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Living on a major bird migratory path sometimes makes me miss the quiet of the city. Tourists from the big cities actually complain about how loud it gets, they love it the first night but after a few…

It is one of those things that a huge number of people hear about and want to see at least once and they do it at the detriment to those that live in the area. All the people hopping on the bandwagon …

>the change may not have been that visible to someone installing FreeBSD once every few years. Which was my point that the rest of that sentence was meant to highlight. What I learned about install…

The BSDs are largely not caught up in the battle for becoming a widely used consumer desktop which makes them remarkably consistent from the user/admin standpoint. I have played with FreeBSD on a…

I did read it and it leaves the question of hardware somewhat up in the air, they seem to be pushing for people forking and modifying their software more than people building new projects from their h…

I like this, keeps me from forgetting about my favorites and all that I have put in there. Everytime I add something I browse them and generally end up reading a thread and researching a topic instead…

My question would be if they are going to take the time to write a good reference for the hardware so people can use it to develop new projects or will they just dump their software and call it good? …

While I remember those times fondly and with great nostalgia, I think the Apple ecosystem of the system 7 days hindered my learning, it was just too easy. I could open up AppleScript and hit record, p…

BBEdit is one of the few apps I miss from the Mac world. ResEdit/Resourcerer are up there as well, being able to naively open up the resource fork and customize applications and sometimes make ma…

I would probably question them about their writing process but it would really depend on which Nobel laureate it is. You might want to ask them for proof reading advice. Couldn't resist.

The sub title explains it fairly well >Celebrating the Æsthetic Collapse of a Xoomer Subculture He seems to be alluding to how the scene changed in the late 90s and does so throughout the article w…

They are referring to the genesis of the Latin American literary movement commonly referred to as Magical Realism not the general idea of essentially realist stories with magical and fantastic element…

The Guitar Player Repair Guide by Erlewine is pretty good and goes over a great deal of information, probably would cover most if not all of your needs and will cover most of the information required …

The luthier in me cringes at how he goes about this and his considering a cracked soundboard reducing an instrument to firewood, it would not be terribly difficult or expensive to replace a sitar soun…

They are an invaluable resource just don't get too caught up in trying to understand everything they present, they are introductions and about giving you the tools needed to pursue the study of t…

When ever I am getting into a new topic I try to start with OUP's Very Short Introduction series [0]. They generally do not give good understanding but they orient you in the field and provide ex…

When you provide a quote whose general thrust seems to support your general thrust, and attribute it for both speaker and target, and that speaker's general thrust seems to support your general t…

And Truman Capote said that regarding a novel which Kerouac worked on for nearly a decade. The scroll for On The Road was the performance of the piece which he had been rehearsing for all those year…

>I have to think a market will emerge soon for real writing from actual people That market already exists and has existed for quite some time, you make it sound like literature has always been an A…

So it is the same as every other addiction, not a surprise.

Being replaced by technology should give an author a wealth to write about, especially in a time when fears of being replaced by technology is a major topic, AI lacks this simple human connection and …

I use ... for user and []_ for root, I would rather not fill up terminal space with information I generally know. I really hate when the prompt causes things to wrap and I do not mind putting pwd or t…

>Hi-Fi recorded the audio as FM on the tape alongside the video signal, if I remember correctly. So they broke the format when HiFi came out, tapes recorded on a HiFi VCR could not be played on a p…

Don't currently have anything (that I know of) on the web but my current project will get posted here when it is ready, it has aspects which should be of interest to enough people here to make it…

They were most likely hi-fi (weren't all the non-hifi ones coax?) but it would not have mattered if I had used a 2" Studer, bouncing down is not a good way to maintain quality, especially ho…

I think this one is on you and it is a $200 lesson. You might be able to get your money back if you make dealing with your less of a hasel/cheaper than refunding your $200 but do you really want …

This entry has much to be desired, but at least it has a link to their site. Will have to visit this place some day. http://www.historyingranite.org/ …

My linux setup has barely changed in 20 years and many of my configs are 20 years old now, fairly proud of that. Been using Slackware with ion/notion wm and it frees me from having to relearn thi…

Back in the previous century I used three VCRs as a multitrack audio recorder, I kept spending more money on synths instead getting a proper multitrack and mixer. It started out as a 6 track setup but…