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Posted: Sun 27 Jul 2008, 19:23
Post subject: Splash Intruding on all Windows
Subject description: Different color, resolution
I modified the menu.lst, as instructed, changed the initrd.gz, and installed the .pet. I got a beautiful, blue splash on bootup. But then, as I surfed away, suddenly two pinkish/purplish images appeared on my screen on top of everything. They couldn't be put in the background. On inspection, I saw that they were bizarre copies of the splash screen, with poor resolution. I could only get rid of them by reversing what I had done: reinstating my original initrd file and uninstalling the .pet.
Is what I have described possible, or does the phenomenon lie deep in my psyche? I have an old Nvidia Riva128 video card that doesn't support Xorg, so I use VESA; I hope that's the problem.
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Posted: Mon 28 Jul 2008, 04:30
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Pizza good,
That worked great! Here are the steps to install pebble on unleasher:
from the puppy version specific directory (301, 400 etc).
- create a folder called pebble-1.0
- copy the contents of unleashed extras into pebble-1.0
- put pebble-1.0 into puppy_unleashed/packages and install as package
- Copy contents of new-init-stuff into puppy_unleashed/boot/init-tree0
- build puppy as normal.
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Posted: Mon 28 Jul 2008, 07:53
Post subject: Pebble Woes, Part II
Subject description: Now no text either
I thought I removed Pebble. There now is no splash screen on bootup, but no text either. I guess I can live with that, but is there any way to get back to normal short of deleting my pup_save.2fs file and starting over?
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Posted: Mon 28 Jul 2008, 08:41
Post subject: Pebble Problem solved
Subject description: Never Mind!
My previous post said:"I thought I removed Pebble. There now is no splash screen on bootup, but no text either. I guess I can live with that, but is there any way to get back to normal short of deleting my pup_save.2fs file and starting over?"
Easy. I removed "vga=791" from the kernel line in menu.lst. Everything is now just as it was before the fatal Pebble experiment.
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Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2008, 04:46
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pizza good,
I can't understand why this isn't working.
I have created my own theme, with 16 images. At image nine i enter a loop which allows me to face 'loading....' in and out.
My theme .conf:
loop true
loop_start 7
But it doesn't loop! Any ideas?
I'm using puppy 4. I have only put files in the init-tree0 directory now and now where else, initrd.gz compiles fine and has been successful so far.
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Posted: Thu 07 Aug 2008, 05:33
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As you probably have guessed it was me making the mistake.
I'm doing this in unleashed and i modified the init-tree0 not the init-tree folder. Then i only ran the part of the createpuppy to make the initrd.gz (which uses init-tree).
It's working and it's great. Legendary work!!!!!!
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Posted: Fri 15 Aug 2008, 21:25
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Sorry for my absence. As my location-blurb says (for now, will change tomorrow) I have been in "limbo" all summer. I'm now back at my grandma's house and will be moving back into my dorm/apartment tomorrow. Then I can visit the forum more regularly (but I do plan to cut back a lot from what I've been doing the last several years - less time reading forum == more time to code).
Anyways, no you weren't imagining things Dave. It sounds like maybe Pebble didn't shut down properly. If it continues running after X is started it will sometimes draw garbled stuff over the screen (if the resolution and colordepth match what you set the vga option to, it shouldn't be garbled, but will still cover everything up).
Either there is some flaw in my work that causes it to not shut down Pebble in certain situations, the .pet didn't install properly, or the files it installed were overwritten.
Or another possibility is that Pebble was somehow started again after you were up and running. Not sure how that would happen, but it's possible.
Sometime after I get unpacked and settled in, I'll take a look at my code. Probably one of the /etc/rc.d/ files I modified has a section which runs in parallel that I didn't notice, which has Pebble code in it, so that it can happen that X is already up and running and Pebble shut down when the Pebble line in that code is finally run, which would restart Pebble. That would fit with how you said you were already surfing when the colors appeared.
Another possibility is that your graphics card and/or Xvesa are just being weird. I don't think so though. An error on my part is much more likely.
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Posted: Sun 17 Aug 2008, 06:11
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Hi pizzasgood, just too let you know, still issue in Pebble with various hardware. have tested it more thoroughly now, and seems to be different depending on what medium I boot from. Usb flash often the splash won't disappear to show me the dialogue asking for a password, though this is never a problem with my usb hard drive. On my main computer the splash doesn't disappear properly with passwords, however it has worked on other machines....
So not perfect, though it's still the default for TigerPup. Not sure how to trouble shoot it. Any ideas? It is a real bug, even if you've been unable to reproduce it.
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Posted: Sun 17 Aug 2008, 18:07
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The only thing I can think of at this point is to figure out exactly which commands aren't working properly and why. That will probably take a while. I think the easiest way to do this would be for me to break up the init script so that it drops out to the commandline before trying to load a save file, then have separate scripts to load the file and to finish booting. Then I could give you a list of things to experiment with and check to see what's working.
I'll probably start on that on the weekend.
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Grooviness, more than happy to help with testing
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Posted: Sun 31 Aug 2008, 13:42
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Sorry about taking a week longer than I expected. I've been in too lousy of a mood to mess with this, since rebooting over and over gets really annoying.
Anyways, I started splitting it up, but I noticed an error. Turns out there's a race condition between the pebble script and pebble-daemon. What happens is the script tells the daemon to pause or stop, then continues on it's merry way. Usually (with my tests anyways) the daemon finishes stopping before the script clears the screen. But on the occasions it doesn't, the screen will be cleared and the daemon will still go through another cycle, painting the image over the screen again.
Everything works just fine, except for the residual pixels.
So I fixed that by having the daemon create a file to act as an "I'm done now" flag, and the script waits for that before continuing.
I don't know if this is what was causing the bugs you've been getting or not, so I built a standard 3.01 initrd.gz file for you to test. In case it isn't, I also built two versions with the init script broken into three pieces. The 'yeti' version runs normally until just before it would ask for the password to decrypt the save file. Then it pauses Pebble (which is what it usually does), saves a bunch of variables, and drops out to the commandline.
At this stage you shouldn't see any images.
should show that pebble-daemon and worm are still running. If there is still an image, see if it refreshes after you run
. If so, the daemon didn't pause. If not, it paused but the script didn't clear the screen properly.
If things don't seem to be working right, you can play around with some commands. I left some warnings down at the bottom of the page.
Once you're done fiddling, run
exec loadsave
to run the part of the script that loads the save file. When that's done it dumps you back at the command line so you can fiddle some more.
When ready to finish booting, run
exec finishboot
. That resumes the bootsplash and completes the boot process (actually, I'm not sure if I ever bothered letting it complete with this command so there's a chance it will fail, but that's not really the point). If you played with the bootsplash prior to this you should probably make sure it's running but paused before executing this.
The 'sasquatch' version does the same thing, but instead of pausing the bootsplash before dropping out it stops it instead. Likewise, it starts it rather than resumes it when you use
exec finishboot
When on the commandline you can play around with
bootsplash pause
bootsplash resume
bootsplash stop
, and
bootsplash start
. But try not to run the wrong one - if it's paused, you should only use resume. If it's stopped, you should only use start. If it's running, you should only use pause or stop. Otherwise it can do weird stuff. Also be careful not to use start within two or three seconds of stop, because when it uses stop it runs a small subprocess in parallel that sleeps for a second, then makes sure everything has been shut down and deleted properly. If you start it while this subprocess is running Bad Things happen. I'm pretty sure I triggered several kernel panics his way.
Something that may be worth looking at if the daemon doesn't pause is /tmp/pebble-pipe. That should be a pipe file. I believe that running
on it should show something like this on the permissions:
Access: (0644/prw-r--r--)
If it's a normal text file it would show something like this:
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)
(the 'p' is missing)
If it's not a pipe we'll have to find out why not, but I'll figure that out when we get there.
If it [i]is[/b] a pipe but
bootsplash pause
doesn't work, something is probably wrong with the script. Try this command to manually tell the daemon to pause:
echo 'p' > /tmp/pebble-pipe
Then you should be able to use
to clear the screen and it shouldn't be repainted.
If that doesn't work, then probably the problem is in the daemon itself.
If the above stuff doesn't work to pause the daemon, then check if stopping it works. It should, because if the normal method it uses (sending a 'q' into the pipe) fails to work it will
killall pebble-daemon
which should almost certainly stop it.
I'm thinking that the standard one will have fixed the bugs though.
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Posted: Mon 01 Sep 2008, 04:54
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Wow, awesome work pizzasgood. I won't have time to test it for a few days, but will get back to you when I do. one other thing. i notice that having Pebble enabled slows down my eeepc booting by 24 seconds... any thoughts on this? Haven't tiimed it on my desktop pc yet. I'm trying to get the eeepc booting as fast as possible in the version I'm building from unleashed, so it would be good to have it faster. Cheers,
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Posted: Fri 05 Sep 2008, 00:56
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Well, an install that happened to use Pebble did seem to boot slowly, but I attributed that to it being a very old and heavily modified install. I also know that there were unresolved errors somewhere inside that save file. So it could have been anything.
I haven't noticed a slowdown on any other system using Pebble, but I never looked for one either. I'll play around with it this weekend and see how much effect it has. Shouldn't be much though, unless being run at a high speed on a slow computer.
Try switching the theme from paw_fade to paw, which would use a lower framerate (5 vs. 20). This can be done by editing /etc/pebble/theme in the initial ramdisk. You could modify the 'fps' line in /etc/pebble/<theme>/theme.conf instead, to set any framerate you want.
Oh, and I think I forgot to mention that when you're testing Pebble, it might make things easier if you set your framebuffer resolution to something higher than 640x480, because then if you drop out to the commandline without Pebble stopping/pausing, the entire screen won't keep getting overwritten as you try to type stuff. Only the center 640x480 pixels.
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I get roughly a two-second difference in 4.00. P4 3.0gHz.
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Thanks matey, still working on it. no chance to test it out yet. really busy with my work, and my wife's due with our next baby in a bout a week...lol. Will let you know when I'm able to play around with it.
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At the Langham Hotel, McKay, 45, who co-founded Funny or Die with Ferrell and says his movies feature guys who aren't necessarily idiots, but boast unearned confidence, talked about one-liners that bombed, directing Harrison Ford and Kanye West (who have small parts in "A2") and the onscreen pairing he sees as "the ultimate comic challenge."
How do you compare writing with and without Will?
With Will, there's obviously a crazy level of comfort. We're so used to each other; we trust each other implicitly, but I have written scripts without him. Chris Henchy and I wrote "The Other Guys." But you know Chris Henchy's really fun to write with too. These are friends of mine, so it's just really easy. We both know what we like. I think with Ferrell the one thing you get is that his character tends to be really dialed in by the time you're done with the script. When I wrote with Henchy, we had to then go and do another pass on the script to dial him in more and actually have Will come in. So there's a real convenience to it--if you're writing a script with Will, you know he's comfortable with it.
Can you remember something on "The Other Guys" that was tweaked because of that?
Yes. I think originally we wrote him more as a weak geeky guy and when we read it, it just wasn't that interesting. And I think we talked with Will and we all agreed he should be one of those geeky guys who's also kind of a badass. You know those super-confidence guys who are still nerdy but don't give a [bleep]? "Napoleon Dynamite" was sort of like that; he really didn't give a [bleep] what anyone thought. So that was a big rewrite on that character, and I thought that's when that character got interesting was the fact that he was confident within his own skin.
Was he already a pimp, or that's when the pimp stuff got added?
That's when the pimp stuff started coming out. Then we started playing with the whole idea that this guy could be a secret badass. I think that's when the character comes to life. And when he tells Wahlberg off in the beginning about the lions and the tunas, that moment is when the character got interesting. "Guess what? He's not going to take it sitting down."
Some of what people love most about your movies is the sense of randomness, that anything can happen or be said. How do you explain what happens to your mind in that setting? It's hard to imagine where a line like "I get to work 30 minutes early to sexually assault a starfish" comes from.
[Laughs] Well, I think you just said it in the question, which is surprise. It should always have an element of surprise. You're always looking for the surprising line that seems like it's out of nowhere but is oddly appropriate. So it's this weird mixture of, "It fits, but yet you don't see it coming." That's the sweet spot you're always looking for. It's surprising yet doesn't feel false. For some reason, "I get here to work 30 minutes early to sexually assault a starfish" felt right in that moment.
Because you assume most people don't do that?
I guess … well you know you're at Sea World. You know he wants to say something bad to the boss. I'm going to assume he's not actually sexually assaulting a starfish. I don't think you could do that. He's probably washing his hands in the starfish tank. That's probably really what he's doing, and he made it a little worse for the boss when he walked away. I think he did, however, feed a chicken gyro to the seals or the sea lions, whatever the boss said. He definitely did do that.
I was surprised we don't see Champ Kind in the background at Sea World with his pants off.
I know, how about it? That's immediately what I thought of when we were there. That's the image we needed. We should have just snuck him in the background for people to catch. That would have been a good call.
In terms of the stream of consciousness on set, can you think of something you've thrown out that totally bombed? Or something that once it was out of your mouth, you wished you had it back?
Oh my god. Hundreds and hundreds of times, yeah. When you're improvising, your best days you're shooting 50 percent. And on normal days you're shooting 35 percent. I usually just look at whatever I'm throwing out as initiation. Like it's a chance to get it going. I'll sometimes just say a line and go, "This sucks, but here's this," and then it'll allow the actors to respond. So I'm always the guy that takes the first bullet. I'm always the one who says, "Let's get it goin'," so if I say something dumb then it's good. If I happen to say something good then it's good.
Can you think of an example of one of those dumb beginnings?
Oh my god, I'm sure. I'm just thinking of the beginning of the movie; I could almost look at any scene and think of a bad one. For Drake complimenting Veronica Corningstone's ass I'm sure I threw out about five or six bad ones for that. I think I had Ferrell say, "When you've got an ass like a Porsche, people are going to want to take it for a spin." Which is not particularly bad, but it's just bland. I think I threw that out as a way to get the conversation going. A bunch of bad ones on that. "When you have an ass like a Barcalounger, people are going to want to use the footrest."
So it's increasing slowly.
Yeah, yeah. And then by the end, literally the last one we got is the one that's in the movie: "When you have an ass like the North Star, wise men are going to want to follow it." We had started packing up the take and then we thought of that and went, "Oh, [bleep], that's the one." And we went back and got it. It usually is the last one. You work your way to that decent one. You gotta throw three or four bad ones out there.
What changes would we see if you ran CNN?
Oh, they would not like me. I would do way more hardcore economic indicators. I would have that be a part of the news every time. GDP, income inequality, where are tax rates both real and functional post–loophole. I would have those types of economic--I call 'em vital signs--be a standard part of all news. So if any politician is saying taxes are too low or too high, always you would have the real numbers there. I would almost have 'em be part of the graphics. Just you can't fuck with these numbers. These are the real numbers. What's real unemployment versus that fake unemployment number? I would just do a heavy statistical emphasis. Let's quit screwing around with these sort of vagaries and let's get real answers so we can start moving forward. Now here is the problem with that: If you did that, that right way is going to either go against the right wing or the left wing, which is going to cost you viewers. Which means I get fired.
Well, you had a good run.
Yeah, I had a good run. I had a good six months before they said, "Get this Adam guy out of here."
Who would win a street fight between Matt Lauer and Anderson Cooper?
[Laughs] Oh, I think Lauer, right? For sure.
He just seems bigger and beefier, right? I don't know. I bet you Cooper's got some fight in him, doesn't he? He's a tough dude. [pauses] Now I might go Cooper. I bet you Cooper's really quick, and I bet you he's got a lot of fight in him. I just think that guy is not quitting on you. I think he's gouging Lauer's eye at some point, and that ends the fight. Let's face it: If you [bleep] with someone's eye, you've won the fight.
Especially a person on TV.
Exactly. So I'm going to say Cooper gouges Lauer's eye and takes it.
The weirdness of barking orders to Han Solo aside, who is harder to stand up to: Harrison Ford or Kanye West?
[Laughs] Oh, that's a great question. I think Kanye West was a little tougher. Kanye West was great, though. He was definitely game. He's actually funny. He came up with some funny lines, too. But a couple times I did throw out lines and he'd go, "Nah, I don't like that."
Like what?
I can't remember the line, but one time I said a line and he was like, "Nah, I don't like that." I just go, "Well, use a piece of it … we're just trying stuff." He was good. He tried everything, but Harrison Ford I think pretty much did anything. He was totally game. But Kanye did twice tell me, "Nah, I don't like that." … I didn't really know what to say. I can't say, "You are going to say it"? [Laughs] "'You're here for free, doing us a favor. [Bleepin'] say the line.'" You can't really follow it up with that.
I have to compliment you on working with people who don't have the reputation of being funny. What can we expect in your next film, when you show us how hilarious Daniel Day-Lewis is?
[Laughs] He'd be the ultimate, wouldn't he? I bet you he's funny, too. I've never met him, but he probably is. You can't be that good an actor without a sense of humor. Who would be the ultimate one? If I could get Robert Duvall—a funny movie with Robert Duvall. He'd be about the toughest one.
A buddy comedy with him and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Yeah. Or with Orrin Hatch. A buddy comedy with Robert Duval and Orrin Hatch would be the ultimate comic challenge.
What is that about?
Let's really think about it. You gotta make that work. You got Orrin Hatch; you got Robert Duvall. I'm doing a comedy. I'm going to call it "Fourth of July," and it's two old retirees on a block who both have battles about how big their flags are for Fourth of July. And it becomes this war of patriotism between these two guys that turns into a civil war on the block with actual missile launchers and guys being fired.
And ultimately someone gets impaled by a flag pole.
That's the end image. And then off the person being impaled we imprint it, and we pull out and it's on a piece of currency 100 years from now.
It sounds hilarious.
[Laughs] Call it "Independence Day." "Independence Day: Not Affiliated with the Will Smith Independence Day."
How interested are you in doing something that isn't funny?
We actually have a script that I've been looking at. It's still got somewhat of a sense of humor to it but about Lee Atwater, you know the famous political operative. I've been looking at it for a while; I really want to make that movie. I don't really look at it as funny or not funny. I just love movies. We produced an action movie ["Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters"] about a year and a half ago. I just love movies. I would love to do a horror movie. I would love to do the Lee Atwater one. I'm game for anything. It so happened I walked into this through comedy, and I love comedy too so I don't mind doing 'em. But I'm game for anything. I went around and pitched the Garth Ennis comic book "The Boys" as a movie. I tried to get that made, but it was a little too dark for the studios. That had a little bit of a sense of humor, but otherwise it was pretty straight-ahead, badass action film.
If someone came in here and said, "Make me laugh or I'll kill you," how do you respond?
I would have to tell a joke-joke I guess. What would be my joke-joke? I would have to read the person. So let's say it's you. All right, so I would give you this joke: two guys are going on a—'cause other than that, I would have to do an impression. I'm not good enough at those. It would have to be something observational off the fact you're going to kill me. I'm guessing if you really are thinking of killing me there's nothing fun off of that, so I would have to go joke-joke.
"What's the deal with guns …?"
Exactly. That's not happening. So I would say, "Two guys go hunting for moose. They go around all day; they can't find any moose. Finally one guy says, 'Why don't we split up?' So they split up. One guy goes low, one guy goes high. After about an hour the other guy sees the friend come out of the bushes with his gun aimed. He's like, 'Stop, don't shoot; I'm not a moose.' The other guy takes the gun, levels it, boom! Shoots the guy in the chest, runs over. The guy's there bleeding. 'What are you doing? I told you I wasn't a moose.' The other guy goes, 'I'm sorry; I thought you said you were a moose.' [Laughs] It's a good joke, isn't it?
I am not going to kill you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Would you rather make a great, funny movie or a good, hilarious one?
When you're saying hilarious, you mean you're really [bleeping] laughing, like crazy?
The good movie is funnier, but the great movie is a great movie that is funny.
So let's say this: The difference between "Blazing Saddles" and "The Producers." "The Producers" is funny, but it's not gut-bustingly funny. "Blazing Saddles" is gut-bustingly funny. I'll go with the hilarious movie, the one that really makes you laugh. I think that's much rarer. I would argue that's actually the great movie. Not one that's like "Wag the Dog" or whatever. It's a really good movie and it is funny, but I still would say "Airplane" is a greater movie in my mind.
People don't complain about the structure of hilarious movies.
I think it's the hardest thing to do in the world is to be in a theater and have a movie grab a hold of you and be laughing so hard that you're making weird sounds. It's the best feeling in the world. It's really, really hard. It's happened to me like six times in my life. Where you're in a theater really laughing.
Are the ones you mentioned some examples?
"Airplane"'s the biggest. I remember seeing it when I was in sixth, seventh grade and tears coming out of my eyes I was laughing so hard. And "Blazing Saddles" definitely. It's happened a few others times too, but yeah, that's the best to me.
What he wants to do when back in Chicago: "Get a burrito. I go to Huentitan on North and Pulaski or I go to Lazo's or La Pasadita. I always say it's like the hidden food gem of Chicago. No one ever talks about it. The burritos here are unique to Chicago; you can't get 'em anywhere else like here. And they're fantastic. Everyone talks about the Italian beef. I'm like, 'No, the burrito is better.'"
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MSPP #119: The Candy Store 2012stevejb68 on June 29, 2012 in court of honor, funny, Humor, podcast 1 Comment »
Boy Scouts have been doing skits since the dawn of the program. The Boy Scouts of Troop 68 sometimes do skits during courts of honor as a bit of entertainment for parents and family members. The old scoutmaster and the new Life Scout did just that during Troop 68's June court court of honor. And they did not even practice it before the ceremony.
The Candy Store has been an old standby for decades in this area. I have seen several versions of it performed by dozens of Scouts and troop leaders. It is an easy skit to do, one that is mostly ad-libbed. Just be sure not to blow the punchline at the end.
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Ask a typical Mac user the meaning of the term MIDI, and you'll probably get one of two responses: "You mean those cheesy music files you find on the cheesiest of Web sites?" or "Huh?" MIDI has gotten something of a bad rap, thanks to the Web.
But in fact, it's an important music-making tool. The announcement of GarageBand earlier this year has brought the MIDI discussion to mainstream Mac users -- and for good reason. Thanks to this marvelous application, even people with the barest modicum of musical talent have turned their minds (and ears) to the tuneful potential of the Mac. If you want to gain a better understanding of what makes GarageBand groove, knowing a bit about MIDI helps. We'll provide some background and show you how to use MIDI files to expand GarageBand's repertoire.
What Is MIDI?
MIDI is an acronym that stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Though many people are tempted to describe MIDI as a thing -- a kind of music found on Web sites, for example -- it's actually a communications standard that was developed in the early 1980s by musical-instrument manufacturers. MIDI was created to assist keyboard players who found themselves dashing from one synthesizer to another, playing the variety of sounds necessary to briefly divert the spotlight from the lead guitarist. MIDI cut back on some of the aerobic activity by allowing those keyboard players to control all their instruments -- a keyboard, a woodwind-like wind controller, and a drum pad, for example -- from a single controller. To make that possible, the music manufacturers decreed that MIDI instruments would sport a specific 5-pin connector for moving information from one device to another, and that those devices would communicate using a common data format (delivered in the form of MIDI messages).
There are a variety of MIDI messages. The most common communicates that someone has pressed a particular key on a musical keyboard (called a Note On message), with a certain amount of force (or velocity, in MIDI lingo), and for a specific period of time -- basically replicating what happens when someone strikes a key on a piano. This MIDI message will probably be followed by another that's generated when a musician has stopped playing a note (a Note Off message). Other MIDI messages might tell a drum machine to change the sound it's playing from a thumping bass drum to a sizzling cymbal. Yet another message could instruct a synthesizer to change the key it's playing in (or transpose) from C to G.
Computer manufacturers quickly got hip to MIDI. They understood that it's all well and good for synthesizers to talk to one another, but the real payoff comes when a computer can play, record, and edit MIDI data and control a host of musical instruments. Programs called sequencers, which are essentially MIDI tape recorders, were developed to do exactly that. Early sequencers displayed music not as the kind of notation you'd find in a piece of sheet music, but as a series of events in a long list, or as dots and dashes on a timeline (called piano roll style display).
Some years later, the Standard MIDI File (SMF) format emerged. SMF was devised so that musicians could record MIDI music on one instrument or computer and then play it back on another instrument or computer, and get a file that sounded nearly the same -- containing the same instrument sounds mixed at the same relative volumes.
Playin' in the GarageBand
Beneath its friendly exterior, GarageBand is a MIDI sequencer -- one that also happens to record and play digital audio files, and that carries its own library of sound samples (called Software Instruments) and effects. Plug a MIDI keyboard into your Mac, and, with GarageBand's help, you can record, edit, and play back MIDI data, as well as the sounds included with the program. Unlike most sequencers, however, GarageBand doesn't allow you to import SMFs -- something you might want to do if the grooves and riffs included with GarageBand are too limited for your tastes.
Thankfully, there's a way around this limitation. Follow along and see how to create your own rehearsal backing track by importing the kind of groove any garage band would be proud to play -- the 12-bar blues.
1. Getting the Blues Launch your Web browser, travel to your favorite search engine, and enter MIDI 12-bar blues in the search field. Pick a promising link and look for a blues MIDI file. Now control-click on the link and select the command that downloads the MIDI file to your Mac. The file should end in .mid (Blues_in_C.mid, for example).
2. Making the Blues Download a copy of Bery Rinaldo's free Dent du Midi ( http://homepage.mac.com/beryrinaldo/ddm ) -- a utility that converts SMFs into GarageBand MIDI loops. Launch Dent du Midi and drag the blues file you downloaded into the upper portion of the window. The program will create a folder, extract the individual MIDI tracks that make up the song, and place them in the folder.
Open this folder, double-click on the Report.txt file, and make a note of the song's tempo. When you create a new song in GarageBand, you'll enter this tempo in the BPM (beats per minute) field so the notes will line up with the timeline's grid.
3. Bringing the Blues into GarageBand Launch GarageBand and create a new song. In the New Project window, enter the MIDI file's tempo in the BPM field -- 104, for example. Leave the time signature at 4/4 and, if you know the key the file is in, select that key from the Key pop-up menu. Click on Create to open the new song.
Now select all the .aif files that Dent du Midi created, and drag them into GarageBand's main window to import them. Each file should bear the name of its instrument -- Rhythm Guitar, for example. If the tracks aren't named, you can determine their function by context -- a track with lots of rhythm but no melody is the drum track.
Next, double-click on the New Track entry for the drum track. In the Track Info window that appears, select Drum Kits from the left column and then pick a style, such as Rock Kit, from the right column. Do the same for each instrument, and close the Track Info window when you're done.
Note that the bass track on these imported MIDI files is often an octave too low. If you'd like to adjust the bass, double-click on the timeline portion of the bass track and, in the Advanced section of the resulting pane, enter 12 in the Transpose field; then press return. This moves the bass track up an octave (12 half steps).
4. Playing the Blues Your backup band is ready. It's time to step into the spotlight and rip out a solo that'll make B.B. King toss away Lucille in shame. (But remember that someone took the time to create the MIDI files, so don't use them to record music without permission.)
Select New Track from the Track menu (or click on the plus sign [+] to the left of GarageBand's playback controls), and choose either Software Instrument or Real Instrument (depending on whether you're going to play a MIDI instrument plugged into your Mac or a real instrument such as a guitar or your voice). For MIDI input, select an appropriate sound (Big Electric Lead in the Guitar section, for example), press the spacebar to trigger the sequence, and start jamming. To play a real instrument, select the kind of instrument you're playing and an appropriate effects setting -- Heavy Blues, for instance. Press the spacebar and play (or sing) the blues.
Rattle and No Hum
You may have noticed an annoying hum coming from your home stereo speakers when you connect your Mac or music-streaming device (such as Slim Devices' Squeezebox) to the receiver, using analog cabling. If so, don't toss your speakers or stereo out the window. The likely culprit is a ground loop, caused by differences in resistance in your electrical wiring.
To break the loop and silence the hum, give Xitel's $30 Ground Loop Isolator ( www.xitel.com ) a try. Plug the cable end into an RCA input on your receiver, and then attach your Mac or audio component to the Isolator. All you'll hear are the sweet sounds of your favorite bands. -- jonathan seff
Hit the Stage
Are your GarageBand compositions starting to sound a little stale? If you've been using many of the program's included Software Instruments and are looking for a fresh sound that will make you and your MIDI keyboard stand out, check out the $54 SynthPack for GarageBand, from Britain's Advanced Media Group ( www.samples4.com ). This collection of 154 vintage synth instruments packs in some memorable classic synths from the eighties and nineties -- including MiniMoog, Xpander, Octave Cat, and Matrix 6. With all these bass, string, brass, drum, organ, choir, and other sounds, you can become a one-hit-wonder in no time. -- jonathan seff


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At first glance, Valentino's resort collection could appear a bit conservative — almost as if Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli are urging people to cover up during a season which usually emphasises the opposite. But just when you think you've figured out the collection, it surprises you. An expertly tailored top features hot-pink animal print with a matching bag. Bright fur shrugs come in neon pink and brilliant camo print, and an array of decadently embroidered floral dresses channel the luscious tropical destination to which you may find yourself wearing such special pieces. The design duo turned to lace to inform their finale, from delicate neon filigree to angelically white gowns with deep texture, showing this season is about undermining first impressions with astounding detail.


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Hawaii Five-0 is enlisting Vanessa Marcil for some major couch time.
The Beverly Hills, 90210, General Hospital and Las Vegas vet will appear as a therapist who McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) suspects is involved in a murder case, TV Line reports. Her episode is slated to air in November.
Hawaii Five-0: Mama McGarrett is back — but can she be trusted?
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MTC: FFUR5 78 (whoa!), PROM 10, Hoodwinked 8, Dylan Dog 3 {nm} on Apr 25, 10:42
what do you mean 'whoa'? You think it's a HIGH estimate ??? {nm} on Apr 25, 10:44
he definitely is surprised :) .... however i think Fast Five has commedable amount of buzz for a ripping opening... {nm} on Apr 25, 11:29
If this number is realistic, then several of the attached star bonds don't really reflect it yet (whereas a few more or less do). {nm} on Apr 25, 11:41
That depends. If this number is realistic, nothing says the movie has any legs. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:44
Very true {nm} on Apr 25, 11:50
According to the formula that means Fast 5 should open well above 78 mil right? {nm} on Apr 25, 10:46
That's the "rule" and 78 is well above 60. {nm} on Apr 25, 10:54
let me rephrase the question; Do YOU think it's a high estimate. ( I think it is. Ridicolously high ! ) {nm} on Apr 25, 11:16
Why? Can you break it down in numbers, and support your notion with comparisons, referance to weekend potential in general, etc? {nm} on Apr 25, 11:24
(just curious - cause if one feels as strongly about a figure, there must be some rational reason somewhere - and then it should be possible on Apr 25, 11:26
I posted some numbers below your previous post asking about theaters counts facto {nm} on Apr 25, 11:28
Thanks - I see it now {nm} on Apr 25, 11:38
I think I can explain my reasoning on this vindiesel/carhitmovie. But let´s do these things in a certain order ) Secret may answer first {nm} on Apr 25, 11:35
Why does SS need to offer his opinion before you give a reasoning on why you think it's 'ridiculously high'. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:44
because - woooow... this FF5 thread could be the biggest ever in recent hsx-history - but still; because.... on Apr 25, 12:08
SS is not obligated to offer an 'opinion'. But you volunteered your opinion and we're curious to your reasoning. {nm} on Apr 25, 12:15
??? on Apr 25, 12:23
The discussion is movies and you say you said you can explain your reasoning re FFUR5. {nm} on Apr 25, 12:34
offcourse I can. But at what point do I have to ? I prefer to wait for SS-answer, as I stated before. I feel you are pressuring me to... on Apr 25, 12:53
So 74 million is doable, but 78 million is high. Gotcha. :) {nm} on Apr 25, 13:04
No you don't. 74 is way too high. But that's my humble opininon. What's yours ? :-) {nm} on Apr 25, 13:20
no way in hell it does that. just my opinion, though {nm} on Apr 25, 10:52
I saw the trailer in a movie theatre on Saturday - it does look quite good. If people are hungry for a blockbuster popcorn flick right about on Apr 25, 11:00
I think the trailers look awesome {nm} on Apr 25, 11:13
I was hoping for plus 75 for FFUR5. I love my, I love my, I love my MTC {nm} on Apr 25, 10:52
78? Thanks MTC, I needed a good laugh! {nm} on Apr 25, 10:55
it has been out opening the last one in every territory so unless the bo malaise is unique to US... {nm} on Apr 25, 11:03
We'll see. I'll believe it when I see it. I'll happily eat my crow if I'm wrong, but.. on Apr 25, 11:08
WoW really?? Is that because of the movie or how the market has been? {nm} on Apr 25, 11:14
BO has been down and it's not summer. I don't think TROCK is that much of a draw. Having original cast helps, though. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:18
BO has been down because the movie selection year-to-date has sucked. That changes this weekend. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:20
I can't see anything breaking out until maybe PIRT4. I know FFUR4 did 70m in April of 2009, but it was the only new movie and there wasn't on Apr 25, 11:30
But you are basing all this on pure instinct/gut.. ? Can you break it down in numbers, please? on Apr 25, 11:31
What numbers do you want? Just because a seuqel comes out and MTC goes ga-ga over it, doesn't make it true. Just look at IRNM2. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:37
What was MTC on IRNM2? IRNM2 opened at $128M, higher than IRMN at $102M. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:41
I have MTC at 150 for IRNM2 {nm} on Apr 25, 11:42
By that measure, MTC is conservative with this sequel... {nm} on Apr 25, 11:46
I found it now, too - posted by notfabio on May 3, 2010 on Apr 25, 11:50
Searching and haven't found it yet - found the MTC for the weekend after.. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:47
Woah.. What competition is this movie gonna have?? Dylan Dogg? Hoodwinked?? {nm} on Apr 25, 11:33
There wasn't a kids movie like RIO this time last year. Only down 31% from opening weekend, that will take away some biz from FFUR5 {nm} on Apr 25, 11:36
I doubt it overlaps much. Urban audiences go for Rio over OW Fast 5? Don't see it. Blockbuster auds already saw Rio, mostly, I'd think. on Apr 25, 11:40
and we are looking at a PG-13 flick and a G rated movie {nm} on Apr 25, 11:42
We'll see! Either way I hope it makes me some H$! {nm} on Apr 25, 11:43
Thats the important thing {nm} on Apr 25, 11:44
Monsters Vs. Aliens competed against the last FFUR. I think that one is relevant. My opinion on #4 is that they really did a good job in on Apr 25, 11:45
Everyone here is making good points! on Apr 25, 11:48
Call it a gut instinct then. That's about all I can say! {nm} on Apr 25, 11:49
lol...who needs a gut when halt is on Saturdays usually. ;-) {nm} on Apr 25, 11:53
And not just Saturdays but saturday evening..... well for reg stock {nm} on Apr 25, 11:54
EXACTLY! I hope it either bombs or breaks out b/c I will be right there making profits! {nm} on Apr 25, 11:55
I think last years F&F could have down well more than almost 71 mil if not for Monsters Vs Aliens. on Apr 25, 11:49
this, I think (hope) {nm} on Apr 25, 12:06
And looking back at this time last year, there were a LOT of shorts... {nm} on Apr 25, 11:23
May I suggest that you go back two years, and calculate what you would've lost if you went short on Fast 4? on Apr 25, 11:29
Don't have records that far back. What did it halt at? {nm} on Apr 25, 11:31
Less than 130, it seems - adjusted to 195 {nm} on Apr 25, 11:36
I think that may be a lil high for dylan dogg IMO. Thats 3000 per theatre. {nm} on Apr 25, 10:59
LMFAO @ 78. Way off. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:00
Fast and Furious 2 years ago took (almost) everyone here on HSX by surprise. Do you remember? {nm} on Apr 25, 11:01
Why is that so way off? BO was saying 70mil and that was before the weekend showing what a breakout Fast 5 is having overseas. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:01
I can imagine that there's some "cognitive dissonance" in effect, here(?) on Apr 25, 11:09
Last week Antibody posted that Fast5 could get 3500+ on Apr 25, 11:20
My 2011 Easter though for you... maybe don't put all your eggs in one basket {nm} on Apr 25, 11:27
lol oh i don't {nm} on Apr 25, 11:28
I put all my Easter eggs in the same burlap sack. They were fine. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:54
While it's high, I too am confused why everyone is laughing. 70 for the last one + the addition of The Rock + like last time, no competition on Apr 25, 11:08
Also, IMAX, which will inflate prices even more. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:09
The Rocks popularity has been on the rise with his return to doing promos at WWE. I'm sure he's gonna bring in quite a few fans too. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:09
Yeah, I don't get it. It may or may not be a bit high, but in no way is it laughably so. {nm} on Apr 25, 11:21
Much to Thor's chagrin, this is also the first 'Summer Movie' ("April" be damned) on Apr 25, 11:21
Looking at last years F&F movie numbers and theater counts its definitely doable {nm} on Apr 25, 11:23
Even if you take 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS' number and account for inflation + an IMAX bump, you're looking at around $68m minimum. In no way is 78 on Apr 25, 11:32
Wrong movie. Look at Fast & Furious from 2009 not 2 fast 2 furious {nm} on Apr 25, 11:36
Fast and Furious 2009... on Apr 25, 11:41
Read your post wrong dsbman. Thought u were saying 78 was laughable. my bad {nm} on Apr 25, 11:55
Tagging [FFUR5], [PROM], [DEADN], [HDWN2]. {nm} on Apr 27, 00:26


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(Link to trip report from my Sept 2008 overnight at the lookout.)
(March 2010, this trip report.)
Overview of Lookout
The Three Fingers Lookout
THE LOOKOUT: When Darrington District Ranger Harold J. Engles and trail foreman Harry Bedal decided to construct a lookout in 1931, they picked a high rock spire overlooking thousands of acres of old-growth timber on the Snoqualmie National Forest to the east of Seattle, Washington. This high rock spire was the south peak of Three Fingers. All the materials for this gabled L-4 cab had to be lifted the last 1,000 feet via a windlass made from telephone wire. The top 15 ft of the summit block was blasted to make room for the fire lookout cabin. The only way to get up to the lookout was (and still is) via a series of ladders on the final exposed summit perch.
The Three Fingers Lookout was staffed for only ten years and abandoned in 1943. It was restored in the 1980s, and is maintained by volunteer hikers and kept open to any hikers who can get there. It is listed on the National Historic Lookout Register.
The Route
TRAILHEAD: Three Fingers/Goat Flats/Saddle Lake Trail No. 641. To get to the trail, drive 17 miles up the Tupso Pass Rd. No 41, which branches left off the Mountain Loop HWY 6.5 miles east of Granite Falls (the turnoff is unmarked until a small HWY 41 sign about 100ft down the road, so make sure to pay attention!)
ROUND-TRIP DISTANCE: 16 miles if you are luckly enough to start at the trailhead
TIME: On this winter trip, getting up to the lookout took about 7-8 hours at a mellow pace and a few short breaks. On my summer 2008 hike to the lookout, it took us a little under 5 hours to get to the lookout. The descent times were about equivalent to the ascent times.
TRAILHEAD ELEVATION: 3,020 feet
SUMMIT ELEVATION: 6,854 feet (used to be 6,870 ft before 15 feet were blasted in 1931 to make room for the fire lookout cabin).
NOTE: Goat Flats and the lookout are quite popular, especially in the fall when the route becomes more straightforward. If you want to spend a night alone in the lookout, your best bet is to go midweek (or in the winter!).
Photo Trip Report from out Winter Ascent
Earlier in the winter I had found the Winchester Fire Lookout to be the perfect place to not study for a midterm. So, with finals looming, I decided to head to the Three Fingers Fire Lookout on the summit of Three Fingers in order to perfect my studying techniques.
the wintertime, this summertime hike becomes an advanced mountaineering
challenge, including many dangerous snow slopes and digging through about 5 feet of hard snow to reach
the door of the lookout, which is buried under an impressive coating of
rime. Most years, it would not even be feasible to reach the lookout in the winter, as the 17 mile dirt road to the trailhead would be buried under snow (I suppose you could skin up it, but that's adding quite a lot of mileage to the trip). The winter of 2010 was definitely the winter to attempt the Three Fingers Lookout, as the unusually high snow line kept many approach roads free of snow to the trailheads.
Below is a series of photos from my overnight adventure with Dave Chase to the 5-star snowcave on the summit of Three Fingers. I've given some comparison shots from my hike to the lookout in Sept 2008 to show how the conditions are wildy different in the winter.
|Saddle Lake, 2.5 mi up the trail.
|View of Three Fingers from Goat Flats.
|Trees at Goat Flats.
|The route follows this ridge above Goat Flats until it steepens, and then heads right to traverse a south-facing slope.
|We crossed a lot of wet slides. Most of these slides had happened the day before, which had also been uncharacteristically warm.
|Track of a rolling rock.
|Dave on the traverse between Goat Flats and Tin Can Gap.
|Dave traversing towards Tin Can Gap. The south facing slopes were a bit soft, and there were several wet slides that had occurred, but a week of fair weather had consolidated the slopes enough that slide potential was low. Slide potential is definitely something you have to consider in spring-like conditions such as these.
|The view of Three Fingers as seen from Tin Can Gap. The photo on the left shows a route overlay for the possible approaches from here (on glacier if enough snow, or on ridge above if late summer).
I was a bit concerned about crossing the steepish north-facing slopes due to avy potential, and we actually turned back at one point and descended around one of the first upper slopes since I just didn't have a good feeling about it (it was pretty wind-loaded). But most of the north-facing slopes had already slid, and the snow conditions were feeling stable, and certainly less sloppy than the south-facing slopes we had just crossed, so we felt the risk was worth taking.
|A cool cornice above Tin Can Gap.
|Another cool cornice above Tin Can Gap.
|Sun and snow.
|Traversing the upper Queest-Alb Glacier. Tin Can Gap is in the background.
|Dave in a cool wind-formed valley on the upper Queest-Alb Glacier.
|Looking back at the traverse across Queest-Alb Glacier. We chose a high route, but depending on snow conditions it might be easier to drop lower on the Queest-Alb Glacier.
|Zig-zagging up and up.
|The final slope to the lookout.
|Cornices near the summit.
|In the summer the lookout can only be reached by a series of ladders. The ladder gullies were full of snow, so we just climbed up steep snow to the lookout. This photo is taken looking down where the ladders are.
|The buried Three Fingers Lookout. The door is below where Dave is in the photo.
|I wouldn't let Dave have the shovel, I was having too much fun reliving my snowfort building days.
|It took only an hour to dig ourselves to the door. It probably would have taken a bit longer, but some skiers had been at the lookout 4 weeks previous so the snow in this area was not as compact as it could have been.
|What a place to not study!
|The summit of Three Fingers has a unique 360° view: Mt. Baker to the north, Glacier Peak to the east, Mt. Rainier to the south, and the Puget Sound and Olympics to the west.
|Alpenglow on the buried lookout.
|Alpenglow on the slopes below. Note all the wet slides from the warm weather.
|Inside the buried lookout. A 5-star snowcave.
|How we got in. Fortunately, the shutter over the door on the lookout does not go all the way to the ground.
|An "Osborne Firefinder", an instrument that would aid the firefinder in plotting the exact location of a spotted fire on a map.
|Cooking dinner by candlelight.
|Hot chocolate "with marshmallows."
|City lights below. I didn't do much night photography, since clouds moved in overnight, and the lookout was cozier than the steep precipices on all sides
|Rime on my ice axe the next morning.
|Traversing the upper Queest-Alb Glacier in a whiteout on the way out the next day. Our tracks from the day before had been obscured by the wind, but we made sure to maintain the relatively level traverse we had made the day before, as well as note certain landmarks (like the wind-sculpted valley) along the way to keep ourselves oriented. You can quickly get lost on this sort of terrain in a whiteout, so it pays to pay attention on the approach.
|Nice stratus cloud layer above 5200ft. See my cloud page for more photos of clouds.
|Takes about 20 seconds of this and I am already planning my next escape into the mountains.


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Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Though it's not really remembered as a massive success today, the last generation Mercury Cougar took the motoring world by storm in the late 1990s with its dramatic styling and V6 engine. As we can see from this Top Gear clip from 1997 or 1998, Jeremy Clarkson was eager to get his hands on one too.
Unfortunately, the boys at Ford Europe broke their promises to lend him one for testing, so he was forced to replace it with a tub of lard instead. Makes perfect sense to me.
It may have been for the best. I'm not sure the Ford Cougar (as it was known in Europe) would have fared well against the crowd in this elimination test: the E36 BMW 328i, the Toyota Celica, the Honda Prelude, the Mercedes-Benz CLK, the Peugeot 406, the Volvo C70, the Fiat Coupé, the Nissan 200SX, and the Alfa Romeo GTV6.
One by one Clarkson scratches these cars off his top coupe list for various reasons, then puts the highest-ranking ones through their paces in a road test. Which one do you think will win? The results may surprise you.
Do you agree with the winner? Which one would you take today?


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