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The sound is not quite as rich as the 7 1 setting on the old Ibanez pedal, but GarageBand automatically adjusts the ping pong echo speed in accordance with the tempo. Not sure how to adjust how the adjustment is made. (For example, to double-time the echo.)

In trying to use my work laptop running XP to transfer a big wad of files to a Vista machine directly over an Ethernet cable, I fell victim to this: Cannot Login to Windows XP after changing from Domain to Workgroup.

I didn’t notice any sort of appropriate warning, like, “DOING THIS WILL TURN YOUR COMPUTER INTO A PAPERWEIGHT AND YOU WILL HAVE TO THROW AWAY ALL YOUR FILES AS PART OF REINSTALLATION. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CONTINUE?” But then, under Windows, I have become numbed by so many cry-wolf warnings and zero-value-add notifications. Maybe I just thoughtlessly clicked OK.

Riding up from Murianette to Revel is something Matt and Paul have been getting me to do some Tuesdays and Thursdays. Here’s the route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3157130.

Today Matt decided we should find a baseline time climbing up. The guys were no doubt happy to have me along since I am heavy and not very practiced going uphill. I counted 33:41. Matt counted less, but he stopped at the sign at the edge of Revel.

All I need to do is lose about 20kg and surely I’d be able to do that in 25 minutes.

After rediscovering this old Virtual Amp pedal, I plugged it into the Mac to record direct in GarageBand.

The 7 1 setting, clean AC 30 like pan delay with multiple repeats, generates ideas under my fingers if I had not heard it in a while (e.g. the intro to Island but not exactly the way I recorded it there).

In GarageBand the sound with a bit of compression and EQ was right. Yet I had to set the metronome at 168 to get the effect to fit. Regardless of whether 84 and double time would also work, if I record with looping for multiple takes then the effect gets chopped at the end of a loop, rather than decay gracefully.

It would be cool to take the 23 presets and import them into GarageBand.

Aging Toshiba Tecra M1… Ubuntu 9.04. Default xorg.conf leaves 800×600 screen resolution max…

Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 9.04 – the Jaunty Jackalope – released in April 2009.

mark@mark-laptop:~$ lspci | grep -i trident
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP4m32 (rev 91)

This xorg.conf seems to work:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# Screen, Monitor, Device hints from http://borderworlds.dk/writings/xorg.conf
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver      "vesa"
	VendorName  "Trident Microsystems"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
	HorizSync	31.5 - 50
	VertRefresh	50-110
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection