Sun, 26 Feb 2006
The Verdad Issue of Vice
I was so excited to pick up this month's issue of
Vice magazine. It
was called The Verdad Issue and there were so many interesting articles in it.
One was about a kidney transplant from Cape Town transacted solely over the
telephone and email. Then there was the affordable locator device that is small
enough to fit on your fingertip and can be located from a free web service.
Cool! Sike! It's all lies. Funny right? Verdad, truth but...like...the
opposite! Fuck you very much Vice. I love your magazine.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2006
Rapid Prototyping Sound With Pure Data
I'm doing another project with a
multimedia
artist. He asked me to do something simple but repetitive for a recording
of sound. I realized that using
Audacity would take an exceptionally large
amount of time and gave a shot at making a realtime version in
PD. It went
well. I've been using PD more and more for rapid prototyping of sound ideas. I
find the flow of something in realtime much better than the abrupt stop and
start of a
non-linear editor like
Audacity.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2006
The fixed gear skip stop
I have been riding a
fixed gear bicycle for transportation around Brooklyn
and Manhattan since the summer of 2005. I have a front break but I was
constantly in awe of the people I saw riding over the bridge on a full-fledged
track bike: thick chain, track hub, lockring and that's it. Then there was the
first time I saw someone do a skip stop coming down the steep part of the
Williamsburg bridge detour. Shit was amazing! I asked him how he does it and he
was nice enough to show me.
That was two weeks ago and last night, I finally did it. It was an amazing
feeling. I felt like I had more control over the bike. A feeling of
weightlessness came over me when I picked up speed after the stop.
Sheldon
Brown describes it in words better than I can.
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New web site launch
I just put some
finishing touches
on a web site for a very cool project that
just had it's six month aniversary party. If you live in Brooklyn, check it out
the next time there's an event. With luck you'll find out about it by
subscribing to the event feed on upcoming.org.
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Mon, 20 Feb 2006
Installing and Configuring Zimbra On Debian Sarge with an OpenBSD firewall
Installation was very simple. The
Debian
packages from the 3.0 release,
although labled "alpha (recommended for lab use)" installed without error after
reading the quick start guide. Here's the quick list for modifications made to
my system to get messages passing back and forth correctly. My network layout
is a single static IP and a private rfc1918 subnet. Routing is done on
OpenBSD the the server is on the internal subnet.
- Disable exim4 in all run levels. I prefer the sysv-rc-conf
package. Do
not uninstall it or APT will yell at you without end. Just turn it off.
- Add your hostname and internal IP to /etc/hosts or local DNS if you run it.
- Add your hostname and external IP to DNS on the internet and add an MX
record for it.
- Install a shitload of RAM. Zimbra is HUGE! HUGE I'm telling you! Like
Microsoft huge...maybe. I put a gig in the server.
- Forward ports you need from the outside in. I just did 80 and 25 to get
started. 995 and 993 will probably be next for POP and IMAP over SSL.
- Do this netcat proxy
trick on the OpenBSD box so zimbra can connect to the external IP from the
internal subnet. It uses both port
25 and 7025 for SMTP. Very important to do
both ports or mail will not be delivered.
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Sat, 18 Feb 2006
My Favorite picks from Project 168
Attack
of The Knives
Blue
Vitriol
Dissolvedposted at: 20:33 | path:
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Critical Mass. City looks like a fool standing before a judge.
The state has decided that the NYPD are a bunch of fools with too much power.
All the laws the city has been arresting critical mass riders under have been
called
out by justice Michael D. Stallman in NY state supreme court.
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Audacity 1.3 for MacOS X
The new beta version of
Audacity for
MacOS X is a very big improvement in all the areas that were left out of the
1.2 release. The most important changes are in track management and label
tracks. The
complete list of
changes is well written. Any long time Audcaity user should browse over it
and see what's new.
Oh, yeah, Audcaity is like, free n'shit.
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Thu, 16 Feb 2006
Serverbeach loses cool points
I have been with
serverbeach for almost six months now. I like it a lot
and thought it was too good to be true to get
so much for so
little. Since
getting
all obssesed
with bitlbee, I uncovered a stupid implementation of a
policy at
Serverbeach: they block the third unique IP that makes an incoming
IRC request on port 6667 and 6668. I don't know how high the range goes up to
but I set bitlbee to listen on port 16668 and the filtering is gone.
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Tue, 14 Feb 2006
Zimbra Debian Sarge Port
It looks like the
YES Linux maintainer has ported Zimbra to Debian and
documented
the process on Zimbra's forums. I'll be following this and compare
notes.
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006
Zimbra Dependencies for Debian
It seems that the Debian package dependencies for Zimbra are
pretty thin. This implies that
one can only install the zimbra-core package and use evreything else that's in
the stable release. This makes Zimbra much less likely to take over your
system.
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The Zimbra Collaboration Suite
WTF!? An open source MS Exchange server! This is impossible.
Well, not really. Many of us have been doing it for quite some time through
various open source packages like apache, postfix, cyrus-imapd, openldap, yada,
yada, yada. But that's hard. The topic of many a Linux Journal articles. So I
find out about this thing called Zimbra from LUG Radio and download the Debian
packages. These are my first impressions.
WTF!?!
In case you didn't hear that...
WTF!?!
It's cool. Really cool. But also really wack at the same time. This is the list
of all the files
Zimbra installs but be warned,
just the list of files weighs in at 1.3 megs!posted at: 01:35 | path:
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It's snowing! A lot!
It snowed today. A whole lot. I
took
pictures and ate brunch at
Balthazar. I
felt pretty fabulous, really.
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Sat, 11 Feb 2006
One client to rule them all
I like
IRC. I like
AIM too,
although not as much as IRC.
Google
Talk, that's
cool too. I hear some people even use other
Jabber servers along with
ICQ,
MSN
and
Yahoo to send
little pieces of text back and forth over the internet.
Gaim
was cool for a while but what happens when you're in the data center and you
don't care about a GUI? Where are your AIM buddies now?
The answer is they are on
bitlbee, which is an IRC -> everything else gatweay.
You open an
IRC client connect to your bitlbee server, which can be on your
desktop or your own server somewhere on the internet, read the interactive instructions and log into your
accounts on all the IM networks you like. You can now send messages to your IM
buddies with a IRC client! So how do you get this for the fine, fine Debian
GNU/Linux system?
...
apt-get install bitlbee
Ha!
But there's a catch...the version in sarge doesn't support Google Talk because
of some tricks Google used with the jabber protocol. Fortunately, version 1.0
is in sid and someone was nice enough to backport it! Just follow
the instructions for
installing a backport and you should be right at home. Then register on your
bitlbee server and type
help account add jabberposted at: 22:29 | path:
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A fast, indexable asset management system
T and I got into a conversation about indexing and controling assets for
creative applications, in particular graphic arts applications on Windows. She
was curious how the dewey decimal system works for books and thought it might be
a viable indexing system for various incompatible application files on a NTFS
filesystem. I mentioned that Debian handles indexing and searchning for it's
own software packages very well through compatible utilities and various index
files. She said she wanted a system that was abstracted from a specific
filesystem or even operating system. I assumed this to mean something based
solely on filenames.
My first instinct was that this is ridiculous but then reconsidered when the
dewey decimal came up. That's an indexing system that's infinitly scaleable and
has been tested through time. But I don't know enough about it's effectiveness
for anything other then published books.
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