n_maher

My issue with Thunderbird is that once you start using it you can't go back to anything else. The database file that they use cannot be converted back to use Outlook again. I was going to switch back to Outlook earlier this year and discovered the transfer incompatibility.

I wish they'd run lines out to my house. I so hate having no choice but comcast...

When you say starquad do you mean the IC wire or did you use the 4S11 speaker wire which is technically also a starquad type cable. I've use cables built using 4S11 and don't find them muddy at all. But I've got a pretty pedestrian speaker rig so maybe my gear isn't resolving enough.

Hmmmm... I'm not completely enamored with it. I don't like the downloads section as much and also the previous links that pop up from the address bar almost show too much information now. I'm a simpleton, what can I say?

Devices like that are also really handy for when your OS shits the bed like Vista did for me last week. I was able to simply pull the HD from my laptop, plug it into the external USB adapter that I have (thanks to tkam for pointing me to those a long ways back) and recover all of the data from the drive. It would have been a very bad day if I didn't have that adapter...

Heh, I hope to get back to building a little in the not too distant future but my retirement status will probably stay in place permanently. Gone are the days when I could sit down stairs for 4hrs at a time and solder away while listening to tunes.

Jesus... $100/ft for some fugly cables. In exotic speaker cable news I believe that I'll be making a set using Neotech's NES-3004 wire some time soon.

Given how limited my building will be for the next year(s) I was merely suggesting that it might be a good idea.

Naw, J still funny.

Is it any wonder, given the exceptional moderation team around here?

I'm beginning to think that it'd be a very good idea to develop a small pcb that allowed for 3 position gain switch using voltage dividers for amps like this.

I think in the world of ultra-high resolution displays that a little extra size on a commonly used button probably isn't a bad thing. I don't find it intrusive, just obvious. Anyone know if this most recent version supports anything like gestures?

Alright, fine, fine, you bunch of fanboys, I'll download it today.

I'm watching Lily sleep in her car seat, where she's been for the last half hour. It is, in a word, glorious. It's pretty much the first time in four days that someone hasn't been holding her. In other news, I've been watching a bunch of movies lately while staying up nights with the little one: V for Vendetta, Ocean's 13, Goldfinger, and others I've already forgotten due to a lack of sleep.

I'd wait for tkam's review of the latest northstar, i think that was ~$1500.

Any new or interesting changes?

By midnight last night I was feeling a bit better but still decided to take today off to try and make sure that I don't get really sick. Felt pretty awesome to log ~8hrs of sleep last night, that's for sure. Also, I discovered today that Autocad 2007 is not Vista compatible, so trying to do work from home is proving rather fruitless.

I asked Pete about this and from what I recall it can, but isn't ideally setup to drive speakers.

Sweet Jack!!! Minute by minute impressions or BAN!

I hope it only takes that long. I can say that's she really developing her voice after just 220hrs, a little harsh in the highs at times but occassionally has a really great quiet background. I'd expect nothing less from you, nothing less.

I'm the only one in my family that graduated essentially debt free from school. Of course, I was the only non-Ivy child out of the three as well. Both my older brother and younger sister have no gone on to get multiple advanced degrees from other Ivy league institutions as well, although thankfully some of that has been picked up by employers. I was and am perfectly happy with my state school education, my four year total was less than 4yrs for my sister.

Yeah, I'm sure it'll work itself out. As an extra special bonus though I woke up this morning feeling sick and I've progressed in to pretty much feeling like shit now, ugh.

Damn near impossible with a simple, compact, discrete switch. If I were Headroom I'd be taking a cue from what DIY folks like Twisted Pear and others have done and be looking into relay-based solutions that can provide far greater numbers of steps and still be relatively compact or at least flexible.

By the time she's in school I'll be lucky if that covers a semester's worth of books.

Roger that, Todd. At the National Meet Justin's O2 + BHSE didn't seem to have much in the way of a weak point. I threw quite the varied catalog at it and it never failed. Now, if I could just find ~$8k laying around that I don't need...