Dual Core

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

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

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

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

The cart is working again.  From what I could tell, the issue was a timeout with PayPal.  Considering that the cart worked before this issue, and after, it seems that PayPal was the culprit.  It could have just as easily been maintenance on their end.  Please let me know if you run into any issues.

-eighty

Apologies for the outage earlier.  The good folks at our ISP went down to the data center and rebooted the server.  I am still uncertain as to the root cause for the outage.  Everything in the logs looks normal except for a few floods of DNS requests.  Those IPs (from .ru) have been blocked and I will continue to keep an eye on the box.  Remote 2.6 kernel 0day, anyone?  Along the lines of outages, I am still working on the cart to track down the problem.  Some people have used the cart fine, others are running into issues.  Please contact me [dualcoremusic] and let me know what your results with the cart are [at gmail dot com].

-eighty