CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Ditto. Halfway into his thirties IIRC.
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mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Many, Many Happy Returns of the Day, Doug!
Stereodude
Not really a
Would you prefer to be called "The Founder" instead?
Happy Birthday, btw.
Happy Birthday, btw.
ddrueding
Fixture
Happy Birthday Handruin!
Thanks. No, I'm not looking for any title.
Stereodude
Not really a
Alright you Hairy Aussie you!
ddrueding
Fixture
Fearless Leader sounds about right....
Stereodude
Not really a
He could always take a page from the Kim Jong-il playbook and be the Dear Leader. wneddnce:
wneddnce:
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Happy Bday Doug!
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Happy Birthday :b-day:
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Happy Bday Doug!
Thanks for the birthday wishes! I spent the day with family and friends at my house. It was low-key, but we hung out for the day. I got some new card games and board games. We learned them and played them throughout the evening. We played a card game called No Thanks!, Saboteur, and Saboteur 2. I also got the Battlestar Galactica board game which is a lot of fun, but we didn't play that last night.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
I don't normally participate in this sort of jollity, but congratulations to Doug on making it half way. Don't worry, it's all downhill from here.
ddrueding
Fixture
The last three weeks have just sucked for all the technology I control. I don't know what it is, sunspots? Stars aligning? Systems are dropping left and right; unrelated systems, some that have years of uptime, some built very recently with top-end equipment. But it is all failing right now.
BingBangBop
Storage is cool
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For Earl -- Karma, ain't it a bitch! So what have you done wrong recently?
or for the secular humanists - statistics evening out.
Sorry, but it is the nature of technology for it to simultaneously crash at the least opportune time. When I was in college, a long time ago when there were no PC's, the mainframe would regularly have some form of HW failure right before most CS assignments were due, or for that matter right before the administration ran the program to schedule all the classes for the university. IBM would come right out and fix it, but never in time.
or for the secular humanists - statistics evening out.
Sorry, but it is the nature of technology for it to simultaneously crash at the least opportune time. When I was in college, a long time ago when there were no PC's, the mainframe would regularly have some form of HW failure right before most CS assignments were due, or for that matter right before the administration ran the program to schedule all the classes for the university. IBM would come right out and fix it, but never in time.
ddrueding
Fixture
Yeah, just got it all sorted out, but only after the state inspector gave up and left. And just before the multi-million dollar bid went out. And because there is no-one else, I am clearly to blame.
paugie
Storage is cool
David, I am intrigued. This definitely is a sad tale. More context please.
ddrueding
Fixture
Just a bad couple weeks in the office. Normal day-to-day stuff (we bid multi-million dollar jobs at least once a week, and state inspectors show up at our plants any time we are working a state job which is about every other day). Normally it's fine, and even if one thing goes wrong at a time it isn't a big deal. But two failures 50 miles apart each deemed critical leads to a bad day.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Three done, four to go. Delivery trucks are always late this time of the year.
ddrueding
Fixture
The last day someone will be available to sign for stuff at the office is Thursday, so everything needs to go out overnight tomorrow or it will wait until the new year.
Stereodude
Not really a
So as it turns out AAC is a vastly superior codec to MP3. Using the Quicktime encoder in TVBR mode via qtaacenc with command line options of --tvbr 60 --highest generates files with an average bitrate of ~128kbit/sec that are completely transparent to my ears (so far?) vs the original FLAC files even using my best gear. The downside of course is that you have to soil your PC with QuickTime.
ddrueding
Fixture
Another all-nighter. Blah.
DrunkenBastard
Storage is cool
Working Christmas Day and New Years Day, triple time delights (actually double time and a half).
ddrueding
Fixture
Yeah, I'm salary without overtime.
Judging by some of the nice toys, computer equipment, house, cars, etc you've discussed and also that you keep your money under your mattress, I'm making an assumption they compensate you well even without overtime. ;-) I know that still doesn't make it any easier that you have to pull all-nighters. Sorry to hear about your crammed schedule recently.
ddrueding
Fixture
I can't really complain about the compensation; I certainly feel appreciated. It's just that I know I'll have to move further into management in the next 5 years or so; these all nighters are getting harder and harder. My wife wants me to pursue an MBA.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Why bother with AAC in the first place when you can do FLAC and know you're getting audio identical the PCM source?
Stereodude
Not really a
Because you can fit a lot more music onto a portable player in ~128kbit/sec AAC vs. FLAC.
ddrueding
Fixture
Next time you are watching a video on YouTube, click the snowflake button on the control bar. Then un-click it. It is interesting, but only for about 30 seconds. Like the rest of YouTube.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Because you can fit a lot more music onto a portable player in ~128kbit/sec AAC vs. FLAC.
I'll have to give that a listen. For the most part I divide audio into "things I'm going to enjoy critically and needs to be .flac" and "things that I just need to be able to hear and can be 64kpbs .mp3 for all I care."
One of my personal annoyances is that my phone will play .flac just fine if I copy files via a normal SMB file transfer, but if I sync playlists with WinAmp, WMP or Songbird I can only copy .mp3, .wma or .aac and only if the files don't have special characters in the filenames. I'm not sure what the issue is there or if the problem is a Windows API thing or something in Android.
Corvair
Learning Storage Performance
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ddrueding
Fixture
I love Simon's Cat. (What Gary was linking to).
Do a Google for
Simon's Cat in 'Santa Claws'
It is pretty funny.
Do a Google for
Simon's Cat in 'Santa Claws'
It is pretty funny.
After having both a dog and a cat that my cat is a cleaner animal than the dog. It's also more self-sufficient and can be left unattended for a few days at a time if needed. Dogs are a larger responsibility and require more work IMHO. However, with that said, my cat is very needy and an attention whore. I love her for it though.
I want to like cats, I really do but I'm extremely allergic to them. I feel like I have the flu whenever I enter a room they've been in.
It also irritates me to no end all the cat owners who like to let theirs wander around the neighborhood climbing on cars and pissing on the tires and so on.
It also irritates me to no end all the cat owners who like to let theirs wander around the neighborhood climbing on cars and pissing on the tires and so on.