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fireopal.org is down

Sat, 23 Apr 2016 01:34:26 GMT

Looks like the system hard drive died.

It's not going to be up until sometime tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. My options are limited by the fact that it's ancient hardware - it only talks IDE/PATA.

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Oh, fun (not)

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:14:27 GMT

I just received a notification that as of 1 January 2016, my ISP (OneNeck/VISI) is getting out of the Home DSL business.

I wish they'd waited a year. I'm still hoping that 10gig fiber to my neighborhood gets installed next summer, but haven't heard anything about it yet.

So, for people in the Twin Cities, MN metro - who's your favorite DSL provider / ISP? I need a static IP because I'm hosting my own e-mail & web services at home.

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What's your favorite Android music player?

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:38:28 GMT

I'm getting a new Android phone, which I have discovered can take a ... rather large microSDXC card. Large enough that it's feasible to dump all of my music collection on it, and use it for my traveling music player.

Most of my collection is classical or related - about 8000 files total. My feature wish list is play by genre tag, custom playlists, and random play of playlist / selection. Integration with a Windows music player, so that I can generate the playlists there and transfer them over, would be nice. I'm currently using Songbird for my Windows player, I'd consider moving to something else for a sufficiently compelling case.

So, what's your favorite Android player, and why?

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Computer Glasses

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:17:28 GMT

I got a pair of computer glasses (single vision extra power as compared to my standard progressive bifocal lenses) on November 4th. I did not try to use them in Seattle. I started using them this past Monday, the 12th.

I am very happy with them!

They're lousy for get up and walk around - anything more than about six feet away gets very blurry. So, if I'm doing anything significant away from the computer, I change to my regular glasses. When I get back, I immediately switch back to the computer glasses, almost without thinking - they are that much better for my multi-monitor desktop setup.

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More on Levenger Customer Service

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:51:52 GMT

I got ambitious and called their 800 number.

The person who answered the phone was polite, and told me it was blue. I asked if they were looking at a picture on their computer - they said yes. I explained that I was seeing different colors depending on which computer I was using. They went to see if they had an actual pen available - they did. It's a green teal. Ah, well.

"Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"Tell your supervisors that if someone is asking a color question, the answer needs to not be based on your computers."
"Oh, I will - I definitely learned something today. The pen looks totally different from on the screen!"

I hope they do actually do some training on that.

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Not a useful response

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:07:54 GMT

I asked Levenger Customer Service "is the teal in a the Galaxy Aurora a green teal or a blue teal?"

I got the following response:

The Galaxy Aurora pen is true to the color on the website.

I sent them the following reply:

Your answer is not useful.

When I look at your web site using my home computer, the Galaxy Aurora appears to be a blue teal. When I look at using my work computer, the Galaxy Aurora appears to be a green teal.

When I look at two different pictures of it in a recent catalog - one on the cover, the other an interior picture - one of them looks more blue, the other looks more green.

Someone needs color reproduction - especially for computer monitors - explained to them. Please go talk to your graphics department.

Now please answer my question - I need someone who has seen the Galaxy Aurora IN PERSON to tell me if it is a blue teal or a green teal.

You could answer the question one other way that would be useful - what is the Pantone color number for the teal?

I'm assuming that I can find a useful Pantone reference somewhere. Worst case I'll find a printing house and ask them.

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