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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BoingBoing recently linked to a BBC Magazine article where they gave a 13-year-old an original Sony Walkman to review. My favourite quote:

“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.”

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Checking in with Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band, a bit of the Mighty Boosh, some Little Boots, and that Duke Dumont version of Two Doors Down by the Mystery Jets (that really sounds a lot more like it’s Muse – New Born…), it’s the Unadopted Podcast with a mixed bag of Bank Holiday Weekend party tracks.

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1. Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band – A Fifth Of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix) (Unadopted Edit)
2. Jean Jacques Perrey vs Hervé – EVA (DJ Yoda’s FabricLive.39 Bonus Beats Mix)
3. Mojo Filter feat The Mighty Boosh – Oaky Timbre (Loose Cannons Reflick)
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – We Are Rockstars
5. Treasure Fingers – Cross The Dancefloor (Laidback Luke Remix)
6. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)
7. The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (SebastiAn Remix)
8. Jaydee – Plastic Dreams (Laidback Luke Boot)
9. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers (Doorly Dubstep Remix)
10. The Prodigy – Thunder
11. Simian Mobile Disco – 10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong
12. Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)

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Starting off with the dark-but-bouncy Sombre Detune by Norwegian funksters Röyksopp, touching on the epic Mars by Fake Blood, and bumping into some Prodigy and Tomas Andersson along the way, here’s the next installment of the Unadopted Podcast!

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1. Röyksopp – Sombre Detune
2. Friendly Fires – Your Love
3. Yo Majesty – Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing To Baltimore Edit)
4. Fake Blood – Mars
5. Tomas Andersson – Washing Up (Shinichi Osawa Re-Construct)
6. The Shapeshifters – Chime (Martijn Ten Velden Remix)
7. Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now (Redanka Mix)
8. Daft Punk – Robot Rock (Soulwax Remix)
9. Marco V & Sander van Doorn – Organic
10. The Prodigy – The Way It Is
11. Justice – Planisphère (MMMatthias Remix)

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I pushed a new design for Unadopted.co.uk live today. Took a while to get it to look right, but I quite like it. Much more up-to-date. The old look was about 5 years old!

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I just read a daily email from Logwatch to find some very strange messages…

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.208, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.210, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.211, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.212, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.213, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.214, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.216, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.217, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.218, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.219, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.220, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.221, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 4 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.225, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.227, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.228, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.232, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.234, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.235, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.236, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 5 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.237, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.238, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.239, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.240, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.241, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.244, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.245, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.246, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.248, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.249, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.251, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

Okay, so let’s list the strange events here:

• A whole bunch of sequential IPs are connecting to my POP3 port (not necessarily in order, perhaps Logwatch is just picking them out that way)
• The remote machines are connecting, but not even attempting to authenticate (log in), they’re just disconnecting
• The IP range is apparently owned by Google

So… what’s going on here, exactly? Anyone able to shed some light onto this?

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