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I'm alone tonight for the first time for 2 years or so, the girlfriend is out with her friends and the son is sleeping at the grandmothers house, I think I'll have to celebrate it with a dram of the Ardbeg. Slàinthe!

I think Macallan has a very special character, very complex taste. I've only tried the 12 and 18 Fine Oaks (the ones we usually find on the shelves here in Sweden.) The 12 was perhaps a bit harsh and the 18 was very complex but almost had too much fruit for my taste. It would be really...

I bought myself a bottle of Ardbeg 10 a couple of weekends ago. I've thought about it a few years now, but other whiskies has come in between - until now. I can recommend it if you're into the peaty stuff.... It's super peaty but with a smooth and delicate finish, not at all as mischievous as...

Yes we usually have tour buses and perhaps a few caravans in the IKEA parking lots. :viking: Sorry... no Walmart in Sweden.

Yes, but we only have about three "major" cities. But there are 17 IKEA stores so I gues we have a pretty high rate of IKEAs per capita. And when it comes to the girls I can't really complain (even if my girlfriend/mother of my son is from Peru.) Just be sure to avoid Härnösand where they all...

+1. :)

Interesting that a town roughly the size of our capital can't offer something interesting... :| On the other hand, I don't know if Stockholm has anything to offer me either. :)

You know, you can leave the headphones/stereo or whatever on 24/7 (=168 hours/week.) You don't have to actually listen to every song that's played. :)

OK, a few hundred hours is might be an exaggeration, but speakers are hopefully precision made and needs to wear in a bit before they reach their potential. It's just like a new pair of shoes, or a newly renovated car engine for that matter. Well, maybe you and me can't hear a 3dB difference in...

Another solution might be to get an Atom+2GB RAM for ~$130-$150/machine+labour (if he could be convinced to spend that obscene amount of money on hardware.) It would probably be almost usable, but it's probably better to leave it and wait until the customer realizes that the machines are...

I'm not really a headphone guy. But if I was I would take a look at the AKG K420, they are supposed to sound great even if they are pretty inexpensive. I don't have a personal experience but many Linn owners recommend them and they tend to be pretty picky about music reproduction. And it's not...

How about putting a second hard disk in the machines and put the temp dir and pagefile on that? It should speed things up a bit... I don't know if it's enough to be usable though.

Maybe you could try Lynx?

I like this one. http://xkcd.com/528/

The ones I've head of only needs a blow before you can start the vehicle... But they aren't allowed to drink beer while driving anyway, so it should be fine. At least in theory. Anyway, I don't think it's any worse than in some South European countries where it's pretty common to drink a bottle...

Yes... But are you aware that Fox news is also a satire news source? :joker:

I don't want to take the Jamie Olivers thread off topic again - so I'll post this good news here instead. ;) Republicans, Leukemia Team Up To Repeal Health Care Law

Apple admits its Ipad can't do wireless very well Maybe that's why? They can't access the internet. ;)

I agree, aluminium foil helmets might even be counter productive... http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

But you treat obese people in USA today? Maybe you don't have a health care insurance. But people who have are paying for the treatment of obese people with higher insurance rates and so on.

Well, there's another alternative - we could/should treat people even if they live unhealthy lives. Otherwise we could just as well stop treating people who have car accidents because they drove to fast or were drunk, high, talking in the phone or whatever.

I don't think there's a big chance/risk of that. It's never happened in any country before, not even in ones that provide totally free health care for their citizens.

Pizza? ;) It really doesn't matter if it's public or private money, it's always the public that pays in the end.

Opera 10.50 was released today. I like it, the default view is very minimalistic. http://www.opera.com/

...and it's possible to complement natural gas with biogas to get a reduction of the CO2 emissions...

This looks promising. Coming soon: Postage stamp sized 1TB SSD.

I almost thought so, I hope it works fine. I guess you'll have the possibility to upscale the content in the receiver too, it might be nice. :) I just saw something that so far looks like a great deal on ebay, Linn Sizmik 10.25 subwoofer. Here's a review of the sub.

I understand, I'm not against HDMI. It's just that I (maybe mis)understood it like ddrueding might upgrade the receiver to one that could convert composite and S-video to HDMI. Of course it's no problem if it comes with an otherwise great receiver, but I don't think it should be a major factor...

Another alternative is to get just two channel sound. Two good speakers should be better than five or six less good ones. I get plenty of 3D sound from my >10 year old Linn Tukans... And don't upgrade the receiver unless it's really necessary. Conversion from component to HDMI can only degrade...

Yes, it was. :oops:

My tip: Get a GMC Pacer instead of the RS4 and get this movie system instead. That's what I would do anyway. :)

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" No, but seriously, I agree with MaxBurn, getting vintage stuff is probably the best solution.

You can run almost all Linn speakers in single/bi-wired/bi-amped or active configurations, on the pretty new ones like the Trikan you just change to another link board around the terminals and you're set. :) My home cinema dream (within a reasonable budget) is actually the Trikan with Ninkas as...

Have you bought a center speaker yet? If not - a used Linn Trikan might be worth a look.

The Onion reveals how it's made...

Cambridge Audio and Oppo are supposed to load BDs as fast as DVDs or CDs. Personally I'm aiming for a media server for movies. I already have a DS-player for music and I'm very happy with it - both the handling and the sound quality...

Congratulations!

My son is testing the limits all the time, just like it should be. And it's the parents that need to set the limits or people will not like them. But I usually try and explain things to him in a calm manner. It usually works much better than when I scream. I've tried it two times, once when he...

No, and you can raise your children as you like as long as you're not breaking the laws of your country. I'm just a bit skeptical towards the conclusion that the spanking part was the reason for the happiness. And if it is: Is there anything we non-spanking parents can do to compensate for the...

"The vast majority of U.S. citizens are just not receiving the physical punishment they deserve"...

How young? I think my son who is almost 2 year old knows pretty much what he can and can't do at home, and we haven't beaten him once and I don't have any plans of beating him either. We'll see what kind of results he'll get. On the other hand, many corporate leaders lost one parent early, so...

Maybe it's a little bit old by now... Anyway - I made an observation this morning when I drove a Skoda Fabia 1.4 liter 16v - it used 0.9-1 liter/hour at idle according to the on board computer, that's ~ 1/4 gallon/hour? I know it's not the most common car in the USA, but I thought I should share...

Congratulations, take care of yourself and mom. =) Natural Parenting...

I don't have any experience with learning laptops. But many kids are beginning to use the Internet when they're about 4 years old. So maybe you should get him a real computer? My son is almost 20 months old and we're looking for tractors, excavators, trains and stuff on Google - mostly while...

Yes I have 8 Savvio 15K.1 in one database server, two in RAID 1 and the rest as single drives where we use two disks/database, one with the data file and one with the log file. They are pretty fast. but nothing special - I wish we had bought a few SSDs as it would have been like 2500% faster and...

Maybe the SSD-drives doesn't generate enough heat for the cat? ;)

That sounds a little bit on the high side, my first car (Opel Kadett GSI from 1985) had an 1.8 liter engine and it used 2.3 liters/hour when idling @ working temperature - at least according to the computer. And it used ~4-5 times that when the engine was cold.

I hope your current speakers are fine. But if you're still looking for an upgrade you might want to take a look at Axiom Audio or Aperion. They both make pretty inexpensive speakers that usually gets good reviews.

So the rest of the world are not doing anything? One example: Sodertalje, a small town in Sweden has received more fugitives from Iraq than USA and Canada together since the war started. If lets say, Dallas, would welcome the same amount of fugitives in relation to their population, there would...

I'm sure that some will end up in prison or whatever, remember that three terrorists are already successfully convicted (out of 800 potential ones, but still.) And the receiving countries will probably keep an eye on the other ones, so I hope they can prevent any terrorist attacks before they...