C++ Homework

[DrChill]

Not music with words but, without only an orchestra.

[DrChill]

Although you could theoretically edit Linux to play a sound clip every time you hit a key (would be a fun project). I even looked up a sound file for you >:) just cut out the first seconds of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QzsOY04O8

[z05DSL3A]

You know what I want? A keyboard like they...

One of the best keyboards I have used was an IBM 'clicky' keyboard (Model M, I think).

I've been told I listen to "weird music" while programming and other times while concentrating (I sometimes find it hard to work in silence). Apart from classical, there are things like Australian and American Aboriginal music and Taiko.

[chrisname]

It probably wouldn't be that hard (unless you mean editing the keyboard driver. I considered making a modification to make it beep with the PC Speaker every time you hit a key but never got round to it (I know how t make the speaker beep; but not how to integrate it into the kernel).

Anyway I haven't figured out how to install ALSA* in Arch yet, so I have no sound; so I didn't watch your video.

*Well, I installed it, I just haven't got it working.

[DrChill]

Oh, you could watch it anyway, just to see if the is the effect your going for >;)

@Grey Wolf

Australian and American Aboriginal

What do you mean "American Aboriginal"

[z05DSL3A]

Yes, aboriginal refers to indigenous peoples.

[DrChill]

Normally Americans refer to them as Indians, a mistake made by Christopher Columbus when he first came here, he thought that he was in india, so he called the people "Indians" however it is now more accepted to use "Native American". You threw me off when you said American Aborigine, I normally think of an Aborigine being only Australian.

However I will look up the music you have mentioned, do you have any favorites?

[helios]

DrChill: "Aborigine" just means someone or something who was born in a given place. "Native" is a synonym. PROTIP: Dictionaries exist for a reason.

Grey Wolf: You have some weird taste. Most people I've seen, myself included, prefer heavy metal or anything similarly loud. I can only guess it's because the music masks other distractions.

I often don't mind programming in silence, but my video card fan has been rattling rather loudly lately. What's worse, it's a sound very similar to the sound an HDD makes when it seeks, which is incredibly distracting (after many years, I've associated it with the computer doing a lot of work). Fortunately, the AC can cover it, but I don't know what I'll do in the winter.

[DrChill]

Speaking of which, my fan makes these aggravating clicking noises, and I am not a hardware person, does anyone know what it might be?

[chrisname]

Most people I've seen, myself included, prefer heavy metal or anything similarly loud. I can only guess it's because the music masks other distractions.

That's a good idea, actually. Sometimes the background noise irritates me, so maybe having some music would help me concentrate.

Grey Wolf: You have some weird taste.

I have a weird taste in music, too, albeit a lot less so. It ranges from black metal to classical to 1950s <(can't remember what genre is called)> music (e.g. Dean Martin, although not so much any more) to video game music. Also Russian folk music, although that's partially because of how awesome Tetris theme A is...

an HDD makes when it seeks, which is incredibly distracting (after many years, I've associated it with the computer doing a lot of work)

To top off how annoying that sound is, my one also has a blue LED that flashes on every seek (I thought it was all disk accesses, not just seeks?). I also associate it with the computer working, because when I was alot younger I didn't know any better (i.e. I thought it was just the sound the computer makes when it does something... ignorance is bliss)). Then again, my old hard disk didn't make that sound.

Fortunately, the AC can cover it, but I don't know what I'll do in the winter.

No-one really here has air conditioning, haha. We just open our windows, it cools down enough.

Speaking of which, my fan makes these aggravating clicking noises, and I am not a hardware person, does anyone know what it might be?

It could be dust caught in the motor. Dust is probably the #2 killer of computers, with #1 being idiots that open them up and touch them while they're running ("hurr durr, hot-swapping the CPU is totally sa-BZZZZZT!") without grounding themselves. I actually know someone who did that (took the heatsink off and touched the CPU die, as well as attempting to hot-swap memory (and touching the circuit boards while walking around in socks on a fluffy carpet, not being grounded) and ended up short-circuiting his DIMM and overheating his CPU (it started freezing). Idiot.

Another person I know apparently tried to get a PCIE video card into an AGP slot with a hammer because he didn't know why it didn't fit... This is a second-hand story, though, so the guy who told me MIGHT have made it up (I don't think so, because the person who apparently did this is a real arrogant idiot, and it's the kind of thing I can imagine him trying to do.).

One of the best keyboards I have used was an IBM 'clicky' keyboard (Model M, I think).

Cool; I might have to buy one. Or a dot-matrix printer... but I bet working ones are expensive.

[z05DSL3A]

DrChill,

KODO - Heartbeat Video 2007 (Taiko)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdOmY1BjAU

Sacred Spirit - Ly o Lay Ale Loya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOWkB1pi2k

Helios, I have a very eclectic taste in music from Alabama 3 to ZZ Top, Ambient to Metal.

edit: Hate 'POP'

[DrChill]

++Grey Wolf

Loved the music new favorites :) especially Ly o Lay Ale Loya.

Anymore?

[z05DSL3A]

I think there are more "Sacred Spirt" on youtube, probably Kodo as well. I tend to buy/download things on a whim and don't pay much attention to names and such. Sacred Spirit is the title of a set albums, you could use Amazon to find names to search for.

[chrisname]

I tend to buy things on a whim

Sure.

I tend to download things on a whim

Far more likely.

[z05DSL3A]

I always pay for the things I download (apart from Standards, I don't believe they should be the price they are) and I prefer to buy physical objects. I know, i'm an old git but I think that if people do a job of work they deserve to be payed for it.

[DrChill]

I also like chiptunes.

[DrChill]

Also : http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=ibm+clicky

[z05DSL3A]

I love this guys steampunk work:
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm

[firedraco]

Cool video game remixs:
ocremix.org

Btw, thread derailment FTW!

[gcampton]

Edit: Edited! Turns out my post was kinda racist towards New Zelanders so for that I apologize...

I'm like 6th gen abo with about, 1/2 greek, 1/2 german. My wifey is 4th gen aboriginal with about 1/2 Lebanese 1/2 Irish, so that must make my daughter .... a bloody mongrel.