberoller's demand, er, plea for reviews, and plus the fact that the AV-710 is becoming quite popular, yet no reviews, I decided to write one. I'm quite pleased with mine, anyway. I blame all errors on the fact that I'm simultaneously studying the OSI Layers while writing this...

I recently discovered it wasn't my input jack on my Hartke amp that was busted, it was my crappy Horizon cables (I tried multiple cables, so I assumed it was the jack; turned out they were just ALL busted. Horizon sucks. Bigtime), so I finally have an excuse to make some. Anyway, I had a...