Archives for March 2007
Stumbling about
27 March 2007 | Memory | 12 Responses
It was around this time I stumbled onto Node 99, a Web site designed by Sean Whalen that was dedicated to what I would come to learn was the “emulation scene.” To be honest, I had really never heard of anything being called a “scene” up till this point, except for maybe New York’s theater “scene.”
As I browsed around its red pages, I found all sorts of other emulators–most related to some machine called the “MSX,” which I’d never heard of, and some PC emulators for Commodore 64, which I’d heard of, but to this day still have never touched.
When I encountered emulation
26 March 2007 | Memory | 1 Response
In 1996, I pretty much tanked the eighth grade.
Earlier that year, a student in my school named James White gave me a disk with a wonderful script that exploited the Luhn algorithm–the one credit card companies use to validate card information–to make you an account. Of course, at the time I did not know that. I just knew your pushed the button, it played music, and magically you had an account.
Yes, I was a script kiddie.
A new section: memory
26 March 2007 | Memory | No Responses
For those who don’t know yet, I am done translating games.
I will try to finish the two projects I am able, those being Der Langrisser and Heroine Anthem, but I’m otherwise finished with what has been most of my hobby and life for ten years.
Ten years is a long time, and at this point, there is nothing left for me to translate.
Xorg.conf for Gateway M460
21 March 2007 | Ubuntu | No Responses
I spent my free time today tweaking my Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 xorg.conf file to death. I have to say, the “fglrx” driver absolutely sucks butt for the Radeon Mobility X600 video card. There’s just no point in using it. Even with default settings, you get black regions in Wine and render-errors in Firefox due to VRAM randomly being overwritten thanks to piss-poor management.
The default “ati” driver Ubuntu gives you sucks equally hard. It has no 3D support and lags terribly when doing very complicated tasks like scrolling. The winner is definitely the “radeon” driver. I get 600fps on glxgears with no screen artifacts.
Undervolting a Pentium M 2GHz
20 March 2007 | Random | No Responses
For anyone working on undervolting their CPU, I’m posting the voltage table for my Pentium M (before and after) for its supported voltages.
New voltage table (Clockspeed/Voltage):
800000Hz/700mV (800MHz)
1067000Hz/798mV (1.07GHz)
1333000Hz/894mV (1.33GHz)
1600000Hz/982mV (1.60GHz)
2000000Hz/1116mV (2GHz)
KbMedia Player (yaya)
19 March 2007 | Ubuntu | No Responses
KbMedia player is a Japanese program for playing audio and video media content on the Windows operating system. It supports over 50 formats natively and can be extended to support Winamp plugins, which are updated far more frequently and do not sound like shit.
The program supports echoing, cross-fading, a media exploder and somewhat unintuitive playlist manager.
Homepage: http://home7.highway.ne.jp/Kobarin/KbMIDI/kbmidi.htm
Version: 2.41.2005.0711 (kbmedia)
KbMedia Player integrates well into the Ubuntu desktop