http://blogs.mediati.org/alex Welcome to 2008, my lone interweb viewer. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:06:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't usually listen to Radiohead, but for the Nude Remix competiton, this guy went one weirder than everyone else: http://www.vimeo.com/1109226?pg=embed&sec=1109226 Who else do you know who can play a bass part with their scanner? http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/63 r5u870 We're pushing out a release within the next week! 0.11.1 contains a whole heap of bugfixes, including a nasty syslog spamming one. I'm also hoping to start adding proper support for 3 new webcams, with the help of some friendly folk in the community. Hopefully reverse-engineering it won't be too difficult. Also, ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/62 Because having the stock standard USB VIDs and PIDs were annoying when trying to hookup a libusb filter driver under Windows, I decided to have a look around to see if it was at all possible change these values. After a bit of researching, here's what you need to do ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/60 Well, I figured I might as well put to good use the Arduino board board I purchased about a month back. Being such an original person that I am, I've decided to come up with another Arduino monome clone. I intend to build a nice 8x8 button surface; the size is ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/59 Looks like somebody tripped and fell over a cable in semi-slumber, the datacenter monkey at acpi.info broke something, or whatever. The site 'acpi.info' that contains all the ACPI specification documents and misc. information isn't resolving I've uploaded the mess that is the ACPI Specification to my website for the moment. Spending ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/58 Now, I'll be honest. I haven't bought much legitimate music lately, except for a couple albums I bought a few years back. I *would* buy LPs if I had a player that worked... But yes, shock, horror. I am a freeloader, to be fair. Well, seeing as there was a multitude ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/57 No, I'm not dead (yet). Haven't had as much time as I'd have liked to blog. Expect a few entries this/next week from me. http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/56 For those of you who honestly couldn't give a crap - don't bother reading on. No, seriously. It's pretty dull. Just a quick update - I've recently updated the A records for the main mediati.org domain and a few subdomains, including mail.mediati.org, to point to the Xen server I have had ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/55 Just touched down in Melbourne, and have checked into the hotel. Internet's pretty expensive, so I guess I'll have to limit myself to freeloading off the internet at the conference. Hopefully might be able to do some hacking offline. On a related note, I think Silvia Pfeiffer was on my plane. Hello ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/54 Pushed out a new release of r5u870 last night. Woohoo! Few cool changes in this release: Includes recode-fw.scm. Very useful tool to extract the firmware blobs from your device driver, if your device isn't supported. Instructions on how to use are on the wiki. Giant code merge from new modular usbcam library, ... http://blogs.mediati.org/alex/archives/53