Steltek's world of ramblings http://tcnnet.com/blog Never give up, never surrender! Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:57:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 My boring life on Twitter [2009-06-28] http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/06/28/my-boring-life-on-twitter-2009-06-28-2/ http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/06/28/my-boring-life-on-twitter-2009-06-28-2/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Steltek http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/06/28/my-boring-life-on-twitter-2009-06-28-2/
  • Cleaning the waterbed part 1: Grab a bucket of water and scrub the dustmites and dustmite poo off the top cover… #
  • Cleaning the waterbed part 2: Remove top cover, grab pump, remove air from water cushions and then refill conditioner… #
  • Cleaning the waterbed part 3: Replace vinyl and fabric covers, add all the other bed stuff (cushions …). #
  • Part 4: Ask DUST-E whether he’s hungry for fluff balls by any chance, ’cause there’s loads of them wafting around on the floor. #
  • Moved the secondary LNB around on the sat dish (from right to left of the primary). I can now receive the BBC on Astra2! Awesomeness ensues! #
  • Cleaned car, cleaned bed, did laundry, ran vacuum and improved satellite dish. A very productive day comes to its end. Night everybody. #
  • Note to self: Must learn how to play this! ♫ http://blip.fm/~8swi5 #
  • Set up my own Twitterspy ( http://bit.ly/eNst9 ) instance. It delivers tweets even sooner than TwitterFox does. The tracks are nice as well. #
  • Stand back everybody! I have a bed and I’m not afraid to use it! (Dead tired at 22:00 already, ugh.) #
  • Somebody powered up the A/C for our building. <3 #
  • Trying to sum up some motivation to code… procrastinating instead. :/ #
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  • Hurray, fsck is done, loads of corruption on the volume, tons of files are hosed… :( #
  • Machine won’t even boot up any more, this day just keeps getting better and better. Grrr. #
  • Righty then… here goes the mighty restore! I’m in a surprisingly good mood for this. Maybe my computers should go up in flames more often. #
  • Gaaah, my kitchen is a total dump! How am I going to clean all this!? Anybody got a spare nuclear warhead? #
  • Got milk … cartons? http://tinyurl.com/n3jpwc #
  • Set up mah own Weave server again… yay me! ;) #
  • People that drive half the fucking speed limit should be shot! Grrr. #
  • Finally going to bed… yay for completely uninteresting tweets! ;) #
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  • Finally implemented SPF on the receiving side of my server. Curious to see how or if this will affect e-mail reception here. #
  • Just ordered tickets to “Kalkofe Live’ in Bonn… I’m pumped! #
  • Look who just dropped in to snack on some network cables. Everybody, meet DUST-E! DUST-E, meet everybody! http://tinyurl.com/llxg44 #
    • ]]>     http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/06/14/my-boring-life-on-twitter-2009-06-14/feed/     Better version of “1995″ demo video http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/04/24/better-version-of-1995-demo-video/ http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/04/24/better-version-of-1995-demo-video/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:45:02 +0000 Steltek http://tcnnet.com/blog/?p=68 It’s been 2 years since I first rendered this demo and upped it to YouTube and every once in a while, I still get a comment on it. The most recent one was asking for an HD version of the vid. Given that I got a new PC and have discovered kkapture in the meantime, I took the challenge and made one. It took me a while to process it all (the uncompressed temp file took up 56GB of diskspace) but I think it turned out pretty well. Download link below, hope you like it.

    Demo rendering PC:
    Intel Core2Duo E8400
    4GB DDR2 RAM (1066MHz)
    ASUS Striker II Formula
    2x ASUS EN8800GTX SLI (NVIDIA 8800GTX)

    Software used:
    Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
    Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/testing)
    FFMpeg
    MPlayer
    x264

    Final video specifications:
    Video: MPEG4-AVC (h.264 / 700kbps)
    Audio: AAC (128kbps)
    Resolution/FPS: 1366×768 / 30
    Filesize: 198MB
    Original demo: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=25783
    Download link: 1995_by_kewlers_and_mfx.mp4.torrent

    Youtube link:

    Click here to view the embedded video.

    (Hosting offers for direct download will gladly be accepted, please use the contact link at the top.)

    ]]>     http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/04/24/better-version-of-1995-demo-video/feed/     Been on vacation, find out exactly where. (Oh and got a haircut.) http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/01/24/been-on-vacation-find-out-exactly-where-oh-and-got-a-haircut/ http://tcnnet.com/blog/2009/01/24/been-on-vacation-find-out-exactly-where-oh-and-got-a-haircut/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:24:47 +0000 Steltek http://tcnnet.com/blog/?p=61 Starting with the most uninteresting: I pulverized my ‘longest hair’ record by simply not visiting the hairdresser’s ever since my last post. That said, I finally got up and my hair cut today. On to more interesting things:

    About a month ago, I went on vacation to Florida in the US with a bunch of friends, and you can check out the pictures from the trip in the gallery. While down there, I also happened to run a GPS tracking application on my mobile phone, the result of which is a bunch of GPS tracks, showing you where I’ve been. So without further ado, here’s the tracks. (Note: This page will stress your browser and load a bit, so only click on the ‘more’ link if you’re prepared to handle it.)

    Hardrock Hotel to Sawgrass Mills Mall:

    Sawgrass Mills Mall to Romano’s Macaroni Grill:

    Romano’s Macaroni Grill to Hardrock Hotel:

    The way to Key West (with a short stop at the Everglades and on Islamorada):

    I actually forgot to turn on the tracker here, thus the track doesn’t start at the Hotel where we left.

    The way to Key West (from our restroom stop on Islamorada to Key West):

    Leaving from the Southernmost Hotel in Key West and taking a stroll up and down Duval Street:

    Boat trip to Fort Jefferson / the Dry Tortugas:

    Return trip from Fort Jefferson / the Dry Tortugas:

    If you zoom in on the port, you’ll see that our boat drove a few loops there. The reason for that was that a Jetski tried to jump the wake of our boat but collided with another one, forcing us to stop and turn around to make sure everything was OK. (The accident actually looked pretty bad but other boats were quick to respond and pick up the injured. We never found out what their fate was though.)

    Just another stroll along Duval Street on New Year’s Eve:

    GPS reception went haywire at the beginning, not sure why.

    Walking around Key West and then to the beach:

    Duval Street again:

    With another fluke of the GPS reception at the start.

    Power adventure tour on the board and a visit to a Cuban restaurant:

    More GPS hiccups, one of them, around our hotel pool, really big. The power adventure tour took us out south to go snorkling, and then went north where we went parasailing, riding a banana boat and Jet Skis. I didn’t have my mobile phone in my pocket, so it stayed static with the boat while we did that. The Cuban restaurant is north east of Duval on Catherine and Margaret street.

    Travelling back from Key West to South Beach, Miami:

    Forgot to turn on the tracker at the beginning again, and if you follow the track, you’ll see us get off the highway to stop at an outlet mall and at a Best Buy. The track also got messed up again around our hotel.

    Taking a walk on the beach, through a pedestrian zone, to a holocause memorial and back to the hotel:

    That straight line is another GPS messup where my phone lost the signal and suddently regained it.

    Going to Nikki beach:

    From Nikki beach to a restaurant and back to the hotel:

    My phone didn’t like us sitting in that restaurant I guess, another GPS ’star’.

    Visiting Little Havana and South Beach classics:

    Started the track late again while on the bus, didn’t get a signal there anyway. We got to Little Havana after some walking, then went North from there by bus to visit South Beach classics (on the way to which I lost my BlackBerry holster :( ) and then returned with a taxi (the straight line ’cause my phone lost the GPS signal again on that trip).

    Visiting a museum, then going to a Haitian restaurant and taking a final walk on our last day:

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