| Cute test |
[Sep. 3rd, 2008|04:15 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Freezepop - Get Ready 2 Rokk | ] |
Xrite has an interesting little test to see how good your color discrimination is.
I was sort of surprised to get a zero (perfect result). I've never really though of my color vision in any deep manner. "They're colors. Yup, I can see all of them." |
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| It's my birthday and the cake is on fire^W^W alive |
[May. 7th, 2008|06:15 am] |
While perusing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jwz's journal this morning, I came across a link to one of the best birthday cakes ever. I think the organ cake is more impressive granted. But, I think this one comes out ahead for sheer Lovecraftian awesomeness.
Behold the horrible non-euclidean cake geometries below:
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Oh, and in other news, the new refrigerator (bought about two weeks ago) is no longer cold inside. Bugger. |
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| I'd maim for a good basket of Sweet Potato Fries right now |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|01:30 pm] |
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| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Yongen - Romeo Didn't Know Juliet | ] |
 There are a plethora of different types of mustard, scads of salad dressings, and more pasta sauces than you can shake the proverbial cylindrical wooden protrusion at. So why is ketchup pretty much just plain ketchup?
There's an interesting article over at Gladwell's that talks about it a bit. I agree for the most part, though I will note that I prefer a slightly less sweet ketchup than other people do. But that's probably more of the pattern of my not liking how much sugar is jammed into almost every Western food. |
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| Ah, sweet sweet ineffective copy protection |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|12:42 pm] |
After taking a peek in the Wine AppDB I found that Deus Ex was listed as working well. Given that I'd heard so much about and never had a chance to play it I went out and purchased a copy (GOTY edition).
After installing, it evidently wants you to have the CD in the drive. After a quick google for NoCD cracks, I realized that one of the cracks was just an .ini file with one main difference.
I changed this: CdPath=Z:\media\DeusEx_GOTY_1
To this: CdPath=..\
Eh voila, no more CD check.
Ah, for the days of yesteryear when copy protection was just an afterthought by the dev and easily worked around. It certainly helps for the filthy Linux using degenerates among us anyway. |
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| To All The Robots I've Loved Before |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|05:07 am] |
I was fiddling around with downloading some files from one of the files sharing sites. Generally, you need to open each URL in a browser and download the file or copy the text to your download client. This gets tedious when the file you want is split into chunks.
So I started fiddling around with a script to download these things automatically. Most of the parsing, mucking with wget and similar things were standard and trivial code-grinding. One part was cute though.
When you visit the initial URL it puts part of the URL string into two javascript variables and then builds it from there.
example:
var d = String.fromCharCode(Math.abs(-56));
var g = '1' String.fromCharCode(Math.sqrt(3249));
document.getElementById("download_html").innerHTML =
'<a href="http://www.somesite.com/files/c9407a'
g d '74292klb32459c4b087e820/Kittens_and_flowers.rar"
class="downloadhtml" onclick="loadingdownload();
">Click here to download</font></a>';
If you have javascript off, or are a script or download program, there is a fake URL.
If you use the URL it supplies without javascript, it just hangs your connection forever.
I thought it was cute anyway. Not that it actually deterred me for very long. |
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| Ooooh, touch me there. |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|01:19 pm] |
So, I've picked up a Nintendo DS[1] from a friend. He'd received it as a gift, but really hadn't used it all. So I received it at a nice price.
The last time I bought a console [2] while it wasn't totally obsolete was when I bought the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) while I was in middle school. So, it's rather novel to actually be following what's being produced rather than just hitting junk shops and the used section in video stores. Additionally I haven't been gaming on the PC for a number of years since I only run Linux at home. Ever since the porting company Loki died, there has been a dearth of Linux gaming titles.
( Idle gaming musings ) |
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| It's the little things |
[Nov. 30th, 2005|12:11 pm] |
It's the little things in life that make me happy.
Like finding out that random asshats are in-lining my OMG-XBOX-Huge (2 MB) Hugin-stitched mural pictures into their forum threads. And then proceeding to replace that image with one of Brad Pitt dressed in women's clothing.
Delicious. |
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| It's not you baby, it's me. |
[Oct. 5th, 2005|03:27 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | geeky, linux | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pensive | ] |
| [ | music |
| | David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things | ] |
I know I said I wanted to try out a different kind of relationship with you. But I just don't think it's working out. First it was the thing with MPlayer and the multiverse. We got it sorted out, though instead of backports-hoary we had to use backports-hoary-staging.
For a little while, we were able to dance together with StepMania. But I got too ambitious, I wanted more. I wanted to be able to use DVD::Rip and see the world. But, transcode that bitch, came between us. I tried and I tried, but everyone time I tried to get a hold of her, there was always dependencies missing, or she just wasn't around. That Debian whore Marillat wasn't any help either.
Around this time I started to get the feeling you really just weren't meant to be with a programmer. So, I guess what I'm saying is we're breaking up. I'm going back to SuSE. I'm comfortable with her. I just don't have the time and energy to put into the kind of relationship you deserve. I'm doing this for you baby. You'll find someone else, someone who can really love you. |
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| OMG xbOx :huge: !!1!!!1 |
[May. 20th, 2005|06:17 pm] |
So I took the 30 or so photos I took of a mural in Philly and ran them through Hugin. After a bit of fiddling I ended up with a 5000x4000 panoramic distorted view of the entire mural. It turned out pretty well for my first time. I think I need to remove some of the rougher shots and fiddle with control points to make it cleaner.
( Look behind the cut for the small version ) |
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| Random pictures from Philly |
[May. 18th, 2005|11:31 am] |
The obligatory picture of Benjamin Franklin. A very interesting member of the US founding fathers, though some might say he was more accurately a founding father of France given the rumoured number of illegitimate children he fathered there. He was also rumoured to be a member of the Hell-Fire club in France, so he sounds like someone who knew how to have a good time. Philly is littered with statues of him.
( 56k look no further ) |
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| Praise DeCSS |
[Mar. 25th, 2005|12:07 pm] |
 So this arrived in the mail yesterday. Despite the fact that it's for Region 2/4 and in PAL (not NTSC), thanks to the miracles of Opensource I was able to fire it right up and play.
/me huggles mplayer & kaffeine
Later tonight or this weekend I'll be mucking with the region-free hack for the Philips DVP-642 player I bought after my last DVD player died. The player is nice since it will play DiVX/XViD/MP3/AVI/etc from burnt discs and will do PAL->NTSC internally. Shiny.
Now to find the time to watch the Dystopian low-budget sci-fi goodness that is Blakes 7. I also need to try and resist the temptation to buy the second season from Amazon. |
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