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Computing / Re: On-line Scanners
« Last post by Weave on March 13, 2010, 07:26:03 pm »
I remember a iPhone/Touch app that did the scanner thing. I inherited one awhile back that had some chew spit dumped into it - I got it going (somehow), but it stank, so it had to go. Was fun listening to the drive through at McD's and the like.
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Computing / Re: Windows 7 Starter Thoughts
« Last post by Weave on March 13, 2010, 07:24:11 pm »
Thanks for the link...

I made it smoke free for something like 8 or 9 years. Don't know why I bummed that first one, but it went from there. I was still buzzing on the first smoke of the day till this past week, and now it's same old same old.

I think all the fires are stomped for today, so enjoying a Heineken on the front porch and enjoying the breeze. Here's hoping everything stays mellow.
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Computing / On-line Scanners
« Last post by hotrats on March 13, 2010, 05:14:33 pm »
I signed into the ARRL website and started diving into the members only sections. Found an interesting series of articles on internet radio stuff. There was a link to this site ...

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/

Pick your state and county and there is a good chance they are live streaming the police/fire bands. They have mine which I thought was cool. I started looking around then for a portable app that might do the same thing. I found 5-0 Radio Pro at the app store.

http://smartestapple.com/

You can check the feeds available but it pretty much streams radioreference,com (see above) and also does some music (haven't tried yet) and a few repeaters. Interesting little app.

David

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Computing / Re: Windows 7 Starter Thoughts
« Last post by hotrats on March 13, 2010, 05:00:15 pm »
If I remember your post when you got the PC it was an Asus Eee PC. I'm not sure how your's compares to what these guys did but check out:
 
http://pauldotcom.com/2009/06/backtrack-4-pre-release-with-p.html

I listen to their podcast religiously. As a matter of fact when Bev and I take a run into the next town over for the "big" food store we do our fix of infosec on the way. I thought the write up was interesting and picked up an SD card to give it a whirl but alas it is a project in waiting at the moment.

Sorry to hear about the smoking thing man. Been there, doing that. You were off for an extended time if I remember. I did 3 years once and fell. I try to hold back and restrict the environments I allow it ie. no indoor/inside my or anyone else's house etc.

I am looking for my boss to spring for the 7 license at work soon. I've heard great things.

David
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Computing / Windows 7 Starter Thoughts
« Last post by Weave on March 13, 2010, 09:35:49 am »
The setup - I am currently on the front porch, it is slightly overcast and upper 50's. I'm listening to Pandora's New Age Ambient Station with the wind chimes and birds embellishing the tunes in a pleasant way, and smoking (I picked it back up after the work situation got tense and I need to have my tail kicked for doing it) and thinking about Windows 7 Starter.

I have made no secret of the fact that Windows 95 was my favorite OS. I know it had it's problems, but it was a fast, minimal OS that let YOU build it from the ground up. You could still remove IE 3 if you wanted. It fit in 80 Megs or less, and it was plenty fast enough for what I did with it. No USB, no WIFI, so now it can't do what I need of it.

I started playing with Windows 7 Beta awhile back - in fact it was one of the things that zorched my previous laptop. Windows 7 didn't - but I thought the "burn your own backup discs" utility my Acer Aspire had would protect me and get me back to first boot (stalled on disc 2 of 9). This was the full "Pro" version, and I liked it about as much as any other OS on M$'s offerings. The UAC wasn't quite as annoying as Vista (in Vista I just disabled it - yeah, I clicked the program and I don't need to tell you three times I want to run it). It seemed a bit faster. It would run most of my old software. And then my laptop was overheating - not Windows 7's fault - the Aspire I had had hardware issues that were overcome with software that was Vista specific. The laptop would freeze and I just put it up.

So, I kinda knew a bit about Windows 7 coming in, but the four (I think there are four) different versions and saw the Netbook came with Starter, the lowest, I was kinda into it. Lean and mean - I always kill most of the fluff visuals and the like and cut my screen resolution down to less than 32 million colors to conserve memory. BUT - no desktop wallpaper? How was I going to live without my Buffy, or the awesome Red Planetscape wallpaper I had adorned my desktops with for ages? I got over it. I don't look at the desktop for long, and the subdued Windows 7 logo at least looks ok with the Taskbar on the bottom.

So how does it run? Fast. I had to uninstall a bit of crapware, kill the Office trial, and install my programs, but I am kinda liking. I am using Windows Security Essentials for virus scan (they talked about it on Lifehacker), CCleaner, Firefox, Open Office (might have to get some Office - they use it at work and some of the State Forms do not come out pretty in OO.org), iTunes (tried not to, but it is still the best music program out there - to me), and Irfan View. Need to load up my Photoshop Lite (boy gave it to me after he Mac'd up), but using nothing but the touchpad, I don't see myself editing photos much (he uses a Wacom Tablet input device that I never could get the hang of).

So how am I feeling? Boots fast, is stable, lite, and with the Asus hotkey commands and touchpad embellishments, VERY usable for what I do. I like. Too bad the SD card slot is not bootable - got a free 4 gig SD card with my 2 gig memory upgrade and it would have been SOOOO cool to load a netbook remix onto it and roll from it. But I don't feel I have to... Windows 7 Starter, so far, is doing me just fine.
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Computing / Re: Parallels
« Last post by Weave on March 13, 2010, 08:54:11 am »
The boy got a free "Windows in Mac" program and then paid for an XP disk and got it running... and I remember him saying that he might have had it booted to Windows maybe 5 hours or less. Last time we talked of it, it worked and worked well, but he never used it and he was thinking of zorching it and getting his disk space back.

Speaking of Mac - the wife is thinking of getting one of those big all in one desktop Macs that look like an LCD TV this Christmas. Might be fun.
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Computing / Re: Upgrading the iBook
« Last post by Weave on March 13, 2010, 08:50:13 am »
I wonder if there is something out there like Linux's WINE, but for running Mac programs under Windows. Can you run Mac under Linux?
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Computing / Re: Parallels
« Last post by digiSal on March 13, 2010, 02:23:23 am »
yeah, i know what it does in theory, but making it work on that stupid mac. pffft.
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Computing / Re: Upgrading the iBook
« Last post by digiSal on March 13, 2010, 02:22:23 am »
wow, interesting story about Jim Mathews lol

need something like that.
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Computing / Re: Upgrading the iBook
« Last post by hotrats on March 12, 2010, 11:12:40 pm »
Fetch is very good! I've used it since the beginning of time (Color Cla$$ic) when you could still get it as shareware.

From Wikipedia:

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Fetch was created in the summer of 1989 by Jim Matthews, an employee of Dartmouth College. At the time, it was intended primarily for internal college use. Fetch was maintained and updated as a Dartmouth software project and was eventually released as shareware, becoming very popular in the Macintosh community.

The first version of Fetch was a desk accessory.

In late 2000, Jim Matthews was a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and used the winnings to purchase the Fetch name and source code. Jim Matthews then created Fetch Softworks.

David
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