User:HotshotGG
About Me
Personal life
I live 4 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts I am 21 year old male.
I am a college student working for a non-profit organization in their IT department. I am the process of going back to school to get my education in an IT related field preferrable Information Technology. My focus right now is mostly on [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Technical_writing Technical Writing]/Communications and Web Development. My other area of interest as a hobby is in Sound Recording and Audio Engineering. I like hanging out HA learning something new and spreading knowledge. I also enjoy help maintaining the wiki, whenever I have spare time. I enjoy discussing technology, current events, politics, philosophy, music or anything in general. I play keyboard in my sparetime also as a hobby. Private Message me if you ever need anything. Additionally I know how to code at a beginner level in numerous programming languages.
Technical Skills
Programming Markup/Languages: HTML 4.0/XML, CSS3, Javascript, PHP 5, MySQL, C/C++.
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (Linux)
Software (Windows): Microsoft Word 2007, OpenOffice.org 3, Adobe Framemaker 8.0, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, NetBeans 6.5, Putty, Doxygen 2.0.
Software (Linux): Quanta Plus, NetBeans 6.5, OpenOffice.org 3, Emacs, Doxygen 2.0.
Note: I am not familiar with the Mac OS/X operating system, nor do I have any experience reading or working with the object-oriented programming languages of Java or C# (typical trend amongst sofware companies looking for programmers these days).
Technical Writing
- Society for Technical Communication Organization dedicated to science and writing art of Technical Communication.
- Wikiversity Technical Writing course good for people new to the profession in regard to writing effective technical documentation in general.
- Effective Documentation how effective documentation is the key if open source projects are to thrive.
- Getting a Tech Writing job this article describes how to get a Technical Writing job even if you have no experience.
- Technical Writing jobs technical writing jobs search provided by indeed.com.
Web Development
Hardware
My hardware specs:
- AMD 64 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- Nvidia GeForce 256MB video card
- M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI soundcard.
- Sennheiser PCX250 noise-cancelling (closed-cans)
- Boston Acoustics 2.1 speakers with discrete subwoofer
- Dual-boot Windows XP / Ubuntu.
- Windows:
- Linux:
- Rubyripper with cdparanoia libraries for ripping.
- Amarok for listening.
- k3B for cd writing.
- Ktorrent/blogs for downloading
- My encoding habbits:
- Vorbis 1.1.3 libraries -q 7/8 for HD storage
- FLAC 1.13 -C 3/6 level for archiving my CD's
- Nero MPEG-4 LC-AAC -q 0.65 for Playstation 3 media
- Lame MP3 3.98 -V 2 for compatability
Websites
Audio Websites:
- Icecast Streaming links to open-source streaming stations on the net (MP3, HE-AAC, AAC, Vorbis streaming)
- 1980s.fm a cool retro commercial site that brings you back to the 80's. (MP3, Vorbis streaming).
- Pandora Account my account on pandora radio (AAC streaming)
- Spotify a new streaming media service avaliable only in Europe. U.S and Canadadian expansion soon to come! all tracks are -q 5 Vorbis files.(Vorbis streaming)
- Lala Music a cool social networking sites with free streaming full length tracks and 50 free song credits. All tracks are mostly $0.99 cents each. (MP3 streaming)
- Amazon MP3 commercial website with DRM free single track's and full albums encoded @ 256 CBR or Lame -V 0 presets. All Track's are either $0.89 or $0.99 cents each.
- ITunes Music popular ITunes music with DRM free track's and albums encoded at 128 kbps ITunes AAC encoder or "ITunes Plus" 256 kbps AAC. All track's are $0.99 cents each. (AAC streaming)
- Musicbrainz Database essential for metadata and tagging your records
Lossless Audio Websites:
- HD Dowloads a list of websites offering lossless audio downloads (pay or for free)
- 7Digital a European digital music distribution website that offers lossless downloads occasionally (FLAC)
Musical Interests
My musical interests are:
- Music
- Classical
- Use of classical music in diverse genres (indian and chinese classical)
- Film Compositions/Scores (post contemporary and popular themes)
- Pieces by famous classical composers of Classical Era and before (Bach, Tchaikovsky, etc).
- Electronic
- Ambient
- IDM/Braindance
- Squarpusher
- Mu-Ziq
- Venetian Snares
- Mouse On Mars
- Big Beat
- FC Kahuna
- The Chemical Brothers
- The Crystal Method
- Fatboy Slim
- The Prodigy
- The Propellerheads, etc.
- Chiptunes
- C64 SID
- Amiga
- Super NES
- Sega Genesis
- Netlabels
- Kahvi Collective
- 8-bit Peoples
- Electroclash
- Felix Da Housecat
- Fischerspooner
- The New Deal, etc
- Electronic Dance Music
- Full-on Psychedelic Trance/Goa Trance
- Infected Mushroom
- Astrix
- Vibe Tribe
- G.M.S
- Ananda Shake
- Sesto Sento
- Visual Paradox
- The Misted Muppet
- Goa Gil, etc
- Astral Projection
- Progressive House
- BT
- Sasha
- Way Out West
- Hernan Cattaneo
- James Zabiela
- Bart Van Wissen
- Luke Chable
- Andy Moor
- New Skool Breaks
- Meat Katie
- Plump DJ's
- Dylan Rhymes
- Koma and Bones
- Elite Foce
- Evil 9
- Andy Page
- Uberzone, etc
- Full-on Psychedelic Trance/Goa Trance
- alternative/indie
- 80's rock/pop
- funk
- jazz
- blues
- new wave
- new age
- hip hop, etc.
- IDM/Braindance
HA Questions
Questions that I will answer:
- Ogg Vorbis technical questions (I am not a xiph zealot). I just like the project
- Questions reguarding other codecs like AAC, lossless, etc.
- Thought provoking R&D questions, provide insight, or ask questions
- Information pertaining to CD ripping and audio hardware (including sound cards)
- Questions related computer music applications and software (sequencers, hardware, etc)
- General/technial questions reguarding CDex.
- Music discussion forum related stuff or usage.
- Other thought provoking topics (replaygain, dynamics range, mastering, etc)
- Questions were I can help people.
- Pokes at humorous topics.