Nation Pigeon

The must have information on creating free and open source video codec. This manual shows you how to playback, encode, stream and edit. all this and with out having to pay any royalty’s.

Theora Cookbook

Pete Information, Tutorials Free, opensource, video, video editing

To make sure that your game runs the same on all computers that can handle it. You will need to make sure that your actions are independent from the frame rate. To do this in python you can put this code above the game loop

framerate = 60 #frames per second
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

and then at the end of your game loop put

timepassed = clock.tick(framerate)

This should help with makeing the game more playable ^_^
Hope this helps.

Pete Programming game dev, Programming, PyGame, Python

I do love widgets and anime and now look it at!

Video of my desktop (FLV 6MB)

It goes in this order from top to bottom, CPU, RAM, Disk Drive, Network , Sound output, Date, Sound thingy.

Works with Vista and Windows 7, give it a shot download it from animetheme.com

Pete Anime Anime, Widgets, Windows 7

From the Black Hat USA 2009 in LA that will happen this month, Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco, show how to capture data from a power outlet and useing a cheqap laser.

See here for more details, I think it’s pritty cool.  There has been talk about data loggin useing the power of the unsheilded keys from a keyboard, the laser is a very cool way to datalog.

Pete Information cool, hacking, spying

I am board of all the same desktop environments, they all look the same. They all have the same flat 2D display. since the release of Vista they have all gone flashy and shiny, that’s great but it is still the same as the old ‘95 desktop, it has a menu at the bottom and flat 2D windows. Yes there are some desktops that have some sort of 3D or 2.5D display but these are all still fundamental the same thing.

What I am trying to say is that we need to have a good long look at the current desktop and see what we can do to make it new and exciting. I shall prove my point with these images.

I mean they are all the same, I know Bump Top is different but its still not that different to what we have at the moment.

Basicly I’m looking for something completely different, yet simple to use and has an innovative user interface.

More Information and references

Windows 3.1x XFCE 4.0 Windows 98 Windows XP GNOME Windows Vista KDE Windows 7

Pete Information, Programming 3D Programming, Linux, modeling, theme, Windows XP

How to get Northen Strike to work.
-Fresh install of 2142
-1.25 Patch
-Nothern Strike
-1.40 Patch
-1.50 Patch

Hope this helps, it worked for me.

Pete Games, Tutorials game

If you want to make your JScrollPane return to the top once you have enter some text, try this:

myTextArea.setCaretPosition( 0 )

It places the curser back to zero and in turn makes the JScrollPane go back to the top.
Worked for me, hope this helps someone.

Pete Programming, Tutorials Java, Programming