The problem likely is your input device selection in Audacity although it could be your general Windows audio settings.

In Audacity try to click Edit then preferences and then devices. Under Recording there is a drop down box that says device; try various options there starting with the Microsoft sound mapper.

If that fails I suggest you seek help on the Audacity forums.

The advice they give out is to use the 1.3.x beta series generally and specifically if you are on Windows 7. (This is in preparation for a 2.x release sometime soon, with 1.2 long ago discontinued.)

In 1.3 you can drag, stretch and hide (View-->Toolbars) the various icon groups.

It’s a great program.

Oh and by the way, for sharing files try http://www.dropbox.com/

You get 2GB of free online storage, and various ways you can add to this at nil charge.

Install, then just drop files you want to share into the public folder, right click and obtain a url anybody can access.

Or keep them all to yourself shared across multiple computers, synched via your network or the net.

I think the problem here is that what you are posting is a copy of a file with corrupt data, that neither you or anybody else can get much out of. Because the data is corrupt!

However, this doesn’t provide any clues as to whether alternative methods might extract additional/missing data from the original media.

I would try to take a look at this comprehensive article, with detailed step-by-step instructions: HowgtoGeek: Recover Data Like a Forensics Expert Using an Ubuntu Live CD

Good luck!

Now that the light is so much better, I am ok with my K10 at least until October/November, by which time the K5 will undoubtedly be cheaper, and there will be myriad exotic new models on the market.

Unfortunately, to me it seems increasingly uncertain whether Pentax can continue their plucky competitive fightback with their strategy seemingly floundering on all fronts.

To recap this was to restore profitability/slash overheads by sacking large swathes of the workforce and transforming themselves largely into packagers of third party technology.

However, the debacle around firstly the K5 sensor stains and secondly the front focusing business starkly illustrates the way in which the gutted organisation is not only incapable of adequate pre-launch quality control, but is also unable to respond to problems that subsequently emerge in a timely fashion.

The financial risk of having to cover overheads is reduced in business plan terms, but the real world execution risk is much greater, albeit with the monetary impact now obscured by recent financial reporting changes that mean Hoya no longer provides even barebones commentary on Pentax’s camera businesses.

Separately I have not only considered the D7000, I actually nipped into PC World the other night for a hands on. Nice camera, but much bigger than I’d ideally want. Another factor I considered was that without a battery of DA * lenses I could buy similar Tokina glass at a fraction of the equivalent Pentax price. But it turns out that since I last looked, Pentax prices have come back significantly from what I remember and are no longer anywhere near as expensive relatively.

In other words this is just another failure of the much discussed price hike strategy, that illustrates the extent to which Pentax - as a bit player - are not masters of their own destiny.

That seems to leave just LUFC and 1919. . . 19. . . Ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-19.

De-de-de-de-de-destruction

I scrapped AVG Internet Security only last week - having used it for 5 years or so - and now have just MSE and WinPatrol (plus my Router firewall).

I have a powerful quad core computer with lots of memory, but to my surprise have already noticed a quite significant uplift in performance, due to much better internet/network speeds; presumably AVG was very slow in scanning traffic.