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It's been a long month! The end of the academic quarter brings with it final exams, final papers, projects, and of course the usual insanity brewing on my floor.
Throughout the month, my friends and I have made a habit of scouting for trash PCs on campus. We seem to throw out perfectly good hardware with no good reason, which is great for us, since we can capitalize on those sorts of leavings. Among my friends' pillages have been some recent-looking Inspiron laptops, rack-mountable switches, vintage IBM Model M keyboards, and dedicated hardware firewalls, among other things. As for me, I...
Here's something I've been working on this past week:
Questions, comments, concerns, yells at my lack of originality, or anything of the sort?
I'm actually adding new content to my website for the first time since last February. Who saw that coming?
Podcast co-host Mark and I yesterday drove out to Rochester, New York to visit our old co-host Jeff at RIT, among other things. That said, we'll probably be recording a show later tonight, for old time's sake. Stay tuned for photos.
Podcast 13 has been recorded, marking the one-year milestone for the podcast. We're releasing it on the 23rd for consistency along with something extra, details of which I can't elaborate about.
A year's worth of podcasts has grown to nearly 300MB. Today I began re-encoding our 64kbps MP3s to 20kbps WMA9 Voice files to save some space, as I'd mentioned earlier this year. If you absolutely want the MP3-based archives, download them now, because they'll be gone by the 23rd at the latest. Bandwidth savings are pretty good: our 67-minute episodes compress to under 10MB with roughly the same vocal quality....
I suppose it's rare to find me discussing television in a positive manner, so savor the moment. In preparation for next year's analog TV switchoff, I purchased an Insignia NS-DXA1 digital tuner at Best Buy today (with some financial aid from W, of course).
I get the idea that I don't give digital technologies as much credit as they deserve. Yes, sometimes they fall awry of their intended purpose and almost always are used to satisfy some purely monopolistic restriction. This year, though, I've transitioned to digital sources twice. The first occurred earlier this year when I switched from the AMPS...
It's that I need to add a /usepmtimer switch to new Windows installs, otherwise recorded audio comes out like this due to the CPUs desynchronizing:
So now Episode Twelve gets re-recorded... I suppose this is a blessing in disguise, since last week's Ep12 was nearly eighty minutes long!
Due to circumstances mostly beyond my control, Mark and I recorded what should have been last month's podcast just a few hours ago. I haven't cut it together yet, but should have it edited and uploaded by the end of the week. We had a lot to say, so this one's a particularly long 80 minutes unedited. By comparison, our unprocessed episodes usually come out to around 67 minutes and edit down to about an hour.
In other news, I've developed a cheap system in which I can archive original and finished podcast tracks losslessly. Having lost eight episodes to a...
<sarcasm>Aren't my post titles creative?</sarcasm> I've been trying to post something here all week, though it's been boring enough that I haven't found anything substantial enough to dedicate a full post to.
Yesterday I joined the 10k Good Friday Walk. I'd put the number of walkers somewhere slightly over 300, as we managed to overflow the 250-seater auditorium at school upon returning. Not a bad experience overall, perhaps with the exception of the weather: while it was 41°F outside (which, around here, isn't so bad for this time of year), the wind gusts of over 35mph kicked up the salt and...
This list of PCs was requested by a friend of mine that didn't believe I own nine PCs. Even I'll admit the story's quite far fetched, so this may at least dispel some doubt and elaborate as to how I acquired the machines to begin with. Please excuse the quality on some of the photos - I didn't have pictures on file for some of the newer machines, and since my standalone camera is broken I ended up taking pictures via video camera again. I'll update them if and when I decide to buy a new memory card for the...
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