There is a lot of software for the Ten-TecRX320 computer-controlled HF receiver. Ten-Tec openly publishes the commands needed to control the receiver, which is controlled by a 9600bps serial connection, and even some example source code. My favorite software is by Gerd Niephaus. It isn't flashy, but it sure is functional. And this radio is darned good, too.
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Electronica, like rock, is a very broad category and I doubt you will find a person who reaches into every corner of it. I happen to like the sub-genre industrial (still a quite broad category) a bit, and here's who I would recommend giving a listen to:
And you might want to check out these tracks specifically:
Project Pitchfork "I Live Your Dream"
Decoded Feedback "Bio Vital"
VNV Nation "Darkangel"
Covenant "Like Tears In Rain"
Apoptygma Berzerk "Love Never Dies (Part One)"
Front Line Assembly "Mindphaser"
And when it comes to getting CDs from those artists I haven't found any better source than Infrarot. It can take a while to get the CDs if you live in the U.S. (four to six weeks), but their selection is very comprehensive and their service is great.
For finding new artists, I have found the various radio streams on Shoutcast to be great. For the more popular varieties of electronic music check out Digitally Imported, which is almost always on the top of the front page. There are a variety of streams for every variety of electronic music, including of course industrial.
I'm also a big fan of the feel and layout of the old IBM clickers, but they are just too loud. The next best thing is the keyboards that Logitech makes for OEM use by companies like HP and Compaq. They come in a variety of sizes and some with extra multimedia keys, but otherwise have the same 104-key layout with the backslash key above a rectangular enter key and the double-key size backspace key. Since they are membrane keyboards they don't have as much tactile feedback as the old clickers, but are also not nearly as loud. They are a little stiffer than the clickers, but to me it actually feels better to type on. Best of all, the keyboard I got came free with the HP Pavilion I bought over 2 years ago (only the original mobo and CPU remain...everything else on the machine was replaced over time). But I doubt this thing will hold up for 15 years and still feel like it did when it was new, like the IBM clickers do.
I am a big fan of an electro-industrial group called Project Pitchfork. I originally discovered them from a Shoutcast stream in December 2000. I bought my first CD from them (EonEon) in April of 2001. At the end of last year I had 5 of their CDs. Now I have every one of the albums they have released (8) plus the rare Live '97 CD and The Early Years CD. I have an additional 4 CDs on order. Why did I start buying this many CDs from a single group? I kept downloading MP3s from them and liked them enough to keep buying their albums.
The next closest in the amount of CDs I own from a single group is VNV Nation. I own 4 CDs from them (3 albums and one MCD). I discovered them at the same time I discovered Project Pitchfork. Ever since that time I have been on a rapidly increasing CD-buying frenzy. I discover a lot of music I like from either Shoutcast and/or MP3-sharing programs and if I really like it I'll buy the CDs.
I've been running Windows for almost 4 years (only been into computers for a little over 6 years) and I have never gotten a virus. I run with administrator privileges. I've used Outlook and Outlook Express, but no matter how hard I try I just can't seem to get infected with a virus. I even don't use anti-virus software. Most users who do this have experienced hundreds of viruses, but not I. I've had the joy of cleaning up viruses from entire Windows networks yet never had the simple pleasure of disinfecting my own machine the manual way. I try to fit in with the virus-infected Windows crowd, but I just can't.
Geez, I almost feel like trying Linux and running as root just to get a virus...any virus!
Good 'ol Qwest...they provide crappy voice lines and DSL lines that don't work. I'm just glad Earthlink and Covad were able to get me hooked up to a fat 1.5Mbps/384Kbps pipe for $49.99 a month. Qwest offers slower 640Kbps/256Kbps DSL with MSN as the ISP (yuck!) for the same cost each month. And it's a miracle if they can get it hooked up at all (last place I lived they couldn't). And then there's Qwest's wireless division, something I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (heard the stories about the $100 a minute overage fees?). About the only thing I like about Qwest is QwestDex, and they're selling that division for some dumb reason; it's the most profitable part of the company.
Who knows what company will come in and buy the assets of Qwest six months from now. Knowing our luck, probably MCI Worldcom...which is also about ready to kick the bucket.
I can already hear Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust"...
I have owned a refurbished Visor Deluxe for about 6 months and have been reasonably happy with it. The USB Hotsync driver is flaky (sometimes won't recognize the cradle), but otherwise it is a good unit. I use it a lot for ebook reading and AvantGo. Also handy for addresses.
The "PDA" I use the most is my cellphone, a Sanyo SCP-6200. It's a very slim, small phone but has a lot of functionality. The calendar and phone book are invaluable in everyday use. And since it is a cellphone I have it with me all the time, which is not neccessarily the case with my Visor. Plus, it also has a web browser so I can check my Yahoo! mail whenever I want to. And it even has a voice-memo recorder. And I *know* that this thing can survive abuse...I've dropped it five times in the last week, and I've only had it for a week!
Well, if you can get their latest album, "Futureperfect", to play that is. It has no CD logo on the case or disc itself yet I have ripped it and played it in various machines (computers, portable CD players, and DVD players) without problems. But others may not be so lucky with it. Their first single from that album, "Genesis", is verified to be copy-protected and I have not bought it since I won't be able to copy it onto my computer to listen to it there as well as my MP3 player.
And VNV Nation is a group I discovered through "illegal" Shoutcast radio streams and "illegal" MP3s a year and a half ago and now own three of their albums...
AFAIK, Arachne will work with SVGALib. It is a full graphical browser but doesn't do secure sites or JavaScript. at last check. It is quite fast, and it even works on an EGA screen on a 286 in DOS reasonably well.
I don't use Mozilla Mail (I prefer PocoMail), so I can't say what it has over OE except less bugs and less security holes...but Mozilla trumps IE in every respect but plugin availability. In my experience in Windows 2000 Mozilla is able to load and render large pages much faster than IE (5.0, 5.5, and 6.0), especially on fast net connections, and is generally more stable. The tabbed browsing feature is immensely valuable. Haven't tried the popup blocker, since sites that have a lot of popups won't get return visits from me anyway. I highly recommend you try out Mozilla 1.0 RC1 in Windows. You'll probably find you like it quite a bit.
This post is from Mozilla 1.0 RC1 build 2002050701 in Gentoo Linux 1.1a. Mozilla rocks, and so does Gentoo;-)
I'd have to say I've had a similar experience with their PCs. Three years ago they were unbelievable crappy. But sometime around late 1999/early 2000 they managed to start to put out some quality products. I bought their lowest end PC back in April 2000 (a Pavilion 6630) and have been quite satisfied with it. I still am using the same machine, well sort of. It originally came with a Celeron 500 CPU, Trigem Cognac motherboard, micro-ATX case with 140-watt PSU, 40x Samsung CD-ROM drive, 10GB Samsung hard drive, 64MB of memory, built-in sound and i810 graphics, and Windows 98 SE. The motherboard, CPU, and case are all that remains of the original PC now. It now uses a 40GB Western Digital 7200RPM hard drive (30GB allocated to Windows 2000 and 10GB to FreeBSD 4.5), 192MB RAM, GeForce2 MX 400 PCI graphics card, Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card, and a Lite-On 32x12x40 CD-RW drive. It is quite fast (considering its a Celeron 500) and very stable. And the only thing that has ever broken down in it is an HP CD-Writer 9110i that I added later, none of the original equipment has ever had problems. I originaly paid a mere $599 for it but have put another grand or so in it over the years. Of course I do plan to retire the remaining original parts of the unit soon, but it has proven to be a reliable machine that used low-cost, but reasonable quality components.
Now for my experience with Compaq PCs...yeck:P Well, their servers and workstations are decent, but their home PCs just suck. Every Compaq home PC that I have used, both desktop and laptop, are just a bundle of trouble. I sincerely hope that HP s***cans the Compaq home PC series and puts decent-quality HP home PCs in their place.
I have a max upstream speed of 384Kbps, so don't expect this to be too fast. And if you do download from this site, thanks for testing out my server for me;-)
Absurd Minds: "Damn The Lie"
(Waiting for "Deception" to arrive from InfraRot in Germany, great folks!)
Covenant: "United States Of Mind"
VNV Nation:
-"Empires"
-"Praise The Fallen"
-"Futureperfect"
And I have many more, of course. And I discovered all those artists by using Shoutcast Internet radio and file-sharing programs (Napster [before it was crippled in early 2001], Audiogalaxy, and Kazaa mostly). But I also buy lots of CDs from those artists, and I would not have known about them had it not been for Internet radio and file sharing, which are so maligned by the RIAA.
But then again the RIAA and its members aren't making a dime off of me since the CDs I am buying are from independent artists, and Internet radio and file-sharing caused me to buy those CDs from those non-RIAA artists. They want me to buy CDs, just not those CDs.
So yeah, instead of buying one or two CDs a year from RIAA artists I bought about 20 from non-RIAA artists, which means they lost money on those 2 CDs I didn't buy from them. And since file-sharing and Internet radio caused me, and many other people, to buy from independent artists instead of RIAA artists it is bad for the recording industry the RIAA represents and thus file-sharing and Internet radio are illegal.
And then there's CD-burning which allows people to spread around music from those independent artists around (usually in a CD with a mix of the artist's work, rather than an album, or a mix of artists) and cause those people who recieve the CD-Rs to eventually buy from those independent artists. That means less sales from mainstream RIAA artists' CDs and since that pinches their pocketbooks CD-recording is also illegal since it undermines the sales of RIAA artists' CDs.
Sorry for the long rant, but hopefully this will put some more ammunition in the "downloaders are not thieves" argument and the fact that some of us really do buy more CDs as the result of the music we discover online.
100x drives won't even be allowed near major cities thanks to their sonic boom caused when the disc breaks the sound barrier. You might as well just stuff a Concorde in your computer.
...for making sure we can't listen to such awful music, and they even warn us by crashing our computers to not do it again.
In fact, it's time to pat the whole record industry on the back for copy protecting CDs from artists like the Backstreet Boys, Charlie Pride, and others (except for those who put the copy protection on VNV Nation's "Genesis" singles...they need to be smacked). The more they use copy protection technology on popular artists the less CDs they'll sell, which means I won't have to listen to their music as much (I already avoid conventional radio for that reason). Sometimes less really is more, especially from Sony, BMG, and most the other members of the RIAA (most of the good artists, IMHO, are with indie labels).
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There is a lot of software for the Ten-Tec RX320 computer-controlled HF receiver. Ten-Tec openly publishes the commands needed to control the receiver, which is controlled by a 9600bps serial connection, and even some example source code. My favorite software is by Gerd Niephaus. It isn't flashy, but it sure is functional. And this radio is darned good, too.
- Project Pitchfork
- VNV Nation
- Covenant
- Decoded Feedback
And you might want to check out these tracks specifically:- Project Pitchfork "I Live Your Dream"
- Decoded Feedback "Bio Vital"
- VNV Nation "Darkangel"
- Covenant "Like Tears In Rain"
- Apoptygma Berzerk "Love Never Dies (Part One)"
- Front Line Assembly "Mindphaser"
And when it comes to getting CDs from those artists I haven't found any better source than Infrarot. It can take a while to get the CDs if you live in the U.S. (four to six weeks), but their selection is very comprehensive and their service is great.For finding new artists, I have found the various radio streams on Shoutcast to be great. For the more popular varieties of electronic music check out Digitally Imported, which is almost always on the top of the front page. There are a variety of streams for every variety of electronic music, including of course industrial.
I'm also a big fan of the feel and layout of the old IBM clickers, but they are just too loud. The next best thing is the keyboards that Logitech makes for OEM use by companies like HP and Compaq. They come in a variety of sizes and some with extra multimedia keys, but otherwise have the same 104-key layout with the backslash key above a rectangular enter key and the double-key size backspace key. Since they are membrane keyboards they don't have as much tactile feedback as the old clickers, but are also not nearly as loud. They are a little stiffer than the clickers, but to me it actually feels better to type on. Best of all, the keyboard I got came free with the HP Pavilion I bought over 2 years ago (only the original mobo and CPU remain...everything else on the machine was replaced over time). But I doubt this thing will hold up for 15 years and still feel like it did when it was new, like the IBM clickers do.
I am a big fan of an electro-industrial group called Project Pitchfork. I originally discovered them from a Shoutcast stream in December 2000. I bought my first CD from them (EonEon) in April of 2001. At the end of last year I had 5 of their CDs. Now I have every one of the albums they have released (8) plus the rare Live '97 CD and The Early Years CD. I have an additional 4 CDs on order. Why did I start buying this many CDs from a single group? I kept downloading MP3s from them and liked them enough to keep buying their albums. The next closest in the amount of CDs I own from a single group is VNV Nation. I own 4 CDs from them (3 albums and one MCD). I discovered them at the same time I discovered Project Pitchfork. Ever since that time I have been on a rapidly increasing CD-buying frenzy. I discover a lot of music I like from either Shoutcast and/or MP3-sharing programs and if I really like it I'll buy the CDs.
Geez, I almost feel like trying Linux and running as root just to get a virus...any virus!
Good 'ol Qwest...they provide crappy voice lines and DSL lines that don't work. I'm just glad Earthlink and Covad were able to get me hooked up to a fat 1.5Mbps/384Kbps pipe for $49.99 a month. Qwest offers slower 640Kbps/256Kbps DSL with MSN as the ISP (yuck!) for the same cost each month. And it's a miracle if they can get it hooked up at all (last place I lived they couldn't). And then there's Qwest's wireless division, something I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (heard the stories about the $100 a minute overage fees?). About the only thing I like about Qwest is QwestDex, and they're selling that division for some dumb reason; it's the most profitable part of the company.
Who knows what company will come in and buy the assets of Qwest six months from now. Knowing our luck, probably MCI Worldcom...which is also about ready to kick the bucket.
I can already hear Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust"...
The "PDA" I use the most is my cellphone, a Sanyo SCP-6200. It's a very slim, small phone but has a lot of functionality. The calendar and phone book are invaluable in everyday use. And since it is a cellphone I have it with me all the time, which is not neccessarily the case with my Visor. Plus, it also has a web browser so I can check my Yahoo! mail whenever I want to. And it even has a voice-memo recorder. And I *know* that this thing can survive abuse...I've dropped it five times in the last week, and I've only had it for a week!
Well, if you can get their latest album, "Futureperfect", to play that is. It has no CD logo on the case or disc itself yet I have ripped it and played it in various machines (computers, portable CD players, and DVD players) without problems. But others may not be so lucky with it. Their first single from that album, "Genesis", is verified to be copy-protected and I have not bought it since I won't be able to copy it onto my computer to listen to it there as well as my MP3 player.
And VNV Nation is a group I discovered through "illegal" Shoutcast radio streams and "illegal" MP3s a year and a half ago and now own three of their albums...
AFAIK, Arachne will work with SVGALib. It is a full graphical browser but doesn't do secure sites or JavaScript. at last check. It is quite fast, and it even works on an EGA screen on a 286 in DOS reasonably well.
I don't use Mozilla Mail (I prefer PocoMail), so I can't say what it has over OE except less bugs and less security holes...but Mozilla trumps IE in every respect but plugin availability. In my experience in Windows 2000 Mozilla is able to load and render large pages much faster than IE (5.0, 5.5, and 6.0), especially on fast net connections, and is generally more stable. The tabbed browsing feature is immensely valuable. Haven't tried the popup blocker, since sites that have a lot of popups won't get return visits from me anyway. I highly recommend you try out Mozilla 1.0 RC1 in Windows. You'll probably find you like it quite a bit.
;-)
This post is from Mozilla 1.0 RC1 build 2002050701 in Gentoo Linux 1.1a. Mozilla rocks, and so does Gentoo
Now for my experience with Compaq PCs...yeck :P Well, their servers and workstations are decent, but their home PCs just suck. Every Compaq home PC that I have used, both desktop and laptop, are just a bundle of trouble. I sincerely hope that HP s***cans the Compaq home PC series and puts decent-quality HP home PCs in their place.
I have a max upstream speed of 384Kbps, so don't expect this to be too fast. And if you do download from this site, thanks for testing out my server for me ;-)
Let me run down some of my CD collection, mostly purchased within the last 18 months:
Project Pitchfork:
-"Eon:Eon"
-"Daimonion"
-"Chakra:Red!"
-"IO"
-"Alpha Omega"
-"The Early Years"
Absurd Minds: "Damn The Lie" (Waiting for "Deception" to arrive from InfraRot in Germany, great folks!)
Covenant: "United States Of Mind"
VNV Nation:
-"Empires"
-"Praise The Fallen"
-"Futureperfect"
And I have many more, of course. And I discovered all those artists by using Shoutcast Internet radio and file-sharing programs (Napster [before it was crippled in early 2001], Audiogalaxy, and Kazaa mostly). But I also buy lots of CDs from those artists, and I would not have known about them had it not been for Internet radio and file sharing, which are so maligned by the RIAA.
But then again the RIAA and its members aren't making a dime off of me since the CDs I am buying are from independent artists, and Internet radio and file-sharing caused me to buy those CDs from those non-RIAA artists. They want me to buy CDs, just not those CDs.
So yeah, instead of buying one or two CDs a year from RIAA artists I bought about 20 from non-RIAA artists, which means they lost money on those 2 CDs I didn't buy from them. And since file-sharing and Internet radio caused me, and many other people, to buy from independent artists instead of RIAA artists it is bad for the recording industry the RIAA represents and thus file-sharing and Internet radio are illegal.
And then there's CD-burning which allows people to spread around music from those independent artists around (usually in a CD with a mix of the artist's work, rather than an album, or a mix of artists) and cause those people who recieve the CD-Rs to eventually buy from those independent artists. That means less sales from mainstream RIAA artists' CDs and since that pinches their pocketbooks CD-recording is also illegal since it undermines the sales of RIAA artists' CDs.
Sorry for the long rant, but hopefully this will put some more ammunition in the "downloaders are not thieves" argument and the fact that some of us really do buy more CDs as the result of the music we discover online.
100x drives won't even be allowed near major cities thanks to their sonic boom caused when the disc breaks the sound barrier. You might as well just stuff a Concorde in your computer.
...for making sure we can't listen to such awful music, and they even warn us by crashing our computers to not do it again.
In fact, it's time to pat the whole record industry on the back for copy protecting CDs from artists like the Backstreet Boys, Charlie Pride, and others (except for those who put the copy protection on VNV Nation's "Genesis" singles...they need to be smacked). The more they use copy protection technology on popular artists the less CDs they'll sell, which means I won't have to listen to their music as much (I already avoid conventional radio for that reason). Sometimes less really is more, especially from Sony, BMG, and most the other members of the RIAA (most of the good artists, IMHO, are with indie labels).