Incredible releases in the last six weeks… I’ve included a few of my favorites here, along with a couple hidden treasures. Enjoy.
It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally put together a modest mix for April (barely). I’m really pleased with this month’s releases, and I definitely haven’t done them justice — the mix was ultimately rushed, despite the fact that I’ve been toying with it for a solid month — but I do hope you enjoy it.
This is my first crack at putting together a mix of any substance using the SCS.1m. It’s become obvious to me over the past couple weeks that I need to add the 1d into the equation — I’m just touching the PC way too much during a mix as it stands — but I’m loving everything the 1m alone is doing for me so far. Anyhow, download, enjoy, and don’t forget to play a fun round of Spot the F-Ups!
Playlist:
I’m migrating from Moveable Type to WordPress this week, so you’re going to see a janky site and a whole lotta broken links. It’ll all be fixed shortly, promise!
Threw this little mix together over the weekend to try to get up to speed with Traktor Pro (finally). Not super thrilled that you can't have beat jump and cue navigation keys open simultaneously, but let's be honest, that's where an external controller comes into play. Stanton SCS, here I come.
Since my AV rack is nowhere near my router, I run a WDS network that uses two Airport Extremes — one 100Mbps, one 1Gbps. Since bandwidth isn't as much of an issue between networked devices in the rack, it gets the 100Mbps. By and large, it works brilliantly — I've got a Squeezebox 3, Tivo S3, Xbox 360, and Slingbox connected to the Extreme and everything's solid. Lately, though, I've been getting intermittent dropouts on the WDS where both routers go to blinky yellow. Sometimes it fixes itself after a few minutes, sometimes I've got to power cycle the remote (the rack router). Either way, though, the Slingbox loses network connectivity without fail and never regains it — I've got to reset it to get it back on track. Since this WDS drama happens at least once or twice a day, it renders the Slingbox useless if I'm out of the house for any length of time, which is the only scenario where I want to use it anyway. Sling: can you please release a firmware that'll make the box at least try to restore connectivity on its own accord?
God, I can't believe how simple this is:
1. Sleep your computer in the middle of a backup.
2. Power it back on connected to another network (or no network at all).
This'll give you a "volume cannot be found" error. I ended up deleting my sparsefile, which produced an even more fantastic symptom where the computer will allow you to choose the disk as your TM backup disk, but will simultaneously slide the TM "power switch" to the off position.
I can't really say for sure how I ended up fixing it, but I went back to the machine to which the TM drive is connected, deleted and re-added my username for network permissions, then deleted my TM plist from the target machine. All is well now, but the fact remains: overall, TM is way too fragile for a consumer-oriented backup strategy.
As seen on cnn.com — what exactly was Norton thinking here? Really digging the off-center text.