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12/10/2010 21:59 #53230

Zareason Hex-core Linux Box
Category: linux

After using Linux boxes almost exclusively for almost 10 years, I've finally done it. I've bought a Linux box instead of buying a Windows box and installing Linux on it.

I bought a Limbo 6000A

with an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor and 6 gigs of RAM from Zareason

. They custom build Ubuntu boxes. I ordered it with Ubuntu Studio.

When darkness was falling today, the UPS man delivered it.

And so far so good. I ordered it with a wireless card. And amazingly enough, it worked even though vanilla Ubuntu Studio doesn't support any wireless (apparently, wifi drivers affect latency. And latency is bad for audio and video production; so, no wireles for Ubuntu Studio)

My only complaint is that the /home doesn't have its own partition. I just took it for granted that it would. It's not a big deal to me to change it so. Not having a dedicated /home partition negates some of the flexibility of having a Linux Box. And a Linux newbie would probably be afraid of fucking up their box by changing the partition scheme. On the other hand, Windows users are used to having system and data files on the same partition.

The default settings are decent.

I think I'm going to have lots of fun with this box.

uncutsaniflush - 12/10/10 23:02
@ (e:paul) -I'm recording me. After years of dormancy, I'm feeling the creative urge again. I've always been one of those diy lo-fi geeks who try to play everything themselves (thank edison for the drum machine) since the 1970s.

I'm hoping that the new box will make that easier.

paul - 12/10/10 22:46
Sounds fun, what are you recording?

12/07/2010 21:47 #53221

Dwojka Rzymska (Roman II)
Category: polish songs

Krzysztof Komeda

is arguably Poland's best jazz pianist of the 1960s. In the Western world, he is perhaps best known as the composer of the lullaby from the film Rosemary's Baby.

This performance is from 1964.

12/04/2010 23:15 #53212

Popcorn
Category: music

(e:tinypliny,53211)1 gave us Jean Michael Jarre's Popcorn but alas his is not the original in case anyone cares.

The original Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley in 1969

uncutsaniflush - 12/05/10 21:49
(e:heidi) - the most amazing thing to me about the early synth stuff is that the moog could only play one note a time. So there was a lot of multi-track recording. A single song could take weeks to record.

heidi - 12/05/10 00:00
OMG! I love it!!! 1969 - first electronic pop song. I had no idea.

tinypliny - 12/04/10 23:33
I want my MTV!!!! lol

I think we played neither of these because I remember the cover of the LP saying "Hot Butter". Mum also was a BIG fan of Boney M. My brother and I grew up dancing to beats of Boney M and random electro-folk 60s/70s/80s pop from all across Europe and US. Good times! :-)

12/04/2010 22:16 #53210

Kalifornia ponad wszystko (California Uber Alles)
Category: polish songs

As I wrote earlier (e:uncutsaniflush,53202) I am a huge fan of Kazik Staszewski. I mentioned that stylistically he is all over the map.

Today's Polish Song is an example of that. It is a cover of the Dead Kennedys' California Uber Alles by Kazik Na Å»ywo (Kazik Live). For some reason, Kazik decided to do metal/hardcore covers of his own songs live. He also did some old school covers. This is one of them.

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