Three years ago i purchased a Rockford Fosgate digital media server. This device streamed MP3’s from my PC to my hifi setup. At that point i decided to rip all of my CD’s for access by the streamer. The omnifi only supports MP3 or WAV so i chose to rip everything according to the uberstandard at the highest possible bit rate per the standard.
Fast forward three years and i have since ditched the bug laden Omnifi. However - the open source simplecenter that powered the interface to the PC is awesome…perusing the source made me very happy to see their technology choices. The replacement? A Sonos system! Since seeing this incredible whole home audio system in action at the owner of my company’s house i had to have one.
Now that I’ve got a system that is totally bug free and supports lossless audio formats I’m rethinking my decision to go with the uberstandard. Now that hard drive space is ubiquitous and my player supports it FLAC with its own DAC has peaked my interest.
What say you audiophiles? FLAC or go home?
Occasionally your team won’t be the only team on a big league project. Sometimes you find yourself as the man in the middle. This is the first time that i find myself on the outside of the good ‘ol boy network. For the perseverance of the team we must push through. The shame of it is when the good ‘ol boy network determines enterprise solution decisions. Good times.
January 23, 2008 – 2:50 pm
Thought I’d post a snippet of applicationContext.xml for all the people out there trying a JNDI data source wired up in IBM’s WebSphere Application Server through Spring Framework and Hibernate. I couldn’t find this information as a whole anywhere out there so hopefully it helps someone.
Hit the jump for the xml. Read More »
As I sit here wondering why on earth the glamazons would embarrass themselves on national tv via the show America’s Got Talent, I reflect on all of the stats packages available to us bloggers and site admins. The cat’s gravy is obviously Google Analytics. Great coverage and slick UI. Awstats is what I run since I host all of these sites off a server at my house — gives more detail than you could imagine.
Reinvigorate presents another look at stats with slick graphs and ajax based UI. Enter wordpress.com! Since I’ve switched from b2evolution to wordpress, I’ve used my wordpress API key to utilize Akismet. Now the crew offers a stats collection for all blogs registered under my API key. Andy Skelton released a plugin that logs all hits appropriately.
I guess you can never have TOO many stats apps, unless the javascript they load adds to your user’s page load times.
This is a repost of Sugavan’s witty reflection on airplane travel.
I travel frequently and I come across all kinds of people. Here I will try to classify them and give you tips and tricks on how to make your flight an enjoyable one (From worst to best)
- The over-sized wind blower: Yep, you can consider yourself unlucky if you get stuck with one of these. When they aren’t farting they are snoring, breathing heavily or sweating.
Tip: None really
- The talkative granny: Ahhh, sit on your seat, watch all the passengers walk in, see this stunning blonde who looks at you smiles at you. You pray that she sits next to you. She walks right past you goes and sits with this dork in the seat behind you, and walking right behind her is a 80 yr old granny who comes and sits right next to you. 3 hours of ‘How are you sonny’, ‘How old are you?’, ‘My…my I reached puberty before you were born’
Tip: When you see one of these just put on your ipod and dont ever remove them off your ears. There are cases when she will tap your hand and still want to talk to you. Well just pretend to fall asleep. If all else fails just endure it through the rest of the flight.
- The religious/ business guy: They usually will begin talking to you with a smile and are confident and go ‘Hi my name is Tom, your cologne smells great by the way’. And after a few lines of talk they get right into the middle of the talk whether it be the lord that is here to save us, or the great opportunity that I should not miss.
Tip: I’ve tried everything believe me…nothing works, just ask to be re-seated 
- The sleeper: Not as annoying when they are awake, these guys spread their legs out far wide so that it touches your leg and they fall side to side and keep hitting your shoulders only to reload and fire again.
Tip: Get to the seat first and relax your leg out first, that way the person will keep his legs within his seat. The arm rest is crucial, take it and you win! 