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Bonjour, veilig thuisgekomen van au coeur du lac zie ik (geen as vergiftiging opgelopen in ieder geval)! Ik zal binnenkort eens je RSI verhaal lezen als ik de tijd ervoor vind, heb het even gescreend en zag er interessant uit! -Bart More new material? Click the tabs on the right to find out! --> News (My Weblog) Remember how PLoP bootmanager saved the day earlier? I used it to install Linux on my no-usb-boot no-cd-boot ancient laptop. I just had to install Lubuntu 10.10 to replace the buggy Mint LXDE (10.04) beta. But, the trick with PLoP in the Windows bootmanager wouldn't work, as I no longer had Windows on it. That's no problem! The Linux bootloader GRUB can just as easy chainload PLoP! Get the latest plpbt.bin from the latest stable release over here and save it in your /boot. If you can edit boot options in GRUB, you're set to boot PLoP. If not, change your GRUB config first by editing /etc/default/grub so that GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false and you can see the GRUB boot options during boot. Save this file and run update-grub to enable the changes. Reboot. During boot, press any key to cancel the countdown and see the boot options. You'll need to boot plpbt.bin, and the easiest way to get here is to change the Memtest86+ menu item so that it looks like this: insmod ext# If you want people to be able to subscribe to an event - and see the other subscribers - on your Wordpress website, you can either go for an absurdly advanced commercial plugin, or this nice and simple plugin called Eventr. It was created by Binny V A, thanks! But the last version, 1.02.1 from november 2009, just didn't work on my new server with WordPress 3.0.1. All I had to do was get rid of all the shorttags to get it to work. I've read a lot of complaints about this though, so as a courtesy to those less technical, here's the updated Eventr 1.02.2: eventr-1.02.2.zip Excuseer mij. Maar ik heb er ZOOOOO de tyfus in gekregen, al dat gezijk aan post wat ik krijg en omslachtig geneuzel. Getverdarre. IB-Groep AKA DUO: Email: Wij hebben post voor U. We zeggen niet waar het over gaat en U moet heel geheimzinnig inloggen op onze trage servers die tussen 23 en 07 uur en op zondag uitstaan omdat een goed Christen geen computerzaken op dit tijdstip doet. Hiervoor heeft U uw DigiD wachtwoord nodig. Denk goed na, als je hem fout invult komt je DigiD te vervallen en gaan er weer 6 dagen en 3 brieven overheen voordat je de zwaar belangrijke bevestiging van het stopzetten van je lening kunt ontvangen. Onze overheid en militaire elite laten geregeld geheime informatie onversleuteld uitlekken op USB sticks of emails, daarom gebruiken we voor burgers en DUO correspondentie deze beveiliging omdat zij natuurlijk helemaal niet met persoonlijke email en dat soort gevoelige informatie kunnen omgaan. Kamer Van Koophandel AKA KVK: Brief: Hallo, we hebben even €40 afgeschreven voor uw KvK inschrijving. We weten dat U nog geen flikker heeft gedaan, maar toch willen we je uitnodigen voor een seminar om een plan van aanpak te schrijven. Dit gebeurt in 6 bijeenkomsten en kost €180. We zien dat je een hogere opleiding hebt gedaan met een eigen bijdrage van 4 x ~€1500 = €6000 en een overheidsbijdrage van €31.100 - 4 x €6.900 + 4 x €5.100 = €23.900. Bij dit cursusje van een kleine €30.000 heb je natuurlijk alleen leren vergaderen, vandaar deze snoeiharde geadresseerde reclame. In onze administratie hebben we ook een email adres van u, maar we hakken liever een boom plat. Belastingdienst: Brief: Wij hebben begrepen dat U amper een dag in de week werkt voor uw bedrijf, en hebben daarom bij de inschrijvingsbevestiging aangegeven dat U niet per kwartaal maar jaarlijks uw belastingaangifte kan doen! Daarom vragen wij nu van U de aangifte voor het 3e kwartaal van 2010. We hebben aangegeven dat dit niet nodig is, maar het is verplicht om dit voor volgende maand te hebben ingevuld. Wij vragen zeventig mogelijke vormen van inkomsten van U die totaal niet bij het opgegeven bedrijfstype passen en het invullen duurt ongeveer een uur, ongeacht of U uberhaupt al een cent hebt verdient. Om de natuur te sparen sturen wij al deze informatie per email, maar voor de zekerheid hakken we toch twee bomen plat om precies het zelfde nog eens in wat brieven te melden. Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek AKA CBS: Brief: Inmiddels is bij minstens 14 instellingen waarvan 5 overheidsinstellingen (of door de overheid tot verplichte monopolist gebombardeerde instellingen) bekend dat U een bedrijfje hebt gestart, hoeveel mensen er werken en hoeveel uur U er verwacht in te steken. U hebt bij uw inschrijving een belachelijke hoeveelheid informatie moeten opgeven. Toch vragen wij U om dit zelf nog even tegen ons te zeggen. U heeft geen internet anders zouden we wel een email sturen naar het adres dat bij uw inschrijving is opgegeven, maar toch staat de vragenlijst op internet. U heeft hiervoor de volgende gebruikerscode en wachtwoorden nodig die bij elkaar kloteriger zijn om in te vullen dan de twee nee-vinkjes die je moet zetten om de enquete te voltooien. Deze moeite is door de overheid verplicht gesteld dus vul het voor volgende maand in anders wordt U gekort in uw huurtoeslag. We mogen van de directie geen direct linkje sturen en een boom sparen omdat we dan met te veel werknemers zitten. Belastingdienst Toeslagen: Brief: Is uw huur gestegen na de 1 juli jaarlijkse huurverhoging? Dan zijn hier twee formulieren met wat vragen die al bij ons bekend zijn. We doen dit niet via internet waar DigiD ooit voor bedacht is, want dat was niet ons idee. We kunnen ook honderdduizenden brief-heen brief-terug geneuzel omzeilen door direct met de woningbouw te communiceren, maar dan zou de postbode failliet gaan en ons budget verkleinen. Wij moeten trouwens drie bomen hakken om ons budget te verantwoorden. Daarom hebben we deze prima op te vouwen brief in een dikke stevige A4-enveloppe gestopt. Univé polis: JA WIJ GAAN ALLEMAAL DINGEN IN MONOSPACE HOOFDLETTERS OP DE POLISBESCHEIDEN SCHRIJVEN WANT DAN LIJKT HET GEEN RECLAME HE, KIJK SNEL!! WAT DE FUKC IS DAT TOCH MET HOOFDLETTERS, DAT DOEN BANKEN EN INSTELLINGEN OOK ALTIJD, HOOFDLETTERS MAKEN VAN STRAATNAMEN E.D. MEH FACEPALM JA? Eindelijk een volwaardige Linux smartphone! Met dit digitale zakmes kan ik op elk toilet al mijn computers en internets bedienen! Check mijn Tweakblog! De enige big ass huilie is wederom de ACCU! Accu's maken kan Nokia dan weer niet.  I have a Twitter account. Everybody talks about Twitter. Twitter is hot amongst politicians. But Twitter sucks big duck. I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they log in. I see this page every fricking time I've tried to log in the past few months. Except for two or three times maybe. It should be the other way around. But Twitter just sucks in stead.  I read investors put $100 million in it. I read Twitter is worth close to $2 billion. So how come I can't ever frickin' log in? How come they can't afford to buy some more gawd dawm servers?  Twitter ain't even that cool. I just like to play around with stuff that's popular. I also got a hyves account and that sucks too. Hellyeah, Redsandro.com is in the air!  In the future, Redsandro.com is to grow out to a portal of my creations. I recently graduated from school, so I am free to dream, and I have some big plans. But I need to pay the rent first, and dream later. So at the moment it's a mini-portfolio. Because I really need a job that requires my MSc! No cheap workalot earnalittle agency jobs. :'( Will I begin pre-development of my first awesome game soom? It all depends. No way if I get a fulltime job. I wish I could work for 3 days per week and work on my own non-profit project for another 3 days, but like I said.. I need different work more income first. -update- Opera tested. Firefox tested. Safari tested. All perfect. First guest to reply to me: Internet Explorer 8 fecks it up massively!!1 OMG it's the making of my videoclip! Check out this 4-part breakdown and see how I made magic. This is a spoiler if you haven't seen the real deal. Be sure you've seen the original first: Sonic Plague - Useless Super Snake - A little history  Wow, almost 9 years ago. I started working on it in 2001, wrapped it up in 2002 and won the Game Maker Competition hosted by Mark Overmars.Unfortunately, the 2002 competition is untracable. I cannot find it on the way-back-machine. Maybe I got the old url mixed up. If you've got a clue, post a message below. Nice to see that I was a moderator back then.  But less funny is that the more interesting posts are not archived. Anyway, as any good ego aware person sometime does, I googled myself and discovered that my game is still hosted by YoYo Games. :D Ofcourse, it's also still hosted on one of my ancient sites I keep in an archive called classics.rednet.nl, but I must admit facepalming out of shame when I see that website. Inside information Because the game is thill there, I decided to make a little homage. Some inside information if you will. Four out of six stages are playable. The game was never finished. But no one should complain. Hardly anyone ever made it past the second stage, and I know for a fact that no one ever made it past Stage 3 Level 3. Except for one guy who I told the password. Much props to him!! Todd <qorktinik@******> (Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:09:12 -0400 (EDT)): I downloaded Super Snake off of the Game Maker website and for the most part, I think your game is awesome. I just have one problem. I made it to Stage 3 Level 3 and the password you give out for that level is VEKOOLTEEN. I typed in that password many times both in lower case and capital letters and I can't get it to work. Every time I type in that password, I just end up going to Stage 1 Level 1. Am I doing something wrong? He's right, I made a typo! :o Note that all levels are doable, because I played every one of them to make sure. It took me forever in Stage 4. Maybe if I wouldn't test them, the game would have been finished before the GM 2002 competition. What is the correct password you ask? As if you're really gonna try! On a related note, During History Class I wrote poems. Sander (2001): *) Bei is a deliberate typo.De Hommel Hommelbei op paardebloem. Vrolijk hoor je haar gezoem. Heldere zon, vergrootglas ervoor, en al spoedig brandt haar huidje door. Gezoem wordt geknetter, het beestje knapt deur; de hommel verkoolt, een lekkere geur. Vogelhuisje Een schattig vogelhuisje met een heel klein gaatje. Koolmees op het dak zingt daar haar praatje. Opeens vliegt ze op ze wil er in maar het gaatje is te min. Nu zit ze klem en piept o jeetje. Ik sta op en help haar een beetje . Ik prop haar er door en ze valt naar binnen. Nooit hoorde ik haar meer zingen. See where this is going? Quote: 11 HOMMELBEIOP 12 PAARDEBLOEM 13 VROLIJKHOOR 14 JEHAARGEZOEM 15 HELDEREZON 16 VERGROOTGLAS 21 ERVOORENAL 22 SPOEDIGBRANDT 23 HAARHUIDJE 24 DOORGEZOEM 25 WORDTGEKNETTER 26 HETBEESTJE 31 KNAPTDEUR 32 DEHOMMEL 33 VERKOOLTEEN 34 LEKKEREGEUR 35 EENSCHATTIG 36 VOGELHUISJEMET 41 EENHEELKLEIN 42 GAATJEKOOLMEES 43 OPHETDAKZINGT 44 DAARHAAR 45 PRAATJEOPEENS 46 VLIEGTZEOP After the competition, I remember almost finishing episode 5, and then I lost interest because of school reintegration. (I started Super Snake as a boredom project because I was in the hospital.) I never released that updated Super Snake. It could be on one of those fried hard drives I have lying around. The 2 player mode was never finished. However, the 2 player mode was actually what began my idea for Super Snake! I made a real simple but attictive 2p game on my TI-83 during Math at school earlier called Line Wars. It was basically the lightbike game idea from Tron, without graphics. It was so addictive that I decided to make it into a Snake game. Ironically, I never came to making the 2p mode. unrelated sidenote Searching for LineWars.83p made me remember. That awesome calculator. They made it compulsory in school you know. I made a little cheat sheet for Chemistry class for aiding in chemical redox reactions with ions. (Here's an early version. That's no breezer font, that's TI-83 limitations.) Maybe I copied it to two or three people. I have this whole hospital thing and when I walk out I go to a different school with a new chemistry teacher and he gives me my own cheat sheets as legit help source! So flattering. I enjoyed chemistry. Okay one more thing to wrap this homage up is the easter eggs. There's a reason I mentioned the easter bunny in the readme file.  Unfortunately, I truely honestly don't remember the most important cheats. There was one to give you 99 lives and lose your score, one to commit suicide and something else.. but I do remember these useless ones:Ctrl+1: Change to ©2001 Ctrl+2: Change to ©2002 Ctrl+T: Switch to nipple background 1 Ctrl+N: Switch to nipple background 2 The nipple thing was a play on American idiocracy. I don't remember what, but there was another of those silly events. I don't know, they found a texture of a nipple hidden in a game source and wanted to raise the Parental Guidance age or something. Why can't I figure out the other cheats I put in there myself? Hmm.. maybe you needed a minimum score for that or something. Well that's it. Now you can play all levels. The future Here's the deal. I want to make a new game that kicks ass. It will involve a lot of learning. For me. This is my dream. Unfortunately, I need to pay the rent. I need a job. I need to finance my weekly day of research for a game that is not going to make me money. I live on a most remote location in the Netherlands where my skills are very much underappreciated. There's also a problem where employers don't like giving jobs for 3 or 4 days a week. Not unless I crawl lower than there's height in this corridor. So I don't know. But if it was up to me, two kickass games will be on the table 5 years from now. Doe maar even een lelijk plaatje maken zodat het lijkt alsof Windows het weer verkeerd doet.  Check out my latest videoclip! The music video was done in March, but I wanted to update my site to support inline HD streams before I posted. No hassle, just hadn't gotten around to fixing it yet until now.  So here it is. Be sure to hit 1080p HD (button appears after you press 'play') and click the fullscreen button! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE3VTZlo74&fmt=37 In Windows 7, I've had the annoyance of an ever rotating fan. And I mean during suspend (or as Windows calls it: Sleep)! My Asus P5QC motherboard does not have a jumper for FAN +5SB. Nor an option in the BIOS. Whaat? Turns out there is a solution after all. You need to turn off the ability for any hardware to turn on the computer. That's right! Press [Windows] + [Pause] to go to Control Panel > System and Security > System and click on Device Manager.  Go through any hardware that let's you wake your computer from sleep. In my case, this was my Logitech mouse and Logitech keyboard.  Go to the Power Management tab of this hardware and UNcheck permission to wake the computer.  There. The processor doesn't need to think anymore, and the fan can finally go to sleep. Now you know it. Now I know it. Let's never forget. Wow, I just fount another of those "What would I have done without this" tools. Imagine this scenario. You have an old(er) flawed laptop with Windows XP or something and you want to install Linux (or reinstall WinXP). DVD drive broken? PXE boot fails and you're not at liberty to rewire your entire LAN for that? No USB Boot support? No worries. Someone created a pretty powerfull bootmanager, complete with overkill starfield graphics that makes you think you've just launched your ZSNES emulator in stead of powering up your machine. It's able to chainload any bootable USB stick even if your BIOS does not support it. For example, in the Windows scenario, you simply boot Windows, download plpgenbtldr-0.7.zip, extract the files to c:\plop\ and edit your WinXP c:\boot.ini to add the following line: c:\plop\plpbtldr.bin="PLoP Boot Manager!!1". Boot, PLoP, WIN! :D Many more scenario's on the PLoP page. Google fun  Look at the toolbar. Is that CoolEdit, as I remember it? Does it still look like that since Adobe bought it and branded it Adobe Audition?  What you're looking at is a still from Dollhouse, the cool but now cancelled Fox network television show. It looks like a lot of computersystems in that show run CoolEdit for all sorts of things! (0 comments) show comments Adobe Illustrator, why are you such a pain in the ass? (Tu mar. 30th, '10 at 23:17 pm)  I am having heartburn, headache and just threw up in my mouth a little because I payed for software that is constantly full of bullshit. Example. Trying to export some vectors to a reasonably sized PSD.  What the #, Illustrator, what do you mean not enough memory? I CLEARLY HAVE ENOUGH! It's not even that lame 32 bit 4 GB limit because Illustrator is using a mere 4% of my total memory!  Thanks. You suck, Illustrator. You wasted my day. In case you didn't notice, this is REDnet.nl, homebase of RED. | ||
