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What were the skies like when you were young? The Unadopted Podcast is back again with yet another batch of musical goodies for you. Yet another varied one this time, ranging from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to Mujava, and from Pixie Lott to the ever-awesome Fake Blood.
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- Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Beggin’ (Pilooski Re-Edit)
- David Guetta – Jack Is Back
- Alter Ego – Rocker
- Mujava – Township Funk
- Hook ‘n’ Sling – The Bump (Tonite Only Mix)
- Pixie Lott – Mama Do (Linus Loves Remix Radio Edit)
- The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (Fake Blood Remix)
- Alex Gopher – Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
- Little Boots – New In Town (A1 Bassline Remix)
- Fake Blood – Blood Splashing (Fake Blood Theme)
- Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Poj Masta Womp Mix)
- The Orb vs Alan Parker – Grey Clouds
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BoingBoing recently linked to a BBC Magazine article where they gave a 13-year-old an original Sony Walkman to review. My favourite quote:
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.”
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Checking in with Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band, a bit of the Mighty Boosh, some Little Boots, and that Duke Dumont version of Two Doors Down by the Mystery Jets (that really sounds a lot more like it’s Muse - New Born…), it’s the Unadopted Podcast with a mixed bag of Bank Holiday Weekend party tracks.
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- Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth Of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix) (Unadopted Edit)
- Jean Jacques Perrey vs Hervé - EVA (DJ Yoda’s FabricLive.39 Bonus Beats Mix)
- Mojo Filter feat The Mighty Boosh - Oaky Timbre (Loose Cannons Reflick)
- Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
- Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Laidback Luke Remix)
- Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)
- The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (SebastiAn Remix)
- Jaydee - Plastic Dreams (Laidback Luke Boot)
- Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Doorly Dubstep Remix)
- The Prodigy - Thunder
- Simian Mobile Disco - 10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong
- Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)
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Starting off with the dark-but-bouncy Sombre Detune by Norwegian funksters Röyksopp, touching on the epic Mars by Fake Blood, and bumping into some Prodigy and Tomas Andersson along the way, here’s the next installment of the Unadopted Podcast!
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- Röyksopp - Sombre Detune
- Friendly Fires - Your Love
- Yo Majesty - Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing To Baltimore Edit)
- Fake Blood - Mars
- Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Shinichi Osawa Re-Construct)
- The Shapeshifters - Chime (Martijn Ten Velden Remix)
- Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now (Redanka Mix)
- Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Soulwax Remix)
- Marco V & Sander van Doorn - Organic
- The Prodigy - The Way It Is
- Justice - Planisphère (MMMatthias Remix)
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I pushed a new design for Unadopted.co.uk live today. Took a while to get it to look right, but I quite like it. Much more up-to-date. The old look was about 5 years old!
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I just read a daily email from Logwatch to find some very strange messages…
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.208, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.210, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.211, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.212, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.213, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.214, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.216, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.217, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.218, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.219, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.220, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.221, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 4 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.225, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.227, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.228, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.232, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.234, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.235, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.236, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 5 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.237, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.238, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.239, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.240, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.241, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.244, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.245, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.246, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.248, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.249, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.251, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)
Okay, so let’s list the strange events here:
- A whole bunch of sequential IPs are connecting to my POP3 port (not necessarily in order, perhaps Logwatch is just picking them out that way)
- The remote machines are connecting, but not even attempting to authenticate (log in), they’re just disconnecting
- The IP range is apparently owned by Google
So… what’s going on here, exactly? Anyone able to shed some light onto this?
Originally published at Lost Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
Get your weekend up-to-speed with this collection of early 2000’s dancepop fun! Taking a break from the electro side of things, this one’s crammed full of uplifting jump-around-the-house stuff from the likes of Armand Van Helden, The Shapeshifters, Fatboy Slim, and M&S presents The Girl Next Door.
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- Armand Van Helden - You Don’t Even Know Me
- Michael Moog - That Sound
- Shakedown - At Night (Original Version)
- M&S presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget
- The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme (Shapeshifters 2008 Re-Edit)
- Space Cowboy - I Would Die 4 U
- Mr Pink presents The Program - Love And Affection
- Fatboy Slim - Talking Bout My Baby (Midfield General’s Disco Reshuffle)
- Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path
- Daft Punk - Something About Us (Without Brass Version)
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With music old and new from the likes of Justice, The Presets, Deadmau5, Space Cowboy and more, Session 017 is loaded with enough get-up-and-dance party energy to even make the snowmen start dancing.
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- Fischerspooner - Emerge
- Deelite - Groove Is In The Heart (Electro Remix)
- Basement Jaxx - Romeo (Ryback Remix)
- Klaxons - As Above, So Below (Justice Remix)
- Space Cowboy - My Egyptian Lover (Extended Club Mix)
- Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating (J-La Bootleg)
- Deadmau5 vs Jelo - The Reward Is Cheese
- Arthur Argent - Hold Your Head Up (Soulwhacked Mix)
- Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (John Redden Mix)
- Boys Noize - Oh! (A-Trak Remix)
- Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Calling In Sick Remix)
- Felix Cartal - Moss vs Tree
- The Presets - My People
- Vitalic - La Rock 01
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… and all of London grinds to a halt. The heaviest for 6 years apparently, though, and it’s going to be even heavier this afternoon. For as long as I can remember, I’ve never seen TfL (or its predecessors), cancel every bus service in the entire Greater London area though. This is pretty severe — for London, at least!
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That was a bit odd. My iPhone 3G started acting a bit weird so I turned it off. I turned it back on, and it took what seemed like forever to start back up.
When it eventually did come back, it was deactivated! It had the connect-to-itunes image (not text like the image above) at the top of the screen, no service name in the top-left corner, a “slide for emergency” thing at the bottom and an info button which showed the ICC ID and IMEI.
In a bit of a panic I turned it off and on again.
It took another eternity to start back up.
And then it booted normally, with the “iPhone is activated” message. Is my iPhone dying, or is it just time for a factory restore in iTunes?
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If you’re running a Linux, Mac OS X or Unix server of any description, SSH is an invaluable tool when it comes to taking control of the machine while you’re not infront of it.
In the world of web hosting, it’s also brings with it SFTP; a fantastic alternative to the very insecure FTP. Except it has one major flaw: by default on Ubuntu (and most Linux distros), one user can see all of another user’s files just by dropping up a directory to /home. Not exactly ideal if you’re providing a shared-hosting service.
So what we want is a chrooted version of SFTP. But this would also chroot SSH too, making it unusable for system administration. So we need to lock down SFTP only, but let SSH run free. We also want to be able to make some users SFTP-only (web hosting customers), and some users SFTP and SSH capable.
Luckily someone known as “The Minstrel”, came up with a pretty good solution to this. Back in November 2007, Mads Madsen also created a guide to this process for Debian/Ubuntu 7.04. This has been my favourite solution for some time now. The OpenSSH project has since created a version of this this idea internally, but annoyingly it’s got a major flaw: wherever you want to chroot the users to must be owned by root. In other words, users will not be able to create any files in the top level of their chroot jail.
Imagine that you have your users data stored in /home/username. You can’t chroot them to /home/username unless you create a directory inside there, and then let them own that. That gives them an ugly chrooted writable path like /htdocs (or whatever you choose to call it), and a / folder they can’t edit. The other option is to chroot them to /home, and let them own their homedir as normal, but then they can see every other user’s files. Again, not ideal.
So I stuck with The Minstrel’s version, but got tired of having to recompile and rebuild all this every time I wanted it on a new machine. Some people would have probably avoided this (actually quite good) solution altogether because it’s a bit too indepth. Well, it just got a bunch easier, because I created all the bits needed and am publishing them here for you to use.
Disclaimer: I make no promises that this won’t electrocute your cat, sleep with your girlfriend, make fun of your children, etc. Infact I make no promises about this at all. That said, for me, this has worked very well several times since Ubuntu 8.10’s release, on a whole variety of machines, and I’ve had no problems with it.
So from your Ubuntu machine, fire up a terminal (or SSH in, if you’re not sat infront of it) and paste this in:
wget http://unadopted.co.uk/openssh/openssh-server_5.1p1-3ubuntu1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i openssh-server_5.1p1-3ubuntu1_i386.deb sudo aptitude hold openssh-server
This will download the modified package, install it, and tell Ubuntu not to replace it with new any of Ubuntu’s versions. Now bear in mind that you won’t get automatic security updates on OpenSSH anymore — you’ll need a new version of this package when OpenSSH 5.2 comes out, but when that comes out, it’ll be a pretty simple copy/paste job to upgrade, just like that was. The Minstrel notes that it’s worth signing up to the openssh-unix-announce mailing list to find out when this is necessary.
Now if this is the first time you’re doing this we need to do a couple extra steps (though you won’t need to do this if you’re just updating):
wget http://unadopted.co.uk/openssh/sftpsh sudo cp sftpsh /bin/sftpsh sudo chown root:root /bin/sftpsh sudo chmod 755 /bin/sftpsh sudo echo "/bin/sftpsh" >> /etc/shells
This will download and install a special shell which you’ll need to set up as the login shell for the user accounts for whoever you want to lock down. This will kick them straight out if they try and SSH in, but will still let SFTP work. We also need to tell the system which directory to lock them into by adding a special tag into their home folder definition. Which all sounds a bit more complicated than it really is (it’s just one line to copy and paste).
So, let’s say our web user is called “mywebsite-sftp”. We’d just do this, if we wanted to lock them to their home directory:
sudo usermod -s /bin/sftpsh -d /home/mywebsite-sftp/./ mywebsite-sftp
Simple, right? The Minstrel has built up a pretty good set of FAQs incase you run into any problems.
If you ever change your mind, and want to go back to Ubuntu’s default OpenSSH server and undo all these changes, that’s dead simple too, just copy and paste this in (go-go-gadget uninstaller!):
sudo rm /bin/sftpsh sudo aptitude remove openssh-server sudo aptitude install openssh-server
Warning: If you’re SSH’d in, don’t disconnect between the two aptitude commands, or you won’t have an SSH server to reconnect to (but it will stay alive until you disconnect). Also, you’ll need to remember that the sftpsh shell doesn’t exist anymore, though, and you’ll need to change any users back to a different shell using usermod.
Okay, so that’s that over with. Tell your friends, post it on Facebook, link to this in forum posts, Digg it, link to this from the Ubuntu Wiki, do whatever you feel you must do to share this with the world. :)
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“As has been reported, we had staff cuts at LiveJournal Inc. this week. Early media reports seriously exaggerated the impact of the decision on the continued existence of LiveJournal as a company and misrepresented the scope of the staff cuts. The cuts were part of a restructuring that shifted global design and product development to the LiveJournal office in Moscow.”
– Press release in LiveJournal’s news community
This just reinforces to me that I made the correct decision by leaving, and slurping my data out. LiveJournal is dying slowly. The community aspect has completely gone. The company-user relations are now done by an anonymous user called “theljstaff”, as opposed to real people. It’s becoming about as much of a community as being a customer of BT — they’re turning into a service provider rather than a community.
Dumping LiveJournal and switching to WordPress was possibly one of the best decisions I’ve made regarding my journal/blog. Just as joining LiveJournal back in 2000 was one of the best decisions. This offer still stands if you want help leaving.
Related:
The post where I decided to leave LiveJournal, including my reasons why
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Last podcast of 2008! Starting with some classic Daft Punk, through the catchiness of Friendly Fires, moving across to Soulwax’s absolute stormer of an interpretation of “Hey Boy, Hey Girl”, and the rather cheeky “Do you know where your teenager is at 5 o’clock in the morning?” of Samantha Fu (a Soulwax pseudonym), and ending with the absolutely beautiful electro take on “Not Over Yet”, this is sure to see your 2009 in with a bang.
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Happy new year! Here’s to 2009!
- Daft Punk - Digital Love
- Friendly Fires - On Board
- Shinchi Osawa feat Au Revoir Simone - Star Guitar
- Shitdisco - I Know Kung Fu (James Ford Edit)
- Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
- Sneaky Sound System - I Love It (Riot In Belgium Forest Rave Mix)
- Soulwax - E-Talking (Nite Version)
- Moby - Go (Trentermøller Remix)
- Samantha Fu - Theme From Discotheque
- Bloc Party - Mercury (Hervé Is In Disarray Remix)
- Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Soulwax Dub)
- Klaxons - Not Over Yet (Brodinski Remix)
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 time for another collection of toetapping, headnodding nonsense! This is the first one I’ve recorded on Traktor Pro, as opposed to Traktor 3, too. Oh, and there’s a hidden message within the first two minutes… there’s a present in there for anyone who figures it out! But enough about that, get your noisemaker plugged in, turned up, and ready for this lot…
- Justice - DVNO (LA Riots Boogleg Remix)
- MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
- Foals - Electric Ballroom (Malente Remix)
- Infadels - Steady As She Goes
- The Hump Day Project - Daft Punk Mash Up
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Diplo Remix - Extended Version)
- Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu (The House Moguls Rework)
- The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go (LAZRtag Remix)
- Photek - Love And War (LA Riots Remix)
- Digitalism - I Want I Want (LAZRtag Remix)
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!
Originally published at Lost Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
“Most of us, of course, think we know what a depression looks like. Open a history book and the images will be familiar: mobs at banks and lines at soup kitchens, stockbrokers in suits selling apples on the street, families piled with all their belongings into jalopies. Families scrimp on coffee and flour and sugar, rinsing off tinfoil to reuse it and re-mending their pants and dresses. A desperate government mobilizes legions of the unemployed to build bridges and airports, to blaze trails in national forests, to put on traveling plays and paint social-realist murals.
Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that’s not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that.
What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started?”
read more…
A very interesting read…
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“I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can’t fly; zombies do not run. It’s a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.”
– Simon Pegg, The Guardian
I think it quite added to things like 28 Days Later, and the Resident Evil movies wouldn’t have been quite as action-movie as they were, but I have to agree. Bring back slow zombies!
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Microsoft has only just decided that the official name for Windows 7 is going to be “Windows 7″, and is already calling it something else.
“So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 - which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties.”
– Mike Nash, The Windows Blog
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That was a bit weird.
I just ran into an unusual instance of Internet Explorer “doing things right” where Firefox is the non-compliant browser.
That doesn’t happen often. More here…
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The bus driver this morning had gone through that energy efficient driving course that lots of bus companies are doing lately. Top speed? 15 mph or so for all of 10 seconds. Did it make and difference to my journey time? Actually, no. It seems to work, in London at least.
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Minnie Ripperton, Deadmau5, and Soulwax in one DJ set? It could only be the next installment of the Unadopted Podcast, bubbling up and building until your ears almost pop. Get stuck in, turn it up loud, close your eyes, dance like an idiot, and don’t miss the incredible ending!
- Röyksopp - Remind Me (DLake Remix v2)
- The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name (Doctor Werewolf Bmore Mix)
- Minnie Ripperton vs Bambabounce - Loving You (DJ Yoda’s FabricLive.39 Bonus Beats Mix)
- Soulwax - Miserable Girl (Nite Version)
- Deadmau5 - Not Exactly
- Justice - Phantom Pt2 (Soulwax Remix)
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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