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It took some time but I manged to create a DMG image file for OpenTTD 1.0.5. Just extract the zip, open the DMG file and drag the OpenTTD application to the application folder. You can download the DMG file here.

general free, openttd, OSX, Software

Open Transport Tycoon is a game which supports Windows and Linux native. Since I use a mac I tried to compile it for OSX, which worked out pretty well. If you have a Mac and want to play OpenTTD you can download the compiled version here. Just unzip the file by double clicking. The only thing missing is the graphics and sound files.

The graphics can be downloaded here. Just extract the zip file into the data directory of my compiled version.

The sound files can be downloaded here. Just extract the zip file into the data directory of my compiled version.

If you run into trouble feel free to leave a comment. This version of OpenTTD has been compiled on Mac OS 10.6.4.

OpenTTD running under Mac OSX 10.6.4

Software free, openttd, OSX, Software

I am developing a web application which needs mobile access as well. In order to test this, I need to access the ASP.NET development server from my iOS device. Unfortunately the ASP.NET development server is only accessible from the localhost. This website describes an easy way to forward a port to from the ip adres to the development server.

First you need to download a free tool called rinetd which is available here.

When you have extracted the file to a folder you need to create a config file with the forwaring information. An example could be:

0.0.0.0 8080 127.0.0.1 65458

Save this file as rinetd.conf to the folder of rinetd.

Which mean you want to forward any data from port 8080 to port 65458, which is the port my ASP.NET development server is running. To start rinetd open a console and launch the following command:

rinetd.exe -c rinetd.conf

Software asp.net, port forwarding, remote access, server

When I started mixing, I realised that one of the most important skills is beatmatching. Of course it is possible to press the sync button every time, but learning by hearing seems to be useful. I found a well written tutorial which describes all the ins and outs of beatmatching.

Audio beatmatching, dj, mixing, tutorial

Since a couple of weeks I am the owner of a Reloop digital jocky 2 controller edition. A nice digital MIDI mixer for beginners just lik me. When I connected the mixer to my Mac, it worked immediately with Traktor. Since some midi mappings did not worked out I decided to remap these functions.

Unfortunately, the Reloop digital jocky 2 manual did not have any MIDI map inside. I decided to spend a couple of hours to figure out the MIDI layout. There might be other people who would like to have the layout as well. You can download the MIDI layout in the PDF format, or from the images shown below.

If you notice any mistakes, please post them in the comments so I can update the MIDI layout files. I would like to thank Marthijn for checking the draft versions of the MIDI layout for any mistakes.

MIDI codes without shift pressed

MIDI codes with shift pressed

MIDI output codes for the LEDs

Audio controller, Digital Jockey 2, dj, interface, layout, midi, mixer, reloop, schema, scheme

Since I started mixing with my Reloop Digital Jockey 2 Controller Edition, I’ve been searching for DJ and mixing tutorials. Youtube is a great source with lots of material. Below are three videos to get start with. Do you have any other suggestions? Feel free to post any in the comments!

5 Basic Dj Transitions Between 2 Songs

Read more…

Audio Digital Jockey 2, dj, mixing, reloop, tutorial

My new Mac Pro had a strange problem. When I turned on the Mac or woke it up from sleep it had no ip anymore. The only way to fix this problem was to switch the cable from ethernet 1 to ethernet 2. Sometimes I had to repeat this step, turn wireless on and off and finally I got an ip. When I restarted the router I did not have to switch the cables, then I got an ip immediately after the restart.

I searched on the internet and found several solutions:

• Reset PRAM
• Remove and add the ethernet connections
• Check the cable (the cable worked for years on my MacBook Pro)
• Try different ports on your router

None of these succeeded. I decided to contact Apple within a few days but first I searched again on the Internet. I found this page which described exactly my problem. The interesting part of this thread was about the FritzBox since I do have this router as well. The thread suggested to disable energy saving mode on the ethernet ports of the router. Which turned out to be the solution! Now my network is immediately connected after a reboot or wakeup.

The FritzBox settings which needed to be changed

general apple, ethernet, fritzbox, mac pro, macpro, network, OSX

Every time I reboot my Mac Pro the sound output resets itself to internal speakers. This is quite annoying and I had no clue how to fix it. This topic on the Apple forums shows how to fix it.

First delete the audio preference folder:

$ sudo rm -r /Library/Preferences/Audio

Recreate a new one:

$ sudo mkdir /Library/Preferences/Audio

Change the permissions:

$ sudo chown -R _coreaudiod:admin /Library/Preferences/Audio

Go back to the sound preference panel and set the audio to the one you prefer. This will recreate the settings file.

Reboot the system and see if it works.

general apple, audio, mac pro, macpro, OSX

I was searching some material about group photography when I found this article on the digital photography school webiste. It quickly shows how great group photos can be made.

Photography Photography

In my /var/log/mail.log I saw the following error:

In order to fix this execute the following commands:

 # sudo su cyrus

This will make you the cyrus user.

Now execute

 # squatter

This will index all your e-mails (more info by executing $ man squatter). This index is not incremental so you need to run this task once in a while. It might be usefull to create a cronjob for this command.

Linux cyrus, mailserver, squat, Ubuntu