30
03
2008
I'm taking baby steps in the world of digital recording. I bought a halfway-decent Firewire input for my MacBook that I can plug the old Les Paul into and have been playing around with GarageBand. It's a lot of fun, even if you suck, like me.
My first attempt at a composition (it can on loosely be called a composition) is a song I call "Monolithic". It's got a few samples of my favorite neurotic computer, the HAL 9000 from 2001. I made it in honor of Sir Arthur C. Clarke who passed away at 92 recently. It's very much a rough work in progress.
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05
10
2007
Looks like Bungie is going back to being an independent company. It'd be nice to go back to those halcyon days of Marathon, Myth and Oni. Full details
found here.
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19
07
2007
If you ever wanted to get into family trees at all like I have, I highly recommend a new site called
Geni. Very cool stuff. Slick, easy to use interface, messaging, invites, the works. If you are related to our family at all, stop in there and add some info. The ultimate goal of the site is to show how everyone on the globe is interconnected by families. Very cool indeed.
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12
01
2007
Hah! Saw this on Digg today. Apparently the company Lasonic is bringing to market a totally retro boombox. I gotta get me one of these to go with my parachute pants, THINK LIFE t-shirt and Japanese flag headband. Awesome.
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29
12
2006
It's been about two weeks now that I've been using my new MacBook Pro. There are some definite upsides as well as downsides to life after the PowerPC to Intel switch.
The Good:
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I can play World of Warcraft.
Not necessarily Intel related. I've got a couple of co-workers who are rabid players of this MMORPG and got me into playing. Addictive.
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Virtualization
Because of the Intel architecture, I can run Parallels. This enables me to run other x86 native operating systems withinb virtual machines at about 95% native speed. No dual booting with Boot Camp necessary. Currently I have both Windows XP as well as Ubuntu Linux 6.10 running alongside Mac OS X. This stuff is just amazing.
- Horsepower
Remember the day that RISC vs. CISC mattered? When Apple had commercials showing the Intel bunny guys getting toasted by the PowerPC? Those days really are over. The Core2Duo blazes.
The Bad:
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Intel Compatability
Sure, Apple has done a more than admirable job of making PowerPC applications and libraries work on the new Intel hardware with Rosetta (seriously, it's damned seamless), but there is a definite performance hit when using it and there are a number of big software omissions that have yet to be Universal-ized. For instance, I am currently trying to build a PHP development environment on the MacBook, and everything works except for one thing: Oracle. Oracle provides the Instant Client libraries for Mac OS X, but only as PPC binaries! No Intel or univeral available. This means you absolutely cannot build PHP against them for OCI8 support, which is a prerequisite for me. Come on Oracle, get with the program. Thank the gods I can just build it all in my Linux VM. 
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15
12
2006
At work. It's sick. Now I can do things like this:
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