banjosforpeace

I have nothing wireless anywhere inside or outside of the computer. Nada. The mixer settings was my first stop. I've gone through all the sound settings and eliminated everything that is unnecessary. My sound now is better than before I started this thread. I still have a small amount of what could be described as a scratching sound when I move the mouse and when some programs load. It is as described in the first post of the initial problem but very slight and I have to have all the volume cranked WAAAAY up to hear it. I was able to record two radio commercials with clean enough signals for input and output. None of the noise ended up on the spots. However, I know it is still there. As I said before, the motherboard - or at least the on board video controller - seems to be the culprit. I'll swap it out when I can. I'm having a different hardware problem that I will be posting about. When the thread is up, I will put a link to the thread here. When you read the other thread you will understand why I'm connecting the two issues. Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Thanks for the suggestions, Aaron. I don't have a cell phone or any wireless electronics nearby, but I'll remember that for the future. I'm using a Logitech trackball mouse and I really hope this isn't causing the noise bucause the thing has done wonders for my wrist! I'll try another mouse soon and report back. Any other ideas out there? This has been an extremely helpful thread so far!

To finish off my movie lists, I'll do one more. Supercop - The best of Jackie Chan. What more can I say? Death To Smoochy - Edward Norton is perfectly endearing. Even children's programming can be a cesspool of corruption. Resevoir Dogs - I almost can't mention this without a nod to True Romance and Pulp Fiction, but this was the one reinvigorated filmmaking in the nineties. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - The whole package of film! Perfect soundtrack, top-notch acting, caasting, writing, cinematography. Okay, so the story is actually Homer's Odyssy, but the acting of John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson make you believe it was not only possible, but true! All The President's Men - Returning to theaters in a special run coming in 2005. Steal This Movie! - The true story of Abbie and Anita Hoffman, professional thorns in the side of authority. Props to director Robert Greenwald who also made the recent documentary, Outfoxed. Canadian Bacon - Michael Moore's only fiction film. The great John Candy's last. Bob Roberts - Sharp, clever and loaded with cameo roles from A-list actors. Tim Robbins wrote, directed, starred and penned the songs of politican/futures trader/right-wing folk singer Bob Roberts. Kelly Willis dueting with Robbins on "Drugs Stink" is as disturbing as it is realistic. Anything by Kevin Smith - except Jersey Girl because I would never recommend a movie I haven't seen. My guilty pleasures: Joe Dirt, Bubble Boy, Half Baked What are your favorite movies?

Okay, so music in the most basic form is hitting and shaking. Think primitively for a moment. You can hit a tree with a rock and make a sound. You can hit a felled tree with a rock tied to a stick to get a louder, longer sound. You can hit a dried and hollowed tree with two sticks and have the foundation of drumming. Notice a rattlesnake or locust sound? Put some pebbles in a dried gourd and you have something that rattles when you shake it. Later, blow air into a dried reed or large shell. With these examples, it becomes fairly clear that elements of music most likely developed out of the simple desire to make a sound. When this first occured would be up for debate, but could have coincided with the first forms of human language. Whether it was curiosity, intelligent creation or dumb luck, music was happening as a result of people learning to repeat sounds of any type. Rhythm is created by repeating the hitting or shaking. If you have two things being hit or shaken, you have a band. That simple coordinated effort is rudimentary orchestration. This practice would logically follow very soon after general noise making. Passing on the method and creation of these orchestrations is what we would call teaching music. The puposes of the earliest music were most likely varying. Humans have long been inspired to mimic sounds found in nature, like birdsongs, running herds and chirping crickets. Coordinated noise-making probably was probably just fun and a way for people to mimic each other. This would theortically help build communication ability and evolve into a method of storytelling. The types, complexities and quality of music that would be developed over time would certainly parallel the evolution tool-making technology. For every advancement in the ability to sharpen, cut, bend, shape, carry, move, etc. any object, that opens up the possibilities to get more interesting sounds when you hit or shake something. As we know from written history, the more complex societies became, the more rituals and traditions they practiced. It is only natural for music to have become a part of many of these cultural practices. What I've covered so far brings us up to a time that ranges from 100,000 to one million years ago. By the time we get to the Toba super volcano eruption of 75,000 years ago, language and tools probably started getting pretty good and with it the noise-making. The radical changes in weather and temperature conditions that led to the last Ice Age caused a clustering of populations. Formerly nomadic peoples would end up closer together for longer periods of time. This probably had a very profound effect on the development of music being used for storytelling and even entertainment. That's all for the moment. For your own research, grab any history book and start thinking about what kind of traditions any society practiced and you will soon get to their need for music.

HOLY $#*@! I had no idea this was coming out! AOE is one of my all time favorite games. I was BS'ing with someone a few months ago about how I was wishing for a new version! Awesome! Geez, I'm getting geeky.

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Nils is right. We need more info to help you. Different operating systems have different requirements for Internet Connection Sharing. Windows XP has that capability right out of the box, but Windows 98 needs additional software you can download from Microsoft. Also, knowing the model number of your router/switch can help determine if everything will work for you. Is this what you are trying to do?

I agree, tattoopunk. Certainly Clear Channel has more in common with North Korea's state-run broadcasting operations than what we used to hear in the good old days on FM. Any radio company that voluntarily creates a list of banned songs to fall in line with administration policy is just downright frightening. You must be lucky to live in an area with decent alternative radio (not meaning "alternative rock" as described by the industry). When I read someone's list of favorite bands that is largely the current Billboard Top 20 (no offense intended ), I would guess that they don't know where to find the college or public station on their dial. There may not even be one nearby. So I will now amend. Shoot your corporate radio. Hug an indie DJ.

Shoot your radio. Seriously, though. I'm not being mean. I know that sometimes the best bands never get heard by enough people. It can be hard to look at a list of band names and know what to check out. Usually people get stuck choosing from whichever act has the most advertising money behind them or who has the current "hot" video. Well, if you're open minded here's a suggestion or five. If you like Modest Mouse, check out Grandaddy, especially their Sumday CD.. You like the Offspring, check out The Shazam. It is hard to go wrong with the new Green Day CD, but if you want to try something new find Gomez. I love their first CD, Bring It On, but their new one Split The Difference is great, too. The single plays on their home page automatically. I have trouble getting into Evanesence. It just isn't my thing. But I do like great female singers. Check out Joss Stone or Jen Durkin and her band The Bomb Squad for some shivers down your spine. Enjoy!

Thanks, Rudy. The stereo-link is a good recommendation, but I think if I went with a converter, I'd want it not just for output, but input as well. I'd like to go that far but can't just yet. I've been drooling over the high-end gear that will do the job. Hey, qwijibow! Your idea is full of possibilities. An ideal Faraday Cage would be difficult because of the audio connectors on the card that go to an external box and CD player. A more simple sheilding effort may do the trick, though. I'm not sure how exactly to this this so I'll have to do some research. Any suggestions on materials? You were also right about some of the noise coming from a poorly shielded cable! I identified a culprit as an RCA to RCA running from the Tape Out of my mixer to a Line In on the Audigy. I switched it out with an RCA to 1/8" going directly to the soundcard and eliminated half of the noise! I have higher quality RCA to 1/8" cables on the way to me right now and will switch both the Tape In and Tape Out to new, better cables. If any noise still exists, I'm going to start working on shielding the sound card. Thanks again!

Are there any Minidisc users out there? I'm specifically looking for those experienced in live audio recording. What MD, microphone, headphones, etc. are you using? Any additional equipment? Do you have any tips for getting a good recording?I'm using a Sony MZ-N707 and a small stereo condenser mic. The mic is really sensitive so the signal sizzles a bit at high pressures even when the recording volume is down.Also, is there any third party MD software out there? I only have the Sony software and it doesn't seem so great.Thanks! ;)I really would like to hear from Minidisc users about this. I have a music archiving project in the works and I need better results than what I have so far.Here's an update:I've learned that the Sony MD (or only the software; I'm not certain) I am using will not let me digitally transfer the live audio I record using the USB cable. If it is the MD, then I will be forced to line-in and manually create .wav files. If it is only the software and I can find other software that will allow me to do the transfer, I would be most happy.Thanks for anyone's help!

I've tried different speakers. The speakers I'm using are super-clean Event Tuned Reference studio monitors. They aren't nearly the best monitors out there, but they so good that they make it possible for me to hear the problem. I don't think the noise is bleeding onto any tracks I'm recording because I've listened to my mixes in another studio. It's like the noise is not in the input section of the signal and is only being picked up by the output section.

Stupid, they are not. In fact, encephalopods (squid and octopi) may be some of the most evolved creatures on the planet. They communicate and camoflage by rapidly changing the pigment of their skin. Millions of little cells flicker on command. Independent and coordinated use of their limbs is a spectacle few other living things could ever dream of. They can even change their shape to crawl through the smallest of spaces! And have you ever seen an octopus open a jar to get a crab out of it??? Amazing! People are consumed with the idea of aliens from other planets. Well, there's a whole lot of aliens deep in the oceans. They are called octopi and squid. The largest of which can take down a whale. The smallest can be beautiful and/or deadly. No wonder there are sea monster stories out there! I caught a picture of this squid hanging out by my computer!

I was an AOL user from 1996 until last summer. Actually, I had been using AOL less and less beginning about 4 years ago and had only been keeping my mail account open that I had been using for a long time. For the first few years it was my sole access. After a while I began using other services and AOL became less useful.There was a time in the mid-90's when AOL, even with too few access numbers and buggy software, really served the purposes of an ordinary user. E-mail even a chimp could use, niche chat rooms that really connected people with similar interests, simple instant messaging all made it a great starter package. My favorite service was the member directory that helped me find people into the same music I was into. AOL's web access was ALWAYS buggy but that's because they, for the longest time, wanted you to choose their services first before looking for anything on the web. They marketed themselves as the all-in-one Internet service and tried to create as many in-house alternatives to a lot of things people find on the web. Kind of like, "we have all this great stuff right here in AOL and you don't have to go anywhere else. Oh yeah, you can also get to the world wide web." If anything, they were downplaying the rest of the Internet and hyping their largely flawed extraneous services. The extra stuff all spun out of control for years creating the AOL people know today. Clutter, clutter, clutter. Hundreds of millions of marketing dollars can't turn lackluster services into useful tools.

Thanks for the reply, spacewaste. I've moved things around and tried isolating the comupter. The interference does not seem to be from an external source. I blew the dust out of the fan and that didn't change anything, but it needed to be done anyway. I've done all the virus, spyware and adware scanning there possible. My system is really clean. I even did scandisk, defrag and ran Eraser to maximize empty space. I only put CDs in the drive when I'm using them and never leave any in there, so that's not the problem. It may be the motherboard, or at least the on board S3 video controller. I still want opinions, though. If anyone has ever heard a scracthing sound come through their speakers as they moved their mouse and found a way to get rid of it, please let me know!

I'm in northern West Virginia, US and using Adelphia Cable. I get 1500 / 256 in general, but off peak I can get 1800 / 320. For the first year I had broadband I was totally unaware that XP comes by default optimized for Ethernet LAN rather than high-speed Internet connections. I got TCPoptimizer from Speedguide and fixed it right up. Been burning ever since!

I have a PC-based recording studio with a very specific problem. I am getting a sort of scratching noise through the speakers when I move the mouse, load software or scroll web pages. It seems like it is coming from the motherboard, but I can't tell for sure. I changed hard drives and sound cards and it still exists. I'm using the on-board video controller, so I haven't yet eliminated it as a suspect. Other people have described having the same problem and it was most noticable for them when they had a laptop plugged into a PA system. They could hear the scratching sound when they moved the mouse. Anyone familiar with this?My gear:AMD 1.3Ghz AthlonXP Pro SP2On-board S3 Savage video256MB RAM (I have to get more, I know)40GB HDLogitech trackball mouseMicro Advantage 52x32x52 CDRWSound Blaster AudigyExternal mixing board running Event TR5 powered reference monitorsEssentially, this is a HP Pavilion 7935, but I've replaced the original CDRW, HD and power supply. The only original parts left are the motherboard, CPU and floppy dirve (and I never use floppies, anyway). I should probably go ahead and replace the motherboard and get a good video card, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of anything I could do otherwise.

Much of what I have to say about the war can be summed up in a brief post of mine from a different thread: War Is A Racket Every reason given for any war is purely marketing. The main reason is for private corporations to make a lot of money. Think that's just your standard anti-war line? As one small example, think of how supplies get to soldiers in the field. Do you think tents, cots, food, paper, pens, batteries, water bottles, toothbrushes, etc., are all moved by armed forces? They are not. A contractor estimates how much it will cost to ship all of those things and bids (or is handed the job) on a contract to transport the items. Then, to maximize their profit, the contractor finds the lowest price on the items and hires a shipping company to use private carriers to move them. These are subcontractors. Subcontractors purchase their items from cheap manufacturers and wholesalers to maximize their profits. Now start adding up the profits just in moving those specific supplies from one place to another and multiply it by several thousand times. Even uniforms are contracted out and are no longer made in the USA in order to maximize the contractors profit. Think of the weapons manufacturers. Think of how much FUEL it takes to run planes, ships, trucks, tanks and jeeps. Think of the cost of mandatory vaccinations given to over a million armed personnel. That old line about war being good for the economy is partially true. It really is good for some. But really bad for most. And these contractors or in both Republican AND Democrat districts. And very quickly to finish my point about profiteering as the sole purpose of war, the estimated cost of carrying out the war in Iraq and continued presence in Afghanistan is $4.5 Billion per month. An estimated total of pay that has gone directly to the military combat personnel and uniformed support since November 2001 is less than $5 Billion TOTAL. So it is surely not the soldiers that are making the big bucks. Justifying ANY war is a process of setting rhetorical traps. One of them, even the most logical thinkers easily fall into: The "now that we're there we have to stay there" trap is one that opponents of the concept of war should never get to. That's how 58,000 men died in Vietnam, more than half of which followed the "now that we're there we have to stay" chorus after Nixon took office. Look at the history of US armed intervention. You will not find a single conflict in which US soldiers were on the ground for any less than SEVEN years in the aftermath of initial battle. The idea that things would happen quickly is a marketing fallacy perpetrated by warhawks of every generation because THEY ALREADY KNOW it will be much longer than that. But AHA, you say. What about the Gulf War? That was fairly quick, right? US troops and bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - the launching points built and maintained by American companies - were already well established for the current conflict BECAUSE of the Gulf War. That was 14 years ago. US jets were boming every week in the north and south of Iraq for twelve years to keep their defenses soft after pushing Saddam's men out of Kuwait. If bombs were being dropped every week in your country, would you think there was still a war going on? Young American men and women have been on the ground in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continually protecting US interests and profits in those countries. The longer any war goes, the larger the profits. Another trap is the "I agree he was a bad man that should be removed from power" device. We put him there. We armed and supported him. We are doing that in Uzbekistan, Pakistan and about ten other countries that not only have miserable bastards running the governments, but known and visible dangerous weaponry. Some of our best friends are the worst of the worst. If and when they turn on us, hey, more contracts! More bullets! More bombs! More fuel for all of it! If you got anything from the State of the Union make a note about Syria. The weapons manufacturers are making notes... on their fiscal year 2006 projections.

I'm listening to David Cross' new comedy CD, It's Not Funny. That's what it's called and you know what? It really IS funny! Hysterical actually! Any Mr. Show fans on board? A lot of people know David Cross from Arrested Developement or his small roles in Scary Movie 2 and Men In Black 2. The stuff he and Bob Odenkirk did on Mr. Show was groundbreaking.

To really go back in time, you can start with cultures of four different regions. Asian - Instruments of different sorts have been found for thousands of years in from Afghanistan, India, China and southeast Asia. Monks have been throat singing in Tuva for so long there may be a written record of it as one of the earliest forms of orchestrated music. African continent - People often think of African percussion first, but the banjo most likely got its start there before spreading across Asia with some saying it is 1200-1500 years old, or more. Also, Egyptian cultures, which pre-date many others, have historical references to musical instruments being used 3000+ years ago. These examples only scratch the surface in Africa. Nordic/Anglo - I don't know too much about their musical history, but emerging theories and archaeological evidence shows an advanced Northern European culture having mapped the North American coastline before the glaciers formed. Such a people with advanced travel and mapping technology, would probably have developed music for ritual or entertainment. Native American - Most examples of early instruments would probably have their origins in Central and South America. Mayan, Aztec and Incan cultures would surely have developed music for a variety of reasons. This would have later spread northward. These are just starting points. To get detail, you would have to break it down by the history of instruments, rituals/traditions, types of music, etc. I would be glad to provide as much detail as possible. Feel free to ask!

After several months of break so I don't burn myself out on them, I've returned to Ozma.Ozma has to be one of the best bands ever. Okay, that's my opinion, but goodness they write some friggin' awesome songs. Daniel Brummel is a twisted genius... up the alley of Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, Roger Manning of Jellyfish, or John Linnell of TMBG.The universe aches in wake of the demise of Ozma.

Nils, you're inching close to being my hero. OpaQue syas I'm still cool to setup my hosting account, but I tried again and nothing happened! To any Admin who knows: What exactly is supposed to happen after I click Submit on the Free Web Hosting Account Activation page? A popup box comes up to confim that I am creating a new account and I enter "Yes" as requested. Then I click OK and nothing happens. I left this same page open for two hours today waiting for something to happen. Is there a confirmation page that is suppsed to load? Should it take me to a cpanel login page? I'm not complaining, just reaching a frustrated point of desperation. By the way, it seems that I should have at least 6 posts that count towards my points but it still says I only have 4. Just wondering when this is going to update.

Nils, If the way you explained it above is correct, then that makes perfect sense! I recommend to the Admin to change the wording of the new account creation rules to read almost exactly the way you've put it. How it reads now, I interpreted it as only needing 10 hosting points, not 10 posts. I would not have wasted my time or anyone else's if it was as simple as above. However, this is how it appears: Nowhere on that page does it say there is a minimum number of posts required, only hosting points. Nils, you've been a big help. I just need to know for certain what to do because I have a site that needs to get back up and running ASAP. Our old host went missing 5 days ago and all the servers are gone. I will do whatever it takes. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks for the replies. Nils, I did fill out all the fields and got no errors or timeouts. I didn't try to submit a second time because it says to submit only once... I didn't want to screw it up by clicking again. I still have the page up becuase I'm afraid to close it in case that messes something up. Yikes. I'm getting really confused about number of posts vs. hosting points. On the forum page it clearly says I need 10 points to apply for a hosting account. As of this morning I had 16.65 points and have posted since then so it should be more now. I see in other places in the forum it says I need 10 posts. So which is it? I really appreciate the points system because I put a lot of thought and time into my posts because I don't want to be a useless spammer. Looking back at my posts, I could have split 3 of them into 6 or 7 posts, but I'm no cheater.

I got my approval e-mail and have 16.65 hosting credits. The info said I need 10 credits for Package 1. I went to create a on the Web Hosting Account Activation page, filled in all the info then clicked Submit. I know the bottom of the page says "it may take a few minutes for your request to process" but it has been over 20 minutes and the page has not changed. Did I do something wrong?Subdomain: racheleddy.astahost.comPleeeease help! Thanks!!