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The Unadopted Podcast does guitars! I was getting nostalgic for a time before the likes of Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, The Arctic Monkeys and all that dodgy chav-indie/cry-me-a-river-emo-bollocks. A time when you could go to a indie/rock night and you’d hear song after song after song of awesomeness. Did everyone forget about this stuff? Stick this in your noisemaker, and it’ll all come flooding back!
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
- Hundred Reasons - What Thought Did
- Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go
- Nine Black Alps - Not Everyone
- Vex Red - Itch
- Hell Is For Heroes - You Drove Me To It
- Kinesis - Billboard Beauty
- OK Go - Get Over It
- Ash - Burn Baby Burn
- Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
- The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
- The Strokes - Juicebox
- Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
- Rival Schools - Used For Glue
- The Music - The People
- Muse - Futurism
Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!
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Dear Lazyweb:
iSync has decided to stop opening for me. Syncing from the iSync menu doesn’t work either.
iSync appears and disappears in the Dock before it even gets a chance to bounce. Nothing in the console, and it doesn’t fire up CrashReporter to send a report to Apple.
Trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iSync.pl
Making it run under Rosetta didn’t fix it either.
I’m running OS X 10.5.2 and iSync.app 3.0 on a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo).
Halp?
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Have an OpenID? You can now use it to leave comments here and at the Unadopted Podcast.
Don’t know what an OpenID is? This’ll explain it.
Don’t have an OpenID? Actually, you probably do.
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“A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC. ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope.”
– BBC News (Link)
Services like YouTube, the iTunes Store and BBC iPlayer should NOT be held responsible for the fact that the Internet is being used by more and more people to transfer more and more data now than ever before. The Internet is getting used more widely every day. This is a GOOD THING for everyone involved, the services get used more, and the ISPs get more customers. The UK’s ISPs are trying to make the services foot the bill for this. This will remove the incentive for these services to be maintained, and many will go away if this happens. It’ll also prevent small companies, individuals, not-for-profit organisations and many others from inventing any services that require high amounts of data transfer. No more Linux ISOs? No more online software distribution at all?
The UK’s ISPs are going about this all wrong. They’re the ones providing connectivity between residential users and the Internet backbones. They’re the ones having trouble with their networks. They’re the ones that need to pay for the costs of upgrading their networks.
But where do they get the money from? Well, their customers. As a residential user myself, I think that sucks somewhat, but in reality we’re getting a worse deal right now. Most providers have massively oversold their service, which is why they punish users who download lots — their networks weren’t designed for everyone to constantly max out their 20 megabit connections 24×7, but they sell connections that are capable of doing so, and punish their customers for using what they’re being sold.
Something needs to change. Spread the word. This is important.
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I’ve put together some more music for you in a nicely mixed fashion! Give it a whirl, it’s quite good this one. This one’s NOT part of the podcast for various reasons, so grab it while its hot!
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The Register reports “A 27-year-old New Zealand man has been charged with assault after using a hedgehog as an improvised ninja star against a 15-year-old […]”
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I don’t think it’ll be long until Amazon finds it and removes it, but I just got emailed a link to this interesting use of Amazon’s user review service. Let the meme machine commence.
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Rails on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard to most people), is fantastic. It’s already there, and it just works. From the very second Leopard finishes installing, you can run rails yourAppName in a terminal, and boom, it gives you a default Rails app. Move into the directory that just got created with cd yourAppName, and start Mongrel running with script/server. Fire up Safari, head on over to http://0.0.0.0:3000/, and you can see your app running. Awesome!
However, try and move this to a non OS X server, and it won’t work, because /public/dispatch.cgi, /public/dispatch.fcgi, and /public/dispatch.rb all have the following line at the top:
#!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
This line should say:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
This change that Apple have made isn’t necessary for Rails to run on OS X, as there’s already a symlink in /usr/bin/ruby to make this extra code unnecessary. I’m a little confused by Apple’s motives here. A mistake? A mischevious way of increasing OS X Server sales, by making it harder for people to port their apps away from OS X? Either way, it’s an unneeded frustration. Fix it, Apple!
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Time for more music! Quite a varied pick this time, but it seems to work well together. Without further ado, here’s what I’m loving at the moment…
- Digitalism - Echoes
- The Wombats - Moving To New York (The Touch Remix)
- The Ting Tings - Great DJ (IDC Rerub)
- Cassius - Cassius 1999 (Remix) (Long Version)
- Daft Punk - One More Time (Club Mix)
- Louis La Roche - Love
- Ludacris - Move Bitch (DJ Neoteric Remix)
- Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me (DJ Wood’s Twilight Beats Remix)
- Hot Chip - Bendable Posable
- Digitalism - ZDRLT (Rewind)
- Digitalism - Zdarlight
- Justice - DVNO
- Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes (Sanchez Mix)
Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!
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It’s mashup central here at the Unadopted Podcast this time around! Every track in this mix is a mashup of some sort or other. I think that more people need to hear some of the awesome stuff being pumped out by the likes of ElectroSound, and Loo & Placido. Sadly I don’t know all the sources on these, but if you know, or if you created them, drop a comment and I’ll get the track list updated!
- The Offspring vs Bloc Party- Original Banquet
- The Beastie Boys vs Orbital - Ch-Ch-Chime It Out
- Justice vs Simian vs Red Hot Chili Peppers - Waiting For Your Friends (DJ Prince Mashup)
- Eddy Grant vs Digitalism - Zdarlight Avenue (ElectroSound Mashup)
- Justin Timberlake vs Technotronic - Pump It Like I Like It (Ben Liebrand Mashup)
- Muse vs Klaxons - Supermassive Rainbow (ElectroSound Mashup)
- Superfunk vs Stardust - Luckystar
- Tone Loc vs Mr Oizo - Funky Cold Flat Beat (Soulwax Mashup)
- Annie vs Queens Of The Stone Age - First It Giveth Chewing Gum (Soulwax Mashup)
Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!
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“I’m on SUP’s LiveJournal Advisory Board. Apparently SUP just killed the Basic (”Free”) accounts. […] I advised against this (when I heard a rumor about it awhile back). I hadn’t heard anything recently about it. […] In any case, SUP apparently sees no value in freeloaders not looking at ads, not paying, and oh wait… producing most the content for other members to read, other members who are looking at ads and paying for their accounts.”
– Brad Fitzpatrick (Link)
It’s things like this that make me glad I left LiveJournal and host my blog myself. It’s quite sad, really. That place was a big part of my life for about 7 years.
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I had iTunes on shuffle and it decided to Rickroll me. Dammit.
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This was quite fun to do…
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I submitted the Unadopted Podcast Widget to Apple for inclusion in their software directory. After they approved it, they posted it here for anyone and everyone browsing their software directory to download. Neat, huh?
Well it just got a bit neater. I didn’t submit it to Softpedia, but I guess they must scan for new additions to Apple’s site, because I just received an email notifying me that…
Your product “Unadopted Podcast Widget 1.0″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components.
We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep this high standards in the future.
To assure our visitors that “Unadopted Podcast Widget 1.0″ is clean, we have granted it with the “100% CLEAN” Softpedia award. Moreover, to let your users know about this certification, you may display this award on your website, on software boxes or inside your product.
Having gone to the Softpedia page for my widget, I’ve noticed they’ve taken their own screenshots of my widget so I guess that it really has been tested. I knew it was clean already, now you can have the same peace of mind.
So, without further ado, I guess I’ll post this:
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I’m bored of sending comments about this to posts in LiveJournal’s macosx community, so I’ll make a full post about it.
Did you try the defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 hack to backup to a network drive?
If so, you’re going to hit a brick wall and your backup will be useless very soon (if not already)!
Simple explanation: Once your backup disk fills, Time Machine accidentally corrupts the backup.
Technical explanation: Volumes that are otherwise hidden unless you run the above command in a Terminal aren’t guaranteed to be formatted with HFS+. To get around this, Time Machine creates a sparse bundle disk image on the target drive, and formats it HFS+. It’ll then mount that disk image whenever it runs a backup. The problem occurs when the disk fills up. When OS X deletes files from a sparse bundle disk image, it tries to free the space that was previously allocated to these files. There is a bug in the code that does this that destroys the disk image completely, making your entire Time Machine backup useless. Use SuperDuper until they fix it, it can backup to sparse images (as opposed to sparse bundle images).
So that’s why you can’t back up to SMB / AFP / NFS shares with Time Machine for now. You can let Time Machine try, but it DOES NOT WORK (yet).
Fingers crossed this gets fixed soon.
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If you’re using Mac OS X 10.4.3 or above, you can now get the Unadopted Podcast delivered right to your Dashboard, with my new widget!
If you’ve got Safari, just click the download link and it’ll automatically unzip and install into your dashboard, without any work from you — how cool is that?
Oh, and for those that are interested, it took me a grand total of about 5 minutes to build the widget, upload it, and create this page. Impressive.
Download v1.0: http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/widget/wi