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Re: Ocean Waves. One of those little apps I use almost every day - 16 years ago

crap - sorry - I didn't realize that they only hold it for 30 days... Perhaps I'll find another place and let y'all know...

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Ocean Waves. One of those little apps I use almost every day - 16 years ago

I like ocean sounds too, but like rolling thunderstorm sounds too. Very rare in this part of the country. I made a great 1hour long mix on garagband of quality real sounds and ended up with a very good thunderstorm track. I play it in quicktime and have it loop all night. I've slept much better since... a free gift from me (55 or so mb)

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: What happens when Steve is gone? - 16 years ago

btw, I think he is already grooming the designer - whatshisname... the british guy whomever it is... we'll know because this person will get more and more keynote time and time passes.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: problem with itunes - 16 years ago

QuoteSeacrestQuotehalPlease explain how my cd of Allman bros - Live at Ludows Garage (NOT a bootleg) has a disc that contains ONE 44:00 track on it. Because there are multiple discs with one 44:00 track. The only information CDDB gets from its client applications is that there are x number of tracks @ xx:xx on the disc, so it searches its database for discs that match that criteria. There can

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: is this really a spoofed site? - 16 years ago

Why is there no link to eddiebaueroutlet.com from eddiebauer.com? Reg info can be false. Suspicious...

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: New eBay policy - Hidden Bidder ID's - Opinions? - 16 years ago

Every single auction I've run for the last year has been followed by bogus second chance offers. This change will kill that scam dead. This is good. I'm sure there are some negs, but MANY people will be saved from being scammed. That has to be a good thing.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: hard drive problems (again) - 16 years ago

If your drive has directory issues, backups will be slow. Run discwarrior on the drive that you are backing up.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: What happens when Steve is gone? - 16 years ago

QuoteDharmaDogWill Apple be able to carry on with Steve's focus on elegant simplicity? Or will they suddenly stop "getting it" and feature creep and complexity will set in? Here is a good interview with Steve. A couple of years old, but it sheds some light on his thinking. Who is the heir apparent? I've read Tim Cook. Stock price would collapse. WHy ask the question, we've see

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: problem with itunes - 16 years ago

Please explain how my cd of Allman bros - Live at Ludows Garage (NOT a bootleg) has a disc that contains ONE 44:00 track on it. When inserted itunes can't tell if it's the Allman bros or Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and a couple other options. It puts up a dialog box and has me choose which one it is. If there was a table of contents, why doesn't ID the disc? and why does it confuse it wi

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Is there a way to hide the bootcamp partition? - 16 years ago

why bother to hide it? Is it in your way?

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Ellen Feiss: Ellen: "I have smoked weed. Is that really surprising?" - 16 years ago

QuoteEffin HaoleGood interview, seems she has a good grip of things. a lot more so than her fans...

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: I'm almost embarrassed to ask, but should I waste 83 minutes on... - 16 years ago

I was ready for a really stupid movie one night and put on 'Dude...' but I only lasted a few minutes - it was just too dumb the weather man was fair - 2-2.5 out of 5

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: 500GB drives supported in iMac G5? Heat Issue? - 16 years ago

funny that so many people assume that the newest larger drives would be hotter than older smaller drives. In the past, the opposite has been true.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Real difference between 20" and 22" monitors? - 16 years ago

you're all wrong... correct answer: 2 inches

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: I just realized that iTunes will now let you have multiple windows... - 16 years ago

and didya know that with the new finder you can run more than one app at a time!

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Why do Ebay "cheats" do this? - 16 years ago

grateful: put a brand new top of the line macbook pro up for $2500 buy it now and I GUARANTEE that you will experience attempted fraud first hand. That's just one scenario.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: 24 Heroes - 16 years ago

I'll download both tonight from usenet might even be able to start viewing before it's broadcast (if those east coast uploaders are quick - and they usually are)

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Why do Ebay "cheats" do this? - 16 years ago

Probably children using mom's account without her knowledge. (you said stolen accounts - kids are the most likely to use an account without the owners knowledge.) but it now auctions for popular electronics without the pay now feature are VERY vulnerable.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Stupid Hard Drive Math Problem - 16 years ago

six scsi drives on a chain... think of the nightmare scenarios... it'll NEVER work. If it does, it will be slow as hell. I mean, really, really slow. Best to just make a shrine for it and retire it.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Apple to charge for Boot Camp? - 16 years ago

boot camp isn't just drivers - geez, it's not like UMAX charging for their scanning software - apple make their computers to run on their OS. THere is a demand to make OSes that Microsoft produces function on apple machines - that doesn't happen by magic. It takes real manpower, real costs. Why not sell software that you produce?

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Any finacial investment whiz's out there? - 16 years ago

"Seems like a no-brainer... so what am I missing?" the fund could lose 10%, could lose 50%. Not likely, but there is that risk. That's what you're missing. no problem paul, but consider: "If your mortgage costs you 6%" this is no if - that IS what it will cost you ":...and your investment is making (pessimistically), 12%" pessimistic is NOT the word

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Any finacial investment whiz's out there? - 16 years ago

"Invest the $175,000 into the fund and use the earnings to pay the mortgage while still making money... " you can't be sure that the fund will earn money, but paying down debt is like guaranteed profit. If your fund earns more than the mortgage costs then you win, if it doesn't, you lose. Paying down the mortgage is a sure thing.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Spam differences between Yahoo and Gmail - 16 years ago

I send all of my other account to my gmail account so it can clean the spam. FAR better than what's built into Mail and entourage.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Why did I sign the slip? - 16 years ago

call them - similar thing happend to me once - a call cleared it up - package was found

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: my macbook is wiggin.... - 16 years ago

read macfixit!

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Apple earnings stun (again). Apple haters scratch head. - 16 years ago

report was only 1¢ per share greater than expectations - short termers are dumping since the hoped for expectations-shattering earning report didn't happen.

by hal - Tips and Deals

Will there be an iLife 07? - 16 years ago

or will they release it after midyear and call it iLife 08? I'm not so sure that this is a piece of software that reqs an annual update

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: How best to move data over to new HD? - 16 years ago

You HAVE run discwarrior - right? files don't just disappear from a drive, but if the directories are shot, it may have a problem finding them. IF the drive is actually broken, you'd be seeing all kinds of other problems...

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: ebay question - 16 years ago

one doesn't hit '7' 6 times by accident - be sure to neg the jerk...

by hal - Tips and Deals

Re: Craigslist. Jumped the Shark? - 16 years ago

I bought a car off craigslist - of course people will use the search engine - I did. Found NOTHING on autotrader - mostly dealers charging dealer prices.

by hal - Tips and Deals