Audiovisual Experiments

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.3. It’s been out for over three weeks. This is how badly this site is run nowadays. :) On the music front; I’ve actally done some composing lately! Yes, you read that right. Of course, nothing ready for release just yet but keep your fingers crossed!

Oh yeah, I got me a new soundcard the other day (week). I’ve been using a crappy Soundblaster Live all these years, but with the kX drivers, you can actually get a decent latency (with decent I mean somewhere around 21ms, which is really bad but better than the default). Anyway, I bought a Delta Audiophile 2496. It’s a very popular card in the budget range and, in my opinion, best bang for the buck (atleast if you don’t need lots of ins and outs). It cost me 995 SEK (which is roughly 110 EUR) and now I’m experiencing a latency of 1ms. Not bad.

The server dempa.init5.net is running off is experiencing some severe hardware problems. The power supply was shot to pieces sometime last night and the motherboard has probably been affected somehow. I’ve managed to bring everything back up on a spare power supply and on “BIOS Defaults” (since entering the correct values seems to make it unable to boot).

Sigh!

WordPress 2.0 was released on December 26 2005. Tonight I decided to take it for a spin. It was a fairly painless upgrade process. The big changes are hidden in the background code, but some nice things can be seen in the administration interface, like a WYSIWYG post editor, some AJAX-tweaks, a nice post preview function etc. Also, the Akismet spam prevention plugin is now built in from scratch. Some third party plugins may not work correctly after an upgrade, but you can always check the 2.0 Plugin Compatibility List before upgrading.

Check out this post on what’s new in 2.0.