Here’s my submission for a NPR Planet Money “Minimalist Econ Poster”. It’s the concept of “negative equity”.
It’s Copyright ©2012 Damon Allen Davison. Permission is granted to NPR to use or re-publish this online as long as I’m credited.
Southern Studios control room.
npr:
“There are about 175 indigenous languages still spoken in the United States and a vast majority of them are on the verge of extinction.”
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I absolutely love this album! Here’s a photo I took of Mothlite around the time the album was released.
Mothlite - from the debut album “Flax Of Reverie”. The album’s six pieces encompass elements as diverse as choral madrigals cascading with strings, the melody and dissonance of Arvo Part and Moondog and the cinematic, studio-as-instrument manipulations of Pink Floyd, Coil, Cocteau Twins and late period Talk Talk. Woodwind and percussion take their cue from the devotional mantras of Alice Coltrane and Albert Ayler. O’Sullivan’s words are of the same bloodline as Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll and Henry Williamson. Mothlite will release their second album on K Scope in 2012.
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Fifi Fatale’s Powder Puff striptease, filmed by Damon Allen Davison
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“Awesome” would be appropriate here.
(via melancholiceuphoria)
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Billie hiding her nose
Restricting users when setting up a file transfer server
In my role of Production Manager at Southern, I keep running across rather, shall we say “sub-optimal” server configurations for delivering masters, artwork and other very large files to manufacturers.
For example, one of the plants we have worked with has a single SFTP account for all their clients to upload their masters to. It’s not an append-only solution like an OS X “Drop Box” where people can’t see what was uploaded—you can potentially download other companies’ masters. Another company we work with for digital retail doesn’t let you read anything, but you can see all of their clients. There aren’t many servers I think have been set up well.
I’ve decided that it’s a basic system administration skill to be able to set up private, chrooted SFTP accounts for any number of users on a system, so I’m linking to this HOWTO, which worked very well for me. Just create a user and home directory, add it to the “transfer” group, create a subdirectory under the home and chmod it so it’s world readable/writable/whatever.
A couple of important notes about the configuration:
- Make sure you put the “Match” stanza at the very end of the ssd_config file. I had a single directive after it, which sshd parsed as if it were part of the stanza. Not good.
- Even though the entire path has to belong to and be writable only by root, you can still use the %h variable to chroot individual user directories, and then put useful directories underneath the home, for instance “pick_up” and “drop_off” or similar.
Here’s the bottom (and relevant) part of my sshd_config:
#Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
UsePAM yes # not relevant to this discussion, but see my point
# above about Match being at the *bottom*
Match Group transfer
ChrootDirectory %h
AllowTCPForwarding no
X11Forwarding no
ForceCommand internal-sftp
Fugazi Live Series: Los Angeles, CA USA 9/08/91
Dischord have started their release of the Fugazi Live Series.
Between 1987 and 2003, Fugazi played over 1000 concerts in all 50 states and all over the world. Over 800 of these shows were recorded by the band’s sound engineers. The goal of this project is to make each of these recordings available to download for a small fee. We will start with 130 shows and release more monthly until we’re done. A searchable archive lists each show along with available photos, flyers and general show info. Each listing with a download offers a streaming preview of material for sound quality as well as the reading and posting of comments on the show and the recording.
The size and scope this archive dictates that it will remain a semi-permanent work-in-progress. We welcome visitors to contribute photos, recordings, corrections, and any additional info that may be missing from specific shows. Please see the About section for information about contributing content.
I was at the September 8th show at the Hollywood Palladium in 1991, but I don’t have a contiguous memory of the gig. Hearing the audio from the show when it is released is certain to bring back some memories.
I’m afraid neither of the opening bands left much of an impression, but then again we were there for Fugazi. It was a big deal.
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