Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Just wanted to drop a note to ya'll about this great program called Handbrake. It converts a DVD to a compressed video file in a variety of containers and codecs (Mpeg 4, Xvid and h.264; mp4, m4v, avi, ogm, mkv). The nice bit is that it has a bunch of ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I have always been a writer. I had my own alphabet when I was a toddler and I participated in the Young Authors book contests in elementary school. I wrote poetry in junior and senior high school. Later on I edited a zine and now I blog. Through all of ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Okay...the resizing and moving is done. Now on to the installing M$ Winblows XL...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
While setting up WoW in Linux was a heroic and generally studly feat, it became obvious that 4-10 FPS (you can see what kind of FPS you get buy pushing CTRL+R in-game) is not going to cut it for actual play. Also given that I wanted to work on music ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I DID IT. I got Warcraft to run in Linux. It looks just like it does on Windows. Unfortunately for me, I have an Intel 915 graphics card on this laptop and though it is well supported under Linux, somehow DirectX is not as capable under Linux. So while the ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Well...so far I've got World of Warcraft installed and starting with no errors. I'm now installing Burning Crusade and we'll see if it still starts. If this works, I'm going to have to try some more Windows apps. Maybe Ableton Live...
EDIT: B00, It doesn't run very well. It starts and ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
I read a really interesting article on the death of the current music industry. It sums up a lot of what I believe and why I believe it.
When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.
"I thought there were plenty ...
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
So far I'm really happy with FLAC as a lossless audio codec. It's awesome to be able to create flawless MP3s and the security that in the future I can transcode the FLAC to whatever the new digital music codec standard becomes. Music on my iPod sounds fantastic and I ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003
Fuck. I just wrote out this long ass post (mostly about not having the drive to figure out a color scheme and how I am learning to program C) and then this little dialog box pops up saying, "Sorry for the inconvinience, but IE needs to close". And poof it's ...
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