Miscellany
Recommended for Advanced Listeners Only
Some goodies inspired by (and some taken from) Delton T. Horn’s book titled “The Beginner’s Book of Electronic Music.” While the book is an excellent resource as a “hole”, there are some particularly great passages such as that on musique concrete and the Discography at the end (from whence comes the warning issued in the…
Read MoreTowards a Little Chaos
I’ve been reading through Leonard Smith’s Chaos: a Very Short Introduction in my spare time (twice a month.) It is truly fascinating reading (depending on your definition of fascinating) and absolutely enlightening to a recovering philistine groping at the previously eschewed topics of mathematics, physics, and philosophy*. I’m going to post some of the algorithms/systems…
Read Moreejecting media from iMac with no manual eject mechanism
It’s happened to us all: we get that new broken iMac and can’t wait to pop a system disc or new OS disc in and make ‘er all better. Then, the unthinkable happens: nothing! No new OS, no ability to boot from disc, and worst of all, the deeeesk — she no come out! There…
Read MoreReset Open Firmware by removing ALL RAM
WARNING: I will not be held responsible for anything you do to your computer. Please follow any of the below instructions at your own risk. Be sure to always follow Apple DIY Hardware Replacement instructions (you can download these for any model in pdf format), use official Apple parts, and use anti-static discharge kits and…
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