Sheep Spotting HQ

Gah! ActionScript 3.0

retrakker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:36:30 GMT

Way to go, now Adobe - please some OpenGL acceleration and native U3D support

Roxik

GStreamer recording a video with monitoring

retrakker — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:38:28 GMT

gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! capsfilter caps=video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! tee name=t1 ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! queue ! filesink location=debug.ogg t1. ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink

Grml

retrakker — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:40:54 GMT

Ich kann dieses janusköpfige Gejammer bald nicht mehr hören: auf der einen Seite fehlen 70000 Ingenieure aber wir haben kein Geld. Forschungsprojekte in Industrie und and den Instituten schleppen sich mit Interns gerade so durch und Projektleiter in Forschungsinstituten sagen einem glatt: würde gerne und auch richtig aber mehr als Einjahresvertrag geht nicht.

Siehe auch: www.heise.de

Utterly inresponsible bank

retrakker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:38:06 GMT

NZ bank is raising credit limit and sending over a coupon to confirm. Signatures on it and the complete card number. Great job!

Test test ... 1 2 3

retrakker — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:52:50 GMT

This is a test with ScribeFire. Seems to work reasonably ok.

And wow, even the YouTube integration makes sense. I am truly impressed.

NZ cars and dogs

retrakker — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:41:55 GMT

note: cars in New Zealand come with pre-installed dog. In parking position the dog sits on the driver seat. In driving mode the dog breathes air from outside facing towards the driving direction. If the weather is bad they sit on the back seat.

Denver und Dallas New Zealand style

retrakker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:25:29 GMT

Die Geschichte geht so: Firma A sagt hüh, Firma H sagt hott, keiner fragt uns, die Entwickler. Es gibt Kunden die mit Geld wedeln, es gibt Kunden die Firma A bezahlt haben, glücklich sind und nicht wissen was eigentlich läuft. Firma A hat keinen Vertrag mit H - Punkt. H hat die Rechte an der Software, dafür gibt es eine rechtlich Grundlage. Firma A erschleicht sich Zugang zu den Sourcen, ändert mal eben das Copyright, schickt es an potentielle Kunden. Chef von A ist im Board von H. Neuer CEO von H ist inkompatibel zu Chef von A. Entwickler, also wir, wollen Dual lizenz mit GPL und kommerziell, CEO von H sagt, ihr spinnt. Wir, die Entwickler, wollen einen Forschungspartner gewinnen fragen ob wir die sowieso nach aussen unter GPL stehenden Komponenten packagen können. Firma A (Ja, die ohne Vertrag) sagt: bekommt einen NDA von deren Uni. Damit hat sich die Zusammenarbeit erledigt.

Es geht um eine lausige infrastruktur bibliothek. Wir, die Entwickler, kennen eine grosse Institution die lange genug Geschäft mit A hatte und sagt: Schluss mit Kasperle Theater, wir schreiben unsere eigene ~~Geschichte~~Software und verticken sie.

Ja klar: No worries!

DVB-S - Decoder - Index

retrakker — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:59:59 GMT

Grmph:

NZ - random chinese mass production board: NZD120 : after removing 12.5% GST: NZD107 = EUR56

D - littlebit less random chinese (Zehnder label): EUR 33 removing 19% Märchensteuer: EUR28

Taking into account NZ wages at least half of D (removing direct tax deductions).

Bekloppte Deutsche Touristen

retrakker — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:14:26 GMT

www.spiegel.de

The Courtesy Traffic Jam

retrakker — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:44:22 GMT

One of New Zealands important events happens every morning and evening on the street: the courtesy traffic jam. As courtesy is a very deeply anchored concept in the heart of every Kiwi it is logical that the other one always comes first even if a big metal snake is following yourself. For outsiders this is an amusement with drivers waving franticly each other to let the other one take the turn. I really like the courtesy traffic jam, because it is so surreal and can even be quite effective.

Merry Christmas

retrakker — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:18:58 GMT

to everybody. And yes we had an earth quake in Christchurch too, well sort off, I would call it a bus passing by which apparently isn't a bus at such a late time. Only question for me: why have I been awake so late. Have a nice christmas time!

Drupal Taxonomies

retrakker — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:27:15 GMT

I am currently re-working my old webpage and decided I go for Drupal as the CMS instead of my own homebrew stuff. I used it before but only in a very "shallow" and apparently wrong way. This time I need to really get my head around things like "taxonomies", "terms" and the like.

splashing cat

retrakker — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:21:31 GMT

Hehe, if the vet tells you to get a fountain for your cat you always could try this. She loves the bucket and as a side effect drinks way more.

New MacBook Pro w/ 200GB@7200rpm

retrakker — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:55:22 GMT

Nice machine, but a tidbit too loud in battery mode.

MetaWeblog API on Antville

retrakker — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:15:25 GMT

This is just for my own reference:

RPC server: antville.org:5056

Der Fluch der Kette

retrakker — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:41:54 GMT

Gestern nur eine von vier "eateries" wiedergefunden die meiner Meinung nach ein bischen das "echte" Hong Kong wiederspiegelten. Alle anderen durch Ketten wie 'rbt' verdrängt. Schade!

Hong Kong

retrakker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:50:26 GMT

Temperaturen sind gemuetlich. Luftverschmutzung ist echt unertraeglich geworden.

Silent Upgrade for MacBook Pro

retrakker — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:24:06 GMT

If your order a MacBook Pro with 160GB @7200rpm you get bumped up for a 200GB @7200rpm. Awsome!

Paris

retrakker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:03:01 GMT

Sitting in a restaurant, enjoying a Quiche and wine. RER C lets the plate vibrate. Girls passing by are hot - hot as in smoking hot, pun implied. Cheese for desert. More wine. Yeah!

Komodo Edit

retrakker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:16:18 GMT

Komodo Edit 4.2 www.activestate.com

More and more in use on my Windows and Mac machines because I need a consistent view on both of them. Bit on the slow side and not as fancy as TextMate but it is getting there

Neuseeland wunderschoen

retrakker — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:47:09 GMT

Artikel im SPON

New Zealand Myth Busting

retrakker — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:34:45 GMT

A lot of my friends have a quite misty-eyed preconceptions of how living in New Zealand unfolds. I will try to write down some things I have experienced - this might or might not be

Myth #1:

All produce in NZ is fresh and you don't need to worry about anything.

Experience:

First off: it depends on various factors and this is the view from Christchurch. Fresh vegetable is very seasonal, which is a good thing. The downside is clear: you don't find any specialties from other countries. Also the variety is limited: Kumara, Pumpkin and Broccoli being the most commonly available ones. If you experience NZ lamb, Avocado or milk products you might think we are living in heaven here. Far from that! All decent produce seems to go into export and even in "upper-class" supermarkets you are left with the left-overs. For instance Avocados are cheap and they usually rot already in the shelf. Beyond that there are cheeses, fish varieties, nice meat cuts, sausages you will find for a few dollars in an Australian supermarket which are just not available here. As it turns out and being revealed by a recent TV program food standards regulations are basically non-existing in terms of food additives and artificial colors. It boils down to you as a consumer being highly alerted about what you buy but it is way better than the fear of a new food scandal from China as we experienced almost every week in HK.

Python/2

retrakker — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:36:06 GMT

Seems Bruce Eckle has the same fear of Python3k becoming more of a Python/2 or Python 2.9 as he puts it

www.artima.com

PITA 2.0

retrakker — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:58:05 GMT

Als Kommentar auf hongkong.neuerordner.de (Herr Krif ich bin glaub ich nicht blind aber ihre Captchas sind unueberwindbar :))

LAX im Maerz: noch schlimmer in Sachen anschnautzen: mein Rechner war ohne Saft nach dem Flug von NZ und liess sich nicht einschalten - auwei auwei - gut das ich einen Adapter dabei hatte.

FRA gabs auch bloede Fragen weil zweimal Tube mit gleichen Inhalt und zusammen ueber 100ml.

LH - im Boardmagazin (liest man ja wenn Rechner ohne Saft und der Overhead monitor eher psychadelic funk color device genannt werden koennte) haben die sich ja letztens fast schon entschuldigt. Der Plan ist halt die komplette Flotte in 2009 auszutauschen.

PITA

retrakker — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:53:59 GMT

This article was linking to a neat video - however as usual somebody somewhere has some problem with it.