Engrish T-Shirts

these are more good t-shirt ideas than funny tbf

<- somebody make this one for me!

thomann.de delivery!!!

excitement overload as this box appears


GOODS!


YAY!


playtime!
gotta fix up my big PC box first tho..

update: installed new system fan and disabled on-board graphics. still givin me jip.

unpacked my new AKG 601s. incredibly comfortable so far, nice big cushions, circumaural design covers the ears well. con: lead is well embedded in there, no replacing it without major surgery if / when anything goes wrong.

finally get to properly test out my new ASUS XONAR Essence STX soundcard's headphone amp, the cans are 120ohm so had to adjust the card's setting accordingly. tested it on some youtube videos i know, can hear all sorts of new glitches and artifacts in the audio. tested on a flac version of Animosity & Drumcorps - Altered Beast EP, -FUCKING AWESOME!!! unbelievably crisp and clear, all kinds of new sub-bass going on, incredible sound separation AWESOME AWESOME FUCKING AWESOME ARGH MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING SO MUCH CLARITY! -eh, yea, i think i like these cans.

can't help but wonder what the AKG 701s i was originally planning on buying would be like. probly wasted on me tho, as i'm too used to shit audio systems and these are already blowing my fucking mind. may have to start getting/making more flacs instead of mp3s tho. a whole world has opened up in terms of audio quality -thought it would.

[update] i've been busy`. oxygen 61 gen3 is savage. nocturn is a little disappointing -shoddy physical build quality, knobs look like they're about to break, and software is not seamless either. the novation launchpad is still in it's box.

Novation Launchpad Lunchpad -haha getit? .. uh ..ha..anyone?

Remember The Lisbon Treaty?

I'd almost forgotten the Lisbon Referendum of 2009 until this article in the Irish Times today
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0708/1224274266971.html

An interesting read in it's own right, but the particularly resonating paragraph follows this one. Keep in mind that this is an unelected EU commission/comittee that have legislative power over the entire EU. One of my major complaints about voting in the undemoctratic treaty -at the time people told me I was being anti-EU, which never was. Now we are stuck with this shit most likely forever now that it it's been put in place.

"The commission sought to push ahead with the declaration by way of a written procedure after a meeting of the committee where there was no quorum. Under the "silence" procedure in question, the decision to make the declaration would have taken effect automatically if no member state had raised an objection by Tuesday's deadline. "There will now have to be a full hearing of the proposal at the . . . committee where Ireland will be able to voice our profound concerns at such a proposal," Mr Ahern's spokesman said."

Perhaps if Ahern's lackeys had not been on the top of their game (e.g. there was any real political news this week in Ireland apart from the beginning of our great leaders' 12 week summer holiday, or indeed that it had occurred within this schoolboy-style summer holiday) it would have gone unnoticed -as I'm sure many declarations already have [ please feel free to check this, I might sometime but feel lazy right now ].

So, as predicted, we now have;
-meetings of the unelected committee behind closed doors
-written, legally binding proposals stacked in volumes
-direct translation into EU law if noone bothers to read / object to them in time
-no recourse if anything slips through

On a more general note, the original Irish Times article also implies to me that Israeli interests have there own lobbyists in Brussels and that money talks. Is it in EU interests that we export work outside of the EU during recession times?

Blah, blah, blah, I told ye so, etc.

Sponsored by the Lisbon. Best Out Of Three? Campaign ;-)

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My Big PC Box

problems problems, have had my new box a couple o months now, but ain't had chance t fix it. prob is: hangs after logging into windows (server 2008rc2 & win7, both 64-bit). used to hang with definite graphics card probs -screen set to a random primary colour but could remote login to reboot, solved by taking the side off the case for extra ventilation -so that was a heat problem. now it will lock up (-system freeze but screen locked to last position and error for remote login) on every first boot up, but usually ok on second -like it has to "warm up" or something.

system is:
amd phenom II X4 965 Black Edition -great!
nvidia gtx260 graphics -good, but not as impressive as i'd hoped 1920x1080
4 gig ddr3 ram matched to cpu
2X 1 TB 7200rpm HDs with 128MB cache (raid 0)
kind of a shit mb i've decided, but nvidia chipset based. it has damn on-board graphics which i did not want, i disabled that wank in the bios, but temp still comes up when using temp monitors, and is always running at critical for some reason??????? -BULLSHIT! anyhow, i digress...

ok so, i've bought a new 12cm system fan, that makes 2 plus a small side panel one, installing that and closing side panel oughtta create some good airflow -fingers crossed.

next prob is that i'm using nvraid (raid 0, my first raid! fucking awesome performance already with windows server -100MB/s++ file copy). problem is installing linux dual boot on this fucker, tried hyper-v but it fucks up performance to a noticeable degree -shit stalling when i adjust audio volume -even when not running another OS! -bullshit). so a massive task is going to ensue tryin t get grub to boot all these OSes off a wanky soft raid. adding to this problem is that i've seen some excellent benchmarks for using jfs filesystem with nvraid (-almost as good as hardware raid -1% off!!), it's not a standard supported fs like ext2/3/4/reiserfs/etc so of course i've gotta have that too. ext vs jfs 200% faster! holy fuck! and yes i am aware of the slowness of jfs in deleting files, but everything else is pretty top notch -go ibm!

this shit takes up way too much of my time, i spend most of my life installing OSes and worrying about storage performance. it took me a full week to install eeebuntu on my asus eee 901, just coz i was so paranoid about wearing out the shit SSDs that come with it and messing with a calculator tring to work out optimal positioning of partitions to align with write sectors and honing performance of linux to flush in optimal write block amounts. JEESUS! who gives a fuck ros! clearly i do.

so where do i fit in time to do the actual real work of writing software? i've got 3 laptops, the netbook, and now a full pc also, *all* with constant problems. would be easy if i wasn't such a complicating bastard insisting on such weird shit customized to each individual pc. -was thinkin of getting a macbook for ease of use so i could forget about these things, but i'd probly piss on that dream too considering:

--i refused to use itunes with my ipod -resulted in a long search a brief interlude fucking with linux on the ipod before settling on floola -excellent cross-platform program!

--every mobile phone i buy i must fuck with to death, even write javaME progs to get the shit i want outta it. [edit: current project is bluetooth PC remote control using Nokia E63 and Symbian S60 programming, see new blog=http://bluetooth-hid.blogspot.com/ ]

--generally too curious for my own good. would end up getting rid of the mac GUI or something retarded just coz i wanted "more control", -whatever that means, probly means the usual: more scope to fuck up the OS beyond repair ;-P

ok this post has gone on long enough, think i should probly be done here.

Jason Stackhouse (true blood)

"policemanship ain't just about tackling people, there's ...marksmanship, ...paramilitary training. I got all that now."


just watchin s03e03 now, this show goes from strength to strength, awesome.


-=mcmonkeys1=-

Software Patents

Great video against software patentability funded by the fsf
It gives a nice bit of history and background.

Link is here: http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html