An intricate audio puzzle

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

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?

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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

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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