Month: December 2013

One Weird Trick … and Echelon/PRISIM

You hear it on a daily basis in radio advertisements. “We’ve discovered one weird trick that will …”, blah, blah, blah. Weird tricks are all over the Internet, too. Well, I don’t know about you, Gentle Reader, but when I encounter that phrase “weird trick”, regardless of the context, I DISMISS THE MESSAGE AND THE […]

It’s December 1 and I’m building software (again).

Do the words “Jack” and “PulseAudio” send shivers up your spine? They should. A software patch bay for connecting different audio sources to different devices and an audio server/client so complex that even the developers can’t sort it out sufficiently to produce usable documentation. Yeah, that’s it, and I’m trying to get these things working […]