Monthly Archives: April 2002

back in rdg

finished essay and handed it in.

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teaser

i might have an idea for the wavelet-image compression to make it a lot faster. maybe… we’ll see.

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packing = hate

starting packing my things up. we’re leaving tomorrow morning (via hoek van holland).

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Precomputed Radiance Transfer

http://research.microsoft.com/~ppsloan/ has a very good paper on lighting (and (self-)shadowing) called “Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic, Low-Frequency Lighting Environments”. very interesting. dariusz?

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Competing for Annoyance

strato (my web-hoster) is now competing w/ creative about who annoys me most: for anyone that’s interested, here’s proof that it is most likely a creative-driver-bug occuring on my new & shiny tyan tiger mpx w/ 2 * athlon 1800+.

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not fixed

update: creative soundblaster audigy still (sometimes) crashes in winamp (when releasing the wave-out device. got a stack-trace & everything, but i doubt the support will listen). i’d even sign an NDA, if they’d sent me the source so that i … Continue reading

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played “grandia 2″

lots of it, in fact. excellent game. classical console rpg with a good (!) fighting system, where whacking buttons at lightning speed is of no importance. graphics are not impressive, but get a lot better later on. nice music. but … Continue reading

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uncooperative acpi

i’d still love to use hibernate. don’t know where the problem is… BootVis doesn’t write its log, /BOOTLOG only logs on a regular start-up (not a hibernate-resume). i’m stuck. even when i use all signed drivers (highpoint for adaptec 1200a, … Continue reading

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symptomatic success

with the new winamp (2.79) the problem does not seem to occur anymore (new wave-out plug-in). that doesn’t mean it’s not there, creative… and why can’t you fix problems if they “only” occur in winamp? [edit: problem still there.]

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valued customer

creative support says if soundblaster audigy wave-out crashes in winamp, i should just switch to direct-sound. _this_ is the sort of problem fixing i like. NOT!

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ONE exception

got the controller on friday, installed it. system works fine w/ ONE exception: i often get a stupid BAD_POOL_CALLER (freeing memory twice) blue-screen from the soundblaster audigy driver when winamp reinitialises the WAVE-out (probably when it is closed and the … Continue reading

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quick replacement

maxtor replacement drive arrived (sent the RMA web-form on saturday night). now just waiting for the adaptec 1200a to show up… then it’s the familiar OS reinstall (did that about 6 times over the weekend due to controller-troubles, hard-disk failing, … Continue reading

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