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Movies

2010-10-10T00:00:00-04:00

Want to See

A Tale of Two Sisters
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365376/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Sisters
The Silent House
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646973/
Machete
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete_(film)

Awesome Movies

Ichi the Killer
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi_the_Killer_(film)
One Missed Call
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Missed_Call_(2004_film)
- This cover for the American remake is sweet, though:
  - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Onemissedcall_posterbig.jpg
Tokyo Gore Police
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Gore_Police
Bloody Reunion
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sir,_with_Love_(2006_film)
The Wig
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475590/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wig
The Cut (Cadaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cut_(film)
Re-cycle
Three
- Also known as “Three…Extremes II” in America
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324242/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_(2002_film)
Three…Extremes
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420251/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three..._Extremes
Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy (Not really horror, but awesome)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_Mr._Vengeance
- Oldboy
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldboy
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_Lady_Vengeance
The Red Shoes
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468683/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(2005_film)
Cello
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475532/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_(film)
Audition
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition_(film)

Lateral Drifters

2010-10-08T00:00:00-04:00

Cass and I have started playing music together again. The band is called Lateral Drifters, and we’ve got a few songs:

Pop Song
Thirteen Idiots
Dirge Song
Gloom 44
Gloom 68/Theremin Song
A Judo Master Is Always Kicking My Ass
“A Plague Upon Both Your Houses”

In the works:

780 Song
Metaly Song
This thing Cass is working on
A bunch of stuff!

So you should give a shit. Maybe. If you want.

Do all of your web20 “liking” of things:

Facebook
Myspace shudder

and check out some tunes. We’ve been recording some rehearsals:

We made a video of The Trooper by Iron Maiden. It kicks ass.

We (attempt to) play acoustic at Habit’s on Sundays… If not, I’ll still probably be there. Real shows this month!?!

Word.

Notes

2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00

Drum Lessons
- http://vicfirth.com/education/
Their Bated Breath – One Is the Loneliest Number | Elliott Smith
- http://theirbatedbreath.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/one-is-the-loneliest-number-elliott-smith/
Adobe Developer Connection
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
  
  A lot of good resources.
mandoc mini-hackathon
- http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100714075042
Color photos from 1900’s Russia
- http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/

Walnut: Oh crap

2010-09-17T00:00:00-04:00

RELIGION CAN KILL

2010-09-13T00:00:00-04:00

‘Religion’ is a word concretizing a concept. It cannot kill anyone just as the word ‘kill’ cannot kill anyone. But the decisions people make and the actions they take based on words and concepts can, have, and continue to kill people. So, religion can kill, as long as the chain of cause and effect is kept in mind. Unless you’re a follower of Heidegger; then just interpret this paragraph however you wish.

— Andrew Antle

KILLING TIME WON"T STOP THIS CRIME

2010-08-13T00:00:00-04:00

Help me kill my time \ ‘cause I’ll never be fine

IN ROTATION

2010-08-12T00:00:00-04:00

Think of Nick Drake on downers fronting Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath played only the good parts of their songs.

—Steve Albini on Todd Trainer’s Brick Layer Cake

IN ROTATION

2010-08-06T00:00:00-04:00

Alice in Chains
- Jar of Flies
Explosions in the Sky
- Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- F#A#∞
Mouth of the Architect
- The Ties That Blind
- A couple of downloads on the Translation Loss site
pinnö project @last.fm
- F43.9

IN ROTATION

2010-07-15T00:00:00-04:00

HEIL SWEET BRIAR - MISANDRY

2010-07-09T00:00:00-04:00

From “Gifts of Speech”

Valerie Solanas

The SCUM Manifesto

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene…, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."

Heil Hitler! Heil Sweet Briar!

Meanwhile, back at the non-insane front…

From The Backlash! (OK, only somewhat non-insane —A.)

Robert Anton Wilson

Androphobia – The only respectable bigotry

In fact, if you listen to the rantings of any leading androphobe (such as Andrea Dworkin, Carol Hemingway, or Robin Morgan) and mentally change the word “male” to “Jew” every time it appears, the result would be totally indistinguishable from the rantings of Hitler, because the “logic” of bigotry is the same in all cases. It is the “logic” of ascribing one essence to a miscellaneous group, which is only possible when all real-world daily facts are replaced by generalized abstractions. but this flight into abstraction is “politically correct” and virtually nobody dares to challenge it."

WHY KEEP TRYING

2010-06-25T00:00:00-04:00

to work with audio on Windows? I’ve been running Linux and/or BSD for almost 4 years now, and never, not once, have I had a crash. But doing audio production on anything but Windows/Mac is an exercise in futility at this point, especially if you use software synthesizers and effects. It’s getting better with time, but it’s still not there unless you want to do academic noise experimentation or ‘three chords and a broken heart’ singer-songwriter bullshit. So I installed Windows for the first time in a long while 6 months ago:

iTunes ate almost my entire music collection.

Never on Linux/BSD have I had a userland app eat my data.

With time, I conveniently forgot the hellishness that is Windows and, seduced by the siren song of my Superior 2.0 drums and a fat Minimoog, I installed it again. It ran OK for three days, one of which I was booted into Slack for most of the day, then:

Spectatcular crash [Black Screen of Death] while running REAPER with 3 tracks. 3 tracks! How can I trust this to do any actual work?

I am too broke to buy a Mac. I am fooked.

SHPOD, PODCAST CLIENT

2010-06-20T00:00:00-04:00

Description

I’m working on a version of Chess Griffin’s mashpodder. Hopefully it will be bashism-free, and have less options. Less options are better, in my opinion. Set it in a config file and forget it.

Development

Browse the repository or get a copy using Git with the following command:

git clone git://github.com/antlechrist/shpod.git

TRUE HALLUCINATIONS

2010-06-17T00:00:00-04:00

Listening to “True Hallucinations” by Terence McKenna.

NEW ARCHLINUX PACKAGES

2010-06-11T00:00:00-04:00

I’ve built some binary packages from PKGBUILDs I maintain in the AUR. Someone might find them useful, especially stumpwm-git which is a pain in the ass to build right now. Enjoy.

Get ‘em here: http://antlechrist.org/archlinux/

UPDATE

2010-06-07T00:00:00-04:00

gee reaches 0.1.
I fail to become an Arch Linux Junior Developer.
Go listen to Crusade by Greg Crites. Tom Waits reading Hunter Thompson describing two wackos insulting each other with vitriolic hilarity.

SCIENCE > FAITH

2010-05-25T00:00:00-04:00

Speaking of which:

IN ROTATION

2010-05-23T00:00:00-04:00

Bad Religion / Stranger than Fiction
Carcass / Heartwork
Elliott Smith / Roman Candle
Lamb of God / Ashes of the Wake
The Dillinger Escape Plan / Irony Is a Dead Scene

INFRASTRUCTURES (REPOST XKCD.COM)

2010-05-21T00:00:00-04:00

This is fooking hilarious.

NILE TOUR

2010-05-14T00:00:00-04:00

The “Those Whom the Gods Detest Tour II” is, per usual, not coming to Cincinnati. The closest shows are

November 1st in Louisville, KY at Headliners (an awesome venue)
November 6th in Cleveland, OH at Peabody’s

which sucks. When did good bands stop coming to Cincinnati? When they realized that Cincinnati is a shithole. Musically, at least.

P.S. Math the Band is playing at Headliners on May 16th! Awesome!

P.P.S. Converge is playing there on May 26th! Cincinnati sucks donkey balls. Horse the Band is playing Peabody’s tomorrow. AAAGGGHHH!

CANADA

2010-05-12T00:00:00-04:00

IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY?

Serves You Fucking Right – The Lies

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

The Funeral Portrait – Opeth

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?

Even You – Dinosaur Jr

Appropriate lyrics, anyways

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Derelict Herds – Opeth

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?

Hope Leaves – Opeth

What’s up with all the Opeth? I do have a shitload on my Space mp3 phaser.

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?

Home – Depeche Mode

I am a shut-in.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Ruglen Holon – Aphex Twin

That’s about right.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Bunkhouse – The Murder City Devils

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

Flash of the Blade – Iron Maiden

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST KISS?

Sea – Low

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Fuck Machine – Propagandhi

HA! Mr. Randolfini

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Untitled #6 – Sigur Rós

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Fuck! – Propagandhi

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Screen Me – Turnus

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Dael – Autechre

Catchy

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Single File – Elliott Smith

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Fall Apart – Avail

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

Crazy Nights – Therion

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

Beneath the Mire – Opeth

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?

Manchester United – The Giraffes

HA! The whole team! At once!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Red Ran Amber – Pelican

HOW WILL YOUR CHILDREN MOST EMBARRASS YOU?

A message of avarice rained rained down upon us and carried us away into false dreams of endless riches – Red Sparowes

Fitting

WHAT WILL BE THE FIRST THING ST PETER TELLS YOU AT THE PEARLY GATES?

The Lying Lies and Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court – Coheed and Cambria

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

Canada – Shellac

GENOSITE UPDATE

2010-03-11T00:00:00-04:00

I’ve made some modification to the scripts. Check it out.

genosite.sh

#!/bin/sh

EXT=md
FMT=markdown
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
PREFIX=/
URL=andrew.antlechrist.org
export LC_ALL PATH

menu() {
    for i in `ls -F $1 | grep -v index.$EXT | sort`
    do
        case $i in
        *.$EXT)
            base=`echo $i | sed "s/.\$EXT$//"`
            cleanbase=`echo $base | sed 's/_/ /g'`
            if test "x$base" = "x$2"
            then
                echo "<li class='current'><a href=\"$base.html\">$cleanbase</a></li>"
            else
                echo "<li><a href=\"$base.html\">$cleanbase</a></li>"
            fi
            cur=1
            ;;
        */)
            echo "<li><a href=\"$i\">$i</a></li>"
            ;;
        esac
    done
    cat <<END
</ul>
</div>
END
}

page() {
    mtime=`ls -l $1$2.$EXT | awk '{ print $6" " $7" at " $8 }'`
    title="$URL`echo $4 | sed 's/.html//'`"
    cat <<END
<!doctype html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="/favicon.png" rel="icon" type="image/png" />
<link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="midHeader">
<div class="headerTitle">$3</a></div>
</div>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
END
    menu $1 $2
cat <<END
<div id="main-copy">
END
    cat $1$2.$EXT | tr -d '\r' | $FMT
    cat <<END
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="left">
Powered by <a href="http://hg.suckless.org/genosite">genosite</a>,
<a href="http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/">discount</a>,
and <a href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a><br />
<a href="$2.$EXT">Page source</a>
</div>
<div class="right">
Last modified: $mtime<br />
<a href="/LICENSE">Copyright 2009-2010 Andrew Antle</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
END
}

process() {
    for i in `ls -F $1`
    do
        case $i in
        *.$EXT)
            echo processing $1$i
            base=`echo $i | sed "s/.\$EXT$//"`
            if test x$base = xindex
            then
                title=$3
            else
                title=$3$base.html
            fi
            page "$1" "$base" "$2" "$title" > "$1$base.html"
            ;;
        */)
            process "$1$i" "$2</a> <a href=\"$PREFIX`echo $1 | \
            sed 's/.\///'`$i\">$i" $3$i
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
        esac
    done
}

if test $1
then
    cd $1
fi

find . -type l | xargs rm -f

process "./" "<a href=\"/\">$URL/" /

genosync.sh

#!/bin/sh

# file:   ~/bin/genosync.sh
# author: Andrew Antle - http://antlechrist.org/
# date:   2010-03-11

RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
PORT=portnumber
RUSER=username
RHOST=example.org
RPATH=/remotepath/
LPATH=/localpath/

do_pull() {
    $RSYNC -avz --delete -e "$SSH -p $PORT" $RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH $LPATH
}

do_push() {
    $RSYNC -avz --delete -e "$SSH -p $PORT" $LPATH $RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH
}

case "$1" in
    -l | --pull)
        do_pull
        if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
            echo FAILED
            exit 1
        else
            echo SUCCESS
        fi
        ;;
    -s | --push)
        do_push
        if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
            echo FAILED
            exit 1
        else
            echo SUCCESS
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "usage: `basename $0` {-l, --pull|-s, --push}"
esac

exit 0

Thanks to Anselm for this excellent script. My modifications are released under the same license as genosite itself. Feel free to use them as you see fit.

ANIMAL "RIGHTS" AND THE NEW MAN HATERS

2010-03-10T00:00:00-04:00

To claim that man’s use of animals is immoral is to claim that we have no right to our own lives and that we must sacrifice our welfare for the sake of creatures who cannot think or grasp the concept of morality. It is to elevate amoral animals to a moral level higher than ourselves—a flagrant contradiction.

Thank you for the clarity of thought that was so desperately missing earlier this evening. — Andrew

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_animal_rights

By Edwin Locke, Ph.D.

Recently a sixth grade student threatened to bomb the headquarters of a prominent corporation, the Gillette Company. Gillette’s “crime”? The use of animals to test the safety of their products. This student’s role models have not been so hesitant. In the name of so-called “animal rights,” terrorists have committed hundreds of violent crimes. They have vandalized or fire bombed meat companies, fur stores, fast-food restaurants, leather shops and medical research laboratories across North America. The animal “rights” movement, however, is not about the humane treatment of animals. Its goal is the animalistic treatment of human beings.

According to these terrorists, it is immoral to eat meat, to wear fur coats or leather shoes, and to use animals in research—even if it would lead to cures for deadly diseases. The terrorists are unmoved by the indisputable fact that animal research saves human lives. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) makes this frighteningly clear: “Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.” (Vogue, 1989 -A)

How do the animal “rights” advocates try to justify their position? As someone who has debated them for years on college campuses and in the media, I know firsthand that the whole movement is based on a single invalid syllogism, namely: men feel pain and have rights; animals feel pain; therefore, animals have rights. This argument is entirely specious, because man’s rights do not depend on his ability to feel pain; they depend on his ability to think.

Rights are ethical principles applicable only to beings capable of reason and choice. There is only one fundamental right: a man’s right to his own life. To live successfully, man must use his rational faculty—which is exercised by choice. The choice to think can be negated only by the use of physical force. To survive and prosper, men must be free from the initiation of force by other men—free to use their own minds to guide their choices and actions. Rights protect men against the use of force by other men.

None of this is relevant to animals. Animals do not survive by rational thought (nor by sign languages allegedly taught to them by psychologists). They survive through inborn reflexes and sensory-perceptual association. They cannot reason. They cannot learn a code of ethics. A lion is not immoral for eating a zebra (or even for attacking a man). Predation is their natural and only means of survival; they do not have the capacity to learn any other.

Only man has the power to deal with other members of his own species by voluntary means: rational persuasion and a code of morality rather than physical force. To claim that man’s use of animals is immoral is to claim that we have no right to our own lives and that we must sacrifice our welfare for the sake of creatures who cannot think or grasp the concept of morality. It is to elevate amoral animals to a moral level higher than ourselves—a flagrant contradiction. Of course, it is proper not to cause animals gratuitous suffering. But this is not the same as inventing a bill of rights for them—at our expense.

The granting of fictional rights to animals is not an innocent error. We do not have to speculate about the motive, because the animal “rights” advocates have revealed it quite openly. Again from PETA: “Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the earth”; “I do not believe that a human being has a right to life”; “I would rather have medical experiments done on our children than on animals.” These self-styled lovers of life do not love animals; rather, they hate men.

The animal “rights” terrorists are like the Unabomber and Oklahoma City bombers. They are not idealists seeking justice, but nihilists seeking destruction for the sake of destruction. They do not want to uplift mankind, to help him progress from the swamp to the stars. They want mankind’s destruction; they want him not just to stay in the swamp but to disappear into its muck.

There is only one proper answer to such people: to declare proudly and defiantly, in the name of morality, a man’s right to his life, his liberty, and the pursuit of his own happiness.

GENOSITE, QUARK, DISCOUNT AND RSYNC

2010-02-24T00:00:00-04:00

I’ve been looking for different solutions to my web goings-on, including hand coding, jekyll, hakyll, and werc (my favorite of them all). I’ve also tried wiki stuff, most notably SigWik and usemod. I’ve tried many more as well, but I was unsatisfied. What I’m looking for:

It has to be simple.
I want to write in Markdown. Writing html is annoying.
No so-called ‘vanity’ languages. Ruby, Haskell, rc (werc’s biggest detraction for me; my fault, because I don’t know rc.)

Then I started messing around with genosite, and I was happy.

I can write pages in my editor, and categorize them via directories. It takes the donkey-work out of managing the site, like werc, but isn’t as collaborative as werc in terms of real-time editing. But, I don’t really care about this.

Then I use quark on port 8000, like with jekyll and hakyll, for real-time previewing. It’s nice because I can run it in any directory as a chroot, and all the relative and absolute links work, and stylesheets are correctly applied.

Another nice thing is that I can use any Markdown implementation I want. My favorites are Discount and smu, both written in C. Once I’m happy with everything, I can just rsync my local directory to the remote server. Easy-peasy.

Here are my modifications:

OFFICIAL_GENERATE

#!/bin/sh

# $Id: official_generate,v 1.8 2010/02/24 01:42:08 andrew Exp andrew $

EXT=md
FMT=markdown
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
PREFIX=/
URL=andrew.antlechrist.org
export LC_ALL PATH

menu() {
    for i in `ls -F $1 | grep -v index.$EXT | sort`
    do
        case $i in
        *.$EXT)
            base=`echo $i | sed "s/.\$EXT$//"`
            cleanbase=`echo $base | sed 's/_/ /g'`
            if test "x$base" = "x$2"
            then
                echo "<li class='current'><a href=\"$base.html\">$cleanbase</a></li>"
            else
                echo "<li><a href=\"$base.html\">$cleanbase</a></li>"
            fi
            cur=1
            ;;
        */)
            echo "<li><a href=\"$i\">$i</a></li>"
            ;;
        esac
    done
    cat <<END
</ul>
</div>
END
}

page() {
    mtime=`ls -l $1$2.$EXT | awk '{ print $6" " $7" at " $8 }'`
    title="$URL`echo $4 | sed 's/.html//'`"
    cat <<END
<!doctype html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="/favicon.png" rel="icon" type="image/png" />
<link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="midHeader">
<div class="headerTitle">$3</a></div>
</div>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
END
    menu $1 $2
cat <<END
<div id="main-copy">
END
    cat $1$2.$EXT | tr -d '\r' | $FMT
    cat <<END
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="left">
Powered by <a href="http://hg.suckless.org/genosite">genosite</a><br />
<a href="$2.$EXT">Page source</a>
</div>
<div class="right">
Last modified: $mtime<br />
<a href="/LICENSE">Copyright 2009-2010 Andrew Antle</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
END
}

process() {
    for i in `ls -F $1`
    do
        case $i in
        *.$EXT)
            echo processing $1$i
            base=`echo $i | sed "s/.\$EXT$//"`
            if test x$base = xindex
            then
                title=$3
            else
                title=$3$base.html
            fi
            page "$1" "$base" "$2" "$title" > "$1$base.html"
            ;;
        */)
            process "$1$i" "$2</a> <a href='$PREFIX$i'>$i" $3$i
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
        esac
    done
}

if test $1
then
    cd $1
fi

find . -type l | xargs rm -f

process "./" "<a href=\"/\">$URL/" /

OFFICIAL_UPDATE

#!/bin/sh

# $Id: official_update,v 1.2 2010/02/24 08:39:10 andrew Exp andrew $

RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
RUSER=user
RHOST=remoteserver
RPATH=public_html/
LPATH=/home/pub/html/

$RSYNC -avz --delete -e "$SSH -p <port>" $LPATH $RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH

I’m really enjoying it.

References

TASCAM US-428 ON LINUX

2010-02-20T00:00:00-04:00

Install alsa-firmware
```
  # pacman -S alsa-firmware
```

Get alsa-tools

  $ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.22.tar.bz2

Install usx2yloader

  $ tar xvf alsa-tools-1.0.22.tar.bz2
  $ cd alsa-tools-1.0.22/usx2yloader
  $ ./configure --help
  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

Install us428control

  $ cd ../us428control
  $ ./configure --help
  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

Install fxload from AUR
Install udev-tascam-usx2y from AUR
Check the udev rules
```
  # vi /etc/udev/rules.d/55-tascam-usx2y.rules
```
and edit accordingly. (For me, remove ‘-m mixxx’)
Turn it on and rock out

References

BSDTAR AND COMPRESSION STATS

2010-02-17T00:00:00-04:00

[andrew@lloyd ~]$ time (bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && gzip docs.tar)
(; bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && gzip docs.tar; )  7.57s user 0.42s system 94% cpu 8.464 total
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ time (bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && bzip2 docs.tar)    
(; bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && bzip2 docs.tar; )  38.67s user 0.43s system 99% cpu 39.150 total
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ time (bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && ba7 docs.tar.7z docs.tar)
(; bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && ba7 docs.tar.7z docs.tar; )  78.51s user 1.08s system 177% cpu 44.846 total
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ time (bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && xz docs.tar)             
(; bsdtar cf docs.tar docs && xz docs.tar; )  73.54s user 0.62s system 99% cpu 1:14.20 total
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ du -s docs*
129380  docs
99044   docs.tar.7z
104720  docs.tar.bz2
105264  docs.tar.gz
99404   docs.tar.xz
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ du -sh docs*
127M    docs
97M     docs.tar.7z
103M    docs.tar.bz2
103M    docs.tar.gz
98M     docs.tar.xz
[andrew@lloyd ~]$ cat bin/ba7 
#!/bin/sh

7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on $1 $2

SCREENSHOTS

2010-02-04T00:00:00-04:00

BOOKMARKING FOR UZBL

2010-02-03T00:00:00-04:00

I edited the existing insert_bookmark.sh for uzbl to make it (hopefully) simpler and remove a dependency on zenity. Check it out:

#!/bin/bash

# A {replacement,alternative option} for insert_bookmark.sh

[ -d "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/uzbl" ] || exit 1

file=${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/uzbl/bookmarks
entry=`echo "$6 $7\t" | dmenu -b -l`

if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit "$?"; fi

(echo -e "$entry" && cat $file) | sort -u > $file.$$ && mv $file.$$ $file

true

Clone the ‘repo’ :) with the following command:

hg clone http://hg.thelloyd.net/uib

It’s kind of a mash up between Lorenzo’s surf solution and the one included with uzbl. Feedback would be cool.

BOOKMARKING FOR SURF, REDUX

2010-02-02T00:00:00-04:00

Following up from the previous post on surf bookmarking:

Lorenzo found a very nice solution, involving no shell scripts. Check it out.

I agree with L on the not using surf thing. I look at it, mess around with it and stuff, but I’m not geeky enough to use it full time.

L’s config.h can be found on the suckless wiki as well.

BOOKMARKING FOR SURF

2010-02-01T00:00:00-04:00

hg clone http://hg.thelloyd.net/surf-andy-hg

Let me know how shit it is.

WEBCAST.BERKELEY.EDU

2010-01-31T00:00:00-04:00

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Great resource with audio and video lectures.

IN ROTATION

2010-01-30T00:00:00-04:00