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Dubmood live @ Kafé 44 - 081004
October 7th, 2008Two days, (081003 and 081004) three great artists, (GOTO80, Crazy Q and Dubmood) three video portals… (Eww-tube, Google Video and Vimeo)
Now it’s time for the 3rd video upload in short period of time. This video is of Dubmood, who played right after Crazy Q. Dubmood’s new flavour is rave-ier than before. Enjoy!
Part 1 - Meneo - Papi (dubmood remix) + Eminem - without me (Dubmoods dirty1200 mashmix)
Watch part 1 on Vimeo
Part 2 - concertintro + Dubmood - Traverse de RN85 (Dubmood vs Facteur remix)
Watch part 2 on Vimeo
Crazy Q live @ Kafé 44 - 081004
October 6th, 2008Another chip liveet coming up!
Here’s a video from Crazy Q’s gig at Kafé 44, Stockholm, October 4th 2008. There’s some heavy rocking Atari bass in there! Please note that this a raw version without any editing, so it’s about 1 hour long.
GOTO80 & Skuggan - Out Of Spit (SVT Rampljuset 081003)
October 6th, 2008
GOTO80 playing live in a kid’s show called Rampljuset. (Literally translates into “The Limelight”) The objective of the show is to let four artists perform. The kids have “no” buttons, much like the idol in Idol. When 50% of the audience has pressed no, the lights go out, and the the artist performing iss out of the show.
Watch out for the lettuce man!!
Watch on Youtube
Download from TPB (This version contains more of the clip)
Imma chargin mah lazer! Imma firin mah lazer!
October 6th, 2008
Inspired by om nom nom on Faces in Places. Original source: chrismear’s flickr.
The best anti-spam plugin for Wordpress!
October 5th, 2008
xkcd strip illustrating the concept of doing something wrong.
Most anti-spam scripts today are based on IP blacklists, word blacklists or a combination of the two. When this blog was still young, I had a spam problem, like most people. First I made my own spam filter based on a series of common spam words like, viagra, cialis and so on. it worked badly, and soon I started to get more spam using non-blacklisted words. So I tried to think about a more general way of distinguishing a spambot from a human.
The answer was pretty simple. A real human will probably use a real web browser with Javascript enabled. So I wrote a small piece of obfuscated Javascript which a spambot will have absolutely no chance of emulating. The result was a completely spam free blog!
The other day I actually found Wordpress plugin based on the same idea. That plugin is called Hashcash and looks promising. My own script is very crude. It’s not a proper WP plugin, it doesn’t log any acitivity, and it just removes the spam rather than saving it for analysis at a later point. Hashcash has all these features though. The disadvantages with this kind of spam protection is
1) that the user needs to have Javascript enabled and working
2) that it won’t filter manual spam. (Ie people in poor countries hired to post spam) But I have a treat for them!
But if you want the best possible spam protection, choose Hashcash!
For this blog I’ll stick with my own script, since it does its job. However, the next time I start a blog, I’ll go for Hascash. This will actually happen pretty soon, since I’m planning to revive Packets of Knowledge, a blog where I post random computer related tips and tricks for noobs and experts alike.
“It’s a split, a little heavier towards Obama”
October 3rd, 2008
That’s “Fair and Balanced” news for you. It’s good that “Fair and Balanced” is just a trademark, otherwise you could take it for the truth.
In this clip, Fox News reporter Brian Wilson calls nearly unanimous vote for Obama “a split”. Notice the man whose wife pulls his arm down when Wilson asks for McCain votes. (Visible around 0:12, thanks Veqtor for noticing.) Also note that the only hand on screen that’s raised in favur for McCain, actually belongs to Wilson himself! Look to the far right of the screen, only his hand is visible in that instant.
A little competition… WTF is going on here??
October 3rd, 2008
Time to test your association skillz. Look at the picture above. What does it depict? It’s a view that’s no doubt familiar to you Mac users out there, but still somewhat different. So, tell me the story of this picture. Make something up if you need to. If I made it myself, what did I do/how did it happen? If someone else made it, where did it come from? I’ve been trying to install OSx86 on my PC, which might or might not be related to the picture. (That’s right, it could be a tarp!)
If someone guesses somethin that’s spot-on, you’ll win… A cookie? Perhaps I can make a personal chiptune for you? I don’t know. But get guessing!
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Edit: The answer is here: http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/wordpress/2008/10/18/the-failed-competition/
Nintendo announces DSi, the next generation NDS
October 2nd, 2008
Today Nintendo announced the new DSi, the next generation of thei DS line of handheld gaming consoles. Well, not exacly the next generation, but the next version. Looking at the specs, the DSi is to the DS what the GBC is to the DMG.(The original 1989 version of Gameboy) A spiced up version, but still basically the same thing. This is good in that games can have a smooth transistion between version 1 and 2, but because it means the hardware is still as weak performance-wise as it was in the first DS.
So let’s have a look at the specs. The information comes from Joystiq.
- CPU power - Unchanged. Period. Unless Joystiq have received too early info and it sports some kind of turbo mode à la GBC, this is a disappointment.
- Graphics - Unchanged. Two 256*192 screens of which one is (still) a touch screen. The rumours of the DSi having dual touch screens seem to be proven wrong too. At best the screens are a little brighter and have a little more contrast than the DSLite, and the screens are a little bit bigger, even though that’s not a real killer. (The DSlite had a pretty good display)
- Cameras - Here we go… The DSi has not one, but two cameras. One high-res on the back (Presumably) and one low-res on the hinge consequently. Seeing that they’re targetting girls, judging from their video, it’s not surprising that they’re trying to break into a market that has been dominated by cell phones in Japan for the last few years. But will they succeed? Future will tell. They promise video chat, but I suspect the CPU is a bit too slow to cope with simultaneous compression and decompression of video and audio data. Just saying.
There’s also a camera app with a few warp effects and other meaningless things. - Wi-Fi - Joystiq’s comparison just says Wi-Fi, but let’s just hope they upgraded the wireless card to one with 11g instead of just 11b, and that they implemented hardware support for WPA. As of today, WPA is probably possible, but would eat up all CPU power, leaving nothing to the actual application. (Not cool!)
- The GBA slot is gone - This was an anticipated change. Seeing that it was only really used by Guitar Hero, Opera (The browser) and backup devices, I can see why they want it gone, since removing it also allowed for a slightly slimmer form factor. We’ll have to live without Guitar Hero, we’ll get a new browser for free, and N wants us to stop pirating and using homebrew. All is as it should.
- Storage - Here’s something that’s interesting for me, since I’m mainly interested in homebrew. 1) Nintendo is promising onboard storage. They’re not saying how much, but hopefully more than the current 256 kB firmware area. 2) A built in SD slot! I mean wow, here’s a great ptoential for a new kind of cheap passcards. The danger with that is that N will come with a firmware upgrade that breaks the compatibility with said devices, and since they wouldn’t be upgradeable. (Since in my little fantasy that’s what’s going to make them cheap in the first place) But yeah, I’m excited about the SD slot actually. Might be the killer feature for homebrewers, although my M3Real already has an SD slot that works perfectly fine.
- App Store - To make the onboard storage useful, they’ve added an App Store, much like the Wii Shop Channnel. In fact they renamed the Wii Points to Nintendo Points just honour this new feature.
- Music player - An MP3 player, possibly with the possibility to buy music online.
- On a more superficial level… I’m also noticing that they re-arranged the LEDs a bit. They’re now on the left side rather than on the right side. The power LED changed from green to the evr so popular blue, and wireless activity has now got it’s own dedicated, yellow LED.
So, in essence, all new known hardware features are the cameras and the SD slot. It will sell, I am sure of it, but with its under-powered hardware, will it last?
Through: Engadget, Joystiq
Official Nintendo DSi homepage (Japanese)
For the G-Bot: New Gameboy 2008
When you see it… (Wii commmercial)
September 30th, 2008
Click the brick to see the commercial. Have some patience, and watch the whole thing!
FiSH
September 28th, 200804:53 -!- FiSH: Received DH1080 public key from omniuwo, sending mine… 04:53 -!- FiSH: Key for omniuwo successfully set!
TJ, if you’ve found your way here, (presumably through video statistics) here’s the reason I wanted you to change to a lower-case i: FiSH is the name of an encryption plugin for IRC conversations in the software irssi, using a variant of the Blowfish encryption algorhithm. And then I have this OCD kind of thing, and I noticed how they looked alike. Go figure.
If you actually found your way here, congratulations, have a fish stick cookie.
If you are not TJ, this post will not make sense.
