A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

Dad: *down hall* -hey mick- *turns into my room* “Mick? Where’s your car?”

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!

Someone decided it’d be fun to hit me with a DDoS attack a few days ago.

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?

Mmmmm, thought I’d post this, get some feedback:

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

Can’t get enough of this video.

So earlier this week, NVidia hosted a big convention called NVision, part of which was NVScene, a demoparty.

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