Every time I used a JAVA app on my mac that sends sound to the speakers, It sounded bad, distorted. At least on my iMac, not on my mini or either of my Macbooks.

Turns out that Adobe might be the bad one changing some Java libraries. When surfing aound I found many peopel having the same problem and in the end the solution, or at least an easy fix.

Find in the Utilities directory under Programs the application "Audio Midi Setup" (might have a different name when using localised Mac OSX). And set the input and output sampling to 44.1 kHz.

Solved my problem.

Begrijp me goed, ik ben absoluut tegen huiselijk geweld, elk geweld. Maar ben ook voor goed gebruik van internet En deel van dit goed gebruik is dat je namen neemt voor sites die zinvol zijn. Zo zijn er in het verleden talloze domain namen geweest waarover men 10 seconde langer had moeten nadenken voordat men submit drukte.

Een paar voorbeelden? www.kidsexchange.com is minder handig, "Who Represents" als URL geeft www.whorepresents.com. En Pen Island geeft natuurlijk www.penisland.net. Leuk hoor, zo'n Power Generator company in Italie; www.powergenitalia.com . En deze lijst is erg veel langer.

Een aantal van mijn klanten zenden uit op de radio, vele klanten hebben advertenties op de radio. En de meeste foute URL's zitten in het verschil tussen zien (typen, TV, print ad) en horen (gesprek, radio commercial). Mijn klanten willen dus en example.com/over-ons maar ook example.com/overons omdat de "dash" niet goed bekt op de radio. Prima, het ziet er niet uit maar als je beide doet, prima.

Maar wie verzint er nu een Fully Qual Domain Name steunpunthuiselijkgeweld.nl. Prima op TV. Maar in een gesprek of de radio klinkt dit toch echt als:

steun . huiselijkgeweld . nl, niet helemaal denk ik wat de makers bedoelden?

Today, Mediamosa has been released. It is hard to describe what it does, but the picture above should give you a hint..

From the website, you can read that MediaModsa

[...] is a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform and facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers. The platform offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users.

You can see MediaMosa as a Drupal Module that provides central storage, publishing and transcoding functionality. A Media Asset Manager Hub on steroids! It was developed by/for SURFnet, an academic network in the Netherlands. Dutch readers are encouraged to read the pressrelease.

It is not easy to understand or easy to install, but please give it a try on your localhost if you are into Media (management) and Drupal. Many broadcasters are already looking at this in the Netherlands. Great job!

You know you are a has been if you launch a new site using a kick ass CMS and the projectlead of the CMS is not even blogging it. :-)

Sleep tight Metallica.

The infamous Drupalsong; good, bad and young. And the young people seem to like it a lot better then some of the parents; it attracts children like a magnet and they can hear it a 100 times it seems. My kids sing it along and like it a lot.

Based upon a discussion on elvisblogs I thought about making a remix of all the young Drupalaars singing, spinning and dancing along the Drupalsong.

So if you have a camera and a Drupalsong crazy kid and are willing to release the video under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, dump it on your (video)site and I';; grab a copy and remix all the Drupal Kids in to one happy family. Be sure to do a "for:bertboerland" on delicious so I can pick it up and or tag it DrupalSongByKids on Youtube.

(Technically the CC license and the GPL song are incompatible, bit I'll try to sort this out with Lullabot))