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Blue Snowball comparison with Samson USB microphone

A client of mine has started a series of podcasts. Thus far I have recorded the podcasts using the Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser Microphone discussed in a previous blog posting. We had always planned that my client would ultimately be able to create his own podcasts and he asked me to get him a [...]

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Thu, June 19 2008 » Gadgets, Marketing, Technical » No Comments

Editing AVCHD video from Canon HG-10 camera

I recently took another look at the current state of play for AVCHD video editors. Things are definitely improving. I downloaded a trial of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition and I have been VERY pleasantly surprised. Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition is from the Sony stable of editing software and falls between their entry level [...]

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Mon, June 9 2008 » Gadgets, Technical, Video » No Comments

Problems getting ssh to work

I’ve been struggling for the last couple of days to get password-less ssh to work between two linux machines running Ubuntu 8.04 on my local network. I went through the correct procedures, i.e. ssh-keygen -t rsa, copied the public key to authorized_keys and used scp to copy it over to the .ssh directory of the [...]

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Thu, June 5 2008 » Technical » No Comments