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Comment on Trackbacks (and Blogging (and Blogging About Blogging)) by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:16:00 +0000

Trackback is supported by many blogs and it is indeed a great way for anyone to comment around the blog world while retaining his/her own identity and many link backs to his/her own blog.

Comment on Time to Learn Applescript by koldfyre

koldfyre — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:29:42 +0000

Me too, me too!
Except you started about 2 years before me -_-

Ed
4ppleScript

Comment on About by Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:13:07 +0000

do you have your photography tutorial up anywhere?

Comment on Hardware: Digital V6 KVM over IP by cascadehush

cascadehush — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:36:15 +0000

vPro is proprietary, and serves the same function as a KVM over ethernet or IP, so as far as I’m concerned it’s just a different way of doing the same thing.

The main point is that remote control of PC is out of the leage of most people because KVM products are considered high-end since they are mostly used on servers.

And in the end vPro is no different, because you have to buy the 3rd party software to log into the machine, so no doubt that puts it out of the reach of someone who’d want to be able to access a home machine using the technology.

Comment on Hardware: Digital V6 KVM over IP by Watcher

Watcher — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:25:47 +0000

Contrary to what some are posting, Intel vpro does not support KVMoIP yet and they have not announced plans to do so in clients. You can get KVM support on Intel servers that contain an ASMI slot using Intel’s EVP card. However, those proprietary solutions can be expensive. Some AMD server platforms support OPMA (Open Platform Management Architecture) which allows the connection of 3rd party KVM cards. Both ASMI and OPMA solutions are interesting in that they do away with all the extra cabling of external KVM switches.

If you want out of band kvm access to client systems, some companies like Raritan make single system units, but again, you are left with plugging in cables.

Comment on Rant: Mourning the release of Vista… by cyaegha

cyaegha — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:52:05 +0000

Wasn’t it exactly the same with XP? a prettier, more functional version of Win2k. Most people now use it.

I think a completely re-engineered version of Windows would be a bad thing. Think of the insane amount of man hours involved in building a complete OS like Windows, and all of the new bugs. You can’t expect MS to drop what they have been working on for almost their entire life and start again. Sure they have the money, but to be honest I don’t want to be waiting for 20 years while they get it ironed out. 20 years of catch-up time for Linux.

A basic version of User Account Control has been in Linux for some time now. MS does it and its the end of the world. You could argue that needing this feature in the first place demonstrates an intrinsic lack of security. I’m sure that if the malware manufacturers actually targeted other OSs you would see a similar trend, but why bother, seriously.

Maybe I got a bit off-topic here and should be ranting in my own blog

Comment on Vista: Forget Aero, just use cmd.exe by cyaegha

cyaegha — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:25:58 +0000

Bah, command prompt. I find the search feature in the start menu to be one of the most useful features in Vista. Things I regularly use and for some reason aren’t already sitting open can be started with 3 key presses; [winkey], [first letter of the name of the app], [enter]. Mostly remote desktop and visual studio. If it is something I haven’t used before I may have to enter 2 or 3 letters. As a self proclaimed power user I find it more tedious to use the command prompt than to use the search feature, I certainly don’t start cmd so I can launch GUI based apps.

Comment on Vista: Forget Aero, just use cmd.exe by My Very Short Vista Experience « Coops was here

My Very Short Vista Experience « Coops was here — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:25:36 +0000

[...] I got it home, and saw everything was quite fancy. I enjoyed the Aero feature: fancy live previews and all. The security thing was a little over-bearing. There were a [...]

Comment on XP Troubleshooting: Audio Drop-Outs in Games by cascadehush

cascadehush — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:51:40 +0000

This is a different league of problem, really.

If you serious about remixing you’ll get the best results with a soundcard that has ASIO drivers. I’m not sure if Acid Pro 5 supports ASIO. I think Acid has been a bit late to the party on that score, but Sonar, Cubase, Live, FL Studio and Audition all run best using ASIO drivers.

It’s possible that your PC is bogged down somehow, in which case you’d need to do some troubleshooting/tweeking.

Also, make sure you set XP to give CPU priority to background services. musicxp.net is a good site for info on how to tweek a PC for music production.

But I suspect you might simply be taxing you PC with a project that is just too complicated for it to handle. Each plugin/effect takes CPU cycles and you can only run so many. Adjusting the pre-roll will help. Again, ASIO drivers are designed for high throughput with low latency and low CPU usage and you’ll be able to run more tracks and/or more audio effects with an ASIO soundcard. But you’ll need to make sure your software can make use of it.

Comment on XP Troubleshooting: Audio Drop-Outs in Games by Norris Turney

Norris Turney — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:29:21 +0000

Hi, My name is Mr. Norris Turney. And I do Audio remixing
and recently I’ve started running into audio playback problems, the audio drops out at random instances. I’ve tried despretlly to readjust the pre-roll playback slider in my wave/audio tab in the preference>options menu dialog box
at small increments-/+, but can’t seem to find the right calibration spot to erradicate this nuance of a problem. Sometimes I use Acid Pro 5.0c, other times Sonicforge XP Studio its in this one where the concern problem occures. Help, What do I do.

Thank You, In Advance.

Mr. Norris Turney