Stilgherrian » silverchair http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive le poisson rouge sauvages! Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 The Geekery of Linux on an iPod http://stilgherrian.com/internet/the-geekery-of-linux-on-an-ipod/ http://stilgherrian.com/internet/the-geekery-of-linux-on-an-ipod/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 13:09:30 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1566 Photograph of iPod Photo with partial installation of Linux

I’ve finally found a use for that iPod Photo 60GB that’s been languishing in my desk drawer. I’m going to use it as a field recorder for my podcasts.

The resale value of an iPod that’s bigger than a postage stamp but doesn’t play video is, presumably, three-fifths of bugger all. However it can record sound.

Apple deliberately crippled the iPod’s recording functions to mere 8-bit quality — OK for recording dictation and the like, but not good enough for snarfing surreptitious bootlegs of a Silverchair concert. But running Linux on the iPod unleashes its full 16-bit glory.

After a couple hours’ work I now understand the process of Linuxing a ’Pod. But to get it to work, my MacPod (that is, an iPod formatted for Mac file systems) has to be turned into a WinPod (one using Microsoft’s file systems). I won’t bother explaining why, but it’s yet another example of that old phenomenon…

In general, Macs can read Windows file systems, but Windows machines can’t read Mac file systems. Sigh. I’ll finish it on the weekend.

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While digging out the videos for the Perfect Lists I stumbled across another fave from LFO: this wonderful video for Freak. The music isn’t as good as the more famous LFO but man, that video! Nothing to do with the Silverchair song or Daniel Johns.

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/music/lfo_freak/feed/ Dreaming of Daniel Johns http://stilgherrian.com/personal/dreaming_of_daniel_johns/ http://stilgherrian.com/personal/dreaming_of_daniel_johns/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:55:13 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/dreaming_of_daniel_johns/ Photograph of Daniel Johns

Weird. Last night I dreamed that I met Daniel Johns of Silverchair and The Dissociatives fame. It was immediately after he’d performed on stage, and he was energised but very sweaty — and was, um, “extremely friendly”.

This is an unlikely dream. I rarely remember my dreams. I haven’t ever thought Mr Johns was particularly “my type” — though I don’t think he’s ugly or anything. I’ve just not thought about him in that way. And besides, he’s married. And it’s not like he was in Supernaut… or even alive at the time.

What does it mean?

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