UPDATE 2019: the entire website www.studeren.uva.nl has been taken down, so also the interview is nowhere to be found.
I got interviewed for the University of Amsterdam. The interview has been published on the website for potential new students of the university.
It is now possible to comment on news items! Soon I’ll also add backlinks from software and articles to relevant news items, so you can easily find the comments or post your own.
The automatically generated web-based admin of Django made me switch :) Django is easy to work with, is built in a very modular, structured way, which really appealed to me. It took me only a couple of hours to convert my website to its template/engine structure.
28 Jun 2006
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I finally finished my study! In two weeks, I’ll oficially be a Bachelor of Computer Science! It’s really weird to be done studying, since I’ve done that for nearly all my life.
27 Jun 2006
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Science Park Amsterdam organized a contest for new ideas. We joined the competition with my graduation project Sadako, and won first price! Unfortunately, I can’t go into detail about Sadako, since that would get in the way of obtaining the patent ;-)
23 Jun 2006
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UPDATE 2019: DVDInfo is offline. For converting DVDs and Blu-ray disks to an open format I would suggest MakeMKV.
Ever wanted to rip a DVD with Mencoder? You would then need to find the right title number, the right subtitle track and and audio channel ID.
12 Jun 2006
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UPDATE 2019: Unfortunately the video has been taken down.
Internet pioneer, hacker and man with a good vision on the future. He was on Dutch television on the 24th of may.
I’ve released a new version of Multiblend! Version 1.3 has the following improvements over the previous version:
Added possibility to select the scene to render. Added nice level to the config possibilities.
29 May 2006
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UPDATE 2019: All of the below is offline. However, IMDB themselves have similar functionality.
Something I’ve always missed in the Internet Movie Database is the ability to compare two movies. Sometimes I forget an actor’s name, but I do know at least two movies he or she is in.
28 May 2006
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I keep forgetting this, so I’ll put it here for everyone (including me) to see:
mencoder dvd:// -o movie.avi \ -oac mp3lame \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vqmax=10:lmax=10:keyint=130:vpass=1:turbo \ -sid 3 -aid 130 \ -vf scale=720:405,expand=720:576:0:25:1 \ -spuaa 4 For the second pass, change vpass=1:turbo to vpass=2.
23 May 2006
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