Ben Fry’s zipdecode zipcode visualizer is a great idea. What immediately comes to mind: highways, area codes/exchanges, store locations
Author: lhl
- Opteron absolutely crushes Xeons in Java Servlet/JSP testing. Quite impressive numbers (also kicks but in ab, MySQL)
- Ace’s Hardware also has a Game Consoles: A Look Ahead and Timeline: 3DFX Revisited article. It’s like tech porn
- XML highlights for PHP 5
What should one do w/ 700GB of space? Well, for one thing, its not as much as it seems. Transferring over packed FCP files will take up at least 50+ of it, my previously encoded music, another 20GB or so. I’m tempted to FLAC the rest of my collection. FLAC encoded, about 5MB/min + LAME ~1.5MB/min, so, about 150min/GB, about 3 albums/GB, so at least 200GB+ for my albums… 3GB/mo in photos… Well, I’ll be ok as long as I don’t do much video I suppose. Great googly moggly… perhaps I should break out my copy of Where Is It?…
- HA Forums: 128kbps Extension Test – FINISHED
- FLAC – hey, squeezebox and phatbox hardware support
- Flac embedded cuesheet & replaygain – using metaflac
- Lameb – Lame Batch encoder; no, I don’t know if this is useful for anything
- musichtml.pl – Creates a webpage listing your albums with a subpage for each album.
- M.A.R.E.O. – Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others.
- Setting EAC compression options for Musepack (and FLAC)
- mareo > single file flac + .cue
- Music Metadata (ID3 and Vorbis/FLAC Comment) Tags
- mp3cue – by the author of EncSpot
It took quite a while to get a boot floppy to install the BIOS update for my MegaRAID 150-6 card. A combination of finding a working floppy, floppy drive, and a way to write a suitable DOS boot disk, and then get it to write the BIOS was quite an ordeal. I thought I had the problem licked with a FreeDOS boot disk and the updater on a CD-RW, but alas, it wouldn’t run. I finally got around this by finding a DR-DOS disk I had as part of a diagnostic disk that would just barely fit the update (and also run it properly).
The update did fix the 48-bit LBA addressing, so it’s now detecting everything correctly. So I’m currently using Knoppix to do a Debian install on the system. A 700+GB home folder is quite a sight.
- Installing Debian Software with the Advanced Package Tool – Getting information about packages – good ref
- Debian Package Tools – list of various tools
- Bootable CD w/ Nero
- FreeDOS – your best bet for dd’ing DOS boot disks in Linux
- Bart’s way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos)
- Net Express: Secret FTP – img files
- Boot disks – more dd writable images
- EtherBoot Project – software package for creating ROM images that can download code over an Ethernet network to be executed on an x86 computer
- Knoppix.net – site dedicated to Knoppix w/ forums, wiki, docs, etc.
- Knoppix gives bootable, one-disk Linux – good link-list
Walter Murch: An Interview with the Editor of “Cold Mountain” – Walter Murch talks about editig and a little on working w/ FCP. Looks like the workstation is set up so that he can still edit standing up
Last week, photomatt commented on the death of flexible width designs, all kinds of ruckus, blah blah blah. Clagnut follows up with more on fixed widths.
I was just reading the Pitchfork Top 50, and it definitely had me thinking back to some of the music I really enjoyed this year (not all mope).
- Exploding Hearts – Sleeping Aides And Razorblades [3.6MiB] – poprocks at its best; RIP
- Manitoba – Crayon [3.7MiB] – IDM, now w/ 100% less pretension, 200% more warmth
- Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine [12.0 MiB] – missed ’em live, hopefully they’ll be back
- Non-Prophets – Damage [7.0MiB] – rhymes that just won’t quit
- Prefuse 73 – The Color of Tempo [4.6MiB] – hard to decide whether the original or the outtakes are better
- Benny Benassi – Don’t Touch Too Much [6.0MiB] – remember the power tools video? the rest of the album is as good
- Basement Jaxx – Lucky Star (Jaxx Klub Remix) [64kbps MP3, 1.5MiB] – still kicks ass, still looking for a HQ version 🙂
Other fav albums this year: M83, Broken Social Scene, Weakerthans, Decemberists…
Albums I forgot came out this year but shouldn’t have considering how much I listened to them: Rilo Kiley – Execution of All Things, Cursive – The Ugly Organ, Four Tet – Rounds, The Postal Service (of course)
- Apple Pro/Filme: John D. Lowry – using PowerMacs and proprietary software algorithms for film restoration