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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops
« on: September 29, 2010, 06:09:34 PM »
KISS Concert photo. On this one they were performing "Detroit Rock City"...
Awesome song :clap: However, I am sure if KISS were from this time, they'd write the song after some other city :whistling:

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 20, 2010, 02:34:05 AM »
Has anybody heard about this?

Amazing New Designs For The Dollar Bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/721294
I do not like those designs. Obama does not deserve to be on the dollar bill.

I like them alot, especialy the "Dowling Duncan" design, however, replace Obama with George Washington. Obama doesn't deserve to be on the dollar bill... as you have said. But a vertical based currency would be cool, and I love the design and color choices :clap:

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Emulator Videos / Re: Curt's Emulations!
« on: September 19, 2010, 08:11:05 PM »
Well since I haven't been making emulators since about July, I made this. This is a WeatherStar 3000 emulator without a LDL. I will fix that later. And also notice the radar segment. The real 3000's had one of these. The cable providor would plug the unit into a telephone line, and it would download a radar image from the NWS (If I am correct). Anyways, enjoy! :smoke2:

WeatherStar 3000 - No LDL

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General Discussion / Re: Apple Music Keynote 2010!!!
« on: September 05, 2010, 12:42:27 PM »
The new iTunes software also consume more memory space and CPU, which can really slow down your computer. Not to mention the store takes a minute longe to load now
Amen. Here are my thoughts

1. iPod Touch- Decent upgrade
2. iPod Nano- Lame. Sorry I can not see a UI like that being great to navigate.  Touch screens aren't the answer to everything
3. iPod Shuffle- Its like a time warp! After Apples failed buttonless design they went back to what people liked and bought.
4. Apple TV- Complete Fail. Its a Roku box with LESS features! Big miss on Apple to actually make this product interesting. Could have had apps or so much more.
5. iOS Updates- Good.
6. iTunes. WTF! Same old clunky interface. I would have thought by version 10 they would have done some big changes. Nope. Instead we get a lame social network services that is walled preventing you from linking it to Facebook or Twitter.
Agreed 100%. I can't stand iTunes 10 and that "Ping" crap. What is the use of it? I'm sure I wouldn't want it saying every song I purchase to my friends and what not... if they will even use this Ping crap, that is.

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Local Forecast / Re: Intellistar conversion question
« on: September 05, 2010, 12:29:57 PM »
From what I understand, the hardware in the domestic IS is identical to the hardware on the Weatherscan IS. The only difference is the installed software. So yes, I believe in theory it would be possible by swapping out the hard drives in each unit.
Correct :yes: It's all hardware you can buy from Best Buy or Microcenter, with the exception of the ThunderStorm card... so I would have to say that swapping the hard disk is all that would need to happen.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Cable Boxes
« on: August 28, 2010, 10:48:50 PM »
Here's a picture of the 8540 and some of the screens. I get the same blue Atlanta Scientific boot screen in the above posts.




This is exactly the same screens I have on my box. I agree it looks like something out of the 80s, not 2010.

Also, my box takes just as long as billy's to boot up. I dont understand why motorla's boxes can boot up in about 30 seconds but these take so long.

I'd imagine that those boxes download their programming guides and what not when you plug it in. If you just use the front panel's power button, it wont display that screen when it is turned back on... only when you plug it in.

The Motorola boxes are different since it multitasks, which I don't think that those other ones can do. It will download the firmware every time it boots up (depends on the model. Some Motorola boxes burn the software onto PROMs or something, while others put it on RAM.) Once the firmware is on, you can use your box with one problem... On Demand will not work, along with the on-screen television guide. It takes my box about 5 minutes to download the guide listings and activate On Demand and the other menus.

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game
« on: August 28, 2010, 12:32:56 AM »
I have class tomorrow imp :(
I don't start school until September 7 imp.
For me, It also starts on the 7th as well imp

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General Discussion / Re: What's Your Speedtest and Pingtest results?
« on: August 27, 2010, 08:29:53 PM »
IVC's library internet (not the wifi)





 :thrilled:
* curtjr4 drools

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Cable Boxes
« on: August 27, 2010, 08:26:45 PM »
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2xxx. I forget the exact model number, it's something like 2200 or 2400.

Finally got around to looking at the box, and it's a 2200 series. I don't use it much, but it has some problems; it seems pretty sluggish.

Here's the boot screen, which I caught by accident. I was recording Weatherscan, and I bumped the power cord on the box, and it did a hard reboot. It was stuck on the blue bootscreen for about 5 minutes.



Yeah, the software on it is generally slow... I consider it to be bloatware, but the UI is nicer then iGuide.
My provider is Cincinnati Bell Fioptics. Boxes are the Cisco (formerly Scientific Atlanta) 8540 HDC and 8640 HDC. Those are both fairly recent, but the software looks like it was made in the 1980s.

Could you take a snapshot of the box it's self and a picture of the software? I've never seen a new Cisco box, nor it's software.

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General Discussion / Re: What's Your Speedtest and Pingtest results?
« on: August 25, 2010, 05:12:39 PM »
Might as well test it all the way across the country. I really want to switch to FiOS (Too bad they don't offer it in MI), so I guess I want U-Verse now...

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: August 25, 2010, 04:59:57 PM »
I get 8 every day, sleeping at 11-11:30 and wake up at 7-7:30 in the morning.

I would say today has been incredibly hot. In my first two days back in IVC, I'm glad there were a lot of cooling areas open since the College Center and the Library are always packed. Last year nor the year before they never had that. Tempratures have reached 115 + yesterday and today. Today would be one of the worst, because there have been a lot of ambulances everywhere around campus. We never had an excessive heat warning this summer at all until now.
My goodness!  :blink: How can people live in those kind of temperatures?

Easy. You have to be a veteran of the valley to withstand these temperatures. I can go on a day with temps in the 100's but not the 110's. I've been living here for 3 years, and I still can't stand the 110's.
I can barely stand 95­° :P Actually, Forbes Magazine said that based on trends that Louisville was the hottest city in the US this summer (at least compared to average)
I have a very high heat tolerance. 110-115 I can stand, but higher then that WITH humidity... let's say it's a day in the air conditioning  :bleh:

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Site/Forum Performance
« on: August 25, 2010, 04:56:43 PM »
Have you found any other hosts yet? When did that server hacking occur?
Server hacking? :wacko:

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: August 23, 2010, 05:35:12 PM »
Wunderground's radars are better than the NWS's!

Aesthetically, yes. In terms of the actual radar, they're the same.
Well yeah, true.
Wunderground has an amazing archive though. You can literally go back years and pick any day or time and see the radar imagery for your area. Very cool
Very nice indeed however some imagery comes up null :hmm:
I've never had that problem :unsure:

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General Discussion / Re: What do you drive?
« on: August 23, 2010, 05:08:30 PM »
That's nothing, the age restrictions in mi may be different then in fl

Yes, in Florida you must be 16 to get a intermediate operators licence. In Michigan, to get the Enhanced Graduated Driver License you must be 14 years old and 9 months according to MDOT and Secretary of State.

Sources:
http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-1627_8669_8998_9038-213049--,00.html
http://www.flhsmv.gov/ddl/teendriv.html

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Site/Forum Performance
« on: August 22, 2010, 10:05:19 PM »
Page load speed - 8.0
Audio/Video load speeds 7.0
Search speeds 8.5
Latency 9.0
Database/mySQL errors 4.0

Overall, about a 6.5-7.0. The database always throws me errors.

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