The SWAMP! - Volume One

**atledreier** · **12-27-07, 05:33 AM**

Here (in Norway) we can choose if we want 52 weeks leave and 80% salary for the duration, or 42 weeks and 100% salary. The first 6 weeks is reserved for the mother, nad the father is required 6 weeks somethime during the 3 years following the birth. Other than that you are pretty much free to choose when to take the leave and how to organize it, as long as you use all of it withing three years. So you can do all in one go (most do this), or you could have every friday off for three years if you wish... We do what's best for the baby, so mom is home in a stretch until my 6 weeks at the end of the 42 weeks total. Worked very well for the first two, anyway.

Since my center speaker arrived today I'll post a pic of that. Oh, and a related quiz: What kind of speaker is this?

**drf** · **12-28-07, 05:37 PM**

O.K its been too long since the last post, and I have yet to see a flip pic!!!!
don't make me wait or I will start to suffer anxiety.

**Sonnie** · **12-28-07, 06:42 PM**

WHAT :raped: A flip post with no pic... again!

**atledreier** · **12-29-07, 02:29 PM**

FINALLY got my center speaker, and she's a beauty!

And it came in a BIG box!
I'll post a picture in the flip post!

**drf** · **12-29-07, 04:31 PM**

Quote:

atledreier wrote:

Since my center speaker arrived today I'll post a pic of that. Oh, and a related quiz: What kind of speaker is this?

A keynote speaker? a speaker on global economics?

**atledreier** · **12-29-07, 04:40 PM**

Hehe.. Good try, but wrong.

**drf** · **12-29-07, 10:51 PM**

I got it!!! it is a Raised Induction Flux Rectified Audio Formaliser, or better know as the RIFRAF of audio reproduction.

**Sonnie** · **12-30-07, 12:15 AM**

It's a Dali speaker...

Dali=Distributed Artificial LIfe

He was also a surrealist Spanish painter.

**drf** · **12-30-07, 01:41 AM**

Sonnie your right!! It is a Dali!!

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**Sonnie** · **12-30-07, 01:51 AM**

Huh?

**atledreier** · **12-30-07, 02:44 AM**

Dude, you melted my car!

**drf** · **12-30-07, 03:07 AM**

I didn't know Dali did swirling/vortex paintings? I thought he only did the droopy/melting ones?

Are you sure its not flux rectified, by the way i like this brand better

**atledreier** · **12-30-07, 11:30 AM**

I'm amazed noone commented on the state of my car, though. Btw, I washed it today. Turns out it was metallic grey under the dirt.

Here's a pic from the unpacking process....

**Sonnie** · **12-30-07, 01:38 PM**

Those look sweet...

**atledreier** · **12-30-07, 02:45 PM**

Believe me, they are!

**drf** · **12-30-07, 04:20 PM**

They certainly look awesome, Do Dali have entry level stuff as well as the more high end gear?

I only ask because I heard a pair on display here in Aus, but they incredibly shocking FR across the horizontal plane. This pair was significantly larger than what you have.

**atledreier** · **01-01-08, 05:43 PM**

They do a full range of stuff, from real cheap stuff to the higher-ens like my Euphonias. Give them a visit: www.dali.dk

On a different note, the kids decided they wanted to go for a swim today, in the ocean! I'm in Norway, btw, and the temperature was 4C below freezing!

**drf** · **01-01-08, 07:09 PM**

There mad!!!

I guess it comes down to conditioning though?

**Sonnie** · **01-02-08, 12:19 AM**

No way... as bad as I hate cold weather. Of course I ain't going in no beach water round here anyway. Sharks! :raped:

**drf** · **01-04-08, 03:52 PM**

Alas poor swamp, I knew it well.

who's going to write the eulogy?

**Ayreonaut** · **01-04-08, 08:32 PM**

Sweet DALIs! I love my IKONs.

Euphonias=$$$$$ here in the States. Are they cheaper there?

I think the IKONs are a no-frills version of the high-end models in the DALI line. Cheap cabinets, etc, but similar drivers.

The IKON sound defies their price ($1750 USD MSRP) The lower end stuff does not.

**Fincave** · **01-05-08, 01:03 AM**

I reckon the Swamp is still alive, barely. Am currently running my laptop with Ubuntu, removed XP completely though I may well have to go back. So far things seem to work ok, no crashes and all devices have so far worked, it did however take four hours to get the wireless internet to work at my girlfriend's place and the browser is very slow. I will still see if I can get things to speed up, if I can then there may be no need to go back.

**yourgrandma** · **01-05-08, 01:41 AM**

Does fedex deliver on saturdays? I've been getting the runaround on my HD70 and now they tell me it is to be delivered to my house tomorrow. Curious, I have my suspicions, I suspect I should refrain from getting my hopes up until I see the optoma name across the box being carried to my doorstep.

**drf** · **01-05-08, 02:29 AM**

Quote:

Fincave wrote:

I reckon the Swamp is still alive, barely. Am currently running my laptop with Ubuntu, removed XP completely though I may well have to go back. So far things seem to work ok, no crashes and all devices have so far worked, it did however take four hours to get the wireless internet to work at my girlfriend's place and the browser is very slow. I will still see if I can get things to speed up, if I can then there may be no need to go back.

Sounds like you've had a very good start with linux, stick with it; if the average linux user is anything to go by you won't regret the change.

**Fincave** · **01-05-08, 02:38 AM**

I may well stick with it, busy browsing forums to see if I can get Opera or Firefox to work quicker, have also tried Epiphany but none are as quick as the Windows version of Opera! I feel like I am behind a dial-up modem and I am going slowly mad.

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