4486 is closer to where I live, i'll be restocking Trotch stuff when I can (i.e. never because I'm lazy?) The store is worth checking out, for sure. Everyone I've talked to only has cool stories about that place and I get to buckle under the tears in my beers as I dig through the crates of their X hardcore X section.

Remember when the future of music was non-tangible and electronic/IDM music was going to kill punk? Well look who's laughing now! You are, at me. In the never ending quest to find the TROTCH niche I have deleted our online store and convinced Sound Central to help me out in my lazy half-ass endeavor known as this label.

This store is a mecca of Hardcore/Punk for Montreal. So while you browse our merchandise stroking your breakcore meets business casual chin, you can pick up that copy of the Black Hand - Warmonger 12" (aka post IRE) or the Chokehold - Content with Dying 12" (aka I'm an alcoholic now) that you've been neglecting to do for 5 years. Sorry, I bought the last ones.

Seriously, check them out. Tons of cool merchandise spanning all the genres that makes me remember who I really am, probably you too.

[ www.soundcentralstore.com ]

Good times.

That admin screenshot looks slick. Can i see the sourcecode? As mentioned here:

[ forums.devshed.com ]

Never mind, found it:
[ www.phpneoform.com ]

Now with new and improved Danzig old man tits?

Rage... I liked them better when they were called Hardstance / Inside Out / Burn / Shelter / 108 / Gorilla Biscuits / Chain Of Strength / Drive Like Jehu.

[ en.wikipedia.org ]

I'd pay to see an Inside Out show, Rage is MTV garbage.

Wasn't Ernst Zündel in the news recently? I mean, think about it, the link between Al Gore's blatent hypocracy and the hollocaust is a lie is undeniable! Right guys? A follows B! Stop watching CNN! Sing it with me!

/sarcasm

Are you totally insane?

Click this link: [ en.wikipedia.org ]

The only major scientific organization that rejects the finding of human influence on recent climate is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. I think it's you who's not reading the reports, dude.

More than 10,000 reputable, peer-reviewed climate scientists believe the evidence that shows rapid shifts in global temperature are caused by human activity. Seven -- that's seven -- doubt it. Al Gore may be a hypocrite, but the jury is still out on who's the moron? The controversy, if any, focuses on the causes of recent warming, likelihood and magnitude of future warming, and what actions, if any, should be taken in response. Not if global warming exists.

[ en.wikipedia.org ]

My mistake, it's 24 scientists (not all climate experts) who oppose the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming:

[ en.wikipedia.org ]

Maybe some of us agree with 24 reputable scientists and 10,000 fat asses in front of their computer, but most of us will probably opt towards the 10,000 scientists point of view.

Good times.

Renoise 1.8 FINAL Released Today:
[ www.renoise.com ]

Download that shit:
[ www.renoise.com ]

Dude, thanks for the mp3 links!

Youtube awesomeness, I actually remember watching this show as a kid! Let's bring this dance style back.

[ www.youtube.com ]
[ www.youtube.com ]
[ www.youtube.com ]

From the Detroit Techno wikipedia write up:

Socially and geographically, it is important to note on a local level, that Detroit Techno as a genre created a newfound, integrated club scene in Detroit that had not been felt in a general sense after the Motown label moved to Los Angeles. Television programs like TV62 -- WGPR's "The Scene" featured a very mixed selection of dancers (Black, White, Chaldean) every weekday after school, but the playlist was typically jammed with the R&B and Funk tracks of the day, like Prince or the Gap Band. Breakouts like Juan Atkins "Technicolor" under his Model 500 moniker eventually found their way onto The Scene, and helped to explode the burgeoning local Techno underground with validity for the urban high school set, college radio programmers and DJs from Chicago to London, and beyond.

On another note, what's "Chaldean" doing in the description? Chaldean: a member of an ancient people who lived in Chaldea c. 800 bc and ruled Babylonia 625–539 bc. Wikipedia vandlaism?

Wow. That's what I like to call a "real man's upgrade", respect.

That's Jay Maynard, the Tron Guy!

[ www.tronguy.net ]

A computer consultant by day, some guy in a crazy suit at night?

Why would merge folders be the default behavior? Did you forget to read the prompt, the part that says REPLACE, and loose all of your friend files and now hold a permanent grudge because of a bad assumption?

The price of a mac is worth it for me. Sometimes I eat .99 cent falafel, sometimes I pay $50 for a decent meal in a nice atmosphere. For me, the extra money I pay up front saves my time, therefore money, in the long run. Those 8 hours I would need to set up apache, java, php, cygwin, developer tools are just the tip of the iceberg. I barely have time to post in this cesspool of a forum. So why would I need to waste more of it?

Three new advertising slogans we can all agree on

Windows: All the .99 cent falafel you can eat!
Macintosh: Overrated and proud of it!
Linux: Would you shut the fuck up already?

Dude, like I said, things change. If this is really needed it will make it into the next version. Until then, there i've listed 3 ways to do it. One of them has a GUI. I'm no OS X fanboi and I'm not apologizing for it's faults. I'm the first to say the thing wasn't even usable until at least 3 years after it's release. But, your scenario is wrong. The OS will give the user a warning -> [ www.nullwhore.com ] asking if they want to REPLACE the files before doing so. You can always say NO.

For the record, The conference where I saw a shitload of macs was a Perl dev conference in Chicago, all Unix pros. I was probably the weakest link there. You greatly underestimate the user-base of macs.

Me and you don't hang out at the same developer conferences dominated by macs, I guess.

But, if that's the game, then %99 of mac users won't need to merge folders. They'll just do the more simple file copy.

cp -i blah/* ~/Desktop/blah

man ditto

[ developer.apple.com ]

/Developer/Applications/Utilities/FileMerge

Haha, that video clip is from the System OS days. A Dragging files onto the desktop and ejecting thus losing all your files, locking the network if you kept your mouse button pressed down, 100 percent in agreement! System 8/9 sucked! I'll say it again, things change. The more you wait, the more they change. Personally, I like the iMac.

To each their own.

What's this then?

[ www.macworld.com ]

Sorry, but at this point in time, with Vista on the horizon, unless you are using Linux or some BSD variant on your PC, you’re pretty much a retard if you aren’t using OS X but feel it’s in your right to bitch about it. That’s a measured response to the first post in this thread.

It’s like saying because you can rebuild a ford chevy from the 80’s with your bare hands, then this car is better than a “fisher price” out of the box porche! For the record, I hate all cars equally.

The only advantages of using a PC (and those advantages are questionable in the near future with Vista on the horizon) is more apps & games due to wider adoption. That’s it.

Price may also be an issue, but it’s negligible at this point. Not only that, but for every hour wasted on the PC that’s an hour of my time that I could have been doing something else. That’s an hour of time = money.

Yes, mac culture comes with pretension. Yes, macs are easy to use. But no, they are not toys. They put to shame Windows. The underlying technology is Unix. As many buttons you have on your mouse, you can use. If you want to use 1 button, good for you!

I was of the “I hate macs” for 20 years. 20 years of thinking they were crap, using computers for OVER 20 years.

Guess what? Things change. And the more you wait, the more they change.

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Let's go les matantes!

BLAKE'S BIRTHDAY BREAKCORE BROCK- UP! Bonne fête criss, and he's throwing a party in his honor. If you are interested in checking it out, it should be pretty loud and reckless. Défonce! Parlez de lui avec vos amies. C'est BLAKE calisse.

6029 avenue du parc
SAMEDI, 3 Février
Free!!! Gratuit!!!
Starts at 11PM

Les musiciens/DJ:
Blake L. Markle (trotch etc)
Vorpal (cockrockdisco, sublight)
Synthamesc (wrong music, UK)
Scant Intone (panospria)
Bodkin Van Horne (works for ninjatune)
DJ INYOURFACE
DJ FISHEAD

Plus d'infos ici:
[ www.rave.ca ]
[ www.mtldnb.com ]
[ www.flatwax.com ]

PREVIEW PREVIEW WE WANT A PREVIEW
NOT BECAUSE WE CARE, MORE BECAUSE YOU DO

Dude, isn't that's David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust?

wasn't it jesus who said let he who is not masturbating right now cast the first stone?

I've seen unsupported upgrade kits in action. Apple won't sell them to you but people have "upgraded" motherboard and chips.

This is called "WASTE OF TIME" in my book, but hobbyists love this shit.

If this was your mac -> [ www.apple.com ] yes you could do it. Any other mac, you could do most of what you did-> [ www.apple.com ] The advantage you have as a Win32 user is more motherboards and video cards to chose from, the disadvantage is that this may or may not be as stable. As for all the other components, they are pretty much the same now. Even the CPU.

See above update.

Was your machine it a laptop? Was your machine an integrated machine like the iMac? All of this is possible if you buy a desktop Mac, which exists. Most of it is possible even with the integrated models: [ www.apple.com ] I'm getting the feeling that people like to talk shit based on what they know, not facts. Colbert style truthiness, it's all good!

Do you need a new ASA parallel port card to plug in a dongle to play Leisure Suit Larry and The Wumpus or something? Everything is a pluggable external device and a laptop now, upgrading anything except RAM or the HD (which you can do yourself with a mac), it's is a waste of time in this day and age. If you need to upgrade other components, it's also possible if you know what you are doing.

My experience is that by the time I want to upgrade, say, a video card... the motherboard is too slow to support it in any meaningful way. Hence, you need to upgrade the whole machine. I've been using computers for over two decades. Building your own made sense in the 90's but in 2007? No. Soundcards are firewire. Everything else is USB. I could plug in a second monitor buy default. I don't get it.

Macs are whatever.

I hated them until OS X, and even then it took 3 years for them to phase out their old "System" OS, now they run Intel Hardware and employees of Microsoft in Europe have done VISTA demos on MacBook PRO [ digg.com ] because it is one of the better 64-bit machines that will run it.

That said, it took over a decade for Windows to get where it is now, ubiquitous, and OS X is making all the right moves (developer tools built in, unix, laptops and integrated units, easy to use software, quick turnaround of really cool apps, ipods and whatever else is feeding their business).

An exciting decade to come.

Out of curiosity, can I ask what you do, in relation to computers, that would warrant me placing value on your opinion?

PS: I'm not a JAVA programmer and this is not a diss, I'm just morbidly curious what you are arguing for here?

1) It's very easy, the IDE and a ton of languages (C, C++, OBJ-C, JAVA, PHP, PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, The list goes on) and compilers are built into the OS, free and readily available.
2) [ .NET ] is what most people use for programming stuff? Excuse me? I don't agree. Maybe an average shitty office job who was doing stuff in VB five years ago and changed to keep up with the trends, but JAVA still dominates the office space, and variants of C dominate the rest of the computer industry. Christ even PERL is still bigger than [ .NET ] because major Fortune 500 companies and Investment Banks still use it to run their operations.

Again, this is not to say there is no [ .NET ] out there. I see tons of it daily. But what they do is less than exciting compared to other languages which are uses just as much, and in my opinion more. Don't equate "new jobs" with "most programmers" as I think there's a big difference.

[ www.cs.auckland.ac.nz ]

A few winners from the above analysis:

Vista requires that any interface that provides high-quality output degrade the signal quality that passes through it if premium content is present. This is done through a constrictor that downgrades the signal to a much lower-quality one, then up- scales it again back to the original spec, but with a significant loss in quality. So if you're using an expensive new LCD display fed from a high- quality DVI signal on your video card and there's protected content present, the picture you're going to see will be, as the spec puts it, slightly fuzzy, a bit like a 10-year-old CRT monitor that you picked up for $2 at a yard sale [Note G].

The same deliberate degrading of playback quality applies to audio, with the audio being downgraded to sound (from the spec) fuzzy with less detail [Note H].

Windows' anti-piracy component, WGA (or in Vista's case its successor Software Protection Platform, SPP), is tied to system hardware components. Windows allows you to make a small number of system hardware changes after which you need to renew your Windows license (the exact details of what you can and can't get away with changing has been the subject of much debate). If a particular piece of hardware is deactivated (even just temporarily while waiting for an updated driver to work around a content leak) and you swap in a different video card or sound card to avoid the problem, you risk triggering Windows' anti-piracy measures, landing you in even more hot water. If you're forced to swap out a major system component like a motherboard, you've instantly failed WGA validation. Revocation of any kind of motherboard- integrated device (practically every motherboard has some form of onboard audio, and all of the cheaper ones have integrated video) would appear to have a serious negative interaction with Windows' anti-piracy measures.

In order to prevent tampering with in-system communications, all communication flows have to be encrypted and/or authenticated. For example content sent to video devices has to be encrypted with AES-128.

In order to prevent active attacks, device drivers are required to poll the underlying hardware every 30ms for digital outputs and every 150 ms for analog ones to ensure that everything appears kosher. This means that even with nothing else happening in the system, a mass of assorted drivers has to wake up thirty times a second just to ensure that... nothing continues to happen

An indication of the level of complexity added to the software can be seen by looking at a block diagram of Vista's Media Interoperability Gateway (MIG). Of the eleven components that make up the MIG, only two (the audio and video decoders) are actually used to render content. The remaining nine are used to apply content-protection measures.

Enjoy your nightmare while it lasts!

Not a big fan of the Edit button but given the chance, I will code a preview button.

Seriously.

Spite drives me to do much good in this world.

CAN YOU FEEL MY IMPORTANT MAN ON YOU?

IF I HAD A LOT OF PICTURES OF ME ON THIS SITE YOU'D NOTICE MY FACE AND ARMS ARE GETTING FATTER

You have to asked to be banned, the system doesn't let you delete users. Did you get an email along the lines of:

Subject : Account Suspended
Your account at [ mtldnb.com ] has been suspended.
Reason for Suspension
Self-annihilation

If not, you're still a member!

Yet here you are...

For all you WOW haters. here are several links deteriorating in horror and decrepitude about the online sensation known as Second Life.

[ www.wired.com ]
[ www.somethingawful.com ]
[ www.secondlifeherald.com ]
[ www.secondlifeherald.com ]

I'd rather be questing.

I'll code the preview button if you are serious.

WHERE'S THE PREVIEW BUTTON?

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN MAKE MY LETTERS BIGGER THAN ALLCAPS? I'M AN IMPORTANT MAN.