6/12/11
Games: PS2 games
Unfortunately, we have one of the last PS2 Slimline's to ever be produced, and it does not allow for any chipping or anything. If you have a recent PS2 SL, check your model number before you attempt to get it chipped!
Some good PS2 games: Spiderman 2, Matrix Path of Neo, GTA: Vice City. Psyvariar, Mobile Light Force, and the SEGA MegaDrive Collection wich has 20-25 retro games!
2/16/10
Request: Identify song
Can you help me identify this song? It's from "Nat Geo Wild HD UK pre-launch Promo 2009" Please respond! I need to get the sheets for this and arrange for guitar.
2/15/10
Art: ASCII torus
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Tech: My computer rig
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 64 6000+
PSU: Corsair 750
RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX 8500 RAM
GFX: 2x Sapphire Radeon 2600 HD (Crossfire)
HDD: 2x Samsung 160GB HD
Display: 2x NEC 1700NX LCD monitors
OS: Linux/WinXP
Case: A+
2/14/10
Music: Master of Puppets
Download (~800k zipped mp3)
Tab: Still loving you - Scorpions
Acoustic intro
Just heard it on the radio, and i wanna write it down before i forget this nice tune from memory
By E.F.
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For sale: Guitars!
Check out my guitars here!
I won't ship overseas so I guess the buyer has to be from Norway. Make a comment if you're interested.
I want NOK 1300 for each; they have new strings and was just serviced by a professional guitar tech in Notodden, Norway. (Yes, thats where the blues festival is)
They both have tremolo bars. If you buy both, you get a free softcase! You'll also get some free picks if you need! The guitar tech claimed that the Squire was better than the Morgan, but I beg to differ. At least the Morgan has better sound, the Squire might be easier to play for beginners.
The Squire is sold!
Tips: Guitar rig
It's 2010 and I got myself a couple of new guitars. One acoustic Yamaha and one electric guitar. Both used. Also, there's a few new tabs! So here's the list of my guitar rig:
Ltd. ESP F202This Korea-model F-202 has EMG-HZ mics,24 jumbo frets and a Floyd Rose licenced bridge. Sounds great, feels heavy and good but cost me around 600 bucks (4500 NOK)! I can't belive instruments are so expensive. Even the crappiest ones are expensive!
Effect gear, picks & stuff
I've got an original Hendrix CryBaby, an Ibanez Distortion box and a Flanger box hooked up too. For picks I prefer the green Dunlop .85mm ones. They give a good combo of bounce and bend on the strings. Here's my pick collection, wich is nothing special. I'm using .85mm green Dunlops at the moment. I started out on the red .5mm ones, then advanced to orange, then yellow and now green! The blue one is just too thick. You can also see my capo, the slide and Floyd Rose tuner wrench on top of the green picks. Oh yeah, and a chromatic tuner.
Yamaha
A lovely sounding guitar, got it for a discount because it had to be glued.
Morgan
My previous, and 3rd electric guitar, a Morgan 'Legend' series that cost me about $250 new. My first guitar was in the same price class, namely an Aria Pro. Belive me when I say that your next cheap guitar should be a Morgan. It's got the same quality as a $500+ guitar. It's body is made of nice and heavy woodwork, with a layer of dark-colored wood for fretboard. Don't know the tree type. It has good mics, keeps the tone and tuning and doesn't break after falling over a few times ! The other two sounds like pieces of plastic. (Which they are too I think)
Squire
I guess it's an OK guitar, I just couldn't get to know it.
And here's my wife's Fender bass:
I used to use Blue Steel .10 strings for a long time, they are really solid. Seems they don't sell them anymore around here, so now I use D'Adario. They used to break all the time when I had them before I discovered Blue Steel. Seems they fixed their quality now! They both sound OK, though. I had a cheap 40W Peavey amp that had really good sound, but it broke after I puked in it one very drunk night. Got a Vajia Music GF-30 now as an emergency amp, wich doesn't quite sound right in the low spectrum.
Announce: Typos
Coding: Graftal snowtree
This nice algorithm that I found in Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice inspired me to implement it. I it will generate a set of data that you can parse to construct a tree-like graphics structure. This algorithm is bases on a alphabet of 6 symbols:
The algorithm shall use those 6 symbols to mutate a starting-axiom into a full tree. These are the two simple rules of this sorta game-of-life:
To initialize the algorithm, you must choose a starting axiom. Following the rules indicates that 'A' is not a good choice, since that will only produce new 'A's. (A->AA). Therefore we choose 'B' wich will tranform into A(B)AA[B] and produce a standard pattern to generate the tree off. This is the produce string after just ONE recursion.
This is the string buffer after two runs. When implementing this algorithm, it is recommended to have overflow-safe stacks and buffers!. Now it is up to you to parse the tree and make the drawing happen. When parsing the tree after generating it, the 6 symbols have the current meaning: A and B(nodes) = continue to draw in current direction; [ and ) means rotate left; ] and ( means rotate right.
Basically you want two char[] buffers so as to render from buffer 1 to buffer 2 and from 2 to 1 in the next iteration. Remember that the buffer is filled up at a exponential rate. (In this picture, snowfall was also simulated). This code of mine implements it. (Never ask me about that code)