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Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction? 411

Posted by timothy from the erasing-the-analog-hole dept.
SlashD0tter writes "Many older sound cards were shipped with line-out, microphone-in, and a line-in jacks. For years I've used such a line-in jack on an old Windows 2000 dinosaur desktop that I bought in 2000 (600 Mhz PIII) to capture the stereo audio signal from an old Technics receiver. I've used this arrangement to recover the audio from a slew of old vinyl LPs and even a few cassettes using some simple audio manipulating software from a small shop in Australia. I've noticed only recently, unfortunately, that all of the four laptops I've bought since then have omitted a line-in jack, forcing me to continue keeping this old desktop on life support. I've looked around for USB sound cards that include a line-in jack, but I haven't been too impressed by the selection. Is the line-in jack doomed to extinction, possibly due to lobbying from vested interests, or are there better thinking-outside-the-box alternatives available?"
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Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

Posted by timothy from the calimari-for-the-5000 dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."

Comment Re:Bastards! (Score 1) 562

by sambo1 (#27351251) Attached to: 10 OSes We Left Behind

> Name one good Amiga Application.

Deluxe Paint III.

> None of the Amiga games/demos used the OS for anything

Loads of shitty bloated American games did (lounge suit larry or whatever the fuck it was called, monkey island etc etc), but none of the fast, European arcade/console-style games did.

There were many great apps for the Amiga's OS's from V1 up to V3.0 (the last time I used my Amiga reguarly). From Cygnus Ed one of the best text editors of all time I'd love to replicate on my PC, More a simple but effective text reader that scrolled so smoothly, to lots of video, paint, 3D rendering applications and more you could run at the same time. Plus the Mac emulator that ran faster than the Mac it emulated. The ability to dual boot by holiding down the mouse buttons on boot, FAST booting from the hard drive and near instantious booting from RAD (recoverable RAM drive). All the public domain apps and hacks and extentions sigh.. I miss the Amiga, more than the Mac's and PC's I have used. What Commodore mismanaged was such a shame.

Comment Re:Glad someone's fighting (Score 1) 217

by sambo1 (#25878419) Attached to: Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed
Yep I'm an aussie with IInet and they are a good ISP. I've been with them since dial up days about 12 years and they always choose the smart option. They are fighting the movie thing, the internet filtering thing, have included itunes downloads and watching ABC on replay via the net in their quota (which most Australian ISP's do not), jump started the ADSL 2+ push and have announced IPTV just recently. And have given every iinet user a download limit bump for free at least once so you get more than what you were paying for - its all I think a good ISP should do.

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