Wed Sep 4 21:41:24 EDT 2013

I've been concerned about the noise level on the bus and subway, in particular how loud I need the sound to make podcasts intelligible. A lot of the sound energy is high frequencies that don't contribute to comprehension but seem awfully loud to me. Tonight I installed an equalizer app, Equalizer FX, on the Kindle ( ( Read more... )

Mon Apr 22 23:12:34 EDT 2013
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:47:57 +0000
Linux-powered CD player attempts audio perfection
Mar 22, 2013
Parasound, a purveyor of fanatically high-end consumer audio equipment, has introduced a CD player that's controlled by an internal Mini-ITX computer running embedded Linux. Using a CD-ROM drive for playing CDs, the "Halo CD 1" sucks in the CD's ( Read more... )

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From the Boston Globe: "From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password."

The VoteMatch Quiz compares your views with the Presidential candidates. (I got 58%-43% matches from the Democratic ( Read more... )

Maybe the recording industry doesn't actually want anybody to listen to music anymore. CBC Radio's program As It Happens had this gem on its website today: NOTE: Starting January 1, 2004, we will no longer be including cuts of music in our Real Audio files of past shows, for copyright reasons. Those little snippets were not going to keep ( Read more... )