Di - Dezember 2, 2003
Last static entry
You know the last couple of days I felt lonely. I
could not edit my Blog, as the powerbook with the iBlog software was broken. I
figured I move the stuff to my G5 and somehow this did not work. Since I moved
to a new webservice provider I decided to try out a dynamic Blog. So I installed
moveable type and all runs fine. I moved this whole site over there and will
continue blogging over there (with a new style). So this is my LAST ENTRY HERE
on the static iBlog. I hope you all follow me over there and I apologize for the
quietness the last days. I have already some new entries from today and
yesterday over there and everything that was here is there as well. So have a
look at:
http://www.prototypen.com/blog/falk/
Its still a little rough around the edges but expect some updates there.
http://www.prototypen.com/blog/falk/
Its still a little rough around the edges but expect some updates there.
Posted at 11:51 Uhr Read More
Di - November 11, 2003
Discussion the OSX for Realtime Performance on ArsTechnica
There is a discussion going on about my
document in the Arstechnica.com forum.
I was quite surprised to see my dokument discussed on arstechnica.com , my absolute favorite tech
site on the net. So I was quite sad that all that is there is bashing and no
constructive criticism. I do need feedback for this document as I want to
advance this further and the more technical advanced people give me more scoop
on what is going on inside this system and where we could get some more juice
out of it.
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=6330943495&r=8510923595#8510923595
as for some of the objections raised in the thread until now:
the font: This is not a GOTHIK font it is a Fraktur Font. and firstly I am an artist if I want to put out a dokument with a fraktur its my thing you can just copy paste the text and give it any font you like. Secondly I explained why I used this and I have emails sitting here telling me that this works quite well. Up to 50 years ago ALL written word was in this style so it must be readable don´t ya think? maybe your reading has degenerated into something that is not worth called reading? maybe you do not care for detail anymore?
the chmod 7777: There was no other way to make this script run on a friends computer as he run into permission problems.
apache is not using resources: that might be, but I tried to slim it down as much as I could, WITH EVERYTHING removed that MIGHT be causing trouble making the bootprocess slower etc. Apache I do not need in a realtime environment.
there might be problem with other stuff I removed: If you would have read the document I said explicitly: This system is only there for running this single Application. If you plan to do other stuff you will run into problems sooner or later. I know that deleting the cron jobs is not a smart thing to do on a heavy used system. I personally have seen the cron jobs kick in the middle of the night when I was standing in fron of 8000 people and this slowed down my computer. there was no way I could have stopped them manually. This document is for the lesser computer literate and I have a hard time to explain how to move the cron jobs to a time when there is no chance you have a performance. Besides I can never tell when I have a performance, sometimes I do gig during the day for a presentation or during the week during a festival or on sunday to monday night. So for me deleting the cron jobs was a good way to get around this problem. I try to eliminate ALL disk access from the system and cron jobs surely have diskactivity.
I don´t believe the 20% performance increase: Have you tried it? I did not believe it myself. I do have two system running side by side and I can clearly see this difference... Maybe I really need to do benchmarking thing. I hate benchmarks they are so far out of reach in a working environment. I have top and top tells me that I have up to 22% processing time free when running VDMXX under certain circumstances and under the same circumstances I have no processor free (0%) when running it under the non optimized system.
So if you have constructive criticism I like to hear it. Bashing is not in place except if you have something better to offer which then I would love to hear.
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=6330943495&r=8510923595#8510923595
as for some of the objections raised in the thread until now:
the font: This is not a GOTHIK font it is a Fraktur Font. and firstly I am an artist if I want to put out a dokument with a fraktur its my thing you can just copy paste the text and give it any font you like. Secondly I explained why I used this and I have emails sitting here telling me that this works quite well. Up to 50 years ago ALL written word was in this style so it must be readable don´t ya think? maybe your reading has degenerated into something that is not worth called reading? maybe you do not care for detail anymore?
the chmod 7777: There was no other way to make this script run on a friends computer as he run into permission problems.
apache is not using resources: that might be, but I tried to slim it down as much as I could, WITH EVERYTHING removed that MIGHT be causing trouble making the bootprocess slower etc. Apache I do not need in a realtime environment.
there might be problem with other stuff I removed: If you would have read the document I said explicitly: This system is only there for running this single Application. If you plan to do other stuff you will run into problems sooner or later. I know that deleting the cron jobs is not a smart thing to do on a heavy used system. I personally have seen the cron jobs kick in the middle of the night when I was standing in fron of 8000 people and this slowed down my computer. there was no way I could have stopped them manually. This document is for the lesser computer literate and I have a hard time to explain how to move the cron jobs to a time when there is no chance you have a performance. Besides I can never tell when I have a performance, sometimes I do gig during the day for a presentation or during the week during a festival or on sunday to monday night. So for me deleting the cron jobs was a good way to get around this problem. I try to eliminate ALL disk access from the system and cron jobs surely have diskactivity.
I don´t believe the 20% performance increase: Have you tried it? I did not believe it myself. I do have two system running side by side and I can clearly see this difference... Maybe I really need to do benchmarking thing. I hate benchmarks they are so far out of reach in a working environment. I have top and top tells me that I have up to 22% processing time free when running VDMXX under certain circumstances and under the same circumstances I have no processor free (0%) when running it under the non optimized system.
So if you have constructive criticism I like to hear it. Bashing is not in place except if you have something better to offer which then I would love to hear.
Posted at 11:49 Uhr Read More
Mo - November 10, 2003
Adding Comment Function and Statistic
Static Blog you thought? not anymore... give
me feedback :)
I am very happy to report that I managed to add
feedback function through HaloScans.com free comment service. So if you
want to share a thought with me you can now do so directly in my Blog.
I also added a Statistic Service to the Blog to see how well it is recieved out there. This is provided by the free extremetracking.com service. There might be more functions in the near future that I will add, if I have the time to do so.
I also added a Statistic Service to the Blog to see how well it is recieved out there. This is provided by the free extremetracking.com service. There might be more functions in the near future that I will add, if I have the time to do so.
Posted at 11:54 Uhr Read More
Visible at Night through Light
Luminex introduces Light Emitting
Fibre
The coolest thing on earth today have to be light
emitting clothes. No not the glow in the dark style paint of the early 90´s
I am talking about real light emission. Apparently the fibre can be woven into
normal cloth and then used for making about everything you can do with cloth.
Pants, sweater, skirts, bags or whatever you can think of. Cool stuff that will
surely be overused not before to long me
thinks.
http://www.luminex.it/
http://www.luminex.it/
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So - November 9, 2003
The Matrix goes online ---- 2004
apparently the Triology was only a
commercial for an upcoming online game!?
What do you do when you have no budget but a great
plan for an online game? You make a good Triology before the game start and make
the audience pay for the advertisement and the game development.
What first started out with a glorious concept and story soon became only a money making machine. I am talking about the Matrix. I did not see the third part of the Triology yet but from what I heard it is even more out of touch with the original story then the second one and this was so bad that it was almost unbelievable. They made a movie that could have changed the way we think about the future but it all ended up in the usual kungfu fast cut action we all have seen so often over the last year (with KillBill as a highlight far better then Matrix). They almost got me back with the Animatrix which I thought was brilliant, but the most brilliant parts of this where the ones that where not directed by the brothers especially the last one that really had me twisting my brain again.
Do not get me wrong. I love the 3d animations and the Action but I loved much more the foundation: the storyline. And this almost ceased to exist in the second part already. Action had taken over 80% of the movie. Now that they have finished off the Triology they want to milk the cow even more and putting up a PC ONLY online role playing game for the masses. And again the focus is on action rather then story. The Wachowski brothers are in charge of the game play but seeing the degeneration of their thoughts it will propably end as another end of the world game with lots of killing shooting and jumping. The games "story"line will be put after the Revolution and you are about to save the earth again. Great. Lets move on to something interesting.
http://thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/
What first started out with a glorious concept and story soon became only a money making machine. I am talking about the Matrix. I did not see the third part of the Triology yet but from what I heard it is even more out of touch with the original story then the second one and this was so bad that it was almost unbelievable. They made a movie that could have changed the way we think about the future but it all ended up in the usual kungfu fast cut action we all have seen so often over the last year (with KillBill as a highlight far better then Matrix). They almost got me back with the Animatrix which I thought was brilliant, but the most brilliant parts of this where the ones that where not directed by the brothers especially the last one that really had me twisting my brain again.
Do not get me wrong. I love the 3d animations and the Action but I loved much more the foundation: the storyline. And this almost ceased to exist in the second part already. Action had taken over 80% of the movie. Now that they have finished off the Triology they want to milk the cow even more and putting up a PC ONLY online role playing game for the masses. And again the focus is on action rather then story. The Wachowski brothers are in charge of the game play but seeing the degeneration of their thoughts it will propably end as another end of the world game with lots of killing shooting and jumping. The games "story"line will be put after the Revolution and you are about to save the earth again. Great. Lets move on to something interesting.
http://thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/
Posted at 07:17 Uhr Read More
Sa
- November 8, 2003
Miss Digital World
A contest to find the most beautiful DIGITAL
girl in the world
Just in time Ars Technica is presenting a piece on an
Italian contest for the digital beauties
whose mother is Lara Croft. Its a contest that is open to any fully digital girl
but the models are not allowed to enter the contest if they have shown up in any
pr0n movie or still or if they have spoken out in a polical context (censoring
in Italy yadayada). So what is the case with digital womans nowadays will they
replace the real ones for the geeks in time before the geeks become extinct?
Will they be able to have children? What about cloning them and adjusting them
for your personal taste? Will they be open source to enhance them with new
kernels? Will RealLife Models have a chance to pose on Posters and will Actors
go distinct soon with the digitial creatures that seem to be almost perfect and
exactly what a human needs. What will the perception of our real life beauties
be? The advent of Digital Beings in our "Real Life" will for sure cause great
concerns. What is different from a Britney Spears and one of Renes HyperModels ? Brintey is real and
altered to be surreal and the Hypermodels are surreal altered to be real. They
meet in the middle and none is better then the other to give the unaltered
versions in our life something to look after. They all want to be perfect. Hey
we all want to be perfect but some have settled with what they are. Its a
question of our time and a glimpse in the future. Some woman would do EVERYTHING
to look like the Bittis (That is what I call the Digitial Creations). Now most
of the persons surrounding me do not believe that we will eventually "emerge"
into machine. My thought is that this is the path of evolution and we are not
far from it and maybe some of the girls will lead this evolutions as first fully
perfect cyborgs inside our society - I would even go so far to say that current
"altered" girls are already a form of bio-chemical-cyborgs. Who says that
cyborgs need to incorporate steel and wires. Maybe silicon is already a form in
this direction? The next thing maybe a color adjustable iris? Or what about self
building muscles that also absorb fat cells? All bio altering but maybe those
muscles or controlled by a little chip implant. I could go on should I? Maybe
this chip is tunable from the outside. Oh you still think its not a cyborg?
What has this to do with the contest you may ask? Well I guess that in the very very near future our Entertainment Industry will be swamped with Bittis. There is no weight problem no aging noa attitude and no salary to pay. Its a convenient way for the producers to get retro bands for real cheap. Right now they are not up to the task to make them as real as to be believed but this will go away very very soon and the contest is a first sign of this as they apparently have become close enough that the distinction between real and virtual (surreal) is fading.
At one time then maybe the real life girls/boys that want to be superstars alter themself to play in the same "perfection" level as the Bittis and with this point reached there is a whole economy behind the evolutionary transformation of the human race. If our current economic model will not change in the near future this will one route that some might go.
The most interesting thing that I have not mentioned is that the Bittis want to get more real (right now its their creators who want to make them more real but I guess if they were able to think they would be on the same track) by adding imperfections. They probably at one point will want to walk around next to you and me or be on stage and be perceived as real adding to the coming emergence of the two worlds.
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1068240062.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3207462.stm
http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_article/_a000010-000918.htm
What has this to do with the contest you may ask? Well I guess that in the very very near future our Entertainment Industry will be swamped with Bittis. There is no weight problem no aging noa attitude and no salary to pay. Its a convenient way for the producers to get retro bands for real cheap. Right now they are not up to the task to make them as real as to be believed but this will go away very very soon and the contest is a first sign of this as they apparently have become close enough that the distinction between real and virtual (surreal) is fading.
At one time then maybe the real life girls/boys that want to be superstars alter themself to play in the same "perfection" level as the Bittis and with this point reached there is a whole economy behind the evolutionary transformation of the human race. If our current economic model will not change in the near future this will one route that some might go.
The most interesting thing that I have not mentioned is that the Bittis want to get more real (right now its their creators who want to make them more real but I guess if they were able to think they would be on the same track) by adding imperfections. They probably at one point will want to walk around next to you and me or be on stage and be perceived as real adding to the coming emergence of the two worlds.
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1068240062.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3207462.stm
http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_article/_a000010-000918.htm
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Is it real or rendered? Beans Magic 3D renderings
Via
TimPritloves Weblog comes the a question if we are up to the
task of creating real looking Human Characters out of 3d programs.
With the advent of Radiosity (reflection of light of non mirroring surfaces -
for example put a red wooden ball on a white piece of paper and the white piece
of paper will shine red around the ball) there was a huge jump of perceived
reality in 3D animations. Todays all major 3D rendering application have an
option to render in Radiosity mode so with a huge render time penalty that makes
this almost not feasible for movie production yet. For stills nonetheless this
rendering mode together with HDR(i) (high definition range imaging and
lightning) has enabled some great 3D artist to make outstanding picture that
come very close to reality. Tim who is not a graphic expert is already asking
the question if one of the pictures on BeansMagic Website is real or not. As a
close look has revealed it is of course not real. There are still problems with
the Radiosity beeing to strong also there are still not 100% perfect shaders for
skin that makes the skin look to flat (translucency in our skin is not a solved
mystery yet). Also the material of her headphones is just to perfect. There
should be subconscious scratches or imperfects (slight bumps) to make it look
more real. Overall so this is a ultra lovely picture pointing in the right
direction and with the new renderers on the market (brazil) we will see more and
more of pics in this quality. Now they have to develop some better animation
technics to also make the facial movements with its 1000 muscles more real as
moving all this with hand is a pain and has failed in about every movie that I
have seen that utilizes 3d characters that wanted to mimic real persons.
Posted at 11:16 Uhr Read More
Nanowire Displays
After Polymer and E-Paper Displays goes the
way of the newest hype on the block - all things Nano
A Harvard Uni team has come up with a way to put
premade nanowire films onto plastic sheets or glas at room temperatures. This
tech has the potential to make flexible HIGHresolution displays. According to a
story on /. (slashdot.org) this might be even used to produced contact lenses
with displays on them. Imagine a club where you get handed out contact lenses on
entrance and all the visuals come up right in the eyes of the punters. For the
near future I would love to see this technology to be used to produce 1200 dpi
reusable displays making the need for print absolute. Get the full
scope:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/07/130238.shtml?tid=137&tid=196
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/acs-fb110603.php
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/07.html
nanowires (picture from: Nanosys Inc.)
(picture: NanoLetters)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/07/130238.shtml?tid=137&tid=196
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/acs-fb110603.php
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/07.html
nanowires (picture from: Nanosys Inc.)
(picture: NanoLetters)
Posted at 10:34 Uhr Read More
Computer Control with Brain Implant
Cyberkinetics Inc. asks for permission to
test a brain computer interface for paralyzed people
The Boston Globe via way of Slashdot is reporting
that Cyberkinetics Inc. wants to test a brain implant that would enable
paralyzed people to control computer directly with their brain. The talk is
about controling cursors on the screen or play video games or even moves their
limbs again - all through the same interface. Neuron to Computer Interfaces
(NCI) first started to surface 3 years ago with a self experiment of a crazy
scientist and have made great steps towards usability since then. Cyborgs
anyone?
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/biotechnology/articles/2003/11/06/approval_sought_to_test_brain_implant/
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/07/1756256.shtml?tid=134
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/biotechnology/articles/2003/11/06/approval_sought_to_test_brain_implant/
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/07/1756256.shtml?tid=134
Posted at 09:42 Uhr Read More
Do - November 6, 2003
Wavelan in Belize part II
more photos
As you all already know I am observing the wavelan
net in Hopkins/Belize that my friend 5T3PH4N and oli try to install there. They
have send over some more cool
pictures.
the access point antenna
the sky dsl uplink
the access point antenna
the sky dsl uplink
Posted at 03:51 Uhr Read More
Bluejacking
is bluejacking really a new form of
hackerdom?
The newest hype around the block is bluejacking.
Basically you send a contact to a phone nearby with the name of the contact
being the message you want to transmit. All this works without the receivers end
ever giving you a password or their number and its free. The only real
prerequisite is that the receiver has bluetooth turned on. So when you are in a
train or waiting for a bus and that hot chick nearby makes the SMS craze then
you might be able to send her an anonymous text telling her she should get her
nose down (or the such). Pretty lame to be called a hack but cool anyways
:)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3237755.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3237755.stm
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Mi - November 5, 2003
RoboDrive LA - LasVegas
106 teams take the challange of unmanned
robotic vehicles driving from LA to LasVegas without
HumanInterception
If you thought robotics are a thing of the future I
have to tell you the future has already started. The DARPA (Defense Advance
Research Project Agency) has called for the yearly event and this time they have
a record of participants
from zdnet:
"DARPA will award $1 million to the team of inventors that comes up with a robotic car that can drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on an off-road course in 10 hours. DARPA, ideally, will then be able to cull ideas tried in the race for its own purposes."
The drive will go through mud, sand, dunes, mountains and barbed wire and only those will win who complete the whole race without any human interference. Why does this remind me of the motorcycle race in "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas "? Maybe I should be a reporter on this :P
Please relieve human kind from driving.
from zdnet:
"DARPA will award $1 million to the team of inventors that comes up with a robotic car that can drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on an off-road course in 10 hours. DARPA, ideally, will then be able to cull ideas tried in the race for its own purposes."
The drive will go through mud, sand, dunes, mountains and barbed wire and only those will win who complete the whole race without any human interference. Why does this remind me of the motorcycle race in "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas "? Maybe I should be a reporter on this :P
Please relieve human kind from driving.
Posted at 11:50 Uhr Read More
WaveLan in Belize
You have a helping hand? ;)
5T3PH4N and his brother Oli try to install a wavelan
in Hopkins/
Belize . Oli runs the Olis Surfomat surf school there. They have a
SkyDSL uplink to some Texan ISP with 1,5 Mbit. They want to make the network
available to the villagers as well. If you have a hand to spare to hold the
antenna or have any other usefull information on how install a wavelan net in
the jungle please contact them
Oli@windsurfing-belize.com
5T3PH4N holding the antenna :)
Oli@windsurfing-belize.com
5T3PH4N holding the antenna :)
Posted at 01:05 Uhr Read More
Di - November 4, 2003
Deep from the proto.lab - Optimizing OSX 10.3 for RealTime Performance
or how to make the BigBlackKitty
run
Deep from inside our green laboratory comes this
first release of dirty knowledge. It puts some fire under the BigBlackKitty released by Apple Computer Inc.
two weeks ago. It is intended for those who crave for the last bit of
performance and can live without gadgets and juices of this OS. It disables all
services leaving only those running that are important to Realtime AudioVisual
Performance (and number crunching). In preliminary tests I have seen an
performance increase up to 20%. Talk about modern multithreaded operating system
:/ The startup time is under 5 seconds after the kernel loaded. And before you
complain NO I WILL NOT CHANGE THE FONT of the document. IT IS THERE ON PURPOSE
explained in chapter one line one! Please submit it any additional setups. Any
information regarding your (not)running systems is really needed as there was no
outside lab testing and I would like to add a list of supported systems. I hope
you enjoy this document.
OptimizingOSX103Realtimev2.pdf
Update: I forgot to put the appendixes in. If you already downloaded please get version 2 as there are some additions to security and the RamDisk that might be of interest to you.
OptimizingOSX103Realtimev2.pdf
Update: I forgot to put the appendixes in. If you already downloaded please get version 2 as there are some additions to security and the RamDisk that might be of interest to you.
Posted at 06:27 Uhr Read More
Mo - November 3, 2003
AVIT Uk Brighton Photos
There are some insightfull photos from AVIT
Uk available at the avit.info site
if you want to get a visual scope on AVIT Uk 2003
you can head over to the avit.info site to get some cool, funny, lovely photos.
http://www.avit.info/media/gallery/AVIT-UK03
This photo shows fRED (the redghost on the left side) and me
performing with 5T3PH4N aka mo-greens at the Brighton TikiRiks on saturday night.
Thanks to Johnny DeKam from www.vidvox.net for shooting and forwarding this to us.
This photo shows fRED (the redghost on the left side) and me
performing with 5T3PH4N aka mo-greens at the Brighton TikiRiks on saturday night.
Thanks to Johnny DeKam from www.vidvox.net for shooting and forwarding this to us.
Posted at 02:53 Uhr Read More
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Poll shows that European inhabitans belief Israel is the worst problem to world peace
The VJ narrative - part 0.1 beta 1 thoughts
CubeDynamicCollaborativeMusic
AVIT Brighton 2003 is over
VDMXX is out
3d17 - text in democratic collaboration
The AVIT UK Brighton 2003 Schedule available
Can you legally unplug an intelligent computer
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