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Denny wrote:

ASD wrote:System requirements:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Thanks, Denny, I didn't think of just looking it up. That would be too easy. Can you look up the rest of my software for me too?
Mike

Over the past year my PC has developed a major case of the slows, maybe because it is maxed out at less that 1GB of RAM, so I am thinking seriously of replacing it with a new Dell with 6GB of RAM and the Vista OS. Dell is offering a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out later this year. In the...

The irony is that if you DON'T know these tunes the session regulars will say, "What, don't you know that? How can someone pretend to play Irish Trad and NOT know THAT tune?!"

Damned if you do and...

I thought the whole program was fascinating. It seems that each new fact we learn about the brain's functions opens another door to further complexities. Any musician who has spent hundreds of hours practicing and performing has experienced the out-of-body endorphin and dopamine mediated feelings de...

Hey Paul, I read once that Stradivarius kept his wood in the attic. He could probably tell how dry it was by just touching it. Mike

http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2009/06/cuyahoga_river_fire_40_years_a.html It's clickable if you get rid of the extra / in the first [url] tag. Or, since it starts with "http://", you can omit the [url] tags entirely. Thanks for the tip. I find that with many computer instruct...

Today happens to be my birthday and the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire that brought the problem of water pollution to the attention of the general public and that eventually resulted in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Here is a story and some video published tod...

You know the Cuyahoga river (or the junk that was floating on it) caught fire several times in the 50s and 60s. The fire made famous by Randy Newman was the last. Actually, that fire played a great part in the development of the movement that resulted in the forming of the Environmental Protection A...

No firm vacation plans now but in terms of dream vacations, I would like someday to go to Cuba and to Bahia, Brazil. Both are treasure troves documenting the clash of Iberian, African and indigenous American cultures. The attraction for me is mainly musical but there is so much more to experience - ...

Another nurse here. I worked in ICU for several years and I now work in a research group designing and testing ICU monitoring equipment (heart, blood pressure, etc.) I really a beginner at the whistle. For the last 12 years I have been a member of a flamenco dance group, a guitarist, not a dancer. ...

Sure, lots of possibilities. But first, realize that it's not really 3 A notes ... The basic call-and-echo structure there is 2x2: FDD cAA|dcA A3| FDD cAA|dcA G3| The 2nd and 3rd A's are really a single mid-cut A. And the following G is really just a passing tone down to the restart of the phrase. ...

That computer is attached to the network and, although it can also function as a stand alone I can't think that much scanning software is running on it. I think you're thinking in terms of dumb terminals. These days, even if attached to a network, a PC will act like one that isn't, and will have lo...

Are you sure it's your hard drive making the whining noise? The fans inside computers that keep everything cool can get mighty noisy when working hard, and can sound pretty much like a jet getting ready to take off. It can be especially bad if the fans are worn; sometimes swapping them out for a ne...

The hard drive in my first computer, a PC-XT was a whopping 10 megabites!

Thanks for the information, everyone. I have been teetering on the question of whether computers are a useful tool for the 21st century or the spawn of the devil. Your answers have tilted me back to the "useful tool" side, at least got now. Both the whirring hard drive and the fade to blac...