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Feb. 24th, 2011 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI'm still in love with Thersites, my new laptop. It is apparently incredible all the things Agamemnon was holding me back from with his lack of features, lack of RAM, and lack of hard drive space. :D Last night I got Virtualbox running and threw on an XP virtual image so I can deal with the few MS-only pieces of crap I have to deal with. Fuck Silverlight and fuck Novell's crappy Moonlight. But the point is, I was able to allocate a half-gig of RAM to Virtualbox and have everything keep running without a hiccup at all. Fantastic.
Another fantastic thing about Thersites is that I have a Lightscribe drive installed (lets me laser etch stuff onto the label side of specially coated CDs) and getting the driver working in Linux turned out to be fifty times easier than expected. Add that to some GIMP extensions and I have the ability to make pretty CD labels. So I'm starting to reconsider BoAotW.
BoAotW, for the uninitiated, is my incredibly catchy name for Best of Album of the Week, wherein I create a CD of my favorite songs from my Album of the Week project and distribute it to friends. I tried to do this a long time ago and came up with a Volume 1 playlist and burned it to CD and gave it to Lisa. And then I forgot to give it to anyone else. But I think Lisa liked it? Maybe she was lying though. Lisa's really polite. :P
So the question I'm thinking about now is whether it's worth it to distribute BoAotW Volume 1 now or if I should just create a Volume 2 playlist, with music from the stuff I've listened to since I came up with Volume 1, and just declare Volume 1 to be a limited edition never to be seen again.
But in any case, whether Volume 1 or Volume 2, let me know if you'd like a CD and I will try to be unlazy enough to actually send it to you this time.
Another fantastic thing about Thersites is that I have a Lightscribe drive installed (lets me laser etch stuff onto the label side of specially coated CDs) and getting the driver working in Linux turned out to be fifty times easier than expected. Add that to some GIMP extensions and I have the ability to make pretty CD labels. So I'm starting to reconsider BoAotW.
BoAotW, for the uninitiated, is my incredibly catchy name for Best of Album of the Week, wherein I create a CD of my favorite songs from my Album of the Week project and distribute it to friends. I tried to do this a long time ago and came up with a Volume 1 playlist and burned it to CD and gave it to Lisa. And then I forgot to give it to anyone else. But I think Lisa liked it? Maybe she was lying though. Lisa's really polite. :P
So the question I'm thinking about now is whether it's worth it to distribute BoAotW Volume 1 now or if I should just create a Volume 2 playlist, with music from the stuff I've listened to since I came up with Volume 1, and just declare Volume 1 to be a limited edition never to be seen again.
But in any case, whether Volume 1 or Volume 2, let me know if you'd like a CD and I will try to be unlazy enough to actually send it to you this time.
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Date: 2011-02-26 04:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-26 04:24 am (UTC)