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Archive for August, 2005

Audacity fun

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

I’ve been using Audacity quite a bit lately because I’ve been helping Linc put together a highlights clip for our upcoming 100th episode on TLLTS. It basically entails going through old episodes and cuting and pasting clips. For the most part it’s pretty tedious. Fortunately I maintain an index of all the old shows so […]

WHY?!?!

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Found a link to this photo of a crashed bank ATM running Windows:

Contrary to what people say about how stable Windows XP is, I’ve seen plenty of crashed XP boxes around the office. Take a walk around the office first thing in the morning and you’ll know exactly what I mean. Linux on the other […]

Online music revisited

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Last night we spoke to John Buckman about his company Magnatune. He’s a former web designer who felt there had to be a better way for the sale of online music than the DRM locked I-Tunes model. He applied the open source philosophy and started his own company dedicated to delivering music online. You […]

The last concert I went to

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

I took my son last Friday to Wilkes-Barre to see the Wiggles in concert:

Not a horrible experience. I have two comments to make:
The guys from down under are sitting on a gold mine. I think they made something like $35 million last year.
At least it wasn’t Barney!

Linux friendly online music stores without DRM

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

The last week or so we’ve been having a pretty active discussion regarding online music stores that are linux friendly. The mainstream sites such as I-Tunes and others only sell files containing DRM. This prevents most users from copying their legally purchased music to other computers. What the F***! You legally bought the music, shouldn’t […]

My new audio player - Part 2 (voice recordings)

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I’ve done some voice recordings with the Iaudio5. I recorded last weeks Tech Show directly off the mixer. The audio quality was very good. Recording with the built-in mic is ok. The quality of the recording depends on how close you are to the microphone (duh!). If the people talking are more than 5 feet […]

My new audio player

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

I’ve been wanting to pickup a portable audio player for some time now. My main requirements:
- It has to compatible with linux
- It has to play most ogg bit rates
- I’d like to record voice via a mic or line-in
- It has to be fairly portable
- At least 512 Meg of storage
- Less than $150
Now […]

The ugliest dog in the world

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

If you haven’t seen the ugliest dog in the world yet:

Adding blogs to my list

Friday, August 12th, 2005

I’ve noticed a few other blogs linking to me so it’s only fair I link to them as well. We in the GNU/Linux community should do all we can to help spread the word and assist others doing the same. Happy weekend and blog on!

Our biggest endorsement yet

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

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