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rock from behind the iron curtain Posted: 7/3/2009 11:21:50 AM
or any art from that time period/collection of countriesl. Digging up old stuff from behind the iron curtain has been an on-again, off-again hobby of mine, but I've found some neat gems Omega (hungary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGt-rTDkMcM Blue Effect (Czech Republic) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfaHwbLplug Locomotiv GT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msW_Cym79L0 Polish movie posters http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/ There's just something about the stories of people scavenging payphones for guitar pickup parts, and distributing bootleg records on discarded x-rays that Oh, and loosely related, if you've never heard of "Cambodian Rocks", go find it. It's a collection of cambodian pub band music from just before the US involvement, and Khmer Rouge http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/12/cambodian-rocks.html

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New Music. On It's A**e Posted: 6/26/2009 8:09:41 PM
I don't think the digital medium is the problem, ewe tewb databases can be easily tranfered to newer formats, data can be backed up and transfered as new storage methods come available, etc The problem lies in its generally harder to push the envelope, to make something truly new that sticks out. So much has been already done. We also live in a culture that pushes the latest on us as fast as possible, and that's pretty fast considering the technology we've got these days. The result is fickleness, and lowered attention spans. I mean, led zeppelin were popular well in to the late 70's, long after their best albums were released, but no one cares anymore about the strokes. Then again, Led Zeppelin were touring well in to the late 70's, something bands don't really do anymore. Oh yeah, you're talking to one of the few who would rattle their brain trying to find out what was on that hard disk.

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favourite "80's" music actually comes from 1979? Posted: 6/26/2009 7:59:33 PM
Anybody else notice this? a lot of the best 80's stuff comes from that period just before the 80's, when punk was starting to splinter in to post-punk and new wave? Joy Division, The Clash, Tubeway Army/Gary Numan, The Wire, The Police, Blondie, The Cars, XTC, The B52's, Adam Ant, and so much more

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What operating system are you using? Posted: 6/26/2009 10:01:56 AM
Well, what i've really grown to love about linux is the shift from concentrating on hardware requirements to software requirements. Say I had an old P4 machine with onboard video that could boot off USB, but I had no working IDE drives kicking around, and wanted something capable of playing xvid videos on my TV, along with mp3s, and maybe some network streaming. I have geexbox (http://www.geexbox.org) running very well on such hardware off a 256 meg flash drive. Or, I needed to run a recent version of firefox with adobe flash etc on a currently supported OS, but had outdated hardware, and didn't want it bogged down with an overly flashy GUI with transparencies, and 3d effects. Thanks to linux's very modular design, you can pick and choose your gui from a very long list, and configure it to work exactly as you want it to. Think windows 95, with up-to-date hardware support, and security fixes running on a computer 45 times more powerful than it was designed to run on. Very fast, and very possible, especially when the entire operating system is loaded in to ram, and the hard disk isn't being touched. Linux can do some pretty brain-boggling things, provided you take the time to learn about it.

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What operating system are you using? Posted: 6/25/2009 9:12:54 PM
unfounded? that's pushing it a bit far. Vista might run fine on brand new hardware assembled with vista in mind, but I'd hate to see what would happen if I tried installing it on my old sempron based pc. Yeah, its old, but its still well suited for daily internets, and dropping $600-$1000 isn't something I feel like doing right now. Conversely, ubuntu runs awesome on it, no hardware problems or driver issues

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iPod Help - syncing Posted: 6/25/2009 8:12:28 PM
I'm not sure about windows, but in linux if you can open the ipod as a USB drive, and set the file managers folder options to display hidden folders, you can navigate to where the music is stored on the ipod, and copy it over manually. Downside, the file names will be messed up, albeit the ID3 tags will be intact upside, sneaking around crapple software

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What operating system are you using? Posted: 6/25/2009 8:07:23 PM
been using ubuntu for just about as long, and totally agreed. it's been an eye opening experience, having dozens of tools freely available to solve the same problem, based on what the end requirements are. M$ will have to pull something pretty impressive out of their sleeve to convince me to go back (maybe patenting the internet?) Take it easy

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What operating system are you using? Posted: 6/25/2009 11:36:15 AM
Kubuntu 8.04 primarily on my desktop, and geexbox/puppy linux 4 on my HTPC.

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Ubuntu and music Posted: 6/11/2009 6:17:46 PM
For media playback, I usually fall back on VLC. The playlist editor is a little primitive, but the fact it reliably plays back almost every single type and format of media file known to man more than makes up for it imho. As for burning, I rarely ever burn an audio CD anymore, what with mp3 players, but if the time did come when I had to, I could always use something like audacity to convert the mp3s to wave files, and then use K3b (KDE burning app that ships with Kubuntu) to burn away. K3b seems to do its job just fine The big reason for me to consider dual booting right now is C&C red alert 3, personally.

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UNIX/Linux Utilities / Apps Posted: 6/11/2009 6:09:03 PM
You definitely need elinks or lynx as one of your browsers, very helpful when you somehow manage to break X I haven't played with Mplayer much outside of Geexbox, but VLC does a very good job of handling anything I throw at it, plus transcoding and streaming. aMSN is pretty cool, what with it's ability to end voice clips and yeah, being FOSS, there's a billion others that I'm probably missing out on

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