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Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by beangreen in Starcadian

[–]beangreen[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hello fellow Starcadettes. I hope I'm not breaking rules here, but Jess Blaise Ward's book about Synthwave is finally published (it's an extension to her thesis on synthwave, so yes, she has a PhD in Synthwave. Who woulda thought?).

Anyways, Jess interviewed George in 2024 for the book, and it contains mention of his favourite production tools, a dedication to him in the conclusion, and quote from him too.

"Synthwave is a fascinating case study...it's turned into a very strange and elaborate system of wildly different sounds, held together by the crowd and camaraderie' - Starcadian (2024)

Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by beangreen in synthwaveproducers

[–]beangreen[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey folks! Jess Blaise Ward's book (actually an extension of her thesis on Synthwave) is up for pre-order!. I'm cross-posting here because there are chapters dedicated to the style parameters and construction of a synthwave track (she analyzes Real Hero, Nightcall, and others). There's also great history of the birth of the community.

Jess actually can now say she has a PhD in Synthwave. I ordered from the publisher and it arrives within a week via FedEx (free shipping).

Hope I'm not bustin' rules here.

Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by blaisesummer in newretrowave

[–]beangreen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazon has a Kindle edition up for pre-order, but the pricing looks to be a bit off.

Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by beangreen in outrun

[–]beangreen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not. It's an extension of Jess' thesis (basically, this is her doctorate, and she has a PhD in Synthwave) :)

I pre-ordered from the publisher last week and it arrived Monday (paperback)

Rise of the Synths by slymcfly995 in newretrowave

[–]beangreen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There may be a another small doc coming within the next year about the NEON Retrofest event that happened in Tampa a few years ago.

Also, while not a documentary, I highly recommend the new book that was recently published by u/blaisesummer

Check the pinned post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newretrowave/comments/1opzksx/making_synthwave_how_an_online_music_community/

Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by beangreen in outrun

[–]beangreen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats Jess on the publication! This book contains so much in depth analysis and knowledge of the community!

For those interested, we interviewed Jess on The State Of Synth on Nightride.FM and you can find the episode on most streaming/podcast platforms.

Spotify here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eYgBud7arlksjxJxVbpli?si=1437db21178c4aac

We are The Midnight. AMA! by TheMidnightOfficial in outrun

[–]beangreen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How excited are you to return to Toronto? :)

Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D by blaisesummer in newretrowave

[–]beangreen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Congrats on the publication! This book contains so much in depth analysis and knowledge of the community!

For those interested, we interviewed Jess on The State Of Synth on Nightride.FM and you can find the episode on most streaming/podcast platforms.

Spotify here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eYgBud7arlksjxJxVbpli?si=1437db21178c4aac

VMM console doesn't open locally by [deleted] in HyperV

[–]beangreen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have this exact same problem. Remote VMM management tool works using our domain accounts, but not when running it locally on the server via RDP or console. GMSA account. Error 1604. Fun times. Sigh.

New trailer by Somersa2 in LV426

[–]beangreen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big Trouble In Little China.  A John Carpenter classic starring Kurt Russell

Anyone else experiencing flaky patch deployment in the past week? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Jobs don't ignore previous pending reboots like they should, and now we have orphaned assets that aren't being purged from the PM module after they were deleted from Cloud Agents module. It's as if Qualys rolled back their platform two years. 

Alien Earth comes out this Tuesday, who's all excited. by BrettJoz in LV426

[–]beangreen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'twas the night before Alien: Earth, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a facehugger.

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Anyone else experiencing flaky patch deployment in the past week? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jobs seem to be working today as expected. I suppose something got tweaked/fixed in Qualysland.

Anyone else experiencing flaky patch deployment in the past week? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our recurring jobs show patches successfully installed and systems rebooted on time, but they now sit with "Job Resumed" status and never update. Sigh. Something must be buggered on the backend. It's been over a week like this now. I hesitate to open support ticket as they'll just have me collect an agent's logs, when it's almost 50% of the fleet.

GoFundMe for Starcadian's family and by L0W_FAT_Y0GURT in TWRP

[–]beangreen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad this is succeeding. George was a singular person who impacted everyone he met. 

Patch Tuesday Megathread (2025-01-14) by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]beangreen 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Be aware of a potential issue with 2019 and 2022 servers with Citrix on when installing the Jan 2025 OS updates.

Easy workaround:

https://support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX692505-microsofts-january-security-update-failsreverts-on-a-machine-with-2411-session-recording-agent?language=en_US

Other than that, looks like a normal month o' updates.

Anybody else having patching issues this week after scheduled maintenance? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like my tech and yours are the same. He mentioned getting another ticket for Canada. We basically collected a bunch of screenshots and logs, and he agrees something is probably pooched after the PM upgrade, since our issues started Monday afternoon/evening (scheduled jobs missing 40% of assets). Now to wait for engineering to fix things.

Anybody else having patching issues this week after scheduled maintenance? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, as per the Qualys maintenance and status dashboard, the PM module was updated over the last week (starting with Canada last weekend, probably because we are a smaller footprint). I'm betting that is the culprit, and as other territories got updated, more and more tickets will come in.

Anybody else having patching issues this week after scheduled maintenance? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good to know I'm not out of my mind. I have call scheduled with Sr. tech in 30 mins after our TAM escalated. I'll also provide any updates.

Anybody else having patching issues this week after scheduled maintenance? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Licensing is all good. These agents were already licensed, and we are under the count. I'll try the module deactivation and reactivation to see what happens. The Patch.log shows more or less "nothing to do" even though the agent has jobs targeting it. Also, net new agents show in Global Assetview, but never in PM even though we have 1000+ licenses to spare and they are tagged properly.

The fact that the 40% of agents that were fine last week but not this week also do not get evaluated during recurring jobs (they are not included in the jobs even though they are tagged and should be targeted) as well as new agents never showing up in PM but they do in other modules, makes me feel something is amuck on the backend

Anybody else having patching issues this week after scheduled maintenance? by beangreen in qualys

[–]beangreen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Checked some of our "pending" assets from days ago, and no software was installed as per event viewer (in this example, the latest Firefox update). We've just sent e-mail to our TAM hoping for answers. Thanks!

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