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There is a lot of noise in my life. There is the fact that I live in a lively city with busy streets and a lot of night life. Thats the kind of noise that I like. Then there is the noise that is killing me: office noise.

I work in a cube farm of the wost kind. Not only are partitions low enough to make it practical to shout over instead of moving your ass, partitions are made of painted gypsum instead of cloth. As a result, noise is reflected all over the place instead of being absorbed. Not all noise is created equal: it was shown that conversation is the thing that kills the concentration of office workers the most. At work, we are packed tight and I can hear at least 10 persons when they are talking, which certainly can't help my productivity.

A few weeks a ago, I asked experts for advice. They praised the quality, isolation, and comfort of several pair of head phones. Thanks to their recommendations, I'm now the proud owner a pair of Beyer DT770 Pro and I finally can enjoy tranquillity at work.

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One problem with a really stable system is that you don't notice when your init scripts are broken. Fract have been down for the last few days. It happened that it wasn't properly restarting after a power cycle... It should be OK now but don't hesitate to annoy me by email if things aren't working as expected.

Now lets talk about music. Most music today is complete crap. Musicians stick to "the formula", always the same playtime, the same instruments, the same verse/chorus alternation, the same... The best artists can produce excellent stuff but for some reason they won't refrain from publishing the crap too, and they publish a lot of it... Take Wumpscut as an example, Draussen and Totmacher is among the most brilliant music since Beethoven but if you are dumb enough to just drop the CD in your player and push play you'll fall on crap like Wolf and Mortal Highway. Worst, there is plenty of random noisish padding like Phase Shifter and Beleive in Me. Am I suppose to care that you recorded the sound test of your latest reverb pedal? This guy must be smart, can he really not tell what is crap and what is good?

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