| kb0iic |
Posted on: 26-Jan-2009, 07:29 PM |
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I've emailed for more information on the video from that site regarding the origins of the song in the video. Should hear back shortly. If not, then I declare war on people not giving credits in videos to the content!
Arm up on ale and pub music!
-William |
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Forum: Minstrels Gallery · Post Preview: #272977 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 08-Jun-2008, 11:30 PM |
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Ahoy mateys,
Well... Loreena McKennitt. My adventure into this artist's realm of relaxing music was from the Book of Secrets. My step-mom had known about her stuff for a long time as she was in that kind of music. She introduce me to the visit and a few other albums which she gave me on my b-day. Upon finding Aaediwen in the vast web of net, I found out he has quite a story with Loreena McKennitt. Ask him about it sometime.
While I've been out collecting Nightwish things, I decided to find some rare stuff of Loreena McKennitt. The Bonny Swans, and the Mummers' Dance single. Some things you can still get in Vinyl and Cassette if desired. Some things new you get now are remastered and may come with a DVD, too! You can check her label at http://www.quinlandroad.com
Okay Aaediwen, I invite you to tell your experiences of the concert(s) and other neat things you have witness in your Loreena McKennitt experiences... muahahaha!
-William (Ratrophy on IRC at www.celticradio.net) By the way.. trivia night this coming weekend! More details follow, read the threads somewhere about it... or just pester MacFive! |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #251808 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 01-Jun-2008, 08:54 PM |
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Ok, May 30th, Aaediwen and I went to a Nightwish concert in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. We picked up his sister and brother-in-law as they bought tickets, too. Upon arriving the venue, there weren't a whole lot of people there and we got a good place in line. Once they split the lines between ticket holders and everyone else, it was a nice long line still, but we got a nice place up toward the front. We had a great time even when there were tall people all around us blocking great views. Wish I had a sledgehammer with me to knock'em down a bit. It was nice and warm toward the end, but it was great overall. It was a great concert and the fans were going crazy. After watching their live performances on the DVDs I have, it always made me feel really neat to see the band bow before their audience. Seeing that in person made it even neater, kinda felt like tearing up a bit. Whoa! What a concert!
If anyone likes Nightwish and wants one of the neatest experiences with their music, get a ticket! They come back to the US in October, if anyone is interested and is in the US. Otherwise, check out their schedule on their web site. http://www.nightwish.com
They did a great line up, and they played the songs most everyone in the crowd liked. They even had the Indian guy there! He was on tour with them and whoa! Dude! I can't describe it!
Okay, go see Nightwish, live!
-William |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #251112 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 25-Apr-2008, 12:05 AM |
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Dude,
I've wanted to check out the Blue Man group. They've had showings here in KC quite a bit, but my friends never seem interested. I need new friends that like blue things. Let me know how it is after you see them. Hope you are liking all that killer Nightwish stuff ya have. By the way, anyone reading this thread, we got more Nightwish fans in the chat. So join us.
Also, my first post was way off. That album, it was released a long time ago. haha. Apparently there is a finnish version just released this year, or something, never found it, but it exists probably! That's what I was talking about.
William |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #245655 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 21-Apr-2008, 08:04 PM |
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Aaediwen!!! Ready for some Nightwish concert action May 30? Muahahahaha! |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #245245 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 21-Apr-2008, 08:01 PM |
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Haha, drug addicts! You know, redundant internet connections from different sources and technologies is a must! But then again, this just lets ya know that sometimes ya gotta go outside and look at the moon and stars, sun, and stuff.
William |
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Forum: Technical Support · Post Preview: #245244 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 11-Apr-2008, 06:38 PM |
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Ahoy mateys,
Got the End of an Era DVD yesterday. Whoa, it's amazing how the crowd has lights when they dim the lights during Sleeping Sun. Wish I could go back in time and go to the concert! |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #243508 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Apr-2008, 10:00 PM |
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Ahoy mateys! Are you interested in Nightwish or involved with them in some way? Well I'm starting a thread on Nightwish! With their new lineup inovlving Anette Olzon, they have some pretty neat stuff coming up. A new DVD, as I recall, will be arriving soon.
Recently the Wishmaster album was released and have recently found out about this band from Aaediwen, where he heard them from celtic radio, I must say that we would be interested in hearing from fellow Nightwish fans. If you get a chance go ahead and post here or visit us in #Celticradio on IRC at www.celticradio.net.
Lately Aaediwen and I have been jamming with a dvd we have acquired of their music. Jamming to them in dolby digital has become quite a neat affair. So here it is. Post away!
All Hail Nightwish! |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #242973 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 30-Jan-2008, 10:56 AM |
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Ahoy mateys,
Today, there are billions of people on the planet. Most of these people have equipment that can be replaced by a few ways:
1) Return to a manufacturer or place of purchase for a new or refurbished item
2) Throw away and buy a new one
3) Throw away as the manufacturer deems necessary and a new item sent
4) Acquire a new item and use the old or new item for parts with another item
5) Replicator? (oh that is not around the corner, yet)
Questions that arise then are what happens to the returned or thrown away items? The assumption is that items which are thrown away is either done by the end user or the manufacturer. Do they get incinerated, stripped, or tossed to another country for them to strip or just look at during dark starry nights?
I would say all of the above.
Today we have items that adhere to RoHS directive to not use certain hazardous substances in devices, however, old items that have finally met their doom are finding their way into the trash heap. If controls aren't in place to extract the hazardous materials, it will be come problematic for all of us on the planet.
This is what I see all the time. People just throw away phones, computer equipment, lots of mobile equipment, television, video cassette recorders, and other items. If it fits in a dumpster or on the side of a road, it usually gets taken away to some distant abyss, or at least we like to think that.
Okay! Now this is where the thread gets interesting.
I see a bit of an issue with the way things are going right now with electrical devices. Of course they are getting smaller and are packed with functions that make the device somewhat, counter conducive to any lifestyle. If someone gets a cellular phone, it is not juts a phone. This phone plays music, stores pictures, plays video, stores files, maintains a contact database, has a calendar, can record video, take pictures, play games, brows the internet, text message, IM... even run an embedded operating that is open source, at times!
Does anyone see anything wrong with this?
If not, I'll bring up some interesting topics for everyone to discuss.
The more feature advanced devices become people will either dislike it, like it, or just be alright with it, and not want more or less features. However, why do people spend hours in a store browsing through a section on phones, televisions, computers, and other technologically advanced device? Why do we have a hundred models from a bunch of manufacturers for the same type of device? One would say, why that's the best part of a free market! I would ask, why? and for who?
One might argue, that it produces competition and keeps prices cheap! I would ask, who is that good for? And why?
Why do you think the amount of items that reach the trash heap are huge. If everyone in their lifetime, throws out a vcr, television, computer, cellular phone, camera, video recorder, etc, that means that we have a trash heap of over a billion devices (probably not exaggerating here). Of course, there are recycling programs taking care of this, but the devices that leave our country and get dropped on another country's soil might not be so lucky. It might just pile up.
Also, I've noticed that people are getting angrier at their devices, too. Imagine someone on a cellular phone and they get all mad and talk louder at the person they think they are talking to? Do you ever see someone throw their phone, laptop, monitor, computer, television, etc? I see people exchange phones more times in a year than I used to back in the 80's. I still have the same phone I used from 1993 (not a cellular phone, a Sony phone for the wall). I still use an Apple Powerbook from 2001. I still use a Sun Server that was built in 1999 for a server! (although it is not economically friendly). Also, not only with electronics, but this goes for all kinds of devices. Especially cars! Why do we need a thousand models of a device that has four wheels?
I think humans on this planet are out of control. We don't need a billion products manufactured that do the same thing. First off, demand causes software to be written poorly as there is no time to properly write it and make any device worth while of having since most devices today are ran with some form of software. Marketing features people will most likely not use and confuse the buyer are great ways to sell an item!
How about this: why not create a product that lasts 5 to 10 years? that would make more sense. People don't need to throw away a laptop each year, and get a new one. People don't need to crush their car each year and get a new one.
Items don't last long at all, nowadays. People get what they pay for. There is also another problem, sometimes you pay too much for junk, too. People want cheap! I don't know why people ask a salesman: Do you have a cheap and reliable <mention type of product here>? Ha! Cheap and reliable don't go together.
Quality versus quantity: This ratio is getting worse. Let's just say, quantity is greater than quality.
Are we becoming slaves to our own technology? Is having the greatest and latest gear affecting our minds?
Buy a quality product, keep it a few years or a decade! Now, I just hope manufacturers or that there are manufacturers who hold to a quality standard and provide decent customer support.
I am tired of junk! |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #229353 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 11-Jan-2008, 05:22 PM |
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Ahoy mateys,
Update, I received my replacement drive from Western Digital, today.
I RMA'd my 36GB raptor and they sent me an email they were awaiting stock to replace it. Upon opening the packaging and reading the documentation I noticed
the model number wasn't my original drive.
They had sent me a WD800ADFS, a WD Odyssey 16MB cache SATA II 80GB disk drive!
Holy cow!
So now I have a new and faster drive than the original 36GB drive, plus my warranty was extended 188 days when I registered the drive.
Wahoo, thanks Western Digital, you guys rule.
-William |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226912 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 10-Jan-2008, 06:29 PM |
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Check out this story titled the Sorry State of Open Source
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/...t/view/309/122/
Very interesting. I agree with a lot of the viewpoints, but at the same time
I like to use OSS to see how people are doing certain things in their programming
such as algorithms and such. Sometimes I like to fix the code to make it run faster, or enhance for an arch I'm using. It also doesn't help when hardware manufacturers won't reveal information freely, thus people do a lot of reverse engineering and we get mediocre drivers that do well for the most part. And then the hardware manufacturers do provide drivers, you sometimes have to HAVE a certain version of the linux kernel.
I use firefox constantly so that is about the only piece of open source software I use ALL the time. I do use ncftp, that is very nice. MPlayer, too. Apache, Squid, Dovecot, MySQL, PHP. I use those every day with the webserver or with my powerbook, or desktop.
-William |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226818 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 10-Jan-2008, 04:54 PM |
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Arrrr ye mateys!
I use XP X64 for my desktop
I use OSX with my Powerbook Ti1000
I use Solaris with my Sun equipment
I use linux on my experimenting box (until I get rid of it)
I use XP and OSX equally
and I use Solaris for serving everything!
I use a linux OS which I build from scratch to help people with troubleshooting or when I get bored and want to build something
I use Cisco IOS and CatOS for the routers and switches I have.
-William |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226811 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Jan-2008, 10:33 PM |
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You'll find a lot of IT equipment auctioned with a location in the US and the item location is in China, Europe, or India. Maybe even in Indonesia. Keep a look out. |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226743 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Jan-2008, 10:25 PM |
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I've got the floor speakers like Aaediwen's KLH 9915's.
I power them with an RCA Professional Series receiver STAV4090.
I use the optical from the Creative Labs PCI-E X-Fi Extreme Audio
to the receiver and it does well. I gotta keep it low in this apartment
surrounded by brick, but it does okay, while the people below me are gone.
Darn concrete building!
I need my own pad. And I got a cool VU Meter going with it that I built:
http://berzerkula.no-ip.org/Junk/VUMeter.jpg |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226742 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Jan-2008, 10:08 PM |
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I've recently changed my computer arsenal a bit.
I still have the Sun E420R going with the A1000 RAID that has 400GB using 12 36GB Sun disks, with the 4 UltraSPARC II CPUs and the 4GB of ram, running Solaris 10.
The SUN Ultra 60 is just crunching SETI @ Home stuff till I decide what to do with it. Running Solaris 10.
Got this Powerbook G4 Ti1000 that I use for web, email, burning images, watching videos, chatting, programming, etc.
The new desktop I built to retire my old p4 system is this:
Q6600
Evga nForce 680i LT SLI
4GB Corsair XMS 6400C4 ram.
160GB and 74GB raptor
(36GB Raptor from 2003 at WD for RMA, failed Raw read write error with SMART, it's critical by manufacturers for drive failure). Check your drives periodically. After I get the old raptor back it'll be in this machine, too.
Evga GeForce 8800GT 512MB G92 video.
Creative X-Fi extreme audio (pci-e)
A nice Enermax 720W PSU.
Zalman CNPS9500 AT Cu HSF for cooling
XP_X64 is the OS cause I use it to play games when I'm not being a grad student.
Otherwise it'll be used to build some sort of linux os in the future, probably. Or maybe I'll goof with x86 Solaris with it.
And a soon to be retired dual p3 I got going just chucking seti@home stuff
and I use for LFS and CLFS related support as of now.
I have a 486 machine I need to get rid of
I also have a whole other p4 without HT machine to get rid
Here are links to pictures of my desktop and my network/server rack:
http://berzerkula.no-ip.org/Rack%20Project...t/Pages/63.html
http://berzerkula.no-ip.org/Q6600/Pages/55.html
-William |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226740 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Jan-2008, 09:52 PM |
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The best Linux OS is one of a few factors and can't be based from other user's experiences easily.
Each person has a different skill level with computer hardware and various operating systems. Some know exactly what the computer consist of, right down to the hardware model, revision, and firmware. Others have no clue. Others know how to install software into a separate location and modify an install and tweak every portion of their OS, others do not or don't care to know. And many don't even know what architecture for which their system is built.
There are those that just want to install and get stuff going and not deal with the hassle of choosing everything, and then there are those that like command line installs.
A person needs to try the common Linux distributions out there and figure out which ones work well for their cases.
I'd go with the previous replies of what is used based on what you want to do. Debian was decent with apt-get and it is good all around for most anything and there is a huge user base with a very good support base.
You can find an OS that looks and feels like windows, or you can find and use one that feels like using an Alpha in a missile silo.
I've used Slackware since release 3, and once you get your hands wet at the command line, a whole new world of power opens up.
Then, build your own operating system from scratch, like Aaediwen and I have done in the past. That way you have what you want, where you want, how you want. You can figure out your own way to update stuff if you wish or desire, and you can, cause you know how it all works.
Meanwhile, since none of that is a big issue now, just try a few distros, or all of them, and find out which ones work best for you.
-William |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226739 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 09-Jan-2008, 08:23 PM |
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Haha. I trust what they'll do, but not politicians or Microsoft as a whole. There are good people in both groups. As for what they'll do: I trust they'll either botch something up, make it worse, or come out with something new to botch up or make worse. I do have to give XP a hands up, though, it's a very nice OS for the windows releases. For politicians, they will have to start listening to people they lobby for. You can't hold 2 billion people on this planet behind a mask! Hmm, I hope my thoughts came out clear, if not, I need an interpreter! Know one? |
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Forum: Retro Computers · Post Preview: #226734 |
| kb0iic |
Posted on: 13-Jul-2007, 07:16 PM |
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I use Mail.app in OS X. Specifically, I download all my mail from various accounts with fetchmail and filter with procmail using Maildir with my Sun E420R in Solaris 10. Then I use IMAP to connect to the dovecot server I built in Solaris using Mail.app with my Powerbook G4. Fun stuff.
Sincerely,
William |
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