Posted on Wednesday, 1st June 2011 - View 0 comments.
So. Time to start posting to this blog again!
I recently bought myself a new PC. Needed to upgrade after my trusty Athlon64 3700+ lasted me for six years. Sold some bass guitar gear and raised myself the funds. Ended up with an Intel i7 2600, 12GB of RAM and a P67 chipset motherboard. Kept case, optical drives and hard drives (my server is there for mass storage) - new Corsair PSU. All works a treat.
Had plans on running FreeBSD - but ran into issues with Xorg. Changed to Ubuntu + Xfce4, but had issues with audio. Back to trusty Windows. Very comfortable with XP - I consider myself to be an advanced power user - but made the change to Windows 7. Will take some getting used to.
Now, I did have issues. foobar2000, running music from a shared network drive, would not play cleanly. Continuous stuttering of audio, worse with higher bitrate stuff - FLAC vinyl rips, for instance. Eliminated the possibility of it being audio drivers. Lots of stuff online about this happening, but no suggested fixes, fixed the problem.
Now should anyone happen to be affected by the same thing and comes across this page - the issue is with the 'features' added by Windows 7 to networking.
Posted on Saturday, 18th December 2010 - View 0 comments.
This is yet another test post for posterity
Posted on Friday, 23rd October 2009 - View 1 comments.
testing extra funtions
Posted on Monday, 23rd March 2009 - View 0 comments.
Doing lots of work on (yet again!) admin-side stuff. Will soonishly be including a gallery of sorts - this'll be on a seperate page of the site, specifically for photos and the like. So, new stylesheet, blegh. Just a few more bits and pieces for databse shit and then I can work on the setting out of the viewing page! :D
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Posted on Monday, 10th November 2008 - View 0 comments.
At long last, the posting. I've been (once again) neglecting the site a bit in terms of content. Whether there's actually people reading it or not, I'll pretend that there is and type up some more shit.
Almost finished uni for the year, only a couple of exams left to do - maths and astronomy, neither of which I'm particularly worried about. Physics was a different story, but I did infinitely better than I expected to. Now just to wait for results, I guess. A bit of study to do for the two remaining, but nothing huge, which is good. Will have to pack up my shit from college in a couple of weeks too, which won't be too bad - I've been bringing it home bit by bit over the last couple of weeks. Saves hauling up a trailer for one large load on the last day. It'll be good not having to pay so much fuckin' rent, but I'll once again miss living in that environment - not to mention the freedom in doing so, even if there's not a great deal of money to spare. Ah well.
And with uni finished, I'll be looking for more work. Most likely doing nightfilling duties at Safeway, but I really am beginning to hate the place - more and more every week. I must get off my arse sometime and start looking for an IT based position; something to do with Linux/Unix systems would be magnificent. The issue is getting reliable work, though, especially with my return to uni next year. Safeway is reliable, and I really don't want to fuck myself over by losing work due to reduced availability next year. Alternatively, a cadetship or something similar at somewhere like CSIRO would be superb, and would compliment studies very nicely.
In other news, coming along nicely (I believe, at least) with the ol' bass guitar, slowly getting better at it, which is good. New teacher is good, too. Certainly different to the previous dude, but not in a bad way. Knows his stuff, and is focusing more on why basslines are what they are, and less on the playing of stuff, which works just fine for me. Not sure yet whether I'll continue tuition next year. The electric guitar, on the other hand, is giving me the shits. The action of it is a bit low - makes for a lot of fret buzz. I dislike the tone of it more and more, and the floating tremolo just gives me the shits. Attempting to play some of Death's easier stuff, but is still not going as nicely as I would like. That said - I'm managing to get some decent sounding riffs out from casual playing, but without some sort of recording device, they usually end up as nothing, which is unfortunate. I really must start looking for a band sometime to play bass in. A bit worried I'll just make an ass of myself, but nothing ventured nothing gained, I guess...
Almost finished uni for the year, only a couple of exams left to do - maths and astronomy, neither of which I'm particularly worried about. Physics was a different story, but I did infinitely better than I expected to. Now just to wait for results, I guess. A bit of study to do for the two remaining, but nothing huge, which is good. Will have to pack up my shit from college in a couple of weeks too, which won't be too bad - I've been bringing it home bit by bit over the last couple of weeks. Saves hauling up a trailer for one large load on the last day. It'll be good not having to pay so much fuckin' rent, but I'll once again miss living in that environment - not to mention the freedom in doing so, even if there's not a great deal of money to spare. Ah well.
And with uni finished, I'll be looking for more work. Most likely doing nightfilling duties at Safeway, but I really am beginning to hate the place - more and more every week. I must get off my arse sometime and start looking for an IT based position; something to do with Linux/Unix systems would be magnificent. The issue is getting reliable work, though, especially with my return to uni next year. Safeway is reliable, and I really don't want to fuck myself over by losing work due to reduced availability next year. Alternatively, a cadetship or something similar at somewhere like CSIRO would be superb, and would compliment studies very nicely.
In other news, coming along nicely (I believe, at least) with the ol' bass guitar, slowly getting better at it, which is good. New teacher is good, too. Certainly different to the previous dude, but not in a bad way. Knows his stuff, and is focusing more on why basslines are what they are, and less on the playing of stuff, which works just fine for me. Not sure yet whether I'll continue tuition next year. The electric guitar, on the other hand, is giving me the shits. The action of it is a bit low - makes for a lot of fret buzz. I dislike the tone of it more and more, and the floating tremolo just gives me the shits. Attempting to play some of Death's easier stuff, but is still not going as nicely as I would like. That said - I'm managing to get some decent sounding riffs out from casual playing, but without some sort of recording device, they usually end up as nothing, which is unfortunate. I really must start looking for a band sometime to play bass in. A bit worried I'll just make an ass of myself, but nothing ventured nothing gained, I guess...