Oh, Internet.
You did it again.
Unlocking / Rooting the Motorola Atrix 4G
Yesterday my new phone arrived: a Motorola Atrix 4G, which should be a real upgrade from my trusty old HTC Wildfire. I bought it for €239 in an iBood sale. Advantages were the big screen, dual-core processor and 4G support. A possible contra was the doubt that any official Ice …
Interesting TOR talk
I spent the morning watching this hugely interesting talk about the TOR project and the censoring problems it had this year.It has been an important tool for dissidents and activists trying to get the truth out in an oppressive regime. The talk was given yesterday at the CCC’s crypto event by Roger Ingledine …
Efficient rendering using Sparse Voxel Octrees
I’ve been reading a lot lately about using voxels in CG. I’ve always been fascinated by ways of moving away from the traditional polygon-based pipeline, and things are really starting to look good for voxels. Sampling all geometric and texture data on a regular grid allows for unique content, theoretically. …
Next Girl
Dinosaurs and babes. Videoclip of the year?
Migrating from CakePHP 1.3 to 2.0
I love CakePHP. It’s a PHP framework with a clear and strict Model / View / Controller (MVC) separation and a great abstraction layer for reading, updating and saving objects to the database. Recently, the CakePHP team released CakePHP 2.0, and I started updating my projects to this new version. …
Game Graphics Tech Talks
Here’s some recent game graphics talks I’ve been enjoying. First one is Carmack on Quakecon 2011 – it’s a very technical talk, but very interesting on how they do texture streaming on consoles, compared to pc systems.
Aid Dealer
Possibly the best sociopolitical song of the last decade.
Circumventing DNS-level ISP blocks (ThePirateBay / The Pirate Bay – Belgium)
Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website ThePirateBay.org, and about 20 alternative URL’s to the same site. The court ordered them to do a DNS-level block of the domain names, which is easy to circumvent. I’m writing this post because …
Sleep Sort
Usually, the only content coming from open-message-board extravaganza 4chan is … questionable, at best, but someone pitched a sorting algorithm that’s trivial, beautiful and a bit unique: Sleep Sort. Bonus points for having a great lazy name, and it does work. It basicly forks a process and lets it sleep for …