Back on a fast machine

[mdlbear]

Finally dragged my recording box (node name Harmony, currently a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron with 1GB of RAM) into the office, added a gigabit ethernet card, a Radeon graphics card (surplussed from work) and a 160GB disk, and upgraded the OS to Debian Etch. Took about two mornings and an evening's worth of work altogether, much of it spent trouble-shooting a sound problem that turned out to be caused by my userID not being in the audio group. Noted.

The current version of X is pretty cool -- no questions; it recognizes your graphics card and monitor and just runs. Works great unless you're on a KVM switch, in which case if you're not looking at it when it boots, it can't see your monitor and drops back to 640x480. Minor, and I can fix it if I want to. If I'm going to be dragging it back and forth between the office and the "studio", I probably won't want to.

Anyway, I'm now back to a machine in the office that's fast enough to mix and edit audio on, and without spending any money on it. This is good.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on a productive couple of days, and good luck with your audio editing projects.