Journalhttp://sybersnake.com/journal/en-US2008-09-07T17:39:13ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Stereo Listening, Speaker Positioning.http://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/8/25/stereo-listening-speaker-positioning.htmlsybersnake2008-08-25T02:37:30ZAudiophileThree months ago I took the leap into the world of stereophilia.  Ever since, I've been trying to find the best positioning for my speakers.  I have a very small listening space and have a even smaller space to keep my speakers away from the wall.  Here is what I've found to work.

]]>What Denon really means by "Stereo", "Direct/Pure Direct", and "Bass Management".http://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/8/23/what-denon-really-means-by-stereo-directpure-direct-and-bass.htmlsybersnake2008-08-23T02:46:11ZAudiophileNote: This post is simply a set of observations I've made since I purchased my new Denon AVR, they are no way Denon-backed facts.  I've tried to verify some of these things with them but no luck so far.

It seems by default, my Denon Integrated(Amplifier) seems to think that correct default settings for "Stereo" is, "Large"(for the Speakers, this is correct), "Yes"(for Subwoofer), "LFE+Main"(for Subwoofer Playback), and "40Hz"(for Crossover).  

The problem here is that LFE+Main freakin sucks.  Why do I want double-bass?  Not to mention its coming from 3 directions in 2 different phases( the Subwoofer is usually set to phase 90) and 3 different distances/delays.  All good quality subwoofers will provide High Level and Low Level input for Left/Right to use with the internal crossover.  This works great, however the sub is creating audio based on the distance information for the Left/Right channels(if your Integrated AMP has distance delays)... thus creating a somewhat delayed/shifted bass stereo image because regardless of where the subwoofer is it cannot be in two places at once.  

More after the jump...

]]>Perfect Safari Theme Setup FireFox 3http://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/6/17/perfect-safari-theme-setup-firefox-3.htmlsybersnake2008-06-17T23:30:53ZRE: http://macvswindows.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=472

 I'll take this one step further.  Type about:config in the address bar.  Set the filter to 'browser.tabs'.  Change values browser.tabs.tabMaxWidth and browser.tabs.tabClipWidth to 180 and 150 respectively.

 Open 'Stylish' Add-on preferences and add

#throbber-box { display: none !important; }

 to the "Combine Stop/Reload buttons" style.

 

]]>Jedai API Docshttp://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/6/6/jedai-api-docs.htmlsybersnake2008-06-06T03:35:58ZJedaiI just uploaded the API Docs for Jedai ( jedai.googlecode.com ) to http://labs.emoten.com/jedai/docs/html/. Have fun!

]]>Simple Variable Naming Prefix(s)http://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/4/28/simple-variable-naming-prefixs.htmlsybersnake2008-04-28T17:29:02Z"_" private / protected
"__" item used for caching
"$_" pointer reference
"$__" cached pointer reference

]]>the Dictionary, and Weak References.http://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/4/18/the-dictionary-and-weak-references.htmlsybersnake2008-04-18T05:43:33ZI was trying to figure out some sort of IoC type control to force unlinking of all external items referencing item B when item B was about to be deconstructed and marked for recycling. Then it hit me, all I have to do is make sure the referencing ( the Signal/Slot system ) was using Weak References. Therefore, by design, when the only reference to item B exists is in a Weak Reference in a Dictionary, it will still be gc'd and how the signal/slot is setup the gc process actually unlinks all the event handlers automatically since they are, themselves, bound to the instance.

Now that I have it written, I've got to test it.. now how do I go about that -- Uggh.

]]>Save State Web Browsershttp://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/3/17/save-state-web-browsers.htmlsybersnake2008-03-17T14:00:06ZI don't know why but there isn't a web browser out there yet that will allow you to save the entire state of a single window ( tabs'all ) so you can go and check it out later without having to simply minimize it and hope to god that the browser doesn't crash sometime between now and 'then'.

UPDATE: Shit, Safari does this. Bookmarks>Create Bookmark for these X tabs.

]]>Office Panorama via iPhonehttp://sybersnake.com/journal/2008/1/13/office-panorama-via-iphone.htmlsybersnake2008-01-13T03:33:19ZI just finished setting up my office in my new pad. The network stack and printers is in the second office next door.
Untitled_Panorama1.jpg

UPDATE: Yup, it's literally a network stack. I can put some 50 employee businesses to shame. :P

]]>Free Netflix Trialshttp://sybersnake.com/journal/2007/10/14/free-netflix-trials.htmlsybersnake2007-10-14T18:34:29ZI got 4 × 1 free months of Netflix to give away. Let me know if your interested.

]]>Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 Text Encoding Issueshttp://sybersnake.com/journal/2007/10/6/flex-builder-3-beta-2-text-encoding-issues.htmlsybersnake2007-10-06T01:15:43ZI installed the Beta 2 plugin the day after it came out and was plagued by numerous problems with trying to get it to work in Eclipse. I had compiler recursions errors ( where my console spit out 20+ page long stack trace that had a pattern ; ) and complete VM crashing via StackOverflow when restarting Eclipse.

This Thursday, I migrated to the Standalone version.. and I will give credit where credit is due. The Standalone version WORKS. Now, I had to create a new workspace and work around tiny configuration things when importing old flex projects and more SDKs. So, I now have everything working smoothly.

Since I could not do Flex development inside of my Java IDE I chose to do Java development inside of my Flex IDE. I was able to install everything needed. However, I ran into one big problem. The Standalone version of Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 does not handle Text File Encoding properly.

Flex seems to want to default to UTF-8 which can't display many characters often needed when dealing with formatted text. Also in UTF-8 it seems that runtime class injection ( when you save a Java class and it is loaded in to your currently debugging application ) does not work in any Text Encoding besides "MacRoman", which isn't even available in the drop down --you have to type it in. ( yes, I am on a Mac and am using Java 6 Developer Preview 6 ) When I fire up my good ole' J2EE Eclipse 3.3, I can chose any Text Encoding and it will update in the running application.

So, If your having a problem where you think your runtime injection stopped working, it's probably a issue with Flex Builder's Text Encoding, setting to "MacRoman" makes everything work nice ;).

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