By epb on December 20, 2009
Gah! I finaly got my Steam-purchased copy of BioShock to work. If you’re using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and use a Realtek High-Definition Audio device and Bioshock crashes at startup: update your driver to the latest version from Realtek’s site. Additionally, you may or may not need to enable the ‘stereo mix’ recording device [...]
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By epb on November 17, 2009
Yeah, I could probably file this one under “overkill.” I’ve managed to set up a virtual machine running Danbooru so that I may finally get my personal photo collection organized AND be able to do so regardless of operating system I choose to boot. The traditional hierarchial manner of organizing files is a complete waste [...]
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By epb on November 4, 2009
Alrighty, I finally tracked down a link to v.06 of the Touhou lossless music collection so there should be an update once I get off my lazy hind-quarters and load all the cuesheets from it into the database. (Probably the end of the month) Update: A link to the DB can be found here: http://touhoumusic.rrbits.com/
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By epb on October 14, 2009
I am exceedingly lazy, so I made a one-liner random password generator. How it works: Creates an md5 from a random string, packs this into binary representation, base64 encodes that, strips some of the characters used by base64 (most importantly the = that are typically at the end), and then limits it to 8 characters. [...]
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By epb on September 17, 2009
I’ve created a new project, which I’ve dubbed the touhou music database. Well, it doesn’t actually contain the raw MP3 files or anything, however. I collected the track listings of over 1200 touhou music/remix albums and entered them into a database. Given the name of a song, you can find what albums it can be [...]
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By epb on August 29, 2009
Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been working on a pretty large project that has eaten much of my time. Posting should be a little more regular in a couple of weeks, and I should plop in some new stuff soon.
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By epb on August 2, 2009
You can use Yahoo Pipes to create an aggregated RSS feed from a CSV file you maintain. It’s fairly easy too, which is awesome. For those who are not familiar with Yahoo Pipes, it’s a beta product by Yahoo that makes it easy to create simple mashups of content available on the Internet, read more [...]
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By epb on July 19, 2009
Answering a question that was posed at work regarding RSS feeds and Yahoo Pipes. Q: How can I make an aggregated RSS feed in Pipes? A: If you have a set of RSS feeds you’d like to include in an aggregated feed, simply drag the fetch feed module into the workspace and click the addition [...]
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By epb on July 2, 2009
Occasionally, you’ll have a project where one of the last minute ideas is to add a manageable list of links to a webpage or series of webpages. Nothing fancy, just a list of links that can be plopped into a layout. Well, this little project allows you to quickly set up a web-based administration for [...]
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