Since I moved to Windows 8, I am having multiple and increasingly annoying issues with my audio setup for computer-assisted music creation. I am slowly reaching a dead end that will force me to give up on creating music. At best, I will only be able to play some beats for fun with hardware synthesizers:… Poursuivre la lecture An intricate audio puzzle
Catégorie : Bug
Is Linux overusing hard drives?
Monday, May 18 2015, when I tried to synchronize files between my main computer and my HTPC, I got error messages from Unison telling it was failing for some files. Tired of repeated unexpected failures, I tried copying the files manually. Manual copy was failing too. I quickly noticed that the whole partition I was… Poursuivre la lecture Is Linux overusing hard drives?
Minor problems stacking up
It seems to happen too often to me. I’m ending up with many different small, minor problems, sometimes not big deals taken alone. But when they sum up, this becomes unbearable, resulting into a bad and exhausting day. Sometimes, the solutions are simple, sometimes not. Here is the most recent stack of such issues. Spending… Poursuivre la lecture Minor problems stacking up
Networking issues on an ultrabook
Since a few weeks, I was experiencing sluggish performance while connecting to some SSH servers. The problem happened when using SSH through the VPN of the company I am working for. This resulted in lags when typing commands on the SSH terminal, which was more and more problematic because of more and more command-line arguments… Poursuivre la lecture Networking issues on an ultrabook
Groovy and Eclipse incompatible in practice
This week, I tried to get my Groovy+Eclipse setup back and running, because I needed to debug a complex script that was outputting 15-20 line stack traces with a lot of useless information about Groovy internals. Finding the exact error message was taking me several seconds and no matter how hard I was trying to… Poursuivre la lecture Groovy and Eclipse incompatible in practice
Audio driver conflict causing slow startup
Since at least two months, Windows 8.1 startup is awfully slow. From UEFI boot to login screen, it takes a few seconds, which is perfectly reasonable and what I expect from a Core i7 computer equipped with a SSD. However, after I was typing my password to login, it was taking between 30 to 45… Poursuivre la lecture Audio driver conflict causing slow startup
Contorted CD ripping
On December 24th, I got the Namasté CD from Steve Trottier. I was in Chambly, away from my main computer, so unable to easily rip the disk and I wanted to listen to it on my way to Mauricie or back to Montreal. My parents were not interested in listening to it so I could… Poursuivre la lecture Contorted CD ripping
Firefox and Chrome mixing up
Yesterday, when I started Firefox, I noticed that the Chrome’s interface shown up instead. I thought I picked the wrong icon, closed the window and tried to start Firefox again: no more Firefox icon in the start menu. I pressed the Windows key, typed Firefox, picked the Mozilla Firefox result and pressed Enter. I got… Poursuivre la lecture Firefox and Chrome mixing up
Problematic network file transfer
Yesterday, I wanted to transfer a VirtualBox VM from my main computer to my ultrabook, in order to have a basic Ubuntu VM on my secondary machine. That operation happened to be harder than expected. First, I booted my two computers. My main machine is hooked up permanently to my router, but my ultrabook usually… Poursuivre la lecture Problematic network file transfer
Another upgrade that breaks things down
When I tried to write a WordPress post today, I found out that I couldn’t enter anything in the main text edit area. I tried several times, saved the draft without any success and then found out I would be blocked, unless I AGAIN try with a different browser. I just cannot continue like this… Poursuivre la lecture Another upgrade that breaks things down