While setting up a new PowerBook for a friend, I found that there was no application to handle .sitx files…or .bin, .sit, etc…
Turns out that Mac OS 10.4 can not handle these common files without installing additional software by hand. This is new to me, as 10.3 did not have this problem….it came with Stuffit Expander installed by default.
You’ll need .
Downloading the free Real Player application used to be easier…
Now they require you to create an account to get the URI for downloading the free player. Here is the URI I was given after creating an account, which should lead you directly to the download area for Real Player, bypassing the registration:
Attention:
I am wanting to buy a Fender Rhodes Mark V electric piano. Ideally, I would like to buy the Mark V, but a Mark I, 88 key, suitcase would be great too!
I would be willing to drive a great distance if it’s worth it, so please contact me regardless of your location.
Thanks for helping!
In efforts to prepare for the Esspaul 2006 Fall tour, I’ve started sketches of the enclosure that will become the “Esspaul-o-tron”. The “Esspaul-o-tron” will be a multi-function unit. It will 1) Serve as a platform for keyboard, computer, PA amp and controls, and effect units, 2) Be an advertising unit to display the Esspaul brand name and 3) generate a near-field, high-energy, teleportation interface, capable of transitioning large crowds and objects to spatially-bound, bordering universes.
Here is the initial design (minus the teleporation hardware, as I’m having some trouble figuring out how that will exactly work, but I’m pretty sure duct tape will be involved):
Click this image for a larger version.
If any structural engineers or particle physicists happen upon this design, please let me know if I’m going to cause any serious damage by activating this thing…
With the introduction of google’s new jabber service, I’m trying out Adium, a jabber compatible OSS (Open Source Software) chat client for Mac OS X. Google has instructions on setting up Adium for talk.google.com, which makes it easy to get going.
I like that Adium, unlike iChat AV 3, puts my AIM and Jabber contacts in the same window pane. iChat AV 3 requires them to be in separate windows!
Also, after installing Adium, I became aware of OTR, or Off-the-Record, messaging. OTR provides encryption to instant messaging chat text. From their website:
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
Authentication
You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
Deniability
The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
Perfect forward secrecy
If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation is compromised.
It doesn’t seem that Google Talk has this functionality….yet. I’ll keep everyone posted as I learn more about this stuff!
Recently, the efforts of many North Carolinians, organized by Pop The Cap, saw House Bill 392 signed into law. This effectively raised the allowable ABV in beer from 6% to 15%.
As of this writing, the Pop The Cap Blog is reporting that one Big Beer is in NC at this time, but more great beers are on the way! Apparently the hold up is with the distribution logistics. I’m sure they’ll have that all worked out soon.
If anyone hears of new, good beers in NC, please post a comment saying what you drank and where you drank it!
This past week, my family went up to Walton, NY, home of the Delaware County Fair. We spent the week visiting with family, walking in the fields, and having a blast at the fair. While I was up there I was told about an old amp that Anna’s grandfather used to play fiddle through that had been sitting in the family barn for over 15 years since he passed away.
Uncle Frank took me out back to look at it. It was covered in dust and grime but I could tell that it was an Ampeg:
It was so dirty that I couldn’t even make out what the knobs did on the thing:
I figured it might still work so I brought it home and it cleaned up very nice:
Turns out that this is a vintage tube amp, the Ampeg Jet J12 (with tremelo). It SOUNDS FANTASTIC! The tremelo is soooo old school. As you turn the tremelo knob, there is a slight delay as it catches up, just adding to the analog experience of it all!
Sean mentioned that the company he is doing part-time work for, MOJO, can supply me with factory original parts for vintage amps, like this one! Wow. This amp is a keeper.
DuFF commented the other day on joehungry.com with a possible solution to the 5 users per day restriction on iTunes music library sharing:
# DuFF Says:
August 21st, 2005 at 4:24 pm eI’m assuming they don’t have this restriction if you add a password. The easiest solution to me would be to add a password and then just put it in your share name so everyone knows it. I haven’t tested this though.
So, here are the steps you can take to test this:
password: no5userlimitno5userlimitNow, the password no5userlimit is just a suggestion. Feel free to use your own creative password. Make sure to tell all your friends to do the same, if this solution actually works. I will get around to testing it next week and report back.
Anyone else up for testing this and reporting back?
Rumors are floating around, and seem to suggest, that the two members of EssPaul, Paul Coleman and Joe Waddell, are secretly planning an eastern seaboard tour for the fall of 2006. Apparently it will just be Paul and Joe playing aqoustic-esque versions of their songs. I can only guess that this means Paul will play on a stripped-down drum kit and that Joe will exclusively play Fender Rhodes piano with minimal effects.
I can’t wait! I’ll let you all know more as it approaches.
I was curious the other day to find out which webpages pointed (or linked) to joehungry. A quick search on google produced the answer. Here’s what you would search for:
link:www.joehungry.com
Just replace joehungry.com with your domain name (or IP) of choice. Enjoy!