http://www.terminatorx.cx/ "For those of you who drop by for the first time: terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (buit-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer and an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software runs under LINUX only."
it does a decent job....
I work for for one of the big computer manufacturers -- Phone Tech Support. Business and Consumer. Desktop and Portable. All Versions of Windows - 95 - a b and c, 98, 98se, NT, ME, 2000, XP - Pro and Home(not windows 97 dammit). Third party equipment -- at very least prove that our hardware is working.... Printers are fun... The Tech Support from the printer manufacturers are great -- "your USB port is too fast for the printer..." Everyone from the BOFH down to the person that doesnt know how to turn it on. Oh yea, remember sell warranties and promote the website. And if that call is longer than 15 minutes we need to have discussion..... And all of this glory for $9.30 an Hour. The only thing that keeps me from snapping and walking out, is the times that I remember that I like my work. Its the way I know how to help people. Listening to people scream at their kids, ask for help because they cant get onto Playboy.com without error messages, and the guy who is running his quarter-of-a-million-dollar-a-year business out of a p5-133 get upset because he has to service the thing out of warranty and be away from it for a week. Its not my fault people dont know anything about backing up important documents, antivirus updates, or having a backup system in case the sole system you have (being used for payrole) suddenly stops booting. I do the best job I can do. There is a lot of things that go on behind the scenes. There is a mountain of information to know. This is one of the most stressful jobs you could wish for. Until the industry finds the people that want to do the job, good tech support will be few and far between. Instead of paying outsourcers to eventually transfer the call to me because they dont want to replace a part or because they "dont know windows 2000" for a system that isnt even booting.
The other piece of the puzzle is that the people calling in have to work with us too:
I cant clap my hands and wall around in a circle 3 times to fix your computer. It doesnt work that way.
And when I ask for the serial number, and I say its all digits no letters, and you give me a rs506ghh... number and then argue with me about it for 5 minutes untill you see the correct number, things are not going to be pleaseant.
Also, IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW MORE THAN ME AND ALLREADY HAVE THE ANSWER --===-- FIX IT YOURSELF AND STOP CALLING ME! Remember -- your calling me about something you own, If you break it its not our problem. The car dealership isnt going to give you a new car because you accedentally ran into a power pole, or you decided to take appart the engine.
One last thing -- we will make you troubleshoot your hardware, we dont jus send parts out to send parts out. You WILL work for it, because its YOUR COMPUTER.
I feel so much better now
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now we all know how to make our very own version of the UT Ripper, just take a large motor, mount it to the bottom of your 52X cdrom drive, remove the front faceplate and spin that celene dion cd(the one that damages your computer) up to 3/4 the speed of sound. next you point the contraption at the old stack of tape cartridges and begin the fun!!!
Speaking of Super Mario Bros, back in the day (2-3 years ago) I found an interesting NES Rom: Afro-Mario -- regular Mario but with a large Elvis-like Afro.. that was fun.......
thats all they want, the BSA is not investigating and finding pirates... they are just sending out these letters to scare people to buy extra licences.... I recieved one of those letters for my 1 person "business"(running just to get free eWeek), they get names off of mailing lists to spread fear in the hearts of office managers everywhere
this was actually about getting people licenced so that they are not breaking any copyright laws.. unfortunatly microsoft and BS-A are using this as a way of scaring people into the new licencing schemes the've come up with.
there have been pc-compat. all-in-one systems out for years now... check out the Gateway Profile 3 http://www.gateway.com/home/prod/hm_profile3sp_Pro dDetail.shtml
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"For those of you who drop by for the first time: terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (buit-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer and an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software runs under LINUX only."
it does a decent job....
I work for for one of the big computer manufacturers -- Phone Tech Support. Business and Consumer. Desktop and Portable. All Versions of Windows - 95 - a b and c, 98, 98se, NT, ME, 2000, XP - Pro and Home(not windows 97 dammit). Third party equipment -- at very least prove that our hardware is working.... Printers are fun... The Tech Support from the printer manufacturers are great -- "your USB port is too fast for the printer..." Everyone from the BOFH down to the person that doesnt know how to turn it on. Oh yea, remember sell warranties and promote the website. And if that call is longer than 15 minutes we need to have discussion..... And all of this glory for $9.30 an Hour. The only thing that keeps me from snapping and walking out, is the times that I remember that I like my work. Its the way I know how to help people. Listening to people scream at their kids, ask for help because they cant get onto Playboy.com without error messages, and the guy who is running his quarter-of-a-million-dollar-a-year business out of a p5-133 get upset because he has to service the thing out of warranty and be away from it for a week. Its not my fault people dont know anything about backing up important documents, antivirus updates, or having a backup system in case the sole system you have (being used for payrole) suddenly stops booting. I do the best job I can do. There is a lot of things that go on behind the scenes. There is a mountain of information to know. This is one of the most stressful jobs you could wish for. Until the industry finds the people that want to do the job, good tech support will be few and far between. Instead of paying outsourcers to eventually transfer the call to me because they dont want to replace a part or because they "dont know windows 2000" for a system that isnt even booting. The other piece of the puzzle is that the people calling in have to work with us too: I cant clap my hands and wall around in a circle 3 times to fix your computer. It doesnt work that way. And when I ask for the serial number, and I say its all digits no letters, and you give me a rs506ghh... number and then argue with me about it for 5 minutes untill you see the correct number, things are not going to be pleaseant. Also, IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW MORE THAN ME AND ALLREADY HAVE THE ANSWER --===-- FIX IT YOURSELF AND STOP CALLING ME! Remember -- your calling me about something you own, If you break it its not our problem. The car dealership isnt going to give you a new car because you accedentally ran into a power pole, or you decided to take appart the engine. One last thing -- we will make you troubleshoot your hardware, we dont jus send parts out to send parts out. You WILL work for it, because its YOUR COMPUTER. I feel so much better now --
now we all know how to make our very own version of the UT Ripper, just take a large motor, mount it to the bottom of your 52X cdrom drive, remove the front faceplate and spin that celene dion cd(the one that damages your computer) up to 3/4 the speed of sound. next you point the contraption at the old stack of tape cartridges and begin the fun!!!
remember win 95 ...wait for it....
sysedit --- its not one big config file but it makes it all available without digging too much
any text editor....
Speaking of Super Mario Bros, back in the day (2-3 years ago) I found an interesting NES Rom: Afro-Mario -- regular Mario but with a large Elvis-like Afro.. that was fun.......
thats all they want, the BSA is not investigating and finding pirates... they are just sending out these letters to scare people to buy extra licences.... I recieved one of those letters for my 1 person "business"(running just to get free eWeek), they get names off of mailing lists to spread fear in the hearts of office managers everywhere
this was actually about getting people licenced so that they are not breaking any copyright laws.. unfortunatly microsoft and BS-A are using this as a way of scaring people into the new licencing schemes the've come up with.
there have been pc-compat. all-in-one systems out for years now... check out the Gateway Profile 3 http://www.gateway.com/home/prod/hm_profile3sp_Pro dDetail.shtml