I’m a huge FreeBSD fan. My very first home router ran FreeBSD back in the late 90’s and since then I have installed it on every single server I worked with. I do realize that this is some kind of niche since almost everybody else is running Linux these days. This is why I thought […]
For people who have the same problem: I have tried to install a port that fetches its source from github and it failed to fetch it. When I tried the fetch command manually for the given URL I saw the following error: fetch https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/v1.7.3.tar.gz Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1 34380826280:error:14090086:SSL […]
Here is a little tip. I have just finished mixing concert recording. The mixing was done in Reaper at 24bit/48kHz and now I needed to convert / downsample it to 16bit/44.1kHz. If you leave that up to black box encoders you can actually hear a change in tonality or loudness even with untrained ears. At […]
After spending a lot of time learning to play the guitar I felt the urge to start building my own guitars. I saw a movie called »It might get loud« where Jack White is nailing a pickup to a plank of wood, hammers nails to hold the strings and jams along. It didn’t seem too […]
Introduction For over a decade now the music industry is struggling. I don’t think that there is a single reason for that, but the rise of the internet certainly had the biggest impact on that negative trend in recent times. In the 21st century it is easier than ever to copy vast amounts of data […]