In the Dead of Winter
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What’s that I wrote about the first snow? I was right. The city barely plows when we have a plow able snowstorm. They did manage to kill two of my trashcans with the city plow. I think they feel guilty about it as now the plow out my driveway after I leave for work. That’s okay by me, I’ll buy a couple more trash cans in the spring!
Here we are in February and I’m told the Groundhog said we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter. Well, I have news as we always have 6 more weeks of winter until the sun crosses the equator! It’s an excuse for them to have a festival in the middle of winter. I’ll stay inside where it’s warm.
First Snow
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Well.. it did finally shed some white ice from the sky. We must have got about 2 inches of the heavy wet variety. I can’t believe that the City actually thought this was plow able. We’ll get a foot of snow in January and they won’t bother.. I’m sure my road will be a cavern by spring as the plow keeps pushing an extra layer of pavement onto the roadside every time they do plow. (Sigh..)
PCDJ DAC-3 Arrives
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My new (heck of a deal) PCDJ DAC-3 controller and PCDJ Red and DEX Software are here. 
Installed and running daily as I figure out ‘how-to’ do all the looping functions and save the loops, trigger and import into Acid. This thing has so many features, it’ll be months before I figure them all out – with my hectic schedule that is.. Here are some shots of the hardware installed in the rack and skin on the computer monitor.
(Click on a picture for a larger view)
Acid Pro 7 Arrives
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The new Acid has been released with its many new features. It’s installed and I’ve been reviewing some of them. A different added interface (the old one is still there) but it’s 
more intuitive – more like a real mixer.
New music arrives at Acid Planet this winter after I get my feet wet.
A Few Days into Vista
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Well I mentioned “Computer-ific” in the previous post. I must say that after reinstalling 99% of my software, so far so good. There were a few tweaks, but nothing major.
One thing I have found.. Printers. Sometimes they install easily, sometimes they will only install and be available for certain applications, sometimes not at all. If you have a network printer and change your network – be careful. I could not remap a new (IP address) to the old driver. I had to add a new printer (Copy 1) in order for it to print. Even trying to add a new TCP/IP Port would not allow the printer to print. In the list of printers, it would classify as ‘Ready’, but sending a job to the spooler would only cause it to hang. I would have to Stop and Restart the Spooler application to release the stuck job.
Waiting on Windows 7.. (and it’s only been about a month on this Vista install!)
Computer-ific!
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I did it. I know, I said I wasn’t going to but..
Vista Ultimate is now installed on my main PC. I’ve reinstalled –most- of my software from the XP incarnation and only have housekeeping chores to do on my old XP drives. With now over 1 1/2 Terabytes of storage available, video and audio editing will have room to play. (Pun intended!)
Vista does have more security, or at least this is a clean install so it runs much faster. Time will tell.
New Song Featured on Sony’s AP Podcast!
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Acid Planet Waveform Podcast #51 (feat. "March to the Underground", by Rick Winslow)
Artist Page at Acid Planet: (Click the orange button to go.)
Hello world!
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UPDATE: got rid of the old blog. Started a new one.
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