Out of Print

This short video shows how I spent much of my life before the web changed everything.

more about "Out of Print", posted with vodpod

become a professional musician in an instant

a set of plugins for those who care more about the music than the technology:

- ccernn

re: linux vs win/mac

here’s some more copy/paste stuff from another blog, to balance out the previous “linux vs win/mac” post a bit…

— how to be a linux user

I’m sure all of this is already in y’all’s blood. But you know, I figured I should write it down for all the noobs out there. They need to learn how to behave properly as a luser.

• If something doesn’t work for you, tell yourself that you don’t really need it anyways.
• Convert at least five others to user your distribution of choice. Even against their will. Do whatever it takes. Lie about how it makes such a great OS. Tell them the people at the NYSE use it. Tell them it gets less viruses. Tell them it runs on their toaster, so it’s awesome. If they resist, here’s some things you can do:
  • Do NOT research Microsoft security technologies. Instead, just point solely to Windows 95 and UAC as examples of poor security on Windows
  • Tell them that they can install thousands, no millions, of apps with a single command.
  • Tell them that they’ll have choice. Do not tell them that they’ll have to make tons of choices which they know nothing about.
  • If they are non-programmers, tell them that it’s a fantastic opportunity to get into programming and spend hours and hours to make their system work.
  • Question their manhood or womanhood.
  • Accuse them of spreading FUD.
  • If they’re Mac users, accuse them of blatant homosexuality. Then tell them that they’re spending way too much money. Show them your wobbly windows.
  • If they point out that they won’t be able to do something that they could before, tell them that they didn’t really need to do that anyways.
• A year later, convert them to your new distribution of choice.
• When you have a configuration problem, do one or more of:
  • File a bug, without doing any research on the problem.
  • If you’re really in the mood, find a totally unrelated bug, and post a comment along the lines of, “Hey, I think this might be related …”
  • If you’re actually partially smart and have found the appropriate bug report, post a comment saying ‘Me too!’, even though there are already 300 of the same. It really helps developers when their bug report pages are really long. You see, they judge the importance of a bug by how short their scrollbar grabby-thing gets.
  • Post to Ubuntutips. Be sure to sound really spoiled.
  • Tell yourself that you don’t need that feature. Tell yourself that if you wait patiently you’ll have it in 2 years, maybe.
  • Write something along the lines of “I totally need this feature XXX to work. Someone help me” to every mailing list you can find that ends with -devel.
• When others have problems, do one or more of:
  • Tell them that it works for you, and give no further information. New users must learn on their own. Remember this. It’s for their own good.
  • If you’re a little more motivated, tell them that it works for you, and then tell them about your hardware that is totally different from theirs.
  • Never reveal that you actually have no idea what you’re talking about. Suggest random solutions like patching their kernel.
  • If they’re trying to watch some video or listen to some music in a non-free format, drop some knowledge on them about how they’re poisoning society. Trust me, everyone really cares. They’re just too stupid to know to care.
  • If all else fails, yes, you can tell them that they don’t really need that feature. By wanting it, they’re just prolonging their addiction to useful software.
• Most importantly, write blogs, comment on blogs, post on forums , anything, to tell people that your Linux desktop does everything you need, but make sure you know absolutely nothing about the proprietary software workflows that exist on other platforms. It’s really important that you have a “clean room” opinion, unaffected by the imperfections of the real world.

- ccernn

space crap

col. chris hadfield of the canadian space agency speaking about some of the very human aspects of space travel.

and another one

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plibaam v0.0.1 teaser

seems like we’re entering into the software ‘sector’. need to get some final approval, and polish a few things, and it’ll be all yours… and opensource of course

in the meanwhile, some clues and a screenshot

… freepascal , lazarus , energy xt2 , jack.cpp , jacklab svn , libaam.so …

- ccernn

linux vs win/mac

what can i do with linux, that i can’t do with windows or mac? well, i can:

1. Upgrade to the newest version legally and without paying money
2. Have the latest version of the operating system run faster than the previous version on the same hardware
3. Easily install and run different graphical interfaces if I don’t like the default setup
4. Install twenty programs with one command
5. Have the system automatically update all my installed programs for me.
6. Install the same copy of my OS (Ubuntu) on multiple computers without worrying about license restrictions or activation keys
7. Give away copies of the operating system and other programs that run on it without breaking any laws, governmental or ethical or moral, because it was all intended to be used this way
8. Have full control over my computer hardware and know that there are no secret back doors in my software, put there by malicious software companies or governments
9. Run without using a virus scanner, adware/spyware protection, and not reboot my computer for months, even when I do keep up with all of the latest security updates
10. Run my computer without needing to defragment my hard drive, ever
11. Try out software, decide I don’t like it, uninstall it, and know that it didn’t leave little bits of stuff in a registry that can build up and slow down my machine
12. Make a major mistake that requires a complete reinstallation and be able to do it in less than an hour, because I put all of my data on a separate partition from the operating system and program files
13. Boot into a desktop with flash and effects as cool as Windows Vista on a three year old computer…in less than 40 seconds, including the time it takes me to type my username and password to login
14. Customize anything I want, legally, including my favorite programs. I can even track down the software developers to ask them questions, contribute ideas, and get involved in the actual design/software writing process if I want to
15. Have 4+ word processor windows open working on papers, listen to music, play with flashy desktop effects, have contact with a largely happy community and have firefox, instant messaging, and email clients all open at the same time, without ever having had to beg someone for a code to make my os work, and without the system running so slow it is useless
16. Use the command “dpkg –get-selections > pkg.list” to make a full, detailed list of all software I have installed, backup my /etc and /home directories on a separate partition, and you are able to recover your system any time, easily
17. Run multiple desktops simultaneously, or even allow multiple users to log in and use the computer simultaneously
18. Resize a hard disk partition without having to delete it and without losing the data on it
19. Use the same hardware for more than 5 years before it really needs to be replaced… I have some hardware that is nearly 10 years old, running Linux, and still useful
20. Browse the web while the OS is being installed!
21. Use almost any hardware and have a driver for it included with the operating system…eliminating the need to scour the internet to find the hardware manufacturer’s website to locate one
22. Get the source code for almost anything, including the OS kernel and most of my applications

copy/paste from here

- ccernn

4k

almost unbelieveable, what somebody can pack into just 4096 bytes! to compare it with something: cd-quality audio is 176400 bytes per second, so you would need 43 of these 4k intros to fill up just one second, each one would last 23ms… and that’s for the synth, the music, any artwork, the algorithms, the code, everything… and it’s in realtime…

some really good ones (download, info, and a lot more here):

atrium by tbc and loonies

h4voc by archee

kindernoiser by rgba

kindercrasher by rgba

micropolis by tbc and mainloop

parsec

psylteflesk by ephidrena

- ccernn

ubuntu satanic edition

something for the religious people, i guess… hehe

ubuntu satanic edition

- ccernn

amnon and thamar

and it came to pass after this, that amnon the son of david loved the sister of absalom the son of david, who was very beautiful, and her name was thamar. and he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the love of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any thing dishonestly with her. [ii kings 13:1-2 ] and thamar came to the house of amnon her brother: but he was laid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes. and taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it before him, but he would not eat: and amnon said: put out all persons from me. and when they had put all persons out, amnon said to thamar: bring the mess into the chamber, that i may eat at thy hand. and when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and said: come lie with me, my sister. she answered him: do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in israel. do not thou this folly. [ii kings 13:8-12] but he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger overpowered her and lay with her. [ii kings 13:14]

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- ccernn

aethyr skketch

We have our heads deep in our creations, and instead of waiting until the corners are all sanded and there are twenty layers of shellac creating that sense of distance, we’ll be sharing our skketches in all media. The above was inspired by the below.

And be sure to head to our myspace page, where we’ve filled the player full with more delightful skketches.