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Cue sheet // Fabriclive 40: Noisia

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:52:00 +0100

TITLE "Fabriclive 40: Noisia"
PERFORMER "Noisia"
FILE "noisia.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cannonball"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00 
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stompbox (Spor Remix)"
    PERFORMER "The Qemists"
    INDEX 01 00:44:00 
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Alive (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 01:28:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Anti Social"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 02:34:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Splash Step"
    PERFORMER "Break"
   INDEX 01 05:10:00 
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Diplodocus (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 07:46:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Claret's March"
    PERFORMER "Spor"
    INDEX 01 10:19:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Head Knot (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 11:50:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Tide"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
   INDEX 01 13:30:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Nowhere (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Icicle"
     INDEX 01 15:55:00
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Feed"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 17:34:00
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Global (Dub) - Subtitles"
    PERFORMER "Sabre"
   INDEX 01 19:15:00 
  TRACK 13 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cold Champagne (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 20:55:00
  TRACK 14 AUDIO
    TITLE "Panic"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 23:31:00
  TRACK 15 AUDIO
    TITLE "Infusion"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 24:40:00
  TRACK 16 AUDIO
    TITLE "Split The Atom (Instrumental)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
   INDEX 01 28:03:00 
  TRACK 17 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mordez Moi"
    PERFORMER "Spor"
    INDEX 01 32:52:00
  TRACK 18 AUDIO
    TITLE "Seven Stiches"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 35:45:00
  TRACK 19 AUDIO
    TITLE "Brown Time"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 40:43:00
  TRACK 20 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stigma (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 44:07:00
  TRACK 21 AUDIO
    TITLE "Alice (Noisia Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Moby"
    INDEX 01 46:55:00
  TRACK 22 AUDIO
    TITLE "Concussion"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 50:59:00
  TRACK 23 AUDIO
    TITLE "Facade (VIP)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 52:22:00
  TRACK 24 AUDIO
    TITLE "Medicine (Matrix Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Optical"
   INDEX 01 54:18:00 
  TRACK 25 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mudslide"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 56:03:00
  TRACK 26 AUDIO
    TITLE "Viperfish (VIP)"
    PERFORMER "Misanthrop"
    INDEX 01 59:17:00
  TRACK 27 AUDIO
    TITLE "Crank (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 60:34:00
  TRACK 28 AUDIO
    TITLE "Creep Out"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 62:30:00
  TRACK 29 AUDIO
    TITLE "Square Feet"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 65:00:00

To www, or not to www

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:02:00 +0100

Which one to choose??

no-www.org
www.yes-www.org
www.www.extra-www.org

I’m in favour of dropping it, here’s my setup

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.phildawson\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://phildawson.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Positioning Controls on a Google Map

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:21:53 +0100

Positioning Controls on a Google Map:

Quick example of how to position GSmallMapControl() in the top right of a Google map

var pos = new GControlPosition(G_ANCHOR_TOP_RIGHT, new GSize(10,10)); 
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl(), pos);

Firefox - Blinking vertical bar cursor on webpage

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:32:27 +0100

This drove me nuts as until I found out I had turned on ‘Caret browsing’ by accident, to toggle the feature on/off use the F7 key (fn+F7 mac).

Yoggie Pico: A Linux USB key-size computer with 12 built-in security apps

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:01:00 +0100

Yoggie Pico: A Linux USB key-size computer with 12 built-in security apps: “Designed to off-load installed security software from your PC, the plug-in Gatekeeper Pico replaces all of your security software, adds additional security features and speeds your PC’s performance as resources are no longer dedicated to security tasks.”

Racedriver GRID yellow diagonal lines or fuzzy blue blocks on install

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:52:22 +0100

If you have played the demo and then installed the full game you might think your game is corupt if you get yellow diagonal lines or fuzzy blue blocks on the screen after the splash video. As I found out this is just a case of needing the latest drivers for your graphics card.

XP recogizes my graphics card as the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT (its actually ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO), and in my case the demo works with version 8.390.0.0 which was installed with bootcamp, but the full game needs at least 8.430.0.0 which was released 4 months later. After downloading the latest version of the Apple Boot Camp XP Software Graphics Driver it worked perfectly.

If you don’t have a shinny iMac, heres the start page for all ATI drivers

If you ever need to reset the graphics, you can always start the game with the lowest settings by adding -safemode after GRID.exe
eg

“C:\Program Files\Codemasters\GRID\GRID.exe” -safemode

HP Blackbird 002

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:22:51 +0100

HP Blackbird 002

New on my Wishlistr: Blackbird Exhilaration Edition

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:30:00 +0100

New on my Wishlistr: Blackbird Exhilaration Edition:

Intel Core2 Extreme Quad-Core 3.2GHz QX9770
4GB 1600 MHz CORSAIR PC-12800 DDR3 SDRAM Memory
CPU Liquid cooling
EVGA nForce 790i Ultra Motherboard
Dual EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280, with 1GB SDRAM

..$7,000,00

ogg video tag example with controls

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:39:00 +0100

You can view the video below by downloading a patched Firefox until this is supported, which will hopefully be in Firefox 3.1. (Shiretoko)

OS X (Intel) download
Linux download

Here’s a demo of a video inserted into SVG using JavaScript, you can even scale and drag the players around which is pretty cool. If you want to learn more about the video tag, see Chris Double’s blog, Bluish Coder and check out his examples of using the video tag.

Feedburner RSS - failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0100

You now have to define a user-agent with the HTTP request otherwise you will now get a nice error like “failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found” as I found out recently. fopen (file_get_contents) and libcurl don’t by default so you need to add an extra line anywhere above the call to fake it.

You can define the user agent for PHP to send with ini_set as shown in the example below. You can actually replace Mozilla/5.0 with any string as long as its not empty and it should be fine.

ini_set('user_agent','Mozilla/5.0');
$file = file_get_contents('http://feeds.feedburner.com/phildawson');

Asus Eee PC 901 20G Linux Edition Reviewed (1st July UK...

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:18:00 +0100

Asus Eee PC 901 20G Linux Edition Reviewed
(1st July UK release)

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:13:43 +0100

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell

JW FLV Media Player scrub bug in version 3.16

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:42:00 +0100

There is an issue with version 3.16 which disables scrubbing the timebar and the controlling of it with JavaScript with certain Flash players installed. I have tested my setup of an XML playlist of RTMP FLVs and have narrowed it down to find that it works in Flash 9,0,115,0 but not in 9,0,47,0

The solution I’ve found is to just use 3.15 for the moment, which I have tested works back to 8,0,5,0

Be aware that by default the 3.15 player shuffles the order and doesn’t play the next items in the playlist. (why??) So heres the extra lines I need to add:

so.addVariable('shuffle', 'false');
so.addVariable('repeat', 'true');

Flash: Cross-domain data loading

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:08:33 +0100

Flash: Cross-domain data loading:

“When a Flash document attempts to access data from another domain, Flash Player automatically attempts to load a policy file from that domain. If the domain of the Flash document that is attempting to access the data is included in the policy file, the data is automatically accessible.”

Youtube example of a crossdomain.xml file

Time Machine button in the Finder Toolbar

Wed, 21 May 2008 23:06:00 +0100

Time Machine button in the Finder Toolbar:

If you dont want Time Machine cluttering up your dock, you can always add it to your Finder by dragging the app and holding it over the toolbar for a few seconds, but the default icon stands out from the other sleek grey icons. iconaholic.com has designed a very nice icon to replace it. The download also includes a quick tutorial on how to overwrite the file.

See also: Few More Leopard Folder Icons for a nice backup folder icon.

Animated PNG graphics (APNG), goodbye GIF

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:35:00 +0100

View this page using Firefox3 (or any browser that supports APNG) and the logo below should spin. You can create your own animated pngs using Justin Dolskes APNG Editor add-on for Firefox3. After you install you can open the beta editor under the Tools menu.

Find out more at animatedpng.com

Open Source Food - A tasty website build using CI

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:07:00 +0100

Open Source Food - A tasty website build using CI: “Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Open Source Food is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly…”

Holomatix Blaze 3D Studio

Sun, 04 May 2008 23:12:46 +0100

Holomatix Blaze 3D Studio: “The Holomatix Blaze platform is widely recognized as the highest quality interactive web 3D rendering solution available, having been production-proven by more than 70 world-renowned brands. Industry leaders such as Sony, Kodak, adidas and Ford have taken advantage of Blaze to increase online stickiness and conversion rates, through developing highly interactive 3D sales and marketing applications.”

Connect two Macs using FireWire

Thu, 01 May 2008 18:35:55 +0100

Connect the two Macs together with a FireWire cable first, then restart the Mac you want to transfer to and hold the T key down whilst it boots. You should see a large FireWire symbol floating around the screen and on the other Mac you should see the hard drive mount on the desktop.

Install GD Library on Leopard in 5 easy steps

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:59:00 +0100

1. Download PHP 5.2.5 (beta6 or newer) and unpack

curl -O http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5-6-beta.tar.gz
tar -xzf php5-*-beta.tar.gz

2. Move the extracted php5 folder into /usr/local

sudo mv php5 /usr/local/

3. Change the owner to root

sudo chown -R root:admin /usr/local/php5

4. Open httpd.conf and comment out the existing LoadModule line if you are already using the default php5 and add the following line to set the new path of the module.

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
LoadModule php5_module local/php5/libphp5.so

5. Copy your existing php.ini into the new location

sudo cp /etc/php.ini /usr/local/php5/lib

Restart Apache and you now have GD support.