Eww

I really hate it when sites try to make you register just to get your E-Mail address and spam you. I also really hate poorly-written PHP scripts that don’t work. Combine these two and you have the newest trend in PHP CrapWare direct from middle-eastern “software” companies. I’d like to note that all of these scripts have issues and none of them are near production quality or the quality of finely-written software, such as WordPress or Movable Type.

So without further ado, I present to you Download URLs to forgo the registration process and not let these jerks get more E-Mail addresses for their crappy software. ClipBucket is the only one that doesn’t require registration to download, but unfortuantely ClipBucket is even crappier than the others; I couldn’t even get the main page to come up without crippling errors.

——osTube
Community Edition: http://ip2k.com/ostube/osTube_2.6_osTube_2.6_community_edt.tar.gz
Clean URLS doc: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_CleanUrls_en.pdf
Installation Instructions: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_Schnellanleitung_en.pdf

——Vidiscript

http://vidiscript.com/get

——PHPMotion
For PHP 4.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php4/phpmotion.zip
For PHP 5.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php5/phpmotion.zip

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
For installation instructions visit http://wiki.phpmotion.com/InstallingV3

——ClipBucket

http://clip-bucket.com/

If you’re looking for a quick breakdown on why each sucks:

osTube: Mostly foreign-language, setup process is much more complicated than modern PHP scripts…C’mon guys, this isn’t the 90′s anymore and not everyone has SSH access to install your garbage.

VidiScript:
It’s “beta” software from a “quality” developer…need I say more?

PHPMotion: Would be fine except it’s encoded with PHPShield (as if anyone would want to steal their AMAZING source code). Loader progress bar is broken and updates percentages incorrectly. Path settings don’t have any affect on actual paths that it’ll try to use. Doesn’t like being installed in a subdir; in fact, it won’t even work in a subdir.

ClipBucket: Couldn’t even get main page to load, that’s how terrible it is.

A quick rundown of dbench results and hardware used. Results seem really bad for RAID systems, and it’s funny how a 5+ year old IDE RAID 5 card with 16/32MB RAM (I forget) can get ~double the performance of an $800 enterprise-level SAS / SATA controller with 512MB DDR2 RAM.

And so these should be taken with a large grain of salt.

T1.) Throughput 93.9068 MB/sec 200 procs
mercury (2x Xeon 5120 @ 1.86Ghz (4 cores total, 4096k L2 cache / 2 cores), 3GB RAM DDR2, CentOS 5.3)
/home# single 80GB Hitachi SATA drive

2.a) Throughput 19.9959 MB/sec 200 procs
atlas (Pentium D @ 3.0Ghz (2 cores total, 2048k L2 cache), 4GB RAM DDR2, Debian Lenny)
/home/likwid# LSI Logic 8480E RAID 5 w/ 3x 1TB WD Green series SATA drives

2.b)Throughput 15.4584 MB/sec 200 procs
atlas (Pentium D @ 3.0Ghz (2 cores total, 2048k L2 cache), 4GB RAM DDR2, Debian Lenny)
/# Linux Software RAID 2x 80GB SATA drives

3.a) Throughput 11.9199 MB/sec 200 procs
nep (Pentium 4 1.8 (256k L2 cache), 1024mb PC133 SDRAM)
/home/spetrow# 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID 1 w/ 2x WD 40GB IDE drives

3.b) Throughput 14.7577 MB/sec 200 procs
nep (Pentium 4 1.8 (256k L2 cache), 1024mb PC133 SDRAM)
/backup# single WD 320GB IDE drive

4.a) Throughput 40.4807 MB/sec 200 procs
z (Pentium 4 2.0 (512k L2 cache), 1280mb PC133 SDRAM)
/home/likwid# 3ware Escalade 7506-4LP RAID 5 w/ 3x WD 500GB IDE drives

4.b) Throughput 49.3065 MB/sec 200 procs
z (Pentium 4 2.0 (512k L2 cache), 1280mb PC133 SDRAM)
/# 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID 1 w/ 2x WD 40GB IDE drives

The intro is a bit weak and there are parts that I would change, but I digress.

This is the hook.

http://www.boxshots.org/style/5137

So I had a goal in mind — See what music I could make in ~15 minutes. Here is a clip of what I came up with:

midnight_madness_clip