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Pong

For the Utrecht University I made a short animation called Pong. together with two fellow students. We used Blender to add models to the MoCap data we recorded, and rendered with Blender + Multiblend.

Bl3nder at Uitmarkt

Bl3nder | Cyril Directie De Uitmarkt is the opening of the cultural season in Amsterdam. We went to see Bl3nder, and they totally rocked! It was the first time I saw Def P (the world’s best rapper) live, and it was everything I hoped for :) Their drummer was absolutely amazing!

Pure-Python RSA module version 1.2 released under EUPL

By popular demand, we’ve re-licensed our pure-Python RSA module under the European Union Public Licence ( EUPL). This new licence is the first open source license to be released by an international governing body.

Selecting NVidia screens on commandline

NVidia has a nice program to manage display devices like monitors, TVs etc. I’ve used this often to play movies on my PC and watch them on our big wide screen LCD TV.

RSA version 1.1 released

A pure Python implementation of the RSA cryptographic protocol. It contains functions for encryption, decryption, signing, verification, and the generation of keys and prime numbers. The recursive nature of RSA version 1.

Python vs. Java

One of the major reasons my company prefers Java over Python, is Java’s static type declarations (and all the benefits that follow). If only Python had that, my life would be so much nicer.

Local transparent HTTP proxy with Squid

Setting up Squid as a transparent HTTP proxy has been discussed plenty of times. All of these examples and blogs I’ve read on the subject assume that you run Squid on your network gateway.

ValueError & Mercurial

I’ve been playing with Mercurial’s hooks lately. After I updated to the latest version (0.9.5) and toying a bit more with the hooks, I got this error after a hg push:

New look

I’ve updated the look of this site. Unfortunately for Microsoft Internet Explorer users, I couldn’t get the new look to work in that browser. Its CSS support is just too limited.

PVR support in MPlayer

When toying around with mplayer and my Hauppauge PVR350, I got the following error when trying to play something: [pvr] failed with errno 22 when reading 2048 bytes [pvr] read 0 bytes The error kept repeating.