Comments | ibneko: Stupid SYM13FW500. Stupid BIOS limits (16709 cylinder limit)

ibneko

Stupid SYM13FW500. Stupid BIOS limits (16709 cylinder limit)

Jul 03, 2006 01:08

That 250GB Maxtor hard drive? I ended up getting it anyways. Yeah, yeah, I know Maxtor has problems, but I realized that ( Read more... )

hardware, technical

Comments 4

crowbaress July 3 2006, 19:39:58 UTC

Do you know anything about digital recording things? Like the recorders that people take into lectures but can also be used to record shows?

ibneko July 3 2006, 19:52:00 UTC

Like... audio recorder? Or video? I'm of the opinion that digital audio recorders are absurdly expensive... but that was a few years ago. Still, I don't think demand's gone up, so prices are still pretty high. And their not all that high quality - after all, the mics on most of them aren't exactly amazing.

crowbaress July 3 2006, 20:01:32 UTC

Audio. I'm only looking for one becuase the alternative is taking a video with my camera and leaving the cap on, and that just seems silly.

ibneko July 3 2006, 20:10:24 UTC

Hm, are you trying to record secretly? Or is being out in the open fine? 'cause otherwise, just bring your laptop. :) I've gotten pretty good recordings of lectures using (oddly enough) Microsoft Word (notebook mode - at the bottom of a document window, click on the ripped lined-paper thing on the bottom-left). And compression is good enough that an hour only takes up around 6-10MB.

Otherwise... uh... I don't know. I haven't really shopped around for a digital one lately... I mean, I could google/hit up amazon for reviews and tell you what I can find, but I'm pretty sure you could do that too.

Oooh, or another option would be to buy the audio recorder plugin thing for an iPod. Err... assuming you have an iPod. Quality's a bit on the low side though.