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Archive for June, 2005

I have been hard at work, getting our favorite medical billing engine to support generating patient statements, in addition to its current payer billing capabilities. In addition, I have been adding some rich font support for PDFs, while all font attributes are stripped out or ignored when generating plain text or other formats which do not support it.

In addition, I was reading an article on building an extremely low-latency box for professional audio, when I was appalled to see a comment that “the most obvious choice of operating system for musicians is still Windows XP Professional”. If I may rant a little, I really don’t think so. There’s nothing obvious about awful latencies, rarely consistent hardware support, and on-and-off blue screens. With jack, ardour, hydrogen, jamin, and other fine professional audio products, what is stopping you from making the move from the dark side?

I have been starting to consider changing distributions for the studio machine, lulled away from the safe confines of the known to something which seems to be much nicer in terms of user experience.

Unfortunately, it isn’t quite ready in the realm of low-latency audio, so I have been working at packaging up the most important applications, as well as putting together a nice low-latency kernel package for the 2.6.x series of kernels which Ubuntu uses.

We’ll give more progress as this progresses further. The kernel is building as we speak …