Jim Alfredson

I have no idea why that would be the case. I ran DW 4 for years (now using DW MX) and never had any problems like that. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Sorry.

I had to start working on stuff at half-time of the Pistons game and they were up by a hefty margin. The Jazz came back to beat them by 13 points! What happened!? Oh well, good win for former Piston Mehmet Okur.

Well, that's at least one thing he got wrong.

I like this one: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/ex...tics/gem/1.html 2.5 mpg. Sounds like a Hummer!

I'm shocked, too. No really. No really. Ok, I'm not. Nice win for the Pistons over the Clippers last night. They also got the Warriors... I noticed no comments from the Golden State fans here. I like how Dunleavy tried to employ the "hack-a-Shaq" on Ben Wallace (who promptly went 7 of 22 on free throws) with five minutes left in the game but it didn't matter. Tonight Detroit takes on former teammate Mehmet Okur and the Jazz. I'll be watching!

Ok, I think that's the other session included on the "Black Coffee" re-issue. I'll have to dig that one out and give a listen. I remember it being a fine session. Thanks, Allen.

Gee, ya think? It don't matter. They'll still lose the East.

I don't think I do know those recordings. What sessions were they? Yes and no. I think he might've gone as Johnny Hammond on Kudu, but there is also a blues guitarist named John Hammond (son of the famous record producer) which I have seen go as Johnny Hammond as well.

It's sometimes in the pull down menu that's available when you click on the apple logo in the upper left (if I remember correctly). You should also be able to get there via the main harddrive.

The E drive is your cdrom, correct? Viruses don't attack cdroms.

I don't know... not clearing the queue when the machine is OFF seems kinda dumb to me. Is it really hard to hit "print" again once the machine boots up if there was a problem?

I guess I missed the part where you uninstalled Nero. My guess is that Nero wrote over the stock drivers and then upon uninstall took it's drivers with it. One solution would be to install Nero again, but just don't use the software if you don't want to. It should replace the drivers and the CDrom should show up if that was indeed the problem.

That's pretty stupid. Why would Mac do that?

Did he try turning off the printer and the computer?

You mean it's setup so the insurance companies make a lot of money and we don't get shit? NO WAY! I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.

Maple, although lately I've had to go with the sugar-water.

Yes, "add new hardware device" and let windows search. The WDC is a Western Digital harddrive most likely.

What happens if you go to the Control Panel and click "Add New Hardware" and let the computer search for new hardware?

Very strange. When did the CDrom disappear?

Well, I see someone has already mentioned ASPI in this thread. That would've been my first guess as well, that the ASPI drivers are missing. They should go in the windows/system32/drivers folder. When you run that program that Mr. Gone had you download, that is just a self-extractor. It doesn't actually install the drivers. It probably extracted the files to C:\adaptec\ASPI. Look in that folder for a filed called "aspichk", double click that and see what it says. The following files should be installed: ASPI32.sys WOWPOST.exe WINASPI.dll WNASPI32.dll If they are not, then you need to run the installer which is called "install" in that same folder (c:\adaptec\aspi)

Yeah, I have Black Coffee but I don't recall if Powell is on there. I like his playing on "Open House" a lot. By the way, Johnny Hammond Smith looks a bit like Chauncey Billups of the Detroit Pistons on this cover for some reason:

I'm thinking the same thing, Kalo.

Marla, If the drive is not displayed in device manager, there really seems to be a hardware problem. Maybe someone can test the drive on another PC to make sure it is at fault (and not the IDE cable or the mainboard) Not necessarily. I uninstalled Roxio from one of my computer once and after rebooting my burner was gone. It wasn't selectable as a drive, it wasn't in Device Manager, nothing. I forget how I got it back unfortunately. I'll see what I can find online about it.

I pulled this out today to listen to while burning some CDs and remembered just how nice this record is. Seldon Powell on tenor and flute (What's his story? I think this may be the only recording I have with him on it.) and Thad Jones on trumpet. Oh yeah, and Jimmy Smith's guitarist of choice for years Eddie McFadden. Blues For De-De is an especially fine tune. I think I need to add that one to the organissimo songlist. In fact, all Smith's originals are well-constructed and fun to blow on. The record wasn't recorded by RVG and it has a very interesting sound. I was actually trying to use it to compare my mixes of the organissimo Christmas tunes to something "professional" and put it into a spectral analyzer only to realize that it has some serious phase issues going on. But it still sounds great. I think the phase issues might be due to the organ being split between speakers (highs on the left, lows on the right). The organ sounds really clean and full, though. Good definition in the bass register. The second session (A Little Taste) on the disc is good too, but the sound is very different. Not as "intimate". I like the quality of the first session better, but the playing on both is first rate. Houston Person and Virgil Jones (playing as good as I've heard him... he seemed to lose some steam in the 70s on Muse) make up the front line. No guitar on this one. Hammond-Smith is very underrated and has not gotten much attention, especially since his death. It looked like he was going to make a comeback there for a moment, but unfortunately that was not to be. So many of the older masters have passed on.

Also, when you look at the buildings, the light seems to be coming from the upper right corner, which is precisely where a gigantic storm cloud is. And the clouds are lit from the opposite side. I think 7/4 is right, the sky and the background are two different photos.