(r) = rhapsody playlists, (v) = video, (lv) = "bloody portal wanabes", launch video (ies) = "Internet Exploder sucks, but its required", (M) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician Reference, (A) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician/Album References, otherwise.. (____) = ____ is what it is.
This site is managed with GVIM, Filezilla and PHP, yeah I code my own stuff..
Due to the nature of this blog, archives have to be provided in seperate locations, to
get back to the most recent blog, simply click on the default link. The site will always
link to the most recent one.
Youtube + Me = Chann3lz, a completely random music video playing jukebox of content, managed by the audience, no registration necessary, all mechanism, no policy..
If you want your own netcast (netcast = podcast, Apple is trademarking podcast), but are not sure how to set one up, get my drop-it-in netcast generator script. Script is provided as-is, use at your own risk, thus I'm not liable if somehow you don't get it to work or it eats your cattle and causes you to lose a bunch of money.
My tutorials require Real Video not because I'm a Real-Rhapsody fan, but because RealVideo happens to be the best format for low-bandwidth tutorials
Rhapsify Everyhit.com looks for albums of a date range precise to a month, providing links to rhapsody-online (and YouTube). YouTubeify Everyhit.com is much better for tracking down music videos to precise songs on "YouTube.com".
BEST WAY TO PERUSE YOUTUBIFIED LINKS
go to url "about:config" in address bar of firefox browser.
toggle 'browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs' to true (pre 1.5; post v1.5, search Advanced Options )
then middle mouse click on each youtubified search link
click on the videos, bookmark, make into playlists, enjoy..
Alternative Content Discovery:Blogdigger, WebJay Trouble Viewing Videos? You need some Codecs: Matroska Pack (good), free-codecs (works, but it may have a Trojan) Need to convert Media format X to media format Y? Use Mediacoder its a freeware media swiss army knife, that is supposedly open source (its on sourceforge, huh?). Need to convert video formats that Mediacoder doesn't? Use AVS Convert , I own a copy myself, and it lets me do stuff with Quicktimes and WMV's that neither Microsoft nor Apple will permit me (note the site looks kinda cheap, but the program isn't. My most favorite rhapsody playlist:Smooth And Punchy Playlist My most favorite bands (and most played): Level 42 (r), Nik Kershaw, Cock Robin, Double (not played, on my wishlist), etc. My most favorite years (musically):1978 (r), pretty much any year from 1976 to 1989 My most favorite movie (note: works, and could be made on a low budget):Brainstorm Most Favorite Music Video (5/12/07):Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to The Rhythm..
Why is this page so huge: Google can cache it all, audience is broadband users, I use less than 50% of my quota per month. Your most favorite rhapsody playlist:The Brian Eno Playlist Big application wish: SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! PRESET EXPORT, so I can share with you some of my killer rooms.
Cool way other than Chann3lz for listening to audio.
Bag 'O' Tricks Directory lists tips/tricks and reminders and other stuff I would love to clog my header with.
* - Wikipedia is edited by anarchy, don't use for christian inspiration. Christian Bahai is a oxymoron BTW. *! - I use Zonealarm Pro, which is what that flash demo is demonstrating, ZoneAlarm costs about fifty dollars a
year with updates, but is well worth it, it also comes with spyware weeding software, so there is no need for an application like "Ad-Aware",
"Spybot Search & Destroy" or "Spyware Doctor".
Companies/Organizations I Currently Consider Evil or Stupid:
Why?: Claims to save time and accelerate processing
(11/30/07 10:54 AM): I'm thinking of coming up with a commercial of common sensical web development and applications design.. I
can't tell what for it would take, but maybe I'd put it up as like 10 commercials on chann3lz (submitted videos, not
chronologically repeating videos..
Okay here are some of the things I could say:
10 reasons not to create websites with anything but PHP and open source distributions that run on PHP:
Ruby, Rails, Python and Plone are not Apache modules.
Some languages like Java and Perl are great for code obfuscation, which strengthen vendor-lockin relationships.
Java requires websites to be compiled, and in compiled form it is executed as a interpretive language like PHP.
Most languages are impossible to debug: don't offer accurate descriptions and references to line numbers where the applications
fail.
Complexity does not make for better websites, especially when the sh*t hits the fan.
Hybrid solutions are usually thought up by companies (that goes for you too, India) who are planning on some form of
vendor-lockin.
Closed source software (eg. Microsoft, Macromedia) has questionable security. And usually requires closed source counterparts
(eg. IIS, Flash, Coldfusion, Java).
Web apps based on C/C++ and other compiled languages are too complex to maintain for web development, and most web services
will not offer this level of access to a web developer. Unless using CentOS on a VPS account.
In general: Application speed and security is purportional to the number lines of code necessary to implement a solution.
Strictly-Object-Oriented-languages require IDE's because execution is implicit in the language, not explitly stated. It's the
price you pay for code reuse.
I can't think of any more, so I'll be explicit, PHP is the number one WEB language, because it is free, open source, it is an
apache module (which is also open source), it's easy to learn and debug, it can be used in any hybrid solution but usually isn't,
it is very easy to read because a majority of the commands (resident or linked-in) are unique and are well documented (note the
PHP website, itself, is one of the first websites to offer comments in its language documentation -- strengthening adoption of the
language). Most PHP based websites use tens to hundreds of php lines to implement because PHP is not just a language it is an
integrated minimal kernel, linkable applications development environment too. To abstract PHP, Pear is used, but in reality is a
testbed for future language-level function calls. Also, in PHP OO is an option, not a requirement (that is more good than bad in
practice).
(11/23/07 10:56 AM):
I thought that some guy was going on a mad trashing spree, but searching the
database, the trashing is pretty evenly distributed, so no its just popular.. And its thanksgiving, so I imagine there is some
people full of turkey or tofurkey, sitting in front of the chann3lz and getting their nutrients from the tube.. Someone told me
over tg-dinner that there is some portion of the population, vegans of sorts, that believe they can get their nutrients from
staring at the sun for 8 to 10 minutes a day.. That and cataracts.. Anyhow.. I don't know what nutrients if any can be had by
watching chz.
But more can be had from eating chz..
(11/13/07 10:16 PM): One game console future.. No, One OS for gaming? Yes.. Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubunt... Uh-buntu, oo-buntu, however
you want to say it, the future of gaming.. Use any hardware you like, any OS or UI environment, get us drivers, make us games.. You
can play games from old new, here or there, with hardware for this or that.. Its possible, just a matter of happening..
(11/12/07 2:40 PM): Had this great idea how to increase the quality of DVD's by using hamming code.. Here is the idea: check
wikipedia for a description of Hamming Code, its basically error correction, it uses (I think) xors of combinations of bits in the
byte to determine which bits flipped, and then can be used to flip the bits back. It also can be used to determine if a byte is
completely corrupted. If you spread the bits across multiple DVD's, like one dvd be bit 1, and another bit 2 and so on.. You
can increase the quality of storage by decreasing the likelihood of errors. Of course if you lose one disk, the whole thing is
useless.. Actually it wouldn't be.. You could probably get back the missing bit if you knew which disk got lost, by setting the
missing bit disk to zero, but you reduce the likelihood of error too. Anyhow if the DVD's go down in quality at a consistent
rate, you can either use DVD's of several different manufacturers or store the hamming codes somewhere else like on a hard drive or
a more reliable media like tape.
(11/10/07 8:33 AM): What do farms and the music industry have in common? (Everything just one isn't goverment subsidized and
doesn't produce anything necessary.. )
(11/10/07 7:30 AM): Just recognized the third talk show host on "in digital" video podcast.. Uhhh , Uhhh, that's what's his name..
Oh when he was young, was on STTNG.. It's that Will Crusher dude.. I may be wrong. but I'd recognize that forehead anywhere.. It's
typical of a nerd show to do this.. I wouldn't be too surprised to see Jordi next.. Oh, well he would have no trouble getting a job
on TV.. But then again TV sucks.. To tell you the truth, he will wheaton, his name, I was right.. He's got a bigger ego
than I do.. It would be nice if he would just not try to be such a pompous jerk.. But I guess he could just leave.. You know what
people really watch TV for, looks and celebrity. Information takes a back seat.. Just ask any News Anchor. Saw some talk
given by Larry Lessig on TED, and I have to say, he really fooled all those nerds and celebrities.. He really made DRM and media
sharing look bad.. But wait, none of his argument holds water.. In the 1800's Sousa (the guy who did the "star spangled banner", or
some song like that), he may have complained about the canister players (predated record players) as stealing peoples vocal chords.
But we aren't returning to a media world like that where everyone is singing "danny boy" after dinner.. And could those canister
players be so loud as you could hear them across the street.. In those days they didn't have streets, unless you lived in the
cities, and the houses in the country were never really close enough to matter.. Sousa is a complete music snob.. Anyhow.. You have
to consider what you would be doing in the 1800's.. Considering there is no computer, no internet, at best we could hack a podshow
with some cups and string, maybe charcoal and electricity, or a early HAM radio (it's possible). But people were just dieing for
technology back then.. If they had had drugs back then, I'm sure someone would have come up with a make shift DnD game. Maybe
Sousa should have done some Absynthe or something. And Harry Lessing (yes I know his real name), went on to talk about the
current generation of kids assimilating media the only way they know how by manipulating it into make-shift anime movies.. No,
Jerry, if you were a kid, and you had really nothing better to do, what would you be doing.. Then again this is the
post-soccer-mom-apocalypse, so these kids making these anime movies of music videos and such, must be orphans.. Or it is really 30
something DnD/Comic nerds that just hate Anime and Lionel Ritchie songs and want to make fun of them at the same time.. But Kerry
really pulled the wool over the eyes of all those tech-wannabe celebs.. However Thomas Dolby is pretty cool, just he had nothing to
say in the TED conference.. I wonder if that french gal that sang in his spot was his long lost love which he wrote europa about..
Hey I dig french women, no matter how much they can look like a piano teacher and sound like paul robison, and what was with the
casts.. I wonder if she'd respond to guys with cast fetish.. And believe me, they do exist..
(11/07/07 5:01 PM): The lady at "Textra" podcast has pissed me off one too many times, I finally erased my subscription to Textra..
She doesn't know crap about tech, and she sympathizes too much on the side of Bill Gates for me to really care about anything she
says.. She said to "android" the new google idea, to create a open cellphone platform.. "Why are they wanting to compete in the
operating system market".. No you ditz, you have no clue what an OS is, go get a CS degree and figure it out.. They are trying to
create a middleware platform, not a completely new OS. See, from wikipedia: Android is an open source mobile phone platform based
on the the Linux operating system and Java programming platform and developed by the Open Handset Alliance. So its basically linux
and java with a special java environment for creating specialized apps for cellphones.. They could do it better to get rid of the
java middleware and give people c-code level access to the linux hardware and offer some libraries.. But they are afraid someone
will write a virus that will spread across phones.. And thereby slowing the crap out of the phone..
(11/06/07 12:58 AM):
(11/05/07 09:01 AM): My Toshiba Laptop I've complained about has some unexplainable delays that periodically happen when using it
with the retro drivers.. This is a laptop I downgraded from Vista to Windows XP.. Its missing some drivers, and I think those
drivers must be maintaining something in the hardware that causes a delay in the CPU if not satisfied or something.. Anyhow, I'm
considering replacing my XP partition with either another distro of linux, or just freeing up the space, because Ubuntu 7.10 on the
same laptop is going great guns, without any delays or inefficiencies.. I don't miss Windows much anymore now.. I can do all my
media stuff in Ubuntu that I want to.. Aside from video editing, but I think I could make get a video editor to work in Wine, there
is bound to be one. Even if I can't get that to fly, I can try using the clip editor in blender which I'm quite familiar with.
To install windows applications with wine, all you need to do is go into the ubuntu shell, called "terminal" in the applications
utilities menu.. Make sure you have wine installed.. You type in the terminal window "wine install.exe", that's it.. If the
install creates a directory with a setup file in it, just go in that directory and type "wine setup.exe". Either the application
will work, or it won't work.. I haven't really figured out how to add icons to the "wine" menu. But if you can find the program
that starts the program, you can drag that file unto your quickstart toolbars, even give it a custom icon, and click it to run in
wine.. I don't really understand how Wine makes it work, but it just does work. Install Wine and then Wine-Doors, if you don't have
wine, I think Wine-doors installs some applications that make installing other windows applications easier..
I really wish the Smiths would release their songs for sale on
Amazon.. I've bought about 8 dollars or so worth of music, and went looking for songs like the boy with the thorn in his side" and
couldn't find anything.. But I could find Morrissey's stuff.. The closest I will come to buying online is buying mp3 songs, I've
tried buying DRM'd songs and it sucks, there is no flexibility.. Go ahead and put signatures into the header of the mp3 file, I
don't care, I just want to download mp3 songs.. I guess the record companies can consider the extremes.. Either people get CD's and
rip the songs to mp3, which is so easy, and What I prefer to do because CD's have a higher sound quality than mp3.. Or people get
songs from iTunes, and burn their music to CD, and rip that to mp3.. Why not just offer the mp3 files directly.. Because what they
really want to do with the DRM-labeled files is to trace the use of the files, that's all I can
imagine..
(11/04/07 02:58 PM): Watching Chann3lz in a spurt.. Seems like sometimes it picks a winner after winner, but the sad bit is nobody
else will experience the spurt of selected videos, except for me, or you, or whoever notices this in chann3lz.. I need to capture
that somehow, maybe I can make the play queue into a playlist when someone gets a good selection.. I still have to implement
playlists.. Anyhow.. here is a few...
This chinese girl is hot.. Are their sexy Chinese girls like this in
China, I'm there..
Lead singer died from drug overdose, I think his heart stopped.. But Blind Melon is
one of my favorites.. Chann3lz picked the first, the second I found with a CD in a pile of amiga software at a local thrift shop..
I guess they didn't realize it was a music CD.. I thought, what luck!! I've always wanted this "three is a magic number" song..
Galaxie, believe it or not I have the Huh video collection too,
that's where this came from, it was a 90s video magazine, it was a strange time in the music business at the time because so many
indie bands were hitting the scene, so many I think it will take years to figure out how many there
were..
Of course this is what everyone knows Blind Melon for.. I think
wierd al made fun of this video in his take-off of Red Hot Chilli Peppers' "Givitawaynow", which was called
"Yabbadabbadunow"..
(11/03/07 10:00 AM): I trashed the Extended Max Headrom video.. I can't listen to remixes from the late 80s and early 90s as they
tended to be mostly sample repetition, which is about as interesting as watching television fuzz.. The only musician I like sample
repetition from that time is guys like EBN which would take commercials and presidential speeches and communicate messages using
videos out of context like "smoke more pot" or such.. Not that I agree with the views, but that it makes more blatant what
television is, context manipulation..
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