Adventures in decentralization
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my shoebox NAS – update
So I installed Windows 8 as an OS, the Consumer Preview, to be exact. I’ll update it to an RC as soon as one becomes available. The installations was a breeze, and I haven’t looked back ever since. Setting up an FTP-Server was easy and hassle-free thanks to FileZilla Server, Media Player does UPnP Streaming…
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building the perfect NAS – in a shoebox
So, I finally got arround to assembling everything that I bought for my perfect NAS. I assembled everything in a shoebox, just for fun, looks terrific, see pics below. Everything gets held to the shoebox by cable ties, and since cardboard tears very easily I reinforced it with duct tape… ha! I’m using 2 Harddisks,…
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in search of the ultimate Headphone
Since I’m working in the field of audio recording and reproduction in its various forms for more than 12 years now, I often find myself in the need of an excellent headphone. Checking signals, tracking, mixing, or just listening to music while traveling, I often need headphones. Working in studios with excellent monitoring for years,…
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building a home WFS system
I’ve been into spatial audio and especially Wave Field Synthesis, ever since my neighbor Simon Katzböck introduced me to the concept in Mörbisch, some years ago now. There, at the Seefestspiele, I was stunned to see how well it worked, how the voices seemed to originate from the singers, not the PA, and how realistic…
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custom ROM for my HTC ChaCha pt2
So, after some fretting, and woeing why I hadn’t backed up my original ROM I finally got to the heart of the issue. The SuperDroid 1.0 ROM I installed on my ChaCha comes with A2SD baked in. A2SD or App2SD is a beautiful little app, that moves all of the apps to a ext3 partition…
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custom ROM for my HTC ChaCha
I really like my ChaCha, but one thing I got really fed up with is that it runs out of memory very often, so I can’t install some apps, like Instagramm or can’t update to the newest version of Google Maps. So after researching it a bit, I decided to install a custom ROM, SuperDroid,…
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building the perfect NAS
I recently bought a Zyxel NSA 210 NAS, which, truth be told, really really sucks. No telnet, No ssh, you can only administer it via a rather slow and cumbersome web interface, that takes all of my patience just to copy all the music I have to the folder I wish to. I shortly experimented…
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crowdfunding and the JOBS Act
In the last couple of days, I’ve been researching about crowdfunding and related internet sites. Kickstarter, IndieGogo, CrowdCube and Seedmatch, all very exciting platforms. Kickstarter and IndieGogo raise funds for small, creative projects mostly. Although IndieGogo is not so strict on letting just creatives raise funds there; as seen by Nicholas Merril – raising 43k$ in…
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long tail – dead end
Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with Christian Pirkner, who told me that Amazon actually doesn’t reference it’s long tail as part of its suggestion mechanism. In case any of you are not completely clear as to what I mean, I refer to long tail as in the Blook by Malcom Gladwell, wired magazines chief…
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