Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 01 May 2006 16:36:00 GMT
This is a pretty cool machinema re-enactment of the 1986 World Series done with Nintendo RBI Baseball. The guy took over 200 attempts to get some scenes right, but he did it in a very smart way. Using a NES emulator, he was able to simply backtrack when something didn’t go right. This let him cumulatively build the game sequence. Also, he didn’t have a job, and now he does. Or something.
Via slahdot.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:15:43 GMT
Here’s an interesting older article from the Trolltech guys about designing good (aka Qt style) C++ APIs.
Posted by Stephen Waits Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:44:13 GMT
These things are still beating “hybrids”, which are still dumb. Check out the latest out of Germany.
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:22:00 GMT
SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys is the BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com.
MacZOT is a pretty cool concept to begin with. I’ve bought a few things from them (AppZapper rocks!). In this case, a BLOGZOT, there’s the potential (with enough blog coverage), that the software could end up being FREE. If it succeeds, MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software!
Update: The price is dropping quickly. It was $9.80 when I started this post and is down to $6.95 after I finished the post. I had to pull the trigger, getting SEE @ $6.95 is an absolute steal. Grab it now before the 3000th copy is gone!
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:28:00 GMT
Yah, I hadn’t heard of the stuff either. Apparently it’s more commercially targeted (rather than consumer). Anyway, this guy did a pretty neat long term test comparing the two, including a great video.
Via Autoblog.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:47:00 GMT
The Illionois State Legislature is considering a bill which could force the US Federal Legislature to consider Impeachment of Shrub. They’re even going as far as listing one of his high crimes as a Felony. I’d be shocked if Shrub in company only commited a single felony. I’m sure it’s dozens. Anyway, read about it here, and straight from the source here.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:08:53 GMT
Videos from the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress held last December in Berlin are now online. Save yourself some time though and just grab the tar.gz of all of the torrents, then throw the ones you’re interested in at your torrent client.
There are some very interesting talks in there. Some that I’m downloading now:
And there’s lots more than that!
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:50:35 GMT
A great compilation of advanced strategies for solving sudoku.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:49:08 GMT
The war criminals is more like it..
Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:17:46 GMT
Wherever you look, idiots. I got sick of my nightly logs being full of sshd brute force attempts. I didn’t want to run sshd through inetd, which does provide connection throttling.
I wanted to blacklist the idiots in realtime - but i don’t believe in fscking with firewalls automagically. So, I rebuilt sshd with libwrap support, and hacked together this ruby script.
It’s been running fine for a few months now, so have at it!
Download it here.
Enjoy!
Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:01:24 GMT
I guess this was at Laguna last year, but I missed it. Sounds sweet!
Via The Kneeslider.
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:11:31 GMT
Go get the video from stillfree.com. Is it legit? No. But, I wish it was.
Via Schneier on Security.
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:43:09 GMT
FreeNAS is a branch of FreeBSD dedicated to NAS. This is really shaping up to be a nice system. I’m not quite ready to incorporate into my own network, but will certainly give it a shot in the future.
They just released version 0.66.
Via BSD News.
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:55:42 GMT
This is a huge racing weekend. Yay! AMA, SBK, and F1. There goes Sunday.
Head’s up to those of you in the U.S. Speed is carrying the usual Practice and Qualifying sessions; however, the Sunday Race is on CBS.
Yes, that means some awfully ignorant commentary. Yes, that Daly fag.
Anyway, make sure your TiVo’s are set!
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:27:42 GMT
This is way cool to me. I guess in a geek nerd kind of way, but whatever.
See, the Macbook Pro (and prior PowerBooks) have a motion sensor in them. Previously there was a “Carpenter’s Level” application written for it, which is rather impractical.
However, now there’s iAlertU which is an alarm for your Macbook. Set it, and if anyone moves the thing, it goes off, de-muting if needed. The guy even used the Front Row remote control to arm it, and themed the thing in the ever familiar auto-alarm sounds. Way cool.
Hit the link, and watch the video.
Posted by Stephen Waits Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:43:00 GMT
Boot Camp, Boot Camp, Boot Camp. We’ve seen an awful lot of news in the last few days about Apple’s release of dual-boot support. While yes, that is good, even surprising news, it’s not the real story.
The real story is from a company other than Apple, that’s released a product (in Beta) which is far more useful than Boot Camp. What product is that? It’s Parallels.
What is it? It’s virtualization software, like VMWare. It let’s you run any number of Operating System installations, all at the SAME TIME, at near native speeds. That means that you’re not limited to just running XP, or whatever Apple decides to support with Boot Camp, but you can run Linux, FreeBSD, even OS/2 - again, at the same time!
Again, this is not emulation, so all of you old school Mac people who are unwittingly a bit technically challenged should not be comparing this to Virtual PC or whatever other emulation package you used in the past. This is virtualization. The OSes you run inside of Parallels will be running at near native speeds - in other words, at almost the same speed as if you were actually running that OS on its own!
So, the real story isn’t dual booting - it’s virtualization. If you have an Intel Mac, please go try Parallels today. At a minimum, go check out the screenshots!
No, I don’t work for them, I haven’t even tried it as I don’t have an Intel Mac – yet. But this is what I’ve been waiting for, and kudos to them for beating VMWare to the punch!
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:49:00 GMT
This is an interesting article which claims there is a hidden picture in an Aphex Twin song.
I happen to have this track, so I fired up Audacity, and sure enough, it’s there. Sounds funky too!
BTW - Audacity’s spectrum view sucks compared to whatever he used in his analysis. It’s free though.