…and waving them around like I just don’t care.
Yesterday I suddenly felt like recording another set, which I did. It is a bit messy because of some experiments and has no well planned structure but should hopefully still provide some pleasant listening.
When I joined the student association Biton about ten years ago and immediately signed up to be a deejay (everything at Biton is done by volunteering menbers, and to become the man behind the music at party’s all I had to do is write my name down on a poster). At first I had to familiarize myself with a lot of music I did not know much about at that time, but I got hooked on deejaying pretty fast and grew out to be a pretty good all-round deejay, if I do say so myself. I had much fun, but a few years ago I grew tired of maintaining my knowledge of current pop music, most of which I didn’t like that much myself anyway.
I continued learning to beatmix for fun, and because the home-made deejaying software we used at Biton did not run on my Mac I started to look at alternative software on a whim at USB controllers. I do not own a mixer and turntables or cd players and and do not have much money to invest in a small hobby. To my surprise there are plenty affordable deejay controllers. Continue reading »
As a Mac user Steam used to be something from another planet, until recently. I am happy Steam comes to the Mac, bringing lots of great games for me to play. The news that Portal is free (for a limited time) was the trigger for me to actually get started with Steam. And my joy went away fast.
For the semantic web course in my master program I’ve spend the last few weeks working on an exploratory project with two colleagues. The goal we’ve set for ourselves is to research if it is at all possible to cluster music based on automatically extracted musical features and compare those clusterings to clusterings based on the tags users annotated the songs with on Last.fm.
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.
My Wordpress powered website has been running for quite some time now, and today I finally replaced the default theme with something I like better, Suffusion, and customized it to my needs.
I had installed some syntax highlighting plugins before but disabled them because I couldn’t get it to work properly. Now with the pretty new layout all posts with snippets of unhighlighted source code were a real eye-sore, so that needed to be fixed as wel.
After my D-Link dir-615 broke down and I still had waranty I received a brand new one. Which is great, except for the fact that the web-interface was in German. Fortunately I do speak a little german and all the technical terms were the same as in english, but it was still anoying.
A couple of months ago I purchased a router/wifi accesspoint which has been running smoothly, as expected, until a few weeks ago. After I installed an extra electrical outlet and some cable channels for the power and ethernet cables it suddenly stopped working. After a frustrating evening where I at first thought I damaged some of the cables I got it working again. Until yesterday.
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 use my laptop a lot for web developement, and for some projects I have more files than just the web documents that Apache needs to see. For those I have a directory in my ~/Documents with (amongst other things) a httpdocs directory. I’d like to just see that in my browser by creating a symbolic link in my ~/Sites directory. This proved to be somewhat difficult in OS X 10.5 and also in my fresh installation of 10.6.