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Linux and Multimedia Creation

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Audio Some of the earliest uses I found for my personal computers was recording audio. Though these recordings were generally low quality, in both content and equipment, I did get the "recording bug". For the first era of my creativity, I was stuck using the family computer. In order to record, I would have to lug my synthesizer over to the family computer or the family computer to my upright piano before I could begin. This made it tedious for not only myself, but my four older sisters as the family computer would then be locked down by yours truly for hours on end. Shortly after this, my father agreed to let me have the old family computer, an old Pentium III that we installed Ubuntu 8.04 on. I remember the first recording tool I used was Rosegarden. It hasn't changed much even after 10 years but as always is a polished piece of software. After a few equipment changes I had a beastly computer and a full digital workstation (Roland RD-700GX and various perip...

Procrastinating: Using The Internet To "Study"

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Exams at my university are ending and I have found so many ways to procrastinate this year. Being a student the most important thing to learn is how to waste your precious youth, right? Here are some of my favourite sites to kill time when I don't feel like being productive. Don't worry. Everybody needs to "study" from time to time. 1. StumbleUpon This site for me is definitely a staple in my efforts to procrastinate. I have a wide variety of interests and StumbleUpon (SU) allows me to browse everything at once. Finding pages you like may take a some tweaking to your preferences but eventually it will only be great page after great page. I can easily kill a few hours on SU. It is a filtered version of Reddit. The pages you may see anything from videos, music, games or articles. It all comes down to what interests you.  Check it out here . 2. HackerRank Depending on what courses I am currently taking in university I may or may not use...