WayToBlue
Some DVD players have card readers but I'm having trouble finding one that reads CF.

Maybe there's something like a CF-to-USB or CF-to-WhateverThePlayerCanAlsoHandle thingee?

Googleing CF to USB shows some results for thingees that seem to convert them into USB mass storage devices; so if there's a DVD player or one of those multimedia boxes that can read from USB devices..

If the camera also has an USB connector, you might be able to plug it into one of those multimedia boxes directly; at least
this review of a WD thingee claims:
It's a little black box that plugs into your TV and can be used to play audio and video, or view images straight from your USB storage devices (i.e. portable hard drives, or USB thumb drives).
[..]
if a friend is coming over and they want to show you some holiday snaps or a home video they can just bring a USB stick or even plug their camcorder/camera straight into the WD TV and switch it to mass storage mode. The WD TV doesn't care what it's reading, so long as it's a mass storage USB device, it'll give it a go.

Though if a box like this is more or less complicated to operate than a PC.. ;)

Unless it was used with no accessories, the camera came with video out cable.

Also a good, modern DVD player should know what to do with a CD full of JPEGs.

FuturePastNow: Also a good, modern DVD player should know what to do with a CD full of JPEGs.

I just looked in the manual for my four year old DVD player, and it has a page on making JPEG and MP3 CDs. Basic instructions like it won't auto-rotate pictures or display tags. If your grandparents have a decent DVD player it should do the same.

But your best bet for someone who can't figure out computers is to simply use the video cable the camera came with. The camera is a CF card reader.

He said his camera doesn't have video out but there's a good chance he's mistaken so I'll have to check it out. I'll also check out the USB mass storage idea -> set top idea.

The CD/DVD with JPEGs is out; he'd have to burn them and that's beyond him to do himself and a hassle to have done for him regularly.

Mike: Canons definitely do.



So do Nikons. You can see how much I use it. The newer ones should have component or HDMI.

I think it's a Nikon but I'm not sure, I'll call him tomorrow and find out. If it's a composite I know he'll want to figure out something else, but it might be HDMI or something.

So his Nikon is older than I thought, it supports composite RCA only. I was about to give up on this when I changed my search terms, I tried "photo viewer" and hdmi and suddenly the world was my oyster.

I picked the PIE United HD-0310, it can play music/video/photos from USB flash drives, portable disks, or its built in card readers (including CF Type I/II) - exactly what I needed.



On amazon for $57.50 + $11.50 S/H. S/H seems a little high but still not too bad really.

Thanks for the advice guys!

Joe Donut: piaddic120: I have a basic question.

I am buying a new computer ... [iTunes] ... If there is a way to do it, how do I go about doing it?

>...

Although I am in the midst of doing a complete export and import across platforms, I have not performed either operation.

And now I have tried. And lost most metadata. One way that will work is to copy the music from the Mac simply and drag and drop into the newly installed iTunes Windows installation. All names of artist, album, and track seem correct. History and rating are of course gone.

One way that will not work is to copy all on the Mac, edit the iTunes XML file, replacing both location specifiers and line endings, and import the result into iTunes Windows.

Anybody done a Mac iTune -> anything on Ubuntu ?

I'm looking for a hardware firewall to go between my switch and modem.

Any suggestions?

Joe Donut: Anybody done a Mac iTune -> anything on Ubuntu ?

http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/User:Mpurses/Importing_your_iTunes_Library_from_Wi n dows_or_Mac_into_Songbird_on_Linux (new window)

http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/switching-from-itunes-to-amarok- ti ps-and-tricks/ (new window)

Is this what you mean?

VERY new to this thread. Boobies. not really sure how this works. from TFD just posted:

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Farktech: Continuation of a Continuation thread. Windows rebooting/lockup problem. Subby has tried numerous fixes all to no avail. Thought it was s/w. Then thought it was h/w; fixed. Now back to s/w. LGT previous thread. DIT.

Previous thread: http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4708100
"Farktech: Continuation thread. Windows rebooting/lockup problem. Subby has tried numerous fixes all to no avail. Thought it was s/w. Decided it was h/w; fixed. Now back to s/w. LGT previous thread. DIT"

Subby has an unstable Windows XP Pro SP2 installation. constant lockups and infrequent BSOD's. most striking and annoying feature of problem = lockup or, less commonly, BSOD on idle; if the console is not being fed, a lockup occurs within 10 to 20 mins. on less frequent occasions, the BSOD happens when idle occurs. difficulty: problems "only" occur after idle time with the RARE, RARE exception of a BSOD when Subby is using machine. these details are explained more extensively in the thread mentioned above or can be echoed down-thread from this post.
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Update: Subby has now checked for many, if not all, of the potential h/w causes. Subby has now installed WhoCrashed (http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed) which says that a driver is responsible, but cannot identify which. this is exactly what Subby thought in the first place.

Tests: fresh installation of Windows. everything runs fine after reinstall, but fresh copy of windows is a primitive setup and cannot be run as the main system. Subby let run for a while with fresh install; everything seems fine. so, ok, put drives back and restore to working configuration. AND problem returns. drive checks out ok after numerous and extensive testing with burn-ins.

looking for way to Dx driver issues. list of drivers? where? way to interogate/Dx? where?

HALP!

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Ah god damnit.

Everything is all farked again.

It started with a failure for Automatic Update to install Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB953297)... I have all of the other fixes and updates up to 3.5 anyways and they all installed fine but this one won't install either manually or automatically and I can't seem to uninstall .NET...
A few other updates took two tries each to install but all installed except for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 3 (KB955706) which decided it won't install either.

I tried the update batch file fix. It looks like all the other updates are working but these two. I'm constantly getting hounded by auto update to install these two. Even when I shut off automatic update, I still get reminded that these are waiting for an install. I tried doing a system restore, and system restore won't restore to an earlier time, all of the times that I try it tells me that it cannot revert to the earlier time.

Man, what to do next?

N. S. Radieaux's Questions for 2009.10.20

I. How does one go about...

• ...getting Photoshop to detect the original angle of a scanned photograph automatically and rotate the image accordingly (assuming this is possible)?
• ...setting individual twats, rather than all of his twats, to be private (assuming this is possible)?
• ...setting up an RSS feed on his website (assuming this is relatively easy)?

II. When can one expect the release of...

• ...HTML with tags for video and audio?
• ...the rumored Barnes & Noble e-book reader?
• ...Black Mesa?
• ...a kilometers-high, carbon-negative, vertical arcology with a geothermal power plant that doubles as a waste purifier?

III. What is the best...

• ...case for an 8GB iPod Touch (through which one can access the buttons and touchscreen)?
• ...toothpaste (preferably bicarbonate-free)?

N. S. Radieaux: toothpaste (preferably bicarbonate-free)?

Mountain Dew.

N. S. Radieaux
• ...getting Photoshop to detect the original angle of a scanned photograph automatically and rotate the image accordingly (assuming this is possible)?

It should be possible, but I have no idea if PS can do this; I would somehow expect the scanner (software) to have such a feature, though I have never seen it (..with the five-ten year old models that were on sale at the grocery store my parents use.).


• ...setting individual twats, rather than all of his twats, to be private (assuming this is possible)?

Shorten the chains on the private ones so they can't leave the dungeon and come upstairs when you have visitors.


• ...setting up an RSS feed on his website (assuming this is relatively easy)?

A RSS feed is just a XML file like this.
Obviously, you can either edit/update the file manually or write a script generating it for you (for example: a web forum or blog might use a PHP file that, when polled by a RSS reader, fetches the latest 20 posts or so from a database and generates the appropriate XML).

Then you add a link to that XML file (or generator script) somewhere in your page so people can stuff it onto their RSS readers to subscribe to it.
If you want Firefox to display that neat "RSS" label in its corner that indicates the availability of a feed for a page, you'll have to include something like this in the <HEAD> element of your HTML page:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="MY cool RSS feed" href="http://mysite/thexmlfileOrAScriptGeneratingItOnTheFly" />

The Voice of Doom: Shorten the chains on the private ones so they can't leave the dungeon and come upstairs when you have visitors.

DAMN. You totally beat me to it.

As for the photoshop thing, it can be done manually. But you (N.S.R.) were asking for the automatic way. Dunno lol.

Also, for god's sake, no one is allowed to buy an e-book reader. They're like 200-300 dollars. Are you kidding me? Go to a f*cking library.
/luddite

N. S. Radieaux: N. S. Radieaux's Questions for 2009.10.20
II. When can one expect the release of...
• ...the rumored Barnes & Noble e-book reader?
Wiener. Read a book.
• ...Black Mesa?
Is that made by Valve or a mod?
• ...a kilometers-high, carbon-negative, vertical arcology with a geothermal power plant that doubles as a waste purifier?
If there is money to be made in it, soon.
III. What is the best...
• ...toothpaste (preferably bicarbonate-free)?
Biotene. But I dunno if it's bicarbonate-free.

I've been using IE recently for no particular reason, is this from an ad or from IE itself?

N. S. Radieaux: • ...Black Mesa?

they will release when it's finished. which is the way it should be done.




• ...a kilometers-high, carbon-negative, vertical arcology with a geothermal power plant that doubles as a waste purifier?

2060 at the earliest.

All right, thanks everyone for your input. Now it's time for...

N. S. Radieaux's Questions for 2009.10.26

I. I could still use more info on my previous questions (except for the one about the Nook, I should've waited an hour or so before asking).

II. New web design-related questions:

1. Can anyone give me links to well-designed websites that make good use of the <float> tags for the main content and sidebar, instead of using a fixed width?
a. When using <float> tags, is it necessary/possible to impose a maximum page width, so nobody can stretch it to wonky proportions?
b. Failing that, what's a reasonable fixed width for a website (and/or maximum width for a <float> tag-equipped site)? Does a significant portion of the population still use 1024x768 displays?

2. Is there an easy way to find out what the errors reported by this service actually are?

3. My Mac's TextWrangler opens (and "maximizes") to a width that perfectly matches the width of the page before it soft-wraps -- or at least it would if I hadn't opted to display line numbers along the side, causing the window's default width to be just shy of displaying the actual width of the page. How do I set TextWrangler to display common sense/the line numbers and full page width by default?

1) <FLOAT> tags? I've never heard of such a thing... Do you mean using CSS to float DIV's and such? You might be interested in something like this.

W3Schools has some stats on screen resolutions, you can see them here. It looks like 1024x768 and up so you may want to consider 1024x768 as your default.

2) Doesn't the validator tell you exactly what the problem is? I mean, if I remember correctly it gives you a line number and everything.

Benny_Hill: Do you mean using CSS to float DIV's and such?

Sigh... Yes, that's precisely what I meant. I guess I was trying to show off using jargon like "tag" that I didn't really understand. Thanks.

Also, figured out the validator.

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/User:Mpurses/Importing_your_iTunes_Library_from_Wi n dows_or_Mac_into_Songbird_on_Linux (new window)

http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/switching-from-itunes-to-amarok- ti ps-and-tricks/ (new window)

Is this what you mean?

Ooooh, shiney! Thank you!

SO. Turns out that you can't install from a Windows 7 OEM DVD to a blank hard drive directly. You need to get a special pre-install kit on Vista or Windows 7 beforehand to decrypt the disk first. If you don't have Vista or Windows 7 then too bad.

Buyer beware.

/TigerDirect apparently thought they were doing me a favor
//oops

I recently bought a new computer, and when I try to put the computer in stand-by mode, it goes into stand by for 2 seconds and then returns to regular desktop mode. WTF?!?! How the hell do I put it into stand-by(sleep) and make it stay there?

piaddic120: I recently bought a new computer, and when I try to put the computer in stand-by mode, it goes into stand by for 2 seconds and then returns to regular desktop mode. WTF?!?! How the hell do I put it into stand-by(sleep) and make it stay there?

That is a bug. You need to set the network device to not wake up the computer.

Mike: float is a css thing, not an html thing.

I had to ask because I didn't know if he was using some kind of custom tag system (like Cold Fusion does). I've never heard of a FLOAT tag but I have no idea what kind of stuff is out there...

N. S. Radieaux - you also mentioned a maximum page width. I generally hate sites that are fixed width so I would encourage you to design the site so that it scales well regardless of viewport size. I personally feel like that's becoming more and more important as time goes on what with all the different devices we have that access the web. Could be a mobile phone, could be a tiny netbook, could be some lucky bastard with four 21 inch monitors.

I don't know anything at all about Mac's, sorry man :-)

Ughh the new update for No script made it useless to me. I can't load Fark and about half of the sites I got bookmarked any more. Anyone have any ideas how to get to work again?

blackisright
I can't load Fark and about half of the sites I got bookmarked any more. Anyone have any ideas how to get to work again?

Considering that Fark should work without Javascript, I'm not so sure it's noscript (though there's always the possibility that the update didn't work right and messed up some files in your profile folder).

Then again.. "half of the sites".. it might be worth to click through the noscript settings and look for anything Google ads or Google analytics related that might be new.

OK, thanks Benny. Now, could someone show me how to design a page that starts out 768 pixels wide but expands to a maximum of 1536 pixels automatically by the width of the window it's in (in the way of links to tutorials, pages that do what I've described or thereabouts with a source code that's easy to understand and replicate [i.e. not Fark], and/or product pages to books that show me how to do such things)? You only need to show me the door; I'll walk through it.

...Wait. Benny might have already done that. Hmm. Well, more links are always welcome, I like to be thorough in my research.

If smaller, the horizontal scroll bar would appear and its use would be necessary to see everything.

If larger, the content would be centered in the window, surrounded by whitespace (or something fancier).

N. S. Radieaux
If smaller, the horizontal scroll bar would appear and its use would be necessary to see everything.

Sounds like what I did with the login page of clusterfake.

I put everything into a div:


/** General page layout: */
.outermain, .outermainbrowse {
width: 750px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

background-color: white;
text-align: center;
}


From what you said, you'll probably want to replace width with

min-width: 768px;
max-width: 1536px;


The "min" determines when the scrollbars appear, "max" when it should stop expanding. Setting the left/right margin to "auto" centers the div.

All right then!

Thanks Benny, Sim Tree, MoF, VoD, and anyone else I forgot to mention.

I have now decided on how to design my website, in terms of fixing and floating.

[Clears throat]

My website - let's call it http://radieaux.com/ - will come in two flavors, http://www.radieaux.com/ and http://simple.radieaux.com. http://www.radieaux.com/ will feature a fixed width of [**] pixels (as well as assorted web 2.0-style fanciness), while http://simple.radieaux.com will use far simpler CSS and floating divs, and be the subdomain of choice for those not fortunate enough to have a monitor of approximately [**] pixels more more wide.

Why go through all this trouble? Because from what I've seen with the pages that adjust themselves dynamically in accordance with the width of the window, they don't seem to be very, well, purdy. I would like my site to have a modicum of pizzazz.

This decision, of course, comes with a barrage of additional questions:

- What number should fill in for [**]? I'm tempted for it to be 1280 or something, but given Benny's link, it seems like a respectable amount of people still use 1024x768, poor saps.

- I plan to have the pages for the default and simple domains be identical, save for the CSS they refer to. Could I have the source code on the pages themselves be identical by putting the CSS pages in their respective subdomains, so that loads the CSS that corresponds to each subdomain?

- If that works, meaning the HTML pages for the subdomains would be identical, could I have their content dynamically load via PHP include statements or somesuch? I get the feeling that hosting two of each HTML page in full wouldn't be very practical.

- For additional media such as images, could I create a third subdomain (e.g., http://media.radieaux.com) for hosting? And how would I write the code in the HTML pages to fetch images from a different subdomain?

- I suppose this would be as good a time as ever to confess that I don't actually have any experience creating subdomains. Is it easy to do so with DreamHost, my current host? It doesn't cost extra, does it?

- If not, what other good hosts could I switch to?

- And how would I switch to a different host whilst keeping my domain and e-mail address? (My registration with DreamHost expires in 11 days.)

Neandergeek question here:

the fark is the name of the character under the tilde?
the ` thing?