Nerdcore
I'm a little late on this one because I didn't notice the RELEASE DATE on the bottom of the new Ultraklystron cover art because I simply wasn't paying close enough attention, but according to the man himself the new album OpenSource Lyricist is due out the 27th of this month, meaning there are just six days left till it releases and sadly I don't have the money for it yet, however I'm working on that as we speak actually. From what I've heard of the few tracks hes released to the internet so far the album will be a leap and a bound for Ultraklystron in terms of sound, style, and production. So to shout even more support for one of my favorite nerdcore artists I suggest anybody with some spare cash (like thats happening with the holidays looming) invest in this album, its pretty much assured to be another kick-ass offering from UltraK as well as a potential gift for that nerdy friend who may or may not be aware of the vast world of music out there that speaks to the nerd in all of us!
Software
First I wan't to say that Songbird is total and utter crap. So many seem to have hailed it as the killer app to replace iTunes for those of us shackled up to iPods, but my experience in a single evening pointed to otherwise. Firstly its slow, I mean painfully slow; even switching from one playlist to another was measured in quarter minute increments even with only a 6k song collection. Secondly is the fact that it hangs miserably when trying to update the iPod itself, during this hang it managed to fudge my collection currently on the iPod to the point neither Songbird nor iTunes would do jack shit with it; I wound up having to blast it back to manufacturer defaults and start from scratch. Having to restore my entire collection was enough to get me to sulk back to the cumbersome beast that is iTunes, if only Songbird was half of what they claimed it to be, however considering its not even into a stable release yet I shouldn't be so surprised.
Next up is my experience with the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release, which so far (I'm using it to post now) has been a vast improvement over the current 2.0.0.9 version which sucks in terms of resource consumption and speed. I can notice a certain snap when loading pages, even things that aren't in the cache already though after so many quick loads it kind of fades into the background. None of the previous snags that made FF spazz out seem to have affected this release, at least not yet. To attest to the vast amount of changes that must have taken place in the code not a single one of my 2.0.0.9 compatible extensions worked with 3.0 Beta 1. Here is to hoping that the current speed increases and overall sturdiness remains when the 3.0 line is ready for stable release!
Blog News
And finally I want to mention to any of the regular readers out there that now there is a second contributor to Pure Defect, namely my good friend Paz_Rax who happens to be another geek like myself except that he gets paid to be one! His schedule won't permit for anywhere near the frequency of updates that I manage, so don't be surprised if you have to actually search around through the older posts to find something he has added.
Labels: Firefox, iTunes, nerdcore, Songbird, ultraklystron
