http://sbeam.dk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:04:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time after time i hear so much talk about how nice Ubuntu looks nowadays, that i decide to give it a go again. Unfortunately i also get disapointed time after time, by seeing just how much really basic stuff just sucks. Seriously, so many talented people are working on this, ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=88 It's exam time here at DTU right now, and therefore i have tons of sparetime for coding cool stuff for my consoles (someone might disagree on that statement) :P Last night while waiting for some old QIC-80 tapes to restore on my 486, i coded this classic shadebobs demo effect for ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=80 For those of you who use the WLA DX macro assembler, i have compiled some windows binaries from the latest source v9.5a. (Only the source code is available on the original download site) I have included the original documentation plus two examples. WLA DX v9.5a windows binaries For those who have no ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=78 It has been quite a while since i quit the IT industry now, to start studying at DTU. Yesterday though, i got tempted to try out the final release of Netbeans 6, and decided to take it for a spin and port my old BeamTrons game to J2ME. I must say ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=75 Some time ago my friend Søren brought me back a funny piece of hardware from Russia: A NES clone called Dendy. I wasn't able to find much technical info about it, only small bits of history. It seems like Nintendo never released the NES in russia, so instead they made their ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=66 Together with my club "8 Bit klubben" i was invited to halfmachine, to hack up some old LED displays, and make some kind of digital art out of them. The M/S Halfmachine project Let me quote a description from the halfmachine website: HALF MACHINE is an artist collective ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=63 I finally found an ISA ethernet adapter for one of my DOS machines, and last night i decided to try to get it online. Step 1: Installing hardware drivers Under DOS, the lowest layer that communicates with the network card is a "packet driver". This does not include any form of TCP/IP ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=35 I had a very busy day at work today, and thought i'd try the Sony Ericsson Theme Creator. Unfortunately it was very limited, and all the icons and text elements could not be moved/changed in any way. But i like like it anyway :) http://sbeam.dk/projects/themes/ http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=33 I kinda gave up on my own gallery. I kept having problems with file permissions on the server i am hosting sbeam.dk on, and switching to PHPGraphy did'nt exactly make things easier. I don't really feel like wasting hours customizing PHPGraphy to the same look and feel like the rest ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=32 For a long time i've had an idea about building a minigolf course on my balcony. Yesterday i decided to put the idea to work! The balcony is 7.7m x 0.8m, so it's perfectly suited for a minigolf! I bought some grass carpet, a real putter, and some golf balls ... http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=31