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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 15, 2013, 01:24 PM »

No ofense, but version control by changing the file name is a really bad practice. Pervasive, but not practical. You cannot keep the graph perfectly on filenames, and there's no clear path to any state.

This is a known practice in science, and the messes it leaves behind are legendary:

http://www.phdcomics...om/comics.php?f=1323

What I'd love to have is something like this, but for daw files:

http://kb.vmware.com...-SnapshotManager.jpg

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 15, 2013, 07:39 AM »

I care about file history because I'm hoping to have something like version control for DAW files.
Here's an interesting thread describing a product that goes in that direction:
https://news.ycombin....com/item?id=1642419

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 04:18 PM »

My concern is that living inside the VM irks me because performance is bad. Then the whole plan goes to hell.
Looking at VMWare now, seems to have better performance than vbox, but no snapshots on the free version... hmm. Sort of kills it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 04:16 PM »

I want to have the daw as the 'iron' OS.
Then 'live' inside the VM, so I don't polute the pristine DAW.
Does it make sense?
When making music, I can turn off the 'day-to-day' virtual OS, and have just a barebones, no-updates, no-nonsense win 7.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 03:13 PM »

Thanks, great advance so far.
I was planning to use FL studio, or presonus studio one.
I will use VSTs only, no external audio recording.
I'd like to have the best midi sequencer and piano roll I can find.

My main concern is that performance inside the virtual machine may not be that great. For a start, 3D accel would not work, or not work well, so all the compiz/unity stuff is out. I'm thinking 12.04 with unity 2D.

How's win 8 under a vm? looks like is has less graphic stuff on the window decorations, may perform well...

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 02:11 PM »

No, the host (win 7) is the daw, and the guest (linux) is the day-to-day machine (browsing etc). It'll all live on a laptop, i7 8 cores, 16gb ram, 2SSDs. So I hope this would work out fine. NO lowlatency kernel on linux, linux is for work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 01:27 PM »

Any recommendations on learning how to set up and keep a DAW would be welcome too

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 01:26 PM »

Would you say NO updates whatsoever? If the machine is online, that might be even dangerous?

I plan to 'live' inside linux on virtualbox, but I know myself, at the end I'll open a browser on the host just out of convenience. Of course there will be no antivirus running...

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General Software Discussion / Re: File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 01:10 PM »

This is what I thought.
Actually, I started trying this on linux. Horrible setup. Jack is a very bad idea, and as stable as a house of cards...

So win7 it is.

Anything similar to 'time machine' on win7?

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General Software Discussion / File history (time machine) in win 8: worth exploring?

« on: April 14, 2013, 11:26 AM »

I'm about to set up a music computer, and all seems to point at win7 being the safer choice.
But what new features of win8 would I miss?

looks like File history (time machine) in win 8 is worth exploring.
Advantages:

• Integrates with win explorer
• can use an external hd
• better interface to retrieve old versions

Has anyone here used it? Worth it? Any similar software to take win7 to the same level?

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General Software Discussion / Re: One for the FailBlog from our friends at Apache Hadoop

« on: February 16, 2013, 11:29 PM »

Enough to not use the product

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discourse - A discussion platform by StackExchange's Jeff Atwood

« on: February 16, 2013, 11:27 PM »

F0dder, can you say what makes ASP.net better than rails? This is the first time I hear this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Doing stop motion video with cut-outs ('in plain English' style). Which software

« on: February 10, 2013, 11:55 AM »

There's also pivot: http://pivotanimator.net/Video
Freeware, and runs on wine. What'd be the advantage of using  Stickman and Elemento?

Pivot has a big community and several forums:
- pivotanimation.org
- darkdemon.org
- droidz.org
- thepivotforum.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: Doing stop motion video with cut-outs ('in plain English' style). Which software

« on: February 09, 2013, 07:19 PM »

I don't plan to sign up. I bought the book, and they explain quite a lot there.
But to record in this style you need quite a lot of lighting equipment. This is why I'll skip the 'animate with your hands' thing and do it in an animation program. Thinking of using inkscape, then maybe a presentation program? Or somth like synfigsynfig?

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General Software Discussion / Doing stop motion video with cut-outs ('in plain English' style). Which software

« on: February 09, 2013, 03:19 PM »

In case you've never come across these explainer videos:
http://www.commoncraft.com/videolist

Their trademark is these animations where you can see the hands.
But doing it is quite convoluted; you need good light boxes so your hand's shadow is soft, editing is hard, and printing the assets is not ideal.

I can imagine there's software for this; trying libreoffice impress, pencil, and tupi. Ideally linux based, but if the best is windows-only I can use a win box.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discourse - A discussion platform by StackExchange's Jeff Atwood

« on: February 08, 2013, 10:52 AM »

f0dder, can you conmpare RoR and ASP.net?
Just on the size of community alone, ruby has a big advantage. But I've never looked at any ASP.net code, and the only 'serious' site I know built with it is SO.

I have some experience with Django. There, we can talk

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Developer's Corner / Re: Nice Blog Essay and Site for Freelancers: 10 Absolute "Nos!" for Freelancers

« on: February 07, 2013, 08:26 PM »

That was a great post.

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Developer's Corner / Jeff Artwood, from StackOverflow/coding horror, tries to fix forum software

« on: February 07, 2013, 08:25 PM »

You can try it here: http://meta.discourse.org/popular/more

What I like:
- Tech stack is better; Rails + ember.js
- The team really understands communication, having made a big product in the area

Mouser, would you be brave enough to move DC to discourse?

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Living Room / Re: Debate: Effects of technology on modern youth

« on: January 28, 2013, 09:45 PM »

I have an 8mo and we are already having this conversation... should we let him play with technology?
How about limiting time online, or on videogames?

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Living Room / Re: Desktop html5 apps. Are there any? Is this a sucessful model?

« on: January 01, 2013, 08:01 AM »

Javascript has changed a lot in the last 5 years.
the most transformative things are happening. One can sorta write large apps on it now.
Testing is ... ok.
CoffeeScript gives you classical inheritance.
Node is much faster than any other thing you may use on the server side for a web app (php, python, ruby).

And... it's on phones. The way things are, you need to think how your app may be used on a tablet or phone.

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Living Room / Re: Desktop html5 apps. Are there any? Is this a sucessful model?

« on: January 01, 2013, 06:37 AM »

Hmm, crickets
So I guess there are no others.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« on: December 31, 2012, 01:52 PM »

@Dormouse: Scrivener does web clippings just fine.
It even has the floating clipboard window that onenote has.
Doesn't work well on linux, though.

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Living Room / Desktop html5 apps. Are there any? Is this a sucessful model?

« on: December 29, 2012, 01:31 PM »

I know one:
R-studio.
It has taken the R IDE market by storm.
Are there other examples?

I guess the 'ship a webkit browser' method is starting to work.
Not a bad idea at all. Take for example scroll. Browsers do smooth scroll by default. Most desktop apps, including even office don't.
I can't stand non-smooth scroll.

There are other advantages, such as having the web version, mobile, and desktop versions sharing a code base.
What do you think?
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« on: December 29, 2012, 01:25 PM »

Just a quick note to say that I'm very happy with Scrivener as a notetaker.
In linux

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« on: October 02, 2012, 06:03 PM »

I own them, but do I use them? Nope