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All wines seem to have different oxidizing or wait times. To me, anyway. The Venturi can give a good boost to most pours and gets more air into the wine than swirling. You do need to pour straight and lift the bottle back straight. Pouring then turning the bottle to catch the drips will only pour a bunch out the airholes in the top (done that more than once.) I like mine. I think the best test would be to decanter half the bottle. Vacuum/seal it. Wait 4 hours. Pour two glasses, one from decanter, one from Venturi. Taste. Different?

2-fer. I'm almost there myself, budling my last machine in 2004 for the release of HL2.......! It soulds like you are enjoying your windows-only software, so I'd vote for a rebuild. Rebuilding will give you the new speed you need plus updates your hardware so that it doesn't crash at an inopportune moment. No, it wont help if you have a wonky OS, but do try W7. I hear it's durn stable. As for your monitor, I dumped my 17" CRT for a 24" LCD and have been more than pleased. You'll save on daily radiation doses and your power bill will likely be better as well. One last thing: getting new hardware with an old PS: watch out. New hardware might have higher power requirements and it might be enough to push your old one over the edge.

Second Quarter complete. Grade: A. More difficult and more time-consuming. 58 days left from today. I've started the third and final quarter and it's insane. Each week this quater we take in a major concept and a couple of smaller subconcepts. For instance, this week we're working on DTO, JNDI, Datasources. Those use contexts, namespacing, and message context. I spent the first part of Saturday just trying to find a way in to make a dent. My wife has been a trooper, keeping the bills paid, the fridge filled, and my sanity intact. I'll have to book a flight somewhere to reward her once it's over. Thanks for tuning in. I'm heading back under.

Just ran across this on lifehacker. New tool called Lightworks. Free, no less. Lightworks Article at Lifehacker

Holy crap.

But we will keep posting! Hope today turned out ok, Al. I'm sure all the events keep you from complete concentration, but that's just because you care about someone. Just remember: one day at a time. That's all we can do.

Stunning B&W. Depth of field. Composition. Forget color.

Sorry I missed this yesterday. Happy Birthday, guys!

Breakfast of Champions©

Go Dogfish. The 90-minute IPA is damn good. For me, a fe glasses of Hey Mambo red. Interesting blend. It went well with Friday night tacos and seems to pack an alcohol punch. Or maybe it was that quick and dirty martini beforehand. Otherwise, an interesting table wine. Finish is Zin-like with cherry and cab-ish with some tannins. Pretty good balance for the cost.

Empirical Audio Offramp. They are currently up to version 4 which now supports 44.1/88.2/176.4kHz, and 48/96/192kHz on two separate clocks. USB in, S/PDIF, AES/EBU, and I2S out. I heard an older version (V2?? along with some other Emprical gear) at a national meet and really liked it. http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/off-ramp-converter

I'm with you and Boo. In my half-dreamy post-daylight-savings-time adjustment bus ride this morning I was contemplating how I could get myself on a plane and go help. I think I'd be better off just donating but I'd rather do more. On the other hand I just don't know how I'd react pulling bodies out of the surf.

Bieber and hallucinogenics. Now I see the match.

Fitz - Happy Birthday young man. Here is a birthday Haiku. Day of birth. No Joke. Laughter required. Rock some tunes! New headphones await.

Thanks for the ongoing reviews. I swear when I get through my diy builds I'm gonna cough up the long green for an EC. Can't wait.

After a bit of poking around, it appears that the WD Smartware encryption is just standard AES encryption. The Smartware seems to be a backup and maintenance tool that uses AES encryption. Here's some text from WD: After configuring the software the very first time you boot up the drive, SmartWare will run automatically (if you allow it), providing an automatic and continuous “backup and drive management” solution. The software comes built-in, i.e. it resides on a separate partition on the hard drive, but the auto-backup can be disabled. As for the “safer” attributes of the new drives, each one comes equipped with WD Drive Lock – password protection + 256-bit hardware encryption. Once the password is set, the owner (or anyone who knows the pw) is the only person who can access the data. If the password is lost, there is NO way to retrieve it because the password is never shared with Western Digital in any capacity. Beyond the password, every bit of data stored on the drive is protected by 256-bit AES encryption. In other words, without the password, the data is basically impossible to access. Might sound a bit over the top, but WD said they wanted to err on the side of total security. Lots of marketing reselling AES drive security if you ask me. That's from this page. So I don't think their encryption is any better than regular AES. Also, here's the link to wikipedia for AES Enctryption. Additionally, I'm with oranges: the hospital probably has rules and regulations to govern this. I think you're being a great help. The fact they think it's "more than adequate" tells me they might be seeing it as better, which it isn't. It also might mean they see that it has standard AES and that is more than adequate. Good luck. Tread carefully!

And those people with the white earbuds...they're going to hear the difference? Ha! Marketing wins again. Chalk up another one for Apple's insanity.

Happy Birthday, Nate. May all your solder joints be shiny. May all your capacitors measure at exactly their rating. May all your casework line up as it does in your mind. And may the year ahead be wonderful. No, it doesn't rhyme. Havd a beer or two. It will after that.

We defionitely need more people around like this who like to mod and tweak and think about what would make something better audio-wise. RIP.

Not a Crack, just crack. Bottlehead is what got me completely in to DIY and tube audio, God bless 'em. Enjoy the ride, Tyll.

Happy Bday, Dan. Have a great day!

The review also say Srajan has "Inner-ear" headphones. Surgical implants?

Sweet! Nice work, guys! I was guessing Sota...

Awesome. Any guess what that turntable is?