I will return on this matter on short notice, still deciding what direction to take
nov07
About this all:
Since the beginning of the nineties last century the internet wild weird web system has
been expanding both in qualitative and quantitative terms. From what I remember of it
browsing the net via obscure programs under DOS (although they were switching to Windows 3
at the time) at a so called computer laboratory behind a black and white VGA CRT it
contained lots of text, and arbitrary search utilities to find them, being all text
oriented. These computer systems did cost way too much to own one, had this very expensive
internet connection, and if I remember correctly were running at 12 MHz speed, but I
thought that these kind of machines were fantastic, certainly compared to typewriters with
their awful correction methods. Progress!
We have been very much spoiled since then, so it left me to the conclusion that technical
advance is nice in utilitary terms (there is an immensely serious ecological payload here,
for instance alive and swimming chemical waste in the Arctic Ocean), but
that we must not forget that any computer can be useful for suitable tasks. I
gather most of you browsing the net out there could live with a Pentium 3 class computer
running at 1 GHz max when performing serious tasks on your machines, that is to say when
you are capable of naming a few.
I am still very happy with my Pentium II running at 266 MHz. One advantage of
this computer is that the internet becomes a much safer browsing place because any malware
attempt will induce a major backdrop of this slow systems performance, and system investigation does
not require to inspect (and/or lose) hundreds of gigabytes :-)
Using a broadband connection my system speed still masters incoming data, although some
jerky animation called Flash looks like a slide show now and then (although not
here
(takes a while to load... 10 MB to start with), it can be art as well, you know :-), mainly because brutal
calculation power may be required, although to my opinion internal programming errors
might be part of the problem as well... However, as far as (semi) cd quality sound is
concerned (be it within or without Flash presentations) this 1997 dated computer still
works fine.
Here we arrive at my main aim in respect to this initial homepage project: Using different
Pentiums up to 233 MHz I discovered that the use of open reel tape recorders can indeed be
partially replaced by its digitizing counterpart: a sound editing program that utilizes
sound card capabilities to the max. This has led to many far off the middle of the main
road soundscapes (or whatever you want to call them) that can be stored on hard disks,
CDROMs, red book audio CDs, and the internet!
Since many systems have immense calculation power, extremely fast hard disks, broadband
internet connections (which more and more seem to become restricted by their networking
capacities), and utilize multichannel audio sound cards the idea was born to build an
online major cacaphonic concerto by just linking internet pages together in user invoked
arbitrary sequences, which only will be limited by both the users neural and system
capabilities. For this I build this site, but when this plan will be realized I'm still
uncertain of...
january 2006