Just before Christmas we were in the toy section at Chapters, and Anna was really enjoying playing with the Carpenter Play Kitchen there. After snapping a few pics of her I thought, I could make that! First I needed a way to cut these big pieces by myself. I had planned this table, and finished [...]
Well it is going to take a month before I can set up all the gear in our new house, so I have been doing a bit of research on how everything is going to be set up. My first worries are: How to record the V-drums At first I was worried that I might [...]
Hooking up the mixer and guitars worked great. The programs I have been starting with are Jack Control (QjackCTL) to start/stop the Jack server, and Ardour for multi track recording. For levels, I have been using QAmix for quick level changes, and alsamixer for bigger changes. For the laptop, the default levels were way too [...]
Wish me luck. I’m installing the Ubuntu Studio packages on the laptop, in hopes that it will become my recording device. I was considering using a desktop with a PCI audio interface to record with, but the laptop has usb2 and firewire. I figure I can start out by using an old 4-track as a [...]
Ok. So there is no version of Mobile Media Converter (MMC) for Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) 64 bit, but there is a 32 bit version. To make it work for 64 bit, you need to force it a bit. Once again, please don’t take this as a real how-to. Actually, maybe that should be the tag [...]
After looking all over to find some old episodes of Sesame Street for Anna, the only place I could find them were Itunes. I usually stay away from anything Apple, but there was a client for Windows and I loaded it up on the laptop. After purchasing a season (~20 bucks) I tried uploading them [...]
First of all, Unity is not even close to being released on the desktop (it is scheduled for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) in spring 2011). I am previewing it by typing or pasting into a terminal: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:canonical-dx-team/une and then: sudo apt-get install unity Ok. Now that that is sorted, after a few days [...]
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