2007-12-31
Posted in Site Updates
at 22:26
Having discovered that my old host STILL hasn’t fixed their DNS problems, I’ve moved this blog to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Let me know if you find any problems.
However, keep in mind that the contact form is still on my old host (I need to make some changes before it will work with NearlyFreeSpeech.NET’s mailer) so it may exhibit the same intermittent 404 errors that forced me to move the blog. If you have trouble with it, try again later and it will work. I’ll have it moved over as soon as I’ve got the script updated.
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Posted in Site Updates
at 18:41
Yes, I have added an adbox to my blog. For those who are wondering, no, I haven’t become a hypocrite. I still don’t like big banner and skyscraper ads all over, but I don’t mind a few small buttons… especially when the advertiser pays per day, rather than per impression or per click.
Pay-per-day ads like the ones I’m using allow people who aren’t interested (in most cases, that means me) to use tools like AdBlock Plus without hurting anyone (the only effect is a few less views on the graphs shown to potential advertisers) and, since it’s Project Wonderful ads, even I don’t block them. (The Project Wonderful guys run their ad service the way I would) It also helps that I’ve set my profile to refuse animated GIFs.
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2007-12-05
Posted in General
at 7:00
Note: This is still fragile, so I can’t help you if it doesn’t work on your system.
I finally got around to trying OSS 4 and I just can’t go back to ALSA. Not only is it less cantankerous, the mixer curve I get by leaving my soundcard on defaults and adjusting the vmix in-kernel mixer is much nicer.
Unfortunately, there was one problem. MIDI support for OSS 4 is still in development and I have old Windows games which use MIDI for their background music. With ALSA, I had been using Timidity as a software synth that Wine could hook into, but I couldn’t get that to work with libsalsa (the OSS 4 ALSA compatibility layer) so I decided to look for an alternative.
This is a preview of
How to get Timidity to work (more or less) as a software synth with OSS 4
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2007-12-01
Posted in Geek Stuff, Otaku Stuff, Web Wandering & Opinion
at 23:04
Monster Madness, Part 1 @ YouTube
Yeah, I know most horror fans have probably already seen this, but whether or not you like Horror films, you should watch it. I’m not a Horror fan, but this provides a great way for fans to check if they’ve missed any classics, and non-fans to learn a little more about the history of this aspect of popular culture without having to actually watch the films.
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