When People talk about stuff they don’t understand

by WanderingTechy August 19, 2010

There is a guy on the internet called Malcom Steward trying to tell us that a specific brand of SATA cable improves the quality of his audio.

Now three things spring to mind here

a) is the guy being paid to say this rubish?
b) The guy is a total idiot.
c) He has spent a lot of money on these cables on a recommendation and now has to justify it to himself and has persuaded himself there is a difference.

You can view the full article here.  This quote is an absolute gem.

My only guess is that the Super SATAs reject interference significantly better than the standard cables and in so doing lower the noise floor revealing greater low-level musical detail and presentational improvements in the soundstage and the ‘air’ around instruments

I cannot for the life of me think of a polite way of saying this but what a crock.  The guy obviously has no idea what he is on about.

I was going to write up the process used to transfer digital data from the hard disk to the computer but thought why bother as if you are reading this blog you are technically literate anyway.

Briefly for those of you who don’t do tech (what are you doing here?)

Digital data is 1’s and 0’s and if even on bit changese  in the transfer process nasty stuff happens.  The data (music?) stored on your hard disk passes along the cable as 1’s and 0’s with no margin for error.  Putting a better quality cable in may improve the long term reliability of the cable ie it won’t stop working suddenly.  However it cannot improve how good the 1’s and 0’s sound.

On the BS scale (up to 10)  this one has maxed out and doesn’t even require further thought.

[Update]

Just did a search for Super SATA and it appears it has already been picked up by PCPro

Interesting Linux Disties.

by WanderingTechy July 2, 2010

Must look at this as I am always in need of a good recovery/disk management live CD.  http://partedmagic.com/

I love my music. http://www.musix.org.ar

A distie that allows you to manage your server using just a web browser.  http://www.zeroshell.net

A 6MB linux disti, now thats tiny.  if you go up to the 10MB you even get a GUI.  http://www.tinycorelinux.com/

I haven’t played with any of these yet but will hopefully get time over the next couple of months.

SugarCRM

by WanderingTechy June 22, 2010

I am just starting a SugarCRM install/customisation.  Its the first time I have used this so will be posting notes as I go.

I want to remove a lot of the extra cruft that shows up.  First remove some subpanels.
In

custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Layoutdefs/layoutdefs.ext.php put

PHP Code:
<code>
unset($layout_defs['Accounts']['subpanel_setup']['leads']);
unset($layout_defs['Accounts']['subpanel_setup']['activities']);
unset($layout_defs['Accounts']['subpanel_setup']['history']);
unset($layout_defs['Accounts']['subpanel_setup']['accounts']);
?>
</code>

Obviously you need to create the folders and files if they don´t exist.
Then you go to Admin -> Repair -> Rebuild Extensions

Lots of examples for styling forms in CSS

by WanderingTechy June 17, 2010

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/

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