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So here’s a little admission. I’ve never bothered to write OOP Perl before. Just never had the need. I still don’t, but maybe it’d be worth looking into.
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.
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?…
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
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).
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)
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.
Yesterday, my Saddle Creek and CDBaby orders both arrived, so I’m swimming in new albums (also, reminded me to drop by EasyNews). It’s been a while since I’ve inflicted the web with my taste in music, and tis the season, right? (no 12yr old lawsuits funded by these albums, 100% RIAA free)
Some other music links:
The company that makes this sued my friend