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I’ve Moved To My Own Website: AndrewAPeterson.com
October 26, 2008Please continue corresponding with me through my new site.
HERE
It’s seriously so hard to move. So many little things that I can’t move. For instance I can’t make it so my comments take you to my new blog. Ughh! So frustrating.
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Can Anyone Explain The Open Rights Group to me?
October 22, 2008The Open Rights Group is out there. I have no idea what they aim to do. There are a bunch of new projects that have sprouted up online for various goals having to do with Intellectual Property in the digital realm, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, and more recently, the Featured Artist’s Coalition…
My question is, is the O.R.G. a friend or a foe?
I’m a child of digital media, and I’m also an artist. I’m also a creator of other forms of content like this blog.
The Open Rights Group’s site is so confusing and not-clear in its mission at first glance. For all I can tell it’s a front for a major publisher effort.
Really, the site is terribly unclear. Maybe I was supposed to spend a bunch of time digging for the agenda there.
Please, you guys, make it clear!
I can help if you want, but damn. I can’t even tell what you stand for.
It needs to be completely clear to anyone visiting the site, as soon as they get there, me thinks.
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Martha Stewart Episode on Blogging – I Guess it’s a Mature Medium?
October 16, 2008Well shit, I don’t know what to say. Martha Stewart is teaching her fans to blog. OK. That’s cool. Seems kinds weird. But hey! Let’s do this!
I watched this while I typed this crap.
Wow. Martha has an aggregation of bloggers on her site. …And it’s not the whole episode. Well crap. Oh well. I did my job.
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I Want to Try Boxee! Hello? Please?
October 15, 2008Boxee team, I’m a blogger, obviously, and I get a good amount of traffic and I want to try Boxee really bad. I have OSX, Win XP and Ubuntu, although I try to avoid using windows.
Please let me try it. I will send feedback. I’m a power user and very techno-socially connected.
I’m really interested in Socially curated Media, the Future of Media in general, and other related topics. Please.
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Dream-Team is Back! GDGT Weekly(Peter Rojas & Ryan Block)
October 13, 2008(I’m linking to pages in the Wikipedia that don’t necessarily exist yet. These guys are surely famous enough, so I assume the pages will come soon)
The geniuses behind the Engadget Podcast, Peter Rojas and Ryan Block are podcasting again!!!!!
gdgt.com has arrived! (iTunes Link HERE)
When I first started to get into Social Media, Podcasting/RSS, The Blogosphere and Technology (in-general, as a broad area of interest), back in 2005, the Engadget podcast quickly became a key part of my media intake.
Staying on top of what’s going on in the realm of consumer-facing hardware really helps you to see the bigger picture of what’s going on in Tech. Actually, if you’re not looking broadly at Technology, you’re really not seeing Tech at all.
There are so many aspects of technology that bridge across market sectors. Handsets, GPS Devices, Media Players, NetBooks, Laptops, Gaming Consoles… You get the idea. It’s all just computing, but seeing how innovations are coming to market, how they compare with what already exists, and what technologies are relevent in multiple areas of the market is absolutely crucial if you want to be able to see what’s coming next. And having total gadgetphiles analyse it all for you is so helpful.
When it comes to a consumer technology product reviews, I really believe there’s no other source on Earth as valuable as what’s created when these two guys record themselves in conversation.
I don’t know what happened with Engadget or WeblogsInc, but I don’t really care. I stopped making it a point to read Engadget around the same time I stopped trying to stay on top of Digg.com’s technology feed (too much clutter/BS)
More importantly, if you think you’re staying in the loop of what’s going on in the “Tech Space” by merely reading Wired Magazine or by subscribing to TechCrunch and ArsTechnica, you are so, so, so wrong. I urge you, listen to Peter Rojas and Ryan Block talk about every last fucking device that comes to market for a week or two. I bet you’ll never stop. I hope they never stop again.
I’m so glad they’re back. It was traumatic for me when they put the Engadget Podcast on “Hiatus…”
For all practical purposes, it’s back. THANK YOU, Ryan and Peter! You guys are such super heroes of tech!
This is pure gold!
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iPod Wont Play Podcasts? Shuffle Blinks Green Yellow Green Yellow Etc
October 13, 2008After a few weeks of thinking there was something wrong with my little iPod Shuffle, I found out that in shuffle-mode, the iPod Shuffle can’t/wont play back certain kinds of audio files.
Just change it back to non-shuffle and the Podcasts will play fine!
From support.apple.com:
When iPod shuffle is set to shuffle songs it will play all the audio files on iPod shuffle that are not audiobooks. Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode, which is the intended behavior, although a podcast of type .mp3 or .wav may play while in shuffle mode. To play an audiobook or podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to play in order.
Wow. All this heartache over one tiny little switch switched to the wrong position.
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Featured Artists Coalition Launches
October 6, 2008The FAC is a new organisation for advocacy of music artists’ rights in the digital distribution space. Among the Artists already onboard are Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Billy Bragg. One interesting thing about their “charter” is that they are advocating for artists to retain ultimate rights to their work, which in case you didn’t know, isn’t how it normally works in the major-label system.
“…We speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others…”
As long as this organisation doesn’t become a new RIAA, by suing the pants off music lovers, or advocating network filtering by ISP’s, I’m all for this. Labels get too much for too little while screwing over the fans and artists at almost every turn.
If you’re listening, FAC, please don’t become another RIAA. OK?
Some quotes from the Press Release (pdf HERE):
ARTISTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR NEW DIGITAL RIGHTS
The Verve, Radiohead, Jools Holland, Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Nash, Robbie Williams and Billy Bragg are among dozens of musicians and performers calling for changes to the law and record industry
[...]
The new organisation will campaign for specific changes to the laws governing the music industry and how business is conducted, so that:
All transfers of copyright should be by license rather than by assignment, and limited to 35 years. The making available right should be monetized on behalf of featured artistes and all other performers.
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(spam) Prophet David Johnson! This one is interesting
October 6, 2008I find this one interesting because it doesn’t actually promise any money. Instead it offers an opportunity to help build a church in Africa, and accuses the reader of needing redemption, being a sinner (who isn’t, right?) etc…
From: david@teceng.net
I am Prophet David Johnson, I went for a prayer mission in HAITI and the Lord revealed so many things about you to me.
I see things and I reveal to people, something terrible which I have seen will happen to you, I just have to tell you, you will lose two important people you love very much, and evil will visit you personally, troubles and problems will leave with you, the things you never never believe that can happen to you, will happen. It has been dated when it will start very soon, sooner than you think.
The Lord reveal everything to me, and your email address appeared to me, after reading this message, if you believe me keep this message for your self alone do not share it with anybody, but if you don’t believe me delete this message and talk to your family, friends and relatives, tell them about the message so when things start happening to you, they will be informed, everything that will happen to you is spiritual, nobody will understand, when you even tell people what is happening to you they will never believe and understand because it is spiritual.
I have warned you now, we can prevent all this, but only if you believe God, but if you don’t believe God, wait and see what will happen.
Lord has done so much for you, that you have failed to recognize and you have been cheating God, at this time your email address was revealed to me three times, that’s why I am contacting you, do not think this is a joke or just an email because I know what will be going on in your mind, you are free to believe and disbelief this message, but when evil starts happening there is no going back, I warn you it has been destined and dated, it will start sooner than you think.
As you are reading this message I still see doubt in you, but I will stop here. If you want to prevent all this evil that will hit you soon, I will know and I will tell you what to do.
God reveal to me that you have a lot of doubt in your mind that you will doubt this message.
The reason for writing this message, is because of the strong challenge which you must have to follow to prevent all this evil which will surround you sooner, you will not see them and you can never see them, because it is spiritual, when it starts it cannot stop, it will be as if God has giving you to Satan.
Look this is not a joke, this is what I have seeing and the only prevention is for you not to doubt and do what I will tell you to do, for your soul to be covered in God’s harms. We have to take you back from the Satan if you are ready to follow God’s instructions I will tell you what to do.
I can still see even as I’m writing this message that there is plenty of doubt inside your heart and mind, but you can over power your doubt, only if the evil leaving in your heart will allow you, it will be very difficult for you to do what God’s want you to do, but you can do it only if you put doubt aside.
God told me that we will win you back, but it will be difficult because your heart has been eating by doubt, my only advice to you to remove doubt and keep this message to you self, if you don’t take my advice wait and see. This is the only way out for you to avoid this evil, you have to sow a seed in the house of the Lord, there is a church we are building in Africa, and we want you to sow a seed in contributing on that church where your name will be writing as one of the people that contributed to stand the house of the Lord where people will enter everyday and pray for you who contributed to put up the structure.
The only way out of this predicament is you must have to contribute for the building of the church, your name must be writing in the church as one of the sponsors that is where your name will be written in the book of life, the book of joy and the book of happiness things will now turn around, when the church is completed everyday service your name will be announced for the church congregation to pray for you.
So you have to sow that seed that is the only message that will take you out of this evil, you name must be writing in that church before it is completed. There’s no way back we will beg you to do this because this is the only way for the evil to turn around, I’m a prophet I don’t talk too much. But if you fail to do what you have been told now, when the predicament start even if you give all you have to the church at that time it will not work, I am warning and begging don’t ignore this message.
The church will go on 40 days fasting for you starting from the day you sow a seed for the building of the church. Contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson, tell Pastor Anderson that you want to contribute for the building of the new church, do not tell him about what I told you, just tell him you want to contribute then ask him how you can sow a seed, do this as quick as possible, nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord do not cheat God again, do this I have told you.
Give what you have never giving before, give what you feel your heart tells you, remember nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord, contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson on this e-mail (pastoranderson@faithconvenantministry.co.cc) and tell him you want to sow a seed, after you have done that, then wait and see how blessing will rain upon your life each day, how you will swim in the rivers of success and joy.
I have given you the information and message which I was asked to give you, so now it is now left for you to believe it and do what you where told or forget it. I will never write you again or reply you, I have told you what I have to tell you, after reading this message you only have two things to do, either you follow the message or not.
I wish you the best in life.
Have a blessed day.
Regards,
Prophet David Johnson.
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(spam) Prophet David Johnson! This one is interesting
October 6, 2008I find this one interesting because it doesn’t actually promise any money. Instead it offers an opportunity to help build a church in Africa, and accuses the reader of needing redemption, being a sinner (who isn’t, right?) etc…
From: david@teceng.net
I am Prophet David Johnson, I went for a prayer mission in HAITI and the Lord revealed so many things about you to me.
I see things and I reveal to people, something terrible which I have seen will happen to you, I just have to tell you, you will lose two important people you love very much, and evil will visit you personally, troubles and problems will leave with you, the things you never never believe that can happen to you, will happen. It has been dated when it will start very soon, sooner than you think.
The Lord reveal everything to me, and your email address appeared to me, after reading this message, if you believe me keep this message for your self alone do not share it with anybody, but if you don’t believe me delete this message and talk to your family, friends and relatives, tell them about the message so when things start happening to you, they will be informed, everything that will happen to you is spiritual, nobody will understand, when you even tell people what is happening to you they will never believe and understand because it is spiritual.
I have warned you now, we can prevent all this, but only if you believe God, but if you don’t believe God, wait and see what will happen.
Lord has done so much for you, that you have failed to recognize and you have been cheating God, at this time your email address was revealed to me three times, that’s why I am contacting you, do not think this is a joke or just an email because I know what will be going on in your mind, you are free to believe and disbelief this message, but when evil starts happening there is no going back, I warn you it has been destined and dated, it will start sooner than you think.
As you are reading this message I still see doubt in you, but I will stop here. If you want to prevent all this evil that will hit you soon, I will know and I will tell you what to do.
God reveal to me that you have a lot of doubt in your mind that you will doubt this message.
The reason for writing this message, is because of the strong challenge which you must have to follow to prevent all this evil which will surround you sooner, you will not see them and you can never see them, because it is spiritual, when it starts it cannot stop, it will be as if God has giving you to Satan.
Look this is not a joke, this is what I have seeing and the only prevention is for you not to doubt and do what I will tell you to do, for your soul to be covered in God’s harms. We have to take you back from the Satan if you are ready to follow God’s instructions I will tell you what to do.
I can still see even as I’m writing this message that there is plenty of doubt inside your heart and mind, but you can over power your doubt, only if the evil leaving in your heart will allow you, it will be very difficult for you to do what God’s want you to do, but you can do it only if you put doubt aside.
God told me that we will win you back, but it will be difficult because your heart has been eating by doubt, my only advice to you to remove doubt and keep this message to you self, if you don’t take my advice wait and see. This is the only way out for you to avoid this evil, you have to sow a seed in the house of the Lord, there is a church we are building in Africa, and we want you to sow a seed in contributing on that church where your name will be writing as one of the people that contributed to stand the house of the Lord where people will enter everyday and pray for you who contributed to put up the structure.
The only way out of this predicament is you must have to contribute for the building of the church, your name must be writing in the church as one of the sponsors that is where your name will be written in the book of life, the book of joy and the book of happiness things will now turn around, when the church is completed everyday service your name will be announced for the church congregation to pray for you.
So you have to sow that seed that is the only message that will take you out of this evil, you name must be writing in that church before it is completed. There’s no way back we will beg you to do this because this is the only way for the evil to turn around, I’m a prophet I don’t talk too much. But if you fail to do what you have been told now, when the predicament start even if you give all you have to the church at that time it will not work, I am warning and begging don’t ignore this message.
The church will go on 40 days fasting for you starting from the day you sow a seed for the building of the church. Contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson, tell Pastor Anderson that you want to contribute for the building of the new church, do not tell him about what I told you, just tell him you want to contribute then ask him how you can sow a seed, do this as quick as possible, nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord do not cheat God again, do this I have told you.
Give what you have never giving before, give what you feel your heart tells you, remember nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord, contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson on this e-mail (pastoranderson@faithconvenantministry.co.cc) and tell him you want to sow a seed, after you have done that, then wait and see how blessing will rain upon your life each day, how you will swim in the rivers of success and joy.
I have given you the information and message which I was asked to give you, so now it is now left for you to believe it and do what you where told or forget it. I will never write you again or reply you, I have told you what I have to tell you, after reading this message you only have two things to do, either you follow the message or not.
I wish you the best in life.
Have a blessed day.
Regards,
Prophet David Johnson.
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WordPress Error When Publishing is Caused By a Plugin!
October 2, 2008
My friend was getting this when attempting to publish a new post. In his case, it was the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin, which is a totally unnecessary plugin, since WordPress sites are already so loved by Google. I got tipped of by this WordPress support forum thread where the WP-Bible plugin was causing the problem.
If you have this problem, try turning off all your plugins. Then, turn them on one-at-a-time, each time attempting to un-publish and re-publish a test post. This will tell you which plugin is causing the problem.
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1157
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to submissions.ask.com:80 in /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1157
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1157
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to webmaster.live.com:80 in /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1157
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php:1157) in /your/website’s/directory/etc/yoursite.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 770
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rel=”spam” rel=”mal” MicroFormat for Spam? rel=”???”
September 30, 2008IDEA: A MicroFormat for when it may be necessary to link to a Malicious, Dangerous, or Unethical Site?
Funny, the first thing that came to mind was using rel=”spam” …but really what brought this up was a site that isn’t necessarily “Spam” in the traditional sense. The site was a pyramid scheme, the operators of which were posting ads on my local craigslist for “social media” something or other. This isn’t by definition, Spam.
“Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages…”
The quantity is what makes spam spam, not the uselessness of what’s being promoted.
Maybe rel=”mal” as in malicious??
I’m not the only one thinking about this idea.
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WordPress Blog Deleted/Archived for TOS Violation
September 30, 2008If your blog has been deleted suddenly by WordPress.com, DON’T PANIC! …that is, unless you use your blog for phishing scams or spam-commenting or anything else that brings down the experience of other people on the Web and/or makes it harder for people to find the information they need. In that case, panic. Scream and cry. I hope your blog is permanently deleted, and everything you eat for the rest of you life tastes horrible. The Web is our garden!
Assuming you are an ethical participant of The Cloud, pretty soon you should get an email from WordPress.com explaining the nature of the take-down.
[Anyway, my blog is back, obviously. I guess I need to start backing up my blog? Jeeez. What a hassle.]
[begin story]
I regularly blog about scams/spam on the Web. It’s a way for me be discovered by, and to provide guidance to, people who happen to be googling around about some questionable content they find or are emailed.
One example of this is this search result for “paypal-cgi.com,” a site that mimics PayPal in order to trick people into handing over their paypal login info. I come up number one for the search, and the title of the result makes it clear that you shouln’t trust PayPal-CGI.com… If you click thru to my post, I explain why these things exist and how to detect this kind of crap.
You see, I’m actually doing something good here. And it’s good for me too.
Anyway, recently I encountered some scam crap on craigslist and blogged about it. And since my blog post contained a link to the spam/scam site I was exposing, WordPress.com’s evil-detectors went ape shit and my blog got automatically removed by wordpress.com.
I was in the middle editing a post and suddenly my category selection buttons stopped working. And there was a thing saying somethin like “you do not have permission to edit this..” or something like that. When I refreshed the page, I got “The authors have deleted this blog. The content is no longer available”
…and my blog had been completely removed leaving only this scary screen saying: “This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.”
Ironic. I got banned for merely exposing something malicious.
Current Spam-Filter technology isn’t context-aware. This is a slippery slope: Using words or links alone, without regard to context, to define what is untrustworthy content.
See the post in question for yourself HERE:
Fortunately, about an hour later, I got a message from WordPress.com:
from: Anthony – WordPress.com:
Hi,
Your blog was automatically flagged, as links to overnightcashexplosion.com were detected (and these are certainly not permitted). The blog is back – please remove all such links.
Best,
Anthony
Automattic | WordPress.com
I responded with:
if it’s a url in text, is that different in the eyes of your spam defenses from an actual link? I’d like to leave the url if possible so I can still come up in searches for that url.
WHat’s your take on that?
Thanks for communicating with me. :)
-A
Anthony from WordPress replied:
Hi,
Sure, you can leave it – I understand the context.Best,
Anthony
Automattic | WordPress.com
So, there is a layer of discretion here? That’s good I guess.
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BitTorrent Tracker Specifically for Independent Artists
September 30, 2008(just an idea I had in the middle of the night… maybe it’s a good one?)
It just occurred to me that what artists like me, who are non-label, totally independent, need is a tracker/directory site for us to upload out torrents to. A tracker that’s 100% legal music.
I’m thinking since when you launch a .torrent file, depending on the client, you can select what files you want to download, artists can include in one torrent, a few different versions of their releases. For instance, I could include a flac version, and two different mp3 bitrates, all album artwork bundled with each compression scheme separately, and each version in it’s own folder.
The user selects the one torrent, launches it, selects the folder for the version they want, and they get what they want.
*Artist is distributing without needing a central server…
*Fans of indie/niche music are getting what they want the way they want it. And there’s a central place for hard-to-find and/or totally legally-distributed-via-P2P music.
There may also be advantages to creating a recommendation engine that excludes major-label music: Maybe major label music obscures the analysis of music taste in some cases? Just a thought.
I wrote a letter to the peeps at The Pirate Bay. Maybe they’ll read it and write me back.
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SPAM: 100% legal proposal – curtisanthony212@ymail.com
September 27, 2008This spam email was just too funny to me not to do. Gosh! I feel so sorry for anyone that is so computer illiterate that they could fall for something like this.
Good Day,
I have 100% legal lucrative business
proposal which will be of mutual benefit to
us,If you are Interested, kindly mail me at
(curtisanthony212@ymail.com) for more
details.
Thanks and awaiting your response.
Curtis Anthony
Business Proposal
From: honyeeee1@singnet.com.sg
Subject: 100% legal proposal
Date: September 27, 2008 2:42:04 AM PDT
To: curtisay@wlla.com
Reply-To: curtisanthony343@jmail.co.za
MORE SCAM EMAIL MASHUPS
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Missing MAS Plug-Ins ParaEQ & MW Equalizer in MOTU Digital Performer (DP5.13))
September 22, 2008Here’s what I did that finally solved this problem after 2 full days of suffering and searching for answers.
- I uninstalled the DP software reverse-incrementally, starting with 5.13 in UNINSTALL mode, then DP 5.1 and finally the original DP 5 Installer on the CD.
- I repeated the same process AGAIN, but this time selected “MyHardDrive” rather than the “Applications Folder” as the target install directory, again selecting UNINSTALL rather than Easy Install
- I Manually deleted all remaining Plug-Ins that came with DP from username/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/
- I manually moved my remaining [dot-bundle] .bundle files (other MAS plugins that didn’t come with DP) from my user directory to my hard-drive directory. Originally, some were at UserName/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/ and I moved all those files to HardDriveName/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/
- I manually deleted the folder called MAS from username/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/
- I manually I deleted all files from both the user and hard-drive versions of Library/Preferences/ that had “motu” in their names, all “.plist” files
- I manually Deleted a folder called “Digital Performer™” from UserName/Library/Preferences/
- I manually Deleted HardDrive/Library/Audio/presets/Digital Performer/
- I manually Deleted the Auth-DigitalPerformer 5.0 file from my hard-drive via the Terminal (it’s an invisible file)
- I manually deleted any/all extra/unnecessary MOTU apps/utilities from my Applications Folder… I had some out-dated FireWire Audio shit and some Un-Needed PCI shit.
- I re-booted from MAC OSX CD and REPAIRED PERMISSIONS (which incidentally were all good)
- After rebooting, I re-installed MOTU DP5, which does not run on my Leopard machine as version 5.0 (Unexpectedly Quits Etc)
- Installed the MOTU 5.1 Update
- Installed the MOTU 5.13 Update
- My Equalizer Plugins are back.
- Repaired Permissions (and the plugins are still back) DP is back to normal, at least for now.
Let me know if this solution doesn’t work for you. I deleted so much shit manually that I may have left something out. 48 Hours of this kind of hell will do that to a guy.
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HELP! DP5 MAS Plugins Missing, Para EQ and MW Equalizer
September 19, 2008PROBLEM: In MOTU Digital Performer (DP5), at least 2 of the Plug-Ins that came with the software are missing from within the program. Both of the ones I know are missing for sure are Parametric Equalizers, which is an odd coincidence.
SOLVED! Click Here To Read The Solution
The following is a copy of a forum post I made to MotuNation.com. I never post to forums so this is an indication of how desperate I’m getting.
Please help me. This is driving me crazy.
Suddenly my MW Equlaizer and my Para EQ Plugins don’t show up in the list of plugins available from the Mixer. They do get scanned/loaded during the splash screen at startup. They’re just not listed via the mixer or via the Audio Menu (Audio>Audio Plug-Ins).
This is what I’ve tried, not necessarily in this order and some of these things I’ve done multiple times:
- *Repaired Permissions (All were/are correct according to Disk Utility)
- *Varified/Repaired Hard Drive (Disk Utility said it’s fine)
- *Uninstalled and Re-Installed DP
- *Trashed User/Library/Preferences/com.motu.DigitalPerformer.plist
- *Deleted Auth-DigitalPerformer 5.0
- *Renamed User/Library/Preferences to Preferences-old (to flush all system prefs at the user level)
- *Renamed ParaEQ.bundle (By this time I’m making solutions up!)
- *Moved Plugins from HardDrive/Library… to User/Library… (and back)
The .bundle files are there in HardDrive/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/ but they just wont become available via the UI. I have been googling like mad since yesterday and getting nowhere. I’m going crazy.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie … p?p=351040 …This Person on this other forum is having the same problem it sounds like, but no solution there (I will post the solution here and there if I can find one) …Interesting that it’s the 2 built-in EQ’s for both of us… Interesting and completely horrible.
Please help me if you can. Thank You.
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Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry (TED)
September 12, 2008read below if you want my introduction/thoughts on this video…
This is an interesting presentation. It’s not told quite right for my taste, but it emphasizes how hard it is to see outside the current technology/media paradigm, mostly by showing clips from the early days of TV and computing… The similarities in the language between then and now are pretty stunning.
Very notable for me was a clip of Marshall McCluhan in the 1960’s speaking about how audiences want to feel included in media. Sound familiar?
Also touched on is McCluhan’s “Global Village” concept which will surely inspire much near-future reading for me. The ‘Global Village’ is basically a visionary concept to this day.
McCluhan, thanks to Peter Hirshberg, will probably become a new teacher of mine. At this rate, I may have a college level education by the time I’m 40 years old.
Really, I should say that Peter Hirshberg does a really good job in this presentaion compiling a lot for us to chew on in a short amount of time, even if it is all a little bit scatter-brained in my opinion. My preview notes don’t do justice to the ground covered. I couldn’t do better.
OH! He even touches on how the late 60’s, counter-culture and LSD may have influenced the birth of Open-Source and Personal Computing! Interesting stuff.
Peter Hirshberg is a veteran of old media as well as new, and now, new-new media (now just considered new)… The list of companies he’s been involved with is amazing:
And finally, don’t miss the cameo by James Burke who we all know (or should know) and love from the show Connections (about the history of technology and innovation). In the presentation, Peter Hirshberg shows a commercial in which Burke is a spokesperson for Apple, promoting “HyperCard,” a predecessor to HTML (HyperCard is not networked).
Hirshberg’s list of companies he’s been involved with is pretty impressive and includes some of my favorites, Technorati and Apple. Copied from his TypePad Bio:
Biography
Peter Hirshberg is a Silicon Valley executive, entrepreneur and marketing innovator who most recently served as president and CEO of Gloss.com, the major multi-brand beauty ecommerce business co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins. Launched in Fall 2001, Gloss features prestige cosmetic brands including Clinique, MAC, Prescriptives, Estee Lauder, Origins, Bobbi Brown, Stila, Chanel and Clarins.
Hirshberg served as Chairman of Interpacket Networks, the global leader in Internet Via Satellite, before its acquisition by American Tower Corporation in October 2000. From 1996-1999, Hirshberg was founder/CEO of Elemental Software, developer of the award- winning Drumbeat 2000 family of e-business web development software. Backed by Accel partners, AT&T Corporation, and Microsoft, Elemental Software was acquired by Macromedia Incorporated in September 1999.
During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple’s large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company’s entry into the online service arena. After leaving Apple, Hirshberg’s new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell and Silicon Graphics.
Hirshberg is a founder of Goodmail Systems, a board member of ICTV, and serves on the advisory boards of start-ups Technorati and Informative. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Peter earned his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.
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Spam Emails and URLs
September 1, 2008Here in one post, I will start collecting curious little spam messages and emails I get. These aren’t interesting enough to get their own posts, but I still like to be found in searches for their emails, urls etc.
MySpace Spam (mariebashor@gmail.com and myspace.com/269092691):
Hi sweetie!I’d like to avoid any confusion, I’m writing this on behalf of my mother. She was searching for guys online and came upon your irresistible profile (her words). She’s single and HOT! She wants to experience new things, meet a great guy for dating and more! She’s very alluring, men turn around when she walks? she has very nice curves. She likes going to the movies, drinking coffee and enjoys smart conversation. She plays a few musical instruments but prefers the cello. She’s humorous, romantic and easy-going. I’d like to add that she’s a very perceptive and spiritual person. I hope you’ll write back, you sure won’t regret it. FYI, this is MY account, so don..t reply directly to this message Instead, please use her email address, MarieBashor at gmail..
Well thank you very much
http://myspace.com/269092691
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New Project: As The Dust Settles, Participatory Documentary, Burning Man etc
August 23, 2008In the morning I’m leaving to go to Burning Man, but this time I wont be merely attending. Some friends of mine have brought me onboard to direct one of two second-units for a documentary film called, at least tentatively, “As The Dust Settles.”
I’m totally thrilled to be working on another film project with Susan Buice, Arin Crumley and Joe Griffin, who I worked with on Four Eyed Monsters, as well as the producer, Mike Hedge who is a super amazing guy on many levels and is doing an awesome job putting together everything and organizing it all. And I’m also super excited to meet and work with all the other really talented people who have been selected as the core crew for this project. It looks like a really amazing team has been out together.
I know it’s going to be a bit challenging to work out there in that environment for a number of reasons, but if anyone can do it, we can! Hellz Yeah!
Official site is asthedustsettles.com
I’ll check back in as soon as I can.
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Sprinkler Rainbows: A Bright New Conspiracy Theory
August 14, 2008What is ‘oozing out of our ground?’ Anyone?
I should mention that I did have rainbows in my sprinkler spray more than twenty years ago. I guess this means that rural coastal Northern California well-water was hit first and then it spread to muni water supplies.
wtf.
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Jack Conte Music Videos – RAD!
August 10, 20082 Videos from Jack Conte’s YouTube Channel
This is an interesting video. Reminds a little of the film, “The Science of Sleep.“
And this one is cool because it shows the recording process of the song.
So who is Jack Conte? I have no idea. He’s awesome though.
Here’s his MySpace, his Last.FM Page, and where you can buy his EP “Nightmares and Daydreams” on CDBaby, and the same record via the iTunes Store.
I can’t afford to buy music, so maybe Jack will feel my pain and hook me up. Jack? Haha.
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OSX Adobe AIR Installation Problem SOLVED
August 9, 2008When trying to install Adobe AIR on my Mac running 10.5.4, I was getting this annoying message:
Error: Adobe AIR Installer requires Adobe AIR to be installed. What?
This application requires Adobe AIR to function. Please download the latest version of the runtime from http://www.adobe.com/go/getair, then launch the application again.
Which is weird because why would Adobe AIR require Adobe AIR to install? Isn’t that like… impossible?
I found the solution!
- Open System Preferences.
- Click on International.
- Click on Edit List
- Check Or Uncheck a Language (In other words, change something)
- Hit OK to save the changes
- Adobe AIR will now install!
- For Adobe AIR Installation, open System Preferences and click International
OSX Adobe AIR Installer Works Now!
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Green-Washing, Water-Hoarding, Guilt-Mongering, Pickens & ZapRoot
August 8, 2008Comment I left on zaproot’s episode 048 called Truth About The Pickens Plan …As of posting this, it hasn’t appeared on their site…
Here’s the Video I’m responding to:
I love me a good conspiracy theory.
I’m interested to see the evidence of this water-grabbing thing spelled out as more than just a reference and passing the buck to one article in Tucson Weekly (which has no sources or links).
Are there other sources?
I’m not a Pickens supporter per se, but I am a Web2 fanatic who thinks the grassroots/marketing efforts of the Pickens Plan are amazing, both in design and success so far.
I’d like to see the evidence of this theory about the mid-western aquifer properly added to the Wikipedia article on the page for the pickens plan… Currently, it only mentions one source, which seems to be the same source as for this episode.
Here: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=oid:113228
Maybe I’m wrong, and I definitely have no reason to side with a rich-ass oil guy…
I just want my skepticism to be smart.
Dates, Bill Numbers, and other data would really help.
The Wikipedia article, which anyone can edit, has none of this. It simply mentions the existence of this theory, which to me really makes it seem like a stretch since something so important seems like it would have some wikipedia back-n-forth going on.
Where is the discussion? If the people of the US are blind to this alleged water-grab, can you really claim the position of moral high-ground while attempting to make [ad-supported] content out of the issue without lifting a finger to actually get the word out via the wikipedia [or any other medium with any kind of reach]?
You guys aren’t even popular enough to have a wikipedia article for yourselves, yet you claim to be delivering an important message. I know it probably took a few hours at least to edit all that green-screen stuff with the pretty host bouncing around.
Who’s “Green-Washing” who? Are you helping humanity? Are you participating in the cloud? Or are you just trying to sell a cute actress to us while capitalizing on our guilt by using the whole “green” thing?
This is social media, people. If it’s true, add it to the wikipedia with sources!
If it’s “true” let’s expose it properly! I can’t wait to hear back from you. BTW, I love Channel Frederator!!! —Andrew
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BitTorrent Music Tracker Comparison and Meta-Search
August 4, 2008I’m not going to try to be an expert on comparing trackers and/or sites, especially when the folks at File Share Freak already compiled a pretty awesome list of Music Trackers.
Oh damn, it hurts! I’m still mourning the death of Oink! Please, please, please, if you’re reading this and you can hook me up with the latest thing… [waffles?] …I’m dying over here!
Anyhow, back to the blogging.
I usually start off with a ScrapeTorrent search. It’s a meta-search that searches several of the top trackers like The Pirate Bay etc… There’s also YouTorrent.com, which is also a meta-search, but I have found that ScrapeTorrent.com has the better results… At least that’s how it seems to me.
Oink, I loved you!
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