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So when Shade wrote his post the other week about Audacity crapping out on him in the middle of the show, I’ll admit that I chuffed a little bit. Clearly it must’ve been an issue with his computer and not the audio editing darling of the open-source community. I mean, there have been 38 developers putting in almost as many person years in creating this widely used application and working to make it stable. Nightmares of being chased down dark alleys by machete-wielding unit and regression tests surely must’ve haunted a few of these coders until they delivered an app which was so stable it could take a bullet, catch it in it’s teeth, spit it back at you, and then karate-chop you in the throat.

You would think…..

So imagine my shock when in the middle of my show last week Audacity gave me a whiny error message and promptly closed, taking about 1 1/2 hours of my set along with it. After checking outside, to make sure the universe wasn’t unraveling at the seams, I came to the sudden realization that Audacity was a steaming pile of shit….leaving my faith in open-source and humanity both irreparably shattered.

This is my long-winded way of telling you not to expect a dubstep podcast from last week. My apologies.

posted by: RickyRicardo