hmm - might think about checking into greasemonkey scripts too. There are some google ad blockers, such as googleMonkeyR. Not sure what that does for the forums, though.

I studied and worked as a microwave engineer (not the oven, but the EM-spectrum and associated technologies). Analog signal engineering is a disappearing art. I always am in amazement when I go into random junk stores and see things like TV boards hanging around, with ground planes and transmission lines and a…

I'm not "thinking digital". I'm thinking "information". Limits to human hearing are somewhere around 20 kHz. Thus, you can fully encode all relevant information in an ANALOG signal between 0 - 20 kHz with a 40 kHz sampling rate. Will someone with better hearing hear up to 25 kHz? ok - sample at 50 kHz instead. …

Everything's sold out at Dorco. Guess that's another reason to go with DSC: they bought all of Dorco's stock. B*tches.

My guess is that the shiny side reflects heat more than the matte side. I'm not sure that's true though - maybe it just reflects it in more different directions than the shiny side does.

when I click on my adblock icon in FF, there's a menu item called "disable on this page only", and some other variants of that. If that's not getting you what you want, i'd suggest allowing it on that entire site, and then writing your own filter that kills the forums ads, but leaves the main page ads. [adblockplus.o…

Interesting, and yeah, I can imagine the analog output drivers (op-amps, transistors, or whatever the circuit may be) being important. I imagine that's more the case for headphones that require some serious current, as opposed to earbuds and the like.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that I forgot that a DAC is a "Digital to Analog Converter". I don't hear any noise on my line, though perhaps some folks with poorly-designed machines do. And yeah, I'm sure there are differences in DACs, but my point is that audio is so slow compared to the clocks on these…

Windows Vista introduced "WASAPI" (Windows Audio Session API) - an API/device driver/something that allows (as i understand it) audio streams to get passed directly to sound devices/cards/DACs without passing through all the windows OS junk [en.wikipedia.org] . Before WASAPI, folks were tweaking things with S/PDIF…

i've been thoroughly unimpressed by feedly. i had high hopes. but, it tries to look too good at the expense of straightforward access to your feeds, imho.

mediamonkey. look for Tools -> Analyze Volume

have your dad spring for a $20/year external site, or something like that. then use mysql/php.

The D5100 has an amazing sensor, whose ISO you can crank really high before getting noise. So, my question is: how is it that you're not able to get steady shots? If light is an issue with faster shutter speeds, then use the auto-iso function and set your minimum shutter speed to 1/60 or something.

i wish i hadn't transitioned! twitter login doesn't work for me on FF. i have to use IE whenever I want to comment on LH. sux.

i second that emotion. storage keeps getting cheaper (unless there are more floods coming in thailand). time keeps getting more expensive. it'd suck to go through and rip your collection to FLAC at some point in the future just cause you didn't do it now. If you don't want to upload all the FLAC to google, then…

this is probably best asked on the adobe lightroom forums. I'm not sure where LR stores the edit data, but generally, LR edits are stored not in the photo file itself, but rather in some sort of history (probably in the catalog file). One way of syncing between machines would be to sync the catalog file (*.lrcat)…

Yeah, not sure when they stop running well. You can buy a $20 Crystal HD video card for the ATV1 that enables 1080p. I assume it'll make games kick some ass too!

the atv1 runs a pared-down version of osx. You can hack them to basically be a mac-mini (with some significant downsides). Anyway, here is one list of some emulators known to work on the ATV. Not sure about the ability to plug them into xbmc. [wiki.awkwardtv.org]

The ATV1 has a hard drive. In the case of the ATV2, what about network shares?

i agree. And as far as netflix goes, they're supposedly working on a linux client that should come out sometime this year. So if you install XBMCbuntu on the ATV, you might be rocking netflix soon enough!