disable in about:config
accessibility.browsewithcaret
accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret

2.  Use vmware-any-any-update117-itpsycho.tar.bz2 if any-any-updated117d doesn’t work.

3.  iocontrol.h /s/168/138 if needed

I have been so impressed by the sound quality and versatility of the first-generation Shuffle that I am on my seventh. Five replacements came under warranty from Apple within 48 hours. Apparently, the comfortable and useful lanyard does not imply jogging with it under your shirt. Sweat killed my first five – some within the same week. My sixth lived for over a year, outlasting its warranty before succumbing to the blinking light problem. Lucky number seven was sourced from an online acquaintance for less than what it would cost to drive to the Apple Store.

And it is this lucky Shuffle which has recently been set on fire. It was an honest accident involving an aerosol can as a makeshift flamethrower. Although scarred and stained, the Shuffle remains in active duty for my audio and pendrive needs. rebuild_db allows you to bypass the restrictive, bloated iTunes and simply drag files onto the Shuffle.

My headphones of choice are Skullcandy Ti’s. They offer excellent sound quality for their price, are very comfortable, have an enticing warranty, and come in a stylish white.

Reverting back to the 18.6 kernel and installing madwifi stable (0.9.4) resulted in proper function.

sshfs user@target:/directory /mnt/point

You can then edit the file locally and, when saved, will do so across the ssh pipe.

http://alexandrulazar.com/junk/articles/wrd-initiald-scr.srt

# mute button
“amixer sset Master toggle”
m:0×10 + c:160

# stop button
“amarok -s”
m:0×10 + c:164

# forward track button
“amarok -f”
m:0×10 + c:153

# back track button
“amarok -r”
m:0×10 + c:144

# play/pause button
“amarok -t”
m:0×10 + c:162

# volume knob clockwise
“amixer sset Master 1+”
m:0×10 + c:176

# volume knob counterclockwise
“amixer sset Master 1-”
m:0×10 + c:174

# web back
“xvkbd -text “\[Alt_L]\[Left]“”
m:0×10 + c:234

# web forward
“xvkbd -text “\[Alt_L]\[Right]“”
m:0×10 + c:233

# web search
“xvkbd -text “\[F6]“”
m:0×10 + c:122

# web refresh
“xvkbd -text “\[F5]“”
m:0×10 + c:231

# web stop
“xvkbd -text “\[Esc]“”
m:0×10 + c:232

# bottom home
“firefox http://www.google.com/ig”
m:0×10 + c:130

# bottom email
“firefox http://www.gmail.com”
m:0×10 + c:236

# bottom star
“firefox http://www.myspace.com”
m:0×10 + c:230

# bottom media
“vlc”
m:0×10 + c:129

# power
“shutdown -P now”
m:0×10 + c:222

# moon
“shutdown -h now”
m:0×10 + c:223

# sun
“shutdown -r now”
m:0×10 + c:227

# monitor
“xvkbd -text “\[Ctrl_L]\[Alt_L]\[L]“”
m:0×10 + c:198

# calculator
“gcalctool”
m:0×10 + c:161

1. http://torrentech.org/

Some of the best, most obscure albums.

2. http://www.themixingbowl.org/

Excellent livesets, latest Essential Mix and Mary Anne Hobbs.

3. http://www.trancetraffic.com

0-day trance, house, techno albums and vinyl rips.

The industry-standard 1200’s are a $400 investment and vinyl can be prohibitively expensive and inconvenient. CDJ’s, nevertheless being a source of free music, can cost upwards of $1000 and are the equivalent of choosing an automatic over a manual transmission in a sports car. A recent alternative is a Final Scratch/Serato Scratch Live system to allow you to incorporate a laptop into your setup, providing the complexity favored by Sasha while retaining the coolness of vinyl. While many may have an adequate laptop, finding an additional $500 to upgrade your vinyl isn’t always easy. After all, there is a limit to the amount of fluids you can legally sell per day.

A Serato Scratch Live setup will cost you around $480. The latest Final Scratch weighs in at $100 less on a good day. Final Scratch 1.0, which many purists prefer for its Linux-based software, can be had for less than $200. However, a Behringer BCD2000 can be had on eBay for only $100.

There is no sense in paying twice or three times as much for a USB sound card which does not offer a fraction of the functionality of the BCD2000. The BCD2000 is not only a USB sound card (channels: 2 input, 1 output, 1 headphone, 1 microphone,) but also a mixer and a MIDI controller. By itself, the BCD2000 is a powerful tool for use with Traktor, Ableton Live, or other software of your choice. Remember to add two $10 Serato Scratch Live vinyls and $50 for a license for the unpirateable djDecks software. Rounding upwards to include shipping, you have a powerful digital vinyl setup for $200 that puts the competition to shame.

Other reviews of the BCD2000 will tell you that its plastic build and light weight may be discouraging. It does feel like a quality-made product, but it is not particularly sturdy. Though it will accept being carted from a mate’s tag session to the occasional house party and back to your studio, it is not a DJM-600 and it should not be treated like one. The crossfader has little weight behind it and should not be slammed. It is often hard to tell when the knobs are zeroed, as there is only a slight click at zero and they are a plain plastic black with no highlights in the middle of the knob. These nitpicks are nullified by the laptop you will be using for track selection, as it will be displaying your equalizer as well. It is possible to connect any analog mixer to the BCD2000 so you can play rough, though you will have to creatively route the left channel to the master output and the right channel to the headphone output before inputting them into your analog mixer. Keep in mind that this will limit your desk real estate and increase cabling entanglement.

The aforementioned djDecks software is excellent. It allows MP3 transcoding using Final Scratch, MsPinky, VirtualDJ, Serato Scratch Live and Traktor Scratch records. All the features of the Serato software are available, plus much more: 3-band equalizer, echos and loops, and 2 simultaneous VST effects per deck. The BCD2000 has enough spare buttons to properly control the djDecks software without touching your laptop. Buttons can be assigned to control a simultaneous session of Ableton Live or Traktor, though I’d recommend a hefty laptop with a 2 ghz CPU and 1 gig of RAM.

Recent updates have made the software essentially bulletproof. Install Windows, install BCD2000 drivers, install djDecks, play. The BCD2000 drivers have a history of instability on lower-end laptops, which may require disabling the WiFi card, DVD drive, and further tweaking.  Behringer may not be best known for the quality and reliability of their entry-level analog mixers, but this product has been out for over a year and is considered solid, as is the rest of their BCD line.

The BCD3000 is now available, though it is essentially a Mac-friendly BCD2000 in an oreo color scheme and not worth paying twice as much.