Apple & Infringing Copyrights

It’s news like this that reminds me on why I haven’t got any Apple products around. Apple removed a Bittorrent app from the app store, because BitTorrent is often used to “infringe copyrights”. When will anyone learn? Here’s what the app author has to say: I’d just like to reiterate …

SSH Socks Proxy

There might be several reasons to tunnel your internet traffic. In my case, I had to test a website I was developing at Zeropoint.it. Local issues prevented me from viewing the site in its pure uncached form, so I had to use a proxy. Another reason why you might be interested …

Spectrial: the sequel

Whereas the first part of the Spectrial – the case against the Swedish-born torrent site/tracker The Pirate Bay – was covered extensively in journals and reports worldwide (on this very blog, for example), the appeals case which starts today has only received minimal attention. In april 2009, the four defendants …

Def Surrounds Us

Today, DJ Shadow released 2 tracks on his website, downloadable for free in the next 24 hours. Having seen him playing the first track, Def Surrounds Us, live at the Rivierenhof in Deurne, I can recommend downloading the EP. If these tracks are a taste of things to come, it’s looking …

Nuclear Dawn New Trailer

A new trailer for mod-project-gone-pro Nuclear Dawn was released yesterday. I’m glad to see a project I’ve worked on for 2 years coming close to release. Nice how they seem to have nailed the RTS overview and node structure system, all running on the Source engine. All the best & …

Suggestive Contours Code

The little download counter on my super secret world domination dashboard indicates that my thesis code implementations of rendering suggestive contours on 3d meshes has been downloaded over a hundred times. Which tickles my curiosity. If you’re doing anything fun, serious, silly (or can’t get the damn thing to work …