Added support of udp:// and rtsp:// files to the video plugin. Now a line like this
<embed type=”application/x-video-plugin” src=”rtsp://bbc1.vodserver.com” width=720 height=575 />
Will tell the browser to draw a window 720×575 pixel and play the stream rtsp://bbc1.vodserver.com in it.
Installed a new kernel (2.6.8.1-3-686) on lappy. Now that support for 686 processor is included it runs much faster and the graphics performance is
especailly improved. Also installed the lufs module to mount this website as a directory on lappy. This means that as I type this article in it will be automagically posted the website.
Unfortunately lufs will not the supported upstream, so I’ll have to switch to using the similar but
different FUSE module.
Maybe try that tomorrow…
I’ve had the game a few weeks now and played nothing else. It is just as addictive as the others in the series and consideribly darker. It’s not that there is more violence, there is but concentrate on just that would be to miss the point.
This is not Miami Vice, or Starsky and Hutch. This is gangsta style. Think Boyz N the Hood, or Menace II Society.
The game is also deeper than previous versions allowing you to develop skills as you go. Although this is limited compared to true RPGs.
It still has it’s flaws, most seriously the background disappears from time to time presumably as the disk tries to keep up the action. The driving controls are not as predictable as the previous series although in some ways this makes racing through the streets with your homeboys performing drive-bys more exciting.
Overall it is at least as good as the previous games. So that makes it a winner for me.
Snaps of my holiday in Croatia way back in September. When can we go back?
There are lots of beautiful places I’ve seen and Croatia is one place I’d love to see again.
After experimenting with static pages. I’ve decided to go back to a generated pages.
This might be a bit slower as supanames don’t have the storage module installed so
page data can’t be cached. At least the cache won’t waste my webspace from which I’ll now clean up
all the static files.
Met Ruth for lunch. She is getting married tomorrow so this is her last day of freedom.
She looks remarkably calm. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her in a dress or even a skirt,
she is such a tomboy.
Spent two days wracking my brains as to why fonts and jpegs are rendered as transparent on 16bit framebuffer.
And the ruddy things are coded assuming little-endian. So byte swapping the colour information before it
hit the framebuffer solves the problem. It doesn’t really fix it though.
I had tacos for dinner last night. They a so easy and nasty I feel dirty. In a good way.
It is good to eat unhealthly as food is just shit waiting to happen to quote
Will Self.
Now that the web browser is working I’m adding support for a plugin that plays an MPEG video stream. Most of the work is lready there it is really another porting job. I hope to be able to show something this week.
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