From: "Rich Peet" <>
> Speaking of Blue Grouse, has Walt recovered from having to live with
> Windows like problems. This may be the first time he has had to deal
> with the problems us Windows people go through every year or so.
It's hardly the first time for me either, I've been dealing with
computers since long before there were desktops. And I expect this sort
of thing with Windows, but Apple keeps crowing about how perfect their
new OS is. I used their "new" OS in the 70's, it's not much changed. But
hardware sure has and it's showing it's age.
Having been thoroughly abused by both Apple's and Adaptec's tech support
I just sorted it all out myself. As I expected it was a problem in the
firmware, actually more than one. My mac is running as reasonably as
before, maybe a little better. I can now not only mount all the disks,
but can unmount them, power them down and then power them back up and
mount them. Even through things like putting the machine to sleep. Read
all the sage advice about standard SCSI and you will find that's not
possible (according to them). I'd done that sort of stuff in OS9, but
OSX had not cooperated as fully before. I'm also, finally, getting most
of the expected speed for Ultra 160 out of OSX, nearly as good as OS9.
The bad part is that I've not been able to have the boot disk on the
high speed bus. It's running off a antique, slow SCSI card, down at the
speeds of current fast ATA. The 5 other disks are running on the Ultra
160. I believe that's at Adaptec's doorstep, or maybe the open firmware
startup of OSX. After what I got out of Adaptec, I'll be switching
brands, ATTO looks like they will do a better job. I've used SCSI since
the Mac Plus, and always Adaptec, but Adaptec just blew it with me.
Actually the Mac was a sideshow during a rain delay on the main event.
The real fun was holding our roof up while replacing a main beam that
supports it. The one the builders placed several plate glass celestry
windows directly on. And provided no ventilation around it either. The
one 2/3 dry rot which was removed by the handful. (12' above floor
level) We are just about there finally, nailed the first roof ply on
today starting to cover the spliced rafters back up. Now we only have
the minor job of reroofing half the house. At least it's all solid
underfoot now. And built right. If you think I'm grumpy about computer
people, try house builders, a long list of major structural errors I had
to correct. At the same time I was replacing all the rotted wood.
Speaking of Blue Grouse and Spruce Grouse, I've heard them both a fair
number of times, but have no recordings. Not likely to get any down here
in Georgia. I expect a Bull Alligator will be interesting when I get a
chance. They make calls that vibrate the water around them, but are too
low for us to hear. Though there is also a audible component. I'm
guessing from watching them do that I'll find something well below 10Hz
if I get it. The low call is a threat call at a rival, so it should be
interesting sweet talking a big one into making it.
If your software will let you, and does not produce too bad a artifacts
doing so, you might can get a better idea what the bottom frequency is
by resampling. Say take it down to a rate of 50Hz and see what if
anything is still left. If it resamples clean it's going to drop
everything above half the sample rate. By doing that at several sample
frequencies from the original recording you can zero in on it.
Walt
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