On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:29:25 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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You forgot to have the list on the mail. I added it.
Interesting you mention it, I just did an Amazon review for
mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt6BKdYkzd8which is sadly
unavailable now.
OK wrote:
I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga
before the Toaster came along.
There were a number of gen-lock boards that would allow the
computer graphics to replace, overlay, or key over video passing
through. That's isn't video editing. I knew it as CG
OKDon wrote:
I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga
before the Toaster came along. Amiga was indeed the best
platform of it's day - I wish they had made it
Curt wrote:
There might have been, IIRC the 3000 had a composite port. It
would have been low res
Absolutely right - not ridiculously big if you NEED that much room/haul
capacity.
I rarely see one used for that.
Wilton
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Now Apple is pushing their newest OS on folks. For free. like that
U2 album. All you need is a five year old mac to run it.
Seven, or maybe eight. Core 2 duo Macbook Pros will run it.
We have one.
-- Jim
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Did it work over the internet, or did you have to call in? Last ones
I've done have to call in. As soon as I get the indian on the phone,
he gives me the key with no problem.
It phones home to activate now whether only on one
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I can buy Amsoil at the local NAPA but I choose M1 as it's more affordable.
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On Jan 13, 2015, at 7:52 PM, LarryT via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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The debate concerning Amsoil Vs Mobil 1 will likely continue for a long time.
As far as buying Amsoil - it can
G: The '83 300D I bought in 2000 had had Amsoil in its crankcase for the first
180,000 miles. The next 120,000 it had Mobil 1 except for a year or so of Delo.
The mechanic who finished putting on the chain when I broke my hip, said it was
in great shape. It still starts at the touch of the key.
I forgot to mention I am in Charlotte till Thursday.
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A big problem on TV today is the very low data rate that the cable and
satellite companies broadcast at. Most HD stuff is sent out at 6Mb/s which is
the same as DVD quality but at 3x the frame size. Something has to give and
that ticker ties up a lot of bandwidth. So you tell the compressor the
Think very carefully about how much more money you might be prepared to
put into it.
Sooner or later something big will go bad and then it may be difficult
to justify repairing it but you will hate sending it to the junk yard.
An example:
My son Tom had a 2000 Nissan Maxima with about 140K
For video editing you're talking about Toaster, the Amiga was the
platform for the Toaster hardware and software.
Toaster wasn't actually an editor at all, it was a switcher that
could do effects, you had 2 or 3 tape decks that all ran to the
Toaster and you switched between them. With 3 decks
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga, and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster
Are anyof them gluten free?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
They all have to have MSDS' for their products, which give you a vague
idea of what's in them.
3M, Meguire's and others make the data sheets available on their web sites.
Dan
I was reluctant to respond to this in case it was too political. I know there
have been some heated politics discussions that left some folks bitter. But,
you might find this interesting.
I used to mow lawns when I was kid. One of my customers was a former
congressman named Dr. Durward G.
For collectible Mercedes, the equations are different.
1. The pleasure of driving a classic cannot be quantified.
2. Repairs are easy and parts are generally available
3. Used parts are plentiful and almost always a safe bet
4. Resale values are steady if not increasing.
Almost every repair I
Snook almost said:
Well, I have searched and thought and considered. I have decided
not to buy a car. I am going to buy a TANK! What could be safer
to transport a family?
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The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga, and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster
Well, I have searched and thought and considered. I have decided not to buy a
car. I am just going to put a little money in the BMW -- new tires, some minor
maintenance, and detail it. What I really want is either a black S Class in
great shape and lots of service records or another 7 Series
To drive an Escalade you need big gold chains and fake tan. Your wife would
have to start putting on makeup with a trowel. Then you have to learn to drive
like a moron...
-Curt
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Curt wrote:
In reel to reel video editing you were forced to start at the
beginning and edit to the end. The only way you could change
something in the middle was to overwrite, there was no ability to
cut and splice.
Not entirely true.
That's true with 1 inch type C - but with the early 2
Listen fool, Mr. T don't need no fake tan!
-Curt
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To drive an
I remember the last time I linear edited, its SEARED into my mind. 2001, I'd
shot a day long sales conference and they wanted ALL 6 HOURS of it on VHS with
their rotten Power Point slides edited in. I didn't have enough storage (hey I
had 32GB which was big time back then) for all 6 hours so I
I prefer a Blender.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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For video editing you're talking about Toaster,
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Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Has anyone tried to do a clean install of XP in the last month or so?
You got a box running XP that you can shut down or don't need to keep on the
net?
Activation backup and restore can be your friend here.
Mitch.
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Well, I was considering a Lincoln Town Car! That's pretty much a tank! OR
even a Big ole Cadillac Escalade! But, the 7 series is tank enough.
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Actually taping film together is the ORIGINAL non-linear editing. In reel to
reel video editing you were forced to start at the beginning and edit to the
end. The only way you could change something in the middle was to overwrite,
there was no ability to cut and splice. With film you could add
To drive an Escalade you need big gold chains and fake tan. Your
wife would have to start putting on makeup with a trowel. Then you
have to learn to drive like a moron...
-Curt
What if you already look and dress like Mr. T?
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
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Unpatched 2000 would be a good candidate for VM and running machines, as
it it pretty stable in the unpatched versions.
VMs get viruses too. When I was at Cisco my desktop port got shut down
because my
Wat do people think of the Chevy Suburban? More or less hideous than an
Escalade?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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Listen fool, Mr. T don't need no fake tan!
-Curt
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To: Curt Raymond
The escalade is the same as a Tahoe, not suburban. I am looking for another
suburban, and actually am supposed to have a deal on a diesel suburban when I
get back to town
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On Jan 13, 2015, at 7:41 PM, fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Wat
Curt wrote:
For video editing you're talking about Toaster,
Ed wrote:
I prefer a Blender.
Toaster is a computer driven video switcher. Blender is a software
compositor. Trying to compare those two is like comparing apples,
er... and C-clamps.
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Andrew wrote:
Wat do people think of the Chevy Suburban? More or less hideous
than an Escalade?
What year? The Suburban name under the Chevrolet label has been
in continuous production since 1934.
The car isn't bad. The type of trim and the demographics of the
purchasers of the Escalade
The debate concerning Amsoil Vs Mobil 1 will likely continue for a long
time. As far as buying Amsoil - it can be bought from the website
(Amsoil.com) in 2 ways. You can become a dealer for a short time
for a reduced price and buy the oil and other products at wholesale
prices. If you
Geez thats not hard!
I've been using Car Quest 5w40 in my Jetta as it exceeds the relevant spec but
many of the VW guys use Rotella T synthetic 5w40 which is apparently cheaper
than the $28/gal I paid last for the Car Quest stuff. When I first started
using it (2013) the Car Quest stuff was
Andrew wrote:
Wat do people think of the Chevy Suburban? More or less
hideous than an Escalade?
WILTON wrote:
Both RRBV's - Really Ridiculously Big Vehicles.
I object to the use of the word ridiculously. It's not
ridiculously big if I need that much room - is it?
I'm well aware
We bought an '86 with the 6.2 diesel and took it on our move from LI NY to
Vancouver Canada. It carried 5 of us plus a bunch of our stuff. We kept it
for 7 or 8 years, towed a travel trailer a bit, carried a canoe on the roof.
The Mexican engine was not the best and the inner race of the rear
Ha! Whoops, persistence of clipboard, try this again:
http://www.amazon.com/TG1200-Portable-Generator-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B000P9UOAC/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13,
As long as it flows better at cold temperatures than 15w40 Rotella T, it
doesn't really matter what we put in there!
Jaime
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:52 PM, LarryT via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
The debate concerning Amsoil Vs Mobil 1 will likely continue for a long
time. As far
It phones home to activate now whether only on one machine or not I'm
not sure. I had the original Prod.I.D. Key
for his system.
On Tue,1/13/15 08:41, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
So it still wants to phone home and get activated on one machine only?
--R
On 1/12/15 11:19 PM, Russ
He's been quiet the last few days... Maybe he's come to him senses or given
up.
Meanwhile I'm helping my intern try to deal with cold weather starting. He
has a really nice '77 300D with 80k miles. The cold last week was too much
for it. He put in a new battery after running it down. We'll
IIRC Larry T is a big fan of Amsoil. I still use Mobil 1 5w40 in my 190D. I
pick it up at FLAPS whenever its on sale.
If he really needs cold starts at say -10F or colder he needs the block heater.
So you go to FLAPS and get a marine battery of around 110AH and a 400W
inverter. The inverter
So it still wants to phone home and get activated on one machine only?
--R
On 1/12/15 11:19 PM, Russ Williams via Mercedes wrote:
Yep did one last week. It will activate. The support that M/S dropped
was any new critical updates and email and phone support.
Be prepared to install 140+ updates
G: Another possible solution might be to buy a Honda carry-around generator (or
equivalent), keep it in the trunk, and hook it to the block heater in the
morning. The Honda would also be useful in power-outs, of course.
Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
IIRC Larry T is a
I've got a Chinese made Honda clone that would fit the bill pretty good. 1000W,
1200W surge. Supposed to run 8 hours at 50% load on 1 gallon of gas. Weighs
maybe 25#, its maybe 2 cubic feet, would tuck into a footwell real nice. One
year I thought I was going to take my 240D to camp and I
A whole lot of unnatual resources.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:36:06 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes
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This stuff?
I think I just been bashed.
Heh. Maybe. Sorry. *smiles* In reading some of your later
posts, I see you are trying to access a Win drive from Linux. I
misunderstood. Oops.
If you are actually using a Linux shell (bash, dash, zsh) you
should be able to use tab complete. This is the
Thanks Your explanation is very helpful and clear. I will try that again.
I think I've just been bashed.
THis was intended to be funny, playing on the bash that the linux
jockeys always refer to. I always wondered why they kept talking
about bash. I did figger out yesterday that
I have some concerns about the products that have weird things in them, like
resins or polymers. Most good waxes will have solvents and some form of
natural products, such as carnauba.
I generally avoid the As seen on TV sort of stuff. No telling what's in it
Dan
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On
There's a whole lot of conflation of terms. The _terminal_
is the thing running the window, that maps ASCII character
streams to things you can see. Named after the physical
device you once had to purchase to do this job. The program
_generating_ the ASCII stream is, initially at least as the
What are the mfrs. of car care products required to divulge on their
packaging? Anything at all??
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I have some concerns about the products that have weird things in them,
like resins or polymers. Most good
Oh Yeah! It has to phone home and be accepted or it turns into a 30
day eval. The patch that broke that was broken by M$ years ago. I
found that out the expensive way.
So it still wants to phone home and get activated on one machine only?
--R
On 1/12/15 11:19 PM, Russ Williams via
They all have to have MSDS' for their products, which give you a vague idea of
what's in them.
3M, Meguire's and others make the data sheets available on their web sites.
Dan
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On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote:
What are the mfrs.
Great explanation!
Thinking back to the mainframe and punchcard days, it makes sense.
My experience with the word shell came from the days when #1 son was
learning first the amiga OS on an A 500 and later doing sophisticated
video editing on an A3000. The term used by the amigaphiles was to
For video editing you're talking about Toaster, the Amiga was the platform for
the Toaster hardware and software.
Toaster wasn't actually an editor at all, it was a switcher that could do
effects, you had 2 or 3 tape decks that all ran to the Toaster and you switched
between them. With 3 decks
For video editing you're talking about Toaster, the Amiga was the platform for
the Toaster hardware and software.
Toaster wasn't actually an editor at all, it was a switcher that could do
effects, you had 2 or 3 tape decks that all ran to the Toaster and you switched
between them. With 3 decks
What are the mfrs. of car care products required to divulge on their
packaging? Anything at all??
Dunno. But they _are_ required to provide an MSDS, somewhere/somehow,
and you can find out what you need from that. Might take a modicum
of work on your part, though.
-- Jim
So for a discontinued unsupported product they are still requiring
that? Figures.
--R
On 1/13/15 10:32 AM, Curly McLain wrote:
Oh Yeah! It has to phone home and be accepted or it turns into a 30
day eval. The patch that broke that was broken by M$ years ago. I
found that out the
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga, and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster
So for a discontinued unsupported product they are still requiring
that? Figures.
--R
Yep, where most companies put old software into the public domain,
Micro$haft wants to disable it completely or at least make it so
crippled you waste a lot of time trying to use it.
I am think about
I have considered the cost of continuing to operate the BMW. All the while
that I am driving it, I am socking away money (not for repairs), but for a
replacement. As long as nothing catastrophic happens like a total engine
failure or a transmission, I am still money ahead to keep driving it.
Red Green?
Did you mean Home Improvement?
I guess Red Green used some but Home Improvement was basically the sales reel
for New Tek, they used ALL of them, the slime from the top of the screen,
baseball player, football player...
-Curt
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You forgot to have the list on the mail. I added it.
Interesting you mention it, I just did an Amazon review for mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt6BKdYkzd8which is sadly unavailable now.
Dad got one like the HF one at FLAPS. He ran it once, the next time we tried to
start it the recoil
Curly wrote:
I think voice commands are pretty functional today, but sheeple
have been trained to think of a keyboard as THE HMI.
Consequently, there is no demand for a more efficient HMI.
HMI ~ Human Machine Interface?
I really like the keyboard for many things. I even make heavy use
of
Both RRBV's - Really Ridiculously Big Vehicles.
Wilton
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:07 PM
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Unless you need a big vehicle to haul, or tow or for a number of passengers.
I drove an 1986 Suburban for about 10 years. It was great. I could load
4X8 sheets of whatever in the back and close the doors.
Or, I could haul 9 people with seat belts on. The ones in the back did
not a have lot of
I love to use voice recognition for text messaging on my LG Optimus Android
phone. If I talk deliberately there is 99 percent accuracy, including
punctuation. It's almost unfathomable.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM, fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Curly wrote:
I think
Philip sez: Have
you ever tried to add a word to the beginning of a type written
page? I may gripe about some of the consequences of our technology
- but I also _really_ enjoy some of the benefits!!
Can you imagine a world without smartphones?
7 years and a few days ago, Steve Jobs
Ages ago, I was running M$ office gunk on a 486. I snagged a Mac Plus (1meg)
and installed office on that as well. Decided to run a spreadsheet on both.
The Mac beat the pc with no troubles. New hardware skunked by a ten year old
machine with old software.
Now Apple is pushing their newest
Curly McLain wrote:
Snook almost said:
Well, I have searched and thought and considered. I have decided
not to buy a car. I am going to buy a TANK! What could be safer
to transport a family?
G: One of these?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/4206704
I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga before the
Toaster came along. Amiga was indeed the best platform of it's day - I wish
they had made it - -
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Yep it was toaster. semantics. it
There might have been, IIRC the 3000 had a composite port. It would have been
low res postage stamp stuff without the extra hardware though.
-Curt
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Amazing :-) What a good decision. Drive the value out of it while saving
for the replacement.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes
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Well, I have searched and thought and considered. I have decided not to
buy a car. I am just going to put
G: While Truman and his advisors obviously took those factors into
consideration, the political fall-out from Truman choosing to invade and lose
thousands more American lives rather than dropping the ultimate weapon and
then invading if the new weapon did not end the war; would have been
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