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Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts

Posted by simoniker on from the thing-ized-thing dept.

Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, 8.2" LCD, and a host of other things. Full specs can be found here and pictures can be found here. To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."

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  1. A piano keyboard for input? by gpinzone · · Score: 4, Funny

    For playing music, it's the bomb. However, the only thing I can type in OpenOffice is "FACE"

    1. Re:A piano keyboard for input? by jawschlech · · Score: 5, Funny

      CABBAGE, actually, is the longest word you can write with musical tones. And Baggage. Face a baggage cabbage--look, whole sentences. The possibilities are virtually endless!

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    2. Re:A piano keyboard for input? by phraktyl · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, according to /usr/dict/words on a Solaris machine, and skipping the one-letter words, you can create:

      abbe, abc, abed, accede, ace, ad, adage, add, , dded, age, babe, bad, bade, badge, bag, baggage, be, bead, bed, bee, beef, beg, cab, cabbage, cafe, cage, cede, cf, dab, dad, dead, deaf, , ecade, deed, deface, deed, deface, ebb, edge, efface, egg, facade, face, fad, fade, fag, fed, fee, feed, gab, gad, gaff, gaffe, gag, gage, gee

      You could write a thesis with those!

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    3. Re:A piano keyboard for input? by Mr_Icon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, you could, arguably, write something in C#.

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    4. Re:A piano keyboard for input? by micromoog · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dad bagged a deaf babe.
      Egg a facade; deface!
      Deb acceded a bad deed.

  2. Already Slashdotted!! by ericdano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, 3 comments and the site is down. :-(

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    1. Re:Already Slashdotted!! by NightWulf · · Score: 2, Funny

      The funny part is this line "This Website is powered by PostNuke." I guess slashdot is now more powerful than a nuke?

  3. Linux-Based Musical . . . by Antisthenes · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thanks to my ill-behaved crappy Windows scanner software that stuck an annoying window in front of Mozilla, I only saw the first half of the headline, which read:

    Linux-Based Musical

    And I thought that a LotR musical would be bad enough...

  4. Notice the webhosting software by Dunark · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This Website is powered by PostNuke"

    I suppose it's appropriate if you're gonna be slashdotted.

  5. sites down(/.ed) by FuShock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they were hosting it off one of thier linux keyboards.

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  6. A new record! by twoslice · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think there has ever been an article that had more than 3 icons? With 6 icons - we have a new record!

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  7. Re:Man.... by rlafflick · · Score: 2, Funny

    how come this is modded -1 insightful. Shouldn't that be inciteful?