dorian moore : (digital media) technologist

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, December 20, 2002 at 00:09 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

What I've worked on....

I've been trying to get together a list of projects that I've worked on in the last few years. This is some of it, in no particular order. Some of these were design work, some of them where technical contributions, some of them were art direction, some of them were project management, some just general input, some of them were conscientious objector...

Rapoon
Men In Black
On-U Sound
A Guy Called Gerald
Scanner
Audi
Swim Records
Metalheadz
Hydrogen Dukebox
China Records [Morcheba, Rialto]
Warp Records [+ Loads of artist stuff]
Ninja Tune
Coldcut
Health Service Journal
Kylie Minogue
Des'ree
Stereo MCs
Robert Miles
Barclays
Almighty Records
Nature Magazine
Creation Records
Pressure Sounds
DJ Rap
Attica Blues
Leftfield
Levi's
Swayzak
Jamiroquai
Tipper
Suede
Chill Out Records
Manic Street Preachers
Toyota
Backspace
PostEverything
The Blue Room
Utah Saints
Banco De Gaia
Moloko
Baby Bird
Higher Ground
Fini
Convulsion
The Beatles
The Designers Republic
Merz
Wipeout 3
Pressure Drop
Mind Horizon
Stereolab
The Odd Toot
Sony Ericsson
Zebra 3
Hewlett Packard
Business Net
The Remidi Project
Lotus
The Orb
Sativae + Drought records
DJ Rap
Broadcast
Stand
Elvis Lebt

Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, November 25, 2002 at 22:42 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Moving to ... http://www.daredigital.com

From next week I'll be working for a new company, but for the same company in a way. BBH have just invested in Dare Digital and I'm moving over their to be "Technology Manager". A fresh start with new people.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 11:31 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Some more features grave the site navigation, and some slight code tweeks too...

Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 11:46 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Web Site Construction Project

I've been contracted to work on the new website for the Royal Armouries [http://www.armouries.org.uk for the existing site]. While Arms and Armour don't really fit with a lot of my personal beliefs, I've taken on board the project because it should present an interesting challenge in representing their collection on-line : it's not just brochure-ware, or a walk through of the museum. Rather the intention is to create a way of navigating the collections which takes advantage of the nature of the web [in it's current guise]

We hope the new site will be up early 2003.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 13:58 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Utility for writing DVDr Disks

A step on from what I wrote in my article regarding dvd burning on linux, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has taken the patch written by Nicolae Mihalache that I mentioned and branched the cdrtools tree into dvdrtools.

You can visit the project home page here http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/dvdrtools/

Posted by Dorian Moore on Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 23:09 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Fixing Old work

http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WAPEP7/

I just fixed and uploaded the java applet I wrote for Autechre EP7 as part of the microsite I created for the release.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 11:27 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Some of the time

I'm currently working 1 day a week at Warp Records optimising and maintaining their webiste [which I built before I left Kleber].

Posted by Dorian Moore on Sunday, April 28, 2002 at 15:05 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

Jörg Schilling writes...

A followup to my article regarding DVD writing under Linux.

I received this email yesterday:

I just found this page from you:

http://www.dorianmoore.com/index.php?ti_id=33

and I am not happy with it!

The text does not reflect reallity, see:

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ProDVD/

Also please keep in mind that the patch you mention is not actively maintained.
While cdrecord is constantly improving, people like the author of the mentioned
patch usually di a quick shot. The patch appeared about a week after the first
cdrecord-ProDVD version that did work with activation keys and thus could allow
tests has been published. AS I did not disable the -V SCSI Debug option, and
the patch is only ~ 150 lines, it is obvious that this patch is created by
rreverse engineeering cdrecord.

Also note that this patch has problems with the fact that the drive writes CDs
and DVDs

Jörg

This was my response. I'm waiting to hear back from him.

Hi Jörg,

Knowledge is free, I merely wrote what I found out, to help other people. I'm sorry if it offended you.

As it happens, I contacted you about cdrecord ProDVD at the time and you told me, rather bluntly, that all the information about it was on your website. I looked at EVERY page, and it wasn't there. I also looked at your ftp server, and couldn't find it there. What is said to send you money, it doesn't say where to, or how [I'm not sending $100 cash in the post] and it doesn't promise to provide any guarantees as to what I would get for my money.

It seems that you have updated your site since then.

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ProDVD/README
********** NEW: On March 9th, we are celebrating 4 years of cdrecord-ProDVD

Of course, that will be the 9th of march in which year? 2002 I assume, as it wasn't there when I looked in January.

As you will see from my page quoted below it was written on 19/01/2002 [19th of January 2002]. I am, like you I'm sure, very busy. I said when I found out about availability of you software I would update my site, and I haven't found out until now, because the solution I had has worked find for my purposes.

As I see from your text referenced about you have produced a key which will time out on the 17th of June [this year?]. Then we have to request a new key. Will we have to keep on doing this? For how long?

I have a lot of things to do and don't want to be forced into upgrade paths or time limited software. I do appreciate the time you have put into creating the software. I'm happy to pay a reasonable price for a license to reflect this. I'm happy to change the text on my site as well. If you can provide me with a clear license and guide to how to pay you, and what we can expect for our money. Otherwise it seems that your information is no clearer than Micro$ofts I'm afraid to say.

This seemed to be the point of view of several people who have contacted me thanking me for my text, and who haven't been able to work out where to go on your site or how to proceed using it. I'm sorry to say it, but it's very hard to tell what information is what on your site.

Perhaps, to this end, I can suggest something to our mutual benefit: How about you email me a copy of the cd-record website, and I clean it up and make it more useable for people, in return for a license for cdRecord-proDVD. This way my skills [web designer, usability, web programmer] complement your skills [software development] and we can make cdRecord easier to access, license, and use, by making the information about it better managed. I'd imagine that this would be a very cost effective solution for you, as my time is aorund £30/hour [1], and I'd imagine sorting out the CD-Record site would take me a couple of days. I probably wouldn't be able to do it for a couple of weeks.

Otherwise, simply tell me what it is you would like me to change about my site and I will change it. I know the patch is unsupported, and I am providing no guarantees. I feel that at the moment it reflects a balanced point of view on where the ground lay at the time of writing. I think Cdrecord is a great piece of software and you deserve whatever support you can for developing it.

Kind regards

_d._

[1] Oooh, typo : that should say £60/hour *grin*

Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 00:00 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT

PIII 1Ghz w 512Mb Ram, 40Gb Raid 1 HD

http://www.hosteverything.net

Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 10:37 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 20:22 GMT