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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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19:36 / 06.12.06

Yeah, i should have said i use OS X...

I have found 'Audio Hijack Pro', which will record a stream in whatever format you like. You need to play the file with another app (VLC in the current instance) and it will encode in realtime.

The file i have is indeed just a link file to the full audio stream. I may look into the possibility of downloading the full stream and encoding that, though i get the feeling that Real format files aren't supported too well. But it would definitely be nice to be able to batch encode them rather than fannying about recording 100-odd files in realtime.

I suppose that if the worst happens and i need to do each one individually, i'll at least learn a lot of stuff.

All Acting Regiment

12:27 / 07.12.06

Anyone know what the Greek would be for "Two leather sandals"? My friend needs to know. Oh, just to be more awkward, it needs to be in Greek script...

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:32 / 07.12.06

Ancient or modern?

Whisky Priestess

13:53 / 07.12.06

Modern, I'm guessing. Christmas present being sent by post? Description of item within for Customs purposes?

All Acting Regiment

14:40 / 07.12.06

Hmm, no, I think they want ancient. But hey, might still be a christmas present.

Whisky Priestess

15:20 / 07.12.06

Yes, for ZEUS!

17:13 / 07.12.06

I want to know detailed and intricate facts about exo-skeletons. What are they made of? Yes! Chitin but what is that? How do the hinges, leg joints and wing casings work? How are they all different colours? How did they evolve? How do they heal? How efficient are they? How do insects breathe with pores or how, exactly, are book lungs embedded?

Information or sources would be nice. General info is easy to find but I don't know where to look for something more precise.

17:32 / 07.12.06

What is chitin? is a biiiig industrial question right now. Or rather, how chitin works is. It's a kind of sugar, basically, with lots of strange and wonderful properties. Here. A polysaccharide, (C8H13NO5)n, chemically related to cellulose.

Spiracles (the pores in bugs' bodies) work the same way letting red wine breathe works -- their bodies are small enough that simple air passing over holes (like the necks of wine bottles) is enough to oxygenate their bodies (or aerate your burgundy). That's why the biggest land-living arthropods have bodies about the size of a brandy snifter. (Well, I'm stretching the analogy here quite a bit, but it should make it easier to remember. Bird-eating spiders are about the size of a small pizza, but a lot of that is leg.)

I know the colors on butterflies come from tiny scales, although whether those are made of chitin or not I'm not sure. I know the color comes from the shape of the structures, in both butterfly scales and beetle bodies.

17:07 / 08.12.06

Reeeeeaaally stupid question here: Has the UK witnessed a dramatic upsurge in crime since guns were banned? And when the heck did y'all ban guns anyway?

The first Q was inspired by a co-worker during a discussion about gun laws and ownership in the US. (He assures me that you're all headed down the tubes since you can't pack heat, BTW.) The second Q is just my curiosity.

17:23 / 08.12.06

your friend is probably repeating heston without examination.

some more info on the issue here, albeit from a source i havent checked.

17:31 / 08.12.06

Yes, he probably is.

Checking that second link out now. Thanks!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

18:11 / 11.12.06

How old is the term "BJ" to signify "blow job?" And how old is the term "bear" in common use to describe a kinda big hairy gay guy?

I was thinking about television shows with monkeys in them the other day and it occured to me that "BJ and the Bear" might have been the greatest sneak-it-past-the-censors feat since Steve Gerber's "Giant Size Man-Thing."

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:58 / 12.12.06

Valence thank you very much for your help, if you do come across anything else please let me know.

Do you know what would be keen? Repealing British gun laws very briefly to coincide with Heston's next UK visit. I really, very strongly dislike that guy.

18:06 / 14.12.06

I'm trying to remember a two word phrase that is used to discribe the problems that arise when robots are made to look too human and human's reject the image - can anyone help? Thank you.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

18:08 / 14.12.06

That'd be the Uncanny Valley.

18:44 / 14.12.06

thank you - that's the one!

07:55 / 15.12.06

What's to be done with homeless cats when all the charities and catteries you'd think would be able to take them in are full up? Putting food out for them is attracted the entire feline neighbourhood, but not putting food out seems cruel....

10:40 / 16.12.06

Where can i buy mead?
I live in Manchester and want to get my family some awesome mead for xmas, but it seems i am too late to order propernice lindisfarne mead thru the internets. A quick call around the various offies and wine merchants in Manchester has turned nothing up..

Help!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

11:16 / 16.12.06

Go to the source, tramp -- call some apiaries. Most of the mead around here comes from small producers that often also produce their own honey; the mead where you live is probably the same, or at least the beekeepers would know who is buying it to make wine.

17:30 / 18.12.06

If I stick two second class stamps on a christmas card will it treated as if it were first class, or doesn't it work that way?

I suspect it doesn't work that way but I teh cheapskate.

17:37 / 18.12.06

two second class stamps is more, isnt it?
i think they add up the value of stamps, so you'd be getting more postage than you need.

you might want to check with someone else.

18:55 / 18.12.06

I don't mind if it comes to more than first class, as long as it's treated like first class.

23:12 / 18.12.06

does anyone have any idea how to add a whole bunch of music to itunes at once?
i have a whole bunch of music on my PC, and itunes only knows where less than a hundred songs are.

how do i remedy that in one fell swoop?

i've already tried adding the entire folder.
it only added the songs that are in the main folder without being in another folder, and i can't really be arsed going through album after album right now.

02:58 / 19.12.06

Hey Toksik I had this problem with iTunes too.

It depends on how large your hard drive is on your computer, if you want to make a "master" library. Go to iTunes->edit->preferences->advanced->general. There you will find the path to the music library on the hard drive, usually in "My Music". Underneath this there are 2 check boxes, the first is "Keep iTunes Music Folder organized" I have this checked and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library". Checking this box will copy/duplicate the track/folder you have "added" in the File->Add Folder to Library option to the "Master" Library even if it is elsewhere on your hard drive. iTunes will not span a library across different directories, it only reads from 1 directory so all tracks you want itunes to reference HAVE to be in it's iTunes Music Folder location.

So here is what I did.

I have a 60GB ipod photo and a 99.8GB music library.

My laptop PC has a 60GB hard drive. Too small for the iPod library AND the full library.

So to update/change my iPod I had to buy a couple of things. The first was a Seagate 7200 rpm 120GB SATA hard drive to copy my library across to. My home PC shit itself 12 months ago, I had 3 HDD's so I used the biggest to make a master library. It is now a portable drive I carry around with me.

I kept the directory structure the same as win XP would do, so my iTunes Folder Library location now is read as: F:\Documents and Settings\Dick\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music. (notice is does not say C:\)

The next thing I bought is a USB 2.0 -> IDE/SATA cable connector (AU$40.00) and now I can connect my library to ANY computer with iTunes. BUT once I connect the HDD to another computer with iTunes and add my iTunes folder, it will rebuild the entire database which takes a bit of time if you have auto leveling on the volume AND if the other version of iTunes has the "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" it will try to copy my remote HDD to the local machine. So just be careful with that one, check it and add folders IF you have the hard drive space. You could just add the C: and it will parse the entire HDD and copy/duplicate songs from erroneous directories and put them all into your specified iTunes library. Thar ya go, in 1 fell swoop!

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

06:32 / 19.12.06

there's a pub/sports bar/restaurant near highbury islington station, around the corner, I think (from lousy memory) between the macdonalds and the kebab shop, but near those two landmarks anyway, called, perhaps, the white swan... (big glass doors)

That place, they served, last year, and potentially still, a pear cider. I think the cider was from denmark? Somewhere up there, anyway.

Does anyone know what the pear cider is called? The bar/pub/etc's internal magazine said that the pear cider was going to catch on all over england, but I can't remember what it's called. and I want it. And I'm not in england anymore so I can't check.

thank you!

07:24 / 19.12.06

Does anyone know what the pear cider is called?

That'll be perry. Not my favourite tipple it has to be said (but I'm not a huge fan of pears so may be a tad biased).

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

08:39 / 19.12.06

Is that the brand name? I'm thinking of a specific product. I think the bottle has a blue label, but I could be wrong (it was more than a year ago, for some reason I've just been hit with a craving).

actually, on further googling, I think it might have been kopparberg's pear cider. I'll run with that for the time being, unless anyone has happened to be in the aformentioned mystery bar, recently.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

08:42 / 19.12.06

p.s. thanks, with the name perry I will probably be able to find similar things locally (I quite like pears, myself)

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:45 / 19.12.06

Due to its eye-watering alcohol to expense ratio, perry can be found in many seedy off-licenses. If your tastes are more cultivated and less dedicated to going blind young, Chimes of Pimlico?

Whisky Priestess

09:50 / 19.12.06

The pub in question is I believe called The Cock. For obvious reasons, it has stuck in my mind.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:54 / 19.12.06

It is, in fact, now called The FAMOUS Cock.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

10:22 / 19.12.06

I think it might have been kopparberg's pear cider

I think that's the stuff many Weatherspoons pubs have. Deceptively sweet, fizzy and quaffable, with a high alcoholic content. Almost an alcopop.

I had some organic pear cider called (groan) Fred's Perry from a local supplier the other week - whew, that was sharp! - and strong too, but once the initial severity is overcome, quite a pleasing drink.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

10:58 / 19.12.06

It is, in fact, now called The FAMOUS Cock.

That's the one! clearly my recollections have been put through a blue filter.

Thanks, guys.

Due to its eye-watering alcohol to expense ratio, perry can be found in many seedy off-licenses. If your tastes are more cultivated and less dedicated to going blind young, Chimes of Pimlico?

it's a little bit out of my way, but next time I'm in the country, I'll give it a shot. Here in Sydney, all the pear-based products are hardcore/horrific bright orange eastern european liquors of mainly-dubious quality.

I feel a bit odd focusing on pear-based alcohol. It's not something which really comes up in everyday life. But I think I might have to buy something bright orange and pear-ish.

You know, for science.

17:16 / 19.12.06

ah, itunes is still being a cock.
i may switch mp3 players soon.
if only i didnt have a fucking ipod shuffle.

i have a new one;
does anyone know of looping software that is free? i really want ableton, but i dont have the readies. i don't mind if it's simple as fuck, but i would love it if it was shit-hot and easy to use.

21:23 / 19.12.06

toks - you can get patches for most big audio players to make them sync with your ipod.
If you are on windows, winamp and foobar are common favourites and (i think) they have patches.
I think amarok on Linux does that kinda thing.
On OS X, you're a bit screwed. There's not many other (good) players on OS X, tho i think there is software to transfer files outside of a media player. I hope you aren't on OS X.

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