RayRay Is Forever

I wanted to help out the great site, The Free Sound Project, so I set up Squid proxy on our server. It is pretty amazing that we are now serving out twice as many bits of traffic, yet it has a negligible effect on our server load and other resources!

From their site:

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

What I’ve gained is much experience using Squid, which gives me ideas on how to use it to get much more performance out of webservers in general. What I find cool about this is that the use of the http://freesound.cyborgcow.net proxy is invisible to you, when you are browsing the site. When you preview or download a sound, it actually grabs it from one of several mirrors.

I am always looking for ways to contribute to Open Source or Creative Commons projects. The Creative Commons liscense comes in several flavors, but a good example is the share and share alike license that Nine Inch Nails released their Ghosts EPs. That means you can legally download those songs for free! On top of that, you can remix the songs and release them. This spurs innovation.

By assisting a large collection of free, Creative Commons licensed audio files and samples, I hope to assist artists all over the world in creating new and amazing projects!

Rayray at the Big Ramada, South Mountain, overlooking Phoenix, Az. Photo by Mai

I’m getting to play a 2 hour set at Diablo, a party being thrown on October 11th, 2008 in Phoenix, Az. You can find the most current information from this forum post at AzEDM!

I’m going to be spending a LOT of time going through as much music as I can to find the right set. I will have some new and unreleased music by myself and others that I wish I could tell you, but you’ll just have to hear it!

This is just amazing. I’m running OSX, Ubuntu, Centos 5, and Windows XP SP3 all simultaneously on my Mac Pro. Wow. Click for the full size!