miamizsun wrote:
 
I'm getting a bare bones ipad... half the price and about 10x more capable than our 2nd generation iPad. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

ok but should i air drop with manbird?

his back office has a heavy russian accent

and after looking around for a tablet which will be used for media consumption i keep coming back to the bare bones ipad

it just looks like a no brainer

edit: i just wish it had a kick stand like my surface

 miamizsun wrote:
 

That's interesting but I wouldn't call it "important." Few people have "accept from anyone" turned on. I do, at work, because customers and the boss can just put stuff on my machine and I don't care, but on my phone, no way.

seems to be an important ios update to squash air drop exploit, etc.

that is all

 westslope wrote: 

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

We just moved to an ISP that offered 120 Mbps down 7 Mbps up.    The former service was an ASDL 15 Mbps down and less than 1 Mbps up.

Now that we have some bandwidth to spare, I was thinking of getting a VPN service for security and privacy.   Thoughts?  

 westslope wrote: 

someone in my circle that consumes a lot of media and does some online shopping keeps getting knocked offline

to boot they know less than nothing about tech and don't run and update maint programs i've installed

all of this is on a severely abused laptop  

my solution was something i've done in the past

just put them on IOS

it has certainly made my life easier

windows is still my workhorse both personally and professionally

because software

android on my phone

Tip:    Remove, wipe clean and then re-install Windows apps that have migrated from 32bit to 64bit over the past few years.

Could be my imagination or pure coincidence but I seem to solve problems and improve performance the few times I have done this.  Current OS:  Windows 10 Version 1809; originally Windows 7 Home OEM.

On the HTPC system, all of a sudden , qbittorrent seemed to be eliminating internet access except for torrents and google searches.   This would happen once qbittorrent was loaded.  There was no requirement to start downloading.   So I uninstalled qbittorent, erased all the files, and deleted all the registry entries.  Tedious.  (Coincidentally I removed a number of Win32 malware files but that did not resolve the problem.)

Then I re-installed the most recent stable 64bit version of qbittorrent.   Problem solved.  

Did the same for VLC player and Irfan View a while back.  

 miamizsun wrote:
 
Less availability of software.   Apple's policy of heavily taxing app providers.

Windows 10 is fixable to some extent if you don't mind getting into it.  Same with Android.

Linux and possibly other UNIX-based operating systems are the best if the machinery is older but something else to learn and once again, not as always as much software availability as Windows but fairly decent if you are doing technical stuff.

i think i'm going through a tech moment

slight hassle at the wrong time maybe

had the idea to go apple across the board

somebody please talk me out of it

wait...

the sticker shock may do it

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Make sure it's a permanent redirect (308).

 R_P wrote:
 
I'm thinking I'm too lazy and will just redirect it.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Make powellepiscopal.com a domain alias of stjohnspowell.diowy.org?

PS: You might need some URL Rewriting as well...

Years ago, I built a website for our church, but no one ever updated it (was a simple WordPress site, easy to add stuff to). So people come and people go, they decided that just having a subdomain on the diocesan site would be easier. They're wrong, but what do I care? None. I have since trashed the wordpress and just put up a placeholder, until the other site is ready.

The problem is, all of the printed URLs and on google etc. as well as the diocesan site itself, all point to the old domain. I would like to have it so that if someone goes to the powellepiscopal.com page, the diowy.org subdomain is what loads.

I'm having trouble explaining this to Google. I don't want to embed the site, or redirect away... I would like for people to be on powellepiscopal.com for their entire visit. But if they click on a link outside of the subdomain, they go there, out from under the powellepiscopal.com URL. 

Doable? If I have to involve the diowy.org monkeys, I will, but it seems like I ought to be able to just load something in the header of the index page that says "put everything at blahblah.blah.org here."

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I have PlasticX polish that's made specifically for plastics. I'll try it on the worst ones. I thought dP went out and found the correct missing bits, but I think it just compares your disc with the others. Works pretty well, regardless.
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 kurtster wrote:
 

They make little polishing machines for $20-30 that actually work pretty well. I think they all use the same rubbing compound as the headlight stuff.

 cc_rider wrote: 
Cool.  I washed every disc before ripping.  Used eyeglass cleaner, rinsed and dried with lint free cotton towel, w/out any fabric softener.  You might try using a headlight touchup compound for the scratches.  The discs are polycarbonate and this could make some of the scratches readable.

or you can get some of this stuff which we use on poly lens edges to chemically polish the edges and make them clear.  Ain't cheap, but if you have something really rare or OOP, it may be worth it.  Or this which I just found.  Would be much easier to use.  Poly Edge Glaze Pen  still not cheap, but should do the trick.

 

 kurtster wrote: 
I ripped a few CDs to test it out, pretty easy. Some of my discs are scratched, so I'm getting some errors. Not sure yet how to compensate for them. I went ahead and bought it, to have access to the music databases. Hopefully that will help with my scratched discs.
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 cc_rider wrote: 
I have used both.  My final choice was dBPowerAmp, hands down.  It does everything you could ever want.  When you get the paid version, it will allow you to rip in multiple formats at the same time.  You can do wav, flac and mp3 if you might want to, all in the same one time rip.  It will also will allow you to make batch format conversions.   Metadata tools are excellent and I like the rip verification process as well.  FWIW, I think that the rips sounded better than Exact, too.  It will analyze your optical drive and make whatever adjustments needed to compensate for known accuracy issues as well.  I think Exact does that, too, but I forget.  I ripped over a thousand CD's with dB and it was fast and easy.  Worth the money.

Oh, and I see you are testing dB right now.  It was awhile ago when I ran the full trial version, but it kept functioning after the thirty days was up, as long as I did not close out the program window, just sayin' ...  

cc_rider wrote:
 
Freerip. Be careful installing so you don't wind up with extra software you'll need to uninstall later, but it works a treat and does everything I need.

Configuring the output filenames is awkward but once you set it up it's painless. Supports FLAC, Vorbis, mp3, and wma and lets you convert between them. Good metadata handling.

I used to use EAC but find Freerip easier to use.