So far the only emails we have received from them are in regards to issues of interest for our account (additional services added, items received, etc.)
We have yet to receive SPAM from them. However I personally have not purchased an item through them at this time, and can't account for that.
Derek, the guy who started CD Baby, actually seems to really care about customer service. I am sure if you have been a customer or client, and this has happened to you that 1) it is accidental, and 2) if you contact them they will fix it.
Mind you I don't work for CD Baby, I am just a client. Some of my associates and friends are CD Baby customers, and I haven't heard any complaints from them. If you haven't already tried to contact CD Baby with your problem, I'm sure they would be receptive to helping you.
As a musician you shouldn't discount things like the iTMS. It is very easy for independant artists to get their music submitted there.
CD Baby has a great Digital Distribution system that is very musician friendly. I worked with a group, Pig Farmers of the Apocalypse, who have done this very thing. For us to publish it cost $35 to set up with CD Baby, $20 for a UPC label, and the costs of manufacturing disks. CD Baby sends it to most of the online distribution companies by clicking a link, and giving a couple more sentances worth of information.
Of the $.10 and $.55 that would usually go to artist and label, CD Baby calls it $.65 and takes 9%, only 7 cents, per track.
If your music is good, and it sounds like it is, than you really shouldn't overlook this opportunity. Any income to help pay for the costs involved with the album are welcome, plus they can help get the word out to a larger audience as well.
If you market yourself well, this can end up being a way better system than using a major label.
And luckily musicians are mystical beasts that require no food to survive, or homes to survive in.
I am very much anti-RIAA politics, however there are very easy ways for totally independant artists to publish music via legit online services, and actually get paid for it.
Things like this are totally a slap in the face to real musicians who try to publish music independantly and give as good a product as possible in an affordable way.
I hear many complaints on/. about why should the RIAA get so much money when the artists are screwed. Then something like this comes along and much of the community is happy aboutit even though the artists are still being screwed.
I guess we really just want to take the middle man out of screwing artists when it comes down to it...
Apparently the Grandparent poster believes every home user and small business has a PDC laying around to join to.
And of course all those DVD-RAM drives they will need to access right away using built in MS drivers.
The only problem comes from Joining domains, using DVD-RAM drives (I don't do this, so it probably really isn't an issue), and doing Remote Desktop without sending a request.
I use Drive Shield which is basically the same thing, except it adds a network control capability. One master station can lock and unlock all your workstations. Plus if you are in education (like me) the network control license is free.
I admin Win XP, and Mac OS X clients, we installed an Xserve, and it uses OpenDirectory/LDAP to authenticate to everything. The Mac's integration is beautiful, with kerberos integration and such.
For the PC's we use pGina to authenticate LDAP, and map network shares for the users. Works great. Very efficient.
Our Xserve replaced a G4 dual running OS X server, which had replaced a Red Hat machine that was very poorly configured (before I was hired). When I was hired I worked for about 2 days trying to get everything talking together with Linux (I'm not the best linux guy out there, but not the worst either), finally I had a deadline, and the G4 with OS X server was fully configured and deployed within 24 hours.
Do the mods really believe that being old has something to do with watching Matlock, rather than some association between our current elder population and that show?
If I make it to be an old man, I hope not to have regressed to something like Matlock, but to still be incomprehensibly giggling to reruns of Spongebob or some such.
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I understand the grandparent is a troll, but my question is will the exchange and Groupwise compatibility really be included and will they work?
I just upgraded to SuSe 9.2 for Groupwise functionality (there is even a Groupware setup app with a button for Groupwise). Well, it doesn't seem to work. Very disappointing.
The version of Evolution 2.0 that is shipping does not include SOAP support (this is revealed on the Novell support site) even though we have been hearing for months that Evolution 2.0 will have full Groupwise sync. Turns out only if you get the nightly snapshots, which often can have other wacky issues.
Kmail will IMAP to a Groupwise folder fine, but the rest of Kontact just pops up errors trying to connect to a SOAP server.
If there is a collection agency on your report that is for an account that is not/was not yours, be VERY hesitant to call them directly.
I almost made this mistake (luckily I called Experian first), and the company would not talk until I gave them some information. When I called them they had a different social security number on file. After I called they put my social security number into their system (which I did not provide, the found it through other means) on the account, which could have royally screwed me.
So what happens if one of their questions is based on one of the incorrect listings you need to fix?
I have had the displeasure of having someone else with my name in that last 3 cities I have lived in. All of them seem to have the worst credit possible. Before I bought my house I had to clear 5 really nasty items from my credit report before I could close.
It took 3 months to take care of it, plus while contacting the collection agencies involved they updated the other person's account with MY information, and tried to switch social security numbers with the listing they had on Experion. It was a very unpleasant situation. Luckily I had called the credit reporting agencies first, so when this less than scrupulous company tried to pull a fast one, they actually caught it.
I believe the parent meant this, but I want to make it obvious.
From my experience, if you are going to make a new drive dual boot you *must* install Windows first. Then install any alternate OS's you want with it.
Windows will not respect your boot loader, and stick its own (which will only recognize FAT and NTFS partitions typically) in the MBR.
As a side note, some newer machines I received from Gateway had a interesting BIOS feature where if you had grub or lilo modify the MBR the machine would crash at the BIOS splash screen. If you show the post messages it never gets to where it detects the drives. The only way I could repair it was to remove the drive, format it on an OS X machine as a 'Unix' volume, then install XP, and install linux over XP making sure not to let it change the MBR at all.
For real time effects how is latency addressed on this? Logic does latency compensation for tracks during playback, but not on busses. What additional latency is caused by the network and syncing the nodes? Is this technology going to be just as painful for a large mix session as UAD-1 and Powercore?
I do like that the nodes are unlimited license wise. However I am concerned about the actual use in a real production environment.
My 3 year old son loves Ewoks. And these two movies are rather less overtly violent than Empire Strikes Back.
While still not totally wife approvable, they are less likely to piss her off if I let my son watch them.
Plus I no longer have my VHS copy from when I saw them on TV as a kid, so I would probably purchase these in a number of months once the prices start becoming reasonable.
With the conversions happening outside the GPU/Card to convert audio to video data and back, one important question has not been addressed . ..
What kind of latency does this pose?
There are currently lesser expensive audio DSP cards on the market (UAD 1 by Universal Audio/Kind of Loud, and the TC Powercore, and nowadays they don't cost much more than a GPU. However on both of those cards the latency is pretty harsh. Many audio system will compensate for the latency in some instances, although some can't/don't compensate for bussed effects, which is unfortunate as reverb is the greatest reason to use a card like this, and it is a bus effect typically, and the extra delay incurred acts to set a huge, usually inappropriate predelay.
Of course there will always be those willing to work around the potential latency issues, however that defeats the purpose that they state on their site (no more freezing/bouncing/yelling at the machine).
This is exactly why Protools TDM systems are still in vogue for higher end studios and producers. The TDM hardware does just about everything as offloaded DSP, therefore the latency is extremely low, fixed, and documented. You can look up (command-click on the track volume display actually) to find out the amount of latency on a track in samples, and if there is a need to compensate than you can figure it out. Although typically one doesn't need to compensate for only 20 samples of latency as that is less than you might find in a analog studio using digital effects.
Re:finding cheats easy too
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My wife ran across something similar while teaching at a community college. One of her students turned in an essay about the wrong topic, that wasn't really complete (ended suddenly).
I happened to notice that when the student printed it, she had left the URL on the bottom of the pages, she had just printed straight out of Internet Explorer.
I'm not sure which is worse:
1. The Plagerism
2. The fact that she was too lazy to see if the paper was complete
3. The fact that she didn't even try to cover up the fact she did it.
The worst part is that the school policies stated very strict repercussions for such acts, however the administration didn't actually follow through on any of them.
that is seems like most of you don't really get this product. First off this isn't a remote for those of you with a normal all in one remote, or even those enthusiests using a Palm or PPC as a remote.
This is competition against the Phillips Pronto line.
Anyone who has set up a serious home theater system (and I have set up a couple) for 'normal' people know exactly what kind of a remote nightmare that can be. Totally programmable remotes that are just remotes can totally take the training aspect of the project from impossible to merely slightly painful.
The last home theater setup I was involved with we spent over 100 hours in Pronto programming. That may seem insane, but now a couple of retiree's can use their $10000 home theater with a 60" HD TV, et al. We did things in the Pronto that it is impossible to do in any of the software available for Palm/PPC, or even on things like the Harmony.
On the more flexible remotes every single button/control can be a macro if you know what you are doing, and you can put in custom IR commands to get to features in your equipment that are not published, or available on the included remote. For instance Sony TV's have IR codes to go directly to a specified video input, but it you learn from their included remote you can only flip between them in order. On an advanced system hitting a button that pulls up input 5 specifically saves a lot of training headache.
If you look at this remote and think 'holy crap that is expensive!' then you obviously haven't ever priced out these sorts of things before. From the picture and the specs it seems totally in line with its true competition. Especially since there are Pronto's that retail for more than $1000 that include WiFi.
I downloaded and tried several installs. Only will work as root (or with sudo).
First I installed from my (only) non-root account, but the installer didn't successfully launch Firefox. sudo./firefox launches fine.
Second I installed from my non-root account with sudo, launches fine from installer, but with subsequent tries it only launches with sudo.
Third install while logged in as root. Works fine as root, and from command line with sudo under normal account, but otherwise non-root can't launch.
Apparently in the readme when they discuss directories with limited priveledges, they mean any directory on the drive.:)
In some cases I installed in/usr/bin, in others in/opt/firefox (SuSe would put it there), and in some cases in my home directory.
Bummer, I will see what the BT does, but since SuSe 6 or newer is specified in the docs you would think the standard download would work.
If anyone can think of some other ways for me to install it let me know! I would certainly like to get it going. Initial tests show it to be spunky, although I also don't like the new look.
There is more than frequency response at play here.
Your brain determines space and direction in the sound it hears by determining frequency response, phase coherency, and timing differences as balanced between your two ears.
Even though you may not be able to hear a frequency above 20khz, by cutting out those freqencies you are also subtly (or not so subtly in many cases) distorting the timing of wavefronts to each other, and as such their phase relationship.
Your brain should be able to pick out extremely subtle differences in phase relationship, even though your ears don't fully detect the frequencies they are behaving at. Mostly due to the fact that you can sense the pressure differential even though you don't have specific nerves to detect modulation at that frequency.
So instead of thinking of newer formats as being better because they capture more frequencies, what you really should realize is that they capture more 'space' and maintain a better and more realistic image of what is being recorded.
One of the many things I do is mix and master music. One of the composers and I decided to play around with some 96K recording just to see what it would be like, especially considering the stuff we are working with is not typically the sort of stuff you would use 96K with.
Suffice it to say the difference was well enough that we had to figure out new storage and processing to be able to move all of our production to 96K. Some of it was subtle, some was smack you in the face obvious, but it all was about width and depth of the image we heard coming out of our gear.
We have been thinking of releasing a number of albums in the electronic format. It is cheap, and easy, and we can completely publish ourselves, and not have to pay out to the RIAA. However with these tests completed, if we ever do have physical media release, it is guarenteed to be in DVD-A at the moment (SACD tools are far and few, and obnoxiously priced, most modern tools can output in a way to get to DVD-A very easily).
Although SACD is a very cool concept. The idea of 1 bit conversion is not new, most anything that does oversampling does it, however the difference comes at storage. DSD saves that bitstream as the data, where anything PCM based passes it through a decimation filter to break it back out into 16/24 bit samples at whatever frequency you are using. So technically SACD cuts out a couple of steps of conversion. Good for those purists, but still difficult to deal with from an engineering standpoint (and a budget stand point).
As for playback devices, it is getting hard to not find a DVD player that at least does DVD-A. There is only one affordable unit by Pioneer that does every format (incl. DVD-A and SACD) and it is less than $200. You can't beat that.
Not to mention hearing Dark Side of the Moon in 5.1 off of a SACD is amazing.
Actually half or double the sound pressure is +/- 6dB.
Double or half the power is +/- 3dB.
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This is actually accomplished through Binaural recording. It is achieved by created a human shaped and sounding head and putting microphones where the ears are.
It works by accurately capturing the phase relationships in addition to the normal frequency and volume differences heard between your ears.
Quite different technology as in order for it to work you would have to have exquisite aim with not just one beam of sound, but two, one for each ear.
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We have yet to receive SPAM from them. However I personally have not purchased an item through them at this time, and can't account for that.
Derek, the guy who started CD Baby, actually seems to really care about customer service. I am sure if you have been a customer or client, and this has happened to you that 1) it is accidental, and 2) if you contact them they will fix it.
Mind you I don't work for CD Baby, I am just a client. Some of my associates and friends are CD Baby customers, and I haven't heard any complaints from them. If you haven't already tried to contact CD Baby with your problem, I'm sure they would be receptive to helping you.
CD Baby has a great Digital Distribution system that is very musician friendly. I worked with a group, Pig Farmers of the Apocalypse, who have done this very thing. For us to publish it cost $35 to set up with CD Baby, $20 for a UPC label, and the costs of manufacturing disks. CD Baby sends it to most of the online distribution companies by clicking a link, and giving a couple more sentances worth of information. Of the $.10 and $.55 that would usually go to artist and label, CD Baby calls it $.65 and takes 9%, only 7 cents, per track. If your music is good, and it sounds like it is, than you really shouldn't overlook this opportunity. Any income to help pay for the costs involved with the album are welcome, plus they can help get the word out to a larger audience as well. If you market yourself well, this can end up being a way better system than using a major label.
FYI, that is how Beethoven did it, and Mozart, and any of the other great names in music.
Music subsidies don't work today like then did then. Also not everyone with a family can just pick up and tour.
I am very much anti-RIAA politics, however there are very easy ways for totally independant artists to publish music via legit online services, and actually get paid for it.
Things like this are totally a slap in the face to real musicians who try to publish music independantly and give as good a product as possible in an affordable way.
I hear many complaints on /. about why should the RIAA get so much money when the artists are screwed. Then something like this comes along and much of the community is happy aboutit even though the artists are still being screwed.
I guess we really just want to take the middle man out of screwing artists when it comes down to it...
And of course all those DVD-RAM drives they will need to access right away using built in MS drivers.
The only problem comes from Joining domains, using DVD-RAM drives (I don't do this, so it probably really isn't an issue), and doing Remote Desktop without sending a request.
I use Drive Shield which is basically the same thing, except it adds a network control capability. One master station can lock and unlock all your workstations. Plus if you are in education (like me) the network control license is free.
I admin Win XP, and Mac OS X clients, we installed an Xserve, and it uses OpenDirectory/LDAP to authenticate to everything. The Mac's integration is beautiful, with kerberos integration and such.
For the PC's we use pGina to authenticate LDAP, and map network shares for the users. Works great. Very efficient.
Our Xserve replaced a G4 dual running OS X server, which had replaced a Red Hat machine that was very poorly configured (before I was hired). When I was hired I worked for about 2 days trying to get everything talking together with Linux (I'm not the best linux guy out there, but not the worst either), finally I had a deadline, and the G4 with OS X server was fully configured and deployed within 24 hours.
On my calendars the 8th is a Tuesday. Maybe all the Windows users should try WU that day . . .
I for one have no fear that our President will ever be personally concerned about a library.
Unless of course we put some oil and commie^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorists in one for him to go after.
Do the mods really believe that being old has something to do with watching Matlock, rather than some association between our current elder population and that show?
If I make it to be an old man, I hope not to have regressed to something like Matlock, but to still be incomprehensibly giggling to reruns of Spongebob or some such.
I just upgraded to SuSe 9.2 for Groupwise functionality (there is even a Groupware setup app with a button for Groupwise). Well, it doesn't seem to work. Very disappointing.
The version of Evolution 2.0 that is shipping does not include SOAP support (this is revealed on the Novell support site) even though we have been hearing for months that Evolution 2.0 will have full Groupwise sync. Turns out only if you get the nightly snapshots, which often can have other wacky issues.
Kmail will IMAP to a Groupwise folder fine, but the rest of Kontact just pops up errors trying to connect to a SOAP server.
This is where your idea meets its temporary down fall.
Why doesn't MS make it so that the dialog boxes default to NO??
That my friend would kill a LOT of spyware issues where mindless user intervention is an issue.
I almost made this mistake (luckily I called Experian first), and the company would not talk until I gave them some information. When I called them they had a different social security number on file. After I called they put my social security number into their system (which I did not provide, the found it through other means) on the account, which could have royally screwed me.
Beware these unscrupulous "companies"
I have had the displeasure of having someone else with my name in that last 3 cities I have lived in. All of them seem to have the worst credit possible. Before I bought my house I had to clear 5 really nasty items from my credit report before I could close.
It took 3 months to take care of it, plus while contacting the collection agencies involved they updated the other person's account with MY information, and tried to switch social security numbers with the listing they had on Experion. It was a very unpleasant situation. Luckily I had called the credit reporting agencies first, so when this less than scrupulous company tried to pull a fast one, they actually caught it.
From my experience, if you are going to make a new drive dual boot you *must* install Windows first. Then install any alternate OS's you want with it.
Windows will not respect your boot loader, and stick its own (which will only recognize FAT and NTFS partitions typically) in the MBR.
As a side note, some newer machines I received from Gateway had a interesting BIOS feature where if you had grub or lilo modify the MBR the machine would crash at the BIOS splash screen. If you show the post messages it never gets to where it detects the drives. The only way I could repair it was to remove the drive, format it on an OS X machine as a 'Unix' volume, then install XP, and install linux over XP making sure not to let it change the MBR at all.
What a pain.
I do like that the nodes are unlimited license wise. However I am concerned about the actual use in a real production environment.
Buffering: 1%
I think I would return that one. :)
While still not totally wife approvable, they are less likely to piss her off if I let my son watch them.
Plus I no longer have my VHS copy from when I saw them on TV as a kid, so I would probably purchase these in a number of months once the prices start becoming reasonable.
What kind of latency does this pose?
There are currently lesser expensive audio DSP cards on the market (UAD 1 by Universal Audio/Kind of Loud, and the TC Powercore, and nowadays they don't cost much more than a GPU. However on both of those cards the latency is pretty harsh. Many audio system will compensate for the latency in some instances, although some can't/don't compensate for bussed effects, which is unfortunate as reverb is the greatest reason to use a card like this, and it is a bus effect typically, and the extra delay incurred acts to set a huge, usually inappropriate predelay.
Of course there will always be those willing to work around the potential latency issues, however that defeats the purpose that they state on their site (no more freezing/bouncing/yelling at the machine).
This is exactly why Protools TDM systems are still in vogue for higher end studios and producers. The TDM hardware does just about everything as offloaded DSP, therefore the latency is extremely low, fixed, and documented. You can look up (command-click on the track volume display actually) to find out the amount of latency on a track in samples, and if there is a need to compensate than you can figure it out. Although typically one doesn't need to compensate for only 20 samples of latency as that is less than you might find in a analog studio using digital effects.
I happened to notice that when the student printed it, she had left the URL on the bottom of the pages, she had just printed straight out of Internet Explorer.
I'm not sure which is worse:
1. The Plagerism
2. The fact that she was too lazy to see if the paper was complete
3. The fact that she didn't even try to cover up the fact she did it.
The worst part is that the school policies stated very strict repercussions for such acts, however the administration didn't actually follow through on any of them.
This is competition against the Phillips Pronto line.
Anyone who has set up a serious home theater system (and I have set up a couple) for 'normal' people know exactly what kind of a remote nightmare that can be. Totally programmable remotes that are just remotes can totally take the training aspect of the project from impossible to merely slightly painful.
The last home theater setup I was involved with we spent over 100 hours in Pronto programming. That may seem insane, but now a couple of retiree's can use their $10000 home theater with a 60" HD TV, et al. We did things in the Pronto that it is impossible to do in any of the software available for Palm/PPC, or even on things like the Harmony.
On the more flexible remotes every single button/control can be a macro if you know what you are doing, and you can put in custom IR commands to get to features in your equipment that are not published, or available on the included remote. For instance Sony TV's have IR codes to go directly to a specified video input, but it you learn from their included remote you can only flip between them in order. On an advanced system hitting a button that pulls up input 5 specifically saves a lot of training headache.
If you look at this remote and think 'holy crap that is expensive!' then you obviously haven't ever priced out these sorts of things before. From the picture and the specs it seems totally in line with its true competition. Especially since there are Pronto's that retail for more than $1000 that include WiFi.
First I installed from my (only) non-root account, but the installer didn't successfully launch Firefox. sudo ./firefox launches fine.
Second I installed from my non-root account with sudo, launches fine from installer, but with subsequent tries it only launches with sudo.
Third install while logged in as root. Works fine as root, and from command line with sudo under normal account, but otherwise non-root can't launch.
Apparently in the readme when they discuss directories with limited priveledges, they mean any directory on the drive. :)
In some cases I installed in /usr/bin, in others in /opt/firefox (SuSe would put it there), and in some cases in my home directory.
Bummer, I will see what the BT does, but since SuSe 6 or newer is specified in the docs you would think the standard download would work.
If anyone can think of some other ways for me to install it let me know! I would certainly like to get it going. Initial tests show it to be spunky, although I also don't like the new look.
Your brain determines space and direction in the sound it hears by determining frequency response, phase coherency, and timing differences as balanced between your two ears.
Even though you may not be able to hear a frequency above 20khz, by cutting out those freqencies you are also subtly (or not so subtly in many cases) distorting the timing of wavefronts to each other, and as such their phase relationship.
Your brain should be able to pick out extremely subtle differences in phase relationship, even though your ears don't fully detect the frequencies they are behaving at. Mostly due to the fact that you can sense the pressure differential even though you don't have specific nerves to detect modulation at that frequency.
So instead of thinking of newer formats as being better because they capture more frequencies, what you really should realize is that they capture more 'space' and maintain a better and more realistic image of what is being recorded.
One of the many things I do is mix and master music. One of the composers and I decided to play around with some 96K recording just to see what it would be like, especially considering the stuff we are working with is not typically the sort of stuff you would use 96K with.
Suffice it to say the difference was well enough that we had to figure out new storage and processing to be able to move all of our production to 96K. Some of it was subtle, some was smack you in the face obvious, but it all was about width and depth of the image we heard coming out of our gear.
We have been thinking of releasing a number of albums in the electronic format. It is cheap, and easy, and we can completely publish ourselves, and not have to pay out to the RIAA. However with these tests completed, if we ever do have physical media release, it is guarenteed to be in DVD-A at the moment (SACD tools are far and few, and obnoxiously priced, most modern tools can output in a way to get to DVD-A very easily). Although SACD is a very cool concept. The idea of 1 bit conversion is not new, most anything that does oversampling does it, however the difference comes at storage. DSD saves that bitstream as the data, where anything PCM based passes it through a decimation filter to break it back out into 16/24 bit samples at whatever frequency you are using. So technically SACD cuts out a couple of steps of conversion. Good for those purists, but still difficult to deal with from an engineering standpoint (and a budget stand point).
As for playback devices, it is getting hard to not find a DVD player that at least does DVD-A. There is only one affordable unit by Pioneer that does every format (incl. DVD-A and SACD) and it is less than $200. You can't beat that.
Not to mention hearing Dark Side of the Moon in 5.1 off of a SACD is amazing.
Double or half the power is +/- 3dB.
This is actually accomplished through Binaural recording. It is achieved by created a human shaped and sounding head and putting microphones where the ears are. It works by accurately capturing the phase relationships in addition to the normal frequency and volume differences heard between your ears. Quite different technology as in order for it to work you would have to have exquisite aim with not just one beam of sound, but two, one for each ear.