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I have the Gimp, I have the fonts, I have the desire, but what I don't have is a clue as to recreating the Indiana Jones logo style.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:47 PM on July 23, 2008
(13 comments)
I've got a Mac G4 running 10.4.11 and I've been experiencing worsening problems playing WMV files. I realize this is a kludge to begin with, but things are getting weird...
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 7:23 AM on July 3, 2008
(2 comments)
Self-hosted LiveJournal replacement? I would like to have my own journal displayed on my own site and besides some usual requirements, I have one or two that seem to be difficult to satisfy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 7:27 AM on August 30, 2007
(6 comments)
Is there such a thing as a simple unattended backup solution for a Linux box? I'm using Bacula right now but it's total overkill for my situation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 6:31 AM on July 6, 2007
(10 comments)
I am looking to photograph a WWII Grumman F4F "Wildcat" as a present for my dad. While there is a local airshow in Geneseo, NY each summer, they have not had a F4F. Does anyone know of an airshow this summer within a days drive of Rochester, NY? A museum would also be okay, though it might be more difficult to get good photos.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 8:09 AM on May 9, 2007
(12 comments)
I have a Linux box (Ubuntu Edgy) that I would like to be able to send mail to an Exchange server. It also needs to send/receive locally. Which MTA will actually allow me to do this and are directions for configuring it available? I've found lots of vague references but very little "program X will do this and here's how" kind of stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 6:29 AM on April 18, 2007
(9 comments)
Strange Mac problem: it won't boot from certain CDs or from the hard drive. Norton Utilities and DiskWarrior both say the hard drive is okay. I'm stumped. Older G3 beige minitower, OS X 10.3.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 7:32 PM on April 7, 2006
(8 comments)
I'm looking for an old (pre-1900) patent and the USPTO site only allows patent number and classification searches for pre-1975 patents.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 9:20 AM on February 27, 2006
(16 comments)
Are there any free/open source tools available to create web-based (HTML) tutorials that don't require server installation? I've played with IBM's Toot-o-matic in the past but it doesn't work with Java 1.5 and doesn't seem to be actively supported.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 11:43 AM on January 19, 2006
(5 comments)
Is there anyway to automate Bluetooth file transfers on Windows SP2 using the Microsoft Bluetooth software? (This is a followup of sorts to
a previous query of mine.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:54 PM on December 6, 2005
I've been using Bluetooth to HotSync my Palm Zire 72 with my Windows XP machine. Then I was "upgraded" to SP2, now HotSync times out everytime. Am I simply SOL?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:23 PM on November 3, 2005
(1 comment)
Inspired by
this thread as well as numerous medical and legal questions on AskMe I was wondering if there couldn't be some way of encouraging our lawyers/doctors/etc. to participate in discussions in their field. I know there's a hesitancy to provide specific details due to liability issues but some threads get bogged down in arguments over misunderstandings. Any thoughts on how this could be done or whether it's even a good idea?
posted to MetaTalk by tommasz
at 6:26 AM on September 13, 2005
(29 comments)
I'm traveling to Brazil in October and I'd like to have a useable cell phone when I'm there. What's my best option?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:04 PM on September 12, 2005
(5 comments)
I'm looking for a banana phone. Not the song, thanks, but a real, honest-to-goodness banana-shaped phone.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 10:25 AM on August 30, 2005
(12 comments)
I have the opportunity to buy an older Kodak DCS digital SLR (a 330) but I'm concerned about getting images out of it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 3:27 PM on July 19, 2005
(7 comments)
Okay, what's up the
Polyphonic Spree? Are they a cult or what? Interestingly, this same question came up on
Ask Yahoo! and comes up as the fourth link on a Google search, so I know I'm not the only one who's wondered. [band link is heavy with Flash]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:35 PM on April 23, 2005
(17 comments)
I noticed an AskMe
thread with two "Best Answers". Is the ability to mark more than one answer as "best" intentional, or is this a bug? I'm sure there are going to be cases of ties, so perhaps this isn't a bad idea.
posted to MetaTalk by tommasz
at 11:26 AM on February 16, 2005
(11 comments)
Given the fairly high usage and value of many of the threads, isn't it time for Ask Metafilter to be promoted to be listed on the Blue? The link in the sideblog to
this amazing thread is a clear sign that it's ready for primetime. How about it Matt?
posted to MetaTalk by tommasz
at 6:09 AM on February 4, 2005
(36 comments)
Another partially remembered childhood story question. Does anyone recall a short story with a female narrator that revolves around her using a silver pencil to write and thereby deal with a debilitating illness? I seem to also recall something about "blue roses", but I'm not sure if that's in the story or just mixed in with it in my memories. Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 11:14 AM on January 13, 2005
(10 comments)
Is there any way to successfully sync Entourage v.X with a Palm Zire 72? Microsoft's conduit doesn't support the "new" Palm apps and QueueSync produces wildly varying (and incorrect) results. [mi]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 10:22 AM on January 4, 2005
(1 comment)
I am curious, blue. Or rather, I'm curious about something on the Blue,
Virtual Bartender. How are toys like that and Subservient Chicken implemented?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:33 PM on November 12, 2004
(6 comments)
V-Disc Records
, a government-created music company, made 78's full of music, stories and announcements and sent them overseas to US servicemen from 1943-1949. They were never made available in record stores and, since the American Federation of Musicians was on strike at the time, they were the only
recordings being made. All of the top stars of the day made them, including
Duke Ellington,
Louis Armstrong,
Benny Goodman and more. After the program ended in 1949, the government, following an AFM request that the records not be used for commercial purposes, destroyed the original masters. Luckily the Library of Congress has a
complete set of V-Discs and the National Archives saved some of the metal stampers.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 4:11 PM on November 4, 2004
(2 comments)
Forgive me, but I want
Bananaphone as my cell phone ringtone. I have it in MP3 format but my LG Vx4400 can't play them. I found a .qcp version, but the volume is way too soft for usefulness. How can I make it louder? [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 1:20 PM on November 2, 2004
(7 comments)
I have a Palm V running OS 3.3. It works fine except for one annoying problem that I cannot for the life of me solve or find out anything about: the HotSync cradle button
always invokes HotSync by Infrared, no matter what the setting. Has anyone heard of this before, and if so, is there any fixing it? [mi]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 7:53 AM on October 4, 2004
(5 comments)
Does anyone know of a site that has sound recordings (either for sale or download) of early American mandolin orchestras (early 20th century)? I've been looking at the Smithsonian and Library of Congress but haven't found much. I'm assuming that given the time period they would mostly have been recorded on wax cylinders.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 1:37 PM on September 8, 2004
(2 comments)
The World's Worst Website?
Well, yes, it
is really bad, but is it the worst? More importantly, isn't there a better way to educate budding web designers? How about sites that encourage, with examples of what to do, rather than the opposite? [via
The Red Ferret Journal] [SFW, annoying MIDI]
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 8:24 AM on August 19, 2004
(14 comments)
I've got a journal in LiveJournal that I want to download to my home computer prior to deleting. The tool on the LiveJournal site will do this, but only one month at a time. Is there any tool that can handle more than a single month? I'd prefer the XML format, since I might want to do something with them at a later date.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 12:16 PM on August 16, 2004
(2 comments)
[PhysicsFilter] This has been troubling me for a while and the answers I've gotten haven't satisfied me. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light for all intents and purposes, information included. I think I have a way around that, but I've been told it won't work. [More inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 11:33 AM on July 12, 2004
(48 comments)
I have an oak tilt/swivel chair that also has height adjustment. The height adjust mechanism is broken: the ring that's supposed to revolve and move the central post up and down has damaged threads. The store where I bought this many years ago is no longer in business. I'm not getting a lot of value out of Google searches, probably because I don't know what the parts are called. Any places that sell chair parts and/or diagrams where I can see the parts named?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 2:42 PM on July 5, 2004
(3 comments)
Register to vote and you can get free beer!
What better way to reach that vast pool of unregistered twenty-one year-olds than offering them something they actually want? Brought to you by the Democrats, of course. But not without some controversy (from health experts, not Republicans), even though they only get two 2-ounce glasses.
Any other examples of inventive voter registration drives out there?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 5:09 AM on June 18, 2004
(22 comments)
I've got a bunch of email in MH format that I would like to get into Entourage on OS X. Anything around that does this directlly or indirectly? [mi]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 2:54 PM on June 14, 2004
(3 comments)
Remember Mac System 6?
If you do, then P.dro Classic™ is for you. Relive the glory days of 1 bit-per-pixel porn (it's almost life-like if you squint) and Pong-like games with the mouse! Hey, it's Friday and this is Flash.
For me, it's the Startup Sound that makes this.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 7:03 AM on May 21, 2004
(15 comments)
I've got a Mac with OS X 10.2.8 that used to run OS 9. I have this one job I do for a friend that required me to use Print2Pict with this one app in order to generate a PICT file that I could then cut pieces out of. Just this week, the app (Finale Notepad) was updated to run on OS X. I still need the ability to generate an editable PICT file, but Print2Pict is not available. Is there anything equivalent to Print2Pict for OS X?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 3:35 PM on April 27, 2004
(10 comments)
Can anyone recommend a tube (valve) amplifier kit in the ~ $500 (US) range? I was going to buy one of the Passion Audio Kit i11 amps but the company that offered them, Rotac in Quebec, quit selling them April 1st.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tommasz
at 11:21 AM on April 22, 2004
(3 comments)
Johnny Hart stirs up more controversy,
this time among the Asian community. Back in November it was the
Muslims. How does he manage to stay on the comics page? At what point is a mainstream comic no longer acceptable to the mainstream?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 3:20 PM on January 19, 2004
(34 comments)
Someone is watching what you post.
Today I received a note from a site called InternetSeer that told me some of my posts on The
{Fray} were temporarily unavailable. Too bad I never asked them to keep an eye on things for me. Who are these people are what are they doing?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 10:06 AM on November 21, 2003
(29 comments)
Police find skeleton
in Oddfellows lodge. Turns out, they'd already found it, 6 years before (your guess is as good as mine why no one did anything then). Even more interesting, it's not the only one that's been found and subsequently investigated by the police around the country. Makes you wonder about those Oddfellows.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 2:06 PM on October 31, 2003
(26 comments)
Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer are fighting, again.
It started over a remark
Dave made about various blogging services.
Mark turned around and created a
bot that reads Dave's RSS feed every 5 minutes and spits out the text, annotated to show what's been added/deleted/changed since the last time it ran. Dave's claiming copyright infringement, Mark's claiming fair use. Okay MeFi folks, which side are you on, and why?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 1:29 PM on July 11, 2003
(67 comments)
Bunnies and Easter Don't Mix,
please think twice before getting that cute baby bunny as a gift for a child. Rabbits require the same committment as dogs or cats and can live 10 years or more (mine is 11). So this year,
Make Mine Chocolate.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 8:44 AM on April 18, 2003
(12 comments)
Reply To All button considered harmful
An employee (called a manager in the headline but a millwright in the article) was fired from Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY when he replied to an email announcing "National Coming Out Day" (hint: he wasn't in favor). But in addition to the sender, his message went to about 1000 other employees. Kodak says he was terminated when he refused to admit that sending it to all those people was wrong, not for it's content. Is this Political Correctness run amok or justifiable?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 5:00 AM on October 31, 2002
(53 comments)
Plastic,
the site MeFi'ers love to hate, is temporarily off the air. The site says they're moving to new servers. Given the problems their parent has, any bets on whether it reappears?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 6:56 AM on December 3, 2001
(14 comments)
