So far, the only true sound reproduction without any purity problem that was ever created is monaural. It doesn't have phasing problems, it doesn't have listener's position problems, it doesn't have any problem whatsoever. We know the sound is coming from that column you see there and the sound is pristine, perfect quality.
Since the 70's, stereophonic sound has made it big. We all know stereo sound is perfect to listen to music. And it truly is. You can immerse yourself in music, be with the musicians. We still have problems with phasing, with distortion, with creating a really good panoramic sound, with filling the room with music, with being able not to pinpoint where the speakers are... these are slowly resolved. We're getting there.
Then there's the 3-channel surround sound... 4-channel... 5-channel... 6-channel... 7-channel...
Heck, when I go see a recent movie, I hardly hear the 3rd channel being used. Sometimes with some SFX, sometimes with some bad quality wooshing effect. Some movies will be pointed to me as using that quality I am looking for. What are they? 5 movies over the whole lot?
Take the latest James Bond. You sometimes hear ambience on the back speakers... ooh big deal.
And don't speak me about the "walking stick" the ".1" channel is. If the quality was there, we would have 5 real channels of pure full-frequency range sound, including low frequencies.
So for me, this experiment is precisely that... an experiment. If it works, it will become another IMAX/OMNIMAX where you need to go to science expos to see carefully selected footage that will give you the maximum sensations and show what it should be in movies.
And what about the quality of these speakers? I mean, I can barely buy two good speakers at $1000. What about 200? What about all the problems of movie production, sound reproduction, positionning, quality, sound check,...? When most theaters are not even THX approved and don't plan on be... and when most movies don't really use anything else than left-center-right... What's the deal?
Would a movie producer be really interested in making a scene where you hear two actors arriving from the aisles, where you hear them perfectly but don't see them on screen because it would all screw up our small minds, seeing them in front but hearing them to our side? Meh, not so sure!
Anyways, let's just finish this by saying : Ok, 500 speakers if you want... but start by give me the same quality and use that quality in 5 channels... and I will start to be interested to 500.
Nice to meet you ^_^ You provided us with a big kick in the arse:)
Well, yes... of course... that's the limit we fixed on the whole system. I mean, where I work, we do have games that takes up ALL available RAM, but these are the exception. You don't buy a $300 piece of equipment solely to play a game usually ^_^
I work for a company that does games for all of these platforms.
And we MUST constrain ourselves to these limits because SOME devices have such limit.
Example, J2ME, you usually have a 64K limit for the JAR size. But sometimes, it's 70K, sometimes it's 96K, sometimes it's 200K, sometimes it's no limit at all.
So the limits that I did put forward are all from _modern_ devices, but encompasses the most restrictive ones.
Quake requiring 10 megs of Program memory doesn't work on all PocketPCs alas. Some, yes... but not all...
I'd love to have 64 megs of RAM for the devices I develop for.
Reminder: - On J2ME, you have 64K of JAR size for most small devices. And that is in Java, mind you. - On J2ME, you have less than 200K or RAM,.classes included to run your soft. - On Brew, you have in the likes of 300-500K to run your software. - On Palm OS (older versions) you have 128K to run your stuff. - On most PocketPC, you have to restrain yourself to a few megs TOP. More than 4 megs and you are bound to have problems due to the small slider indicating how much RAM is allocated to storage and how much RAM is allocated to software. - On most Smartphones, you have to restrain yourself to maybe 8 megs.
I went to France 2 years ago. I was with my good friend and she was staying at home. Sometimes, she didn't want to visit places. So I did a big background check to know it it was a nice project and I actually bought a PS2 there, along with some games.
Now, fast forward a few weeks later. I had to change the power supply, add a mod chip (Messiah), buy a Pal/Ntsc converter (8m of frame buffer for good quality). But that was a nice project to have hacker-wise, even if very lame money-wise.
Why would I want a mod chip? To play Canadian games, of course. All of my games are original on my PS2. (Except DDR Extreme, downloaded Japan import. Will buy it soon as a legit version)
I've had this problem too... In fact I'm having it quite frequently and I finally found what was the beef and now I don't have it anymore.
The problem: your computer somehow thinks there is a external screen connected to your laptop. Since I connected a (real) external screen and uses two screen configuration to my Powerbook G3, I never ever have the problem. The only problem I sometimes face is my system's screen not lighting up, to which I'm doing a "detect monitors" in the small menu and it works.
So I guess Apple can't really fix this as it's actually a hardware problem with the video card.
But what you could to is try to have a Applescript that would do a detect monitors (I don't know if it's feasible, I am not in front of my comp right now) or create a small app and apply it to a key... and it should work.
I read the question. Have you read my answers? All of them are to the point... and I like the last one...
"consider alternatives... _like_" - DAT recording - CD recorder - Having a external USB box or something to grab sound off - Taking a LC III to record at 44.1KHz and write the file to network - Renting a Nagra-D - NOT using the G5 because it has not enough surface to remove heat. AND putting your computer in another room.
For convenience, maybe the guy doesn't want to move his computer, or maybe he can move his computer and use longer cables for his screen... and using bluetooth keyboard and mouse... or whatnot . There are always alternatives. If my recording equipment was in my room and I was fully installed with all the cables at the good place... and if it was the designed place where everyone said "hey your computer will be there because it is the best spot", well, maybe you don't really want to change it... but everything is possible in life.
If you have to change your recording equipment (microphones) I suggest you don't do it, unless it wasn't optimal equipment to boot.
For example, (again, an example, please don't side-flame me for that) if you have a omnidirectional microphone for some job and that it was determined that to record that particular chorus, it would be preferable to have two omni/(not hyper)cardioid microphones, it is better NOT to change for a shotgun when you require something else.
Please try not to be rude in nitpicking what I write, it's all in good faith, as I assume the same from the readers and replyers.
- don't mess around the internals. - you can remove the hard disks and actually put them over a network (gigabit recommended) line using a Apple Server and a NetBoot - you can remove the hard disks by using a 15ft firewire cable or a very long and very expensive fiber channel cable - you don't need much speed unless you are using active plugins. If you only do recording, consider doing the record and then applying the plugins - you can cancel-out some noise using Spark XL 2.8 sound recording software (by TC Works). There is a VST plug-in called DeNoise where you give it a sample up to 3 seconds of your noise (and ONLY your noise, as recorded... for example, just before or after your official recording session) and it will remove it. It's of very decent quality. - I suggest you do not put your G5 under your desk, as it will simply make the air hot all around... and the fans will kick-off more often. Instead, put it some place where it will get a lot of air. You can put noise cancelling panels between it and your mic though. - Use some third party sound input hardware (like firewire devices) They are better isolated than your computer's sound input (even if it is really excellent). - If you have to change your equipment (microphones) for your recording gear, consider alternatives... like putting your computer in another room.
I don't have experiece with the other IPSec frontends...
But I can tell you that Vaporsec works well (http://afp548.com) -- oh and don't download the Jaguar version on the site, download the version in the forums (The major difference between the two are a few applescript bugs of no consequence, but it's nice to have a bug-free system.
And I suggest you ask your admins for the PRECISE configuration, it's not really easy to implement.
Personally it has come to a limit... If advertisements weren't that present, that "in your face" and that annoying, I'd leave them be. Hey, even I did click on some advertisements left or right, knowing what they were. I clicked on more than my share of Amazon "buy now" stuff or things that are interesting.
Problem is for every nice person out there lies 10 bad people. If I allow pop-up and pop-unders, I start having consoles and javascript nasties and whatnot. Also, people keep cookies everywhere I go, no matter what. Maybe one day RCMP will go knocking on my door and tell I've been looking at kiddie porn because some pop-under was for kiddie porn or some banner ad was there for kiddie porn, adding a slew of cookies on my comp all pointing to some (hopefully fictive) www.iloveunderagethailandkidsintheirunderwear.com... when all I wanted was to look for infos on Thailand (example again) and clicked on a google site that looked like that.
Personally, on M$ computers, I run spybot, spywareblaster, xp-antispy and proxomitron with JD5000's latest list. That way, most of that publicity is unknown to me and I am free to ravish the net as I please. Oh, and when a cookie gets accepted on my computer, it must be authorized to do so.
Doubleclick might be a very "friendly" company (let say) and might give nice pop-up windows that are unobtrusive but I won't even take the chance to get a pop-up loop or some other evilness.
My father truely believed it was 2400 bauds back then...
As theoretically, the line gives us 8000 Hz to play with... so the best that could be achieved is in the likes of 4000 bauds, thus making 2400 bauds the theoretical limit until it becomes unreliable.... grow up and learn... grow up and learn...
Heheheh As a computer programmer myself, I tend to like to see everything that exist in the world. I don't care if it's made by the evil monopolistic giant or not.
Like the reviews author says, I find COM concepts very easy to grasp and quite interesting. Compared to CORBA, it is indeed very easy to use.
As a hacker (someone who likes to know how it works), I find that very interesting. As someone who code for Mac and Palm, I find I can apply many concepts of COM to my code and make it object-portable.
As far as.NET goes (while we're on the subject), I think it's... mmm... nice... Too big, too bulky, I prefer J2EE to.NET 10 folds. I choke and puke every time I see some small nibblets of C#, that aberration of a language. But it's intersting to know how it works and how to code anyways.
By the way, LMAO yes hell is all frozen I think. What the heck, M$ coding book ? EEEK!
I would agree with you on this topic. But even by Foobaring the code, it should STILL handle anything gracefully.
Best example, from M$. My computer was dead, and I do mean it. It barely started up and acted all weird. A faulty SIMM in that case. I used to work with M$-DOS edit. And it simply asserted whenever there were any real weird problems. It would quit (we're not yet on the micro-reboot systems) but at least, it wouldn't kill my data.
Being a good worker in a software company, I can tell most bugs are there because we don't have time to "make things right", and no incentive to do it right either. Money talks. Users talk too... if you don't have any bad press because of the bugs, that means there aren't a lot to boot.
Another company I worked for had the exact opposite mentality. It was a critical-system application and a mere crash with loss of data would've meant at worst 1 month of lost data with little-to-no chance of recovering it afterwards... and no possibility of backup in-between. Not-so-weirdly, they had a VERY strict bug discipline.
There are a few air purifier that might do the trick for not a lot of money. I'd say the few parts you should first look at is WHERE does the dust comes from.
If it's airborne, air purifier.
If it's more like cat hairs (like in my house) simply elevate your computer from the floor. 1ft high and you will get 1/8th the dust you used to have.
If it falls from everywhere, put your computer under something... and a good paint job can help too.
I know it's all common sense, but usually you can remove most of your problems with common sense.
Yep. I know exactly a few people who might be really interested in the sites I visit. ^_^
Besides, I wouldn't have to send them my new "discoveries" (either pr0n or not). They would be able to find those themselves in the wad of stuff I visit.
One objection, though. Suppose I go visit one site that is so highly objectionnable there is even a virus in the site. Would that mean I would automatically infect people whom I trust because they too will go look at that site? Nice!
"Don't go visit Goatse! It's a virus! Yeah, I tell ya!"
Everything that comes IN the SmartUPS gets filtered.
I have a SmartUPS 1RMXL (1VA, extended uptime)... I ask for 1400VA. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to filter the RFI that comes in @ that load. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to detect brownouts and spikes. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to sustain all that juice without frying.
I take that same example... and apply it with better real-world values.
I have a SmartUPS 500 (Dunno if it exists, don't care). 500VA max. I plug in a Class-AB 400VA-input power amp. Of course, it will sustain that amp, don't you think?
*HONK* think again! Sound amplification is a very dynamic process. Although there are condensers that will reduce the load spikes, there is always the chance of a 1MS 600VA spike some place. Average, it shouldn't go higher than 300 or 350VA, but peak, it might go much higher, even if for minute delays.
What will happen to our poor SmartUPS? It will try to cope with these changes, and won't be able to, because the demand is too high at some points.
Note that I haven't tried this, I am sure most power amps will work fine, as long as they are transistor-based, or chip-based. It might actually work fine... But I would definitely not try it with high-end AB. Pure Class A is something else again, since a 200W Class-A will always ask 200W of input current. So there are no spikes (if I am not mistaken).
Another cause for your problem might be heat dissipation. SmartUPSes heat a lot (gee, I wonder why, since they are sooo dumb and only activated when the voltage is too low/high - maybe something is actually happening to your power as it gets inputted to your device. Never thought of that?).
Personally, I try to keep ANY UPS I have to less than half-load. It helps them live longer, it gives me more uptime. It reduces the strain on all the components. It reduces the possibility of one device interfering with the other RFI-wise as the RFI filters can be applied to full potential.
As for your claim to hate waiting for probable downtime, I agree with you. But even with your second message, you don't give any idea you are actually going to send them to APC. As a disgruntled user, you might get refunded, or you might have new ones... or at least, a reason why it happened. If you want to stay in the dark, it's your fscking problem. I just hope your friendly (very good anyways - used one once and it was a really superior product) Lieberts will not have the same faith. I am not totally confident on that point by the way you are working.
Again, as per experience, I do not try to find replacement for something that ain't broken... and I try to find the cause of the breakage if it's only me that got a problem.
Finally, I am really unlucky on some of my components. I did get a dud GameCube, even if it's one of the most stable console that existed. And no I didn't went to replace it with a XBox because it was screwed.
Anyways, you can have your opinion. But don't say APC is bad because you didn't got entire satisfaction. You are one of the first ones I know to have big problems with them. That might say something.
If you do read the tech sheet on SmartUPSes, you'll see it's not what you think.
What you wrote is precisely describing how a BackUPS works. The battery power stays dormant until there is a power loss. Then, it kicks in and with only a minor glitch, it gives you fairly rounded sinewave voltage.
SmartUPS is not the same. Technically, when you plug in a SmartUPS, all your power cord does is charge the battery. Everything plugged on your SmartUPS gets its current from the battery, which is really decently sine-waved.
That way, you don't suffer from minor brownouts, 1/100th secs spikes, voltage variation or anything else. The current sent to your devices is precise and regular.
Drawback: you have to change your batteries more often, as they are constantly being used.
There is a warranty for precisely these things. APC's one is really great. Simply the fact that you didn't even tried to send them in before buying one makes me feel like this story is a complete troll. I haven't heard from anyone having problems with APC, and they did save my day more than once.
Well... Technically if you take the lag between the different bits of the reception of the ping, you could get the "sound" of your modem/broadband.
Other way, if you send 3000 1-byte pings and convert the lag of the pings to a sample, you should have a pretty good approximation of the discrepencies of your connection.
Now as to say where does these discrepencies come from, it's another matter altogether. To have a totally reliable solution, you should receive samples from every part of the traceroute and make sure that traceroute is kept for your "telesurgery".... and it's hoping the usage of the different nodes are constant and have enough bandwidth to support the steam in the first place.
I don't see it as baloney, it's certainly a novel approach. But as for an useful application, I'm less than sure. In a few years, maybe.
As computer programmers, me&my friends did quite weird things as easter eggs.
I used to work at a GPS-software company. When in navigation mode, if you typed "where in the world is carmen sandiego?" (actually only the initials and it worked, witwics?), it showed the precise position of my cubicle in the company's office. It was (believe it or not) quite useful to test the software's precision for many functions... I had to remove it though because we were lacking space the hard way and my code took 230 bytes - with 4k of free RAM, 230 bytes is a lot! No one would've found it as it was quite stealthy and precise enough it wouldn't crash anything... but when in monger for space, well, I have a conscience too:P
On a mainstream computer game, we were coding something where buildings could be put in place and under certain conditions, they could be destroyed. Then, sept. 11 arrived... We _HAD_ to make a small aircraft that goes on the buildings and make them crash. It is totally sick but anyways. The mod code and picture is on a CDROM copy somewhere, as it was totally kick-banned from the final code, for obvious reasons (even if almost impossible to find).:)
On the successful ones, I have more than a few hidden credits on my side, I used to comment quite extensively my javascript codes. One thing I found out was that record #0 of many of my databases are never used (sanity check). So I write anything that comes into my mind when creating that record. No one will see it anyways... And it's always selected out from any of my queries.
When creating a easter egg, you must remind yourself of something: it will always be shown somewhere. Don't put yourself in trouble, write "cutsie" thing, not things that you could be taken accountable for. For example, never put pr0n in a child game, don't put sicko things anywhere, don't kick the company in the groin... or else, someone will find it and then, you're in trouble (especially if CVS system is implemented - they can backtrace!)
Other than that, well, have fun, easter eggs are quite fun to do and discover! And they personalize the code too.
... uh, and I hope people don't think I'm for piracy. I do make (C) software myself and would be left w/o a job if only one copy was bought. I buy most of my wares and pay for the shareware I use.
I simply don't like to be treated as a thief even if legit. Innocence presumption still exists in theses countries, no? Why do M$ has to check on all the computers that are sold? Why are they checking inside companies for unlegit software? Why do I have to buy THEIR software in order to be legit? Can't I install OS2 Warp on my new P7 35GHz if I want to? If they want to be the De Facto standard, I guess they should GIVE their software with new computers, like Apple do with theirs.
... if you've made your reputation with crime, I guess you can't expect people to be legit with you when you've made your moneyload.
Basically, I do think it is time Microsoft gets the results of its actions.
Why was M$ so successful? Because people were pirating their software throughout the world. Everyone copied DOS for all the possible reasons (how many times did you do "format a:/s"?). Everyone copied Windows 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 for all reasons. Then, as soon as it was made possible, everyone copied Windows 95 and 98. THIS is how they made their user base. A lack of useful protection made it possible. It wasn't encouraged but it was certainly mainstream.
And for businesses and new computers, of course, "strange" practices with agreements asking for the latest M$ software being installed on new computers made it real... not forgetting a few years ago when every computer was bundled with M$ Office.
... Yes, it's the same thing for M$ Office. Why is it so successful? Because mainly it was made available without paying, as bundled or as a copy. Because it was the "de facto" choice, everyone had it.
Now, M$ wants everyone to buy... and everyone to pay for all their software... and finding ways to inhibit/prohibit copy of their precious Windows and Office. It's fine but it won't work with people. That's why a lot of my friends still have Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2K. No copy protection. That's why everyone I know still have Office 2K.
The only people I know that have XP are bundled with new computers (no choice now, isn't it strange!). The only people I know that have Office XP are... mmm... Do I know someone? Nope!
There are other arguments too... For example, I have a small company (let say I never unregistered a name, it's dead since a few years ago). I received a letter from M$ saying that I should check all my licenses for their products, that I could be screened. I _HOPE_ I am screened, simply to tell them I never bought and I never will buy any of their crappy software (I run a Powerbook G3) and they should stop bugging me. -- That is the first argument, they harass people.
There is also that unwritten law stipulating that every new computer should have a M$ sticker with its WinXP serial number on it. What is that? I imagine hell in big companies where the unscrupulous employee will simply go and get that serial number for his home, and the company's face when the serial # for that computer will stop working.
So now, companies, gov'ts and people in general are seeking ways to get rid of that cumbersome giant. If they could find a way to get rid of it, they would. Because it's simply stupid to have to buy a piece of software as costly as a XBox simply to run a machine (Windows XP)... and totally stupid to have to buy a piece of software that is also totally mainstream with a price tag as hefty as a full-featured color WinCe PDA (Office XP).
What's left with Linux to do ? It have to be tested, recognized and endorsed by the general public. One first step in my opinion would be to make a X-skin for Windows, where Windows would work precisely as your favorite X, with all the features. A full office suite should be available for that precise X-on-Windows. And it should be user-friendly (let me rephrase: dumb-friendly). Finally, it should be free and compatible.
For me, M$ are shooting themselves in the foot with all these actions. And it's not by harassing people and companies they will get the result they want. I'm sure of it.
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So far, the only true sound reproduction without any purity problem that was ever created is monaural. It doesn't have phasing problems, it doesn't have listener's position problems, it doesn't have any problem whatsoever. We know the sound is coming from that column you see there and the sound is pristine, perfect quality.
... an experiment. If it works, it will become another IMAX/OMNIMAX where you need to go to science expos to see carefully selected footage that will give you the maximum sensations and show what it should be in movies.
...? When most theaters are not even THX approved and don't plan on be... and when most movies don't really use anything else than left-center-right ... What's the deal?
... and I will start to be interested to 500.
Since the 70's, stereophonic sound has made it big. We all know stereo sound is perfect to listen to music. And it truly is. You can immerse yourself in music, be with the musicians. We still have problems with phasing, with distortion, with creating a really good panoramic sound, with filling the room with music, with being able not to pinpoint where the speakers are... these are slowly resolved. We're getting there.
Then there's the 3-channel surround sound... 4-channel... 5-channel... 6-channel... 7-channel...
Heck, when I go see a recent movie, I hardly hear the 3rd channel being used. Sometimes with some SFX, sometimes with some bad quality wooshing effect. Some movies will be pointed to me as using that quality I am looking for. What are they? 5 movies over the whole lot?
Take the latest James Bond. You sometimes hear ambience on the back speakers... ooh big deal.
And don't speak me about the "walking stick" the ".1" channel is. If the quality was there, we would have 5 real channels of pure full-frequency range sound, including low frequencies.
So for me, this experiment is precisely that
And what about the quality of these speakers? I mean, I can barely buy two good speakers at $1000. What about 200? What about all the problems of movie production, sound reproduction, positionning, quality, sound check,
Would a movie producer be really interested in making a scene where you hear two actors arriving from the aisles, where you hear them perfectly but don't see them on screen because it would all screw up our small minds, seeing them in front but hearing them to our side? Meh, not so sure!
Anyways, let's just finish this by saying : Ok, 500 speakers if you want... but start by give me the same quality and use that quality in 5 channels
Mike
Nice to meet you ^_^ You provided us with a big kick in the arse :)
Well, yes... of course... that's the limit we fixed on the whole system. I mean, where I work, we do have games that takes up ALL available RAM, but these are the exception. You don't buy a $300 piece of equipment solely to play a game usually ^_^
Mike
You are right.
...
I should say:
I work for a company that does games for all of these platforms.
And we MUST constrain ourselves to these limits because SOME devices have such limit.
Example, J2ME, you usually have a 64K limit for the JAR size. But sometimes, it's 70K, sometimes it's 96K, sometimes it's 200K, sometimes it's no limit at all.
So the limits that I did put forward are all from _modern_ devices, but encompasses the most restrictive ones.
Quake requiring 10 megs of Program memory doesn't work on all PocketPCs alas. Some, yes... but not all
Yes, another 64 megs comment.
.classes included to run your soft.
I'd love to have 64 megs of RAM for the devices I develop for.
Reminder:
- On J2ME, you have 64K of JAR size for most small devices. And that is in Java, mind you.
- On J2ME, you have less than 200K or RAM,
- On Brew, you have in the likes of 300-500K to run your software.
- On Palm OS (older versions) you have 128K to run your stuff.
- On most PocketPC, you have to restrain yourself to a few megs TOP. More than 4 megs and you are bound to have problems due to the small slider indicating how much RAM is allocated to storage and how much RAM is allocated to software.
- On most Smartphones, you have to restrain yourself to maybe 8 megs.
64 megs... *sheesh* I'd wish!
Same thing for DVDs BTW...
I went to France 2 years ago. I was with my good friend and she was staying at home. Sometimes, she didn't want to visit places. So I did a big background check to know it it was a nice project and I actually bought a PS2 there, along with some games.
Now, fast forward a few weeks later. I had to change the power supply, add a mod chip (Messiah), buy a Pal/Ntsc converter (8m of frame buffer for good quality). But that was a nice project to have hacker-wise, even if very lame money-wise.
Why would I want a mod chip? To play Canadian games, of course. All of my games are original on my PS2. (Except DDR Extreme, downloaded Japan import. Will buy it soon as a legit version)
Mike
I've had this problem too... In fact I'm having it quite frequently and I finally found what was the beef and now I don't have it anymore.
... and it should work.
The problem: your computer somehow thinks there is a external screen connected to your laptop. Since I connected a (real) external screen and uses two screen configuration to my Powerbook G3, I never ever have the problem. The only problem I sometimes face is my system's screen not lighting up, to which I'm doing a "detect monitors" in the small menu and it works.
So I guess Apple can't really fix this as it's actually a hardware problem with the video card.
But what you could to is try to have a Applescript that would do a detect monitors (I don't know if it's feasible, I am not in front of my comp right now) or create a small app and apply it to a key
Mike
Don't want to start a flamewar here.
... and I like the last one...
... _like_"
... or whatnot . There are always alternatives. If my recording equipment was in my room and I was fully installed with all the cables at the good place... and if it was the designed place where everyone said "hey your computer will be there because it is the best spot", well, maybe you don't really want to change it ... but everything is possible in life.
I read the question. Have you read my answers? All of them are to the point
"consider alternatives
- DAT recording
- CD recorder
- Having a external USB box or something to grab sound off
- Taking a LC III to record at 44.1KHz and write the file to network
- Renting a Nagra-D
- NOT using the G5 because it has not enough surface to remove heat.
AND putting your computer in another room.
For convenience, maybe the guy doesn't want to move his computer, or maybe he can move his computer and use longer cables for his screen... and using bluetooth keyboard and mouse
If you have to change your recording equipment (microphones) I suggest you don't do it, unless it wasn't optimal equipment to boot.
For example, (again, an example, please don't side-flame me for that) if you have a omnidirectional microphone for some job and that it was determined that to record that particular chorus, it would be preferable to have two omni/(not hyper)cardioid microphones, it is better NOT to change for a shotgun when you require something else.
Please try not to be rude in nitpicking what I write, it's all in good faith, as I assume the same from the readers and replyers.
Have a nice day
Mike
- don't mess around the internals. ... like putting your computer in another room.
- you can remove the hard disks and actually put them over a network (gigabit recommended) line using a Apple Server and a NetBoot
- you can remove the hard disks by using a 15ft firewire cable or a very long and very expensive fiber channel cable
- you don't need much speed unless you are using active plugins. If you only do recording, consider doing the record and then applying the plugins
- you can cancel-out some noise using Spark XL 2.8 sound recording software (by TC Works). There is a VST plug-in called DeNoise where you give it a sample up to 3 seconds of your noise (and ONLY your noise, as recorded... for example, just before or after your official recording session) and it will remove it. It's of very decent quality.
- I suggest you do not put your G5 under your desk, as it will simply make the air hot all around... and the fans will kick-off more often. Instead, put it some place where it will get a lot of air. You can put noise cancelling panels between it and your mic though.
- Use some third party sound input hardware (like firewire devices) They are better isolated than your computer's sound input (even if it is really excellent).
- If you have to change your equipment (microphones) for your recording gear, consider alternatives
Mike
I don't have experiece with the other IPSec frontends...
But I can tell you that Vaporsec works well (http://afp548.com) -- oh and don't download the Jaguar version on the site, download the version in the forums (The major difference between the two are a few applescript bugs of no consequence, but it's nice to have a bug-free system.
And I suggest you ask your admins for the PRECISE configuration, it's not really easy to implement.
Mike
Personally it has come to a limit ... If advertisements weren't that present, that "in your face" and that annoying, I'd leave them be. Hey, even I did click on some advertisements left or right, knowing what they were. I clicked on more than my share of Amazon "buy now" stuff or things that are interesting.
... when all I wanted was to look for infos on Thailand (example again) and clicked on a google site that looked like that.
Problem is for every nice person out there lies 10 bad people. If I allow pop-up and pop-unders, I start having consoles and javascript nasties and whatnot. Also, people keep cookies everywhere I go, no matter what. Maybe one day RCMP will go knocking on my door and tell I've been looking at kiddie porn because some pop-under was for kiddie porn or some banner ad was there for kiddie porn, adding a slew of cookies on my comp all pointing to some (hopefully fictive) www.iloveunderagethailandkidsintheirunderwear.com
Personally, on M$ computers, I run spybot, spywareblaster, xp-antispy and proxomitron with JD5000's latest list. That way, most of that publicity is unknown to me and I am free to ravish the net as I please. Oh, and when a cookie gets accepted on my computer, it must be authorized to do so.
Doubleclick might be a very "friendly" company (let say) and might give nice pop-up windows that are unobtrusive but I won't even take the chance to get a pop-up loop or some other evilness.
People will never copy full CDs over the Internet, it is way too big and would take days by conventional modems (read: 14.4K)
People will never copy full DVDs over the Internet, it is way too big and would take days by conventional broadband (read: 128K ISDN).
-- that is for bandwidth.
People will never be able to copy CDs, they are unreadable on computers except in audio D-A conversion.
People will never be able to copy DVDs, they are encrypted with CSS.
-- that is for format.
People will never be able to copy GameCube games, they are on their own proprietary format discs.
People will never be able to copy PSX/2 games, they have heavy protection.
People will never be able to crack the XBox protection.
-- This is for the consoles
And my #1:
This format is the next revolution! Jump in the bandwagon now!
Mike
My father truely believed it was 2400 bauds back then...
... grow up and learn ... grow up and learn ...
As theoretically, the line gives us 8000 Hz to play with... so the best that could be achieved is in the likes of 4000 bauds, thus making 2400 bauds the theoretical limit until it becomes unreliable.
Mike
where to start? ^_^
Heheheh As a computer programmer myself, I tend to like to see everything that exist in the world. I don't care if it's made by the evil monopolistic giant or not.
.NET goes (while we're on the subject), I think it's ... mmm ... nice ... Too big, too bulky, I prefer J2EE to .NET 10 folds. I choke and puke every time I see some small nibblets of C#, that aberration of a language. But it's intersting to know how it works and how to code anyways.
Like the reviews author says, I find COM concepts very easy to grasp and quite interesting. Compared to CORBA, it is indeed very easy to use.
As a hacker (someone who likes to know how it works), I find that very interesting. As someone who code for Mac and Palm, I find I can apply many concepts of COM to my code and make it object-portable.
As far as
By the way, LMAO yes hell is all frozen I think. What the heck, M$ coding book ? EEEK!
Mike
I would agree with you on this topic. But even by Foobaring the code, it should STILL handle anything gracefully.
Best example, from M$. My computer was dead, and I do mean it. It barely started up and acted all weird. A faulty SIMM in that case. I used to work with M$-DOS edit. And it simply asserted whenever there were any real weird problems. It would quit (we're not yet on the micro-reboot systems) but at least, it wouldn't kill my data.
Being a good worker in a software company, I can tell most bugs are there because we don't have time to "make things right", and no incentive to do it right either. Money talks. Users talk too... if you don't have any bad press because of the bugs, that means there aren't a lot to boot.
Another company I worked for had the exact opposite mentality. It was a critical-system application and a mere crash with loss of data would've meant at worst 1 month of lost data with little-to-no chance of recovering it afterwards... and no possibility of backup in-between. Not-so-weirdly, they had a VERY strict bug discipline.
Mike
There are a few air purifier that might do the trick for not a lot of money. I'd say the few parts you should first look at is WHERE does the dust comes from.
If it's airborne, air purifier.
If it's more like cat hairs (like in my house) simply elevate your computer from the floor. 1ft high and you will get 1/8th the dust you used to have.
If it falls from everywhere, put your computer under something... and a good paint job can help too.
I know it's all common sense, but usually you can remove most of your problems with common sense.
Have a nice evening
Mike
Yep. I know exactly a few people who might be really interested in the sites I visit. ^_^
Besides, I wouldn't have to send them my new "discoveries" (either pr0n or not). They would be able to find those themselves in the wad of stuff I visit.
One objection, though. Suppose I go visit one site that is so highly objectionnable there is even a virus in the site. Would that mean I would automatically infect people whom I trust because they too will go look at that site? Nice!
"Don't go visit Goatse! It's a virus! Yeah, I tell ya!"
Mike
... sigh... the memories.
On my Apple II, on ASCII Express, the term software, you could xfer with Kermit or Christensen protocol (later renamed XModem).
It was so fun, though. Great for communities. Great to learn all about computers, to make friends and have great GTs.
Have a nice day
Mike
Ok... I'll get a clue...
... I ask for 1400VA. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to filter the RFI that comes in @ that load. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to detect brownouts and spikes. I wonder if the 1RMXL will be able to sustain all that juice without frying.
Everything that comes IN the SmartUPS gets filtered.
I have a SmartUPS 1RMXL (1VA, extended uptime)
I take that same example... and apply it with better real-world values.
I have a SmartUPS 500 (Dunno if it exists, don't care). 500VA max. I plug in a Class-AB 400VA-input power amp. Of course, it will sustain that amp, don't you think?
*HONK* think again! Sound amplification is a very dynamic process. Although there are condensers that will reduce the load spikes, there is always the chance of a 1MS 600VA spike some place. Average, it shouldn't go higher than 300 or 350VA, but peak, it might go much higher, even if for minute delays.
What will happen to our poor SmartUPS? It will try to cope with these changes, and won't be able to, because the demand is too high at some points.
Note that I haven't tried this, I am sure most power amps will work fine, as long as they are transistor-based, or chip-based. It might actually work fine... But I would definitely not try it with high-end AB. Pure Class A is something else again, since a 200W Class-A will always ask 200W of input current. So there are no spikes (if I am not mistaken).
Another cause for your problem might be heat dissipation. SmartUPSes heat a lot (gee, I wonder why, since they are sooo dumb and only activated when the voltage is too low/high - maybe something is actually happening to your power as it gets inputted to your device. Never thought of that?).
Personally, I try to keep ANY UPS I have to less than half-load. It helps them live longer, it gives me more uptime. It reduces the strain on all the components. It reduces the possibility of one device interfering with the other RFI-wise as the RFI filters can be applied to full potential.
As for your claim to hate waiting for probable downtime, I agree with you. But even with your second message, you don't give any idea you are actually going to send them to APC. As a disgruntled user, you might get refunded, or you might have new ones... or at least, a reason why it happened. If you want to stay in the dark, it's your fscking problem. I just hope your friendly (very good anyways - used one once and it was a really superior product) Lieberts will not have the same faith. I am not totally confident on that point by the way you are working.
Again, as per experience, I do not try to find replacement for something that ain't broken... and I try to find the cause of the breakage if it's only me that got a problem.
Finally, I am really unlucky on some of my components. I did get a dud GameCube, even if it's one of the most stable console that existed. And no I didn't went to replace it with a XBox because it was screwed.
Anyways, you can have your opinion. But don't say APC is bad because you didn't got entire satisfaction. You are one of the first ones I know to have big problems with them. That might say something.
Have a nice day
Mike
Actually...
If you do read the tech sheet on SmartUPSes, you'll see it's not what you think.
What you wrote is precisely describing how a BackUPS works. The battery power stays dormant until there is a power loss. Then, it kicks in and with only a minor glitch, it gives you fairly rounded sinewave voltage.
SmartUPS is not the same. Technically, when you plug in a SmartUPS, all your power cord does is charge the battery. Everything plugged on your SmartUPS gets its current from the battery, which is really decently sine-waved.
That way, you don't suffer from minor brownouts, 1/100th secs spikes, voltage variation or anything else. The current sent to your devices is precise and regular.
Drawback: you have to change your batteries more often, as they are constantly being used.
There is a warranty for precisely these things. APC's one is really great. Simply the fact that you didn't even tried to send them in before buying one makes me feel like this story is a complete troll. I haven't heard from anyone having problems with APC, and they did save my day more than once.
Have a nice day
Mike
Well... Technically if you take the lag between the different bits of the reception of the ping, you could get the "sound" of your modem/broadband.
... and it's hoping the usage of the different nodes are constant and have enough bandwidth to support the steam in the first place.
Other way, if you send 3000 1-byte pings and convert the lag of the pings to a sample, you should have a pretty good approximation of the discrepencies of your connection.
Now as to say where does these discrepencies come from, it's another matter altogether. To have a totally reliable solution, you should receive samples from every part of the traceroute and make sure that traceroute is kept for your "telesurgery".
I don't see it as baloney, it's certainly a novel approach. But as for an useful application, I'm less than sure. In a few years, maybe.
Mike
Well, I guess it means after 20 years (or so), finally a serious contender to the analog/digital king: the SID chip.
I wonder if it will have a life span as long as the SID...
As computer programmers, me&my friends did quite weird things as easter eggs.
:P
:)
I used to work at a GPS-software company. When in navigation mode, if you typed "where in the world is carmen sandiego?" (actually only the initials and it worked, witwics?), it showed the precise position of my cubicle in the company's office. It was (believe it or not) quite useful to test the software's precision for many functions... I had to remove it though because we were lacking space the hard way and my code took 230 bytes - with 4k of free RAM, 230 bytes is a lot! No one would've found it as it was quite stealthy and precise enough it wouldn't crash anything... but when in monger for space, well, I have a conscience too
On a mainstream computer game, we were coding something where buildings could be put in place and under certain conditions, they could be destroyed. Then, sept. 11 arrived... We _HAD_ to make a small aircraft that goes on the buildings and make them crash. It is totally sick but anyways. The mod code and picture is on a CDROM copy somewhere, as it was totally kick-banned from the final code, for obvious reasons (even if almost impossible to find).
On the successful ones, I have more than a few hidden credits on my side, I used to comment quite extensively my javascript codes. One thing I found out was that record #0 of many of my databases are never used (sanity check). So I write anything that comes into my mind when creating that record. No one will see it anyways... And it's always selected out from any of my queries.
When creating a easter egg, you must remind yourself of something: it will always be shown somewhere. Don't put yourself in trouble, write "cutsie" thing, not things that you could be taken accountable for. For example, never put pr0n in a child game, don't put sicko things anywhere, don't kick the company in the groin... or else, someone will find it and then, you're in trouble (especially if CVS system is implemented - they can backtrace!)
Other than that, well, have fun, easter eggs are quite fun to do and discover! And they personalize the code too.
Have a nice day
Mike
Precisely my point... :)
... uh, and I hope people don't think I'm for piracy. I do make (C) software myself and would be left w/o a job if only one copy was bought. I buy most of my wares and pay for the shareware I use.
I simply don't like to be treated as a thief even if legit. Innocence presumption still exists in theses countries, no? Why do M$ has to check on all the computers that are sold? Why are they checking inside companies for unlegit software? Why do I have to buy THEIR software in order to be legit? Can't I install OS2 Warp on my new P7 35GHz if I want to? If they want to be the De Facto standard, I guess they should GIVE their software with new computers, like Apple do with theirs.
... if you've made your reputation with crime, I guess you can't expect people to be legit with you when you've made your moneyload.
Have a nice day
Mike
Basically, I do think it is time Microsoft gets the results of its actions.
/s"?). Everyone copied Windows 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 for all reasons. Then, as soon as it was made possible, everyone copied Windows 95 and 98. THIS is how they made their user base. A lack of useful protection made it possible. It wasn't encouraged but it was certainly mainstream.
... Do I know someone? Nope!
Why was M$ so successful? Because people were pirating their software throughout the world. Everyone copied DOS for all the possible reasons (how many times did you do "format a:
And for businesses and new computers, of course, "strange" practices with agreements asking for the latest M$ software being installed on new computers made it real... not forgetting a few years ago when every computer was bundled with M$ Office.
... Yes, it's the same thing for M$ Office. Why is it so successful? Because mainly it was made available without paying, as bundled or as a copy. Because it was the "de facto" choice, everyone had it.
Now, M$ wants everyone to buy... and everyone to pay for all their software... and finding ways to inhibit/prohibit copy of their precious Windows and Office. It's fine but it won't work with people. That's why a lot of my friends still have Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2K. No copy protection. That's why everyone I know still have Office 2K.
The only people I know that have XP are bundled with new computers (no choice now, isn't it strange!). The only people I know that have Office XP are... mmm
There are other arguments too... For example, I have a small company (let say I never unregistered a name, it's dead since a few years ago). I received a letter from M$ saying that I should check all my licenses for their products, that I could be screened. I _HOPE_ I am screened, simply to tell them I never bought and I never will buy any of their crappy software (I run a Powerbook G3) and they should stop bugging me. -- That is the first argument, they harass people.
There is also that unwritten law stipulating that every new computer should have a M$ sticker with its WinXP serial number on it. What is that? I imagine hell in big companies where the unscrupulous employee will simply go and get that serial number for his home, and the company's face when the serial # for that computer will stop working.
So now, companies, gov'ts and people in general are seeking ways to get rid of that cumbersome giant. If they could find a way to get rid of it, they would. Because it's simply stupid to have to buy a piece of software as costly as a XBox simply to run a machine (Windows XP)... and totally stupid to have to buy a piece of software that is also totally mainstream with a price tag as hefty as a full-featured color WinCe PDA (Office XP).
What's left with Linux to do ? It have to be tested, recognized and endorsed by the general public. One first step in my opinion would be to make a X-skin for Windows, where Windows would work precisely as your favorite X, with all the features. A full office suite should be available for that precise X-on-Windows. And it should be user-friendly (let me rephrase: dumb-friendly). Finally, it should be free and compatible.
For me, M$ are shooting themselves in the foot with all these actions. And it's not by harassing people and companies they will get the result they want. I'm sure of it.
Have a nice day
Mike