In response to Chris’ post from a few days ago, to which I finally had time to respond: Audio format: There is no doubt that Ogg Vorbis is the superior format for fidelity. However, there is equally no doubt that MP3 is the superior format for interoperability, and no good …
And after all the time it took them to get a working F7 driver out, AMD/ATI still delivers something that chows down on my battery like a man fresh off a hunger strike. Literally doubled the wakeups as measured by powertop, even at the best of times. I couldn’t get …
This was a fairly amusing personality test that purports to assess geekiness on a scale of autistic behavior. Many geeks are believed to suffer from “Asperger syndrome,” which is a low-level autism that affects people’s behavior in a way that prevents social enrichment. I scored a 19, which was marked, …
Got a new Hitachi 250 GB drive for my T60 this week, and I installed it today before I left the office. Nice to see that it took about 10 minutes to install the distro, about 15 minutes more to get all my other packages and updates reinstalled, and a …
Geek stuff: A while back I posted about a problem with Nautilus’ handling of audio CD copies. In today’s news, that looks to be fixed in the upcoming GNOME release, which should by all rights make it easily into Fedora 8. More geek stuff: Today also saw the arrival of …
Last night I did a test with my iPod using a TRRS-to-3RCA cable (lifted from my Sony miniDV camcorder), and found that I could very handily do a slide presentation by patching into the composite video input on a projector or monitor. With audio inputs, I could have backing music …
It seems that all I’m doing these days is chasing the tail end of whatever I was supposed to get done the week before. Most of my busy time has come from my musical life. Leah has a final show coming up in a few weeks, and inexplicably we have …
I’ve developed an innate distrust of the phrase “left as an exercise for the reader” when used in technical documentation. This idiom is normally indicative of at least one of the following situations: The author is too lazy to cover the majority of use cases, and besides, there’s a Buffy …
From a recent LUG meeting: One member described “wife” as “the best definition ever of a non-maskable interrupt.” UPDATE: I hadn’t seen my Mugshot stacker, where Marvelous Mike had posted something today on gender issues, proving once again that he is always ahead of my game.
We gave my daughter a small radio/CD player for her sixth birthday a while back, so she’s been excited to get copies of some of our CDs that she can play in her room. Yes, we still get the majority of our music the old-fashioned way, by buying CDs. So …