BotCast #1 show notes
Botrax
-Talk about the intro (why it will be the only of this version) fact1 poor version
-Intro Tune: Ambient Light, Vogue of Triton for Ultrasound Commercial, FastTracker, XM
18 instruments, 18 samples, 16 patterns, 11different, 4 unused
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Who is Triton (demos, FastTracker, other side of Future Crew and Scream Tracker
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http://www.modarchive.com/reviews/amblight.xm.rev.html
Musical Rating: Excellent / Professional - Ambient Light is one of two songs by Vogue (the other being Ambient Power) that blends the ambient and techno styles of music into a pulsing and energetic composition. The only drawback is that it is so short at 1 minute 22 seconds, BUT I think Vogue assumed people would have it looping, which is what this song was made for.
- Technical Rating: Excellent / Professional
- Vogue is a master composer and tracker, and it is evident from this song. He also has the notability of being the main developer of the tracking program FastTracker, and exploited its capabilites in making this song. This is also a good song to use as a tracking tutorial, with its many uses of effects like pattern breaking. Note that this song does not play correctly in WinAmp.
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FIRST SEGMENT
-black helicopters
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OUTTRO
Tune: Point of Departure
Artist: Necros FM/Legend Design/ iCE
Year: 1995
Type: S3M
Channels: 16
Samples: 20, 8-bit
Size: 491
Patterns, 44, 32 different
Details: For Progression music disk
Why: It's the beginning of this netcast.
Un gars demande un formulaire pour porter plainte dans un poste de police, et ils... oui oui... l'arrêtent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53ky3RIjfU (3 minutes)
Light text on dark background vs. readability
What's up with the current design trend of light text on dark backgrounds? Many web designers seem to favour inverted colour schemes, but what happened to readability and usability?URL: http://digg.com/design/Light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability
Vista's Aero Glass: Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?
Windows Vista provides a host of new features, but the first thing that jumps out is the slick, sleek Aero interface. Here's a look at the advantages and disadvantages of the new interface and what's required to get the most out of it.URL: http://digg.com/software/Vista_s_Aero_Glass_Is_It_All_It_s_Cracked_Up_to_Be
Gmail Audio Player
Gmail has a built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you receive emails that include MP3 files (maybe a podcast or a public domain recording), you can listen them directly from Gmail.Softick Card Export II
[From Ben Lucas] Ben Lucas comes in this hour with a great program, Softick Card Export II, so what's it all about? "Using
Softick Card Export II it's possible to access SD/MMC card inserted into Palm OS device as a logical disk on the Windows desktop. Card Export II emulates USB Mass Storage device and doesn't require any additional drivers on modern desktop systems." All devices excluding Sony Clies work fine plus all Treo's.
URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/softick_card_ex.html
Wi-Fi Helping To Fight War On Terror
Cell phones have become a key way for terrorists to detonate bombs remotely. But a Bay Area company has developed a possible solution for the military and for airports to pinpoint them before it's too late.URL: http://digg.com/security/Wi_Fi_Helping_To_Fight_War_On_Terror
Do you need multi-tasking in a mobile device?
For those that may have missed this, Mobile Gadgeteer put together a very good written editorial entitled Do you need multi-tasking in a mobile device? "I was hunting for some news in the mobile community and stumbled across an article titled, Palm OS–not the best for the multitasker, and thought it would be a good article to read and discuss a bit. I started out with Palm devices and after bouncing around for a couple more years I settled primarily on the Treo 650 for over a year, before going back to a S60 smartphone."
URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/do_you_need_mul_1.html
AOL fires employees over search data scandal
The corporate guillotine has been wheeled out to deal with the apocalyptic fallout from AOL's infamous decision to release "anonymous" search data on hundreds of thousands of users for research purposes.URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/AOL_fires_employees_over_search_data_scandal
Une petite fille de 9 ans demande à sa maman :
- Quel âge as-tu, maman ?
- Cela ne se demande pas ma chérie, lui répond sa mère.
- Combien tu mesures, maman ?
- Cela n'est pas important ma chérie, reprend la mère.
- Maman, pourquoi toi et papa avez divorcé ? Redemande la petite fille.
- Cela ne te regarde pas ma chérie, dit la mère en terminant la
discussion. La petite fille demanda à sa meilleure copine pourquoi les
adultes ne parlent pas de ces choses-là.
Sa copine lui dit :
- C'est vraiment simple, toutes les réponses à nos questions sont sur
leur carte d'identité. Le lendemain la petite fille fouille dans le sac
à mains de sa mère et trouve sa carte d'identité.
Elle est ravie de voir que son amie disait vrai, toutes les réponses à
ses questions s'y trouvent ! Elle court alors voir sa mère et lui dit :
- Maman, je sais ton âge.
- Ah oui ? Et j'ai quel âge ?
- 36 ans. Et je sais combien tu mesures.
- Ah oui ? Combien ?
- 1 mètre 71. Et je sais aussi pourquoi toi et papa avez, divorcé.
- Et bien cela m'étonnerait fort !
- Tu as eu un F en sexe... et çà, ce n'est vraiment pas une bonne note!
Robertson, Olmert pray for victory
[Editor's note: Pat Robertson is probably the most notorious representative of the Hollywood churches, also known as Christian Taliban,...URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1296&Itemid=0
Cheat Sheet: Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is one of those phrases which we're hearing a lot about currently. Everybody says they're very excited about it but do they really know what it is?URL: http://digg.com/software/Cheat_Sheet_Web_2_0
Subject: Make tents fit in the transport bag
NeoCons Are Busy Covering Their Asse(t)S
Israeli press reports about the Israeli Defense Force's Chief of Staff dumping stocks just before war broke out served as...URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1306&Itemid=0
Apple fires retail employees for downloading Leopard
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Nobody touches South Koreans make hydrogen solid for a brighter fuel cell future
Filed under: Transportation
While storing hydrogen as a solid by fusing it to titanium isn't an entirely new idea, a team of South Korean scientists look to be the first to find a reliable and efficient method of doing so. The solid-state storage of hydrogen has long been a goal of
fuel cell systems, since it does away with those nasty explosive notions of storing hydrogen at a high pressure and low temperature. Apparently the new method being unveiled by the team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology not only manages to bind hydrogen with titanium into the form of a stable solid that has much less
14-year-old girl sues friend over missing iPod
Filed under: Portable Audio
You gotta love the litigousness of youth -- especially when there's an iPod involved. A spat over a missing iPod resulted in a lawsuit in Wheaton, Illinois, when 14-year-old Shannon Derrik sued her (now former) friend Stephanie Eick for losing her brand new iPod. It seems that Shannon made the fool mistake of lending her iPod to Stephanie, who decided it'd be a good idea to give back the iPod by leaving it on Shannon's desk rather than waiting for her to return from the restroom to hand it over in person. The iPod managed to disappear -- apparently someone in that classroom had some sticky fingers -- and so Shannon sued for $475
Maybe I should get one of these
TechEBlog is reporting on a "Ubuntu Linux controlled DIY cat feeder and water dispenser" created by a fellow named Lee Holmes.
Lee uses his "JasJar PDA phone to SSH into the box, and feed[s] the cats on demand just by running the script."
The computer runs Ubuntu Linux, so a crontab entry controls the scheduling. The script calls eject /mnt/cdrom to open the CD Rom, delays, and eject –t /mnt/cdrom to close it again.
Head over to TechEBlog and watch the video
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URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/maybe_i_should_.html
Best Buy: "Media Center - OLD / DO NOT USE"
Filed under: Media PCs
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New passport holder claims to block unwanted RFID signals
An Orem Utah-based forensics company is now selling metal mesh bags that it claims will stop identity thieves from accessing the newer US E-Passports. Paraben Corporation, known for their mobile phone forensic kits, is selling a nickel, copper and silver mesh "Passport StrongHold" bag will block RFID transmissions from hitting unopened passports.
URL: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=5cbd07482c09564b527ce0b5d5de0b62