Check the sampling rate. If you're rendering in Live at 41000 and importing it in to a Logic track thats locked at 48000 you'll run in to that. It's not going to be that dramatic with this scenario. But if you're doing a 44.1 to 22 it'd be slowed down by half tempo and half pitch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 6:36 PM on June 29, 2008

Additional term: 'Spot color'
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:59 PM on June 15, 2008

Vicenza, or smaller still Zané if you want to stay in the Veneto/by the Dolomites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:57 PM on June 15, 2008

Akamai's Real time web monitor (attacks, latency & traffic)
The charts from Internet Storm Center?

Place the objects in to a customized page and stick on the big screen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:59 PM on June 10, 2008

Whatever you do as far as where/who's hardware it is you want the capability to reboot or turn on a machine remotely. In addition to installing the OS. Your IT guy will want this when he comes on. iLO as Project F suggested is the most popular option(as long as your provider is using HP machines). Or bring it in house and shell out some dough for a short term consultantation to get you up & running. You should at least be redundant on power, pipe & storage. Don't forget monitoring! A... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:29 PM on June 5, 2008

I'm pretty sure the Korg Tritons, from it's first model to current, unessecerry models have all key aftertouch.

Play a chord, lay in to and off of a finger and only that note varies, that what you mean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:38 PM on May 27, 2008

When you get to Portland you can't miss The Original Hotcake House, preferably at 2:30am. Have a strawberry milkshake and some hashbrowns. I grew up on hashbrowns in the South(Waffle House reprazent!), and these beat them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:58 PM on May 14, 2008

I got the apple green Jones Soda carbonated candy as a gift. It's them. Flickr pictures and the typeface pretty much solidify it for me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 6:12 PM on May 13, 2008

Otiluke's bong of continuous smoke
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 9:06 AM on April 26, 2008

I remember finding some great progs years ago for one off sounds from this SynthZone software list. In particular Orangator. But it doesn't appear on that list anymore. This place has a screenshot and a zip to DL Orangator.

Stomper was also really damn powerful. I think the synth engine ended up being absorbed in to some 'hardware' based drum sequencer.

This is all old tech, but perfectly useful if you just want to create one off bleeps and blips.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:59 PM on April 15, 2008

Ninjam. It's fun when you can get over the inherent time delay(the time delay is what makes it work!). The public servers are still in use. Best to set up your own Ninjam server for this application. There's a learning curve as far as getting your audio routed through it.

On MeFi previously
AskMe about internet jamming
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:33 AM on April 11, 2008

Another anecdote to the pile: I moved to Portland in 2001, didn't have anything solid(technical field) lined up, got a temp administrative job that I ended up in until 2004.

But I have shifted technical jobs 3 times since 2004. Luck? Others in the same field have had similar results in the same time frame. Web / graphic design friends seem to have to look longer than pure tech. Should I need to look for another job right now I don' expect I would have to be looking for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:42 PM on April 3, 2008

This could be a practice of a shifty creditor that I've seen when looking up unknown numbers that call mye cell(from cda's website or whocalled.us).

Basically said creditor will call and just leave the message "By continuing to listen you acknowledge you are '. Or if the creditors actually do make contact with a person claiming to be who they are looking for they will re-age the debt they are attempting to collect on.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:02 AM on March 18, 2008

I've recently had good success with these instructions from HowToForge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:07 PM on March 6, 2008

I've been traveling weekly down to Burbank for a little more than a month now. It looks like there's quite a few nice little neighborhoods all over the place. There was a 2 bedroom house with a shack out back with 1 & 1/2 bath in a nice neighborhood(near a school) for $700,000. If that gives you any idea of the market.

But for ethnic food(I need it!) and theaters there's "downtown" Burbank. I've found a nice breakfast greasy spoon, an Armenian joint that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 9:37 AM on February 27, 2008

I am an owner of the MC-303 since and still use it when I need a live drum track that I can fiddle with in between sequenced tracks/samples. My cohorts were owners of the MC-505 for a few years and I had plenty of face time with it. I've also had plenty of face time with Rebirth and Reason.

Go with the piece of hardware. The 303 is severely limited but the 505 has way more 808 samples that can be jazzed up with the multitude of on board effects. Real time 'bass boost',... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 11:29 AM on February 22, 2008

Also
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:12 AM on December 15, 2007

Being a Perl geek I'd use it to grab all of the document file names from the directory structure(module File::Find). Object returned back from File::Find would be processed similar to the MS Word document extraction process detailed here. Once you get the whole document extracted in to a variable you could then convert the variable in to an array(split by line seperators) and then the information you're looking for, as long as it's absolutley standardized should be in the identical array... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 9:21 AM on December 3, 2007

I've normally just cursed my neighbors for doing laundry past 11pm when my bed shakes while I'm trying to fall asleep. I'm guessing your describing quick cycle vibrations and not a spastic kick(like the hypnic jerk).

So large trucks on a small road, laundry or other household devices may be shaking your bed.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 3:17 PM on November 26, 2007

Quick Stop Photo develops it. They've got great color correcting, borders and metallic paper.

I've recommended this a few times other places on MeFi because my wife works there and they do great work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 5:20 PM on October 21, 2007 marked best answer

I kind of like the alliteration possibilities with Dresden

Dixon, Delaney, Durst, Didactic(hehe), Downs, Dilbert

But then's there's the possibility of the nickname 'Double D'.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 9:22 AM on October 18, 2007

In bkeene's picture it looks like I still have #12 with that little bit of #10 poking out where what I'm calling the lug cap( shiny thing) is missing from. What's the better term for that thingy?

I have not taken the hubcaps off, so that's probably why this isn't obvious...I guess I could..but I can clearly see the #12 without doing so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 3:43 PM on September 20, 2007

FYI I had a gearhead friend look at it, took the hubcaps off and we noticed that I've actually got mismatched lugnuts, which I never noticed before yesterday and thought I used to have ALL the shinier lugnuts rather than just a few shiny ones and the rest purely functional. Mostly my stupidity in freeking out about the status quo.

After we confirmed it's okay to drive I brought it to a tire shop which confirmed everything was cool as far as the wheels not coming off,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 9:05 AM on September 21, 2007

Outlook has everything you need to mimic GMail's best features, tagging and search "folders" based on those tags. This leaves all email's in your main Inbox, like GMail.

Should work with at least Outlook 2003.

Set up rules to assign Outlook categories(GMail's tags) to an email on receipt, either based on subject, or sender, etc...
Set up Outlook search folders based on those categories.
Give yourself a search... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:23 AM on July 20, 2007 marked best answer

Oh, I've also further hidden stuff from myself by having the default view for my main Inbox to filter out Unread items. Everything should either show up in my category search folders, or in my Untagged folder.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:25 AM on July 20, 2007

I smuggled my fiancee's engagement ring from Portland, OR to Italy in the tiny little cloth purse the jewelry store gave to me. I too was worried about security busting me.

I just kept the tiny little zip up purse in a zip up pocket in my jacket, placed the jacket on the conveyor belt and no problems. Cross-country and cross-atlantic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:42 AM on July 11, 2007

I use reFeed all by my lonesome so don't really twiddle with the user stuff. Although in 'single user mode' if you just use regular htaccess authentication all interested parties would use the same accounting of read/unread items.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 12:42 PM on July 9, 2007

I recently dropped WoW(reasons: the grind, left behind) for Lord of the Rings Online(LotRO). It's been described as Methadone for WoW addicts.

It doesn't feel like a great time sink. It looks great. The PvP option doesn't interfere with solo progression. I can drop whatever I'm doing in the game without feeling like I needed to play another 30 minutes for another +100 rep or get another few alchemy points. I don't feel like I'm a solo carebear and get passed up for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 3:33 PM on May 31, 2007 marked best answer

I'm just n'thng the hardware limitations keeping you from seeing "real" gigabit speeds.

I tested NIC drivers for a NIC manufacturer for your various Open Source operating systems. I'd only ever see close to real gigabit speeds on the 2 processor hyper-threaded machines with speedy BUS architectures.

A lot of tinkering needed to get to these close to gigabit speeds were jumbo frames(max frame size) you'd need a switch that you could... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:24 PM on May 4, 2007

Oh..most of the testing was using nttcp.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:26 PM on May 4, 2007

One of the other things I remember with Jumbo frames on this manufacturers is that the drivers / silicon would handle jumbo frame sizes up to 16kb's. Competitor cards / switches we tested with for compatibility were only configurable up to 9kb jumbo frame size.

Depending on the manufacturer, you still may only be able to get so close to gigabit speeds even with a smoking system. This all depends on if the gear can handle it, and if the driver has support.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 3:03 AM on May 5, 2007

Nth'ng bent / improperly seated red pin. VGA pinouts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 1:11 PM on March 8, 2007

Abadox?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:00 AM on February 2, 2007

dtach + Poderosa? Or any other tabbed terminal. How much of screen's functionality do you really need? When it sounds like you're just using it to maintain a detached process?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 11:13 AM on November 5, 2006

You'll no doubt want the MIDI-Yoke on that website as well. I've had pretty good results with MIDI-OX when I have a MIDI device that has some knobs on it that I want to use to send MIDI messages to Ableton Live.

But the thing is is that my MIDI instrument sends out a MIDI control message that has a different result in Ableton live. So I used MIDI-OX to 'sniff' the MIDI signals and convert the message of type 1 to the message of type 2 and route it via MIDI-Yoke in to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 1:14 PM on October 25, 2006

Turbo
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:25 PM on October 13, 2006

To throw an extremely geeky example in the mix: I believe the 1st Edition AD&D Dieties & Demigods touched on the idea of 'Lesser Gods'. Where lesser gods do not have as many followers in the AD&D world.

Moving forward, this idea was completly fleshed out in the Planscape AD&D 2nd Edition realm books. Where portions of the Planes( and sometimes an entire plane) are constantly growing and being absorbed depending on the amount of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 1:07 PM on July 27, 2006

Any chance any of these surveys take in to account the amount of time circumventing said measures? I have buddies in worker bee jobs that are always asking me for things to try. Circumventing these things is not something that just technically savvy people are able to pull off or research.

On the chance that you're asking because you're looking for a solution( rather than throwing numbers at someone to discredit them ). Here's 2 things to look... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 10:04 AM on July 13, 2006

Just seconding the Amtrak to Plattsburgh from Poughkeepsie. I grew up there and the Adirondacks are almost as gorgeous as my current home in the Northwest. Use Plattsburgh as your base of operations for any day trips. Don't neglect Ausable Chasm as a possible campground and or day trip.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:37 PM on July 10, 2006

I don't have a recipe but I was at a BBQ a few weeks ago that had a veggie calzone.

They placed some plum tomatos, onions and green peppers with olive oil and oregano on the grill. Grilled until carmalization formed.

They then placed the grilled veggies in some tinfoil then stuck them under the top grate(closer to the embered coals) for around 20-30 minutes. Until the veggies were sufficiently mushy, I suppose.

They had... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 11:55 AM on June 20, 2006

I had a backyard pool in which birds were found constantly. Sometimes they would get trapped under the solar cover(are those still in use?) and drown. Sometimes they'd pop in for a toxic drink/bath.

Any mangling was chalked up to the jets, intakes and filter trap tossing the lifeless bird body.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:05 PM on June 5, 2006

I used to do this. Mostly for the 'I can't give you my lucky' factor. I think it all stopped when I moved to an area where I'd get asked for a smoke 5 times just going to/from lunch/work.

Now no one but those I know gets a smoke, ever. The usefulness of the lucky has been usurped by the power of a determined 'no'.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 12:25 PM on May 31, 2006

Who's Who as well...but that's probably stretching commonality. Even here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 4:46 PM on April 27, 2006

Wheeeee!!!!...whathtehellwasthat...ouchmyneck.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 1:55 PM on April 14, 2006

Oh wow. Thanks you guys for the Gregarius pointer. I've been looking for an RSS agg/reader to plunk on my own server for a little more than a year now. Most of them had been crap. Gregarius is fresh. Thanks AskMe!
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 8:41 AM on April 14, 2006

Thumbsucker. Vince Vaughn as a debate teacher. Think what you may about the man, but I actually feel sorry for him when his pupil turns.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:52 PM on April 10, 2006

I'm just going to throw a caution out there. Don't leave high dollar gadgetry in your car for recharging unless you plan to babysit it while it charges. Cars are broken in to to yank out steroes, head units and the like. iPods and such require no complicated procedure to remove them from the car. If I were a crook, I'd be curious to see what that wire going in to your glovebox was.

This happens.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:43 PM on March 17, 2006

Oh my. I've had skin troubles since I moved from Northwest Florida to Portland, OR. I'm currently experiencing my worst case this year. On wetter days my skin behaves well, but I've been in hell the a majority of the past few months.

Get thee back to the southeast post-haste! I would heed my own advice, but bad-skin aside; I love the Northwest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 1:01 PM on March 13, 2006

Curry powder( Garam masala? ) in place of paprika, plus sour cream is what I've been doing with them after steaming / butter frying some frozen ones.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 2:40 PM on March 3, 2006

Thanks pep for the pointer to the Film & Video Office. I was hoping for maybe which park in the Portland Metro area this was in so I could take some pictures. My girlfriend works in a photo processing shop and swears she's seen pictures of that exact building come in.

It's been on my mind since I saw the movie a few weekends ago. Great movie, and I love Portland so it was fun seeing the area portrayed like that.

As a side note, anyone drink... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mnology at 12:36 PM on February 23, 2006