Cunninlynguists: f*cking good sh*t
Whoever loves quality hip-hop should absolutely listen to the Cunninlynguists.
After listening to some tracks from A piece of strange on a webradio, I wanted to discover other tracks through iTunes. OMFG, this crew (and the whole QN5 team) absolutely kicks ass.
Every track is a pure gem.
No more 2D acceleration for free operating systems?
Xorg / Xenocara wizard Matthieu Herrb wrote something very bad for the future of free operating systems as desktops:
"Beware, future video cards from ATI and nVidia won't have a 2D acceleration engine anymore. Thus the only way to get reasonable 2D speed will be by using the 3D engine and this requires DRI.
But for now there's no freely available documentation for those cards and no opensource DRI drivers for them either."
Not a big deal? Well, 2D acceleration is absolutely mandatory to get an useable desktop. Even with a damn fast CPU. Without acceleration, even moving a window is a real pain.
Bad.
Insono: linear auditive protections
So you like going out for concerts, clubbing, and other nice places to dance like mad on nice groovy music?
The long-term issue with that is that loud music can definitely degradate your auditive capital. Have you ever heard that constant "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound after a concert? Sure you have. And it means that it's too late, your auditive capital has already lost a bit of its capital.
Auditive protections are very efficient to avoid this. Unfortunately, with these protections, the sound sucks. You can mainly hear basses and feel the drums, but other frequencies becomes a boring mess.
Here's an amazing product that will save your audition and keep the music as good as without any protection.
French company Insono has earplugs called http://insono.fr/earplugs.html, featuring linear attenuation. The sound is just as it is, just attenuated.
EUR 140 for a pair of earplugs can sound expensive. But not for something that can save your ears. Don't forget that once your auditive capital is degradated, it will never recover.
I'm now 30, I had a very sharp pair of ears 10 years ago. But after a lot of DJ'ing, clubs, parties, concerts, I now realize that I've lost a lot of my audition abilities. Trust me, it's not fun, moreover when I realize that it's too late, and that earplugs could have saved that. And now I would give 100 times the price of a pair of earplugs if there was a way to recover my audition. If only it was possible.
