http://navahogunleg.net/blog ...where the most significant bytes... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:55:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was tinkering with Firefox, trying to get something to work. I wanted to do something between certain events, rather that on those specific events. Anyway, deciding I'd take a little peek in the first random Firefox filtering plugin that I could find, downloaded it from "some site", and unpacked the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2010/02/25/foxfilter-so-easily-defeated-its-ridiculous/ My LinuxSampler set-up was having odd crashes lately. Took a while to figure to they were caused by the OOM killer killing the process. (Granted, not weird if you only have 256MB of RAM...) Quite annoying, I do not want that process to die (nor the "jackd" process). After having stumbled upon ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2010/02/19/script-to-disable-the-oom-killer-on-certain-processes/ In recent months I've been taking up my old "audio hobby"... I'm Dutch, so, it shouldn't cost much -- the reason I'm using open-source only. The hardware collection is slowly growing (still in the process of acquiring all the basics though). The most recent addition was a 61-keys USB MIDI ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2010/02/16/woot/ Sickening stuff: How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style Next time somebody believes your usage of the dollar sign when typing "MS" is childish, re-direct those people to that article.... 'Nuff said... :P http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/12/28/thats-microsoft-allright/ Soylent Green is coming. http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/12/01/sean-have-you-read-this/ Who the fuck were they trying to kid anyway -- trying to prevent the USA from getting their scapegoat: Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to US. If he is prevented from committing suicide, and if he's technically any good, he is most probably going to end up working for the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/30/ouch-mckinnon-extradition-emminent/ I was tinkering with Nekobee today and wanted it to respond to the top two rows of 4 knobs each on my M-Audio X-Session Pro MIDI controller. This, so I can easily tweak the sound using those knobs rather than using the mouse... I had to use 'midimon' to find ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/25/nekobee-mapping-the-controls-to-the-m-audio-x-session-pro/ Wow, under what stone have I been living? :) As a young kid I bought almost all the Art Of Noise's music. Likewise, Rakim (of Eric B and Rakim fame) has been an inspiration as well... And I only just now discovered they once did a collaboration together... Sweet! :-) http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/20/the-art-of-noise-feat-rakim/ I once decided to create new skin for Mixxx a long time ago. But never gotten further than the actual script that generates all the different states of a "volume knob": As I never shall get around to finishing my own skin anyway, I have posted a sample of these knobs ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/16/knobs-20091116-mixxx/ I've been trying to optimise my laptop so I could get Mixxx, an open source DJ-ing application, to run on it smoothly. The only thing I hadn't tried yet was using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, i.e. JACK. Word is that audio applications using JACK have very low latency. The best ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/12/native-instruments-audio4dj-jackd-mixxx/ So I was trying to optimise a laptop for audio playback and wanted the NVIDIA driver to use the its own NvAGP rather than the linux supplied 'agpgart' module. The reason being that the performance may be better, and I have this obsession with optimisation... :) This wasn't as easy as ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/11/11/nvidia-nvagpagpgart-module-woes/ Hi there people! Interesting times ahead for my pet project NG-BASIC! After long deliberation I have decided to transfer the ownership; transfer the ownership to a new owner that is going to breathe fresh life into the project. It shall be actively developed on -- something which I can't do anymore ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/01/26/ng-basic-is-moving/ So I bought myself a new laptop last November -- it seemed a bargain at the time. And I was really happy with it until the first time it did not want to boot after shutting down. The first time I push the power button, the lights went on, the fans started ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2009/01/13/acer-aspire-7530-not-booting/ Hey folks... It has been quiet but this I must share. This was probably the best concert I've seen in my whole damn life. Ab-so-fucking-lutely awesome. http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/12/18/public-enemy-millions-tour-2008/ I just caught this on guerrillafunk.com: http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/09/01/paris-dont-stop-the-movement/ So after this, I have been reading more on the condition called Cluster Headaches, and the more I read, the more I recognise. Initially I couldn't remember being woken up by these headaches, but I have. The memories of more days in agony came back. I even remember the day ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/08/14/the-caffeine-might-have-played-a-role-though/ For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, "Hey that actually tastes & feels good.". Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/08/13/so-it-wasnt-the-caffeine-after-all/ "In between jobs", I always have wanted to say that. I wish I could say it in another situation though... Last month my employer went bankrupt and me and some colleagues haven't been payed for a couple of months. It sucks.... There's the issue of some back-pay that I still have to ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/07/04/in-between-jobs/ For fun I was checking out my statistics and discovered that my theme got hacked: the footer and header were replaced, inserting spammy URLs into the outputted page, together with some Google Adsense code. Yay. As a result I am now delisted from Google's index. :P Apparently, this has been going on for ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/06/06/omg-omg-omg-my-theme-was-hacked/ Disclaimer: The information in here is purely educational, yada yada yada. And... it's not people that abuse things who harm people -- it's the people that put those things there without thinking. An explaination: I have always been intrigued by HTML forms. As a paranoid person, I have always wondered whether ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/05/30/keylogging-in-javascript-or-why-the-fsck-does-a-password-field-send-the-keypress-value/ For the passed few days there's a finch in da hood and it's whistling it's little feathery bum off. It's is now sitting on the top of my house whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and I wonder where it gets ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/05/20/theres-a-finch-on-the-top-of-my-roof/ Hey again! Long time no post, I know.... busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share. I was just reading Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/04/15/mc-frontalot-secrets-from-the-future/ I posted about Everlast upcoming new album earlier, but this weekend I discovered the video for his latest track: This song makes me want to own a car again ... so that I can play this song on repeat -- really, really frigging loud. Everlast, Rap, Rock, War, Middle-East http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/02/11/everlast-letters-home-from-the-garden-of-stone/ So a couple of weeks ago I heard the news that, on my old "high-school", a teacher was put on non-active because he was having a sex-chat with a 12 year old girl on the internet while his laptop-screen contents were beamed onto a big screen in front of the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/01/30/hey-teacher-leave-those-kids-alone/ It's been quiet for a long while ... probably because I didn't have anything to say or anything to vent... But I do so, now. :-) See, my girlfriend found the new site set up by Everlast (to spread the word about his new album, Love War and The Ghost of ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/01/02/everlast-love-war-and-the-ghost-of-whitey-ford/