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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« on: April 22, 2015, 03:27 PM »
Rachel & Jun are a young American-Japanese couple (Rachel's American; Jun's Japanese) who've posted a ton of vids on their vlog.
This is a 3-part vid set (1st two vids by Rachel; 3rd vid by Jun) about Rachel, titled 'My (Rachel's) most embarrassing moment in Japan' (actually, in her entire life, right after she and Jun first got married);
My most embarrassing moment in Japan (part 1)
My most embarrassing moment in Japan (part 2)
-and-
Rachel's husband Jun's side of it (part 3), which he calls Hakone trip from my perspective

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Living Room / Re: RAM contact spray?
« on: April 18, 2015, 08:58 PM »
Nero Burning ROM told me a disk burn check found errors.
I use that as a 'cue' that there may be ram stick errors.
I ran a Memory diagnostics and sure enough my ram had errors.
Unseated & reseated all four 1-GB ram sticks; mem-check failed again.
Removed the ram sticks one at a time and used the ^paper wipe method and reseated the ram, and mem-check was successful.

BTW, FYI, paper has tooth, that is, a specific grade of roughness that helps it to absorb ink, charcoal, or paint.
I used simple typing paper, which apparently did the trick.
I would recommend avoiding anything really smooth or glossy, such as high quality color printer paper, as the tooth or roughness might be too smooth for good results.

When I was finished wiping each ram stick, there was a streak of discoloration where it had rubbed across the ram contacts and picked up foreign material.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« on: April 15, 2015, 12:56 AM »
Tokyo Boy
http://www.gooddrama.net/japanese-movie/tokyo-boy-movie
-or-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE7jybBaNiQ
Maki Horikita is a top -and I mean top- Japanese actress who gives an awesome performance as Minato, a beautiful, sweet young woman who does not realize she is Multiple Personality and can't figure her life out.
This is a picture of her 'Alter' or 'alternate persona', whose name is 'Nighto', also played by her:
Nighto 4.jpg



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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: April 11, 2015, 03:39 AM »
Yuja Wang - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 - 1st Movement
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto - 2 - 2nd Movement
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 - 3rd Movement
Playlist Index of above links
Firefox supports Youtube Unblocker to enable a connection in case you want to use FF with Tor Vidalia or can't see it in your country or proxy connection for any reason. :)

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Living Room / Re: mp3 sharing?
« on: April 08, 2015, 05:28 PM »
I would have to say that if you have anything worth sharing with other people, or even saving for yourself, you should save it in FLAC format. It's easy to do, it's better quality than MP3, it takes less disk space than the original .wav.
My main concern is if FLAC has the same broad support base and applicability as .wav.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 07, 2015, 10:26 PM »
^f0dder - My case is a 'no frills' aluminum LianLi which I like value very highly, so if or when I can ever do a full PSU+Mobo+CPU+Ram+GPU upgrade, I may try to save the case.
Ah doh, missed that it was the case you were worried about, silly me :-[ - that should keep working, ATX standard and all.

If I get a chance, I'll pick up an SSD HD as an easy speed boost.
It does tend to help a lot. After a certain level of cpu, ram and gpu upgrades, SSD is the biggest performance upgrade you'll get for a while. I don't personally care a lot about OS boot speed, but everything disk-related just gets more responsive with an SSD. Just remember to have solid backups - when the consume drives die, they still tend to brick entirely.
Yes, that is my highest priority; above all else, save the case. :D

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 06, 2015, 05:00 PM »
^Shades - I uninstalled Malwarebytes, and folders all open within 1/2 second now, and Process Explorer System Interrupts is down around 0.40 at idle.
I can reinstall MWB once a month for a full system scan.
Meanwhile, I'll just have to be careful where I surf or what I install.

^f0dder - My case is a 'no frills' aluminum LianLi which I like value very highly, so if or when I can ever do a full PSU+Mobo+CPU+Ram+GPU upgrade, I may try to save the case.

I Googled the NVidia firewall issue, and don't seem to see any sign of it on my Uninstall Programs list, so I don't think it's there.
If I get a chance, I'll pick up an SSD HD as an easy speed boost.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 06, 2015, 12:31 AM »
 :Thmbsup: Tnx, I think I kind of see what you mean.
In Process Explorer,
System>Interrupts value:
-when idling = about 0.35 to 0.70.
-running LiveLeak vid = about 1.50 to 3.00.
Win 7 Pro = scratch install.
Operational HD = 10,000rpm WesternDigital 'platter' type sata.

Crashes don't seem to happen so much playing vids from HD.
I may have to uninstall Malwarebytes to reduce load, and maybe reinstall it once a month for a full PUP system scan.
From experimentation, MWB cannot be put into any kind of 'sleep mode' for cpu-intensive tasks, but must either be completely uninstalled or allowed to do its thing and run in full protection mode.
Before MWB, a click on a folder takes an 'eye blink' to open; now with MWB a click on any folder can take a count of 2 to 15 seconds sometimes (seriously).

I've wondered if my 8 year old case could take a new mobo/cpu/ram upgrade combo and transfer everything else over (maybe even save the four 1GB ram sticks), and what a good econo mobo/cpu combo might be (AMD seems cheaper than Intel).

At this time, it appears that a mobo/cpu combo would be a higher priority than a HD upgrade from 'platter' to SSD.

An obvious temporary work-around is to 'pull the plug' on watching on-line vids of over 3-4 minutes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 05, 2015, 07:37 PM »
Sounds like an old motherboard to me. I used to have A8N-Pro ones, but these boards use the Nvidia chip-set and I hate to break it to you, these don't last long. I am convinced that the reason why your system is behaving oddly when connecting multiple HD's using different technologies gives you problems is, plain and simple, the quirks of a dying Nvidia chip-set.

Of all the boards I run, none of them have Nvidia chip-sets anymore. My experiences at that time may not be relevant anymore for new boards that have Nvidia chip-sets, but I was so appalled by the problems I encountered, you won't see me buy any mobo with their chip-sets ever again. At least 5 years ago I phased out Nvidia. I still have 3 Asus A8V (10+ years old and based on VIA chip-set) in use 24/7 and those are still going strong.

I do like Nvidia video cards though.
The BSODs seem to happen in waves, like; a week or two of almost none, then bunches of them.
At a wild guess, this may be in connection with browser and-or flash player updates.

Lately, they seem to happen mainly while watching on-line vids, like on youtube.
No youtube, few or no BSODs.
Had a BSOD 1/2 hour ago while watching youtube, but any browser vid source seems to do it, such as LiveLeak.

My vid card is an NVidia GeForce GTS 450.

My machine used to open or start things promptly enough, before I installed Malwarebytes.
After MWB, it slowed the opening or starting time of everything way down.
Not faulting MWB, which has stopped quite a few PUPs, just commenting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 05, 2015, 05:04 PM »
^Tnx, but the Asus A8N-SLI Premium mobo has always had this problem (that it can only see one SATA HD at a time no matter how many are pugged into it) b/c it is a RAID mobo. :)
The person who built it chose it w/o asking me first, and by the time it was shipped to me I was stuck with it.
It does have EIDE HD Primary & Secondary terminal sockets though, so the idea is to get a SATA to EIDE adapter as a work-around, and make my mobo see a Secondary SATA as a Primary or Secondary EIDE.
I do very much appreciate the head's-up on Asus. :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 05, 2015, 02:45 PM »
What's the brand & model of that mobo?
Hi, it's an Asus A8N-SLI Premium mobo, running Win 7 Pro 32-bit on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 4400+.

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Living Room / Re: mp3 sharing?
« on: April 05, 2015, 11:56 AM »
 :Thmbsup: Thank you, Audacity is really outstanding.
It can do Normalize, and also has a nice add-on called EZ-Patch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 05, 2015, 11:52 AM »
 :Thmbsup: Thank you everyone, it was set to manual but I've reset it to automatic.
The person who originally set up my computer got me a RAID mobo, and there seems to be no way to make it see two SATA HDs as different HDs at the same time (i.e. Primary & Secondary), so I have to  use a slow old EIDE HD as Secondary, and normally reserve it for a disconnected HD clone of the Primary HD.
I have several other fast large SATA HDs, and it's too bad I can't seem to find a way to get the mobo to see more than one SATA HD separately at a time.

(edit): Come to think of it, maybe I could get a SATA to EIDE adapter and make my mobo see a Secondary SATA as EIDE.
There's quite a line-up of different ones on Amazon, Ebay, and elsewhere; is there any special model anyone cares to recommend in the $6 to $20 range?

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General Software Discussion / 'create Restore Point' question
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:27 PM »
In Windows 7 Pro, b/c my machine is older, and I occasionally get a BSOD.
So long as I have at least one Restore Point created, my pc reboots and recovers just fine.
But each time it does this, it uses up and cancels out the RP.
So my SOP is to let it reboot to Desktop, then run a registry scan, then create a new RP for the next BSOD.
Better yet, to have several RPs.
It looks to me as if, every 1st of the month, the OS dumps all old RPs.
So it keeps me on my toes making sure I have at least one valid RP.
Is there a way to set up the OS to automatically create a new RP every so often, once a day or whatever?
Or what other advice does anyone have (besides getting a newer machine)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Busy Body Browsers
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:20 PM »
There used to be an acronym for this:
NIH - Not Invented Here
"Nih!" is like a phonetic take-off on "Nah!" as in 'no thanks' (b/c we didn't invent it).

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Then there's the one about the car which used an extra set of front gears for self-starting and could foretell the future by precognition.

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Living Room / Re: mp3 sharing?
« on: April 02, 2015, 05:21 PM »
There's xrecode II for that. That said, you can't convert lossy to lossless.
Thank you very much, it's working great.  :Thmbsup:
In Windows 7 for pc, is there any software that can apply automatic volume control leveling to bring up soft parts and tone down loud ones?
I need to be able to process the sound on individual .wav files.
If possible, also to enhance vocal frequencies.

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Living Room / Re: mp3 sharing?
« on: March 24, 2015, 01:10 AM »
SoundCloud If you just want to share them. (Don't think you can put a price here?)
bandcamp If you want to actually sale them. (never actually used it, but I assume it might be pretty good.
cdbaby Is an alternative to bandcamp. I don't make music, so I've never uploaded anything to it, however I have bought a song from a Youtuber that used this site.
Tnx.  :Thmbsup: At Bandcamp, they want Lossless format. I don't have iTunes to use for converting, and the songs are in MP3 format, and they want them converted to Lossless, wav, or aiff, and FLAC is too technical for me to figure out, and Avidemux can't do it.  :huh:

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Living Room / Re: Life sucks and here is why.
« on: March 23, 2015, 09:58 PM »
My condolences.

Hopefully along the way a tiny bit of the beauty in this world will reveal itself to you and give you and those affected along with you a bit of strength.
^ditto. So sorry to hear of this.
Children who die so young become little angels.

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Living Room / Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« on: March 21, 2015, 03:41 AM »
TaoPhoenix and f0dder, ^those are both beautiful dishes!  :-*
People are still trying to evenly divide their pi.  Waa ha ha!   ;D

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This doesn't answer your question, but....

In the novel Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses an approach that is probably both faster and more efficient.

They distribute a lichen everywhere they go on the planet, leaving behind the means to pump oxygen into the atmosphere. Every one of these little things grows and multiplies, powered just by the existing environment and sun. And that multiplication means that once things get going a little, you've got a huge mass of little factories converting atmosphere for you, all for free and at an ever-increasing rate.
Yes, I was going to suggest something along those lines as a viable alternative in the form of air-born microorganisms, but the lichen sounds much more interesting. After all, lichen grows on rock, and the surface of Mars -which is close to the same surface area as all of Earth's dry land- is one big stretch of rock.

I read a SciFi novel maybe 6 months ago.  I don't recall the author or title, but it was all about diverting comets to Mars to get the water from the ice.  A byproduct would be a thicker atmosphere.

Naturally there are some shenanigans to do with using the comets as weapons for ransom etc..
Mars could certainly use the water.
Someone I know says he can't recall where & when Heinlein published it either, but tells me Heinlein was an engineer for the US Navy, not a mathematician per se.
When Heinlein 'crunched the numbers' for using mechanical atmospheric processors to make the atmosphere of Mars breathable, it seems to me he had to come up with an awful lot of giant units, and even at that, the time required was measurable in thousands -if not tens of thousands- of years.
After all, on a Martian global scale, you're talking an astronomical 3-D volume of air to process.
But the precise amount of time and numbers of processors escapes me.

The ^lichen method would actually be a very good approach, although current GMO abuses with Franken-foods have given the subject of genetic engineering a bad rap.

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Living Room / Robert A. Heinlein - atmospheric processor question
« on: March 19, 2015, 06:04 PM »
In 'Aliens 2', they use atmospheric processors to convert the alien moon's noxious atmosphere to make it breathable, "Takes decades," Van Leuwen tells Ripley. "We call it a 'shake and bake' colony."

S-F writer Robert A. Heinlein was -among other things- a mathematician.
I vaguely recall that he once calculated that with X number of giant Aliens-type 'atmospheric processors' (written a couple or three decades before 'Aliens'), seems to me he 'crunched the numbers' and figured it would take -X number of years- (he gave a specific number which I forget) to make the atmosphere of Mars breathable.
Does anyone have the direct Heinlein quote and actual info on this please?
If he put it in a story, what book?

Mars with water - eso1509b.jpg
'When Mars had water' (courtesy of Rense.com & Dees); my only comment on the picture is that if it had water it must have had water vapor clouds, which -at least on Earth- are white.

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Living Room / mp3 sharing?
« on: March 18, 2015, 09:18 AM »
I would just like to ask if anyone knows what web site they would recommend for uploading personal songs for sale or sharing?
Please can you recommend a free mp3 hosting site?
I'm aware that a few have been mentioned in the past, but was wondering about pros and cons.
We used to post them at Amazon.con, but one day they suddenly stopped carrying them, and the alternates they suggested all seem to be pro sites.
Thanks....

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(moved post b/c the last post in this thread was on August 29, 2007)

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