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Living Room / Re: What to do with an SSD after it fails
« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 22, 2013, 07:00 PM »Beat the crap out of it with a hammer (also good therapy) 
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IIRC, my router actually offered to change the default admin password when I first logged in. I hear a lot about Buffalo routers being junk, but this one came pre-installed with DD-WRT and has worked like a champ since I first got it.-Edvard (April 16, 2013, 01:36 AM)
Sound balance varies tremendously within a venue, and what musicians hear on stage is not what you hear in the audience.-xtabber (March 31, 2013, 03:40 PM)
Classical music, and to a lesser extent, Jazz, provide a better test of recording techniques.-xtabber (March 31, 2013, 01:44 PM)
I generally use a flat EQ with no effects. Why mess with what the band and recording engineers intended? Sometimes I'll put up the bass for some music, but in general, I listen to it flat.-Renegade (March 30, 2013, 09:28 PM)
Because there is a difference between what is heard in a studio with studio monitors and what comes out of, even expensive, domestic audio equipment.-Carol Haynes (March 31, 2013, 07:52 AM)
The difference is because of the location, not the speakers. You can put the same exact speakers in your living room that are used in a recording studio, but the sound will not be the same because of a different acoustic environment. The best sound in any given room will be obtained by matching the capabilities of the speakers to the characteristics of the room, and also to where listeners will be positioned.
Sound is the result of complex interactions of pressure waves and it varies as you move around a room, or how many people are in that room. Newer home audio equipment can do a pretty good job of emulating the ambiance of different concert halls, and the effect can sometimes sound more "natural" than straight reproduction, but neither is more "accurate" than the other.-xtabber (March 31, 2013, 10:20 AM)
I generally use a flat EQ with no effects. Why mess with what the band and recording engineers intended? Sometimes I'll put up the bass for some music, but in general, I listen to it flat.-Renegade (March 30, 2013, 09:28 PM)
Am I missing something? Google's PlayStore is not like Apple or Microsoft's App store. You can download apps from any web and install it, just tap on the downloaded file. OK they can stop the app appearing on PlayStore but it doesn't stop you manually installing it for the developers website.
Maybe removing AdBlock Plus from Play Store is manipulative - but it may also because it doesn't actually work well and causing a lot of users big headaches on locked phones where they don't have access to Proxy settings!-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2013, 08:34 AM)
That's why I lead off with the statement "Any time your locked into a proprietary system for apps"-Tinman57 (March 16, 2013, 07:15 PM)
Perhaps when GoOgle and the others see a severe drop in the sales of their closed app phones, they will reconsider this totalitarian system of theirs or go the way of the dinosaurs-Tinman57 (March 15, 2013, 08:36 PM)
Perhaps when GoOgle and the others see a severe drop in the sales of their closed app phones, they will reconsider this totalitarian system of theirs or go the way of the dinosaurs.....-Tinman57 (March 15, 2013, 08:36 PM)
However, I'm disturbed that after having "lost several battles" on desktops, once Mobile came around, suddenly companies saw a chance to start over and build in some nice new toys for themselves by locking down the OS's hard. So yes it's "Google's Store" (or, sideways, Apple's for the iPhone), but if the only way to get software onto the phone is through that store, it starts to make a disturbing chain where the sum of the pieces is far scarier than each piece presented "innocently" by itself. (Which is a MAJOR current brain-hack that media has really accelerated in the past 15 years or so!!)-TaoPhoenix (March 14, 2013, 08:51 PM)
WebsiteSpark is being discontinued:-Deozaan (March 13, 2013, 12:32 PM)
In addition to Adblock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery, Cookie Monster and RequestPolicy, I also use RefControl, which may be of interest to y'all. Together they make browsing new sites pretty painful, but once a site is set up how you like it it's all good.
Thanks for the tip on Collusion.
Ehtyar.-Ehtyar (March 12, 2013, 05:37 PM)