This is a project I’ve been working on for the past quarter for my EE47 class. I didn’t want to make just a personal music player, but instead a personal music performance - and this is the more-or-less first prototype of that. It could be described as a “virtual turntable”: you load songs into it, and then you can play them back as if they were on a record. You can slow down or speed up the record, or grab it and scratch it.
Filed under: Projects fyhuang @ September 25, 2008 1:04 pm
I have been having, to put it lightly, some problems with VMware server and an Ubuntu guest. My guess as to why is this: VMware server is, in my eyes, built for production-level server virtualization. It’s not really built for on-the-side home server virtualization, like the kind that I’m doing, and on fairly desktop-oriented hardware to boot. Basically, my Ubuntu install often has trouble with disk access, and sometimes network access as well. (I’m running a Vista Home Premium host with an Ubuntu Server 8.04 guest.)
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Filed under: Articles fyhuang @ September 13, 2008 9:41 pm
My school uses an NTLM-authenticating proxy server, and this causes problems with lots of applications which don’t support proxy servers. Many, many solutions have been proposed to this problem, but I’ll focus on one that I find particularly appealing: setting up a non-authenticating personal proxy server which forwards requests to the main proxy server.
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Tuniq Sanctum HDD cooler/silencer
It doesn’t work.
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Kensington Expert Mouse 7.0
Superior tracking, excellent usability, and a polished design make this trackball worth the price.