Re: [LAD] Is TerminatorX development stalled?

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Shattow
As an alternative to terminatorX, the Mixxx project has progressed to the point where you can do a lot of what tX does, just add a sampler. The novelty of tX was mostly in the support of mouse-as-controller, audio effects, and looping samples. Support for hot cues and looping is under active

Re: [LAD] JACK and computer sleeping

2009-03-14 Thread Eric Shattow
If you run a graphical Ubuntu desktop system, there is a necessary step to do dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets and suid root enable the CPU selector... for older distributions of Ubuntu. Newer Ubuntu distributions have a keyring managed access to the cpu frequency selection from the cpu frequency

Re: [LAD] IM like GUI for netjack

2008-12-02 Thread Eric Shattow
If I may suggest, why go to all of this trouble? Just make a client that registers with a webpage, ala ninjam. (For those of you not hip to ninjam, it is a collaborative jam-session program and each instance can phone home to show the user's presence on a webpage). In the case of local

Re: [LAD] [OT] CD-R masters, block error rate and dvd-r mystery...

2008-07-26 Thread Eric Shattow
To get a more accurate idea of block errors, use a quality drive like a Plextor and Robert Fuller's https://gna.org/projects/cued software. My Plextor 712-SA does the trick. Be aware that the firmware of Plextor drives does some error correction to achieve the extremely low jitter. HA forums are