Re: [CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread Robert
Do not use the microphone input unless your source in monophonic. The microphone input accepts only monophonic input. Elaine Zablocki wrote: At 05:52 PM 4/29/2007, b_s-wilk wrote: Have you tried using Audacity for recording? I've had excellent results with it. Windows/Mac/Linux http://audac

Re: [CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread Elaine Zablocki
At 05:52 PM 4/29/2007, b_s-wilk wrote: Have you tried using Audacity for recording? I've had excellent results with it. Windows/Mac/Linux http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ I haven't tried audacity, and I'll go look at it. Did you set the input source? Yes, I did in jet audio... I'm not sur

Re: [CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread b_s-wilk
Have you tried using Audacity for recording? I've had excellent results with it. Windows/Mac/Linux http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Did you set the input source? Are you sure your sound card is capable of taking input?

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread b_s-wilk
I have two of those oversized calculators that I got on sale for $1 each. A few of those could work. You may find other parts inside that can be useful on other projects. I have some left over solar panels from AstroPower that are 6x6 and 8x8 that I use to recharge batteries for outdoor lights,

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
>My first reaction was to use solar cells, but that could require wires. >Can the solar cells be attached directly to the LEDs in ice, and still >generate the tiny bit of power for the LED? It's worth trying. Won't it >need resistors? Not if the internal resistance of the battery is sufficient

[CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread John Settle
Hi Elaine! I have experience with exactly the same issue and the cause, in my case, was that the "Line In" channel was muted in my softwares mixer. Check the audio mixer in your recording software. The "Line In" probably has it's own channel with a slider control. Make sure it is not muted and

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The cells on my lights are about three inch circles. On 4/29/07, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, in the evening but the concept here is we could keep it charged by shining a light on it in the off hours ... which would be considerable... so that the LED's would light when during display time.

Re: [CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread Robert
Have you checked the recording sound level? Separate from the listening level. Here's how: Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices>Select Audio tab>Click on Sound Recording volume button. You can first check "What you hear" and then adjust the volume. If not this, then maybe something is w

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
>My questions would be: How big physically would a solar cell be that >was capable of providing power for LED's and where would one look for >such and are they terribly expensive? Radio Shack. $5 Can produce 300ma @ 0.5 volts. $15 Can produce 50ma @ 6.0 volts. I have an old calculator that

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread b_s-wilk
>Without the use of wires running to the outside, I want to be able to >turn the LED circuit off and on to save power. Don't power it with a battey. A solar cell is probably the best way since it will not produce much heat. To run LEDs you should not need a lot of current so normal room lighti

[CGUYS] recording sound cassette tape to mp3 -- how to??

2007-04-29 Thread Elaine Zablocki
I have some audiotapes of people speaking that I want to turn into sound files. I have a tape deck. I play the tape, and listen with headphones, and the tape is playing correctly. I have a cable from the "line out" of the tape deck to the "line in" of the computer soundcard. However this d

Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-political

2007-04-29 Thread Randy
Unfortunately, I think the "common ground" you speak of is, at root, the absence of critical thinking, related to - an at best - ambivalence about the value of truth. The real "inconvenient truth" is that truth itself is very often inconvenient. We worship many other considerations above the

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread Tony B
This might work if there was a lot of sunlight, but it seems to me the main effect of this sculpture would occur at night. >Without the use of wires running to the outside, I want to be able to >turn the LED circuit off and on to save power. Don't power it with a battey. A solar cell is probab

Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-policical

2007-04-29 Thread Randy
A secular Amen. Critical thinking is almost entirely absent from public discourse and thinking on important societal issues - across the board, across the political spectrum. Liberals tend to think their discourse and positions are based on reason and critical thinking, but not so for conser

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Without the use of wires running to the outside, I want to be able to >turn the LED circuit off and on to save power. Don't power it with a battey. A solar cell is probably the best way since it will not produce much heat. To run LEDs you should not need a lot of current so normal room lightin

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of ice?

2007-04-29 Thread db
The lights would be at least 6 to 8 inches in from the outside surface. Not sure about the light circuits yet. We'd prefer to make up cluster of lights individually switched but probably the switching complexity would require that we connect them all together to one switch... db rocky lee w

Re: [CGUYS] sensitivity to electronic devices...and bees

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Meyer
What we don't know about basic biology is almost certainly more than we think. On the same, lines is the idea that deciphering the human genome represents a big turning point in our understanding is amusing. >From what I can tell, what it really does is to better frame our ignorance of how DNA

Re: [CGUYS] sensitivity to electronic devices

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Meyer
On the point the we are "snowflakes" ("gentle snowflakes" according to Lewis Black) was the NPR piece on med students who learn the every-body is different. E.g., working on a normal cadaver and seeing the the left elbow joint looked like a textbook drawing (something rare in and of itself) and the

Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-political

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Meyer
Jeff, I actually liked this post. Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, no Rev, you've got it all wrong. Your side is brilliant, honest, forthright, righteous, of the highest ethics and above reproach. The other side is evil, stupid and/or ignorant, dishonest, sleazy and always up to somet

Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-policical

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Meyer
Stewart, that may be a comforting formulation but it deserves some inspection. What one means by "radical" is slippery. Though no matter how you structure the definition you typically find the institutional measure of organizational strength (periodical circulation, affiliate elected officials,

Re: [CGUYS] More on bees and cellphones

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Meyer
The fact that Fox channels GOP talking points like Madame effing Blavatsky is disheartening. I would find that obnoxious in a "liberal" or "mainstream" paper. Any ideological tendency might be worth hearing if the source shows some independent thought and willingness to look at evidence. What

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of ice?

2007-04-29 Thread John McDonald
I have no idea how to help answer your question. What I'd like to know is where can I see the sculpture when it's done? John On Apr 28, 2007, at 9:47 PM, db wrote: We will be making a large ice sculpture (1 ft x 4ft x 6 ft. block) frozen for 3 weeks with some LED lights buried internally (t

[CGUYS] Off topic-Political

2007-04-29 Thread Jordman
I gave some insights based on sociological studies, researched and confirmed facts, and scientific polls, and you offer platitudes, talking points, and untruths. In the passed 12 years, the political middle has been pushed further and further to the right. I live in a part of PA considered to be

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of ice?

2007-04-29 Thread Tony B
I'd worry about the heat. LED's *do* produce heat, and if the battery is inside the ice it'll produce even more. Probably be lots easier to have the power supply in the base. Clever wire placement would be called for, but I suspect hiding the wire would be much easier than hiding a large sealed b

Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of ice?

2007-04-29 Thread rocky lee
Hey db, How far inside the ice will you put the lights? Will the the LCDs be connected by wires in a circuit to a single power source? Rocky Date:Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:47:08 -0700 From:db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DC powered remote control swit

Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-political

2007-04-29 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 12:40 AM -0500 4/29/07, Stewart A. Marshall wrote: ... Usually that is not to be and the common ground is left standing vacant. Those of us who stand in the middle are very numerous, just very quiet. (at least quieter than the extremes.) Amen! -- Roger Lovettsville, VA *