Dreaming Dreams

So, today me and Yaakov (loupgaroublond) had another meeting on what to bring and how to bring it.

We are definitely going to bring 2 party-tents to set up a barcamp one of the days and to have a general space for us and some CentOS people to maybe do a presentation/workshop or two.

I got a projector from buZz, which has some serious issues. It seems to have it’s own ideas on when to turn on and function properly, so tomorrow I’ll have to do a stress-test in the kitchen (aka, watch a movie with my housemates ).

We still need to figure out how to get tables and chairs set up at our camp, but we have some contacts among the dyne.org people, so it will probably work out in the end. (and else we’ll just sit on the ground if we have to)

Our village will be a giant mesh of other smaller villages. Most of them focussed around playing with multimedia in the areas of vision (FreeJ), sound (DJing) and other cool stuff like lighting. So if anyone else is coming to HAR, be sure to meet up with us!

You can find more information on the HAR wiki: https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Village:Dyne.org

Wow, I’ve been so busy lately that I have ignored my ‘blog’ completely!

I’ve been working on a couple of projects these past weeks. Among others a new website to bundle most of my multimedia activities: http://www.monkeyjohn.com

In the future this might be an actual company, but this of course depends on how successful its projects will be.

Tonight I’m organizing another (and probably the last) Unitek. It’s a Tekno party at Unitas.

This time I invited Bruxisme Soundsystem. And ofcourse Puik. is present again as well!

I hardly got any sleep last night, we had a 90’s party with a famous Dutch DJ from that era so I stayed much too long and drank way too much

But, the party must go on so later this afternoon I’m going to start preparing the main room for the last FreakFest in the current building.

And then tomorow Puik. gets another chance at a DnB party in Barneveld … I’m going to be completely wrecked next monday

Some words during the final minutes of the Dutch Leonidas release party:

The party was a lot of fun! It ended up being a combined party with the birthday celebrations of 2 of my housemates.

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Ok, here is the info for the Dutch Fedora 11 Leonidas release party everyone has been asking for

Friday 12th Yaakov and I will organize an open BBQ at my place in Wageningen. We will have 2 party tents, a bar-like structure, 100mbit internet, a local mirror and some food and drinks.

Send me an email to dreamer<at>mrtoasted<dot>com if you are coming, I will send you the adress

The plan is to start around 6pm and get the fire going. It will be like a “fridaynight-special” and we’ll just continue partying and hacking until we fall asleep (saturday afternoon or something ).

Together with Yaakov I will organize a small release event somewhere around the release-date of Fedora 11 aka Leonidas.

It will mostly be held for the dutch fedora community, so we will invite all dutch (and dutch speaking belgians perhaps? ) to come to this small get-together.

There will be food, drinks, and a Fedora mirror

So, my latest server is now also my music-player. With it I can listen to music at home (it’s attached to my stereo) and also stream it online. On the server I have 2 mpd’s running:

• One as a system-daemon, that anyone can access to control.

• The other runs as user and has a password-protection so only I can modify the playlist (anyone can see the status).

The problem being: How can I listen to both mpd’s on the alsa-output of my server and switch between them with a simple command?

I wrote this little “script” to handle the changes. If you choose to use it, modify according to your settings:

#!/bin/bash

id=$1

## Switch to ‘main’ mpd
if [ $id = main ]
then
## ‘Current’ variables:
export MPD_HOST=<pass-of-user-mpd>@<host>
export MPD_PORT=6601
## Disable and activate main
echo “Switching alsa to main”
mpc disable 1
export MPD_HOST=<host>
export MPD_PORT=6600
mpc enable 1
## Switch to ‘user’ mpd
elif [ $id = user ]
then
echo “Switching alsa to user”
mpc disable 1
export MPD_PORT=6601
export MPD_HOST=<pass-of-user-mpd>@<host>
mpc enable 1
fi
exit 0

Save this to a file in your home-dir. then ‘$ chmod a+x <script>’ and switch with either ‘$ ./<script> main’ or ‘$ ./<script> user’.

If you feel that I have done this very poorly and this could be done better, please comment below

Hi there.