There is something really fucking cool about making demos and there is something even more cool about making the hardware it runs on as well.
I should point out that I came across this video when reading Make Magazines RSS Feed.
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Microcontroller Demo Scene
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Buying Photoshop is more expensive then downloading it… no really
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008I've been using GIMP for image editing but to be honest it's just not cutting it especially when it comes to EPS files. I love GIMP and I respect all the hard work people have put in to it. I also respect all the hard work people have put in to Photoshop.
I don't need the box or manuals and I want photoshop now (I don't want to have to 'think' about the money I'm spending).. Brilliant! they have a download option. But hang on..
wtf. It's more expensive to DOWNLOAD Photoshop CS3 then it is for someone somewhere to pop photoshop in another cardboard box and post 2Kg of paper and DVD I will NEVER look at. I've been looking at the two screen grabs and I just can't believe it!
Total Guitar Magazine: Decryption Error
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Like most metalheads I own a guitar I can't play. I also subscribe to Total Guitar Magazine. This month I noticed that I couldn't decrypt the special 'VIP Area' of the CD.
Basically If I was using a PPC Mac I would be able to decrypt the data. It seems they have included the PPC only shared library for blowfish. Hmm. Well as it happens I have a copy of the x86 library that I can use to decrypt the data.
If you are suffering from this problem:
- Download the library here.
- Look inside any OSX app by right clicking (or CTRL clicking) on the application icon and selecting 'Show Package Contents'
- Now navigate down to
Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/Crypto/Cipher/
- Copy the Blowfish.so into the Cipher Folder, there should be one there already so you'll be asked if you want to replace the existing one
You should be able to run the decryptor.app now and get access to your MP3s.
Whoever makes this application should be able to make the decryption library Universal so lets hope they do that in the future.