At 10/4/08 12:07 PM, sasuke2910 wrote:

At 10/4/08 12:34 AM, sasuke2910 wrote: 8.0.4 i think and why can't you run .exe files :(

bump why not

Ubuntu then. You can't open .EXE files because a .EXE (Executable) is a program compiled for Windows. Programs compiled for Linux have a different extension. As another poster suggested, you can grab a package called 'WINE' that pretends to be windows and can run the .EXE's that linux can't on its own. You should be able to find it in Ubuntu's package manager.

With regards to windows - if you installed Ubuntu with the guided - use whole disk option, then it would have wiped windows in the install process. As this is the default, I'd guess that this is what you've done.

What's worse is when they're built for 'normal' people and your rubber ends up against the bowl. Make bigger toilets, ffs~!

It's not a file per se but the system registry.

To the OP : Check here

Look up option 3 - it's the most pertinent. Basically, it's possible to restore an old version of the registry *if* you have system restore turned on. If not, it's wipe time.

*headesk*

Just saw the new response. Sorry mate - that's the registry that's gone.

At 10/4/08 11:44 AM, Tahnok wrote: Thanks, Maltloaf. I'm not sure whether a complete wipe would be good, since it's just a single file that's apparently missing.

If it were just that, I'd agree. But to have the same issue twice means there's something else wrong beyond the missing file. It could just be a buggy program or an old driver - for example, and old version of the via motherboard drivers used to shut the hard drives off before windows had finished shutting down, or it could be something screwy with data integrity (ie, bad hard drive or sectors thereon.)

If you can get it up and running without the wipe, then great, but do the full disk check all the same. If it finds any errors, wipe and reinstall in the order I mentioned earlier. The problem is that if you have system files on an area of the disk with bad sectors, you cannot trust the integrity of those files, and therefore cannot trust the install.

First up, if you've had the problem before then you've either got a buggy program that's corrupting your filesystem, OR your hard drive is defective. Either way, making backups is good.

Mount the disk from Ubuntu - the reason it's complaining is that the NTFS file system hasa flag that says whether a disk is in use or not, and that flag is set to 'yes' - meaning windows didn't shut down properly last time. As nothing else is using the disk, it is safe to mount anyway.
Once you've mounted it, burn all the files you'll need to keep to DVD. Don't bother copying the programs themselves across, it's less hassle to re-install them from scratch later.

Before proceeding, check you have installation media for both Ubuntu and Windows.

Once you've got your data safe, enter your BIOS configuration and activate SMART. This will give you a warning on startup if the hard drive is dying. If you're good, you can reinstall windows from here. Use the Custom/Expert install option and get it to do a complete format and disk check before the install. This will take a long time, but will mark any bad areas of the disk so that windows will not use them, which may prevent a repeat.

Last but not least, use the Ubuntu install media to reinstall GRUB (the dual-booting menu).

At 10/3/08 08:13 PM, wreckages wrote: us europeans still believe the earth is flat

Believe? we KNOW the world is flat. Thank you.

They'd have to ban the entire VG section...

Hang on, not all of us are posting remixes or rips. I can understand how it could seem that way - there's a metric fucktron of them, but banning everyone without checking is just going to cause problems.

If you want to kill it, start educating people about the problems, and start flagging them. I know that I'm certainly going to start flagging remixes that I see as I browse.

'REMIXES ARE ILLEGAL WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR WHOSE WORK YOU ARE REMIXING' in big red letters on the submit page would be a start.

At 9/30/08 05:35 PM, JonH2O wrote: Whatever audio you make put in tags in the description..So when a flash artist is looking for a certain kind of audio they can find it easier in the search.

I always wondered what the hell that field was there for. Now I know.

Now to go back and change them all from 'what the fuck?'

At 9/27/08 06:45 AM, StrikerF2 wrote: What I HATE, though, is their return policy. You have the opportunity return it for a month as long as you dont open it, Thats just bullshit to me.

That's better than most places. The trick with software is that you never know if the person returning it is actually returning it, or wether they've copied the disc and resealed it.

The rule *everywhere* else (including where I work) is that they won't refund the game - the most they'll do is exchange it for another copy of the same game if the disc is defective.

Resealing something isn't that hard - we've had instances in the past where someone bought a mobile phone, took it out the box, put a brick *in* the box, then resealed it so it looked untouched. They even got the foil thing they do resealed so it didn't read 'void'.

I still caught them - as a matter of policy we open everything coming back in front of the customer to make sure they haven't 'left parts behind'. The customers that have accidentally get all apologetic and come back later with everything. The shirks that are trying to bullshit you get really aggressive instead.

Eh, that involves money. No parallel walls? Rebuilding my room wasn't on my list of things to do. I don't think the landlord would appreciate it either. :]

I haz
- the ear buds for my Zen,
- some TV headphones (18-22Khz),
- a pair of Phillips wireless headphones (they don't get as much bass as the TV's, but go louder and cut out if there's clipping),
- a cheap and nasty surround set from wallys world,
- and a CD player from MoS that seems to be set up specifically for Fatboy Slim...

Doesn't matter too much at the moment anyway - I'm still pulling together tutorials anyway, and don't expect to get into it properly for a couple of months at least. Damn thee, work~!

At 9/15/08 05:26 PM, S3C wrote: JUST IN TIME!!!!

FAB FIVE IS COMPLETE!

Nope, you missed it. Almost a perfect run. :/

Unless, of course, you're the tardy one in the group who always turns up to save the day *after* everyone else had their pastries stuffed.

At 9/15/08 06:04 AM, WritersBlock wrote: And now it's time for me to make the obvious statement of the decade: Dumb people! It's you're fault the average IQ is so low. If you weren't around, the average would be higher.

BZZZZT~! Wrong.

Average IQ is 100 because that's how the IQ system works. If dumb people weren't around, then it'd mean the rest of us would have LOWER IQ's because they weren't throwing the average off! :D

Linku

G'luck everyone~!

God knows I need it :D

Uh, so you want to do a fade in?

If you can't do one in the package your already using, reverse the waveform, fade it out, then reverse it again. :D

Only other suggestion I've got is to try another encoder.

For instance, music encoded with an old version of LAME wont always work, but the new version does. That's another problem I've had <_<;

Try exporting your track as Wav, and using a third program to do the encode (like audacity). Aud uses the Lame encoder, so long as you have the newest version, it'll be fine. Both are free downloads. :)

At 9/13/08 05:44 PM, zedd56 wrote: It was a remix of the original tetris song, BUT i made it purely from SCRATCH. No edited tracks, no downloading was involved at all. I made it on FL Studio, and here is what it sounds like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvq1jn1G sA

Now, i want to know, can you be banned for remixing an original track if you made it from scratch?

Yup. Might not want to be what you want to hear, but the rule is no copyright violations. That doesn't just mean sampling without permission or uploading spice girls tracks - covering someone elses work (what you're doing) is also a violation of law if you don't have explicit permission from the copyright holder.

Seems the rules are selectively enforced on Newgrounds though.

Apply direct?

If you're picking up magazines in the field, you'll see a lot of adverts for positions (the UK edition of EDGE has loads of them). Alternatively, trawl the websites of different developers - most of them have a jobs section on them where they'll advertise any going positions.

Don't expect devs to come looking for you unless you've managed to get word out - go to them instead.

The other thing that might help is to get involved in projects in your spare time. There are a lot of collab efforts like 'Infinity Universe' that are always looking for contributors, as well as the modding scene. Remember that a lot of people in games have been hired from the modding scene, so its another way of making yourself visible.

Basically, be pro-active.

Are you sure its 44khz? I had a period where I thought mine was, but Audacity was actually working at 48Khz and screwing up the UI to confuse me.

The other thing it could be is bit depth. The mp3 standard specifies 16-bits as standard, but some apps try to punch 24bit or 8bit (in low-quality mode) instead.

At 9/10/08 09:28 PM, KgZ wrote: I've been having a problem, where I can't seem to start a song because my drums either feel:

<Stuff>

The trap I always fall into is simplicity or repetitiveness. Best advice I can give* is not to worry about the drums till the end - simple ones will do when you're building the track. Once everything else is in place, clear the drum track, half the tempo, and hit record. Improvise.

This probably works better with a midi sequencer - after three or four takes I'll have maybe six workable loops and a good idea of what I want to do with them - normally inspired by cockups that seemed to work. :)

Helps to listen to different types of music as well. Mine always end steering towards 'metal'... :/

:*I'm a noob. Advice may or may not be useful. Not for internal consumption.

At 8/5/06 04:06 AM, tedJohnston wrote: In all, recreating the FM synthesis is the hardest part, and I'm almost all the way there! So, if everyone can look for a way to extract Yamaha DX SysEx patches from Mega Drive games, I think we will all be able to recreate Sega sounds.

Know anyone with a dev kit for the mega drive (or a Tera-Drive)? In theory you could just write a routine that plays each note on each patch in turn. Record that from the headphone socket and splice it up.

Joo : 1. S3G4 : Nil.

At 9/9/08 09:29 PM, SolusLunes wrote: In more serious news, my computer (the main one I use for writing music) is absolutely fuxxored.

It boots, then it gets to the screen when you can press F2 to access the bios, and then hangs.

Seriously.

This is a major problem for me. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Take the DIMMS out, run a pencil eraser down the modules. Blow the gubbins off and reinsert.

Basically, it's something on a contact - if it's not on the the DIMMS, it'll most likely be on the GPU. Thermal expansion works them loose when the machines on, dust gets in, and gets compacted onto the contacts when you turn it off and everything cools again. Over time, you get a layer that builds up and throws the connection.

Sorry for the double post - thought I should clarify.

When I said illegal, I'm not thinking in terms of NG - I don't want anyone to get the wrong end of the stick and think I'm a mod. I'm thinking in terms of the law, which should always come first anyway.

If anyone's unsure about this, you should check out some of these links.

http://www.copyright.gov/ - For all you lovely Americans. :)

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/78087.htm - for us Brits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Conve ntion_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and _Artistic_Works - for pretty much everyone. The Berne convention is the basis for international copyright law.

At 9/9/08 09:13 PM, InGenius wrote: By that I mean, if you watch the intro section of ALL professional video games, you'll note that ALL of the content of that disc, cartidge, or storage media is copyrighted, including the music, thus meaning posting ANY musical format taken from a video game is copyright infringement, even if it was MIDI-fied and you remixed it.

I'm seeing a lot of confusion on this.

Guys, any music/art/sound/etc that has been published - no matter *how* it was published, is copyrighted. Even the stuff here on NG. Basically, the law is that when you write something, copyright is automatic at the point you fix that work in media - which can be saving it on to a cassette tape, a CD, even your hard drive, or just typing a document. This is true REGARDLESS of whether or not there's a visible copyright notice on that work. And yes, as you point out, making a midi of someone else's track is making a derivative, and therefore a breach a copyright.

The question should be 'do they have permission to use that sample/score/etc'.

If the copyright holder has given explicit permission - for example, releasing the sample under a CC-like license, then there's no problem. A lot of the remixes and covers on NG don't have that permission - the only reason they've survived is that the copyright holders haven't made an issue of it (yet).

In some cases the copyright holder will have come out and said 'hey, we don't care about this' - in which case, it's fair game (Example - Lucas Arts have said that they will not take action against fan made derivatives of Star Wars, so long as they don't make a profit from it). In all other cases, it's the responsibility of an artist to go to the copyright holder and *ask* for permission.

If you haven't made all your samples yourself, and you don't have permission to use those samples, then don't post. Whether you get caught or not, it's still illegal, and these things have a way of catching up with you when you least expect it.

At 9/8/08 06:31 PM, KorpzeAudio wrote: --I dunno WHAT I did, but I DID do it in Audicity. I have this song in MIDI that was originally MP3

You can't transcribe MP3 to Midi automatically - signal processing and AI just isn't advanced enough for that yet. There are some apps that try it all the same, but they only work for the simplest tracks you can think of, badly.

What you may have done is accidentally exported an mp3 file out with a .mid extension - Windows will read the headers, realise that 'midi' file is really just an mp3, and play it as an mp3 anyway.

An Mp3 with the wrong extension is still just an mp3. :)

At 9/5/08 11:11 PM, Nao-Haruki wrote: Yea break the wall!!!! ^_^

Better to climb the wall. That way, it's still a wall fro everyone else. :)

At 9/5/08 11:28 AM, DarKsidE555 wrote: Note: I only sort out things in the first stage. The judges will ram over all entries again and all I gotta say there is that they judge hard!

That's great. Getting serious feedback is hard enough as it is - I'd rather get bashed and maybe pick up a tip or two than have a hundred replies saying 'awesum' (or variant thereof).

I don't mind saying I was a little surprised to make the list, given the tools I'm using and the competition I'm up against. This should be fun. :)

At 8/29/08 11:13 PM, Darksporks wrote: This is the fourth time I've uploaded audio to the portal. For some reason, the MP3 just won't finish uploading. I gave it an hour, then decided to refresh the page and try again. It still hasn't uploaded! The file is 6.4MB and has no spaces in its name. Anyone else have this problem?

Could be your service provider. Most internet service is asynchronous, meaning your upload speeds are *MUCH* lower than your download speeds. On top of that, some consumer isps, such as Comcast, filter traffic and throttle or block upload streams altogether trying to block p2p (bittorrent, Kazaa et al).

The first thing to try is uploading it to another website - or to a friend over MSN. See how long the transfer takes and if it completes - if not, it's your provider.

If it does complete, then it may just be that you're trying at a really busy time of the day and NGs ftp server is getting hammered, in which case just try again at a different time. For example, type out everything in notepad ready, then just fire up your pc in the morning. Paste your notes in, select the file, and go get ready for work / school. By the time you're done, it's probably ready.

If he's not responding, it might be more effective to send the DMCA notice to his service provider. The guy could stand to lose his service outright if you get them involved - and in many areas there aren't alternatives.

Yeah, it's not playing nice, but sometimes you have to get nasty to make a point.

Heh, I dunno what a cerbera even is, that's how nub I am. :D

Only advice I could give from where I am is to try layering different patches to create interference patterns, that sort of thing. Throw in some pink noise, play around with resonance... just experiment.