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!!



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.

*) Bei is a deliberate typo.

See where this is going?



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.



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!

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.

Remember this?



My toe has been hurting now for over a year, so I decided to go for some X-rays.

Turns out my toe was broken bad and bones grew attached again in a random way. Optional surgery probably involves rebreaking the toe. Sounds like it sucks. Is it worth it? What do you think?

Seriously, what the duck is up with OS X not being able to open password protected .zip files? Windows, being the laughed at victim of OS X, has been doing this for 12 years, out of the box!

As a selfnote I ask myself this:
Does the Unix command unzip -P password file.zip work on Macs? Actually, I ask you. I have no Apple stuff.

I just want to know what to tell my clients. If nothing else, this should be able to handle common .zip specification on OS X.

I just discovered pown.it (totally unrelated to PowNed television).

I cannot really summarize the content in a picture so just check it out.
It's filled with thousands of Flash-loops. Most are crap, some are genius. Just press random a hundred times.