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This is actually surprisingly straightforward, once you know the hoops to jump through. Essentially there are 4 main things we need to do: Download El Capitan from the App Store Prepare an install image Create a virtual machine Install El Capitan So let’s take a look at those, one by one… Step 1: Download El Capitan […]
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Ars recently posted a collection of John Siracusa’s write-ups of each OS X release. Going back and reading about the quirks of how older versions behaved is like stepping into a time machine. OS X has come a long way in 15 years, and these write-ups were there every step of the way. “Long form” doesn’t even begin to cover […]
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Another varied bunch with a Luther Vandross remix, Tensnake feat Nile Rodgers & Fiora, Pulp, Digitalism, Stanton Warriors, Booka Shade, Four Tet and an old Nathan Fake track. Solomun – Love Recycled 1 Cupcakes – Captain Obvious Digitalism – So Totally Good Evil Nine feat Spoek Mathambo – No Manners (Arveene And Misk Remix) Pulp […]
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Been listening to some old stuff as well as some new stuff lately, so here’s a fun genre-hopping, time-hopping mix to get your ears around. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam – Let The Music Hit ‘Em (The Brand New Super Pumped-Up C&C Vocal Club Mix) Mylo – Paris Four Hundred Mighty Dub Katz – Just Another Groove (Stanton […]
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Despite the European Court of Justice telling the UK it’s illegal, the Snooper’s Charter is back, and they’re scaremongering to justify it. What part of “it’s illegal” because it “interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data” does our government not […]
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Quite a varied one this time around, mid 90s Fatboy Slim, early 2000s Underworld, a new(er) version of The Man With The Red Face, a cheeky Soulwax remix in there for good measure, and more. Fatboy Slim – Song For Lindy Stanton Warriors feat Ruby Goe – Shoot Me Down Alex Metric feat Oliver – Motion Study His […]
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Time to get your nostalgia on. Back in January 2010 I recorded a set of my favourite late-night tracks from the early 2000s. It was originally going to be Session 028 but I ended up not releasing it… until now! Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (12″ Version) Moby – Why Does My Heart […]
Continue ReadingIt’s coming up to the end of another year, so here’s a roundup of some of my favourite tracks from 2013, including the Stanton Warriors remix of I Still Love You, The Music by Marcus Marr, the Jackson & His Computer Band Reprise of Surkin’s White Knight Two and much more. St Lucia – September […]
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Suffering with low entropy on Xen/KVM/VMware VMs? Get help from another computer with better entropy sources. Check out entropyservice. It allows low entropy machines (eg virtual machines) to collect data from another host with high entropy (eg a real computer) via SSH, then stir it in to the kernel’s entropy pool using rngd. Find out […]
Continue ReadingI upgraded to OS X Mavericks last night. It’s great, my Mac is faster, and I’ve not touched a single byte of swap yet, even with a ton of stuff open. But like any OS upgrade, there are some things that are causing my dev environment to work strangely. Here’s how I’m fixing them. Apache […]
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