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From: Joerg on 27 Jun 2010 12:17 Michael A. Terrell wrote: > Joerg wrote: >> Michael A. Terrell wrote: [...] >>> BTW, I found this, today: http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/ >>> >> Nice. Unfortunately they don't want to play on my PC. > > > You have to click on the little red speaker icons by the text links > to hear the bugle calls. The text links take you to more information > about each call. > I did click on those but other than a blank screen with "no video" nothing happens. When I do that at our church site (also MP3) it works. Same screen but the sermon comes out of the speakers. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 27 Jun 2010 13:18 Joel Koltner wrote: > > "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:nqidnQX_xJzqAbvRnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d(a)earthlink.com... > > Quite loud, and an old system with a hum. It was built during > > W.W.II. The Army didn't allow you to have a radio, electric razor or > > anything else to tax the electrical system in those old builings. They > > had a single, 120 V 20A circuit. If some idiot blew he fuse, there was > > no heat until base maintainence arrived to replace it. It was all part > > of teaching you to follow the rules. > > Wow. That's pretty spartan all right! > > I wonder if soldiers in basic training these days get to retain, e.g., their > cell phones, MP3 players, Gameboys/PSPs, etc. during basic training? I know > those items are quite popular with the active duty guys out in Afghanistan. They push you as far as they can every day. By the end of the day, you barely have time to get a shower before Taps. We couldn't even have a deck of cards until the sixth week. That was just a few days before the end of basic. > > There was no alcohol availible when you were in basic. > > That must have been quite a shock, the first few weeks, for some of the guys. > :-) > > Although this was back when most of the guys were ~20, wasn't it? -- So many > of them couldn't legally drink anyway? It depended on the state, and sometimes the county. In the early '70s they sold 3.2% beer which was legal at 18, in some places. Of course the 3.2% cost as much as the 6% so all it meant was they had to spend twice as much to get drunk. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 27 Jun 2010 13:22 Joerg wrote: > > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > Joerg wrote: > >> Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > [...] > > >>> BTW, I found this, today: http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/ > >>> > >> Nice. Unfortunately they don't want to play on my PC. > > > > > > You have to click on the little red speaker icons by the text links > > to hear the bugle calls. The text links take you to more information > > about each call. > > > > I did click on those but other than a blank screen with "no video" > nothing happens. When I do that at our church site (also MP3) it works. > Same screen but the sermon comes out of the speakers. When I click on the icons, I get a menu asking if I want to play then file, or save it. You need a program to play the MP3 files. On XP it's Windows Media Player. You need to see what program mp3 files are associated with. I can put a couple on ABSE if you want to save them and see what the problem is. It sounds like some program has screwed up your 'file associations'. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: krw on 27 Jun 2010 13:43 On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:18:24 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >Joel Koltner wrote: >> >> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message >> news:nqidnQX_xJzqAbvRnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d(a)earthlink.com... >> > Quite loud, and an old system with a hum. It was built during >> > W.W.II. The Army didn't allow you to have a radio, electric razor or >> > anything else to tax the electrical system in those old builings. They >> > had a single, 120 V 20A circuit. If some idiot blew he fuse, there was >> > no heat until base maintainence arrived to replace it. It was all part >> > of teaching you to follow the rules. >> >> Wow. That's pretty spartan all right! >> >> I wonder if soldiers in basic training these days get to retain, e.g., their >> cell phones, MP3 players, Gameboys/PSPs, etc. during basic training? I know >> those items are quite popular with the active duty guys out in Afghanistan. > > > They push you as far as they can every day. By the end of the day, >you barely have time to get a shower before Taps. We couldn't even have >a deck of cards until the sixth week. That was just a few days before >the end of basic. > > >> > There was no alcohol availible when you were in basic. >> >> That must have been quite a shock, the first few weeks, for some of the guys. >> :-) >> >> Although this was back when most of the guys were ~20, wasn't it? -- So many >> of them couldn't legally drink anyway? > > > It depended on the state, and sometimes the county. In the early >'70s they sold 3.2% beer which was legal at 18, in some places. Of >course the 3.2% cost as much as the 6% so all it meant was they had to >spend twice as much to get drunk. Liquor laws were, and always have been, all over the map (NPI). Illinois dropped the legal age for beer and wine from 21 to 19 two weeks after I turned 21 (no matter, none of the campus bars carded students). Wisconsin had been 18 for decades. Where did all the kids from the border towns *drive*? The current 21YO limit is an infringement on one's Constitutional rights, IMO.
From: Baron on 27 Jun 2010 15:50
Joerg Inscribed thus: > Michael A. Terrell wrote: >> Joerg wrote: >>> Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > [...] > >>>> BTW, I found this, today: http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/ >>>> >>> Nice. Unfortunately they don't want to play on my PC. >> >> >> You have to click on the little red speaker icons by the text >> links >> to hear the bugle calls. The text links take you to more information >> about each call. >> > > I did click on those but other than a blank screen with "no video" > nothing happens. When I do that at our church site (also MP3) it > works. Same screen but the sermon comes out of the speakers. > Hi Joerg, You need MP3 player browser plugin installed. I just grabbed the audio stream and saved the files. -- Best Regards: Baron. |