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  3. How Do I Make Cd's From Tapes?

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    It is an old cassette deck that you would normally run thru an amp

    in your stereo system

    The tapes that she has to copy are not music, just spoken word so

    Hi fidelity sound is not a real priority.

    I don't know if I have a line in.....I don't think so.....I have the

    sound card built into to the motherboard.

    Is this Audacity program a free program?

    Thanks, guys.......jr

  4. How Do I Make Cd's From Tapes?

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Hi experts.

    My wife has some 90 min. cassette tapes that she would like to dub to CD's

    I have a cord to go from the output of the tape player and go into the mic

    port on my sound card.

    We tried to do it with "sound recorder" but it only would record 1 minute.

    Is there a program within XP Pro that would allow me to input to the HD and

    then burn out to a CD with Deep Burner or Nero??

    Thanks, guys and gals.............jr

  5. Seting Up Dual Boot

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Hi all.......haven't posted in a while

    I am thinking about going with a dual boot so I can have an older OS on the machine so I can

    have my grandkids play some of the older games that I have that won't work (no matter what I try)

    under XP

    I am wondering if I can do this.

    My HD has LOTS of room on it but it's formatted NTFS. I have Original disks for DOS 6.2 and for

    WIN95 and WIN98SE and I would like to do one of these OS's as a dual boot.

    Will the install set up something to allow me to do that?

    Will any of these install on a drive that's formatted NTFS?

    If it doesn't install any kind of a "loader" then how would I do this?

    Last resort, I could buy a small HD and install on that and then just go into

    the BIOS and change the boot drive, I suppose.

    Any thoughts??

    Thanks................jim

  6. My New Lexus

    in The Comedy Club

    Posted

    We bought a new Lexus, you know the one that parks itself, but had to return it to the dealer the next day because I couldn't get the radio to work.

    The salesman explained that the radio was voice activated. "Nelson," the salesman said to the radio.

    The Radio replied, "Ricky or Willie?" "Willie!" he continued and "On the Road Again" came from the speakers.

    Then he said, "Ray Charles!", and in an instant "Georgia On My Mind" replaced Willie Nelson.

    I drove away happy, and for the next few days, every time I'd say, Soggy Bottom Boys," I'd get beautiful bluegrass music, and if I said, Beatles," I'd get one of their awesome songs.

    Yesterday, a couple ran a red light and nearly creamed my new car, but I swerved in time to avoid them. I yelled, "A-- Hs!"

    Immediately the French National Anthem began to play, sung by Jane Fonda and Barbara Streisand, backed up by Michael Moore and The Dixie Chicks, with John Kerry on guitar, Al Gore on drums, Dan Rather on harmonica,

    Nancy Pelosi on tambourine, Harry Reid on spoons, Bill Clinton on sax and Ted Kennedy on scotch.

    Gosh, I LOVE this car! :)))

  11. A Really Bad Day At Work!

    in The Comedy Club

    Posted

    Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won:

    Hi Sue,

    Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

    Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all

    Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

    As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit.

    This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment that sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.

    Now, this all sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

    What I do when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's fantastic...it's like working in a Jacuzzi.

    Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This, of course, only made things worse. Within a few seconds my bottom started to feel a burning sensation. I pulled the hose out from my back, thinking that maybe the water was too hot, but the damage was done.

    In agony, I realized what had happened.

    The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it directly into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, so the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

    When I had scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish, and all of its poisonous, stinging tentacles, into the crack of my bottom.

    I immediately informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

    Needless to say, I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.

    As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

    The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my bottom was swollen shut.

    So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your bottom.

    Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job."

    Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

    May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day.

  13. Installation And Grub?

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Hi Mark

    I have installed Ubuntu onto a second hard drive and the installation went

    smooth as silk. When you start the install of Ubuntu ( or any Linux OS)

    part of the procedure is the program checking for drives and space on these

    drives. It will show both HD's -- The master ( C: ) will be shown as HD 0

    and the slave drive will be HD 1. The install should suggest partitions

    on the drive and then go thru the install.

    It will also install the Grub loader and that will give you the choice on Boot Up

    of which OS you want to boot to.

    Just remember that if you ever remove the Linux OS from your computer,

    you have to go and repair the Master Boot Record on the C: because it will

    be looking for the grub loader and that goes away with the Linux OS.

    Not a big deal to fix the MBR -- I've done this a few times and it goes easily

    and quickly using the XP install disc and choosing Repair.

    jim

  15. My First Car!

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Ha.........brings back lots of memories.

    My very first car was a 1958 Plymouth Fury.

    Big tail fins and everything. I bought it for $25 and

    I had to put a muffler on it and it needed a new

    battery.

    It had a push button transmission and it didn't

    have a "park" -- you put it in neutral and set

    the parking brake.

    What fun!!!

    Enjoy your new car..........it looks like a real nice one!!!

    jim

  18. Any Others Out There?

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    thanks for the link......haven't been there but I will explore.

    Back in the 70's, I had a DuBro Scorpion that barely could hover

    and never did get that to fly good. I flew lots of planes but

    helis were just coming into their own. Then kids, and job, and

    moving, and yada yada yada,,,,,,,,,,,

    My dad, who is very active in R/C gave me a Falcon 3D

    for my birthday this year but that heli is SO far advanced

    to me right now that I couldn't even attempt to try that yet

    He loaned me his Blade CX2 to try for a while and I got

    hooked again. Bought one myself. LOTS of fun.

    I can hover out a full battery now (10 minutes) and if I

    can find a larger space than my garage, I'll start doing

    forward flight.

    I look forward to the day I take the Falcon 3D out and

    start flying that.

    Having a ball!!!!!

    jim

  19. Any Others Out There?

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    After a period of about 20+ years of not being involved in the hobby,

    I find myself back in the R/C Helicopter hobby again.

    I was just wondering if anybody else on BT shares my interest?

    I am right now flying a Blade CX2 which is quite small and can

    only be flown indoors or outside if NO wind present.

    Anybody else out there fly heli's????

    jim

  20. Dating Rules

    in The Comedy Club

    Posted

    Good one, Marty..........brings back lots of memories...............

    My wife and I had a son and a daughter.

    Both are married now to wonderful people, and have given

    us wonderful grandkids, too.

    I remember when my daughter's boyfriend came over one

    night and (YES, HE REALLY DID THIS) asked me for

    her hand in marriage.

    I let him sweat for about 10 seconds and then said "Well, OK"

    Boy, has he turned out to be a winner!!!

    Brings back lots of memories

    thanks..........jim