Bringing things way downbeat (around the 105bpm mark) and spanning a whole bunch of genres, here’s some nice music from the likes of Mr Scruff, Q-Tip, Boards Of Canada, Bis and Moonbootica. I’ve been wanting to play a whole bunch of this stuff for ages, but it’s a lot slower than the usual Unadopted Podcast fare, so haven’t been able to work it in.

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1. Mr Scruff – Fish
2. Bis – The End Starts Today
3. Linkin Park – Session
4. M.I.A. – Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
5. Q-Tip – Breathe And Stop
6. Mr Scruff – Ug
7. Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley’s Gonna Sort You Out
8. Röyksopp – Eple (Fatboy Slim Remix)
9. Moonbootica – Jump Around (Radio Mix)
10. Ian Brown – Just Like You (Prodigy Remix)
11. Boards Of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
12. Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
13. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds

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Going to Soulwaxmas last weekend made me want to record another podcast session. Music this time around from Faithless, Sidney Samson, Delphic, Florence, Dizzee, Zombie Nation, Felix Da Housecat and more. Get stuck in!

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1. Hostage – I Get High
2. Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend (Fake Blood Remix)
3. Faithless – Insomnia (The Hump Day Project Remix)
4. Sidney Samson – Riverside (Extended Mix)
5. Bingo Players – Get Up (Diplo Remix)
6. Delphic – Doubt (Doc Daneekas VIP Remix)
7. Evil Nine – They Live (Rogerseventytwo Remix)
8. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers (Soulwax Re-Edit)
9. Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix)
10. Shinichi Osawa – Rendezvous (Crookers Remix)
11. Felix Da Housecat – Like Something 4 Porno (Armand Van Helden Remix)
12. Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The XX Remix)

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It’s time for another funpacked session, with awesome sounds from the likes of Foamo, Boys Noize, Fake Blood and Armand Van Helden’s rather dirty remix of an early nineties anthem. Crank the volume up and let your neighbours party too!

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1. Riton & Primary 1 – Who’s There
2. Fake Blood – Fix Your Accent
3. Kid Cudi – Make Her Say (Afrojack Remix)
4. Calvin Harris – Not Alone (Doorly Remix)
5. Boys Noize – Jeffer
6. Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
7. Foamo – Movin’ It Over Here (Stupid Fresh Remix)
8. Unkle – Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
9. Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer (Armand Van Helden Remix)
10. The Bloody Beetroots – We Are From Venice (La Serenissima)
11. Fukkk Offf – Rave Is King
12. Rudenko – Everybody
13. Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me (Trevor Lovey’s Skeezer Pleezer Mix)
14. Basement Jaxx feat Lightspeed Champion – My Turn

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I recently tried to use the image_science gem for Ruby, but it didn’t work after installation because it was looking for FreeImage.h. Thinking it’d be an easy fix, I headed over to http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ to go grab a copy of a binary file to install, but there wasn’t one.

Undeterred, I went to grab the source and compile it myself. It didn’t work. Eventually I figured there were two key issues:

1. FreeImage’s source was prepared for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
2. FreeImage was trying to compile for i386 (32-bit) and my Ruby install is x86-64 (64-bit)

First problem is easy to fix, just replace both instances of /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk with /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk (or, 10.5 for Leopard, or 10.4u for Tiger).

The second part was a bit more fiddly because I wasn’t sure if order was important, so I started by replacing all instances of i386 and I386 with x86_64 and X86_64 respectively. Then, I replaced all instances of ppc and PPC with i386 and I386.

If you don’t want to worry about making all these changes, you can simply download my Makefile.osx here. It’s built for Snow Leopard, but it’s easy to change it for Leopard or Tiger.

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I was having trouble making chan_sccp compile against Asterisk 1.6 — it kept dying saying that AST_CONTROL_T38 was undeclared. Turns out the solution is easy — Asterisk replaced AST_CONTROL_T38 with AST_CONTROL_T38_PARAMETERS, so you need to replace something in sccp_pbx.c. Full instructions available here.

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It might be Monday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get up and party! New tracks from Simian Mobile Disco, Fake Blood and bunch of familiar sounding tracks to get your week off to a good start. Get stuck in, and help spread the word!

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1. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
2. Felix Da Housecat – Radio (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
3. Fake Blood – I Think I Like It
4. Futurecop! – Ain’t That Fresh
5. Major Lazer feat VYBZ Cartel – Pon De Floor
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (Digiraatii Dance Til You’re Dead Remix)
7. Daft Punk – Around The World (Alive 2009 Re-Edit)
8. Bloc Party – One More Chance (Alex Metric Remix)
9. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Remix)
10. Shinichi Osawa – Maximum Joy
11. Frankmusic – Better Off As Two (A1 Bassline Remix)
12. Florence And The Machine – Drumming Song (Jack Beats Remix)

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I ran into some problems with Perl’s CPAN installer on Snow Leopard, notably, it didn’t work once Bundle::CPAN was installed. Every time I tried to install a package I’d end up with an error like this:

Catching error: 'Can\'t call method "value" on an undefined value at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.
' at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 281
CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan5.10.0 line 199

Not good. So, how to fix it? Move the broken IO::Uncompress module out of the way. In a terminal window, copy and paste the following

sudo mv /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm-broken

Once that’s been shifted out the way, it should work provided CPAN was configured with the proper paths to your tar, bzip2 and gzip executables (if not, nuke your /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN/Config.pm and start over).

Note: This isn’t a long-term solution, some things like CPAN::SQLite won’t install if IO::Uncompress::RawInflate is missing, but at least it gets some functionality back into CPAN. I’m very interested in hearing of any better fixes for this.

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An absolutely pounding festival season party pack this time around, featuring a couple of delightful remixes of some classics by Orbital and Paul van Dyk, The Count & Sinden’s new track, Calvertron’s hoofin’ Friendly Fires remix, and Fake Blood’s happy-smiley mix of Miike Snow’s “Animal”. Get stuck in, and help spread the word!

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1. Orbital – Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-Model)
2. Paul van Dyk – For An Angel 2009 (Spencer & Hill Remix)
3. The Count & Sinden – Mega (Club Mix)
4. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool (Calvertron Remix)
5. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix)
6. Surkin – White Knight Two (Laidback Luke Remix)
7. Mystery Jets – Half In Love (Foamo Remix)
8. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)
9. Miike Snow – Animal (Fake Blood Remix)
10. Feist – 1234 (Van She Tech Remix)

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Shameless repost of BoingBoing and Reuters content here, but word should be spread on this because quite frankly it’s good that Thomson Reuters are taking the sensible approach on this, unlike the Associated Press (link1, link2)…

“Chris Ahearn, President of Media at Thomson Reuters, has an opinion piece out today which amounts to a response to recent hysterical, illogical, and counterproductive acts on the part of Associated Press management with regard to content-sharing online (and “journalism piracy”).”

– Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing.net

And here’s what he said (click the link to read the full story):

“To start, yes the global economy is fairly grim and the cyclical aspects of our business are biting extremely hard in the face of the structural changes. But the Internet isn’t killing the news business any more than TV killed radio or radio killed the newspaper. Incumbent business leaders in news haven’t been keeping up. Many leaders continue to help push the business into the ditch by wasting “resources” (management speak for talented people) on recycling commodity news. Reader habits are changing and vertically curated views need to be meshed with horizontal read-around ones.Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works.

A better approach is to have a general agreement among community members to treat others’ content, business and ideas with the same respect you would want them to treat yours. If you are doing something that you would object to if others did it to you – stop. If you don’t want search engines linking to you, insert code to ban them.”

– Chris Ahearn, Thomson Reuters (blogs.reuters.com)

Disclaimer: In the interests of full disclosure, I should probably state that Thomson Reuters currently pay my wages.

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What were the skies like when you were young? The Unadopted Podcast is back again with yet another batch of musical goodies for you. Yet another varied one this time, ranging from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to Mujava, and from Pixie Lott to the ever-awesome Fake Blood.

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1. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Beggin’ (Pilooski Re-Edit)
2. David Guetta – Jack Is Back
3. Alter Ego – Rocker
4. Mujava – Township Funk
5. Hook ‘n’ Sling – The Bump (Tonite Only Mix)
6. Pixie Lott – Mama Do (Linus Loves Remix Radio Edit)
7. The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (Fake Blood Remix)
8. Alex Gopher – Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
9. Little Boots – New In Town (A1 Bassline Remix)
10. Fake Blood – Blood Splashing (Fake Blood Theme)
11. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Poj Masta Womp Mix)
12. The Orb vs Alan Parker – Grey Clouds

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