June 26th, 2008
Browse the gallery with Piclens
Using the Piclens plugin with Firefox, you can browse any of the galleries in 3D!
RayRay Is Forever
The HardcoreDreamer Gallery now features over 131,000 party pictures!
June 26th, 2008
Cameraphone Gallery Auto Import
If you send your pictures from your camera phone to cameraphone(at)hardcoredreamer.com with the word pic in the subject line, it will be auto-imported into the gallery. This should be fun, assuming we don’t get spammed.
June 14th, 2008
DEMF party pictures from Detroit
DJ Aaron Z and some of my favorite people in the world spent a week partying in Chicago and Detroit for the The Detroit Electronic Music Festival!. They uploaded so many awesome pictures, that I recommend installing the Firefox Piclens plugin to browse them all in 3D!
DEMF 2008 Detroit Michigan
Detroit during DEMF weekend is like a surreal city torn from the pages of a fictional book that only exists in the hearts of dead poets. This city reflects the changing times that left it in the booming industrial era of early last century. At the heart of any place there are good people and bad, and most of the news from this city comes from the negative reports of violence on the news or a statistic comparing the level of violence with some cities in Iraq. But for one weekend at the end of May, the birthplace of techno comes alive as fans of electronic music make the pilgrimage back to the city that gave us dance music and parties that last for days. We were happy to attend this event and the all of the great after parties and here are some pix snapped by some of uf that attended to document : Rebbecca S., Seth T., Eon M, Aaron Z, Brandon B, Tara N, Tara M, Ruthie B, Claudia C and many others. Enjoi
June 10th, 2008
Avoid OSX Metadata on Network Shares
OSX saves .DS_Store and other resource-fork metadata files such as .Appledouble onto hard drives and network shares. These normally are completely invisible to a Mac OSX user, but once you start to browse the drives with different operating systems, you get all sorts of helpful files that can be annoying or get in your way.
These show up either with period, or as a hex number beginning with a : with netatalk, which allows a faster and more native sharing of APF over TCP. With FTP or SMB servers, you can ignore or veto the creation of these files. A way to avoid copying resource forks & metadata to network shares, you can try this hint to disable it as a finder preference.
It seems like nobody has ever discovered that the Darwin OSX man page for the terminal command “cp”, which is used to copy a file or directory recursively, has built a SIMPLE parameter to completely skip any of these!
First, I mounted my network share, which is just called rayray using Finder’s Connect To Server menu item. This put rayray in /Volumes/rayray Then I can run cp with the -X parameter!
cp -vRX /path/to/folder /Volumes/rayray
This will show each file as it is copied and happily it goes *fast* and skips all of those files!
By the way, I still have to test NFS’s speed, but with netatalk using Appletalk over TCP Apple File Transfers, I get 50-60MB/s over a gigabit crossover cable as opposed to 30-35MB/s with Samba. Kinda neat 
I want to point out that this person’s blog was the most helpful resource to getting Avahi-Daemon to advertise exactly what I wanted, so if you’re setting up a Linux server on your network with services that you want to appear in Finder, Terminal, and other places automagically, check out HolyArmy.org
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June 5th, 2008
Krazy Komrade Invades London!
Some great new pics in his album! Click the picture to check them out!
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May 28th, 2008
I made a new favicon.
I’ve had the old radiation icon for this site for years now, and decided to re-vamp it. Unfortunately, this wouldn’t scale down well, so instead I modified an animated .gif I made.
May 28th, 2008
Every thumbnail and resize is built!
Success! Every thumbnail, resize, and movie still has been built! It took quite a bit of work and some switching around of certain plugins, but the gallery does not need to generate any images when a picture is requested.
In the meantime, I have munin monitoring the server and I am very pleased with how smoothly everything is running. I have given MySQL much more ram than it needs for the sake of performance, and have been watching the free memory to make sure there is enough for http processes. Of course, I was able to free up many processes by using mod_security smartly.
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May 21st, 2008
Sapphire Mix
RayRay - Sapphire Mix - March 2005 Extreme Quality 78:43 MP3 Right click and Save As
[CUE FILE]
- RayRay - Sapphire Mix Tracklisting Progressive House, Trance, and Breaks
- Pole Folder Feat. Sandra Ferretti - Protected - M.A.S. Collective black curtain dub mix - Modo Records
- Steve Porter - Definite form - Remy & Roland Remix - Little Moutain Recordings
- Subsky - Discollective E.P. - Do you want to play - Focus
- U & K - Atmosphere - Panoptic’s Cold Depth Remix - Confi-Danace
- Koala - Imagine - Disc 2 - U & K’s “V+T” Remix - Cuba
- Nubreed - Depth - Bonzai Limited
- Dave Seaman Presents Group Therapy featuring Nat Leonard - My Own Worst Enemy - Audio Therapy
- DPP - M3X1CO - KiloWatt’s Grasiento Remix - Sunkissed Records
- Descent - Projection - Original Mix - 3Beat/Release Records
- Chris Domingo - Darklight - Thomas Penton Remix - BozBoz
- U.N.K.L.E. - In A State - Sasha Remix - Cha Chat Records
May 21st, 2008
Its been sort of fun…
I’ve set up the new server with a nice new firewall, very powerful virus scanning, and found time to update to a new version of ffmpeg module for gallery. This one lets you convert to a flash file, but for some reason (even after a lot of wasted time) it says that it can’t do audio, even when it should. When that is fixed, videos can take up less space, load faster, and be embedded easily!
I was going to take this move slowly, but I have a job interview and pretty important things going on that make me want to get this done right now so that just in case there is still time to get information off the old server.
I have not left my computer in 8 hours, and I’m starting to hurt… I think I may deserve a break in another hour. I have technical questions to review for this job interview!
May 21st, 2008
Moved HardcoreDreamer.com to a new server!
Dual Opteron Goodness!
The site will be slow while I regenerate all of the thumbnails and both midsizes, which are at 640×640 and 1024×1024 and at 95% quality. That’s 276,190 images that it is processing!
While I’m doing this so that everything can be even higher quality, I’m also using it to compare the processing power of the new server. =) Lets just say I am very pleased!
In moving the gallery, the first attempt took 6 hours and failed because my internet connection at home hiccuped. Overnight I used Rsync to transfer all of the images. It was so much easier, I will be using that more often.
May 19th, 2008
Facebook App and Desktop Wallpapers
Would you like to add your gallery photos to your facebook? Well just create an RSS feed for 4 items and install this app! Also, if you have Windows, you can have your gallery as a rotating desktop background with GLoSS!
May 18th, 2008
Embed Flash Slideshow in your Myspace, Livejournal, or website
Here is how to embed any of your albums as a flash slideshow in your Myspace, Livejournal, or website that accepts the <embed> tag for flash!
Click Read More to find the full instructions!
May 18th, 2008
RayRay & Lucid - Dreams and Melodies
RayRay & Lucid - Dreams and Melodies started out with the sampling of Lucid’s voice, and exploring what I could do with it from there. About 60 hours of work, I used Ableton Live for arrangement and then fed 20 audio streams into Logic Pro via Rewire to master it using various plugins including Izotope’s Ozone 3. [Right Click and Save-As to download]
May 18th, 2008
Phoenix Con Games 2008
I’ll be throwing and performing at the Phoenix Con Games convention Saturday night, June 14th from 8-11 in the A building at Mesa Convention Cente. It is for registered attendees at Phoenix Con Games, and I’ll be going through a large collection of video game and internet meme songs to find my set list. I plan to have some songs remixed especially for this event!
May 18th, 2008
Server Upgrade coming soon!
I am going to be migrating all of us to a new Dual Xeon server within a week. Hardcoredreamer.com will be the first site to be moved, so I can make sure if anything is affected that it will be my site and nobody else’s. I’m hosting 153 domains right now, and take pride in everything running as smoothly as possible.
I am also going to get to post how-to guide for using your album in really fun ways- such as having random desktops on your computer, embedding into your Livejournal or Myspace, and how to get random pictures on your Facebook profile.
I am currently working on four websites getting them up and running, including my own, but things are going to get very fun! I have a lot to share that has been in the dreaming stage for far too long.
I am going to get together a Video gallery, which will be spearheaded by a documentary by M-Pire’s Matt Lipinski. [M-Pire Gallery]
May 17th, 2008
Google Map Integration!
http://www.hardcoredreamer.com/gallery/map/
Any item can have GPS coordinates now!
GREEN: 
Default Photo Color
ORANGE: 
CLUB
PURPLE: 
RAVE
RED: 
Default Group Color
YELLOW: 
Default Album Color
WHITE: 
Adventure
GRAY: 
Vacation
BLUE: 
Family
AQUA: 
To Be Decided
BLACK: 
To Be Decided
All you have to do is go to “Edit album” or “Edit picture” and there is now a Google Map section where you can look up the GPS coordinates by Address or by using a map that will help you find where the party was!
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