I just had one of those rare musical moments where you are listening to a song that you love, and hear something in it that you never heard, or thought you never heard before, and in future listenings, the song in question is always heard with that newly discovered element.

So for example, you are listening to a light jazz latin track, as was the case for me, and you hear a muted cowbell providing cross rhythm underneeth the solo vocals. The muted cowbell in question starts off the track, but in this particular part, I never remember hearing, or more to the point, paying attention to the underlying cowbell rhythm, as it seems that my attention has previously been focused elsewhere, either on lyrics or drum part.

Its moments like this that I always relish when listening to music. And to cap it all off, this was with a pair of your average 2.1 computer speakers. Now I know I will always hear that cowbell part, even in my good pair of headphones, or on a good sound system.

So there has been a discussion going on Planet Ubuntu about whether one should run a 64-bit distro on their hardware. As has been expressed, for most users, it doesn't make a difference, except come 2038.

However, if you plan to do any music/audio/video production on Linux, 64-bit is the way to go. The biggest advantage, is being able to make use of much more memory for your video/audio/graphics work. That alone is enough of a reason, however running 64 bit helps in other ways as well, such as being able to use binaries that have CPU optimizations such as sse enabled by default. For 32-bit binaries, while most modern CPUs support these optimizations, the binaries have to be built for the lowest common denominator, that being, machines that may only have sse, and not sse2, or may only have mmx. All x86_64 (64-bit amd/intel) CPUs have had things like sse since their inception, so if the program can take advantage of it, it will.

These optimizations can make a big difference when processing that huge image, or rendering that video clip, or mastering that 24 track audio recording, probably saving you enough time to get that other important thing done that you needed completed yesterday. :)

Well, it has been a long time coming, but I am finally a part of the blogosphere. Yes, thats right, I, Luke Yelavich (AKA TheMuso) finally have a blog, on my own webspace, on my own domain. I've been meaning to do this for the past 3 years, but haven't been bothered/motivated enough to do it, until now. And really, there hasn't been anything that I've really wanted to blog about, or been bothered to blog about either, but now I have a blog, Its likely that I'll be motivated to blog about things I care about/am interested in.

So hello to all the Planet Ubuntu readers out there, as well as the other bloggers. Anything that appears on planet Ubuntu that is from me, will be strictly Ubuntu related, as I am only syndicating the Ubuntu category from my blog. If you are interested in other topics that I blog about, feel free to head on over to http://www.themuso.com and have a look around, not that there is actually very much there at the moment :)

I hope that my blog will give you some insight into what I do in life, and what plans/hopes/dreams I may have for the future. I am always interested in making contact with others that have similar interests, so once I work out a way of people contacting me without receiving any more spam than I do already, you will be able to contact me privately from my site.

Well, its late, and I'd better get onto other tasks that need attention, like sleep. :)