Greasemonkey (August 30th, 2010)
https://arantius.com/misc/gm-nightly/greasemonkey-2010.08.30.beta.xpi
Firebug (August 24th, 2010)
http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.6X/firebug-1.6X.0b1.xpi
R0B0TZmusic, art, parties, technology, code
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~ Friday, 30th April, 2010
Let me preface this with some information about myself and my experience:
With that out of the way, I will begin the actual article. I use Adobe (on a constant basis, almost every day for the last 10 years) and Apple products. If I had to give one up I would choose to keep Adobe. Apple I can do without, there are other operating system options out there, nobody does everything that Adobe does, as well as they do. Correct me if I am wrong here but from what I know a very, very high percentage of Apple computer users use it specifically for design… using specifically Adobe products. This is the main problem I see with Apple’s latest actions, creating bad blood between yourselves and one of the most used software suites for your platform? Are you nuts? Do you really want to alienate that group of your users? Are you that full of yourselves??? The Flash snafu is mainly about the iPhone/iPad, however it’s bound to bleed into the world of the OSX user — you know, the whole I drink your milkshake thing. I have developed for both OSX, and Windows. Microsoft may have made a lot of mistakes on the way but if you take a look at their frameworks, SDKs, and what they expose to the developer I think you will see what I am talking about when I say Microsoft has also done a lot of things right, including embracing support for third party hardware and software. No 3rd party toolkit limit on Windows Mobile! I like to tinker, so I’ve gone absolutely the most evil, most devious route and, brace yourself, used OSX86 — for those who aren’t savvy, OSX86 is a project to let you install OSX on almost any PC platform. What’s interesting about doing things like this is that you learn a LOT in the process. Nothing is easy during the process. You have to consider that Apple only supports and writes drivers for a very small range of hardware, so it’s hit or miss whether your computer will boot, your sound will work, your internet will work, etc… I’ve installed it a few times, every time it’s been quite the “experience”. One can spend days, weeks, months trying to perfect the setup of their hackintosh pc… but wait… why should someone even HAVE to do this? Why doesn’t Apple support more hardware in their operating system? Because Apple seems to have this idea that they can make all of the decisions for the end user, force them to pay premiums for hardware, and live happily ever after. This is just not the case and I feel that Apple will feel people moving to other phone devices within the next one to two years. I know I will be. Apple, while I admire your capacity to push new technologies forward, your recent actions have been immature and unacceptable. You need to fix this. Work with Adobe. Get Flash running with acceptable performance, setup an approval process for third-party developer toolkits. Otherwise, I’ll be canceling my iPhone developer license, switching to a different phone, and completely removing OSX from my MacBook… I have a feeling I won’t be the only one. Whatever. Apple doesn’t care anyways. ~ Wednesday, 3rd March, 2010
I often find myself coding in a frenzy, not keeping tabs on my tabs (ha!) … thus having editors with some sort of reformatting ability is a necessity. In Windows (even in Parallels) I use UEStudio, which doesn’t have the best formatting built in, but it does have a re-indentation command… the problem is, in order to use the function, you have to have the text you want re-indented already selected. I would CTRL-A, to select all and then re-indent. This got old quick because I would always lose my place… And thus, this macro was born. It creates a bookmark, selects all text, reindents, deselects, returns to bookmark. There is no way to go to the LAST bookmark, so if you use bookmarks at all (I don’t) this will NOT WORK =( Macro code: To use, go to Macro » Edit Macro » New Macro ~ Monday, 14th December, 2009
Some time ago I posted about Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), well their newest album is out and let me tell you, I’m in love! I am a sucker for ambient experimental brain music, and this album is just fantastic. 01.Phoneme I really suggest you buy this album, but you can download for previewing here, (only if you promise to pruchase it, if you like it): www.storage.to/get/0D1RMCPE/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar hotfile.com/dl/20460031/13f6800/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar.html uploading.com/files/2c491b1a/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar ~ Thursday, 5th November, 2009
Apparently, if you install IIS7 *after* you install .NET 4.0, you have to register .NET 4.0 manually so that you can even use it with IIS…
So, here’s what got me past this issue:
~ Thursday, 5th November, 2009
I wanted to be able to use my already existing IIS server, instead of VS2010′s built in development server, but I kept getting “503 Service Unavailable” when I had the application pool set to .NET 4.0. Looks like mark @ fooberry.com had the same issue:
Rebooting now… fingers crossed! ~ Saturday, 31st October, 2009
MMM TASTY! A concoction of progressive house, breaks, a little touch of trance, and some electro… Enjoy, and please give feedback! =) ~ Friday, 30th October, 2009
I loaded up a project today that as of yesterday worked 100% … and recieved an error:
What?! Hold on… let me go into the project properties… oh wait, I can’t:
Thanks! I’ll check the .NET installations, reinstall everything, and try again… or not, I got the same error even after adjusting the .NET framework manually in the file. I finally figured it out, eventually: Problem: I had been using remote debugging. The network share I was publishing to and testing from, was no longer available as I had just received a new server at work and I switched everything over yesterday, but had not relaunched the projects since earlier that morning… and they compiled fine after I moved everything somehow. A bug? I would say so… Give me some sort of REAL response to go off of, like “Hey, you idiot, change your output directory.” Solution: I went in to my csproj files and cleared out any references to the network shares in all areas of the configuration. Voila! I’m interested to see if anyone else has this problem. ~ Wednesday, 28th October, 2009
My old HDD was having some issues and needed to be swapped, I cloned C: to a new drive, removed the old drive and it wouldn’t boot up as C:\, only D:\…so when I logged in it basically just sat there looking for the C:\ which was actually assigned as D:\ … Modifying the boot settings didn’t do anything, using diskpart to attempt to change the drive letter didn’t work… fail fail fail. Eventually, I realized that things in Vista / Windows 7 may have changed a bit bootloader wise. I booted up my computer, CTRL+ALT+DEL’d to get a task manager, and ran REGEDIT. There it was, “HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices”. This is basically a list of drives and drive letters that are assigned to those drives. I deleted all of the entries, rebooted, and voila! Back in business! Here’s what happened: In Vista and Windows 7, if you clone your active / main / boot drive (via R-Drive Drive Image or the likes), and Windows sees it with the original drive still plugged in and active, it will set a fixed drive letter entry in your “Mounted Disks” registry folder. When you remove the first drive and put the new one on the same I/O cable, it will boot, but it will either reference the already created drive letter in the registry, or will not assign C:\ to the “new” drive’s serial number. Even though you cloned C:\ to an new disk, and removed the old C:\ physically, the letter will still be reserved in the registry, and the next (in my case anyways) available letter is D:\. Hope this helps someone out there! ~ Thursday, 22nd October, 2009
I installed VS2010 Beta 2 today… after uninstalling Beta 1 — to do which I had to remove the TFS Object Model package FIRST, due to an error I was getting about a missing “tfsobjectmodel-amd64_enu.exe” Everything installed OK, until the end when I tried to install the help files… I got the error: “MSHelpListener.exe has stopped working” Apparently, it tries to bind to port 80, which in my case is already bound to by Skype. Here’s the details / fix from the Help Listener documentation:
~ Friday, 21st August, 2009
One of my supervisors likes to send out tons of emails with absolutely no subject… he uses Outlook, so today I had enough and wrote this little VBA gem:
Just install it into your default VBA project (ALT-F11 in Outlook, expand the project tree on the left until you see “ThisOutlookSession”, double click that, paste and save! Note: for some reason Split wouldn’t recognize a vbCr, so I had to replace the vbCrLf with another character. ~ Monday, 17th August, 2009
Check out this well designed, banner free (what?!) torrent site.. Tag cloud, anonymous comments, health meters… love the straightforward design. ~
Enjoy ;D ~ Thursday, 30th July, 2009
1) Open “Computer” 2) Click on “Map Network Drive” at the top (under the path/location area) 3) Select the drive letter you want it to be connected under. 4) In the folder name entry area you want to enter:
4) Enable “Connect using different credentials” 5) Click ‘OK’ 6) Enter your me username and password, enable saving of the information then proceed. You’re done! You should see the new network location inside of “Computer ~ Thursday, 12th March, 2009
The process is fairly simple, download this package and extract the folder inside the archive… open said folder and browse to “ASUS_BlackHawk_v41\ASUS Driver\amd64\Vista”, even if you aren’t running Vista, this will work (at least on XP x64)… open the ADIHdAud.inf file in notepad or your favourite text editor and locate line 79: %HdAudioFunctionDriver.ADICodec.DeviceDesc% = A1988P, HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829B Now, replace that line with these two lines, basically commenting out the first one while placing a modified version (bold) of the first line in place of it: ;%HdAudioFunctionDriver.ADICodec.DeviceDesc% = A1988P, HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829B You are simply letting Windows know that your device’s subsystem is compatible… At this point you should be able to load up device manager, find your Soundmax audio device, right click, update driver, install from specific location, next, choose search in specific locations, uncheck the first box, check the second box, specify the location of the file you just edited and click next. Voila. It’s working perfect for me, but do this at your own risk — if your head explodes, it’s not my fault. ~ Monday, 9th March, 2009
Tony! Toni! Tone! – Feels Good Amon Tobin – One Small Step Radiohead – House Of Cards ~ Thursday, 5th March, 2009
I found this band some time ago, and it keeps finding it’s way into my daily drive playlist. Kind of like an instrumental Incubus with electronic influence. ~ Friday, 27th February, 2009
I love stuff like “Magic Apple Loop”, “Pink Forest” and “Monophonic City” .. not completely fond of the other stuff in this album. A-bee – POLYPHONIC CITY Tracklist: 1. ON.set OFF
http://uploaded.to/file/aidbu5/ ~ Saturday, 25th October, 2008
~ Friday, 24th October, 2008
~ Wednesday, 17th September, 2008
dear: mikie! tara! ryan! kendra! jd! emily! dave! ashley! margherite! simone! adrienne! fuck. i met a lot of people. i know there was more.
sunday night i was beat and i didn’t get to tell a lot of you bye, and how much i fun i had with you all! i am really going to miss all of you, and really look forward to the next time we can all get together and do what we do best, DRINK BOOZE AND DANCE. mad love! <3 ~ So, obviously, I am still alive after my short span in Brooklyn / NY. I went up with mixed expectations, not having ever attended a similar event there I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Basically, here is what happened: We stood in line on Friday for close to two hours, only to leave before getting in due to capacity limitations. Saturday we got to the event later than expected, but that’s ok because almost nothing was set up, and the stages were not functional at all. Luckily our group had an RV and we were all able to sit around and wait until the music started pumping from the main stage. The secondary stage was up and ready for another couple hours, and the crowd very slowly grew into a mass. We ended up not even attempting to go to the night events after the fiasco on Friday, and from what we all heard, it was in our best interest as they each were shut down or moved to shitty venues. Sunday was better as everything was set up from the previous day, and though the crowd was slow to gather, it eventually happened and we all had a lot of fun. Negatives out of the way, there were some things that really stood out to me and made me feel as if the event’s problems were somewhat of a shitty string of events and not neccesarily bad planning. First of all, they tried to get different venues for the night events. Most production companies here probably would have given up. Second the sound was pristine for the day events, and I think I even heard a speaker blow but the next time I walked by it was fixed! That almost NEVER happens, not even at the biggest parties I have attended. I really don’t have any complaints about the party, I got my presale $40 value worth on Saturday. The best part for me was just being there with a bunch of awesome people, in awesome weather, having an awesome time. Oh and the awesome mixsets, which I will soon be uploading have uploaded a torrent of (from the dailysessions mp3s) — seeing as how some have been removed from other sites, I figure this is the best way to keep them alive. ~ Wednesday, 20th August, 2008
altermime is a postfix filter that allows you to alter MIME encoded content in outgoing and incoming messages. we wanted to append a disclaimer to the bottom of all outgoing emails from our server automatically, without having to rely on each individual manually adding this to their outlook signature or using a template. the problem was that altermime (0.3.8) was appending “soft breaks” or “= ” (equal sign and a space) after every 76 characters inside the disclaimer in every multipart email that outlook would send out. the source file qpe.c from the package here was the culprit, and though it was doing it’s job correctly, it wasn’t doing it how we needed it to be done. i have modified the code and created a diff patch, located here. i take no responsibility for you screwing something up by using this patch incorrectly. i tested it and it works… and it makes altermime do what we needed it to do for outlook compatible automatic disclaimer insertion. to patch your source file simply change to the directory where qpe.c is located and issue the following command: <code> patch -p0 < patch.qpe.c </code> and then, assuming your install directory is configured correctly in the Makefile, <code> make clean; make; make install </code> also, below is the modified the disclaimer shell script that will:
here is the code: <code> #!/bin/bash -u
# Localize these.
MYDOMAIN=r0b0tz.com
# make sure that the text "$MYDOMAIN disclaimer" (ie: "r0b0tz.com disclaimer") is in
# all of your disclaimer text / html files, otherwise the single include only will not work.
INSPECT_DIR=/var/spool/filter
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
# Exit codes from
EX_TEMPFAIL=75
EX_UNAVAILABLE=69
# Clean up when done or when aborting.
trap "rm -f in.$$" 0 1 2 3 15
# Start processing.
cd $INSPECT_DIR || { echo $INSPECT_DIR does not exist; exit
$EX_TEMPFAIL; }
cat >in.$$ || { echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }
nmecount=0
if [ ! `grep -m 1 '${MYDOMAIN} disclaimer' in.$$` ]; then
for b in $( grep -m 1 "To:" in.$$ | grep -io '<[a-zA-Z0-9.-]*\@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]*\.[a-zA-Z]*>' in.$$ )
do
i=`echo ${b} | cut -d "," -f 1`
if [[ "${i}" =~ '(.*)@(.*)\.(.*)' ]]; then
logger -t DISCLAIMER outgoing email: ${i}
if [[ ! "${i}" =~ '(.*)@${MYDOMAIN}' ]] && [[ ! "${i}" =~ '(.*)@mail\.${MYDOMAIN}' ]]; then
nmecount=1
fi
fi
done
fi
if [ "${nmecount}" == 1 ]; then
# Adding disclaimer
# MAKE SURE YOU MODIFY THE LOCATIONS OF YOUR DISCLAIMERS!
/usr/bin/altermime --multipart-insert --input=in.$$ \
--disclaimer=/etc/postfix/disclaimer.txt \
--disclaimer-html=/etc/postfix/disclaimer.html \
--disclaimer-b64=/etc/postfix/disclaimer.b64 \
--xheader="X-Copyrighted-Material: Please visit http://${MYDOMAIN}/" || \
{ echo Message content rejected; exit $EX_UNAVAILABLE; }
fi
####### Changed From Original Script END #######
$SENDMAIL "$@"
</code> … or click here to download. ~ Sunday, 10th August, 2008
It’s only for still pictures but come on, live caustics without electronics! What! That’s awesome!
~ Tuesday, 15th July, 2008
I wrote a greasemonkey script that will insert a direct link at the top of ZShare audio file pages so you may right-click and save as directly from the first page without waiting for their silly timer to count down. The script is available on userscripts.org, here. ~ Thursday, 12th June, 2008
Anything that samples video games, and is danceable gets my vote. Stereogum just released “Stereogum presents… RAC Vol. 1″; a collection of nine tracks full of RAC remixes:
~ Wednesday, 11th June, 2008
Some of you are probably already familiar with the dubstep sounds of Burial, but what you might not know is the musician wears a mask of anonymity. The artist is said to only have informed a handful of people that they even make music… this is quite refreshing. For those of you who don’t know, check these out: ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
Today I present to you, my four readers, the first “twofer (tuesday)” set! Done With You – Whitest Boy Alive Don’t You Evah (Matthew Dear Mix) – Spoon ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
In 2005 at Art Basel, Miami, I took the picture on the left, today I saw the image on the right on Kitsuné’s front page… ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
Digitalism is set to release a new mixset, under the Kitsuné name, on June 23rd. The release feature remixedtracks from bands as diverse as The Kills, The Human League, Calvin Harris and The B52s. My favorite quote from the RA article:
I accidentally stumbled upon a Kitsuné complitation some time ago and have yet to be let down by any of the new releases; Artists featured under the name are:
~ Another killer mix to add to your collection; This one is titled “12:02″ and is by After Midnight I especially love the inclusion of Orbital! Tracklist: 01 True Pseudo – Freakin’ Me Out Download: After Midnight – 12:02 mixtape ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
I spend a lot of time restarting daemonized ruby processes and need to locate their PIDs on the fly. I got really, really tired of typing all the grep nonsense over and over. Here is a quick bash script to locate processes by command text. #!/bin/bash
ps ax | grep "$1" | grep -v grep | grep -v "fp $1"
— end code — example: [admin@mon2 scripts]# fp ruby
1160 ? S 09:30 0:15 ruby /scripts/srv.rb
1161 ? S 09:30 0:16 ruby /scripts/test.rb
2583 ? S Jun09 0:06 ruby /scripts/poll.rb
3068 ? S Jun09 71:01 ruby /scripts/diff.rb
~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
Just got this link in my inbox. It’s a preview PDF of what’s in store at SIGGRAPH 2008… which I am planning on attending! Some highlights:
I’m stoked. ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
My roommate just pointed this little tasty morsel of an event out to me… This is going to be balls to the wall crazy. I just bought my ticket two tickets because I’m pretty sure it’s going to sell out. ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
Glitterandgold.com posted about a new monthly party at the social… pop-off. This should be pretty awesome as the social is one of my favorite venues. Diddles, Kittybat and more playing that oh so wonderful indielectrohop we have all come to love. ~ From those dope kids that brought you the legendary minimoo parties, minitek is born! September 12th – 14th the following will be immersing you frequencies beyond your current comprehension: Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola, Guy Gerber (live), Magda, Troy Pierce, Audion (live), Martin Buttrich (live), Paco Osuna, Konrad Black, Guido Schneider (live), Davide Squillace, Paul Ritch (live), Pan-Pot, Butane, Camea, Adultnapper/Alexi Delano, Jeremy P. Caulfield (live/DJ), Format:B (live), Exercise One (live), Monoblock (live), Seph (live), Dilo vs. Gurtz (live), Fase Miusic Sender (live), Memek I will be there all the way from Florida, so if you aren’t currently considering going… you probably should. So let’s max out those credit cards, and book some travel. beatportal has more information here and my friends over at obscenenyc.com have some sweet examples for your seriously lacking library. ~ Tuesday, 10th June, 2008
Pitchfork has a story about the new “feed the animals” release from Girl Talk. It will be released using the catchy new pay-what-you-please method. I can’t wait, I saw G.T. here in Orlando and not only was it packed, it was possibly one of the best DJ sets / shows I’ve heard when it comes to flexibility and creativity. Samples: Well known fact | Freak Out “Bounce That” [Fan Video] ~ Monday, 9th June, 2008
I am currently rocking out to a mixset entitled “WASTED YOUTH” by JAMES JOHN
~ Monday, 9th June, 2008
Ruby 1.8.7 was made available on May 30th, 2008! There have been a lot of additions, including some features, fixes and performance enhancements. Hopefully this will fix the segfaults I’ve been getting =P |
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