Marty Michener wrote:
> At 03:28 PM 1/23/2003 -0500, Walt wrote:
>
>>What do you think? Have we got folks scared enough yet to do their
>>backups? Probably time to get back to more enjoyable topics.
>>
>>I'm toying with attempting to make a mic capsule from scratch. The first
>>step toward building a MKH type mic from scratch.
>>
>>Walt
>>
>
>
> aaahhhh! Just another ho-hum piddling project for Walt.
I think this one is going to be a fair challenge. But I can't resist. If
I succeed it's endless cheap mics.
>
> NB Recording topic related: I cannot get any of my XP 4 USB ports to
> recognize the Portadisc, what am I doing wrong? The PortaDisc has the
> digital turned on. The computer gulps, sort of, indicating it sees a plug
> in its port. No sound device can be detected, as it does on my Win 98
> machines.
I can't be of much help, the USB from the Portadisc has been detected as
a generic sound device everywhere I've tried.
I suppose you have to go off into the bit of making XP recognize a piece
of hardware. I usually do that with Win 2000 by going in and removing
the offending driver and starting over. Usually that causes it to notice
it's got something and go through the driver install process again. Win
2000 did recognize the Portadisc right off.
> Walt also said:
>
> >It used to be that folks went and worked as programmers for Microsoft to
> >get their retirement fund in order. It did not matter how poor a
> >programmer they were, in a few years they would be able to quit and
> >retire. Maybe it's not that way anymore and that's what they are grumpy
> >about.
>
> In this one case, I want to clear that one up right-off:
>
> In the case of cousin "X", it was ALL about integrity.
Sounds like your cousin did not fit the MS mold. I was not specifically
talking about your cousin. I can see how a person like that would hate MS.
>
>
> You guessed it. Car stolen. Never found, ever. No PhD. Four and a half
> years gone. And you know Harvard . .
I had that happen to a single class report, one of the ones you spend
the entire quarter on, briefcase stolen. That was bad enough. Luckily my
prof was understanding and allowed me extra time to reconstruct it.
> Tomorrow, Doug, I promise, we'll get back to sounds and recording.
And I'll be out recording just as soon as we can get rid of these pesky
icy spells. It must have heard my vow to find the Georgia Brimley's
Chorus Frogs this year. This will make the 4th year for that.
Walt
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