Why am I posting this rant here and not at a Mac forum? For the simple fact that I'd have to register to yet another forum that requires yet another password that I'll end up losing over and over anyway... I'm sure some Mac owning ES members can benefit from it, as well as nonmembers googling around, this would be a good way to promote the use of Ebikes and other LEV :wink:
I haven't been able to put up the new mix as I've been busy lately with many little things. Some of which were re-installing OS X and iPhoto on my lappy. Not only that but any free time I had was devoted to weeding out duplicate photos out of a little over 10,000 photos (27GB). Yes, you read that right. 27 big ones...Phew . . . I had to trim off 1.26GB of duplicate photos and videos. That was a PITA, and I don't mean pita bread. I tried a freeware called iPhoto Diet to do such a monotonous chore, but like most freeware for OSX that I've *EVER* tried, it was worthless on my computer. iPhoto Diet actually wasted 3 days of my time and it took me another few days to manually delete duplicates.
To make matters worse, iPhoto ran slow as hell. I combed the net and found so many others with the same problem but everyone of them had different solutions. Unfortunately, none of their solutions worked for me, GGGGRRRR . . . I found the *ONLY* solution that worked for me.
Well, the culprit turned out to be a simple Energy Saver setting where you can select one of three settings on Processor Performance :
-Reduced
-Automatic
-Highest
If you think you can get your Mac to work faster on iPhoto's extremely bloated photo library by setting it to Highest, you are wrong. It's actually what slowed everything down! Your Mac will have you staring forever at the swirling gey rainbow "fugoff i'm busy" beach ball (equivalent to a Windows Blue Screen) . . .I believe that when set on Highest the computer will focus all of its efforts and resources on the wrong tasks and I will not be able to handle the bloated photo library information. By selecting Automatic, my computer was better able to multi-task, juggling anything I threw at it. Works for me.
View attachment Energy Saver.png
BTW, that little pad lock icon never worked.
Things that cause duplicates:
-With my camera, if I crop or edit any photos within the camera, I will get an edited version and still have the original version both under the same title.
-It's not a good idea to reload your photos to a fresh iPhoto install by doing a search for ALL jpgs files in the old library and then dragging and dropping. This works great with avi files as you can't edit video in iPhoto, but you'll end up importing thumbnails, originals, and other misc crap. I found this out earlier at the time when I acquired only a few thousand pics, luckily.
-iPhoto will *sometimes* let you know you are importing duplicate photos and vids, but sometimes it won't!
But you know what really ticks me off is that pompous Mac nerds never admit to any Mac problems because their pet computer is perfect in every way. Mac nerds would say things like, "oh, I must've done something that (insert pet name) didn't like. *caressing keyboard* She must not be feeling well.! Then they'll slip on their Birkenstock pseudo-neo-hippy sandals and taker her to the "Genius Bar" so they can hear a Genius say the word "drastic" and say catch phrases like "insanely great" . Whoop-tee-doo . . . those phools at the Genius Bar know jack. One guy caused me to lose important data when I came by to consult about backing up important data! Plus they have security cams everywhere so they can zoom in and spy on you and see you type your password.
Nuff said.
How are your mothers? Good? Then on with the show!
The main reason I wasn't posting the new mix was due to the fact that I wiped out my digital recorder and couldn't find the master CD, nor did I have time to look for it! Well I found it, finally. Around 23:00 I played an MP3 track that had a Windows mouse sound effect accidentally recorded with it. Hate it when that happens... Most of the time, they are done on purpose just to muck things up for MP3 DJs. I have other download tracks that changes tempo at the intro and outro making it impossible to match beats with another track.
I'm not 100% satisfied with this second half of the mix. It's a mood thing... I feel a need to do new jazz and soul mix bursting with emotions. Anyway, I hope someone out there like it.
Somethings I've been itching to ask fechter regarding his electronica track "Incoming" as well as his musical background ...
-This is the bit of trivia I was referring to: Was that a sample of Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger saying "incoming" from the movie Terminator 3?
-When did you become interested in electronic music?
-How long have you been programming music?
-Do you attend and/or perform electronica events such as raves, clubs, or more underground synthesists / laptop performances?
-Do you play instruments other than laptop/desktop synthesizers?
-Do you use any outboard gear or straight up computer, keyboard and mouse?
-Do you use other music software?
-What other music do you like?
I have a few other tracks made by fechter and will work them in with other mix projects.
It was a real pleasure to know what bumps and rattles inside genius engineer minds like Richard J Fechter's. Thanks for sharing such personal work with us. Cheers!
J
Enjoy
http://home.catv.ne.jp/ss/a1b2c3d4/DO14pt2.mp3
