eric’s extremeboredom

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I came across the Nintendo ON video – a video about an “upcoming” VR product from Nintendo. While the video is (obviously) not from nintendo and was actually created by a student in his spare time, it was extremely well done and very fun to watch. Google Video Link The video also has a very [...]

You can now get a 3D view of the SeattleWireless network using Google Earth! Assuming you have it installed, just click the link at the bottom of the map. Thank you Google (Keyhole) for providing documentation on how to create feeds.

This morning at 8am a group of people (I was unfortunetly not able to make it) from the SeattleWireless project met with the climbers we hired (thanks to last month’s fundraiser) to install an 802.11 antenna 150 ft. up a radio tower that is located on top of a large hill in the middle of [...]

I was tired of the jabber.org server going down every 20 minutes so I decided I needed to switch to a new jabber server. Rather than just going with my google account like a lot of people have been doing lately, I figured that since I was going through the trouble of switching IDs anyway, [...]

Yesterday on IRC someone asked how they could create a site like http://docs.gotmono.net/ containing documentation for their project, so I spent a little bit of time making it really easy. $ svn co https://svn.extremeboredom.net/Monique/trunk ./Monique cd Monique ./autogen.sh make make run (WARNING! I have NOT tested “make install” so I don’t recomend trying it. I [...]

Happy new year everyone. Completely unreated, this video is *hilarious*.

Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely [...]

An interesting read: http://fuckchristmas.org/ (Courtesy Miguel). My opinion: I think that if someone wants to say “Merry Christmas” then they should be able to, just as I think people should be able to say “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Hanukkah” (or whatever) if that is what they want to say. I don’t think anyone can disagree [...]

In movies, “hackers” usually end up having to perform long drawn-out operations to obtain information about a target. Back in the real world, I am thinking now interesting it would be if they actually had to do that much work… There was a lady sitting in front of me on the bus this morning making [...]