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| catalnglish 18.01.2006 |
| Looks like when there is a language that you don't really use, the time you start using it again it mixes with another secondary language (only if you speak three languages). And that happens when I try to speak catalan. Here I don't really speak catalan with noone so when I go back Barcelona I have to think a lot what to say until I found the catalan words, that could be an example of what my brain does: "No hi ha enough space in that field." So, you start the sentence in catalan, but when you don't find the next word, the english one come first and you finish the sentence in english. And mixing languages in sentences is nothing new, but is new to me the fact that I don't control it in this case "L'altre dia vaig anar al cinema i va ser una peli forsa dolenta and the people no paraba de push me when entraba." Weird, uh?! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 10:11 |
5 comments| xplsv.tv 2005 report 13.01.2006 |
 Looks like the site is going quite well, isn't it? I'm quite pleased with how is it going, and all the feedback the people is sending encourages me to keep it improving it daily. There are great features in the oven that I expect to release soon. Also, at some point we should spend one weekend cleaning the site's code and making it tableless. It's basicly being a great experience where I'm learning quite a lot! :') |
| posted by mr.doob at 11:12 |
| x74 / xplsv 13.01.2006 |
 After having this prod during 2 years unfinished in my computer mainly because the author of the music didn't answer the email I decided to at least make the concept/preview public. So I just submited to pouet today and I was totally shocked of the positive people's comments. I guess I'll have to finish it somehow. The main problem is that it's done with 3pxstudio and the 3D exporter only works with 3dMax4 or 5 I think. So I guess I'll have to finish it keeping the same objects. Let's see how it goes. By now.. enjoy the preview! |
| posted by trace at 00:42 |
| bye bye escena.org! 12.01.2006 |
| That's one of those frustrating posts, I guess.. Ok, as you may know escena.org has been serving the spanish demoscene for quite a lot of time now. The first site I know that was doing that was lobocom demoworld that was done by jcl, meanwhile, I felt that lobocom wasn't really working well, it was cool as demoscene information, but wasn't really a community platform. So I started the project spanish demoscene center. It was really basic, everything done in HTML by hand, every update was done by hand. At some point, an old scener (Mc_Tr) gave me a hand with some cg scripts for the people list and things like that. So, the portal was online for some months (Arroutada 7 period), and then throught demoscene-sp SiN, Real Ice, some others and I had a fight regarding the fact of having a website for our scene in our language. Real Ice already had something started and also had the domain escena.org registered, SiN was also doing what on the beginning was called spd2k (spanish demoscene center 2000 (ugly name, uh?) in collaboration with naif, and at some point we decided to join the projects in one. And some months later (Euskal 8) escena.org was released for first time. SiN was actually doing a great job with the site, moving the site, preparing interviews, but he just got quite angry as the people didn't really used it as he was expecting. So, since then everything started to go down and down, I was always there as admin, with sml and ccm. Also at some point I did some extra code for the site and event a forum. I atually designed the v2 (4 years after the first design), but because a couple of reasons I got really pissed off (mainly the way the scene people is) and stoped the project. However I was still moderating news, and doing a little bit of work for the site. Meanwhile sml was really doing a lot of content for the site, flash-quiz, mat adventures.. lots of stuff.. but we always were looking for more people to help us with the site. Even SiN at some point said that he needed someone to continue with it, that he just didn't feel like doing it. So, now. Today. escena.org is now a "Lunar and Planetary Real Estate", (in fact real ice just told me right now that the domain expired and we lost it). and.. spd.planet-d.net is giving again a 500 error as usual. and you know what?! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I WON'T FIX IT! |
| posted by trace at 16:54 |
| Windows Vista - Part 2 11.01.2006 |
 Ok, Emulin was a bit far but finally managed to give me the build 5270 of this new OS. I firstly tried to install it with a server version key by mistake. I took twice of longer, the final instalation was something like 7gbytes and the skin was the one of windows95 and there was no way to change it. Great! So, after a little bit of research I found out the mistake about the key I used and found a client version key. I have to say that they improved a lot the installer tho the progress bar is still not working. Now since the beginning you see the glass style thing with a decent resolution. So after 45min doing the installation this time I was able to start using the OS. I thought everything was going to be quite slow with that skin thing, but in fact, everything was quite fast and smooth, with a sublte animation when closing or minimizing the window, with the blur effect with the background and other windows. And also with that new posh thing for changing between windows you see in the top screen. Really nice visual improvement! I tried to install quicktime to be able to see the famous keynote from Apple's Jobs but it didn't work properly :'( Then I tried to watch any demo, I tried first Heaven 7 and worked properly and smooth. Then I tried fr-025 but unfortunatelly didn't work. So, looks like everything needs to be recompiled to run in this OS. I was going to try installing Trillian but was quite late then, it's still not using my wireless properly. If you want more Vista Build 5270 screenshots, check out this Paul Thurrott's gallery. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 11:38 |
| goldance'06 gig 09.01.2006 |
 The 1st of January of this new year xplsv.com had a gig at goldance'06 (cerdanyola, barcelona). It was suposed to be a pro club with professional people and all that. But since I arrived there I knew they weren't really professional and It was clear that I was not going to do anything on there as I knew they didn't have a projector. In fact, they were asking if WE had a projector. That scene is always going to be the same.. I think I'll start looking around London to offer my visuals ;) Well, I'm don't regret anything. It was a chance to catch up with Alex Martin and also meet Tony Rox. And also to do some extra visuals with neon2 and give some more ideas to shine for the tool. So, click here to check out the visuals I produced for that |
| posted by trace at 23:06 |
| Windows Vista - Part 1 09.01.2006 |
| As looks like ox86 was not really moving enough to have something usable in a near future I decided this weekend to give a try to Windows Vista as my friend Emulin just gave me a copy of the build 5231. So, the installation was really loong, the progress bar was not working properly but somehow I had the patience and after 45min or so, the new OS was installed. It looked quite nice and a lot of things were designed UI with another concept. Browsing my computer was really different. Some modules crashed some times and restarted again, atleast now says "I crashed and I'll restart". There were some very cool bits like the list mode for the windows (you know.. Thumbnail, Details..), were you can mix styles using a bar, I mean is not any more one option or another, you can drag the bar to select a mix between two styles, it looked quite nice. And also they have now super big icons as osx does. Internet Explorer 7 had all the TAB system totally ripped from Firefox and Opera, same mouse buttons to do everything. But hey! better than IE6! Unfortunatelly, there were no working drivers (atleast for that build) for my ATI x300, so I wasn't able to see the glass transparency effect and some other things (I guess mainly Avalon). My friend Emulin told me he is going to give me a copy of the build 5270 which says is much better. I'll keep you up to date ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 15:21 |
| Google Pack 07.01.2006 |
| Google just released at CES an installer of a selection of good programs which they called Google Pack. The selection is cool, it's basicly all the programs I usually use but inj the other hand I don't understand the fact of having Google Talk! and Trillian separated, it just looks messy, and also instead of Norton Antivirus I would better put AVG. The screensaver looks cool (quite similar to my phodoob thing), but I hate to have the logo on the top right-corner. I'll like to see if Google adds more software to the pack tho. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 11:48 |
| DVD is dead 06.01.2006 |
| Some weeks after my kind of complain about the unsincronized evolution between video compression and datadisk capabilities looks like everything is starting to move (at least I didn't read anything about it before). Like this new there are a lot more talking (mainly about CES) about HD-DVD as well. I'm really looking forward to see those 50GB disks! :') But that means, I will have to change my laptop soon again as it doesn't have a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray reader :'( |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 06:44 |
| Ochre 03.01.2006 |
| Once again last.fm is discovering me a great one. This time his name is Ochre and you can download quite a lot of MP3 for free! http://www.ochremusic.com/ (to start listening his music right now click this link :D) Hope you like it as much as I do. |
| posted by r08028 at 19:15 |
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