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Comment Kevin Smith theme (Score 2, Interesting) 1397

by rhpenguin on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:36PM (#26701525) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

All my Unix machines/routers/etc are named after places or things in Kevin Smith movies.

-My MythTV machine is called RSTVideo
-My router is called Quickstop Groceries
-My Fileserver is called Postens Funeral Home
-My Hackintosh is called Mooby's

.. and last but not least, my NAS is called Quicker Stop

Comment MythTV (Score 1) 201

by rhpenguin on Friday January 16, 2009 @07:57AM (#26480421) Attached to: Streaming the Inauguration In a School?

Setup a quick and dirty MythTV server with an analogue TV tuner and run live discs throughout the school.

Submission + - The Death of High Fidelity 1

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Ponca City, We Love You

on Friday December 28, 2007 @10:35AM

Ponca City, We Love You writes: "Rolling Stone has an interesting story on how record producers alter the way they mix albums to compensate for the limitations of MP3 sound. Much of the information left out during MP3 compression is at the very high and low ends, which is why some MP3s sound flat. Without enough low end, "you don't get the punch anymore. It decreases the punch of the kick drum and how the speaker gets pushed when the guitarist plays a power chord." The inner ear automatically compresses blasts of high volume to protect itself, so we associate compression with loudness and human brains have evolved to pay particular attention to loud noises, so compressed sounds initially seem more exciting. But the effect doesn't last. After a few minutes, constant loudness grows fatiguing to the brain. Though few listeners realize this consciously, many feel an urge to skip to another song. "We're conforming to the way machines pay music. It's robots' choice. It used to be ladies' choice — now it's robots' choice," says Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen."

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