Slimserver/MPD boot sequence

Note to self: Make sure Slimserver is up and streaming before you turn on MPD. Otherwise, MPD cannot chooses a bit rate that is likely not to match the stream’s rate (results in Alvin & The Chipmunks-type voices).

(IN)Secure Magazine

Heads up! Issue 12 is out.

IDJC

Next up on my experimental list is the Internet DJ Console. Contrary to some complaints about the software, IDJC compiled just fine. (Okay, I did have to go hunting for a Python package or two.)

I’ve got a couple ways of experimenting with it. One with an internal Shoutcast server, streaming to the nodes in the house. The second one involves taking advantage of an open spot on the Hak5Radio server (if those guys will tolerate it). I’ve been told to try a mixture of Southern Baptist Gospel and Leonard Cohen. (JK! Just checking if you guys are awake.)

Spook Country

Reminder to self: There’s only a handful of days left before William Gibson’s latest book, Spook Country is released.

Magic quotes and MediaWiki

I went to upgrade the wiki so that I could play with some of the newer extensions. Problem was, the old trick of adding “set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);” to the index file wasn’t working.

However, thanks to this page (sorry, I don’t read Russian), I have the new work-around.For those interested, add the following as the second line in index.php: “ini_set(‘magic_quotes_runtime’,0);”. You may need to add it to the index.php in the config directory too.

If this helps, please pass it on.