ROLI Dashboard is used to control certain aspects of ROLI instruments such as the Seaboard and Lightpad. In particular, it can be used to change the Lightpad’s mode, going from the drum pad to the RISE controller. Unfortunately, sometimes, apparently more and more often, the Dashboard won’t work at all, showing the following error. This… Poursuivre la lecture The broken ROLI dashboard
Catégorie : Bug
JAXB puzzles with Java 11
JAXB, which means Java Architecture for XML Binding, is a library that can be used to persist Java objects as XML documents. XML is a text-based format that can be used to represent complex and hierarchical data. JAXB can unmarshal a XML document directly into objects whose classes are defined by the developer, rather than… Poursuivre la lecture JAXB puzzles with Java 11
The down side of a NAS
Recently, I almost lost a bunch of ripped blu-rays, DVDs and downloaded movies and TV series. I thought a RAID5 would preserve that reasonably well, but I didn’t consider carefully enough recovery scenarios in case the whole NAS dies. I learned how a NAS can be expensive and paint myself in a corner, but I… Poursuivre la lecture The down side of a NAS
An intricate sounding puzzle
All this story started on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. When I turned on my subwoofer, I found out it was producing a constant noise, even without audio source playing. I verified the connector at both ends, everything was fine. My first reaction was to think the subwoofer was broken. It was too big for me… Poursuivre la lecture An intricate sounding puzzle
Misleading broken connector
Wednesday, October 23rd 2019, while troubleshooting an issue with my subwoofer, I discovered that one of my S/PDIF optical cable was disconnected; I found out the loose cable near my A/V receiver. This was previously used to send audio from my HTPC to my A/V receiver, before I got HDMI I/O on my new Yamaha… Poursuivre la lecture Misleading broken connector
A dying laptop
My Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 15 is dying. It happened the second time today, and that’s quite concerning. Suddenly, the machine freezes, keyboard is not responding, the mouse is moving but clicking does nothing. There is no way out other than rebooting, and when I did it, the screen became black with an error message displayed… Poursuivre la lecture A dying laptop
Ubuntu 18.10: a silent release
Usually, upgrading Ubuntu goes well. I run the Upgrade tool which downloads new packages, installs them and then asks me to reboot. Some new versions had minor issues, for example Wayland not fully compatible with my NVIDIA card or an old version of MATE preventing the dist-upgrade, but nothing major, nothing that couldn’t be worked… Poursuivre la lecture Ubuntu 18.10: a silent release
Unsolvable and annoying VirtualBox slowdown
Since end of December 2016, I was using my personal computer to work from home. All my development environment was living in a VirtualBox CentOS virtual machine. That was working very nicely until March 13th. All of a sudden, the virtual machine became annoying slow. Starting the virtual machine took twice the time as before… Poursuivre la lecture Unsolvable and annoying VirtualBox slowdown
Spurious mail delivery errors
A few weeks ago, I started to receive email containing error messages about the delivery of some mails I didn’t send. The contents of such emails looked like spam, but why weren’t they detected by the anti-spam functionality of GMail? Maybe spammers found a new way to send their junk that circumvents current filters. But… Poursuivre la lecture Spurious mail delivery errors
Bumpy Ableton Live session
Yesterday, I tried upgrading to latest Ableton’s Live, the 9.7.1 version. Everything went well, but I got other issues, not related to Live, that made my work session quite bad and frustrating. S/PDIF not working great A month ago, I got a new audio interface: the Focusrite’s Scarlett 18i20. This amazing device provides eight analog… Poursuivre la lecture Bumpy Ableton Live session