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The idea of sharing my best music purchases has been in my head for a while, and now I’m finally putting it into practice. This is the first monthly blog post where I share some of the best new tracks (just the names, obviously, no illegal downloads!) of the past month.

Delta Heavy – Overkill
Overkill/Hold Me – Single
Dom & Roland – Rollstar
Last Chance Saloon/Rollstar – Single
Foreign Concept & Bringa – Cemetery
Shogun Audio Presents – Way of the Warrior
High Contrast feat Tiësto and Underworld – The First Note Is Silent
The First Note is Silent – EP
Nero – New Life
Promises EP
S.P.Y – Bloodshed
Fierce Presents Oblivion – Single
Telekinesis – Sacrifice
Sacrifice/Polaris – Single
Trei & L.A.O.S. – The Light
The Light / Mumbo Jumbo – Single

And for your convienience I’ve put them all in a youtube playlist.

Finally I like to point your attention to this album compiled for the 15th birthday of Drum & Bass Arena. It contains 50 gems ranging from oldskool classics to this year’s hits. Even if you, like me, already have most of the tracks there are probably enough left that make it worth buying (€6.99 on iTunes).

Drum & Bass Arena: 15 Years
dnba15.breakbeat.co.uk

Mix of the Month
2012 Jan
2011 Oct Nov Dec

As some of you might have noticed I’ve just launched a single-purpose toy website called Mag de verwarming aan (a dutch site that tells you if you can turn the heating on) together with a friend who made the design. It was a fun project overall, and interesting in three ways:
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I’ve recorded this set three weeks ago, so I do apologize for the delay. Last few weeks I’ve had little time for anything besides studying, plus my controller broke and send it back for warranty so DJing wasn’t really on my mind at all. Fortunately I think of it now, and since I’ve just ordered a new controller I should be up an running again within a week, meaning I’ll probably do my next set when the paper deadline on April 22th has passed.

Posts should now automatically be posted to my facebook wall. This is a post to test it.

Afgelopen weekeinde was het KockFest 2010. Eigenlijk gewoon het vrijgezellenfeest voor Jeroen, maar KockFest klinkt stoerder. Ik heb het idee dat we ons totaal niet aan de stereotypen van een vrijgezellenfeest (verkleden, gênante opdrachten, strippers en dergelijke) hebben gehouden, maar een aantal zoekopdrachten in Google naar “vrijgezellenfeest <activiteit>” toont aan dat die ook helemaal niet zo hoog scoren in vergelijking met wat wij hebben gedaan. Ik heb bij de zoekwoorden plaatsnamen achterwege gelaten omdat die extreem veel hoger scoren. De conclusie van dit uitermate wetenschappelijke onderzoek verbaast me eigenlijk niet. Het is gewoon veel leuker om met z’n allen leuke dingen te doen, en we zijn uiteraard niet de eersten zijn die dat hebben bedacht.

The bad part about my girlfriend moving in with me is that my friend who was living with me left and took our local sever with him. We had combined our spare hardware to build us a server and used his old computer because he had 4 ATA controllers and I had only 2. So now I had to configure my old PC to create a new server (’cause you just can’t live without one of those :) and bought an extra 1.5TB hard disk. That caused quite some trouble. Since the first wasn’t properly detected by my onboard SATA controller I returned it and the replacement seemed to work, only to be mounted as read-only after formatting it. After a while the disk wasn’t properly detected at all. I was surprised with two new disks having the exact same problem, fortunately so was the owner of the web shop where I bought it. He actually called me personally to discuss the situation and concluded that my SATA controller was probably to old to work properly with this big modern disk. So I bought an PCI eSATA controller which solved my problems.

Last weekend I took this card to my friend who also bought a new hard disk and was experiencing similar problems. After I put the card back my big disk wouldn’t mount anymore, though it worked fine when I booted the Ubuntu Live CD. Long story short (live cd: works, reinstall ubuntu: works, dist-upgrade: broken, reinstall: works, reboot: broken) there we suddenly some errors in the FS which fsck managed to fix.

Anyway, most of you aren’t at all interested in the above snipped of my life and want some technical information. Which you are going to get in the remaining part of this post. Hey, the benefit of people blogging technical stuff on their personal blog is that you have to read through the irrelevant stuff. Nothing is perfect, right?

I’d like to use PDO in conjunction with MySQL, but in the PHP installation shipped with OS X by default only pdo_sqlite is enabled. I do not want to compile my own Apache or PHP so the way to go is to simply add the pdo_mysql module. I followed these instructions but after running phpize there were some warings on my screen and no makefile to be found. My current PHP version is 5.2.8 and I used the source of 5.3.0, so I tried again with 5.2.10 (since no other version was available at the PHP download page). Both yield the same result, namely that it compiles, installs and won’t start.

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_mysql.so' - (null) in Unknown on line 0

Following instructions in the comment to remove all architectures but the x86_64 have no effect. I think I have to compile my own PHP installation and have apache use that. Which sucks so much I decided to just wait for Snow Leopard and pray that either pdo_mysql is installed or dynamicly loading libraries is allowed there. I am happy to inform you all that the first is the case. Hurray!

Once again I’ve installed some new OS and write a small post about it. This time it’s all about Snow Leopard and as usual this is probably more interesting for myself as a checklist sort of thing than for the world to read. It gives more order and satisfaction in the long proces of installing and customisation and it functions as a central storage for all cool applications, tweaks and scripts that I install and create to make OS X function just the way I like it.

I only just learned about Bing, watched a screencast and played around with it. I was hoping to be impressed by the nifty features demonstrated in the screencast, but everything I enter in Bing just gives me a plain old search result. I even read the help documents and entered the examples they gave, but none of those examples gave any special result.

So I am puzzled. Why would Microsoft launch a new product, show off its great features and then put a website live that doesn’t do any of the promised features? Looks to me like they have just doomed Bing.

Sommige dingen zijn dusdanig banaal dat een genie ze echt niet meer aan kan.

The Best of October 2011

A new toy website

VDJRadio no. 12, sorry for the delay

Quick test

KockFest 2010

My Ubuntu AFP server and the 1.5TB of Doom

PDO: Configuring Apache, MySQL and PHP on OSX 10.5.7

Snow Leopard

What is up with Bing?

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