Archive of July 2008
redlists Beta Launch
My buddy Matt and I have been working on our mailing list application/service, redlists, for quite a while now, and we’ve just launched the beta.
Redlists is a mailing list service that is remotely hosted and managed. Subscription management is handled by the subscribers themselves, rather than solely the list manager. When logged in to redlists, users can manage their subscription status and subscribe to new public lists.
Message archives, drafting, user management, and multiple list management are supported. Integrated tools are in the works, including widgets that can be plopped in your site and a contact importer (for those switching from another mailing list method that want to manually add subscribers.)
We are currently looking for beta testers. During the beta period, the service is free. Upon initial launch, rates will be announced. We still need to figure out how to cover our costs. If you would like to test the service or have any input on what you think appropriate pricing would be, please contact me at ross at redlists.com, or leave a comment on this post.
Redlists was written in Ruby on Rails. Matt and I made heavy use of Github and Lighthouse during development and have had a lot of fun with it. I am mainly responsible for the interface while Matt gets credit for pretty much all of the functionality.
Please let me know what you think!
July 14 at 10:52 AM Permalink
0 CommentsNo For an Answer (take two)
Alright, so I rushed it last time. I had burned a compressed signal of the kick drum and forgot to mute the original, so there were two kick tracks in that last mix. Bad bad bad. I tweaked some other things and redid the vocal tracks. Overall I think it sounds much better than the original.
Let me know what you think.
syslogd hogging CPU
I’ve had trouble with this a few times lately. A process called syslogd starts using massive system resources, slows everything down, and makes my fans go crazy. It seems to be a common problem.
Apparently the system log file was becoming huge. Deleting it seems to help:
sudo rm /var/log/asl.db
Other “fixes” are on or linked to on this thread.
“No For an Answer”
Leftovers. Decided to finish this tonight. It’s been sitting on my hard drive for a while. I’ve also put it up on MeMeMeGimmeGimmeSpace, something I haven’t done in a long time.
The only really exciting thing I did in this song is the synths in the beginning and rubbing snares across a mic grill. If you consider that exciting.
Comments/criticism is welcome, musical or engineeringical. Bring it.
There’s a newer mix of this song here