| iTunes library sharing |
[Feb. 9th, 2010|02:48 pm] |
Are there good (simple, fast, configurable) servers (for Windows) that allow you to share music in a way that iTunes will think is just an iTunes shared library?
I have a netbook that I'm not going to burden unnecessarily by installing iTunes on, but it's my media hub, if I had something like this, it would make life somewhat simpler for me.
Any ideas, lazyweb? :) |
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| time warp |
[Feb. 9th, 2010|09:08 am] |
| [ | Music |
| | the Hypnotist - Pioneers of the Warped Groove | ] |
Ugh.
Listening to a rave track I know very, very well indeed, and it sounds like it's running SUPER fast.
Which means one thing: my brain is running very slow.
And, well, yes, I do indeed feel as though it is, I could have just got through the morning without glaring proof I'm doing as badly as i feel I'm doing. |
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| tough |
[Feb. 7th, 2010|12:13 am] |
difficult weekend.
my little bro's having a tough time at the moment, trying to help out as best i can while i too feel a little stretched, but he's my brother, and we have to depend on each other.
having one of those prolifically, prodigiously empty, lonely moments. i can't manage to sleep, but i'm exhausted.
struggling to entertain myself to keep my mood from turning inwards, currently doing a bit badly at that.
mm. difficult.
this single bed's a curse.
i am feeling rather fed up, all in all. am going to listen to some comedy and cuddle corben a bit.
don't much like it here. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|11:41 am] |
Holy fucking shit.
Home fabrication device (3d printer): £400
If you don't know why this is super-cool, watch the video. But then you already read Transmet and Make, don't you? Of course you do. :) |
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| blart snivel sniff |
[Jan. 28th, 2010|06:51 pm] |
Good lord, I'm such a fucking pussy for bittersweet female vocals.
Just put on Dubstar's "Stars", which is very melancholy, but hardly heart-breaking and found myself pissing tears like schoolgirl.
I'm much the same with any similar tracks... Opus III's Fine Day*, Massive Attack's Protection and (cheesy though it is) stuff like Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U are all likely to have me stop what I'm doing and flood with emotion.
Basically, I'm a fucking blouse, it seems.
I'll just go and get my petticoat and Jane Austin novel and will be over here, sipping gin while mascara runs down my cheeks.
*Actually, Fine Day is immeasurably more positive in my mind these days since Kirsten walked down the aisle to it at our wedding, which I always remember when I hear it now, and is a pretty wonderful way to quash a melancholy demon. |
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| FON |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|05:27 pm] |
Have any of youz gize used "FON"?
(the internet-sharing thing)
Trying to work out if it's worth a purchase or not.
Theoretically, I could get someone to host a box for me that would be unlikely to be actually used, then I would get free access to a hotspot in my current neighbourhood.
It sounds ideal, but I suspect there's a catch somewhere.
But this 3g shit must stop, I want to watch Newswipe.
WHORES. |
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| hangover |
[Jan. 26th, 2010|04:15 pm] |
Ohhhhhh.
That goes a way to explaining the hole I fell into on sunday night.
Just put the trash out. Turns out, it was a 1l bottle of rum. I don't usually drink that much. oof. |
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| evil |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|02:10 pm] |
Rum.
It's not your friend.
No matter what it tells you. |
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| right where it belongs |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|01:02 am] |
I'm generally quite happy
but I've had a long fucking week and I'm drinking heavily
i don't genuinely think everything is horrible
but I'm going to drink and sob and hate until all of this turmoil is out of my system
i don't actually feel that bad
you can understand, on a cerebral and intellectual level, that you aren't alone
but it's something of an uphill struggle to avoid how i feel right now
drink and drugs and teddybears
i refuse to feel this way
4
it's not stupid to feel alone, i am actually alone |
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| lazyweb |
[Jan. 24th, 2010|06:00 pm] |
I used to have a program that zoomed images in a smart fashion... up to really big sizes, so if you had no good sources, you could take a web image up to print scale and it wouldn't look too sucky.
I seem to recall that it had a very generic name like "Ultra Zoom" or "Super Zoom", it had a variety of algorithms depending on the subject matter, and used a hybrid of vectorising and bicubic/filtered interpolation, so you got some sharpness on the final product.
Does anyone know what I might have been using, or have any suggestions?
[edit]: Booted up an old laptop and found it... it's PhotoZoom Pro! :D |
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| hate to admit |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|11:59 pm] |
| [ | Mood |
| | and by "jazz", I mean "bareback anal in the loos" | ] |
Lord forgive me for saying it, but I really love OSX's task changer whereby you ALT-TAB, then can point at the app you want to bring to the front.
It's one of those little things that Apple are SUPPOSED to get right and yep, it's intuitive.
I keep reaching for it on the PC and it doesn't work that way.
OK, macboys. You did a nice.
You still wear polonecks and ostentatiously read Satre in cafes and should simply admit to your fondness for jazz. |
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| we have the technology |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|10:06 pm] |
Moving house and out of my womb-like techno-comfort-zone has shown me one rather cool thing:
I finally seem to be in the blissful place of having several solutions to any technological problem.
My cornucopia of leads and interconnects is MIGHTY. I can find leads to connect your RS232 penis to my Android phone's bluetooth-womb. If not, I have a 3g dongle and a plethora of SIMs that will accept your oscillating technowang.
I have enough screens and laptops and netbooks and desktops and storage and sound systems and controllers of all flavours that if the first thing I hack together doesn't work, I've got three other options and one of them will suffice.
I'm mixed on my opinions about device convergence. I like it when an object does one thing ridiculously well, but I REALLY like it when I own a tonne of devices that are all, essentially, tiny computers, all of which I've modified so I can run hooky software to USE their abilities, so that my phones are all terminals and browsers and controllers and VNC clients and mp3 players and modems, and my computers are all routers and multi-channel DAW stations and my soundcards and editing software can all pose as a project studio.
My iPod touch has sound sequencers and modular synths and trackers and terminal clients, my field microphone functions as mobile storage and a 4-track recorder, I have so many devices that play mp3s I just have to pick up an object the size of a ciggy box in my room and it will probably start playing Massive Attack at me if I plug in some headphones.
This is GOOD. All this clever technology should be giving us hackable life tools, not aping the devices of the last millenium.
Your mp3 player is a tiny computer that can probably play videos, probably record audio, probably read ebooks. Your DVD player can probably play divx and mp3 and understand subtitles files. Your phone can almost certainly masquerade as 10 devices that used to cost the same amount each and take up a whole desk.
It SHOULD be the case that if you're sat with some mates at the pub and someone wants a net connection and there's no wifi that three of you can bust out their phone, run something and present an encrypted access point, sharing their net connection. You SHOULD be able to connect to your PC back home and pull a file down that you need there and then, or, fuck it, shell in or VNC in and install something on the fly to provide a service you need right now, then use some anonymous-looking box from your back-pocket to stream a DJ-set into your mate's hifi.
WE HAS THE STUFF!
If your expensive consumer toys don't act like a kind of magical smart-lego that lets you build a solution by telling one thing to play with another until you have the right capabilities all singing together, something is wrong!
We're living in the future, kids! And I fucking love it :D |
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| settling in |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|09:13 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | Teked / Saving Grace - Teked | ] |
Just been for a mooch around the road I live in now, and checked out a bit more about this "house".
and fuck me!
This building is huge (from the back, some rooms project out further than I thought), and I'm actually confused as to what half of the building is used for - there are huge slabs of space that would fit two big rooms that have no doors (possibly used for devil worship?). There's a HUGE back garden, containing a HUGE extra whole building I didn't see (amusingly called "The Grannies" - as it's a "granny flat", except it's actually like a whole house, albeit a single storey high).
The rest of the street is even MORE posh. Enormous custom-builds, with fuck-off security systems.
It's like a mini-gated community, except each property has their own perimeter, instead of an over-arching surround. The other houses have CCTV and super-sensitive stadium-style motion-sensor lighting systems. I went for a walk, smoking a ciggy, wearing a hoody and felt like I should fuck off before someone called their rentacops.
Which does pose a problem of where to smoke, as it's a(nother) non-smoking house, but has no obvious smoker's den, and I'm not about to get caught smoking (having declared myself a non-smoker on the forms) and booted out. The (mental) landlady has already shown an ungodly fear of fire (and microwave cookers, and wifi). Don (the cool Bangladeshi lad) has expressed a similar opinion to me on the landlady: she's a bit bonkers, keep her happy and keep your head down with regards her, but otherwise, life is apparently pretty chilled here.
I'm going to take the opportunity, as it were, to let my smoking diminish (or at least try) as it's more of a pain here, and that's no bad thing.
Mild annoyance yesterday that my neighbours below (yet to meet them) were playing something a bit bass-heavy, but not on the same scale as Patrick used to in the last house. I've just installed my own sound-system, though, so that's less irritating (not to wage bass-war, just to be able to pop something on of my own if I am annoyed by the bleed-through from downstairs).
So yeah. It's a bit like living in a hotel, but a lot of that's good... there's enough room, and sufficiently few tenants that you don't feel like you're getting in everyone else's way when you go in the communal kitchen.
Got a good day's work done so far, about to finish that up for an hour or so, then have a drinky and chill with some music.
Oh yeah, and unexpected-but-welcome health benefit: I'm sufficiently far out of town now that walking in to shop or take Corben to the park is a fucking half hour each way (or more), but within three days of moving in and just doing daily life, much of the belly I'd put on over christmas has shrunk away.
I have actually gone back down the belt-size I'd gone up over the holiday. There's a lot to be said for hoofing it down the street pushing a pram for a few hours a day. Nice!
Reet. Stuff to do, people to bugger.
ONWARDS! |
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| housemates |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|04:44 pm] |
Excellent!
At least two of my housemates are IT geeks :)
There's a Bangladeshi guy who's a web developer and another chap who I couldn't work out where he was from, or what he worked in, but he's the sort that takes his laptop into the kitchen while he cooks, so he's my kinda guy.
We're currently collaborating on how to get cable in the house. There's no house interwebz and we're all using 3g dongles and hating it. Having one more geek seems to have motivated the other guys to form a rebellion (I think the landlord isn't keen on getting dishes / cable / blah blah installed).
It's reassuring that there's a few friendly geeks in the place :)
My room's still in flux, but hilariously, even when living half out of boxes, because of the extra size of the room, I still have loads more space to swing cats in.
Corben likes the place, too, which is good, and there's at least one couple with a kid here, so I know I won't get jumped on for him coming and staying regularly.
Doing OK! |
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| OH GOD THAT'S ANNOYING |
[Jan. 20th, 2010|06:32 pm] |
Photoshop CS4 on a mac.
When you zoom in and out, it resets the size of the window the image is in to fit the size of the image.
OH FUCKING GOD STOP DOING THAT.
I've looked for an option to stop this - any hints, people?
[edit]: Evidently, I'm blind. It was in Prefs... General... Zoom Resizes Windows
I had just gone straight past it.
About 8 times.
Thanks, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mikki_g :D |
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| dirty fucking beats |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|09:31 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | Freq Nasty / Freq-A-Zoid (Rennie Pilgrem RMX) - Freq Nasty | ] |
I'm listening to lots of Botchit Breaks releases to atone for my earlier transgression.
I might listen to Setting Sun if the cognitive dissonance gets too bad.
I have a migraine.
These things could be related. |
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| Achievement |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|09:27 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | Jason Sparks / Left To Live For (Raw Deal RMX) - Jason Sparks | ] |
DeathBoy has unlocked Achievement: LISTEN TO ENTIRE OASIS ALBUM
Henpecked points gained: 40,000
it was OK, actually. too many guitars, no breakbeats, liam's a cock-end. I guess I'm a dad, and it sounds like dad-music to me, so that's OK. plus, I knew most of the tracks anyway, through forced-exposure over the years.
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I GOT TO THE AGE OF 32 BEFORE EVER DOING THIS.
and I went to uni in '95, too. (slap bang in the middle of Oasis / Blur -mania ... which pretty much made me hate them, as it goes).
Next henpecked level-up: unlock achievement: LISTEN TO LADY-GAGA ALBUM |
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| oh god |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|07:34 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | T-Power Mix - Part 3 - T.Power | ] |
I've just spoken to the woman who owns the place for the first time, and she sounds proper mental!
You know the sort of person who sounds that posh they are genuinely surprised when they answer the phone, because they're more accustomed to a butler announcing that there is a visitor in the ante chamber?
Not a bad thing, but I am going to SERIOUSLY have to keep the new place in mint condition, she sounded as though she's catalogued the molecules.
Fuckkkkk.
(I am something of a messy fucker by nature... creative type, you know, that's my excuse) |
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| get your eyes tested, mate |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|06:35 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | T-Power Mix - Part 2 - T.Power | ] |
Hah, I thought my eyesight had finally bought it.
Turns out I'd reconfigured my monitor for the PC input while making music one night and not reconfigured it for the Mac, so it was all blurry.
Thank god! |
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