Jim Dye

Hey Flurin, I grabbed that show last night as well. I have an eMac at home. It looks like he is using the *nix version of FLAC installed through FINK, rather than the Mac GUI version. I'll check it out after work and see if I'm getting the same error. Jim

We're ready for the playoffs at the Dye house!

People posing as hospital inspectors in Detroit, other cities, draw attention of federal authorities Friday, April 22, 2005 By MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Federal authorities are looking into three closely bunched incidents in which people posing as inspectors were caught nosing around hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. No arrests have been made and there is no evidence to suggest that the cases are linked or that there is a tie to terror groups, federal officials said. "We do not possess any specific intelligence that there is a terrorism nexus to these reports," Homeland Security spokeswoman Kathleen Montgomery said Friday. But the department is monitoring the incidents through local law enforcement authorities and FBI agents also have been called in, officials said. The hospitals, which officials refused to identify, reported the cases in late February and early March to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which evaluates 4,500 hospitals in the United States. Commission surveyors often turn up unannounced to look at records, observe patient care and visit parts of hospitals that are closed to the public. A federal law enforcement official and commission executives said it is not uncommon for people to seek entry to hospitals in search of drugs or medical supplies. The commission also has seen attempts by relatives of patients to seek faster access to care, said commission spokeswoman Charlene Hill. But the recent incidents were unusual both because they occurred so close to one another and did not appear to be related to patient care. "That's what prompted our concern," Hill said. The commission alerted authorities and hospitals, and reminded hospital executives that legitimate inspectors follow established procedures and are instructed to answer questions when hospital personnel challenge them, said Joe Cappiello, the commission's vice president for accreditation/field operations. In the first instance, a well-dressed man and woman in their mid-30s showed up in the middle of the night at a Los Angeles hospital with badges that resemble those carried by commission inspectors. They left when questioned by hospital staff. Three days later, a bearded man in his 30s or 40s of either South Asian or Middle Eastern origin was confronted at a Boston hospital. He, too, departed when questioned. On March 10, a middle-aged woman who identified herself as a commission inspector fled a Detroit hospital's maternity ward when confronted. None of the commision's 350 to 400 surveyors was scheduled to visit the three hospitals on thse days, Hill said. Inspectors are supposed to report to hospital security or the front desk when they arrive, Capiello said. They carry a letter signed by the organization's executive vice president and accredited hospitals also can sign on to a secure Web site to compare inspectors' badges with a facsimile posted there, Hill said.

I think the Chesterfields had the stamps too. My grandmother smoked 'em until the day she died. I always remember seeing piles of green stamps on her kitchen counter. Maybe I'm confusing the coupons with the green stamps you used to get at the grocery store.

What about Chesterfields? I need 25 more green stamps to get my free couch.

Excellent! I'll be up north (near Greenville) right around that time. Hope to catch you guys at one of the gigs.

http://www.jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/sh...?t=10147&page=3 According to a poster at JC, he's OK.

HEY! The Titans are johnny come latelys? Ever hear of the Houston Oilers?

I used to read the Hoffman board now and again. Not anymore. I really got tired of all the sycophants. Uh-Oh! Thread Crap!

Jammin out to the V5 via the rodcast! Thanks!

A couple more things... Our dog is mostly an inside dog. She's only out for a few minutes at a time to go to the bathroom unless we are with her. She's not much of a yapper. We have a 6' wooden privacy fence in our back yard. The meat wasn't in a straight line. It looks like it was just tossed on the ground in a random fashion, maybe as someone walked the property line between our house and the neighbors house. It wasn't perfectly cubed either. Just chopped up in fairly uniform pieces like you would do when making a stew. Weird!

O.K. Here is a weird one for you guys. I was out in my yard this evening, doing some spring yardwork when I came upon a strange find. There was about a pound of raw cubed meat, probably steak, scattered along one side of my house all the way along the fence to the back of my property. Weird, huh? First I though it was an animal who may have gotten in some garbage, but an animal would have eaten the meat. This looked like fresh raw beef. It was starting to attract ants. I picked it all up and threw it out. What is going on here? Is someone trying to poison my dog and cat? Is there some neighbor doing a meat ritual by my house? Did it drop out of a plane passing overhead? Any ideas?

My suspicions appear to have been correct. DNS problems. MIKE WENDLAND: Comcast has new Internet troubles BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST April 15, 2005 For customers of Comcast's high-speed Internet connections, it's deja vu all over again, with complaints about disruptions and slowdowns once more clogging the chat rooms and my e-mail inbox. Remember 2002, when Comcast Internet users encountered widespread problems following the company's takeover of part of the troubled Road Runner network? Back then, it took days for Comcast to concede the magnitude of the issues and its poor response to customers. Now Comcast users say service problems are happening again. The difficulties have been intermittent but nationwide, lasting for several hours Tuesday and Wednesday nights and the night of April 7. They couldn't come at a worse time, striking during prime evening usage hours and resulting in service so slow that dial-up seemed speedy. This time, however, the company is 'fessing up to the troubles. Dave Scott, president of Comcast's Midwest division, told me Thursday that the difficulties trace back to a decision earlier this year to centralize some Internet functions in two national clusters, instead of regional systems. "Part of it is the growth curve," Scott said. Nationwide, he said, Comcast now has more than 7 million broadband subscribers, "and we've been rapidly increasing speed and getting more and more sophisticated with our services." With about 1 million subscribers locally, Comcast is Michigan's largest provider of high-speed Internet connections. Scott said that for unknown reasons, demand during the past couple of weeks has simply overwhelmed the new centralized server locations in New Jersey and Colorado. Although engineers don't believe it is a capacity issue, Scott said he and his team pulled the Detroit service from the national servers early Thursday morning and reverted to local servers until the national issues are resolved. "That seems to have worked," he said. "We're not seeing any more issues. We can't guarantee what will happen tonight or until we get this permanently corrected, but I think we're out of the woods now." Users who called Comcast tech support during the slowdowns said they often encountered terse recordings referring to unspecified service problems. Some users who did get through said Comcast tech support personnel offered no explanation and little help. Chuck Reti, a freelance video editor from Detroit, said he noticed a general slowdown in access speeds several weeks ago. "Then the outages hit, and you'd go to access a site or try to get your e-mail and nothing happens," he said. "It is just a huge frustration." That was the story for days at a time back in 2002, when Comcast had just taken over a poorly maintained Internet system and was trying to integrate it into its network, which was still not complete. This time, however, the responsibility is all Comcast's. One of the most interesting results of this week's service problems, though, has been the way many Comcast users have taken matters into their own hands. They discovered that Comcast's connection to the Internet still worked; the problem was with something called domain name servers, or DNS, which tell computers where to find the Web addresses we type into our browsers. Those DNS settings can loosely be thought of as the traffic directions for the Internet, much as signs along freeways point us to our destination. The failure of Comcast's centralized name servers to direct traffic can be compared to what would happen if signs along the freeway were knocked down: You'd still be on the road, but you wouldn't know where to go. So tech-savvy Comcast users changed the Internet settings on their computers to temporarily use the domain name servers of other providers. Instead of looking to the overloaded Comcast servers to find the Web sites they wanted, they told their computers to look to domain name servers maintained by Verizon, GTE, Level 3 or other major Internet providers. Is that fair? Some say it's ethically questionable to piggyback off someone else's servers, but it's legal, says Tony Robinson, president of Pioneer Technology, a Michigan Internet and networking company. "This is no big deal," he said. "But it has to be embarrassing for a big company like Comcast to not have its own servers reliably working and then see its own customers using another company's servers." Comcast is indeed aware of what's happening. A posting on a Comcast support board this week addressed the issue of the unorthodox workarounds. "If you keep non-Comcast DNS servers entered in your settings, you may experience issues further down the road if the owner of these non-Comcast DNS servers makes any changes to block your usage or decommissions these servers," it said. As of Thursday afternoon, Comcast indeed seemed to have its own name servers back up. But this week's surge of customer activism and complaints shows just how seriously people take their Internet. Comcast had better take notice. For unlike in 2002, there is now lots of competition from satellite Internet and DSL broadband rivals -- and in some markets, like southeastern Michigan with WideOpenWest, other cable companies as well. Contact MIKE WENDLAND at 313-222-8861 or mwendland@freepress.com. Copyright © 2005 Detroit Free Press Inc.

It is for me. I'm sure 6-11 pm is peak bandwidth time. It could be that their domain name servers are screwed up or overloaded or something. It's getting very frustrating, that's for sure.

Exactly! I'm having the exact same problems again tonight.

During the Yankees Sox game on ESPN2 tonight, Rick Sutcliff repeated almost verbatim the point Vaccaro made in the Post article. Chris Berman was quick to jump on him and take your side, Martin! B-)

I'm glad everything is OK!

Has anyone heard from Rooster Ties? I hope everything is OK!

Jim Dye, you're out of your alleged mind!! ...and last but not least...

I having problems with everything. VERY slow with many time outs and intermittent access.

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Awesome idea! I plan on signing up shortly. Have you considered including a bonus 2nd CD of a live gig for a limited edition first pressing run that sells for a bit more? Maybe the Arno gig? Or the Christmas EP? That would be very cool.

Forgive me if this has been posted before. It was linked at the Toshiba-EMI site: http://www.megmilk.com/pressrelease/050224/main1.html How cool! B-)

I've been to the headquarters of Billy Records! Bill Fenohr is a very good friend. He's the one who hipped me to the BNBB. Conn500 was kind enough to try and help me find a job up in Detroit. Things didn't quite work out, but it was bery nice to meet Connie in person.