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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you haven’t seen the ugliest dog in the world yet:
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!