npsimons's Journal: Found something that I think sounds cool

*Sigh*, I'm still waiting on my 1TB HDDs for the file server, which I will use to replace the 250GB drive, which I can then put in the web and email server. For now, that means I still post journal/blog entries here, as I don't see the point of upgrading the software on the web/email server until I have the drive available for it. Anyway, my pointless rambling is all a preface for this:

http://www.archive.org/details/Snu-op025-Caravan

I found it while looking for recordings of sheet music we play in our Big Band (guess which song I was looking for :). I thought the song sounded pretty cool, so I'm sharing it with you. Hope you enjoy it!

nice. reminds me of

[yagu]

Nice tune. Reminds me a little of Pat Metheny's Last Train Home [amazon.com]. Not sure why. I'd be curious if you liked the one if you also like Metheny's.

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[npsimons]

Reminds me a little of Pat Metheny's Last Train Home. Not sure why. I'd be curious if you liked the one if you also like Metheny's.

I can hear the similarities; I'm not much of a musical scholar, but I have an intuition for hearing similarities between music (I've been able to later recognize songs I had only ever heard in very short pieces (eg, in movie trailers) when I later hear the full song). The two things that jump out at me are the driving rhythms (both also have travel related titles) and the guita

SSL and identification

[Qzukk]

If you had to pick only one site to get a cert for, couldn't you have picked a different CN than "www.hardcorehackers.com"? I don't mind jumping through the hoops to add exceptions for self-signed sites, but seeing that just makes me go "hmmm".

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[npsimons]

If you had to pick only one site to get a cert for, couldn't you have picked a different CN than "www.hardcorehackers.com"? I don't mind jumping through the hoops to add exceptions for self-signed sites, but seeing that just makes me go "hmmm".

Considering hardcorehackers.com existed before rcbbx.org, no. It's something I'm going to fix, but like I said, I don't see the point in doing it when I'm going to be doing an install/upgrade to a new drive soon anyways. At this point, I won't even have the time to

Sir Duke

[unitron]

Are we talking about the Duke Ellington song (written by Juan Tizol) that's been recorded by just about anybody and everybody that does instrumentals?

(speakers ain't working)

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[npsimons]

Are we talking about the Duke Ellington song (written by Juan Tizol) that's been recorded by just about anybody and everybody that does instrumentals?

That'd be the one. Don't get me wrong, I know how the song goes, I was just curious and wanted to hear different interpretations.