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Cart back online

eighty — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:04:21 +0000

Our cart is back online. I will be working on it more over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who gave me a heads-up about the issue! To check it out, click on the “buy our music/shirts” button above :]

-eighty

Pandora

eighty — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:49:27 +0000

Coming up on your 40 hours for the month on Pandora? Worry not. You can always register a new account and share your stations with the new account. If/when Pandora complains about the allotted time (40 hours) being used for the computer, just go find the .sol files on your system. On my Ubuntu system, they are located in ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects. These .sol files are called Local Shared Objects, essentially cookies for your flash player. Simply deleting them will clear the hours tracking for the computer, but before you do that, feel free to open them up in a hex editor and start poking around. I see some interesting parameters ;]

-eighty

CSS is awesome

eighty — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:07:41 +0000

My friend showed me this the other day, I was loln. Designers, my heart goes out to you. Curse the Document Object and box Models — this makes me appreciate my job that much more. Well, I’m gonna :hover and set my z-index to negative infinity.

-eighty

Firefox 3.5.1

eighty — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:14:55 +0000

If you are on Firefox 3.5.1 and the site looks blocky or weird, blame Mozilla. http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=396245

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Routing fail

eighty — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:54:33 +0000

Next Level is still not available online. You can thank whoever is dropping the packets going to PayPal from this server. Right now the last hop in my traceroute is a fuse.net system in Chicago. It may not mean Fuse is dropping, but either way, my packets are not getting to PayPal which means checkout with the cart will fail.

Give me a shout if you know someone at Fuse in Chicago that can help me look into this. At this point, I’ve got at least 2-3 separate upstream providers to deal with first.

This is what my life has been like today:

Via Facebook

eighty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:33:26 +0000

My man James Stallard posted this to our Facebook last night:

Dual Core are always for real, always make me feel that I’m at the beginning a long way from the end always there when I need to unplug from my lost reality, from the stresses and strains of everyday boredom really unwind you know that they make me always feel uplifted, gifted help me get all my thoughts sifted through the filter that lies inside because I’m only a Dual Core Chip, can only process two streams at once though not in a conventional sense I’m dense like the former fat boys you better hold on because I’m taking it forward like The Time Machine but with no scary Morlocks only Warlocks that’s always part of my skill set the other part is always CQC, though I’m not the big boss I’ll leave that to int0×80 and c64 the only Players that can beat the Players the nay sayers who like to bully us in the classroom and the playground, thoughts going round and round in their heads like a goto loop gonna set it off like a logic bomb to show them we can handle more than Random Bits…

That was pretty fresh if I do say so myself :]

-eighty

Danger Mouse to release blank CD-R

eighty — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:42:44 +0000

You have heard music from Danger Mouse if you’ve ever listened to Gnarls Barkley, DANGERDOOM, or The Grey Album. Well the last of those, The Grey Album, triggered backlash from EMI resulting in extremely limited production of the mash-up project.

His new album, Dark Night of the Soul, is being released as a blank CD-R with the music being available online. The physical product will feature full artwork, just no music. It sounds as though the music should be easy to locate online. In fact, NPR is hosting a streaming version.

-eighty

Dual Core on Wikipedia

eighty — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:01:00 +0000

I just found out that a Dual Core page was started on Wikipedia. The page is off to a good start, but could always use some love from our friends out there. Please swing by and add some facts about us :]

Long: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Core_(musician)
Short: http://bit.ly/WXIyT

-eighty

RSS variety

eighty — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:04:30 +0000

If you could recommend one site from your RSS reader to someone, what would it be? Tweet your recommendation to @dualcoremusic. Add a comment to this post if you don’t use twitter.

-eighty

My bad

eighty — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:51:00 +0000

I have the cart problem figured out, for real this time.

It was my fault. We use Zen Cart, which is a free PHP shopping cart app, and it does the job really well. Some more complex situations are not handled in the cart codebase and require third-party plugins or custom patches. One of these situations is our offer to buy one album for $10 USD and get a second album for $5 USD. To implement this functionality, I added some custom code in 2007 following the release of Super Powers. Upon our recent upgrade of Zen Cart, I ported the custom patches over but failed to realize that the $db object used for querying the database was no longer global in some of the modified Zen Cart functions containing my code.

Thanks to the debugging utility for Zen Cart, I was able to track down and correct the issue. The problem was all on my side, I was a bad coder. Interestingly enough, some transactions were conducted successfully and these were when the custom patches were not encountered in the code (e.g. buying one album for the first time, etc). So everything should be in order now and functioning properly. Please let me know if you run into any issues.

-eighty