A lot of people are having trouble with Ableton Live 7. This is especially true with MIDI functionality. It stems from the fact that Live 7 defaults to the DirectMusic MIDI interface. Apparently DirectMusic then has to do emulation because the standard Microsoft MIDI driver is not DirectMusic native (Microsoft …
more ...My thoughts on the growth of the Linux kernel and the status quo of using and developing software..
Prompted by discussion of this article: 1986 Mac Plus Vs. 2007 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins
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[Ed: My response to accusations of Linux Kernel bloat]
The [Linux] kernel never has …
more ...Chris Mason announced an early alpha release of his new Btrfs filesystem, "after the last FS summit, I started working on a new filesystem that maintains checksums of all file data and metadata." The Linux answer to ZFS?
more ...I have a laptop, a workstation, and a server at home that I use daily. I also have a collection of code, documents, and music that are useful to have locally on all three -- especially the laptop when traveling. For a while I would just copy files over the network …
more ...I've had a pretty advanced email system running at home (Postfix, SpamAssassin, Dovecot, Fetchmail) for over a year. The original goal was spam filtering for some 10 year old POP3 mail accounts from my old ISP that were heavily spammed. I couldn't be more pleased with the system; false positives …
more ...Just taking a moment to express my appreciation for IBM. Yes, I'm a bit of an IBM fanboy.
POWER6 is geared for release, and it's badass. Check out this Ars
Technica article for a good run down:
IBM's POWER6 flies the coop at 4.7GHz
Simply put, IBM is the …
more ..."The Gentoo project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0. This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer, secure versions of the packages." A new installer, and …
more ...So Linux kernel 2.6.21 is finally out and all the buzz is about the Tickless Kernel patches. Wanting to drink the kool aid, I downloaded the freshly released gentoo-sources. Unfortunately, it looks like amd64 support has not yet made it in.
I pulled some numbers on my main …
more ...Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has been announced. Linus writes: "So the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks (when it no longer broke for lots of people ;) go to Thomas Gleixner …
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