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DVD Stuck In My CD Tray – OSX Can’t Even See My Player Anymore

Update 1:55 pm: A reader suggested I turn my machine off for a minute, then restarted holding down the “C” key so it would try to boot from the disc, when it didn’t find the system disc it was looking for, it asked me if I wanted to eject it.
Turns out that Mac drivers don’t get blown away (like PC drivers can), but they can sort of get “forgotten” till the system does a sort of check and kicks them back in.
Thanks again for being such great readers that always seem to be willing to help me out when I get stuck. What would I do without ya 🙂
Hey guys, Tech support question here.
I put in a DVD and was trying to use utilities to burn an image and make a copy, when (all of a sudden…pow!) no seriously, it wasn’t quite that exciting, but it is holding me up on a number of projects now: my dual G4 can’t see the Superdrive.
How do I reinstall the drivers? I tried to eject it from the firmware and reboot holding down the mouse and all the stuff that “help” suggests. I googled till I was blue in the face, and now I ask for your wisdom to save the day.
Thanks in advance for emailing me at lisarein@finetuning.com with a possible solution.
lisa

Catching Up On Daily Show Posts Today

So let’s see how many of these suckers I can link to today.
They are all already available here, by date, in my archive (where you can always look for them in general). (The new ones are from late November and all of December.)
But, as you know, I like to include metadata with them in my posts here, so you can find them later when you’re looking for a specific clip. (And so I can find them later when I’m looking for a specific clip.)
These all have mirrors too, but only for a month or so, so if it’s after February 2005 and the mirrors don’t work anymore, that’s why.
Try to use the mirrors while they’re there though, because I imagine bandwidth will get pretty scarce over the next few days as this stuff gets accessed all at once.
Thanks in advance for letting me know if any of this stuff isn’t working properly, or if I have any bad links. I’ll leave these clips on my hard drive for a couple days, to make sure everything made it. Then I gotta start clearing off my hard drives to get ready to install my home recording studio. (I got a Digi 001 and I’m quite excited about it!)
I also have a few tech issues that have been plaguing me that I’m going to need your help with.
Anyway, major catch up day today.
peace,
lisa

What I’m Up To This Year…So Far

Hi gang.
I hope I’m not boring you guys with this latest onslaught of personal updates. I’m in the process of reorganizing my life and my focus as of late.
I’ve been getting ready for my last semester of graduate school, moving forward with a bunch of projects in my capacity as President of Operations at Wide Hive Records, moving forward with making my blog entries available as podcasts, setting up my home protools studio so I can start making my music available again, catching up on my Daily Show clips, rewriting my sadly outdated bio, and getting ready for a new year of fighting the horrible Shrub et al.
It is my hope that this will be the last year or two of the Shrub, not the first of four more years. I truly believe that there is enough criminal activity going on for something or other to turn into a watergate of sorts and enable us to impeach this group. (Or have enough stacked against them so they will step down before an impeachment occurs, although I don’t seriously anticipate such an honorable move from such a dishonorable bunch.)
That said, I did want to let you know that I haven’t forgotton about the video of Senator Barbara Boxer, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, and the other notables that stood up last week for every American’s right to have their vote counted. I spent most of the weekend dubbing those clips and getting prepared to put them up. It’s just that this “Gonzales the lunatic becoming Attorney General” thing is pretty important and I’ve decided to make trying to stop that from happening my first priority this week.
We need to do another letter writing campaign like we just pulled off for the Electoral Challenge. Gonzales is enemy of the people of the world #1. It’s hard to imagine anyone worse than
John Ashcroft in the position of Attorney General of the US of A, but there it is: a man who recommends torture and offers a legal justification for doing so, potentially in charge of the criminal justice branch of our country. (Update 1/23/05 – write your senators asking them to oppose Gonzales.)
Yikes!
So there it is. Gotta run. Goodies to follow…

So Where Do We Go From Here?

Hi gang.
I’m in the process of figuring out what actually got accomplished yesterday. I’ll let you know whatever I can figure out as soon as I’ve done enough homework to be sure I’m correct. But here’s a couple of things that happened, for starters:
1. History was made in that a challenge hasn’t happened since 1877. So that’s something.
2. Looks like the house and senate each spent two hours debating the issues surrounding the Ohio election and recount, and that there is supposed to be some kind of congressional investigation. So that’s something.
3. The House Judiciary Democratic Staff has published a report saying some pretty strong things about Blackwell’s involvement, including, but not limited to:


With regards to our factual finding, in brief, we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio.

I think this is the lead that needs following up on. (Via the congressional investigation and the other pending lawsuits.)
Like I said earlier — I will publish my results in a similiar fashion to the last report for easy reference, once the facts manifest themselves.
Just wanted to touch base. That and many Daily Show clips on the way.
thanks!

“Bloggers” Make ABC News’ “Person of the Year”

Update 1/6/05 – Here’s the video clip:

Bloggers As Person Of The Year On ABC World News Tonight (5 MB)
Hey did anyone record last night’s ABC World News Tonight? I did, but the recording’s kinda screwy. (My new cable really sucks here in the East Bay.)
I’ll put it up later anyway, but just in case there’s already a better version floating around, please let me know!
It’s nice to finally get a little credit from the “traditional” press.
The story had an 11-year-old girl who they’re calling “the world’s youngest video blogger.” I love it.
Happy New Year everybody!

Send A Little Cash To Truthout If You Can

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I’ve been using T r u t h o u t a lot lately, and I just remembered to send them some cash.
I’m sure they need it, because they are a really small organization that runs on the fumes of hope that I run on most of the time. The hope that somehow, someway, we’re going to fix our broken country and restore some of the ideals that it was founded on.
People write me all the time and ask if they can send me money. There are a lot of reasons why I can’t accept cash from anyone, and even more reasons why I can’t explain why right now. (“It’s a long explanation and I’m too swamped to take the time” is the main reason.)
So if you get the urge to send me money, send it to them instead.
William Rivers Pitt, Marc Ash, and the other folks over there are doing a lot of my work for me right now by sending me important updates right to my mailbox.
Life would kind of be over for me right now if they weren’t around, so, if you can afford it right now, let’s all keep them alive.
thanks!

What’s The Best MP3 Player Out There?

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I need to find out what the best MP3 player is out there, and fast 🙂
I wanna say the IPOD, but not there’s a Pocket DJ or something from Dell that someone told me is comperable (and can actually play more formats than the IPOD).
I have a feeling you guys can set me straight in an afternoon, so I thought I’d ask you.
lisarein@finetuning.com is my email to send suggestions to.
Thanks!
lisa

Check Out The Newest Wide Hive Release: Dissent’s Swap Meet Seers

Hey sorry I haven’t been posting much this week. You can get the Daily Show from November 10th here in the mean time, but I’ve been busy with our latest Wide Hive release, Dissent‘s
Swap Meet Seers.
There are 3 different songs available in their entirety
on the website.
Check it out! I’d love to know what you think.
I’ll be back getting more stuff up tomorrow, or the weekend.