Hugh's Worthless Blog

First off, I am happy to say I finally received my official copy of Steven Curtis Chapman's latest album, "This Moment", last Thursday from MusicToday.com (two days after the release date) and was surprised to see that I actually received the "Special Edition" which included the four bonus acoustic tracks. I did not remember ordering that "special" version but I'll take it! This one has the special yellow cover instead of the bluish one. The neatest thing about it is this technology they used to allow you to access a special online site by using the CD as a "key" that is read by a Java applet. I looked at the CD and did not see any special files on it besides the audio files, so I am guessing it generated some signature based on the arrangement of the tracks and use that as a key to allow access to the site. I am curious if I make a CloneCD image copy of the CD if it will still let me access the special content or not. It may actually us...

The other "new release" that has most interested me has been the new Ubuntu 7.10, the " Gutsy Gibbon ". I have installed it on three different older systems, my Dell Precision 420 (dual 1 GHz P-III w/ 768MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS), my Dell Latitude C640 laptop (2 GHz P4M w/ 512MB RAM, ATI RADEON 7500), and a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10-S405 (1.4 GHz PM w/ 256MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 420). I was curious if Compiz Fusion and it's nifty special effects would work with any of their graphics cards. The answer in all cases was a disappointing "not yet". I could load the restricted NVIDIA and ATI graphic drivers on each of them, but when I tried to activate any special effects they could not be enabled. I had booted my Latitude using the Kororaa AIGLX LiveCD and that had seemed to have worked fine, but upgrading my Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 did not allow me to use the same special effects that ran fine under Kororaa booted live even after installing all the GL,...

Well, today is the official release day of Steven Curtis Chapman 's new album " This Moment " and I had hoped to receive the official CD yesterday in the mail since I had pre-ordered it, but it didn't show up (boo-hoo!). I had pre-ordered and received Aaron Shust 's "Whispered and Shouted", Casting Crowns ' "The Altar and the Door", Chris Tomlin 's "See The Morning" and Audio Adrenaline 's "Adios" all the Monday evenings before their release dates, but not "This Moment". I am hoping it will show up today. I have to check if I had missed any lyrics on my "This Moment" lyrics page and I also have to update my SCC Bible verse search engine with his new referenced verses on his liner notes. I think it is neat that fans have been able to pre-order and listen to the album for two whole months before the release, and I am curious how other people will take to the new album. In my opinion, I still t...