Just a small update this time, by the request of Chaitanya.
4.1 Changelog:
Download v4.1
(The old version (3.2) that doesn’t use COM can be downloaded from here)
Don’t forget to read the readme before asking me any questions.
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I recently bought two new games, The Settlers VI: Rise of an Empire and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl because CDON was having a pretty extravagant sale. Settlers VI was down by 65% and Stalker was down by 83%! These were price-drops I just couldn’t ignore so I simply had to buy it. The total bill came to 198 SEK ($33) with shipping. I also got Heroes of Might and Magic V for cheap off a Tradera (Swedish version of eBay) auction. So now I have three brand new games here to enjoy for the upcoming easter break :).
I’ve already played a through the demos of Settlers VI and Heroes V and I think they are wonderful strategy games. Ever since Settlers II, all of the sequels in the series have sucked, up until now, Settlers VI is actually fun and interesting. I’d recommend it to anyone who liked Settlers II back in the day. The same goes for Heroes V, this game makes up for the horror that was Heroes IV and brings back the joy of Heroes III in a whole new outfit. Both games stay true to the (good parts) of their series and Heroes V in particular doesn’t really bring that much new to the table. However, it’s still great fun!
I’ve never played Stalker before since the Stalker demo refused to start on my pc for some reason. But that was like a year ago now I guess, so now those bugs should be fixed…. That’s what I assume anyway. Even if it doesn’t start, I can probably sell the game for a higher price on Tradera once the CDON sale is over.
Something I cannot sell however is Toca Race Driver. I got this game for free when I bought Battlefield 1942 3-4 years ago and I haven’t played it once. I have tried selling it on Tradera two times. First time for 30 SEK ($5) and the second time for 1 SEK (17 cents), which is the minimum amount you can sell something for on Tradera. I didn’t even have more than like 10 page hits on the auctions, either time! No one wants this stupid game! Thus, it goes in the trash.
Look at it down there in the trashcan. It looks sad… Sad like a forgotten, unwanted old piece of shit game should be. You can almost imagine tears coming out of the eyes of that race driver. No wait, tears ARE coming out of those big sad eyes! Just wait until I’ve blown my nose a few more times and you’ll be covered in snot, then you’ll have a reason to cry. Unwanted, unloved, unsellable AND covered in snot! How do you like that huh?! Yeah, fuck you, you lonely, sad, depressing, low quality, old motherfucking piece of plastic disc shit.
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Anyone who has ever downloaded a longer “iPod/PSP video” (MP4 format) from Google Video knows that they videos tend to get out of sync. This is incredibly frustrating and absolutely ridiculous. I mean, this is Google we’re talking about here. A multi-gabillion-fazillion-dillion-etc company, that should be able to fix minor shit like this that affects the general quality of their services. But of course, us users will have to deal with it ourselves. I found one thread on Google groups that discussed this problem and went from there.
After a bit of testing I realized that the problem probably was that all videos simply needed to be in 30 fps instead of the one provided in the .mp4 file. I’m not 100% sure that this works on all files, but it worked great for me on a few files, so I assume it’s going to work for all of them. This can be done fairly quickly and easily using the MP4 tool: Yamb.
Once you’ve installed it and opened it up, go to Editing -> Click to extract streams from AVI/MP4/MOV/TS files. Choose the out of sync google video you have as Input. Then choose Extract All Streams to Raw Format and click Next. After it’s done processing you will most likely have a .h264 and .aac file in the folder where the .mp4 file is (those are the formats I’ve run into so far). The .h264 file contains the video and the .aac file contains the audio. All we have to do now is readd these two streams into a new .mp4 file while altering the fps of the video.
Open up Yamb again and go to Creation -> Click to create an MP4 file with multiple audio, video, subtitle and chapter sstreams. Add the .h264 file and click on Properties. In there you add “30.000″ (without quotations) under Frame-Rate. Press OK and add the .aac file, after that, just press Next. Yamb will now mux the streams together and output a correct in-synch .mp4 file for you.
I hope this works as well for you as it worked for me. Here’s a video you can try it out on that I did it on myself: Matt Mason on The Pirate’s Dilemma. If you can’t get it working on that video, you’re doing something wrong 
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So… I went to another concert. The first one since 2005, when I saw Judas Priest! I was going to go see Slayer and Slipknot in there between somewhere but I got ill and was unable to go and ever since then I just haven’t felt like going to any concert again. But last week this all changed.
I was at a local pizza place and saw the ad outside the nightclub GG for an exciting new event at the nightclub; “The Hardrock Cave”. I know, it’s a silly name, I didn’t pick it :p . Anyway, the band that was going to perform at the club was, to my surprise, Lillasyster. A band which I’ve followed since the start because it’s made up of old members of one of my favorite bands LOK (A band I even made a fansite for). Right there and then I decided that I had to go see them, I could not make any excuses for not going. Even if I had to go myself to the concert (which is a total bore) I would go. And sure enough, everyone else had a convenient excuse not for going so I went myself.
The entry fee was 80 SEK (+ 20 SEK for hanging up your coat). I was in the queue to get in right when they opened up at 22.00 since I thought the band were gonna start playing almost immediately (no information was given to when they where gonna start playing), but instead I had to wait around two hours and 15 minutes before the band got on. Which was a total borefest since I knew no one there. So I just waited in a corner drinking a few beers.
The club was very very crowded. The place had three floors, all with different themes to them. The top floor looked like an upper-class “cool in-thing” place with casino stuff. The bottom floor was the “Hardrock cave” which looked really neat and down there they played some great rock music. The ground level had the stage and the biggest bar. Before the band got on, this place was filled with techno-yuppies who were dancing to some horrible remixes of good songs. Such as Alice Coopers Poison sung by blonde bitches.
At 0.15 Lillasyster took the stage to a mild confused roar from the crowd. Then everyone who was in the area wanted to leave to get to the upper floor for their “cool”-fill with techno lameness. And everyone who was down in the “Hardrock cave” wanted to get to the stage. So there was a lot of squeezing and pushing going on until everyone was in the right place. After that, the crowd cheered loudly as the band started playing the first song “Kräkas” (swedish for “Vomiting”). A lot of people in the crowd sang along with the lyrics and it often seemed like the singer, Martin Westerstrand, didn’t need to sing at all. During this song I was kind of in the back waiting to be able to make my way to the front and during the next song “Lokpest” I managed to get to the front and start headbanging like crazy, etc. 
They performed a short but tight set with some great songs in it (you can see the setlist further down on this page). To me, the only low-point was when they performed their hit single Umbrella (Rihanna Cover). The crowd seemed to love it though and sang along, jumping around, etc. But the crowd was much more enthusiastic about the hardrock anthem “Hårdrock”, their first single “Berätta det för Lina” and the old LOK hit “Lok står när de andra faller” than “Umbrella”. The place was so crowded, so hot and so loud that some people needed to be transported back out of the pit. I had to pick several people up of the floor and kinda shove them back so they wouldn’t get stepped on or even fallen on, cause a lot of people seemed to be falling over when the crowd was pushing back and forth. 
The speakers on both sides of the stage had people hanging on them, people stood up on the bar, on the couches in the back and a few where hanging from stripper poles in the corner. Everyone clearly wanted to be involved in some serious headbanging! In the back there where two camera guys and in the middle of the crowd there was a third, so I’m sure some kind of video will surface sooner or later.
Martin spoke to the crowd now and then, or should I say, attempted to speak to the crowd now and then… I remember that after the first song he said “Usually by this point I try to say something interesting, but this is Uddevalla so let’s just play the next song”. And later he responded to one of the guys hanging from the speakers with “I don’t know what the fuck you just said but you’re fucking crazy and I love it!”.
They ended with their first single “Berätta det för Lina” and during this song the crowd went berserk. It was a animalistic joy that came over me as I headbanged away while feeling the motions of the crowd. There’s something great about just letting go and enjoying something together in a crowd, all screaming their lungs out, headbanging like crazy and working up a sweat.
After the last song Martin said that anyone could come downstairs and talk to them in the “Hardrock Cave” afterwards if they felt like it. I’m not sure what happened down there since I left immediately afterwards, I was dead tired at this point and just wanted to get out of there. But I’m sure the people that did stay to hang out with Lillasyster had a good time, since the guys are really, really friendly to their fans. They even used to have a cellphone number on their myspace page that you could call whenever you wanted to talk to the guys.
I left the place covered in sweat, with a sore throat, sore neck and with an intense ringing in my ear (since I forgot my earplugs). But I couldn’t have been more satisfied. Once you learn to love hardrock, you don’t stop loving it :).
As I predicted, a video soon surfaced. Of course it’s of the worst song they played, but it’s still interesting to see just to see them perform something at this gig. Let’s hope more videos show up later.
Here’s an approximate setlist, I’m not 100% sure on the order or if I missed a song, but I believe it’s fairly accurate.
1. Kräkas
2. Lokpest
3. Nu har jag fått nog av dig
4. Skrubbsår
5. Barn utan ben
6. Varfördärför
7. Sug min
8. Hårdrock
9. Umbrella
10. Lok står när de andra faller
11. Berätta det för lina
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I’ve been using Adobe Audition (previously Cool Edit Pro) for years. It’s far superior to it’s freeware counterpart, Audacity, because of it’s easy-to-use GUI and advanced filters (I’d still recommend Audacity to anyone who doesn’t need to do something professional though). And I’ve rarely had any problems with it, but since my last format and reinstallation of Windows XP (SP2) I’ve had some very serious problems with the program.
Technical Information:
Stop: 0×0000008E (0xc0000005, 0xBF8E270c. 0xB5656868, 0×00000000)win32k.sys Address BF8E270c base at BF800000, DateStamp 43446a58
That’s what it would say when my computer would freeze and shutdown after just doing some random editing in Audition. Before the crash there would always be some graphical inconsistencies, like, a button or a menu jumping around.
I did some research and apparently the Microsoft IntelliPoint mouse driver causes this issue (which is odd…), so I decided I’d check and see if I had any such drivers on my system. I searched C: for “intellimouse”, “intellipoint”, “ipoint” but nothing appeared so I figured I didn’t have the driver installed… But that wasn’t the case. For some reason the driver could only be found through “Add or Remove Programs” in the Control Panel. After uninstalling it and rebooting the problem disappeared entirely.
For some reason, every time I start up Audition my Windows effect settings are changed. The setting “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing” gets reenabled every time! This is really annoying since I really don’t like those effects. I googled and found that this is an unresolved issue which no one wants to deal with. Apparently it’s caused by the ASIO wrapper made by Steinberg. So Adobe isn’t gonna touch it because they didn’t make the wrapper and Steinberg isn’t gonna touch it because they have nothing to do with Audition… So the end result is; the customer is fucked, like usual.
Well, fuck you too Adobe.
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Here’s a video I put together using Adobe Premiere for the first time in years. It features the swedish rock band Lillasyster performing Umbrella (Rihanna cover) and Nu har jag fått nog av dig acoustic live at Dreamhack Winter (2007-11-30).
Sources: 4 cellphone cameras, 3 digital cameras and streamed radio.
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I recently discovered that the great program Daemon Tools (CD/DVD emulator for image files) now has a pay-for alternative (Pro) to the free version (Lite). I decided to check it out because I imagined it would have lots of great new features, I especially wanted a “mount with deamon tools” shell extension (for when you right-click on any file in explorer). This of course had been implented in the Pro version, but it did not work with the .img file format and in the forums the developers declared that they won’t be implenting it ever. So I decided to take on this problem myself. Also, I was gonna do it in the Lite version, since the Pro version didn’t seem to have any good features worth paying for (the only extra thing was an annoying GUI really).
Deamon Tools Lite (and Pro) have command line switches. These can be used to create scripts, .bat files, shortcuts, whatever you want. One of these switches is particularly interesting: -mount.
-mount
allows mounting images from command line (or shortcut).
Syntax is: -mount [n], [path]
where ‘n’ means DVD-ROM device number (’0′ - ‘3′ allowed) and ‘path’ is the full path to the image file.
Example: daemon.exe -mount 0,”c:\My Images\nameofimage.cue”.
Do not forget to set the path in quotes if it contains spaces!
In Explorer goto Tools -> Folder Options and select the File Types tab. Select the file type you want to enable this for (for example .img) and press Advanced. Press New. As Action type in:
Mount with Daemon Tools
and as Application type in:
"C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\daemon.exe" -mount 0, "%1"
That is, if that’s where your daemon tools installation is located. If you installed to another directory, you need to adjust the above line to fit your installation. When done editing, press OK three times to get out of the menus.
Now there’s just one last step before you’re done. Right-click on your Daemon Tools tray icon and goto Options and disable Secure mode. This will disable Daemon Tools asking you if “it’s ok to mount?” each time you try to mount an image file.
That’s it! Now you should be able to right-click on any .img file and select “Mount with Daemon Tools”. I suggest you also add this Action to the following file types: .cue, .iso, .nrg, .mds, since those are fairly common.
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The category “My shit” is now private. All the posts within this category (except this one) can only be viewed by my friends and family. I decided to do this because I don’t think anyone other than people I know should be able to take part of my personal life.
If you know me and you don’t have an account to read these posts, you can always drop me an email at krofinzki –AT– gmail.com and if I reckognize you, I’ll set up an account for you
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After two years of nothingness, there is once again light in the dark! Over the last two years I updated this script sporadically now and then, and last summer I decided to put some effort into doing a real update and it’s first now after extensive beta testing that I’ve decided the new version of the script is ready for a release.
For those who aren’t familiar with this mIRCscript, here’s what Media Displayer can display:
4.0 Changelog:
(The old version (3.2) that doesn’t use COM can be downloaded from here)
Don’t forget to read the readme before asking me any questions.
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Positivity is good for you… Or is it that you’re more positive when good things happens to you? Isn’t it likely that you’d be a positive person if you’re not as prone to be ill? Hmm…
Well actually from personal experience, being positive makes you feel good psychologically and physically. If I feel negative or positive about something is a world of difference for my body. When I’m anxious or feel negative about something, I feel really bad. My body hurts pretty much everywhere and it doesn’t stop until I’ve put whatever it is I’m anxious about behind me. On the other hand if I feel positive about something, nothing seems to be different from when I don’t care at all about it. I’m not sure what that says about me…
On a completely different note, some people are trying to sue Nintendo for not being a big mommy for them. Here’s the deal; a few people have managed to break shit and hurt people because they’re throwing their Wiimotes (Nintendo Wii Handcontrol) randomly around them. So because of this, some guy, somewhere in USA, sued Nintendo on the behalf of all American Wii-owners. First of all, how come one guy can sue on the behalf of millions of other people?! Secondly how can you sue someone else because you’re an idiot? How is it their fault that you’re stupid? It’s kind of like suing a car-company because you can’t drive. Or suing the restaurant because you shoved the food up your ass. You fucking moron.
Also, I’d like to end this post with a thoughtful quote:
“RAPPING IS NOT THE ANSWER TO SURVIVING NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!!!!” -Ravenwreck
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