Creativity

The TRIP is the mental projection of my digital self. Including all areas of digital work I have been involved with, including Music, video, photography...

All good web pages must have the collection of absolutely useless pictures. Designed for no purpose other than to consume kilobits. And hopefully show off some of my Photographic skills. Web design skills, and uses one php script to drive the whole index. Also see the Photography section of the Silicontrip Website.

The Creative section of the TRIP is my imagination trying to run free. I have a fascination with sexual, spiritual and meta physical abilities, and these stories show it.

Part of the images directory contains some of my digital artwork. These images have been created or enhanced by myself, with the help of the 1s and 0s machine.

Programming

Creativity even leads into more concrete things such as programming. I've written code or hacks for PS2 HDL_DUMP

Hacks for rescanning the SCSI bus under Mac OS X. Only works with Adaptec SCSI cards however.

Code for YUV video stream processing, This code extends code from the MJPEG tools. If you have difficulty compiling these contact me.

General

What pisses me off... I could call this a rant

I've been involved with Sprint Days at Winton Raceway. And other technical car stuff. But all I have are articles on the car I drive. Maybe more later. This is my new car.

These are some of the musical artists that I like.

Jyhad (Vampire) Card game quick reference guide.

Some collection of humour helpdesk issues, while working for an ISP.

My life.

30/Dec/2008

Sound Utilities

I've made a section of my website available to my Audio related coding. (Very similar to my lavtools video section) Check out the Lib sound utilities.

27/Dec/2008

Scanimation

For Christmas the children got a book called Gallop by Rufus Butler Seder. Which features animation by using a cover sheet of black vertical stripes. So I decided to do my own.

The process first requires printing a mask onto a transparency, then printing a single pixel stripe of each of the frames. I wrote some perl code to produce the mask image. And for my first animation did some manual masking in Photoshop.

Unfortunately my laser printer cannot put enough black toner onto the transperancy to totally block out the unwanted portions but the effect still looks reasonable.

If you want to try it for yourself, print out the following pictures at 72 dpi.

16/Dec/2008

dvd_rescue

I managed to restore a badly scratched DVD last night, with the help from some toothpaste and hacked up dd_restore.

I discovered that an old dvd of mine was skipping in places and MacTheRipper complained that the disk had been mastered with bad sectors. Of course this was not true, the disk was badly scratched and wouldn't read in places.

I began with a copy of dvdbackup, which I added logging to, to show how it was progressing, then modified it to recover when it encountered a bad sector. However each time I had polished the DVD with the toothpaste I had to begin the entire copy process again, dvdbackup doesn't support resume. I thought that this process was very similar to what dd_rescue does. Only wanting to re-read bad sectors after each polishing.

So I set about modifying the dd_rescue code to use libdvdread

DD_rescue is such a good harddisk salvage tool I thought I'd add it here: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Oh yeah, I'll make the dvd_rescue source available soon.

03/Dec/2008

Unknown LineID

I saw a bug in the train dot matrix in carriage display this morning.

As I was arriving at Ringwood, the friendly automated voice spoke "Now arriving at Ringwood" But did not say "change for lilydale services" The dot matrix display said this: "change for Unknown LineID [14] services"

Arriving at Camberwell I saw it say "change for Unknown LineID [12] services"