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Mike		2012-03-09 09:50:43 PM

I haven't tried it yet.

The Voice of Doom		2012-03-26 12:58:50 AM

Elisa-Siri, please compose spam for me!

[..] I want to to start a conversation with you.
I do not really know what Rndf_to start with. Maybe you will go first?

ForMadmenOnly		2012-04-06 09:50:43 AM

So PAX east starts today and it will be my first time attending. Do farkers usually get together?

WorthNoting		2012-04-14 11:16:56 PM

Um. . .just a general question for anyone here.

Does the computer technology exist to "separate sounds" on something recorded?

Like what the crime solving tv shows show being done.

Ex.: Ya have a recording with several voices and the sound of a train going by.

So you want to get rid of the train sound and all the other voices leaving ONE specific voice that can then be analyzed for voice identification purposes.

This is shown being done on TV shows a LOT.

Does this technology actually exist???

Any of you folks know?

Mike		2012-04-15 01:48:46 AM

WorthNoting: Does the computer technology exist to "separate sounds" on something recorded?

Short answer: yep and yep and maybe also yep

FuturePastNow		2012-04-24 03:33:14 PM

I think my cable company screwed up. I subscribed to an internet-only cable plan- no TV. I checked the bill and that's definitely all I'm paying for.

I haven't owned a real TV in years, but I finally bought one so I could watch movies on a nice big screen. On a whim I plugged it into the cable line, and whammo, hundreds of channels.

So, anybody here work for a cable company? Can they tell I'm watching TV and not paying for it?

leftyblonde		2012-04-25 04:40:43 PM

vudukungfu: Knock knock.

who's there?

ZAZ		2012-04-25 04:44:33 PM

FuturePastNow

The same thing used to happen in analog days. I got a letter saying we couldn't help but notice that your cable is connected and would you like to subscribe? They didn't know if I was watching (I wasn't). They only knew that some tech had left the line active and they hoped they could get me to pay rather than pay a tech to disconnect it. Or they turned it on intentionally to bait me into watching.

fatkidinabeenie		2012-04-29 10:37:32 AM

FuturePastNow: I think my cable company screwed up. I subscribed to an internet-only cable plan- no TV. I checked the bill and that's definitely all I'm paying for.

I haven't owned a real TV in years, but I finally bought one so I could watch movies on a nice big screen. On a whim I plugged it into the cable line, and whammo, hundreds of channels.

So, anybody here work for a cable company? Can they tell I'm watching TV and not paying for it?

I work for a Local Cable Company, not one of the big Names, but a regional one, in my experience with the way we have it setup the tech should have put a filter to block the channels out on the pole, if the tech forgot to install it, enjoy your free channels till they realize their mistake.

Malivon		2012-04-29 10:26:38 PM

Looking for a good book that teaches Linux, yet has a good portion of the Linux+ covered within it. Seeking the advice of a Farker that might have a book in mind.

Thanks in advance.

Mike		2012-04-29 11:00:40 PM

"linux+"?

Malivon		2012-04-29 11:10:14 PM

Mike: "linux+"?

Or some variant of LPIC 1 and 2 certifications.

Looking to get into Linux. I'll jump into Arch if I have too. Though, I'd rather just stick with Debian. Package management is a bit of a friendlier experience from my point of view.

ZAZ		2012-05-31 11:29:49 AM

I'm looking for offsite backup for a Mac running Lion, 1-2 TB for now but growing. Any advice?

My plan is to put a machine and some disks in the house of a family member without a bandwidth cap. I assume some exist; they can't all be in Comcast hell.

Is there a way to do it integrated with Time Machine? With both local and remote Time Machine backups?

Plan B is rsync (no timeline, loses Mac metadata, but works for my BSD box too).

Plan C is sending full external drives off-site. That's my third choice because it is less convenient and I don't trust consumer grade magnetic media drives to sit on the shelf and work a year later.

Mike		2012-05-31 12:59:46 PM

OSx's rsync will keep metadata/forks

ZAZ		2012-05-31 02:15:01 PM

Thanks, Mike. I figured if they shipped bash with completion case-sensitive by default they hadn't bothered to update other tools to be Mac-aware.

Broktun		2012-06-09 12:43:56 PM

I'm looking for photo editing software for a Mac.

Any other suggestions other than Photoshop Elements?

There are a few touch-ups I wanted to do but iPhoto didn't work.

I don't need anything super-duper, just using it for family photos.

Any suggestions???

iMac

* 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
* 2560 x 1440 resolution
* 4GB (two 2GB) memory
* 1TB hard drive1
* AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB

Argus Prescott		2012-06-11 08:09:41 PM

Farkers, I need your help! My best friend is running for cheese monger of the year and can win a huge wheel of cheese if she gets your votes. Click here and vote for her! Please. I will dance.
Christina - Gourmet Library>

Argus Prescott		2012-06-11 08:10:31 PM

Err.... see here. Vote for my friend Christina please! : http://www.cheesemongerinvitational.com/gourmet-library/

Argus Prescott		2012-06-11 08:42:50 PM

Broktun try Gimp or Gimpshop, they are both free and open source and work very well. Gimpshop is a mod of Gimp to make it more like Photoshop: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Broktun		2012-06-12 11:18:28 AM

Argus Prescott: Broktun try Gimp or Gimpshop, they are both free and open source and work very well. Gimpshop is a mod of Gimp to make it more like Photoshop: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Thanks. I'll check it out.

FuturePastNow		2012-06-16 04:54:38 PM

Dammit.

THREE MONTHS, WD

THREE MONTHS

ZAZ		2012-06-19 01:37:44 PM

I'm looking at a function with 49 arguments. What's the most you've seen in human-generated code?

No_47		2012-07-10 10:52:04 PM

ZAP!

Mike		2012-07-10 11:15:38 PM

BBQ NIC?

Looks like Realtek's logo....

No_47		2012-07-11 02:03:34 AM

Yup

Whole board was gone.

ZAZ		2012-07-14 10:02:13 AM

I had a board fried by lightning at a previous job. Cheap management wouldn't replace it. Had to debug a DSP program without an ICE.

FuturePastNow		2012-08-01 12:41:39 PM

The modem in my mother's computer (yes, modem, as in 56k, she lives out in the country) got fried by a lightning strike a few weeks ago. Amazingly it didn't hurt the rest of the computer. Popped another modem in and she's back to waiting for pages to load.

SockMonkeyHolocaust		2012-10-07 10:11:42 AM

Personal best last night. Bit the head off of eight live chickens during the play of Prodigy's FIRESTARTER from beginning to end. What songs do you listen to while biting the heads off of chickens and does anyone do it pro? I think I am pretty good and could make my hobby my job. What do you think?

jasonvatch		2012-10-13 07:37:58 AM

I'm trying to find a driver for my

ATAPI_DVE'DD_2X16X4X16

For Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 2400.

For fairly obvious reasons, I can't just pop in the disk...

Device manager reports "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

Troubleshooter can't find another driver

Any help would be appreciated

Sniffers Row		2012-10-13 04:39:37 PM

jasonvatch: ATAPI_DVE'DD_2X16X4X16

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/dimension-2400?s = dhs

jasonvatch		2012-10-13 05:32:05 PM

Sniffers Row: jasonvatch: ATAPI_DVE'DD_2X16X4X16

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/dimension-2400?s = dhs

Thank you!

It turns out I was an idiot, and merely had a bad registry entry, but the help is still appreciated - I do have some other driver issues that site will help with.

Sniffers Row		2012-10-15 10:04:40 PM

jasonvatch: Sniffers Row: jasonvatch: ATAPI_DVE'DD_2X16X4X16

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/dimension-2400?s = dhs

Thank you!

It turns out I was an idiot, and merely had a bad registry entry, but the help is still appreciated - I do have some other driver issues that site will help with.

No problem, thank you for the month gift!

No_47		2012-11-08 10:25:50 PM

F*ck

vudukungfu		2012-11-19 03:59:50 PM

Can't Put IE 9 on a windows 8 machine, eh?

Mike		2012-11-19 04:09:37 PM

In a Windows 7 VM inside of Windows 8, sure. :) That's how all of us install old browsers for testing.

vudukungfu		2012-11-19 06:28:36 PM

Good to know.
We don't support 10, and a customer bought 2 Win8 PCs.
Thank you, Mike.

Mike		2012-11-19 06:36:54 PM

Why wouldn't 10 work? I don't think we had to change anything -- but we try to keep HTML validators as happy as possible, which helps.

vudukungfu		2012-11-20 08:22:19 AM

OH, I support a SaaS and we haven't tested 10 yet, so we don't ahve a checklist for it.
I suppose I could try the IE 9 checkklist.

Paryb		2012-11-28 02:56:26 PM

Hey Mike and the rest of the geeks, lady Paryb's laptop won't load google in any browser. I didn't realize that she really couldn't load it until a couple weeks ago, but it's been like that for a couple of months. It stopped loading, and for some reason she downloaded chrome, which doesn't seem to work at all. I updated both FF and IE, and it really doesn't work. I ran a malware program, I forget which one, it didn't work either. Any ideas?

The Voice of Doom		2012-11-29 03:44:27 AM

Run a different program?

Can you do a "nslookup www.google.com" on the command line? What IP(s) do you get?
One possible reason could be that there was (or is) some malware that has screwed with your DNS settings or the hosts file to redirect requests meant for Google.
Have you had a look at the hosts file? (hosts file location)

Mike		2012-11-29 11:00:52 PM

Seconded on the hosts file. Frequent target of malware.

Sniffers Row		2012-12-02 10:57:47 PM

Third hosts file

Paryb		2012-12-03 01:01:00 PM

Thanks for the tips folks. I'll try it out when I get home.

Paryb		2012-12-04 07:18:44 PM

hosts file was fine, double checked and pasted the standard text in there...it didn't help...I'm running malwarebytes is that an effective program?

Mike		2012-12-04 07:36:25 PM

It's one of the better ones.

The Voice of Doom		2012-12-04 07:37:41 PM

Did you try the "nslookup www.google.com" or maybe a "ping www.google.com"?

Should that look alright, another idea - since your problem seems to affect all browsers - would be to look for a (system) proxy that shouldn't be there.

Paryb		2012-12-04 07:45:31 PM

ok my hosts file is fine. Still no dice, when I ping it I sent 4 received 1.
timed out the first 3 times.

Paryb		2012-12-04 07:49:03 PM

ok, second time around it was all fail with ping...same with nslookup. Ptttt.

The Voice of Doom		2012-12-04 07:51:01 PM

To what IP address was www.google.com resolved?

Paryb		2012-12-04 07:56:09 PM

it says can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1 non-existent domain
server: resolver.qwest.net
address 205.71.2.25
non-authoritative answer:
name www.google.com
addresses: 87.125.87.99, 87.125.87.99, 87.125.87.99, 87.125.87.99, 87.125.87.99

Not terribly sure what all that means.

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