Entries from November 2005

Friday, November 25th, 2005

DVD+R DL Media

Some informal quality tests In an earlier article I mentioned how I was burning a lot of dud disks these days. Well, I spent a lot of time trying to diagnose the problem. When I wrote that article I was using a Lacie DL lightscribe burner with my Powerbook G4 867 MHz. After some experimenting, [...]

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

sneaky phishers

bastards I think at this point, the ruse of sending you a message from a bank or paypal saying that your account is suspended and you have to log in at some link is pretty much dead. Even the most naive of internet users should be wary of this kind of thing now. Now they’ve [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

More hot quad action!

impressions after the first couple of days I’ve spent most of the weekend installing my software, so I haven’t been working on a new album or DVD project yet to talk about the performance in that respect. I did have to run my own personal benchmark though, heavy-duty Reaktor ensembles. If you are unfamiliar with [...]

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Cool gig in Seattle tomorrow

transPacific and Euphondisson at the Rendezvous (2nd Ave, Belltown) 10:30 pm, Saturday November 19th I play in this rock band transPacific, we’re a sort of Crescendo-Core Post-Rockish thing. We’re playing with Euphondisson who are also local and are very cool. I’ve been told by people for years that we should play a gig together and [...]

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Got my Quad!

And I’m insanely delirious with joy I’ve done the photos for a what-is-in-the-box kind of thing, but honestly it wasn’t too many frills. The CPU, keyboard, mighty mouse and a power cable, USB extension cable and a DVI->VGA adaptor. Some initial thoughts: This thing is heavy. It seems heavier than my dual-G5 at work, but [...]

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Good analysis of our budget crisis

The country is headed into financial ruin and the “cuts” that congress is making are a joke here is the link

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Yay Seattle Times

they did a study on how hard it is to talk to a person on those automated phone systems and gave out some shortcuts here is the link