stewiethegreat:

Perhaps you can find someone here on MeFi that would be willing to act as a broker for a % of the sales?

I know a couple people here who do that kind of stuff, MeFiMail me if you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 9:51 PM on October 2, 2008

If you look at the top-level Library/Logs folder, there may be a "panic.log" which may tell you what component of the system is causing the hang.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 3:05 PM on October 1, 2008

Shure are the ones I work with most often, and they are truly bulletproof. Go for the ULX series if you can't afford the UHF-R.

Avoid the Sabine like the plague - not only do they have potential interference like one said above, but if the transmitter antenna is covered by flesh, they will drop out. 2.4GHz is close enough to microwave that it is significantly dampened by, say, a body.

One also links to the Countryman 6 series microphone which is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 1:03 PM on September 29, 2008

In what possible way can this be allowed to be legal?

flippant, I don't think it is legal. One of my links was to an IRS page describing what 501(c)(3) non-profits cannot do.

Beyond the tax structure stuff, the DVD seems to me to be bordering on hate speech.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 12:13 PM on September 19, 2008

vsync:

I also live in Florida, and I certainly have nothing against free speech.

What I have a problem with is groups sending out targeted propaganda as advertising under the guise of being a non-profit non-partisan organization.

Remember that this free speech that you are insinuating that I don't support was designed to allow individuals and the press to have an unthreatened voice without intercession from the government.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 5:55 PM on September 21, 2008

With your Mac connected to the Wifi, go into the Airport Card section of System Profiler. (Available from the button in "About this Mac" under the Apple Menu...)

If the Airport Wireless Channel says any number above 12, the hotel is using a Wifi hotspot on an "international" channel. US channels are only 1-12, and 13 and 14 are sometimes available in European countries and Japan.

If this is the case, your Mac has an... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 3:36 PM on September 21, 2008

Oh, sorry - the solution we came up with was to ask the hotel if we could reconfigure their wireless access point. They allowed us to and we changed it to a US friendly channel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 3:37 PM on September 21, 2008

My cousin runs an AC company. They're called Ierna Air

Family owned, very reliable and fair.

I've had them install two units, on in my home and one in my business.

They're located in Lutz, on the Hwy 41 side.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 5:58 PM on September 18, 2008

Alaska is a magnificent backyard. So full of riches and beauty. So let's kill the beauty and plunder the riches!

Wolf and Polar Bear hunt from airplane after we convince people to Drill BABY DRILL!
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 7:39 PM on September 16, 2008

As requested, the memetic force of Miko's Ivy League Elitist list can now be experienced at Ivy League Elitists.

As mentioned in the MefiProjects post, any ad revenue from this will go to a recipient of Miko's choice.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 11:48 AM on September 17, 2008

cjorgensen:

Thanks, I've fixed them.
posted to Projects by tomierna at 11:44 AM on September 17, 2008

I think he deserves compensation, myself. After all, he graduated in the top 33% of his class.

Lot's of spalling, grammer and punctation erros in his CV as well.....

</mockery>
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 7:26 PM on September 16, 2008

Riffing off of what Cool Papa Bell says about spices above, I've found that spices bought in the ethnic aisle of my closest store (a Publix) has spices which are at least half as much as the ones in the spice aisle.

The ones in the spice aisle are usually Spice Islands or other name brands, and the ones in the ethnic aisle are Badia brand.

But, when you compare a couple of ounces of a spice at $2 in a bag, vs. less unit price for $6 in a glass... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 5:32 PM on September 15, 2008

Honey, a bit of neutral vegetable oil (choose something healthy if you like), and some molasses have served me well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 12:32 PM on September 15, 2008

I know you asked for teacher-friendly ideas, but I'm not a teacher. My wife was PTA president for two years though, so here are some things we saw work.

T-Shirts can be a good fund raiser, because you can usually count on one per family member. If you work a deal with a local t-shirt shop, you can easily pull 100% profit.

But, as idb says, the best way to fundraise is to get donations. I hate Hate HATE buying the tchotchkes and candy and putting... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 9:25 AM on September 14, 2008

A little funny:

While Mitt Romney was cracking jokes about Al Gore's private jet...

... Al Gore was flying from San Francisco to Tampa on Southwest, on the same plane as my business partner and his wife.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 10:51 PM on September 3, 2008

Yeah, they could have done so much more with the SNL skit. Though, Fey will be working that Palin schtick like mad for the next four years if the repubs make it into the White House.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 11:03 PM on September 13, 2008

Sorry, wavering, that's just not possible.

Electromagnetic energy moves at nearly the speed of light. (On preview, I see Aquaman has already mentioned it, but I have links and equipment suggestions!)

The speed of light is over 860,000 times the speed of sound.

That means that a 1cm difference in head position is 1500 times greater than that of 6 meters of wire. (As an aside, the speed of sound does cause audible latency... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 3:57 PM on September 13, 2008

Er, StickyCarpet,

Even at the 40%-70% of the speed of light that tracert's linked wikipedia article states, at the slowest, you'd be looking at less than 1ms of delay for each 100 meters of cable. And, I stand by my statement that propagation through speaker wire is "nearly" the speed of light, because the speed of sound in air amounts to a rounding error when comparing it to the 40-70% of the speed of light we're talking about.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 7:27 PM on September 13, 2008

At my wedding, we used two gooseneck microphones. They were cardoids.

I think they were Shure MX412s.

These were screwed to a mic stand which was somewhat camouflaged with tulle. If there is a lectern, you could use larger mics.

We should have had a wireless mic on our officiant, but our crowd was smaller than yours, so we did OK.

I think we had a wireless handheld for any speeches that ended up... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 2:26 PM on September 11, 2008

I liked the story, and I, too was cynically thinking that there was a twist. I thought he had already been implanted, though, and that everything he was seeing post-airplane-ride was VR.

And, while I have to say thank you to kid ichorous for posting it, it would have been more fulfilling if it had been posted by a robot made out of meat.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 11:38 AM on September 11, 2008

Here's another source of quite a few.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 12:35 PM on September 8, 2008

Set up server-status:


<Location /admin/server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
</Location>

ExtendedStatus On

This should give you a decent amount of info about which virtual domain is getting what requests and for how much data.

Be sure to put an .htaccess password on the admin directory so people can't look at your privates :)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 12:21 PM on September 8, 2008

Presuming that the device linked has Mac OS X driver support, Traktor should allow you to select one as a headphone and one as a program out.

I use an M-Audio FastTrack Pro for this purpose, but those are about fifty times more expensive than the little widget you link to.
posted to MeFi Music by tomierna at 10:34 PM on September 6, 2008

I think troy is taking the piss, guys.

Each time he's posted, he never quite says he agrees with what's happening (though he's said it would amuse him.

In fact, he's never even said what side he's on, carefully talking about types of people "among us."

Even in the post above, where i_am_joe's_spleen calls him out for falling for the propaganda, he doesn't say he believes it, just that,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 2:15 PM on September 6, 2008

I've searched through all of the major still and HD footage houses for "walter reed" and come up empty.

I have a hard time believing that this mistake was this hard to make.

I further doubt (given the music rights discussion) that they bought out all rights to the stock footage they used for anything that was shown on that screen.

The type of stuff you saw on that screen is what we in the industry refer to as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 11:30 AM on September 5, 2008

Sure, Ogre Lawless.

Yellow Ties mean you are angry.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 12:06 PM on September 5, 2008

David Nash was executive producer on this year's RNC and has been doing it since 1992.

I have no idea if this was the case in the past, but this year he used Freeman Company as his vendor.

I'm not familiar with how their production arm hires, whether the heavy hitters for big shows like this are salaried or if they are independent contractors like most of the industry.

I read about all of this while getting curious about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 3:05 PM on September 5, 2008

Anything like this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 6:15 PM on September 4, 2008

Ironically, the fund they are creating is backed by their natural gas reserves.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 1:30 PM on September 3, 2008

Props to happyhippo for this FPP idea. We both live not too far from Polk County, and he (and I) thought it pretty out-of-character for the St. Pete Times to frame this story so brazenly.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 8:21 PM on August 31, 2008

Maias,

I think the piece that ran in the paper (the 3rd linked article) was a good piece. It was the multimedia aspect that was a bit heavy-handed.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 6:00 PM on September 1, 2008

If the convention you were at was for a vendor that rhymes with THISCO, I can tell you exactly what they used, because one of my business partners was responsible for setting up the projection portion of it.

The wall of video was 820 feet long.

14 Christie Roadie projectors were used, blended. (That's where each projector overlaps a bit, and there's either a digital or physical fade on either side.)

All of the content was... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:21 PM on August 29, 2008 marked best answer

The Zoom H2 that echo target linked to is fantastic, as is it's big brother, the H4.

The H2 will do surround recording too.

If you want to do binaural recordings without setting up gear and attracting too much attention, you could get a set of croakie mounted microphones like these.

They will plug right into the H2 or H4, or really any recorder that supplies bias voltage.

echo target's idea about... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:39 AM on August 22, 2008

SEE ROCK CITY

Visit South of the Border!

And, to help you find other quirky attractions on your route, see Roadside America.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:27 AM on August 22, 2008

Go to ziphone.org and click the download link.

Pick from Windows or Mac version.

Run ZiPhone. Pick the options that you want, such as Activation, Jailbreak, anysim.

...

Profit!
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:56 PM on August 20, 2008 marked best answer

I don't think it does, but you can certainly downgrade to the 1.1.4 firmware to use ZiPhone.

I haven't used one of the couple of tools out there that jailbreak the 1.2.x firmware, but I have a friend who has used PwnageTool 2.0 to jailbreak, unlock and activate a rev1 iPhone to work with T-Mobile.

As it stands, I think that only the rev1 iPhones can have their baseband unlocked for use with other carriers. 3g iPhones can be jailbroken, but not... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 10:04 PM on August 20, 2008

If the WEP passphrase he's using is less than 13 characters, try padding the passphrase with spaces at the end.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:58 PM on August 20, 2008

Lessig has said on record that the US government is waiting for the internet version of 9-11 so they can enact sweeping laws that, (supposedly) like the PATRIOT act, have been sitting in the drawer waiting for such an opportunity.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 10:03 PM on August 12, 2008

You could set up a firewall machine using something like m0n0wall or pfSense, or one of the many Linux based ones out there, between your internet connection and the LAN.

Whatever shaping solution you choose, the easiest way to shape torrents is to guarantee chunks of bandwidth to the ports you need, like web, the various mail ports, voip, etc. and throttle everything else. Open up the floodgates for traffic that's vetted, but throttle everything else to manage-able levels.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 7:44 PM on August 11, 2008

You could use a cheap KVM without the V.

This comes up in a search. I don't know anything about this particular product.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 9:34 AM on August 10, 2008

Talk to your super. They will likely be able to shut down the elevator temporarily and get in via an access door, or from the first floor with the car on a different floor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 9:31 AM on August 10, 2008

Very similar, but not it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 11:26 AM on August 9, 2008

It was Ambrel.net.

Thanks, acidic!
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 2:05 PM on August 9, 2008

Have the other parts not been broadcast by BBC4 yet?
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 6:47 PM on August 8, 2008

Thanks, chuckdarwin. I'm a USAian, and didn't understand the fineries of the Beeb.
posted to MetaFilter by tomierna at 7:28 PM on August 8, 2008

The whole antenna thing is a misnomer anyway, because rabbit ears currently, and after the transition still will receive the digital content.

It's about the tuner. But, explain that to joe sixpack's grandfather.
posted to MetaTalk by tomierna at 2:22 PM on August 5, 2008

You're halfway there with the name of your file.

The screen is acting as a Diffraction Grating, and and example of this phenomenon can be had here.

I think to better photograph it, you'll need to manually focus on the target, not the screen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 10:42 AM on August 2, 2008

I've been threatening to use Relay on one of our servers. It looks nice, and Web2.0, and claims to have upload status.

On one site, I'm using Comet Web File Manager at the moment. It's not terribly fancy, but it works pretty well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 8:51 PM on August 1, 2008 marked best answer

Offer free recycling drop off for old electronics, batteries, etc.

Offer a discount for computer and electronics trade-ins, especially if you can make the money back by selling the items used, or to scrap dealers.

Get your upstream providers to lower their packaging footprint (or remove it altogether - why do we need a quart of oil's worth of cut-inducing, blood-spilling blister-pack for a single cable? Twist-ties and a small cardboard flag are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomierna at 9:55 AM on July 30, 2008