>That should get you started. DON'T TALK TO SALESMEN. They will try to sell you things.
>Things you probably don't need. Focus on what your interests and skills are, and then build your studio around that.

Very helpful advice. Check out gearslutz.com for some other (hopefully) useful answers. The forum is very good.

>For serious music production use MacOS, its the right tool for the job.

THIS.

I resisted getting a mac for about 15 years. Just do yourself a favour, buy a macbook pro, or even an air, and you will be amazed at how easy everything is and how well everything works. Open source is a waste of time.

Windows will work ok, but for various reasons the music industry has chosen Macs as the standard. In theory you could run everything on Windows ok, but I wouldn't bother. Don't fight it, just get a Mac, you will be saving yourself months of "stuffing around" time.

LOL, whoever wrote this is a genius.

LOL.

Sorry, have you been to any third world countries? In many you're lucky if you can get dial-up speeds, yet alone a constant connection.

Nope, that's fair. Is it just? Nope. Is it loving? Nope. Is it compassionate? Nope. Is it mercyful? Nope. Actually I guess it's really not fair after all. Is it fair that these people are sick? Nope.

If my brother was sick for 6 months and couldn't work, I'd tell him to stay at my place. After those six months were up would I demand that he pay me for those 6 months in terms or rent, medicine or food? Nope, because I'm compassionate. This is how we should treat other human beings. This is going to do your head in - but some of us do it even if they don't deserve it. It's called grace.

Cool story. Thanks for your post :)

You sir, are 100% correct.

No, no, no, NO it's not. Do your research. Starting from scratch will end up taking you just as much time. Refactor, clean up and fix.

I play guitar in a rock band named Toehider - we supported Devin Townsend last month. It rocked.

I've interviewed the guys in Dream Theater, Trivium, Machine Head & Megadeth.

I've found over 300 geocaches, quite a few of them in other countries (Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, China).

I mix sound at my church, lead one of the bands and play drums in another band. I'm teaching myself piano at the moment.

I've produced video clips for my own music and had them shown on TV. I've performed my own compositions on TV (thanks "Guitar Gods"!)

I've had a few of my songs featured on "The angry video game nerd" episodes and released an album of them on iTunes. I'm working on a second album.

I was interviewed for ABC TV's "Good Game" last year.

I'm writing a few iphone apps at the moment.

I've worked for tiny non-for-profits, huge corporations, energy companies, travel companies, entertainment companies & beer companies (man that one was goooood, free beer thursday and fridays!!).

I regularly drive my wife nuts by constantly picking up a new hobby every 6 months and then moving onto the next one.

I'm still trying to work out how I can live with myself, being so boring. In fact I think I'll just fall asleeeeeeeeep.

And BTW, all of my programming friends are just as interesting. Just like you guys on slashdot. You're ace too. Stay cool, your pal, LB.

There is some gold in this file. Some highlights:

resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.TEST'] = 'Apples to Apples';

Seems like someone was trying to work out how to add resources. Looks like they also wanted to test out the quoting:

resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.quoteTest'] = '“Apes.”';

Hmm looks like you can't update your name at the moment. I guess you could call XXX-XXXX to do it: resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.profile.updateName'] = 'To change your name you must call 1-800-XXX-XXXX';

Hey I wonder what happens when you try to login too many times incorrectly? Apparently nothing:

showAlertText :function() { //TODO: add functionality to show alert text after too many tries at log in },

I wonder who "Pod 6" is?

//$('#signUpButton').hide(); pod 6 doesn't want this hidden

And then my personal favourite, which is written twice in the code:

// make sure we don;t try to do this before the saml has been posted

Why is there a semicolon in the "don't" word? It is a typo or couldn't they figure out how to escape a single quote character in whatever is generating their JS? (This line is repeated twice) I'm guessing it was just a rushed developer who was running out of time.

That's what I want to know... this is the INTERNET people, haven't we heard of hyperlinks?? Is this slashdot or what?

Good job on the earplugs.

But the reason why they had the volume meter is not because they care about your hearing, but for legal reasons. There is normally a restriction on the maximum volume level allowed. Some venues even have an automatic cutoff so that if the volume stays above a particular threshold for a particular amount of time, BOOM, OFF GOES YOUR PA. Terrifying when you're the sound person doing a big gig that people have paid lots of money for.

David Hicks did not have any help from the Australian government. He was left to rot in Guantanamo for five years without being charged for anything. The government's response was absolutely deplorable, especially considering how UK citizens were pulled out from Guantanamo. Compare Jack Straw's efforts compared to Philip Ruddock or John Howard sometime.