TTP VI

[Trevor Schell]

Hi Everybody! ..and welcome to TTP VI

Again,,we continue to enjoy and share your thoughts, experiences with each other.
Such a great group of individuals.:T
Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun.

TTP...Chat about nothing. ;)

All Flips is belongs to me.

Enjoy!!!:T




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[Paul Wu]

We get Signal.
How are you good gentlemens.
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[Trevor Schell]

The 10 Most Wanted Cars in Canada
According to the CAA's 2001 Survey


1 - Jeep Grand Cherokee
2 - Toyota Camry
3 - Ford F-150
4 - Honda Accord
5 - Dodge Durango
6 - Chrysler PT Cruiser
7 - Nissan Pathfinder
8 - Dodge Caravan
9 - Chevrolet Silverado
10 - Dodge Ram




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[Trevor Schell]

http://en.carpoint.msn.ca/merismus/Gallery/c438747a.jpg
GMC YUKON DENALI


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GMC ENVOY

Which one do you guys prefer?




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[Lex]

oh well, I missed the first post. Moving slow today anyway.

You cheated on my Trev, you said you weren't starting TTP VI until we made it to 101. ;

Lex

[Trevor Schell]

I was going to let everyone participate on page 100, then start a new chapter afterward. However we have been on page 100 for a few days now ,so I figured I might as well shut her down and start the new one.

Cold here in Toon-Town. Still winter for sure.
That darn Bing and his love for the Ice Age. ;)




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[Jeff Aguilar]

Trevor,

My car is not on your list.

I love my 1961 Ford Falcon Station Wagon and my
2000 Chrystler 300M

Oh, I do not live in Canada, that must be why my cars are not on the list. :D

Jeff Aguilar

[Kevin P]

Amongst musical fanfare, Kevin P enters stage left for his inaugral post on TTP VI, slips, and falls flat on his face! Ouch! :oops:

Someone set up us the bomb!


I was going to let everyone participate on page 100, then start a new chapter afterward. However we have been on page 100 for a few days now ,so I figured I might as well shut her down and start the new one.We still can, as TTP V hasn't been closed yet. :)

Got back from basketball tourney a few hours ago. Just got up from a much needed nap, also been fighting a cold but I'm feeling better now. Just in time to return to you know where and deal with you know who tomorrow. :( I'd just love to actually get a response when I submit my resume on hotjobs.com.

I got a "SMTP deny" report email from my Linux box. We get signal. Usually this means either some spammer tried to scan me for an email server to exploit, or namesdirect changed IPs for their email forwarding, but when I looked into this one it came from some "security-scan" server at AT&T. So now they're snooping us. All your base are belong to us. I'm glad I have a firewall. :?

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[Kevin P]

Ok, where is everyone? Heather's out for a bit, so I'm in the family room with the laptop and the system cranked! This is the only time I get to experience 2-channel audio bliss. I don't tend to play CDs when Heather's at home (usually she just keeps the radio on), so most of my CD listening happens at work or in the car. But when she's out, then I can re-discover how my CDs sound on a real system! If I put in a CD that I listen to at work a lot I notice a lot of detail that gets lost when it's played on a cheap boom box through cheap headphones. I wonder if it's possible to achieve at least semi-audiophile quality in a cramped cubicle, with headphones. I might have to do some research. I wonder where that would lead... I could end up being the first cubicle dweller with a SACD player and a tubed headphone amp, connected with SilverCats, in my cubicle! haha :)

(Unfortunately, there's no place to connect SilverCats on my boom box!)

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[Lex]

hey guys. Sure, you can use Silvercats on a boom box, just takes a little creativity Kev. :)

Still feel like hell here, no work for me tomorrow, evne though it sure wasn't in the plan. Did I say I feel like hell? :(

Lex

[Kevin P]

hey guys. Sure, you can use Silvercats on a boom box, just takes a little creativity Kev. :)That would be a funny sight, these thick silver cables coming out of the back of a little Sony boom box! :LOL: Somehow I don't think they'll make the difference they make on my main system though... In any case, the cables would cost me more than the boom box did! 8O Still feel like hell here, no work for me tomorrow, evne though it sure wasn't in the plan. Did I say I feel like hell? :(Hope you feel better soon! I've been fighting a cold all weekend. However, I'm never lucky enough to get sick during the week and actually get a day off from work for it. I always get sick on the weekend and them I'm all better on Monday. :evil:




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[Kevin P]

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[Greg Stone]

Thanks Kevin for the great link, 32 ads found on my system! 8O

Welcome everyone to TTP VI. 8)

Trev - gotta go with the Denali. Very nice looking.

Lex - hope you get feeling better. I have some cool wire strippers I picked up today, and got you a pair. Send me your address and I will send them to you, if you want them. Maybe that will make you feel a little better? ;) You and Ralph are always giving away something, thought I would return the favor.

Ran wire moulding today from the surround speakers, it was a many hour job. Also with losing an hour on the time change, will have to head to bed shortly.

Good night guys.




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[Andrew Pratt]

hey guys here's what I've been up to all weekend

http://www.mts.net/~glendap/wall.jpg

It would sure be easier if all the walls were straight:) Went up easy though just had to route out a section so the door would fit properly. tomorrow the drywall goes in.
Spent most of saturday going back and forth to home depot. Picked up a BBQ and a bunch of supplies for the wall construction, the riser and the acoustic wall treatments...its going to be a great room when I'm done!




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[Lex]

Hey, not bad construction work Andrew. I do think you should double up the 2 X 4 support on the door frame, and really, you should have went to the floor joists. It looks like a drop ceiling, and you will get some wall movement when you shut the door without being tied to the floor joists. Just my amatuer observations. :)

Lex

[Burke Strickland]

I don't live in Canada but my car is on the 10 Most Wanted list -- a great car is a great car regardless of geography... :>) (and it is near the top of most frequently stolen models in Texas too) :>) Oh yeah -- it is the Honda Accord, my third, and no the first two were not stolen from me, unless you count the low trade-in I got for a car that supposedly really holds its value.a :>)

Lex -- Good point about the door frame -- but I think he is keeping the wall semi-"mobile" in case he decides to change the room configurations... (won't say how I know that) :>) but it would be a lot harder to move to allow more room one side or the other if he connected the frame to the floor joists...

Burke

[Kevin P]

Just putting TTP VI back on top where it belongs! Methinks someone forgot to close TTP V... :oops:

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[Andrew Pratt]

Doug actually I did tie into the floor joists at the door frame and yes I thought I'd double up at the hinge side of the door frame as well...that's tonights project:)




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[Andrew Pratt]

AUTO SUPPLY
The other day I was in the local auto part store. A lady comes in and asks for a seven ten cap. We all looked at each other and said, "What's a seven ten cap?"

She said "You know, it's right on the engine. Mine got lost some how and I need a new one."

"What kind of a car is it on," they asked? Now I'm thinking maybe an old Dotson Seven Ten, but no, she said its a Buick. "OK lady, how big is it?"

She makes a circle with her hands about 3 1/2 inches in diameter.

"What does it do?," we asked.

She said, "I don't know but its always been there."

One of us gave her a note pad and asked her if she could draw a picture of it. So she makes a circle about 3 1/2 inches in diameter and in the center she writes 710.

The guys behind the counter are looking at it upside down as she writes it...and they just fall down behind the counter laughing so hard in hysterics.

One guy said " I think you want an oil cap."

She said, "Seven Ten cap, oil cap, I don't care what you call it, I just need one, and I don't see what is so damn funny about it."

Yes, she was a blonde.

Note: Read "710" upside down




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[Kevin P]

LOL Pr@ - was that a true story? :)

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[Patrick Sun]

A semi-local DVD rental store has gone out of business and they were selling off their remaining inventory of DVDs and LDs. They used to be big in LDs, so they still had quite a selection. The DVDs were 50% off the list price (not too many deals), and then 90% off list price on the LDS. I went a bit nuts and picked up over 45 LDs at this place. I only bought 3 DVDs: Career Opportunities (WS), Meet The Feebles, and The Matrix Revisited.

Amazingly enough, they were selling the AC-3 Titanic LD for $5 (after discount). There were quite a few LD bargains. I basically treated the LD prices as rental fees - just didn't have to return the LDs after I watch them.

I did pick up some Hong Kong LDs: God of Gamblers 1 and 2, Bullett In The Head, Once a Thief, Full Contact, Drunken Master 2, Police Story, Bruce Lee flick with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, some dts LDs (Jackal, Red Corners, Firestorm, Dusk Till Dawn), some rental fare: Gia, Sabrina, Spellbound, Inventing The Abbotts, Two Girls and a Guy, Surviving Picasso, Cat People, Kalifornia, When We Were Kings, Celebrity, Wings of the Dove; and a handful of Babylon 5 LDs.

The sale is going on until they run out of stock or April 30th. I'm going back there during lunch to pick up a few more LDs if they are still there.




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[Sonnie Parker]

Hi guys!

Well we had a absolute great long weekend of fun at the horseshoe tourny. Unfortunately my partner and I didn't win the plaque tourny so I had to say goodbye to my plaque. :cry: :cry: :cry:

We did win 2nd place though. :D Got our money back and some.

One of the guys that won had been playing in another league for 11 years and never had his name on that plaque. We invite him to our 2nd tourny and he carries the plaque home. Seeing how he's a really good friend....we were tickled pink for him. Guess I'll just have to wait until the fall tourny to try to win the plaque back. I'll have to look at that blank space on my wall for at least 6 months.

Later that night we played our single elimination tourny where anyone can enter. Some of them laughed because I got drew up with the only female that entered. She had never thrown a horseshoe in her life. Of course no one thought we had a chance. We smoked 'em big time. Won the jackpot.....only paid 1st place. I couldn't believe it and neither could most everyone else. So that partially made up for the loss of the plaque.

At any rate, it was a great weekend of fun and grazing.




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[Bing Fung]

Morning all! "What you Say?"

Trev, I have always liked the look of the Denali, however I notice the Envoys a lot more these days as a good looking ride. I would say the Envoy :D

I would bet the compilation of the 10 most wanted would include a wide ranging demographics of people from students to oldfolks. So I don't think it would actually represent the what the top 10 of the TTP would want :P How can that be accurate if the Corvette, M3, Viper and Saturn was not in it? :LOL:

Andrews making Room.... :LOL:

Lex hope ye get to feeling better.




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[Paul Wu]

Pl@: The Bruce Lee flick is Game of Death I thought most places liquidated their LDs long time ago. Of course the chinese rental places around here still carry quite a few LDs. Those are some pretty great deals!

Pr@: Wow looks like the HT room is coming along. I need to put some 710 in my car. :)

Trev: I like the looks of the Envoy.

Sonnie: Sounds like a great time, you'll have to bring that plaque home next time. Nice move on letting the other guy take home that plaque. I tell you it does something when you see your name on a plaque, or take home a bunch of trophies.

Lex: Hope you feel better soon.

Kevin: For ultimate audio bliss at work, I've hear that people spend big bucks on headphones and headphone amps. I hear the Grado's are the ones to get, then get a headphone amp, then just find a nice CD transport and get some custom CATS and your done.

Bing: I was wondering the same thing. No BMW, Ferrari or Porche? I wonder if that's the most stolen list?

Well in less than 2 weeks my wife's going on a nice vacation to Shanghai and then to Hong Kong. She'll be gone for a month, which is the longest time we'll ever be seperated since we started going out in '93. So it'll be weird around home, hell who am I kidding, ref level movies are in store. ;) Seriously, this is a well deserved vacation, after 9+ years in a government job, she decided to take the severance package, and will be looking to branch off into her own business when she gets back.

[Mats]

OK, TTP V finally closed for good :) thoose lazy moderators... :P
Who's gonna supply me with TTP V statistics this time?




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[Kevin P]

Look out folks, wild programmer is on the loose! He is armed and dangerous! If you see him, shoot to kill! haha. Pr@'s "710 cap" post gave me an idea to incorporate a "1D-10T" error message in one of our products. Here's a sample screen shot, which would pop up when Miss Pointy-haired attempts to log in:

http://kpatz.home.attbi.com/id10t.gif

In case you're wondering, the "User credential verification" refers to the fact that she/it's not qualified for her own job. No response from management object, well hey, she's the management object who never gives us specs to work with!

I don't know if I'm quite brave enough to actually check this change in or include it in the next build. You see, she has some strange lapses in her sense of humor! :E Of course I can tell her that we never got specs from her that said this message shouldn't have been added! :LOL:

Paul, I'll have to check into the Grado 'phones. Don't know if it's worth the trouble, but hey, I could have the coolest Cubicle Audio System in the whole building! :B

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[Paul Wu]

Kevin: Check out http://www.headphone.com for those expensive headphones and amps. I'm sure you could probably find a use Rega Planet as a transport. :) You'll have to check out the following tube headphone amp, only $329, image at home:

http://www.headphone.com/productphotos/0010030000frontbig.JPG

Or you could splurge and go for this:

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Sennheiser Orpheus HE-HEV90

The pinnacle of headphone listening, the Orpheus delivers the sound you'd expect form only the highest quality audiophile components. Highs are detailed and articulate, mids smooth as silk and bass so tight and realistic you be tapping your foot along with the music. The electrostaic headphone matches up perfectly with the tube amp. It looks as good as it sounds.
Keys??? You'll need the supplied keys to turn this baby on. Once you do the warm glow of tubes relaxes while the supurb sound finishes the job, taking you to the heights of musical ecstacy. To top it all off the amp will take optical digital or digital or Analog inputs. It comes equiped with its own D/A converter though it is the weakest point of the system. The volume knob sits on the front leg of the amp and is as smooth as a volume control gets. Two headphones can be used with the amp so sharing the bliss is easy but not inexpensive - the headphone is half the price of the unit. Only $11,900, note CD player is not included.

[Andrew Pratt]

thoose lazy moderators...

Mats if us mod's had the ability to close a thread I would have but as far as I know we don't have that capability.




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[Mats]

Yes you do have :) Just make sure you are logged in and you have the feature at the bottom of the page. Lock/Unlock/Delete.
Paul was kind to have the stats put togeather in a jiffy so I'll try to put them up ASAP.




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[Mats]

TTP Stats updated!!!!
Congrats GregM! You just won a free flip on TTP VIII :LOL:




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[Patrick Sun]

I am so weak. I went back there again during my lunch hour. BTW, their weekday hours are 11-9, Saturday 11-6, Sunday 1-6 (IIRC).

I bought roughly another 23 LDs for $86, even picked up the AC-3 Titanic for $5 (I bought it just the cover art). Picked up Ransom because it has some unseen footage not on the DVD, picked up a few more dts LDs (Liar, Getaway, In The Name Of The Father), Tank Girl, Kiss The Girls, End of Days, some other titles that looked interesting, and even Booty Call. :)




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I am so weak. I went back there again during my lunch hour. BTW, their weekday hours are 11-9, Saturday 11-6, Sunday 1-6 (IIRC).

I bought roughly another 23 LDs for $86, even picked up the AC-3 Titanic for $5 (I bought it just the cover art). Picked up Ransom because it has some unseen footage not on the DVD, picked up a few more dts LDs (Liar, Getaway, In The Name Of The Father), Tank Girl, Kiss The Girls, End of Days, some other titles that looked interesting, and even Booty Call. :)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Good going Pat! Sounds like you made off with quite the haul.

I managed to find some proper acoustic insulation for the bottom half of my room which made me happy since I was told the real theatershield stuff wasn't available to canada. On the other hand this stuff is twice what I'd budgeted for that component of the room...oh well you only get to build it once so you might as well do it right.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Mats here whatda know there is a delete function! Never saw that before :oops:




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[Paul Wu]

It's time to flip this baby!

[Paul Wu]

It's time to flip this baby!

This is one of the HD RPTV's that I have my eye on.

Toshiba 43HX71

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[Kevin P]

Wow, I almost sniped the flip without even trying! :B

...even picked up the AC-3 Titanic for $5 (I bought it just the cover art).Dang, I think I paid like 40 bucks for that disc back when it came out! :E

Sounds like you got quite the haul there. Uh, you do have a LD player, right? They may look like shiny records, but they won't play on a turntable! :oops:

Only $11,900, note CD player is not included.Ok, if I sell the house, the car, the home theater, the wife and the cats, I might be able to scrounge up $12k for that puppy. I wouldn't want to leave work if I have such sweet sound in my cubicle, right!! :LOL:

CD player? No problem. I have one in my PC, I'll just hook the soundcard into the tube amp! Then I could listen to MP3s through it too! I'll have to get some SilverCats for it too! Say Lex, can you put a 1/8" stereo miniplug on one end of a pair of Silvercats? :)

I like the key idea, then no one else can use it when I'm not around! haha...

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[Mats]

Nice start Flip Paul :)




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[Lex]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know I am still here kicking. Went to the Dr., got a shot in the a$$, some medicine, and a 68.00 bill plus prescriptions, lol.

Also, got a work furlow, good for 2 more days away from that hell hole. Almost makes it worth it, lol. Seriously, I have felt like crap, including night sweats from fever. Went through 2 T-shirts last night. 8O :?

Feel, a little better. Gonna stay on the medicine, and try to knock this out.

Good flip Paul, you got the first post and the first flip, you dog. :)

Andrew, I posted those instructions in admin earlier for you guys. Even verified it, logging in as you. :)

Lex

[Kevin P]

Andrew, I posted those instructions in admin earlier for you guys. Even verified it, logging in as you. :)Uh-oh, security breach! I'm gonna report you to the administration staff! :LOL:

Paul, there's some cool stuff on that site. I don't think I'll do anything, except maybe get a better set of headphones while still staying within the price range of the sane. Still, if I got some sealed 'phones that block out all outside noise I could get more work done since I wouldn't hear the phone or pointy-haired bosses or annoying cow-orkers interrupting me all the time! :twisted: Nice "Tee Wee" too! But wouldn't you rather have a 16:9? :)

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[Lex]

That's right, major security breach. I was tempted to post some hate posts on Maggies. :LOL:

Lex

[Lex]

Hmm, what's Bing been up to? I bet he's modding again! I just know it! :roll: ;) :roll:

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

ha ha doug...don't go dissing my maggie's now:)




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[Trevor Schell]

Hey Guys!!

Cool Andrew!,,
Didn't take long to start renovating the new home.
Now that's motivation...

Lex,,Hope the poke in the ole butt was worth it. 8O 8O

Paul,,Nice RPTV,,we are looking at the same type for upstairs in the new house.
It will fit into the entertainment unit which is made to fit a 36" TV.
However, the 43" RPTV's are actually cheaper than the 36" hdtv's. So it;s has become a no-brainer...get the 43". :oh:

Bing,,Let's see some updated pics of the new 'Beast of Love'




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[Kevin P]

Hmmm... Lex, would you be responsible for this thread!?:From: Andrew Pr@
Subject: Why I upgraded from Maggies to Bose!:LOL: Heck, if you have his password, how about ordering some Ultra-Xcess Silvercats for him on his credit card while you're at it? :B

Bing's probably adding another layer of clear coat to his mouse. :) Me, when my mouse gets grungy, I either clean it or toss it out and get a new one! I'm too lazy to paint it! :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

Kevin hmm ultra xcess cables would be nice but there's not a lot of $$ left after buying all the house stuff...




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[Kevin P]

Kevin hmm ultra xcess cables would be nice but there's not a lot of $$ left after buying all the house stuff...
Aw come on, we know about those Swiss bank accounts of yours!! :)

Houses are great, aren't they? I'll be poor for the rest of my life but I'd never go back to apartment living again. I'll have to post my horror stories from my last apartment and our "wonderful" upstairs neighbors. If I'd only had a SVS sub back then! :twisted: :LOL:




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[Andrew Pratt]

The only thing swiss about my bank account is the seemingly large holes in it:)




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[Bing Fung]

Heheh, hey all! nope haven't been modding much. Actually have been busy at work and at home.

Katherine's signed up for baseball and I'm volenteering as ast. coach/gopher.


Bing's probably adding another layer of clear coat to his mouse. :) Me, when my mouse gets grungy, I either clean it or toss it out and get a new one! I'm too lazy to paint it! :)

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Haha, Kevin :LOL: :LOL:




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[Andrew Pratt]

ding ding ding bing's back:)




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[Kevin P]

My linux box displayed this fortune message when I logged in:The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The employee is simply there one instant, and gone the next. All the terrible temper tantrums, crying, and threats are eliminated.
-- Kenny's KornerNow I just need to find a way to "delete" my boss! :LOL:




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[Kevin P]

I'm an uncle again!

My youngest sister Sarah gave birth to a baby girl at about 11:55 this morning (eastern time). I didn't get size/weight because Heather played the answering machine over the phone and I couldn't quite get it. All is well as far as I know...

See ya... KJP




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[David Meek]

Congrats unca Kevin!

[Andrew Pratt]

congrat's Kevin!




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[Patrick Sun]

KJP, I have 2 LD players, a really old Magnavox model, and a DVD/LD combi unit - Pioneer DVL-909. And I have the RF demodultor, so I'm good to go on the AC-3 front.

Now it's just a matter of finding some spare time to watch all of these LDs!

(I must sound like an old fogey and his Betamax tapes...)




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KJP, I have 2 LD players, a really old Magnavox model, and a DVD/LD combi unit - Pioneer DVL-909. And I have the RF demodultor, so I'm good to go on the AC-3 front.I was just checkin', pal! :) I have a LD player too, a cheap Pioneer CLD-S201 (yes, you have to flip the discs over), which I subsequently modified with an AC-3 output. I got it almost 9 years ago and it still works, though it doesn't get a lot of use these days.

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[Sonnie Parker]

Hey fellers....

My computer here at work crashed yesterday right after I posted and it's taken me until about an hour ago to get it going. I had to re-install windows 4 times. My winsock got corrupted somehow and what a mess it made. I couldn't get my TCP/IP to work until I finally figured out I had to delete the winsock from the registry. Nightmarish!

Really like that RPTV Paul. Nice flip! Wish I could tag that Toshiba.

Lex, hope you are feeling better bro. Sounds like a nasty one. And one of the ole shots to the rearside...ouch! I've had a touch of sinus stuff but nothing like what you got for sure.

I'm still trying to recover from the long weekend. I really need another day off to catch up on rest. Thankfully tomorrow is my off day and I get to sleep late. :D

Andrew....could I get a pipeline to one of those large holes in your Swiss bank account? hee hee

Congrats on the uncle thing Kev.

Patrick...wow.... 8O .......loaded up on LD's huh. What a nice find.

Nasty rainy weather here. No sunshine for 2 days now. What a drag! Sleeping weather.

You all have my permission to take off work early and go home. Aren't I such a nice hillbilly.




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[Lex]

Well, hey guys. Coming to you live from my landline. I lost my satellite signal, and can't seem to find it again. :( Even though I didn't feel like doing it, I adjusted on that damn thing for 2 hours today. Had it up above 50 once, and damnit, didn't stop, until I screwed the pooch. Crap. Now, it looks like a total re-install is in order, including a new cemented in ground post to mount on. Man, I wanted to avoid that.

Still a bit puny, but getting better, slowly. Of course, I didn't probably help myself out messing around with that stinkin satellite dish. I tried everything to get it back above the required 30, and can't do it. Post movement isn't helping. It's simply got to change to a more stationary pole.

Bummer on the puter problems Sonnie.

Trev, wasn't really worth it when it started hurting me last night and today, lol.

Kevin, good one, but I don't have those numbers. ;)

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

status report.

Picked up the acoustic insulation this afternoon so its ready to go when its time. So far I've got one side of the wall up and half the other. I'm going to run a power cable now for the lighting then install the final drywall and it will nearly be done.




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[Andrew Pratt]

12 hours without a post to the TTP! Where is everyone?




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[Kevin P]

Dunno Pr@, it's been really slow lately. I don't have much to say these days, so I haven't been posting as much as usual, plus I'm more motivated when others post more!

If you think you have bad neighbors, you haven't read this (http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm) yet. It's an amazing "neighbors from hell" story...

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[Patrick Sun]

I really do think I'm more in love with LD cover art, than just the LDs themselves. I just love the size of them - DVD coverart just doesn't turn my crank due to their 1/4 size. I almost bought more LDs just for their covers (be neat to hang them up on a wall dedicated to movie artwork).




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[David Meek]

I just love the size of them

Patrick, I agree. It's the same with albums and CD's. My vinyl collection has some absolutely stunning artwork on the jackets that just doesn't transfer to CD-size, for example, Van Stephenson's Righteous Anger or ANY Yes album.




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[Lex]

Pratt, your a machine, way to go on the house!

Kevin, your our "morning guy". It's sort of like the "Wake up with Kev" show. haha You have a responsibility to get things rolling here in the mornings. :)

Well, I just asked off for the rest of this week. Way I have felt, might as well just take off from work. I do feel better than I did, and have got a few things done around here, but still not 100%.

Lex

[David Meek]

Lex, I feel yo' pain! Actually, I feel my pain. :)

I threw my back out last Thursday moving a 21" monitor at work and it's not getting any better. I do know how to properly lift things, I just didn't do it the right way. Finally got a Dr's appt for tomorrow - c'mon muscle relaxers!




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[RickS]

Good Morning!

Wow! Just scanned a few pages back. Lot's of new houses.....congrats to all the new owners.

We just finished the the race season last weekend in Montreal Lake,SK. I'll be in Andrew's neck of the woods to pick up a new race trailer at the end of this month.........then relax for a month or so.

What the heck is TTP EXTRA's? I clicked on it but, it's blank. Anyway, I'll be back!! :)


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[David Meek]

Rick, what kind of racing? Snowmobiles? Sled dogs? If the season just finished I figure it's got to be snow or ice related.




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[David Meek]

Hey gang, does anyone do any TCL or TK programming, and if so, do you like it, and why? It looks fairly interesting so I just picked up Welch's Third Edition at MicroCenter.




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[Andrew Pratt]

I'll be in Andrew's neck of the woods

Rick will you be in Winnipeg? If so you have to stop by and say hello!




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[Andrew Pratt]

might as well flip this thing




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Here's a banner I've been working on for our website.




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[David Meek]

Nice Andrew. Very professional and tasteful.

[efarstad]

Hey all...I'm so busy now I don't know what to do with myself....so I took a break and here I am.

Andrew is 2 months old and slept through the night for the 1st time last night! :D Mom is very happy about that and she's doing great too!

My job is going good, I'm working 4-10's so I have Friday's off.

School is keeping me busy when I'm not sleeping, eating, or taking a ....oh, relieving myself! :LOL:

I know I promised pictures of the inside of my house, but I visited my grandfather who is in the "giving things away mode" of his life and so I now have a new dining room table/chairs, china, and a bunch of other stuff...so that's why no pictures yet. By Friday FOR SURE!!!!

Glad to see TTP moving along....I'm working on getting some new members so Lex doesn't start spamming me with advertising or something! LOL....

See ya all soon...

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[Kevin P]

Howdy folks!

Glad to hear Mom and son are doing great Erik! And the house too!

I was looking back at some older TTPs (TTP III this time), just to see what we were discussing back then. Pretty much the same stuff we're discussing now, except for me of course, back then I had an Alaska trip to look forward to. Now things are pretty quiet so I have nothing new to post, hence my relative lack of, uh, posts here! :)

I guess I'm gonna have to upgrade something so I have something to talk about, but it ain't in the budget right now, and I don't really have anything that needs upgrading right now anyway (except of course making progress on my ultimate goal of having all my interconnects to be of the meowing variety!) :) But then that goes back to that "budget" thing again...Glad to see TTP moving along....I'm working on getting some new members so Lex doesn't start spamming me with advertising or something! LOL....If that happens I would have to stop buying CAT products since I refuse to do business with anyone who spams me! Besides, I don't think Lex would want his email posted here as a "Tasteless Spam" post, would he!?? ;)

Speaking of Spam, a lot of the spam I get at work is SO tasteless that I won't even post it on here! Let's just say I'd have to censor them pretty heavily to post them on a public forum! 8O

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[Andrew Pratt]

Kevin how about doing some cheap tweaks to the system instead? Painting the room comes to mind...just a thought.




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[Paul Wu]

I've just ordered a docking station for the laptop and will probably pair it with a 15" LCD.

The upgrade to the 43" RPTV is now being put off for the moment. I'll be looking to do some computer upgrades instead.

I've got a 40Gig HD that I've got to install and then cofig to dual boot Win2K and Win98. Then I'm going to get an ATI 8500 video card, a LG CDRW/DVD drive and a 15" LCD for my second monitor. This should complete my computer upgrade. If afterall that, I'm not happy with the performance, I'll pickup an AMD system, probably a XP1800 and pair it with a Solteck DRV5 MB, and 256M PC2700 ram and swapin the parts I just bought.

It would probably be easier if I just config a whole new system and be done with it, but I'd like to go through the process of building and installing. Though I'm still wondering if I should even bother.

Pr@: Nice flip.

Erik: Do let us know how the SVS 25-31PCi sounds or should I say feel. That's what's important, who cares about the baby. ;) Seriously, glad to here you and family are doing well. You want to do some time value of money problems?

Folks, here's an interesting link


<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/Tools/mbsahome.asp?finishurl=%2fdownloads%2frelease%2easp%3freleaseid%3d37761%26area%3dnew%26ordinal%3d1%26redirect%3dno&frame=true" target="_blank">Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Microsoft has created a new tool, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), to analyze Windows systems for common security misconfigurations. Version 1.0 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and XP.

[Kevin P]

The HT room doesn't really need paper/paint at this point, especially compared to other rooms in the house. The bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and living room could use some fresh coats, however.

As time and $$$ permit (both are scarce) we'll be addressing these rooms, one by one.

Speaking of upgrades, I wonder when my driver upgrade will be shipping from SVS. I emailed them a week ago and they were supposed to be getting a shipment of drivers that week, but I still haven't gotten a ship notice. I might have to drop them another note, but then I hate to be a pain in the butt. :)

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[Trevor Schell]

Hi Gentlemen!,

It's snowing like the dickens here!!

Patman::I really do think I'm more in love with LD cover art, than just the LDs themselves. I just love the size of them - DVD coverart just doesn't turn my crank due to their 1/4 size. I almost bought more LDs just for their covers (be neat to hang them up on a wall dedicated to movie artwork).

Have a look at Show-Off Displays,,They have an awesome LD frame to hang on the wall..very nice quality. I bought 5 of them already.
A good way to disply the cover's that you like so much.

Andrew,,Power driver..Amazing how you are renovating your new home already.
You probably haven't even unpacked yet..LOL!.

Lex,,Hope you get better soon,,A week off work. Must be something very serious..Should maybe see a doctor.. Maybe a nice nurse will tend to you..Then maybe!!,,I'll stop now.OK!!

Rick,,Good to hear from you! :D
At least we know that you do have a pulse.
Where is Montreal Lake?

Erik,,Looking forward to the new pics.
We are going out today to pick up some extra furniture that we will be needing..A new couch for the upstairs and coffe tables,
Need a new HD TV for the family room and area rug , lamps stuff like that.

Paul,,Tough on the TV,,Actually, I would put that at the top of the list,,you would really enjoy it..And deserve it.
Though,,congrats on the monitor and docking station,,that sounds pretty cool.:T

Morning show with Kevin,,I like that one..LOL!!




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[Patrick Sun]

Thanks for the pointer, Trev. When I get that home of my dreams, I will look into purty-ing it up!




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[Andrew Pratt]

but then I hate to be a pain in the butt

Too late :LOL: (just kidding kevin)

Andrew,,Power driver..Amazing how you are renovating your new home already.
You probably haven't even unpacked yet..LOL!.

Nope still got lots in box's but some of its waiting till we get the office build which is waiting till I get this wall finished. We picked up paint last night for the living room so I guess that's this weekends project. FYI Sears currently has 50 percent off their top of the line paints in anyone's interested.




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[efarstad]

Paul:Do let us know how the SVS 25-31PCi sounds or should I say feel. That's what's important, who cares about the baby. Seriously, glad to here you and family are doing well. You want to do some time value of money problems?

The new SVS is amazing. Movies have a new "feeling" to them. I feel and heard things in the same movie I had not experience pre-SVS days. The only problem is my receiver is sending a weird signal to the amp that makes it "pop" while calibrating and switching sources. I'm going to reset the processor to see if that fixes it, but if not, then it's off to the fix-it shop. I'm waiting for my 950 anyway....

As to the time value money probs!!! NO FREAKIN' WAY! I'm not really enjoying my finance class but it's probably lack of sleep that accounts for 99% of that! LOL :LOL:

All is good though, I'm truly blessed and as a bonus I get to come here to TTP and share it with you fine fellas!!! 8)

Have a great day everyone!!!

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[RickS]

David, Yeah we've just finished the snowmobile drag race season. Grass drag season goes July to Oct.

Andrew, I'll be there on April 27. I'm having a 5th wheel hitch installed at a place called Bell's Welding. The trailer is a 45ft fifth wheel. I'll let you know on timing closer to the end of the month.

Trev, Montreal Lake is about 1 hour/ 100km's north of Prince Albert. I've got lots of upgrade plans for the summer.......but, my wife wants a new house...... 8O... but, I'm trying to talk her out of it! :)

Paul, Let me know if you want to buy my SVS 20-39's once I'm done the dual Stryke HE 15 project. I've got the drivers here and just have to build a cabinet for them.


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[Paul Wu]

Don't you just hate it when you think you saved something and it didn't save! :P

Rick: Whacha trying to do tempt me? It's working. :) Are you looking to sell both or just one? Oh, and then I need to get in on the SVS driver tradeup, and I need to get myself an amp. I just saw one on PartsExpress for US$135 that looks promising:

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Man oh man. I guess I'll email you for details.

[Burke Strickland]

Andrew - With that logo on the banner, I hope they don't think you're a quack. :>) (Yeah, yeah, I know what it is actually for, and it's a good cause, too...)

David - Knowledge (such as "how to safely pick up and/or move a heavy object") is useless unless you actually use it... :>) hope those muscle relaxants/pain killers do the job for your out of whack back -- can you sit in your comfy Broadways and watch movies or are you confined to to bed rest for the duration?

Lex -- If someone started up a thread about Maggies being replaced by an "upgrade" to Bose, we'd KNOW it was either a satire or a prank -- and if it was supposedly signed by Andrew, there would be no doubt it was both... :>)

Erik -- furniture "hand me downs" can be a blessing or a curse -- depending on how well they fit in to what you need and how well it fits in with what you already have (or have space for)... hope the new acquisiitions work out well for you. getting an uninterupted night's sleep must be a real treat after months of not having them!) Glad the family is doing well.

Paul -- by 15" LCD are you refering to an external flat panel monitor plugged into the docking station? I am using a Philips 15" LCD flat panel monitor and find it far better than the 15" LCD flat panel built into my DEll laptop (which I used to think was pretty good until I compared them side-by-side) ... sounds like a good upgrade.

12 hours may be a big gap, but it still seems like every time I check in here a couple of pages have been added regardless of how long or short a time I've been away... :>)

Burke

[Pat]

Nothing happening here...thought I better check in ;)

Doug, funny story about the neighbor :) Err I mean Kevin :oh: doh!

Pr@, nice flip




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[efarstad]

Burke, the furniture is actually quite nice. It's Thomasville, if you're not familiar with them....let's just say I checked out a comparable set and I'd be paying around 5K+ for what gramps gave us. All I have to do is re-apolster SP? (ya know put new seat fabric on) the seats and it'll look spankin new! The rest of the stuff he gave us is ok, but we felt that since he wanted to give things away we'd take them (it makes him happy to do so), even if we don't end up keeping it.

Wish gramps had a DLP Projector, screen, and a couple extra amps lyin' around! :LOL:

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[Andrew Pratt]

Rick definately give me some details when you know them. It would be great to meet you....might even have a room to watch a movie in by them....well maybe:)




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[Lex]

Pat, what story did I say about a neighbor? :?:

David, hope your back gets better, I can empathize with that one!

RickS, good to see you. I been thinking about pestering you, you saved me the trouble. :)

Erik, I tried to tell you, about your schedule, lol. Whew!

Lex

[efarstad]

Lex: You sure did but I'm just a dumb Norwegian who looks like this: 8O But then I turn around and look like this: :D It's really an amazing trick!

Life is good! 8)

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[Trevor Schell]

Paul,,That Toshiba 43" can be had for $2512 here in Toon-Town!.
Pretty desent, since the list on the website is $3499.

Rick,,Make sure you take care of the wife. ;)
If she wants a new house,,then new house it must be :oh:




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Trev: I've considered ordering that unit online from Next Big Thing (http://www.accountwizard.com/clients/shop.asp?Web=nbtelectronics) for $2,599. They also include shipping and calibration in that price.

Man when I got home today, I was feeling really sick. Don't know if it was the bus ride or what. Just a real headache and nausea, had to take a nap. I'm feeling much better now.

[Pat]

Oops, it was Kev that posted the neighbor story...page 2, post#26

Sorry Doug and Kev.




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[Kevin P]

And it's the TTP Morning Show with Kev!! :twisted:

Unfortunately, Kev doesn't have much to say this morning, other than my usual "another day, another nickel" :)

Pat - glad you liked the neighbor story. I'll have to post mine someday. Before we bought our house, we lived in an apartment with a family of losers above us, and the resulting list of things they did that ultimately led to us moving into our own house exceeds 20 pages! Needless to say I wouldn't post them all at once!! :E In retrospect, I wish I had my SVS back then! :LOL:

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[Greg Stone]

Yeah! Looks like my DVD player will be here today:

date time location activity
April 11, 2002 6:00:00 AM WACO, TX,US OUT FOR DELIVERY
April 11, 2002 5:59:00 AM WACO, TX,US ARRIVAL SCAN
April 11, 2002 2:40:00 AM MESQUITE, TX,US DEPARTURE SCAN
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April 9, 2002 11:58:00 PM EL PASO, TX,US DEPARTURE SCAN
April 9, 2002 9:17:00 PM EL PASO, TX,US ARRIVAL SCAN
April 9, 2002 10:30:00 AM PHOENIX, AZ,US DEPARTURE SCAN
April 8, 2002 9:49:49 PM PHOENIX, AZ,US ORIGIN SCAN
April 8, 2002 3:15:46 AM ,US BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED




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[Sonnie Parker]

Mornin' fellers....

Been busy here. That time of year for outside work when I have the spare time and can dodge the rain. Seems like the rain is never gonna go away down here. Then after all that work I'm so darn tired I don't feel like doing anything but relaxing in the recliner.

GregS....hope that DVD player is in one piece when you get it. :roll: Are you sure they didn't put it on a bus?

Hey Paul, you haven't visited Tennessee lately have ya? You mighta picked up that sickness Doug had/has.

Andrew, are we gonna get more picks of the HT room? You gotta give us a pick or two every few days so we can make sure you're doing it right ya know. :LOL:




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Greg - what DVD player did you get? I'm sure you posted it in TTP V but I ain't goin' back 10 pages to find out! :)

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I went with the Tosh SD4700 since it has aspect ratio control. My TV locks when you input a progressive signal. The Panasonic RP-56 does not have aspect control, and I didn't want to spend what a RP-91 would cost!




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[Lex]

Hey ho everyone. Except for sinuses, I am feeling a lot better today.

G'morning Kevin, the morning guy. You better be posting something better than that, if you expect to keep your ratings up. :LOL:

Well, I have to dig a big ass hole today, plant a pole, and cement it in the ground. I really don't look forward to this, lol. I wouldn't mess with it right now, I but I desperately need my satellite back.

Lex

[Kevin P]

Sounds like fun Lex. Make sure the pole is level (straight up and down). You do have a level, right? :) Haha, I've spent too much time reading that "redneck neighbor" website! :LOL:G'morning Kevin, the morning guy. You better be posting something better than that, if you expect to keep your ratings up. :LOL: Now you see why I work as a geek and don't have a morning show! :LOL:

Greg, sounds like a good deal. Tosh makes good DVD players, especially now that they finally fixed their downconversion. Now if they'd just offer discrete IR codes for us Prontoholics, they'd be perfect! :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

anyone need a good cheap 5 channel amp? HK 5800 (http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62978) Damn he's damn near giving that amp away 8O

Sonnie I was planning on taking a pic last night once I got the door installed but I ended up having to take some of the drywall off to fix the door joist. I'll get it back together tonight and snap some pics I promise




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[Lex]

Hole is dug, took about 40 minutes I guess. 2 feet deep, at least, and about 6 inches all the way around a 6 X 6 pole BTW, that's a helluva pressure treated timber! 6" X 8 feet. Cost me 17 bucks for that stick. This all is to avoid putting lag bolts into my brick house. I really don't like things attached to my house, unless it's totally unavoidable. So, phase 1 complete. Starting phase 2 after I rest a few minutes, lol. Mixing morter. Now that's fun! :-)

Lex

[Lex]

and yes, I do have a level. :) actually 2. 1 large one, and one very small one. Trust me, that small one comes in VERY handy. Not only that, it has a magnetic edge. It's not the right one for this job, but many times, it is the only one you can use. :) For example, leveling the mast on the satellite dish arm. It's perfect. Even sticks to the pole.

Yeah, gonna throw a level on it before I mix and pour, and then again after I pour, then check it in a couple of hours, since I don't have a frame built to hold it in place. Right now, the pole is sitting in the hole on it's on. That's the good thing about 6" square, it's easier to do that. It also has to be fairly level to sit like that.

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

so is it 32 or 33 that we can run from?




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guess I'll set this one up for the next guy:)




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Flip! Thanks for the set up Pr@!

AWD V6 SATURN VUE:

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[Lex]

anti-flip! lol.

Well, I guess I gave a pretty good assist too. I am out working my butt off, and you guys are taking the flips. I do declare. :)

Pole planted, 160 pounds of quickcrete in the ground. Whew! Dang wheel barrel handle broke while I was carrying 1 80 pound bag in it, wow, what fun, lol. Thought I was gonna loose it all. So, I lugged the second one from the truck to the broken wheel barrel to mix it.

Fortunate for me, I even had a concrete hoe, we found under my house last time under there, lol.

Lex

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[Andrew Pratt]

sounds like you're doing a bang up job on that pole doug!....want to come and mount mine while you're at it?




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Kevin I'm not generally partial to Saturns looks but that VUE looks pretty nice...what do they go for anyway?




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[Kevin P]

The AWD V6 VUE starts around $23K or so. The entry-level model (FWD, 4 cylinder 5-speed manual) starts at under $16K, but you'll want to add options to it to make it worth having (such as power windows).

Not bad for a SUV, but still out of my modest price range at this point. I don't need a SUV anyway so it doesn't matter.

I've seen a couple of them on the road already, both of them the AWD model, so it's probably selling better than the cheap one.

BTW, Saturn has announced a new small car (the ION) for the 2003 model year. Here's a web site (http://www.2003ion.com).

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[Sonnie Parker]

That flip was too easy Kevin. Give it back and let me have it. I'm due! lol

Lex, what do you need a concrete hoe for? I always thought you just poured the quickcrete into the hole...added a little water and twala. The next morning it's all there, nice and solid. Some folks don't even add water...they just let the moisture in the ground take care of it. Of course that's the hillbilly way. I forget you're in the city. The professional way may be more appropriate for you. lol



GregS.....good choice on the DVD (SD-4700)....that's what I just got a few months back. Although I don't enjoy the progressive scan part yet, it sure is good in all other aspects. So far so good with no hangups.




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[David Meek]

David - Knowledge (such as "how to safely pick up and/or move a heavy object") is useless unless you actually use it... :>) hope those muscle relaxants/pain killers do the job for your out of whack back -- can you sit in your comfy Broadways and watch movies or are you confined to to bed rest for the duration?

Haha. Smartypants! Well it's gotten worse - to the point the doctor has scheduled an MRI and suspects I've herniated the L4 disc. Damn. :roll:

Yeah the Broadways are still a good resting spot for the moment. Doc prescribed a muscle-relaxant, an anti-inflammatory and some Vicodin, so those and a pile of un-watched DVD's ought to see me through the weekend. :) Heh, I'm scheduled for jury duty next Monday! I can see it now - the judge asks how we feel about punishment for the possible offender, and I stand up in a Vicodin haze and yell "Hang the sum-bitch!" :D Well, at least I won't get empanelled that way . . . .

Lex, what do you need a concrete hoe for?Okay, I'll bite. What's a concrete hoe? When I mix concrete I generally use a length of re-bar for poking holes in the quick-crete.




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Dang David....that's exactly what I use. I pour the mix in the hole...add a little water and poke holes with the rebar. But I suppose those VOL fans have to have those uptown hoes. Actually I've never heard of a concrete hoe myself. lol :LOL:

Hey, with all those pain killers 8O you will probably have to watch those DVD's twice, don't you think? :LOL:




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[Pat]

Kev, nice flip VUE :)

Sonnie, congrats on 500 posts 8)




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[Lex]

Bummer David. :( I hope he's wrong, and the MRI is negative on the bulged disc. Take care of yourself man.

Gee Sonnie, maybe we should have some fireworks or somtin. :)

For you non-construction sort of guys, a concrete hoe is a hoe with a rather large blade, and 2 holes in the middle of it so that the concrete can flow through the rake. Helps in the mixing process.

Pouring it into a hole and pouring a little water on? Hey, whatever works for ya, lol. But I would actually like my pole to stay in the ground, haha.

Lex

[Burke Strickland]

sounds like you're doing a bang up job on that pole doug!....want to come and mount mine while you're at it?


Please do NOT post a picture of that, whatever it means! :>)

Burke

[Trevor Schell]

Hi Guy's!,

Yah Lex,,Put that pole away..Not sure where you are going with that. ;)

Kevin,,The Pontiac Vibes are also a very nice vehicle..

Sonnie,,Congrats on 500 posts!:T

Greg,,Congrats on the Tosh.

Paul,,Just go get one.
I am buying mine on Saturday.




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ok as promised here the latest pics of the wall and gear rack....

Here's the wall from the office side at the bottom of the stairs. this side is only a single layer of drywall and it will get mudded, taped then painted. Eventually I'm going to build a large "U" shaped desk in here.
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Here's the wall from the HT room. This wall is insulated and has a double layer of drywall on the HT side to help keep the noise out of the rest of the house. I still have to work on sealing up the space able the drop down ceiling but that will occur once I get the lights wired in. If you look closely you can see the light switch box beside the door frame.
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Here's a roughed in gear and media racks ressesed into the wall. Its the same two racks I'd made before only combined into a single unit. I'll have gear on the the top's of both racks so I don't have to bend over anymore to put a cd into the megachanger and the drawers will house my DVD collection. They used to have all the empty jewel cases in them but since I never use them I'm going to put them into a box that can hide under the couch for those times I want to reference something etc. The space you see behind the rack is my work bench...though right now most of the mess is on the other side of the wall:) The IB sub will sit just to the left of the gear rack.
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[Burke Strickland]

Andrew -- The rooms are shaping up nicely -- the recessed equipment racks are nice touch. (I'm assuming you can easily get to them from the area behind them?) Keep at it, and pretty soon you'll be able to move in the equipment and furniture and start enjoying movies and music in your dedicated space!

BUrke

[Lex]

Way to go Andrew! Looking good, your quite the handyman now. :)

Well, the pole is up and out in the open. I hope it's hard by morning. A little viagra goes a long way. I mean quickcrete. :)

Lex

[Pat]

Andrew, your room is shaping up nicely :)

Just wondering how you are going to seal the back of the equipment rack (since your IB will be right next to it) and still have easy access? removable panel? weatherstripped door?

David, take care of your back...it has to last you a while yet ;)

Doug...um...glad you got it up :oops: ;) :LOL:
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[Kevin P]

Morning folks! TGIF!! This post was delayed slightly due to technical difficulties, as in the company firewall, which usually crashes at least once a day, decided to start the day "already crashed". So I had to wait for someone to reboot it. Wonderfully reliable company resources... :roll:

Lex, need Viagra? I get spammed offers for it all the time! I need it like I need a hole in the ground, er, I mean head! :LOL:

Trev, never heard of a Pontiac Vibe(s). If it looks anything like the A$$tek, no thanks! :)

Speaking of arfin-ugly vehicles, when I was out on my bike last night I saw a Saturn (an older model), with one of those fugly metal spoilers (you've probably seen 'em, the tall aluminum-looking ones) attached to the trunk lid, a coffee-can tail pipe and low-profile tires. EEWWWW! That's as bad as tattooing and piercing all your body parts! It's worse than pan & scanning Ben Hur! At least show some respect and paint the spoiler the color of the car!! My stomach's turning just thinking of it.

Pr@, sounds like the room is coming along great! I can't wait until we build our next house, so we can do cool stuff like recessed component racks and IB subs. Speaking of which, my friend is thinking of doing a IB, and he has a similar setup with a gear closet behind the front of the room. However, his shelves are open in the back so that would require some creative sealing off of a section to do an IB that way. I mentioned doing the IB in the attic, and he liked that idea, but then with attic ventilation would the neighbors hear all the bass? I'll have to ask the experts. :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

Yes I have access to the gear from behind since that's the laundry/work shop area. I plan on extending the back of the rack by a foot or so then building a door with weather stripping so that its sealed but still allows for easy access to all the wires etc. Its going to be so nice to be able to actually work behind the gear instead of always reaching round from the side. Hopefully I'll finish putting on the second layer of drywall on the short side of the wall and maybe just maybe start adding the wall treatments!




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[Andrew Pratt]

anyone want some maggies?

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=4897&query=retrieval Pretty good deal on three MMG's! If I had the cash I'd pick up another for rear centre duty...




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anyone want some maggies?For a second I thought you were selling yours! If you mentioned replacing them with Bose then I'd say Lex posted under your account. Time to change your password! :LOL:

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[Sonnie Parker]

Lex, if you put viagra on that pole and it takes til mornin' to get hard then....ahhh.......never mind. Who started that viagra stuff anyway? :roll: :roll: :roll:


Andrew, I'm impressed and a tad jealous. Dang I wish I could build my own HT room. Maybe one day.

I'm curious about the IB sub location. Don't you think you need to test it in that location before you commit to it? I mean, you're going all out here for the perfect HT room it looks like. Then again you may not have a whole lot of choices when it comes to location on an IB sub.

And did you say that was the laundry room behind the rack? I'm thinking dust on the rear of the equipment????? You know how some laundry rooms can be. While not bad, over time it could be?

Moving along really good. I know you're having lots of fun.




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[Sonnie Parker]

Okay, I got interrupted during my post and you posted Andrew. I understand what you are doing on the rear of the rack now. Good idea. Similar to what I've done except my room behind my rack is my service room. You will definitely like the rear access. I've had mine that way for over 10 years now (previous and current house) and love it.




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Please do NOT post a picture of that, whatever it means! :>)

8O ROFLMAO!!!!! :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:




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hmm seems my ISP is giving me problems b/c those images no longer show up? Weird. Sonnie I do have concerns about the location of the sub but I don't have too many choices other then behind the last row of seating and it would be safer if it were located in the corner of the workshop then where we have our storage shelving etc. I'll likely need a BFD anyway to tame things out but I won't know how good/bad it is till I do some freq plots. At least now I can play with the built in eq in the Sony as well to tame anything above 300 hz.




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Torture testing my stealth proxy, just fixed another annoying bug. Never mind me. :)

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[Lex]

I forget, was it 28 or 29 we run from? ;)

Actually, we do need a concensus on that. As you may recall, Mr. Anal retentive, I mean Mr. Pratt didn't like the suggested 31 on. So, we now fumble around between 32-34 for the flip.

I would like a vote now. 31 on, 33 on?, or 34 on?

We need to make this decision. While you all are thinking, I will be putting my dish back up. Or in other words using the pole. That's right, it's hard, really hard. hahahaha.

One thing about it. That pole isn't coming out of that hole very easily now, if I ever want it out, lol. No in, out, in out. ;)

Lex

[Kevin P]

33 or 34 is good with me. I don't care for long runs. :)

Have fun with your, uh, pole! :B

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My vote is for 34 ...that way its damn hard to run and more likely people and snip ya




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Pr@: Nice pics. I too thought for a second that you were selling your maggies. I've done some surfing on that site and found a couple of interesting ads I might check out.

Lex: Have fun with the pole.

Kevin: Ha, ha, no improvement necessary.

Anybody have anythoughts on a Yamaha 3000 for a delivered price of $1,760? I'll post that in a more conspicous area.

So flipping from 34 on, that would be more challenging. So I vote for 34.

[Greg Stone]

Stayed up late last night hooking up the new DVD player, now I just need to push the entertainment center back against the wall, and get out the Avia to calibrate everything.

The picture even without calibration is stunning compared to what I was used to!

TGIF!! 8)

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[Sonnie Parker]

Does my vote count? 33 or 34 on.... either is cool with me. Then again if you say 1 or 35, it will do with me.

Andrew, if you've got it near the rear corner then you'll probably be okay. You'll just have to get your phase correct. I'm really interested in seeing how the IB reacts.




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I think Lex should get the flip so he can post a pic of his pole! :B

Also, this is a set up post for the flip!

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Okay, I'll set someone up!




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[Patrick Sun]

TGIF! I'm so tired from this week, and I have early shift next week! Grrrr!

But I get to start on my next subwoofer project this weekend, a more conventional MDF enclosure. This is being built for a fellow local HT bud. Can't wait to get the wood cut up to the properly sized panels and get them baby thumping!




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Very nice Yam-e-haw Paul. I've always admired their receivers. Actually I still own an older Yamaha pre-amp. CX-800U (not for sure on that model but it's something 800 something). Been sittin' up in my closet for several years. It was their flagship pre-amp at one time.


Andrew, are you gonna have a step-by-step DIY page for your new HT room. That would be a cool addition to your website.

If you want it, I have a program (Cool 360) that you can use to give us the 360 degree motion view once your all done.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Sonnie I thought I might post some before, during and after pics of the new room but not a detailed write up like Pat Sun would do:) I might be interested in doing that 360 degree thing though once its finally finished (if that ever happens!) The IB will be in a corner and I think I've got phase adjustments on the TA-E9000ES don't we?




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[Lex]

Finally, hot damn, I got my satellite signal locked on!!! You wimps that have only locked a directv signal, ain't seen nothing until you try to lock a DirecPC signal. My gosh, is it tough.

In total frustration after an hour of adjusting and getting no higher than a 16 signal strength, I called a satellite store to see if they could come out and find my signal.

Then, as I cooled off, fixed some left overe pizza, the brain finally started working. I thought about what to do, then scarfed down the pizza and went to work.

So, I got my laptop out, a long a$$ extension cord to my outbuilding power, a power strip for distribution, a stool to sit the laptop on, my satellite receiver, a spare piece of Quantum Coax. (I know, overkill, but it was the closest thing handy), a USB cable, and of course, power cords for both the laptop and satellite receiver, and hooked it all up. Within seconds, I sweeped across a 40-50 signal strength, and started the adjustments. Sometimes, you tweek the slightest way, and boom, it goes to zero. So, it's a very particular operation. Even just flexing the dish one way or another with your finger can mean 10 signal strength. As you start to tighten bolts down, sometimes, it tries to undo progress, and you have to tweak one way or the other pulling, pushing, etc...

NEVER again will I try to adjust it without the laptop procedure by myself. Even with someone, so much is lost in communication, that the laptop is likely still better.

I am locked on 52-55 right now. 30 is the minumum. Strangely, I once had a 70-78. I have no idea how it ever was that high, unless they have reduced the signal being sent or by more people locking on, it somehow reduces it.

Anyway, Whew, I am back! Finally, my email outgoing should work again. I never knew quite how much I would miss broadband until being without the last 2 days.

Lex

[Sonnie Parker]

Yeah, I believe we do have phase adjustments. I'm not sure if it's variable or 180 degree switch. But even if we didn't you could just swap the leads on the sub since it's in the rear....you'll probably just need the 180 degrees. Then again I've heard of stranger things.

Let me know when you need the 360.




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[Sonnie Parker]

Lex it sounds like you've been havin' fun my friend. Yeah, Dish and DirecTV I've never had problems dialing in. I've heard horry stories about the satellite Internet though. Seems like I remember that's why Dish's Starband will not let anyone but their authorized installers set up their sats. DirecPC must be a little different on the install allowing you to do it yourself (or did you actually do it the first time?).


EDIT: Isn't that satellite to the south Lex? If so all this weather may be causing a poorer signal. Very high altitude weather is rolling in from the south.




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[Kevin P]

DirecPC must be a little different on the install allowing you to do it yourself (or did you actually do it the first time?).
If it's one way satellite (using dial-up for the uplink), there should be no problem installing it yourself--it'll be just like satellite TV. If it's two-way, then it has to be professionally installed, since if you botch it up you could be transmitting to the wrong satellite and causing problems!

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[Sonnie Parker]

That makes sense Kevin..... Starband is 2 way and DirecPC is 1 way with dial up (unless they've changed).




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[Lex]

DirecPC offers the same type service as Starband now. But the original was the dial return system (1 way).

Kevin is right, the 2 way system requires professional installation. But the one way doesn't. Mine is a 1 way system. However, one advantage of the 1 way system is, if the satellite portion is having problems, I can convert to only using the dial up portion for 2 way communication. That gives you a backup. Plus it's cheaper up front, and cheaper to install.

Lex

[Burke Strickland]

Nice receiver. I enjoyed a Yamaha DSP-A3090 (technically not a receiver, but an integrated amp, however I had the matching tuner which used the same remote, so it might as well have been) for several years before I went with separates...

Geez -- we get a new page and all of a sudden no one gives a flip anymore about what post number we are going to agree to do the "run" from (until we get up to 30 again, I'll bet) :>) -- so how do we actually "vote" on this?

Burke

[Paul Wu]

Burke: Whats this about voting on what number to go for the flip? ;) In the back of my mind I'm contemplating that Yamaha. It's a bit on the expensive side, compared to my budget, but the price is pretty good.

Rick: Any info on when you'd be looking to sell your SVS? And how much?

Lex: Man, trying to get a satelite signal sounds rough.

[GregoriusM]

34

[Andrew Pratt]

I've never been a fan of yamaha receivers since I find them to bright for my tastes but then again I''m not the one buying it so who cares what prefer:) If I remember right the yammie has lots of features right?




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[Trevor Schell]

Good Morning!

TGIS!!
I am off for this weekend.
Been a while since I had a weekend off. :(

Plans are too continue the quest for new furniture.
Paul,,Does the tosh 43" do the anamorphic squeeze?

Andrew,,I agree..the yahmmy's sound pretty bright..loaded with lots of features..but those artificial DSP modes do nothing for me.
Nice job on the HT..Wow!! that is fast.

Lex,,Glad you where able to get the dish locked in..:T
They can be pretty nasty!
I will soon have three to do myself.
I am fortunate as my signal strengths are a decent 78-83, except for the HD bird,,only 35,,however I have not tried any extensive tweeking since it was only one channel that's available.
At the new place my concern will be the wiring part of it.
not sure how I will be able to wire up all of the rooms like I do now.

As for the Fliperoo!!,,As before let's start the run at 33.
This allows for some intense snipping to occur.
Plus,, the page is hard to read once it get's to the bottom anyways.... ;)

Hope everybody has agreat weekend and can spend some time with the family! :D

Now where is that guy named Bing!? :P




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Watched Training Day last night.
Excellent show!
Excellent soundtrack!!,,I just love the shotgun effects,,very dynamic I must say! :B




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Check out this LAptop..
This one has it all.
Can't imagine the 16.1" Screen.

PCGGRX570

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VAIO Notebooks

Sony VAIO® GRX-Series Notebook with MobileIntel® Pentium® 4 processor 1.6 GHz-M and a GIGANTIC 16.1” UXGA ultra high display screen.

Features
Amazing gigantic 16.1” UXGA screen - with ultra high-resolution

Mobile Intel®Pentium® 4 processor 1.60 GHz1 - M supports Intel®Enchanced SpeedStep TMtechnology

512 MB DDR SDRAM(256 X 2)

Removable 40 GB3 hard drive

CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive

Swappable multi-bay for CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive, or optional second battery

MagicGateTM Memory Stick®

4X AGP-enabled ATI MOBILITYTM RADEONTM7500 32 MBVRAM (128-bit DDR SDRAM)graphics chip

Integrated 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet

Microsoft® XP Home Edition8

Center Jog DialTM control with back button!

High-capacity Lithium-ion battery, dual battery capability

i.LINK® (IEEE 1394) S400 interface: supports high-speed digital video, audio, and data transfer capabilities among equipped Sony products

Integrated V.90 modem

512K KB intergrated on-die level 2

About 8 lbs.

Built-in stereo speakers

Optional port replicator available for increased productivity!




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[Lex]

Thanks guys. Signal holding strong, a good install!

Stopped by the Rock Man yesterday evening, and picked up some big a$$ rocks for my flower bed. Well, I got 50.00 worth. It's a start. I am tired of fighting bermuda in the mulch, since I already killed my shrubs putting weed killer on my bed to kill bermuda, it's time for something totally different. This time, I am going to try and build a rock garden. Maybe put a water fountain in it, lava rock, that sort of thing. Should be interesting. It might take me a while to get it done, but that's ok. I will do it as I can.

Trev, not envious of you having to track your satellites. Did you check for the right sky exposure at the house? I hope you can get by with them on the back side of the house. :)

Greg, what's 34?

Sonnie, your right, satellite can be a horror story. :)

Lex

[Trevor Schell]

Lex,,Looks like I would have to bolt them to the side of the house.
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[Paul Wu]

Paul,,Does the tosh 43" do the anamorphic squeeze?

Trev: Yup. There's a button on the remote that will do the squeeze. There's no automatic setting like the Sony. But I've heard that the Sony isn't really autosensing. Yeah I just saw that Sony Laptop, man a 16" screen! Talk about screen envy.

The newer Yamaha's with the Top Art are supposed to sound much smoother than the previous models. I've got an older model, and is on the bright side, but I don't mind.

Pr@: Yeah the Yamaha's have tons of DSP's. But those don't interest me at all. It's the power, 6 x 100W and 2 x 25W. Those 2 are for effect speakers, which I would probably never use. I see a disturbing trend in that measured power output is coming up short from published output. Or for some receivers that I was interested in, Sony DB870, Marantz6200, Onkyo. I haven't seen a recent review for Yamaha, but the older machines were rated properly.

Looks like the HK got sold.

Last night, after about 6 hours of trying, off and on, I finally got my PC to recognize my HD. It was one of those stupid jumper settings. So is it the case that a 40G HD is actually a 30G once it's formated? Man that some serious shrinkage, and it's not even cold? I've got them partitioned to a 10G and 20G and have loaded up Win2K on the 10. Over the next little while I'll be adding software. At first I was going to have all my programs on the 20g side, but I may split that. Games on the 20G, basic software, like Office and email, etc on the 10G.

Next time I'm buying an 80G drive.

[Kevin P]

Paul, how many total bytes do you get on the HD? When HD manufacturers rate capacity, they consider a "gigabyte" to be a billion bytes, not 1.073 billion bytes that a true gigabyte is. Therefore, my 30 GB drive reads 30,599,495,680 bytes, which translates to 28.4 GB. Sort of like monitor manufacturers claiming a monitor is 17", but the actual viewable size is 15.75".

Also, formatting takes up some overhead, especially with NTFS, so your total formatted capacity is somewhat less than the physical capacity of the drive.

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[GregoriusM]

Greg, what's 34?



People were asking what the thread-run starting point was, and someone asked for everyone's opinion. So, I said 34. But since then The King of all that is Good; The Keeper of the TeePee...... oops.. TeeTeePee has weighed in on the matter and has said 33.

Works for me!

... Greg :-)

[Pat]

Hey fellas,
The little woman and I were out picking up a few things and I ended up getting 5 DVD's at Sam's Club 8O
The good thing is they only cost me $75 for all 5 :LOL:

Highlander The Immortal Edition
Iron Monkey
Get Shorty
Navy Seals
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

All of them are enhanced for 16x9 TV's too!

I was looking for the new Highlander...the drone at Best Buy said he had them in a box in back but he had to check on the release date. He came back and told me that it was going to be released on Tuesday...guess I won't have to go back now :)




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[Mats]

For all you geeks who need an Media/MP3 player for your PC :)
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[Sonnie Parker]

Hello hello!

Man, what a day. Been fishing in our pond catching little 2 pound bass. Two older black men I'd invited over caught several brim and shellcracker. We had a blast. My wife was on the boat with me. I almost tipped us and she got really scared. lol (just had to be there)


I got the DVD Training Day on the way Trev....thanks for the heads up.

Lex, what does the 2-way set up cost with DirecPC? The only reason I haven't plunged with Starband is the $600 initial price and $60 month. If I could save a bit with DirecPC I might give it a try here at home. I'm on top of a hill too, good view any direction.


Catching all those fish today got us motivated to eat seafood tonight. We're headed off to a small town 30 miles from here to eat at a little hole in the wall restaurant. It only seats about 35 people. Then there's the waiting in line. But it's much worth it.

You fellows have a wondermous evening! :) :) :)




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[Lex]

Thought my DirecTV wasn't working after the satellite move. I said, crap! It's' supposed to be automatic. After phone calls to directv and direcpc, (ouch, the wait and options!), I found that a coax on the directv was stressing at the connection. Bent it up a little bit, and boom, there was my signal. :)

So, I will likely have to put a new coax end on it, and it's good as new. Not a problem.

Working on cables, finished a 30 foot RGB-Sync cable, that's truly a thing of beauty. Built a pair of Silvercats, got all those cooking. Tonight, finish 2 sub cables, and build a pair of Quantum Silver Centauri's, and my orders are done for first of week shipping. Except for a pair of super duper speaker cables I need to build. Might get those done tomorrow.

Lex

[Patrick Sun]

Just modded a JVC XV-S65GD for PAL/NTSC and region free capability. I posted the gory details in the A/V Chalet.




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A tribute to Patman..
Take this BOOBIE Test.


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I scored 18...:T

What did you get.?




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A tribute to Patman..
Take this BOOBIE Test.


<a href="http://www.avhumor.com/oskaflash/inter_silicon.swf" target="_blank">http://www.avhumor.com/oskaflash/inter_silicon.swf


I scored 18...:T

What did you get.?




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A tribute to Patman..
Take this BOOBIE Test.


<a href="http://www.avhumor.com/oskaflash/inter_silicon.swf" target="_blank">http://www.avhumor.com/oskaflash/inter_silicon.swf


I scored 18...:T

What did you get.?




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A tribute to Patman..
Take this BOOBIE Test.


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I scored 18...:T

What did you get.?




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http://www.marantz.com/image/products/u_sr8200_lrg.gif

Any word or reviews on this receiver?
Marantz SR-8200




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[Lex]

Hmmm, looks ripe.

[Lex]

for the

[Lex]

picking!

[Lex]

Flip.......Flip......Flip!

My new HTPC:
Specifications
Castillo HTPC cabinet

Enermax 431 watt EXTERNAL power supply (sits on back side of first shelf down from top on back side of AV cabinet.

CPU Case fan (replaces original 300 watt power supply opening)

1 Cyclone blower PCI slot fan to get hot air out.

Asus A7V333 Motherboard RAID board, raid currently disabled. For future expansion. On-board audio also disabled.

New AMD Athlon XP-1900

512 meg PC-2700 RAM

Radeon 7500 graphics

40 gig primary drive, 7200 RPM Maxtor
80 gig secondary drive, 7200 RPM Maxtor

Turtle Beach 5.1 card

Intel NIC

ZOOM 56K modem

The guts

Photos

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[Andrew Pratt]

How loud is that HTPC with all those fans in it?

Well my wall is for the most part finished now I just have a little trimming to finish along the door and its done! I started pulling out all the ceiling tiles last night so that I can paint them dark grey...I tired painting them when they were still above my head but it wasn't working too well:)

We also managed to get the livingroom and hall way primed yesterday (5 hour job) and today we're starting with the first coat of paint...we're going to use two shades of bronw and rag the second off for a subtle mottled look.




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Trevor when the X200 series came out from marantz there was a lot of interest in them but very quickly people were finding all sorts of bugs with them I haven't heard much lately about them so I'm not sure that they are completely fixed or not...i'd be cautious about buying one if I were you.




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[Patrick Sun]

Trev, on the boob test, I got a 20, but you know what's amazing, I recognized half of those boobies' owners

1. Cindy Brown (maybe)
2. Anna Nicole Smith
3.
4. Sharry Konopski (maybe)
5. Brooke Richards
6.
7.
8. Jamie Bergman
9. Renee Tenison
10. Tishara Cousino
11.
12.
13.
14. Lynne Austin
15. Julianne Young
16. Buffy Tyler
17. Pam Stein
18.
19. Jennifer Lavoie
20.




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[Kevin P]

Trev, what are you looking at receivers for? That mansion of yours is just begging for separates! :D

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[Lex]

Andrew, the only fan of the 2 that is loud is that PCI slot fan. Of course, the power supply and CPU have fans, but they are fairly quite.

As soon as I check the temperatures good, as long as they were well below thresholds, I may remove that turbo fan that's on the PCI slot.

How come primer anyways. I thought the only time you truly need to primer is when it's fresh drywall. Or your covering a very dark color.

All I got was a not found on the boob test.

Lex

[Trevor Schell]

Morning Guys!!

That's amazing Patman..Your a Boob expert.
I don't even recognize any of the names you posted
except for Anna.

Lex,,You can't find the Boobies.?

Andrew,,Thanks for the heads up on the Marantz..
Where the bugs very serious or minor?

Kevin,,The HT is going downstairs,,but we need something for the upstairs family room.
Therefor the 43" RPTV and a second receiver.
I have enough unused speakers to set up the second system..Remember my old Paradigm Studio 60's..The will act as the mains..

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Nice Flipo Lex,,That PC is looking rather stunning.:T

Congrats on 5000 posts!! 8O 8O 8O


Here is the link again for the Boobie Test.


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[Lex]

Thanks Trev, and thanks for the reminder that I am "close" to 5K mark! I knew it was coming a while back, but hadn't really looked recently.

Thanks on the PC. It's been interesting for sure. Bad thing is, only does DD, no DTS. :( The picture is rather stunning once the player gets warmed up. Nagging audio dropouts are a problem though.

This is my first true ground up PC. It's been a fun, though expensive project. Hopefully, now that I have my satellite woes fixed, I will have some time soon to play around with recording with the machine which is one of the main reasons I built it.

Have a great day folks. Off to the mall to have lunch with daughter and family. Then it's back to the shop for some work, and a bit of the Masters later today.

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

Doug we're painting a light beigh colour over a very robust (read ugly) green colour that's turning out to be a real bitch to cover. So far we've got a coat of primer and a coat of the the beigh and it still needs another coat to really cover it all since there's spots that aren't as covered as we'd like.

Trevor the bugs in the marantz were todo with video switching for one which may or may not be important...don't remember what the others were but from my memory they were serious enough that people were returning them and looking for something else to buy.

That boob test link seems to add a to the end of the url for some reason even though its not in the original link...mats got any thoughts on this? If it doesn't work just remove the and hit enter again.




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[Lex]

That explains a lot Andrew. Makes sense to prime in that situation for sure...

Lex

[Lex]

Well, I got tricked by a set or two that were rather large, but still natural. Overall, a 17. Not a bad first time score. :)

Lex

[Trevor Schell]

Andrew,,
Apperently the effected models were the 4200's to the 7200's.
The 8200 and 9200 are made in a different factory and perform very well.
I will be looking into the 8200 anyways.

Good score Lex!!,,
I got 18 though,,so I am more of a Boob Meister than you old Boob. :P
Nobody knows BooB better than Patman though! 8O
Well,,Bing hasn't taken the test yet. ;) ..So wee will see.




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Took the boob test but didn't fare as well as you trev...it just isn't the same when you can't use your hands 8O

Got the HT door painted dark grey and took out most of the ceiling tiles...paint isn't going to work on them so I guess spray paint is the next option.




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[Lex]

LOL Trev. :)

Andrew,
Paint will likely work on those Andrew, but there's a trick. There's a product called "renewzit", that fills in the pours on various surfaces. For example, if you have a water spot on sheetrock, renewzit allows you to cover that spot with one coat of paint, after applying renewzit. I am betting, that it would enable you to paint accoustic tile as well.

I know my parents painted some of a material that is very close to that, and I bet renewzit is how they did it. Though I can't recall for sure, as they contracted the job.

Lex

[Kevin P]

Uh, Lex, isn't it bad luck to be caught hanging with 4999 posts?? :)

How's everyone doing today? I'm doing fine, all things considered (e.g. I'm typing this from my padded cell). :) Gorgeous weekend, I was even going to ride my bike in to work this morning but it rained last night and it was too wet this morning. Oh well, it's supposed to hit 80+ the next couple of days (unusual for April in NH), so I can't wait! I might have to uh, arrange to be sick those days! :)

Cleaned out the tool shed yesterday, that took all day. Pulled the grill out as well, got some propane, and had a little cookout. That was fun. If this keeps up maybe we'll have the pool open early this year!

Otherwise, not too much going on...

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[Andrew Pratt]

it was hot with us as well over the weekend...turning cool again this week with rain but it will help the farmers since its pretty dry up here...esp as you head west towards rick.

We also fired up the new BBQ on friday and saturday...hmm nothing like a BBQ and beer in your own back yard:)




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[Sonnie Parker]

Good morning!


Lex, thanks for ignoring my question. I realize I'm just a wanna be and not that important but geeze. :?: :?: :?:


Trev, I scored 18. There was a few I had to guess at though. :D




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[Lex]

Post 5000 and I am all red faced!

:oops: Sonnie Sometimes I am not a very effective reader. Rather, hit the high points. Besides, where you been for 2 days anyway? Since your priorities are presumably screwed up, I figured to wait until Wednesday to post my message in response. ;) Or I could have just not read it at all. :)

I doubt there is to much difference in pricing for the 2 way service. Heck, tax and all, my 1 way is 55.00 a month. So, I am sure it's even more per month than Starbland.

Here's a place to learn more about DirecPC's offerings. Contrary to what some may believe, DirecTV does not own DirecPC.

DirecPC:
http://www.copperhead.cc/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.cgi

You can also dial 1-800-direcpc not directpc, or you get a pay sex service or some such, lol.

Lex
Post 5000 - how could I possibily have had that much to say? lol. Well, I probably earned half of those posts here, in TTP. So, it's only fitting that I post 5K here.




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You can also dial 1-800-direcpc not directpc, or you get a pay sex service or some such, lol.That's only if you dial 1-900 by mistake! ;)Post 5000 - how could I possibily have had that much to say? lol.As I recall there's this line of cables you seem to be a big fan of. I can't recall the name however. I think it was some animal name or something. Ferret Cables, I think? Or maybe it was Parakeet Cables, no, wait, I think it was Iguana Cables, no, that's not it either! Basset Hound Cables? :?: :LOL:




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[Lex]

No, I swear, though the C in the dialing of directpc isn't recognized, 1-800-directp does give you some weird number. I just can't recall what it was.

hahaha on possum' cables:)

Lex

[Paul Wu]

I got some free preview passes to the new Sandra Bullock movie, Murder by Numbers. It'll be on tonight, so I'll try and do a review, this is one movie I wanted to see, so these passes were pretty cool. I got them by signing up to the Famous Players newsletter (http://www.famousplayers.ca/my_fp_subscribe.asp). They send you theater schedules for 3 theaters in your area.

Had a new temp person start today, and it was one of those things, we both said we looked familiar but haven't quite placed where we know each other. Weird.

Had a very lazy weekend. Wathced some of the Masters, watched some CART racing. Messed with the computer some more. I also pickedup the new Diana Krall:Live in Paris DVD, only sampled a few tracks, but it looks and sound great! I also had a chance to play some Rallisport on the Xbox. Man that is one fun game, I think I'm going to rent an Xbox over a weekend and have my fill. :)

Alias
This is by far my favourite show of the season. Another packed episode, though my wife did guess who the Snowman was before the end. 24 is a close second to best TV show this season. The episodes after hour 12 have been inconsistent, but I'm hoping for a tight finish.

Trev: That's a sweet looking receiver. I recall that there were some audio dropouts as well. But these were for the 7200 and lower. Sounds like the 8200 is a nice machine to get. Now you got me looking at it. Didn't fare to well on the boobie test. I'm like Pr@, without feeling, it's pretty tough. ;)

Lex: Congrats on the milestone.

Pl@: Hmm, maybe a new moniker is in order: The boobie king?

Kevin: You know you're not cut out for work...when you get a headache on the way into work.

GregS: Missed your post back there, but congrats on the new DVD player. I can recall those UPS shipping posts.

[Andrew Pratt]

so what caught your attention on the canuck audio board pat? You know I just realized that the guy selling those maggies is the same guy I sold my extra MMG to! Kinda wish I had kept it now for a rear centre but at the time I needed the cash and 6.1 wasn't on the radar (not that it is now either)




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Well, those maggies are one. The other is an older add for a Sony 555ES (http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=4028&query=retrieval) The guy selling it is only about an hour drive away.

Ambitious computer upgrade planned for the weekend. I'll be installing a LG CDRW/DVD drive, an ATI 8500 card, and a Celeron 1.1G with adapter, and a second monitor. The thing that's got me a bit concerned is flashing my bios. After that, I'll basically have a brand new computer. I've very tempted to pickup an OEM SB 5.1 card. But if I do, I'll want to setup a 5.1 system in the computer room. At present I've got an old set of Cambridge PC works 4.1 computer speakers. The sound quality is pretty poor. I'm thinking of moving my bedroom receiver to the computer room and hooking up my B&W 301's.

[Lex]

Thanx Paul. You getting the All in Wonder? Or do they even differentiate at the 8500 level? I don't recall... Congrats on the upgrades.

Flashing the bios isn't really a huge deal, you just need a win98 startup disk to get to an A prompt, then do what they say to do, executing the floppy process.

So far, my 7500 is pretty nice. Wish I had consideed DTS though. I think my sound card will handle DTS, but so far, I haven't been about to get it to work.

Lex

[Burke Strickland]

Patrick -- I guess you are the unofficial "tit"ular head of the TTP celebrity recogniton corps. :>) I get the "booby" prize however. Not only can I not get the link to work to "check them out", :>) but I do not even recognize many of the names on your ID list -- they must be TV personalities (and I'd never see them on TV unless they are in the news or on Jay Leno, er, on his show). :>)

Trevor -- sounds like you hang on to used gear the way I do -- I have the equivalent of three non-working systems in my back room (components stacked up for storage) and a pair of Def Tech BP-2000s are working as plant stands these days in the main HT. (I had planned to keep using them for movie playback after I got the Maggies for music -- but then I listened to a movie soundtrack via the Maggies and the BP-2000s retired at that point.) :>)

Lex -- Whew, your milestones keep piling up -- 5000 posts, soon 500 members, about 50 moderators helping keep you in line, :>) 5 PCs in various stages of construction or repair and about .5 days between cable orders -- give us a "high five" ! :>)

Burke

[Kevin P]

Ambitious computer upgrade planned for the weekend.I have a computer "upgrade" planned as well. Get this, when I was cleaning out my tool shed I stumbled across an old TRS-80 Model III that I had picked up for $25 years ago. I never really did much with it because the keyboard is shot, but I plugged it in and it still boots up from the floppy, so I decided I'm going to try to find a keyboard for it. I looked on ebay but no one is selling a keyboard, but I may drop a bid on another Model III or Model IV and use it for parts. I'd like to clean up one of these babies (I grew up on TRS-80s) and have it as a fun toy.

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[Sonnie Parker]

Okie dokie Lex.... I understand.... and you are right, it does cost the same or more. 2 days??? huh??? I see now, you don't read any of my posts.... okay then..........I'm skipping all of your's too! j/k :D

Paul, how in the world did your wife guess who the Snowman was? I was totally thrown off. Was it an educated guess or a random guess? None the less, it was a very good show. I wonder what would have happened if Sidney had decided to take the flight? Then again, that wasn't mean't to be the storyline. :roll:

I agree on 24, while still a great show (it's been my favorite, even ahead of Alias), something needs to happen to tighten up the show. I'm wondering too if they will have another 24 season starting in the Fall. It could be hard to follow/top the first 24 hours.


Okay LexC@.... CONGRATS ON 5000 POSTS!!!!! Hey, I'm 10% of the way there.

Funny fiving Burke :LOL:




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Burke, those BPs are grocery money man, liquidate some of that stuff you don't use. :) I am one to talk, I still have a pair of Paradox Rhino Mark IVs, vintage 1974-75 I think, a matching Paranoid amp, I mean Pioneer, tuner, turntable, etc...

You got most of those "Fives" right. But we are shooting for 5 minumtes apart on those orders, at which point I will tell my day job to take a flying leap. lol. That would be promptly after I screamed, like the people on the commercial waiting for orders to come in, then they start to trickle, then they start really flowing, until finally, it's a constant blur of activity. At that point, him and his associates give each other that "oh shit" now what do we do, look. Someday, I truly expect that to happen. Maybe not on that scale. But say 10 orders a day for 10 days, would put me SLAMMED. :)

LexC@
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Hell Sonnie, all we throught you did on the weekends was play with your shoes, or ride your Honda Trail 50. :LOL:

Thanks on my postees. Knowing you, you will be there before I was, lol.

LexC@
"Post King" Really! It's a 6" X 6" X 8 ' in 160 pounds of concrete. Ohhhh, you thought I was talking about my 5000+ posts here, that no mere mortal can touch, didn't ya? :LOL:

I know it's long for a signature, plllease don't turn me in to any one of 50 moderators! Ahhh, who cares, those guys are slackers anyways. 8O

[Andrew Pratt]

so have we set the running point at 33 or 34 yet?

Congrat's on 5K doug...just reached that point at HTF myself..though hopefully it won't be to long before I cap that mark here on the guide.




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[Paul Wu]

Lex: I'm only looking at the 'basic' 8500 there's several models including an All in Wonder. Though that would be cool, but dragging cable into the room is not something I'd like to do. The All in Wonder 8500, goes for something like $540! The All in Wonder 7500 is more reasonable, $290, but it doens't support dual monitors, only 1 monitor and TV out. I really want dual monitor support, next is good DVD playback, so ATI is it, next is cost. So either the 7500 or the 8500.

Sonnie: "Cause she's always right" She guessed when Sydney was doing the debrief with Vaughn, at first I though she meant that Vaughn was Snowmand, I said no way, but she later cleared that up saying no, the other guy. I think we all knew she wouldn't go, but it was a very tempting offer. I was wondering if she was going to tell him before he died that SD6 is not CIA, maybe he knew already.

Didn't Trev say 33?

[Lex]

Wow 8O 540!?! for the 8500 AIW! ouch.

My 7500 AIW here in the states was... nevermind, I don't want to depress you Paul. :)

Andrew, we decided it was 33 for everyone except you, and for you, since you really wanted it, it's 34. :LOL:

Congrats on 5K at HTF. That won't ever be me there. Yeah, won't be long here, you will have that too!

Lex

[Lex]

Like taking

[Lex]

Candy from a baby

[Lex]

http://www.katkables.com/doug/5kflame.gif P O S T S FLiP, flIp, flip! Flip, Flip!


Flip graphic, needs to be special, hmmm....

Lex

[Kevin P]

I just tossed up a bid on Ebay for a TRS-80 Model 4. If I win, I'll have to decide whether to use it or my Model III as a parts machine to fix up the other. In any case, I'll have a cool "vintage computer" to play with!!

All my Model III needs is a keyboard. The Model 4 I bid on has a minor monitor problem, which I may be able to fix (hey, if I can set up a CRT FPTV, I should be able to fix a Trash-80 monitor, right?).

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[Andrew Pratt]

we were clearing out some old Pentium PC's today so I picked up a couple of older IBM Pentium's. I'll keep one for the DSS emulator and sell the other. They were also selling of some old laser printers cheap...was temped to grab one but they are huge and older so maybe not worth the effort




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[Lex]

Something tells me you will win that auction Kevin, lol.

Andrew, good deal, so your going ahead with the DSS plan, ey?

Lex

[Kevin P]

Oh well, someone outbid me on the Model 4. I upped my bid a couple of times but this other guy kept upping theirs as well. I stopped at $20, didn't want to pay more than that plus shipping, and he outbid me again with a minute remaining, so I figured I'd be "nice" (definitely a weakness of mine!) and let him win.

I'll try again another time. I don't need a Model 4.

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[Bing Fung]

Now that's one of the funniest things I have heard when Pl@ states that he knows who those hooters belong to :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

I did not perform the test as i have seen it before however I do believe I scored 18 that time. Some were a bit difficult to tell as the positioning was misleading.

Taking off to Calgary this week to spend some time with Cam and my also visit my Daughter.

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[Paul Wu]

Pr@: Nice cpu purchases. Good decision not to buy the older printers. We've got an older HP4V that's been

with the company forever, but last year we had to do some repairs that cost us around $700.

Kevin: Don't those TRS80's have an adaptor to hook into your TV? :) So you don't really need a monitor.

Bing: How long are you staying in Calgary? Have a good trip.

[Pat]

Howdy fellas,
Doug, congrats on reaching 5K!

We had snow for the first 5 days of April and today we are at 89 degrees...what's next?!?




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[Kevin P]

Paul, you're thinking of the TRS-80 Color Computer. It hooked up to a TV. It was also the computer I cut my teeth on. There's a bunch of them on ebay, I might have to get me one again so I can really bring back memories.

The Model III, which is what I have in my shed, and the Model 4 I unsuccessfully bid on has a built in monitor. The monitor works fine on my III, I just need a keyboard, and parts for these beasts are a bit hard to come by these days.

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[Sonnie Parker]

Now Lex, that's a really cool, er, well make it "hot" flip.

Lex, I was talking about you Saturday to my wife as I poured sacrete into a hole around our Martin birdhouse pole. I told her we really needed a concrete hoe. She asked me what a concrete hoe was, I told I didn't know but you said it came in handy with your pole. She just looked at me funny and said: "You don't need no hoe for your pole hunny."

Btw, what's a Honda Trail 50?


Paul, I was suspicious of him when he paused on sticking her with the knife. He had her where he wanted her at the time. Then Sidney had this really funny look on her face while he was laying on the floor, as if she knew whose face was under the mask, but I still wasn't sure. Good guess on your wife's part though. You know for a minute when they departed on the beach I thought maybe she was gonna end up taking him up on the "give me one week" offer. Maybe have a show or two with them looking for her mother together. So much for that thought.




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Sonnie: When she was looking at his body, if you look closely enough, you could just see the bandage on his arm. I think that's why she had a funny look on her face, right before she unmasked him. During the computer data heist, I didn't think he was too professional leaving her to hang and dangle like that. When they found out they didn't get any data off, I figured he grabbed the data and wiped the HD. I thought he was covering his tracks. Only on the airplane did I even think, "Wouldn't it be a kicker if he was the Snowman?"

Kevin: I see, the more advanced TRS's came with a monitor. You could always search for a TRS emulator for your PC, but that would ruin the fun.

Pat: How about some hail for the next day?

[Kevin P]

I found a website that claims to have TRS-80 parts, including keyboards. However, they don't have online ordering, just a price list. I sent them an email to (a) see if they still exist (the site was last updated in 2000), and to (b) see if they have the keyboard I need. If they do exist, I'll have to call them since I'm not going to email my credit card #... :roll:

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[Jeff Kowerchuk]

8)

[Sonnie Parker]

You know Paul, I didn't even think about that data heist. Good point. And I didn't notice the bandage at first...it was only when she actually moved his sleeve back a little that I noticed. Dang you are very attentive to details. He sure had her fooled. Once on the plane I kinda thought he was out of the picture, but I did think about why they were just letting him off the show so easy. I thought surely SD6 was gonna blow up his plane while he was on the phone to Sidney.


Kevin, now just why would you want an old computer that's slow as malasses? lol

Jeff, I thought for a minute there you were going to flip from post 13. Then you made the edit. Haven't seen you around TTP before. Welcome from the hillbilly in Alabama!




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Posted my review of 'Murder by Numbers' (http://www.htguide.com/CFBoards/index.cfm?fuseaction=Threads.viewthread&CFB=1&Tid=35911&Forum=33&DoOnePage=Yes&RequestTimeout=500)

The verdict is don't pay money to see it. I like Sandra Bullock, but this is not one of her better movies.

Sonnie: The other tipoff at the end was the guy's breathing, it changed after he got stabbed (I bet my breath sounds would change if I ever got stabbed!) and it sounded like what his name. I also thought SD6 letting him go was a bit strange. I thought they might off him once he goes undercover. Nobody will notice he's gone.

Jeff: 8) back at ya.

[Pat]

Pat: How about some hail for the next day?

Hush up...that's a 4 letter word! ;)

It's supposed to be 88 today 8)




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[Kevin P]

Kevin, now just why would you want an old computer that's slow as malasses? lolTwo words Sonnie: NO WINDOWS! The "slow as molasses" TRS-80 boots up in about 5 seconds. Try to do that with your latest Wintel wonder toy! :B

Plus, old computers are fun, back then you had to know how to program (in BASIC at least) to use a computer. Nowadays everything is just handed to you on a platter, which explains why there are so many complete and utter idiots using computers these days. I'm just going back to my roots, trying to feel young again. That is, if I can find a keyboard for it. TRS-80s are hard to use when most of the keys don't work! :roll:

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[Lex]

Thanks Pat!

LOL on the concrete hoe Sonnie. Tell the little woman, she knows not what she speaks of, haha. Mixing quickcrete goes so much quicker with the proper tool. ;)

I mean, are you going to try and make play-doh spagetti without one of those little machines to push the play-doh through? No! It's just not going to happen nearly as accurate or as good rolling it out by hand. :)

Lex

[Lex]

I have been thinking about what they did to the Masters this year, and I DON'T like it! They took the course and made it so long, that only a handful of players in the world had a chance of being on the leader board. This plays right into Tiger's hands, as he is one of those few players. Look at the leader board. Only the long hitters were there.

Yes, I think you have to be the complete player to win the Masters. But I don't think that means winning the long drive contest at the driving range. It wasn't that way when Bobby Jones won, and it shouldn't be that way now. When you do anything to a course that eliminates 80% of the field from having a chance, you haven't changed the course, you have changed the game- That is not what golf is supposed to be about. I am not only shocked at what Augusta did this year, but appauled at the same time.

Lex

[Kevin P]

Mmmm... play-doh spaghetti, yum yum! :) First TRS-80s, now play-doh, I think I'm regressing further than I planned! Next will be diapers! :LOL:




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[Patrick Sun]

Alias - I thought it was a horrible contrivance for Noah to be the Snowman, and to write him out of the series in this manner.

Boobie quiz - those are mainly Playboy playmates.

I was not going to see the new Sandra Bulloch film (going by the awful trailers for it), and now Paul has saved me a couple of hours. :)




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[Lex]

Check this out. Looks like DVD-RW is coming down in price!

http://www.eshop.msn.com/eshopframe.aspx?merchId=2702&catId=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecomark%2Ecom%2Fsite%2Finclude%2Fredirect%2Ecfm%3Fid%3D1468


I would say 299 by Christmas. That's a sight better than 550!

Lex

[Lex]

Sonnie, got a hillbilly joke for you.

If a Hillbilly woman divorces her husband,

Is he still her brother?


:LOL:

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

got a good part of the HT room's ceiling painted last night. Had to take down most of the tiles and water down the paint in order for it to work its way into those cut outs. Looking pretty good though. I'll post a pic when I get them all done.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Nice to see you posting again Jeff...a man on many words:)




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[Kevin P]

Some new words to enhance your corporate vocabulary:

Adjuduhcation: The act of making duhcisions.

Adminitraitor: Someone in a position of power who shouldn't be. Also, anyone with admin privileges on a network who can't be trusted with them.

Aduhlescent: A young induhvidual.

Cow-orkers: Fellow induhviduals who haven't been promoted to manglers yet.

Canduhdate: One who is likely to become promoted to a position of manglement.

Coorduhnate: Calling a group of induhviduals into a meeting.

Confeduhrate: The reason the North won the Civil War.

Corp-duh-ration: A business entity that is typically overrun by induhviduals, cow-orkers, manglers, and adminitraitors.

Duhcipher: Translating boss-speak into normal English.

Duhcisions: Conclusions made by manglers or other corporate executives.

Duhlete: The termination of a mangler (which unfortunately is a rare occurrence)

Duhficient: What makes a mangler a mangler.

Duhpreciation: What happens to manglers over time that invariably causes them to become even more incompetent.

Duhveloper: An incompetent programmer, also a primary candidate for a mangler position.

Elduhly: An old induhvidual.

Induhvidual: a stupid person.

Mangler: An incompetent manager.

Ma-NAG-er: An annoying manager.

Misduhmeanor: A minor crime committed by an induhvidual, who is usually caught as a result.

Numduh: An induhvidual whose system is infected with the Nimda virus.

Snoopervisor: See Ma-NAG-er.

Stuporvisor: See mangler.




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[Mats]

Some new smilies for ya all :)

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[Bing Fung]

Thanks Paul, I'll be leaving today and will be in Calgary until Sunday :D



Most excellent Mats!




Bing

[Kevin P]

My quest continues. I tossed a bid on on a TRS-80 Model III, looks like one that has no floppy drives, but I don't care since all I need is the keyboard (the description says all the keys work). However, my $30 bid (no way I'm paying more for such an old machine) doesn't meet the reserve, so I don't know what this guy's thinking. We'll see what happens, maybe he'll sell it anyway. Someone else has a Model 4 with a starting bid of $200. I can't imagine why he's had no bidders!? :roll: :LOL:

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[Lex]

Have a great trip Bing!

Coolio Matsio! ;)

Lex

[Lex]

How about modding a keyboard for it Kev, doable?

I guess not, but worth a mention. :)

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

Bing don't forget your winter clothes:) Did Calgary get the snow that Edmonton got? Its plus 21C here today.




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[Lex]

Sounds to me like Bing is going the wrong direction to play golf! What's he thinking anyways? ;)

Lex-

[Kevin P]

Can't believe you guys are leaving it at 33...




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[Kevin P]

Can't believe you guys are leaving it at 33...




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[Kevin P]

Dang that was TOO easy!! Where's the snipers? :?: :!:

TRS-80 Model III - Overclockers eat your heart out, this baby screams at 1.77 MHz! :LOL:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/trs80iii/trs80.jpg




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[Paul Wu]

Oh that TRS-80 Model III. I remember those that was around the same time as the Comodor Pet's, right? Though I remember writing a basic program and saving it onto tape. Now I have to go find a Pet emulator. :)

[Kevin P]

The PET predates the TRS-80 Model III by a few years--it came out in 1977, the same year as the original TRS-80, which subsequently became known as the "Model I".

Commodore Pet (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/pet.html)
TRS-80 Model I (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/trs80-m1.html), this machine used a RCA B&W TV minus a tuner as a "monitor"
TRS-80 Model III (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/trs80iii.html)

These links are from the Obsolete Computer Museum (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org).

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[Pat]

Nice flip Kev!

Bing, have fun on your trip 8)




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[Mats]

Working on the Emoticons function... It's in but is screwing up at the moment... with a JavaScript Error. I will have to fixi it when I wake up tomorrow :)




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