"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...


Try to learn the difference between an untrimmed signature and a post.
I do realize this might tax your feeble Scotch intellect.

I'm sure I've pointed this out to you before, but "Scotch" is an
alcoholic drink, not a nationality.

I was assuming he (?) was meaning intellect that had been enfeebled by the
drinking of 'Scotch'. :-) However FWIW I'd associate that with de-icer
liquids like popular grain mix brand name deleted, etc. I did once clean
the ice off our path with an unwanted bottle of that some innocent had
given to me thinking it was worth drinking.

Here in London we don't de-ice our drives ourselves, we have east European
immigrants who will de-ice a whole street for a six pack of Stella and 50
grams
of Old Holborn. And down here in the south it only gets icy in the winter.

My preference tended to be for single malts. I did also enjoy some of the
various wood cask finished versions. The Balvenie Port Wood 21 year was a
favourite.

The Belvenie was never a favourite of mine but it could be perked by topping
with cola and two chunks of ice, no doubt you like it that way?

But Jim has at last cottoned onto the importance of impedance
matching...... (That should result in a flurry of angry retorts from the
clique?).

No idea who would be angry as I have no idea what you mean.

That doesn't surprise me...

Maybe the angry retorts will enlighten me on that.

.... If only.

This is not the froop for this but installed an LG Blu-Ray burner on a
Win7 64bit machine, (49 quid from yoyo) all criteria is met, used
Cyberlink compatibility advisor executable, flashed firmware blah blah,
but sigh, not going to plan. Bugger!

It seems a bit of shouting and cursing at it seems to have done the trick,
booted an hour back and it now recognises all blank media.

The "Win7" part made me lose interest in the rest... :-)

But Jim, over priced/under spec Apple hardware is for girls or men who
wear pink ties. Linux is for old blokes with too much time to spare, but
Windows is for real men.

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , FedupLurker
wrote:


"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...



My preference tended to be for single malts. I did also enjoy some of
the various wood cask finished versions. The Balvenie Port Wood 21
year was a favourite.

The Belvenie was never a favourite of mine but it could be perked by
topping with cola and two chunks of ice, no doubt you like it that way?

Ice, yes. Cola, no. if you are going to add cola then you might as well use
de-icer and max the experience. :-)



The "Win7" part made me lose interest in the rest... :-)

But Jim, over priced/under spec Apple hardware is for girls or men who
wear pink ties. Linux is for old blokes with too much time to spare, but
Windows is for real men.

Reminds me of 'Nice Try'. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...

In article , FedupLurker
wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...

My preference tended to be for single malts. I did also enjoy some of
the various wood cask finished versions. The Balvenie Port Wood 21
year was a favourite.

The Belvenie was never a favourite of mine but it could be perked by
topping with cola and two chunks of ice, no doubt you like it that way?

Ice, yes. Cola, no. if you are going to add cola then you might as well
use
de-icer and max the experience. :-)

I was trying to catch you out, but you passed with flying colours.
If one is to top up a 40% proof drinky then one may as well opt
for the cheapest on the off license shelves.
Your editor was once the tech ed on a mag where the reviews bloke
by name of Nobby liked Speyside topped up with Babycham, which is
OK with me, Nobby was the type of bloke who didn't view his day as
complete unless he had a couple of empty bottles to show for it.
His priority was to maintain that fine journalistic tradition of chronic
alcoholism. Your Ed will remember Nobby, though I don't know whats
happened to him, if I could recall his real name I'd google him?
I note your Ed raving about your USB testing, so when are you going to
try a bit of NOS'ing? It's all very well you muddling with Linux - or maybe
you get your rocks off with open source software that never quite
functions correctly? But there is wide world of fun to be had out here
and disabling digital filtering opens up a whole new vista to enjoy.
I currently have a Marantz CD50 (TDA1541) ready to be NOS'd.

I've been trying to catch up with the posts in here, but I think usenet
is on it's last legs and about to kick the bucket any day now? It seems
it is just clusters of nutters now?

The "Win7" part made me lose interest in the rest... :-)

But Jim, over priced/under spec Apple hardware is for girls or men who
wear pink ties. Linux is for old blokes with too much time to spare, but
Windows is for real men.

Reminds me of 'Nice Try'. :-)

I'm sure you say that everytime you attempt installing open source software.


Slainte,

Jim

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In article , FedupLurker
wrote:


"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...



But Jim, over priced/under spec Apple hardware is for girls or men
who wear pink ties. Linux is for old blokes with too much time to
spare, but Windows is for real men.

Reminds me of 'Nice Try'. :-)

I'm sure you say that everytime you attempt installing open source
software.

Depends what you mean. I certainly do find that software often omits things
I'd want, or has flaws, or doesn't do what I want the *way* I want. This is
true for closed-source as well as open-source in my experience. The
advantage of open source is that you can then decide if you wish to modify
what was provided or nick bits to modify. And quite often you can talk to
the programmers and they will make changes to meet a sensible request.

Also if, like myself, you may need to check how results were obtained from
raw data, so you sometimes need to know the details of how a computation
was done to verify the results. Closed-source packages can get in the way
of that.

To give an example. At present I'm doing some comparisions of SACD with
other sources. That SACD sets out to impede access to the raw data is
a PITA if you want to assess its limitations or possible flaws.

FWIW The worst item of software I ever bought was closed source, costly,
and simply didn't do what the author said. He then said he'd fix this, but
later on simply left the market. Only having the compiled code and it being
'commercial' then made it impractical to fix or alter. So money down the
loo so far as I was concerned. But that doesn't meant all closed-source or
paid-for software is poor. Most of the software I use on a daily basis is
closed-source and paid-for, and works fine. Oh, and isn't running on Linux,
either. ;- Like anyone with any sense, I just do what suits me best.
Happy to leave others to their own choices.

Anyway, this is why Ghod gave us GCC. Teach a man to fish. :-)

So my comment about losing interest when Win7 was mentioned meant what it
said. No more, no less. I don't use it, and have no interest in it. If
others do, that is fine with me.

Slainte,

Jim

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In article ,
FedupLurker wrote:
If one is to top up a 40% proof drinky then one may as well opt
for the cheapest on the off license shelves.

Not so - unless the mixer is designed to obliterate the taste of the
spirit rather than complement it. Certainly the case with a G&T.

BTW, many experience malt whisky drinkers add some water.

--
*Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool*

Dave Plowman London SW
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , FedupLurker
wrote:
If one is to top up a 40% proof drinky then one may as well opt for
the cheapest on the off license shelves.

Not so - unless the mixer is designed to obliterate the taste of the
spirit rather than complement it. Certainly the case with a G&T.

BTW, many experience malt whisky drinkers add some water.

That is also my experience, especially with the ones suppled as 'cask
strength'. Having a small amount of water or ice can make it easier to
taste the distinctive features of the particular malt/finish.

Slainte,

Jim

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Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
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Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

Le 21/06/11 16:21, Jim Lesurf a écrit :
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , FedupLurker
wrote:
If one is to top up a 40% proof drinky then one may as well opt for
the cheapest on the off license shelves.

Not so - unless the mixer is designed to obliterate the taste of the
spirit rather than complement it. Certainly the case with a G&T.

BTW, many experience malt whisky drinkers add some water.

That is also my experience, especially with the ones suppled as 'cask
strength'. Having a small amount of water or ice can make it easier to
taste the distinctive features of the particular malt/finish.

Slainte,

Jim


I always thought that putting ice or water in a single malt was still a
hanging offence in your neck of the woods!

:-)

--
Froggy

Baldrick: I've got this big growth in the middle of my face.
Blackadder: That's your nose, Baldrick.

(Blackadder the Third)

In article ,
froggy wrote:
I always thought that putting ice or water in a single malt was still a
hanging offence in your neck of the woods!

Yet another urban myth surrounding whisky. At one time if you bought a
decent whisky in a bar you'd get a small jug of water with it.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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