07:58 – Inventory of the chemistry kits is getting critically low, so while I work on the forensics book this weekend Barbara will be working on chemistry kits. We’ll put together another couple dozen of those. I also need to create and issue purchase orders for more components for the chemistry and biology kits, not to mention some initial orders for the forensic science kits.
Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Mrs. OFD is back from a week in Florida and a week in Kalifornia and has been welcomed back by snow in the hills and temps more like early March or late October, only everything is still turning green here.
We have a heat wave in progress: 44 right now, but dropping again tonight.
Chuck, have you installed the latest Firefox and Thunderbird? If so how’s it going?
I just installed Chrome and it’s working just fine. At the moment I’m thinking of installing TB, I’ve been using my ISP’s web access to read e-mail.
Bill, what was the name of that efficient little PDF-like utility you use?
I use Sumatra PDF Reader for reading and Nova PDF for writing. Note that Nova is not free, but it comes in three price points under $50US.
Oooo, back to awaiting moderation for commenting again? Was it something I said?
I’d like to know, so I can say it more often…
Ah, it was because of links I inserted. Are we not to do that anymore?
Last I saw, it was if there was more than one link inserted. I don’t do it often and try to remember to keep it to one link.
Mrs. OFD brought Kalifornia sunshine back with her, apparently, but it is still in the 20s and 30s here…
Yep, the number of links is used by WordPress to determine whether something is possible spam. Until now, it’s been at the default of two or more links marking a message to be held for moderation. I just changed that to three or more. We’ll see what happens.
@Miles
I did update to Firefox v12. No improvement for my problems. I tried Thunderbird long ago, but have stuck with Outlook 2003. Outlook is just a better PIM. Maybe Evolution will catch up someday.
Spent the weekend doing audio for the radio project. A Chrome trial will have to wait for another weekend.
I have been fighting a hiss in my audio for a long time and finally give up. It is due to the external soundcard I have been using since Berlin, which does not have a clean mic level channel. I have been too cheap to upgrade, but will order this Shure product from a local source tomorrow.
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/accessories/microphone-accessories/problem-solvers/x2u-xlr-to-usb-signal-adapter#tab-1
Meanwhile, an engineering friend convinced me to try exporting the finished Audacity mix in 24-bit WAV, instead of 16-bit, latter being the CD standard. Wow–there is a noticeable difference. Makes that hiss really prominent.
Included in this show is Duncan Browne – Journey, Tanita Tikaram – Deliver Me, and Moby Grape – Motorcycle Irene. All on You Tube, if you are interested.
Is it only me or is Tanita Tikaram hot?
http://artists.letssingit.com/tanita-tikaram-6nsmq/pictures/408517
Google images, too. Yum. She and her British movie star brother are kind of androgynous.
I was just thinking it’s too bad she can’t smile.
I woke on Sunday to a dead PC, tried a number of re-boot cycles, it wouldn’t load the OS (Windows 7 Pro). I have a dozen or so PCs in the house so I swapped one of the later ones in, a Windows XP system. It hadn’t been used for a while so I faced an hour or so of updates. There was no Firefox on it so installed FF12. So far no problems, performance seems okay. I also installed Chrome, I like it but it won’t run some of my sites.
Chrome is probably better than FF but I’m not having anything like the problems Chuck’s having with FF.
Anyone know of a freeware or nagware utility that will write a list of the details of a Windows system?
Miles_Teg, try ‘dxdiag’. It’s probably already on your Windows computer, installed with DirectX.