The collected works of skywriter - Page 11

Same here. Mine came Tuesday.

And to celebrate my new apple product, I'm having another dumpster save-a-sale-a-thon!

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16726979

Raytheon modified DEC stuff was pretty tame; mil spec power supplies with lots of line conditioners or batteries for portable, and a tempest case to stuff it in. No biggie. I would rather have the commercial equipment you can find parts for.

Huh? XMI wasn't a peripheral bus until the vax9000. Then you get usa, dssi, ni, ci, and bi for the rest of the junk. Not that you want to try to tempest package all that crap.

Oh I see. I don't know, it was after my time. I did reverse engineer XMI for a plug compatible memory card though. :)

Ipad4 was a speed bump over ipad3; approx 2x CPU, plus new lightning connector. While iPad mini has the same resolution of the iPad1; 1024x768, the physical screen size is smaller yielding a better pixel per inch above the ipad1. I haven't actually seen one, so I reserve judgement for now. Personally, I have no use for the smaller iPad line-up. I'll wait for the next iPad; I got the iPad3 and iPhone5 when they came out. The older iPads goto the studio, and the observatory for retirement.

As long as its not as crappy as the alternative; windows and linux, it is serving its purpose.

iPad4! Yeah!!!

Guard, yeah keep believing that.

Why is the younger generation so attached to theorizing on subjects that have demonstrable practical outcomes? Are they so detached from reality they can't see what's right in front of their face? Why do people keep insisting that "with the advent of the internet, today's young generation is one of the most informed generation in history"? How does drooling over tech blogs, misquoting Wikipedia articles, reading endless web comics, installing endless windows secuity updates, and recompiling the kernel a substitute for experience? And they have the gall to insist they're right?!?! Where has respect for their elders gone? This thread is one of the sadest examples of what this message board has come to. It used to be a haven from ignorance; now it's spouted as a matter of course. *sigh*

Predictably, you've missed the point.

When you're wrong? Of course, how else do you learn things you have experience with?

Anyone taking over from Jobs would get the same blind unsubstantiated rhetoric, whether from apple haters or apple fanboys. There's nothing unique about this thread that you can't find on slashdot, gizmodo, or any of the other favorite wholesale outlets of ignorant techno-ranting. Thanks for finally bringing Nekochan to the bottom of my book marks these days.

Joe, please kill me now before I feed the trolls anything more.

I love hugin, I could look at their gallery all day. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/hugin/interesting/

Somehow, I never thought COBOL had groove :-)

After the first three times, how can much more can you really watch stargate?

I think I watched it 3-4 times. A very good series that didn't make it into sequels for me. The original characters made the show IMHO.

I liked Wirths work. I learn modula-3 back when I cared about learning as many languages as I could find. Also used with Oberon with the Xilinx 6200 fpgas was back when Xilinx was an important technology.

He's clearly right about all the processor cycles wasted on unused software features. Talk about green thinking.

Not sure why you did it, but you're livin life! And that's what counts :-)

what i meant by 'feedback' was worthless product bashing. because, you see, it doesn't help me at all. like most else here lately, it's a waste of my time to even read any of it.

Hamei find different thread to practice your perverse form of communication will you? I'm not interested in dueling with you anymore.

One of those was the 'last straw' that caused me to sweep all the windows/Linux/multibrand gizmos and computers not the dumpster and replace everything with apple, and netgear. The netgear stuff has all worked flawlessly, the netgear RAID boxes are wonderful! And it all interoperates nicely. The only glitch has been the router/firewall FVS318's. Thier code is buggy, and the first one bricked during a code upgrade, and second one has started to hang every couple of weeks or days. I bought another one to swap out and the ZyXEL because the consumer network gear boards rate them fairly well, a little weak on throughput, depends on what your throughput IS of course, and the 390 page CLI manual, 160 page usermanual, is a far cry from a quick start guide and embedded help on management web pages that tells you what the button does.

Anyway, happy holidays kids.

I was taken by surprise this weekend when scoping out the recent developments in apple's IOS core audio and core MIDI functionally, I stumbled on a newly developed feature called 'audiobus' that ties audio signaling between multitasking apps on the iPad/iPhone! Audiobus is also the name of the app that ties everything together. Currently there are 29 apps that work with it: synths, effects Apps, drum apps, a 48track DAW and a few other audio geegaws for looping, etc... This is pure breakthrough stuff for the iPad as a music/audio platform. Since I have an ipad 4 I have plenty of muscle to run this stuff too, and it just WORKS :-)

The other app is found was Cubasis, and mobile version of Cubase. Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, 70 high quality virtual instruments, 10 builtin studio quality effects. A full music production system.

Then there's Auria, another 48 track DAW, but with a feature that kickass!

48 tracks of simultaneous playback of stereo or mono files. (24 tracks on iPad 1)
Up to 24 tracks of simultaneous recording when used with compatible USB audio interfaces (Camera Connection Kit required)
Supports sample rates of 44.1KHz, 48KHz and 96KHz (iPad 1 supports only 44.1KHz and 48KHz)
Vintage-inspired ChannelStrip on every channel by PSPAudioware includes Expander, Multiband EQ and Compressor
MasterStrip on all subgroup and master channels featuring PSPAudioware BussPressor, EQ and Mastering Limiter
64 bit double-precision floating point mixing engine
Third party VST effect plugin support available via in-app purchase (only iOS-version plugins are supported. All plugins must be purchased through the in-app store)
AAF import and export allows transferring complete sessions between popular DAWs like Logic, Pro Tools, Nuendo, Samplitude and more
Convolution reverb plugin with included IR library
ClassicVerb reverb plugin included
StereoDelay and StereoChorus plugins included
ReTune plugin included for auto pitch correction of vocals
8 Assignable subgroups and 2 aux sends
Powerful touch-based waveform editor with features such as cut/copy/paste, crossfade, duplicate, separate, gain, normalize, dc offset, reverse, and more
Flexible snapping tools allow snapping to events, cursor, bars, beats and SMPTE frames
DropBox, SoundCloud and Audio Copy/Paste support
Track freeze for minimizing CPU usage
Full automation support on all controls with graphical editing
True 100mm faders when used in Portrait Mode
Optional video import feature allows sample accurate sync of video to an Auria project. Adjustable offset times and video export capability
Timeline ruler options include minutes:seconds, bars:beats, samples and SMPTE time
Auto-punch mode
WIST support for wireless syncing of other compatible music apps
AuriaLink allows two iPads running Auria to play and record in sync, allowing for 96 tracks of playback and 48 tracks of recording
Full delay compensation on all tracks, subgroups, and aux sends
Adjustable metering modes, including pre or post fader, RMS and peak
Adjustable pan laws
Sample accurate loop function
Automatic sample rate conversion
Built-in metronome

Once they start supporting audiobus across all the apps. Man look out!!!

This has gone way past the little fart apps of years past.


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Hamei it isn't even a little bit funny anymore.

SAQ the first RAID I bought was a on of the first four drive Iomega units that, while it had excellent performance and was very easy to use, has a poor drive replacement strategy; you had to bring it down and replace the drive while it was off. Once you turned it on again it spent 24 hours rebuilding. Often it would just hang after a day and I could never recover the data. Luckily by the time I ended to save the data, I had a second drive to mirror the data too. That drie was one of the old ReadyNAS four drive units. Pretty slow but definately better. After the Iomega barfed a couple of times, I bought a six drive ReadyNAS that has been chugging along for a couple of years now. Once in a while it will toss a drive, but rebuilding is fast and never fails. I have a 12TB RAID 6 config for storing my DVD and CD rips.

Another good RAID is the direct attach Drobos. I have a four drive RAID 5 SATA for A/V in the studio, and an eight drive RAID 6 iSCSI as a backed to a power Mac file server and time machine target for all the macs here.


Although the Iomega was a fairly good design at the time; their customer service on their self help website was very poor. Except a very few bits of info, all their responses to questions were "call the customer service line for help". It was maddening. The Netgear website had developers answering all kinds of questions. They nearly always followed up on every hard question.

The worse thing about Iomega was that I had somehow I failed to register the unit after I bought it and they wouldn't help me with it. Even after I identified myself, and the guy KNEW who I was! What good is notarity if you can't cash in on it...

No, I mean you being a jackass to me in my thread. The MBA/janitor stuff was funny.

bye hamei