Capped.TV – Still going, updated encoding core stuff, soon videos will be served from different directories. Also note, I’m going for a 3-quality system [HD, medium quality, and Flash 6] which will be selectable soon.

Phlix.TV – Dead. [Missed domain payment, lack of upkeep through server changes] Will put the semi-restored project on micksam7.com soon.

RuneTracker – A mess due to name changing junk. Have no way to fix it at the moment. It works, things are still logged. Some things may break. Cannot do a lot at the moment.

RScript Stuff – Need to move RsS’ database to mySQL. Beyond that, things seem to work still. Others can grab what’s broke here at least and fix it. [yay]

I’ve been unable to do much due to personal things affecting me [girlfriend has been missing for 5 weeks ...], and some upcoming trips will put me out of action till December.

It sucks, but eh. I’m not abandoning anything though.

First we have a Wrath by Matt Current. Win32 demo. Mostly dark and whatnot.

Next up, some fun little thing by ASD titled Chameleon. Win32, some 2D art and 3D. They made this in a few days for a random compo.

Here, have Lightshaft by Elude, a modern Amiga demo. Yay low res.

Now for something completely different, Frameranger by Fairlight, Orange, and CNCD [whew], once again a Win32 demo, and probably the biggest demo of the year so far. Random more main-stream oriented car/robo scenes, followed by more proper effects known of the scene. This thing runs like crap in real time though even on a high end rig.

Sorry, no oldskool platforms here this time, unless you count the upgraded amiga used for the Elude demo.

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There’s a user on MTurk recently aptly named “Image Editing”, posting mostly jobs relating to, you guessed it, image editing. They have a interesting way to find editors eligible, enticing with small funds and a easy job, applying the qualifications to the user if they complete it correctly.

Seems the site behind it is called Slide Scanning Pros – A slide scanning service [heh] with some bonus imaging editing tucked away in there.

Sure would like to see more from them, though their first ‘real work’ HIT was a bit confusing with the description [though their Image Editing page has a slightly confusing selection in any case].

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Sidenote, seems that Wordpress is thinking Templates are covered by the GPL now, which is going to cause some drama.

In particular, people critizie wordpress because a lot of user-submitted plugins are highly vunerable to specific attacks and other things due to bad coding.

I’d like to remind people, that once again these plugins are user-submitted.

As well, plugin security issues is in no way unique to wordpress. Plenty of other software – forums, CMSes, blogs, and other things – that support plugins have these issues. It’s not unique to wordpress.

So please keep that in mind. Thank you.

Stuff:
- Joined a new project
- Took a trip to florida, back now
- STILL LOOKING FOR WORK PLS
- Magic/More Magic

That is all.

Me: “Uh … I have both sets of keys right here.”
*..oh except for the service set..*
“Did mom take it in for serving?”

Dad: “She’s at work. Did Alyssa take it?”

Me: “Uh, I don’t think so.” *goes downstairs to check, sister is home* “You sure mom didn’t take it?”

Dad: “Her van isn’t here.” *takes me a few moments to recongize that one person can’t take two cars …*

Dad: “Mick, where’s your brother?”

Both: *heads upstairs to check in Sam’s room …*

No I’m Not kidding.

[Insert some laughs, some concerned, some can't believing this]

*dad and I agree to try and get him back as quickly as possible, texting him:*

Me via TXT: “Get back home before mom and dad find out. :p -Mick”

Sam via TXT: “Oh god.. That was fast. Dont tell! Im on my way home”

Me via TXT: “If you’re in any trouble, call me and i’ll pick ya up in dad’s car. -Mick”

30 minutes later

Bro returns, he dropped my keys somewhere, we find em, and now he’s being scoulded by dad. THE END!

800 mbit/s in, about 7 mins in length. Sadly for the attackers, it didn’t really do much, since the server sits on a gigabit in line anyway… The only interuption that occured was when the datacenter put the IP on a DDoS filter, which cut a irc connection for a few seconds.

First time I’m targeted specifically in a attack. Server’s been attacked on other IPs before [usually runescript's], but they hit my specific ip, hmm. ;p

So, for the attackers, what’d I do to deserve a few million packets?

Phlix.TV basically will take any non-flash video file [AVI/MOV/WMV/MP4/Etc, as long as it's on a http server], and convert it to flash on the fly, without [too] much wait [5-15 seconds at most if the server containing the video is slow]. No need to download some random codec to watch videos, as long as you can stand [slightly higher quality than normal] flash video.

Randomly got the idea with a chat with my mate, and a few others who seemed to be interested in the idea. Basically it’s to bridge the gap in the online media world, where there’s still non-flash files laying around. [And if you don't like flash video quality, well then don't use this!]

A weekend’s worth of coding; yay ffmpeg having most of the support that I needed already in, only had to hack in a few things. Thanks to TJ for abusing it to death to iron out some odd bugs. Fun times had by all.

Anyway, try it out, tell me what you think, and if something doesn’t work right, let me know.

Todo:
- Idiot proof the url box
- Support FTP
- Properly detect live-streams so it won’t try to cache them
- Provide Embed code
- Impliment h.264 support [mmmm more ffmpeg editing]
- Provide some notice when the source server is being head-achingly slow

So, here’s a small taste of what was released there. The top 3 for each category at the party. Remember, normally these demos are generated in real time, and etc etc, just captured here for those without a powerful PC/don’t feel like downloading the binaries.

4kb – 1st

4kb – 2nd

4kb – 3rd

Demo – 1st

Demo – 2nd

Demo – 3rd

There’s actually two winners for 3rd:

Sadly, my Capped.TV Kiosk wasn’t used, but you can download and see it on Pouet.net