According to this thread on kerneltrap, the Cool n Quiet features of AMD64 CPUs is supported by Linux! I’ll have to investigate. This machine is louder than anything else in the house!
Clouds
WPMU Snapshot
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s snapshot comes another:
Lots of fixes, and WPMU runs in PHP safe mode now, and with Smarty security enabled.
Things may break with php su exec and other unusual things so please report them in the forum!
As usual, the change log has more details.
The mod scene, dead?
Long before mp3 files were causing such a headache for the music industry, original music in the mod scene was inspiring artists and listeners alike all over the world! I’m glad to say that the mod scene is still very much alive.
This search provided me with a wealth of links to explore, and I even found some old favourites and one I remember a friend obsessed about 10 years ago.
The The Mod Archive looks like the place to go for mod stuff these days!
I’ll have to search a little more to find my favourites from the Hornet Archive. Woo! I found the Freedom CD compilation that Hornet released in 1995. Listen to the first track, Kingdom Skies by Jase, or the second track, The Crossing by Necros for a taster of really excellent free music.
You’ll probably want modplug to play your new MOD files. On Debian a simple apt-get install xmms-modplug does the job and you can use the familiar Xmms interface to play them.
Great! The Maniacs of Noise have a download page of their stuff! They have some strange Javascript download mechanism but if you view source you should be able to figure out the simple URLs.
Going further back there’s the brilliantly exploited SID chip of the C64, collected in the High Voltage SID Collection. Ah, nostalgia.
Resources For Web Design
Optimising MYSQL
Optimising MYSQL – several good points here. I more than doubled the queries per second after reading this and doing further research on the topics covered.
9 Songs – sex, sex and more sex!
Some crowd are looking to ban 9 Songs from Ireland. I haven’t seen it and I don’t think I will either. It doesn’t sound like a very interesting film. Here’s some shots from the film, and a linked trailer, although it’s in Realplayer format and I CBA going to the trouble of watching it!
Plot Outline: In between attending rock concerts, two lovers meet for intense sexual encounters.
Permalinks your way
I may take a look at Ryan’s Reduced Rewrite Plugin later. It might make it possible for each blog owner in a WPMU community to have their own permalink structure instead of the usual one that everyone gets.
Escape from Neverland
New WPMU Snapshot
An all-new, all-singing snapshot is now available. The mu website is going through some updating so you can download the files from here instead:
Hold off on downloading for a while. The SVN repository is down right now and the archives above are corrupted. I’ll post fixed files later. They’re fine now.
Changes:
I rolled in a big patch by Dasher, including Derek Ditch’s wpmu manager. It also included BAStats so you have yet another way of telling where people come to your site from!
Lots of other fixes and additional features, check the change log for more.
Post questions to the support forum if you have problems.