I'm going to be bluntly honest with you: I have nothing to say. It is far too early (10AM ish!) for me to think straight. The thoughts keep slightly leaning to the left. Shut up. I have stuff to do every night. Totally not perverted stuff. I keep telling myself that sleeping is overrated, but on the sixth day in a row with roughly 5 to 6 hours of sleep every night I'm beginning to... What was I saying?

Oh, and you two. Yes, you. Hax and Muhv. Where are your contributions to this abomination here? I feel like a jackass talking to myself. People will run into this crap in google or something
and think I'm some sort of perver- ..yeah, now I get it.

For those of you that are still hoping for some sort of topic or point to emerge: it is futile. I have no topic, but I suddenly felt a need to express myself, even though I have nothing to say.

So.. what else.. I'm at work. Tfk is in the break room, behind a closed door and I can hear metal pipes falling to the ground. No, we don't have a gym.

By the way, I have noticed that our phorums are DEAD. What's up with that? We used to have regular posters. Muhv, what have you done?!
But seriously people, go, scatter. Find us new cannon fodder users for our phorums.
Make it unboring. ^^

Oh, and out of sheer boredom we decided to find a person with the "image22.zip" msn virus thingie which has been going around lately among dumb people and disassemble it. It's quite funny, actually and it somehow seems to use a buffer overflow or something to execute when unzipped by the unzipping utility (possibly windows built-in unzip thingie?). But that's just a guess at the moment :p
Oh well, just another day in the office ;)

-n0nst0p

Well, here it is, the first of hopefully many reports from Talen. It's from first week after enrolling, so he's a bit shaky, but I promise the reports will get better. ^^

Why so late? As usual, I haven't had the will to put the reports together and, well, the fact that sometimes I just enjoy being a royal prick. Which reminds me, Muhv, are you still on for saturday? I cannot recall what we were supposed to do, but I'm fairly certain it was something of great importance. :p

So, without further ado, here is the mp3: http://kuroneko.uruchai.net/pub/purk/Talen_From_Viru4th_-_Week_01.mp3
Sorry for not having a fancy flash player thingie here, but I couldn't find a decent one on such short notice. On that note, if you have any suggestions, please do let me know.

-n0nst0p

I lied.
Actually, I'm just trying to pimp the product me and my colleagues have been working on for some time now. It's called 3DMLW and it stands for 3D markup language something something. I don't know, I just write neat algorithms for drawing stuff. :p

Anyways, before I babble any further: it can be downloaded from http://www.3dmlw.com. For now, it only contains the stable stuff, but have no worries. Yours truly is going to make sure it has all the facny stuff that you'd expect from a game engine. ;)
Keep in mind that it's still in a very early beta stage, though, so don't expect wonders.

As for what and how: here's the tag documentation which isn't exactly 100% finished.
And then there's an example tfk made today: http://www.3dmlw.com/download/example1.zip.
Unfortunately, there's not much on scripting yet, but feel free to experiment and ask in our forums. It supports some quite neat constructions using scripting and tags mixed. We'll probably post some examples on that topic as well in the near future. And be sure to register and provide feedback ;)

At the moment the installer gives you two things: an IE plugin and a standalone browser executable. I prefer using the latter of course. A gecko api plugin for Opera/Firefox exists as well, but it wasn't all there yet, so it's not in this release.

To top things off, here's a recording of the example mentioned above. It displays the function of altering the style/document tree in runtime using only markup statements. Cool, no? ;)
http://kuroneko.uruchai.net/pub/3dmlw_browser_demo_-_style_changing.avi

Ja mata,
-n0nst0p

What a morning.
Before I get to the point, and I'm not promising that I ever will, I'll ramble about some totally unrelated things. Yes, I know you hate that, but have no worries. n0nst0p hates you all too.

So, today I wake up to discover that my server (this box, the uruchai.net server) has gone down for some mysterious reason. Apparently someone in the server room figured that the power cable isn't exactly the most crucial part of the rack setup and removed it for whatever reason. Luckily, they returned it upon request. *sigh*

The next thing i noticed was that IRCWorld network was still in netsplit. Since last night.
Zetsubou shita!

As I arrived at work, the first thing that was shot at me was the news, that my co-workers had found the perfect new religion: http://www.munnsunited.com. Totally not weird at all. For those of you that do not speak estonian, it is totally not funny and I'm not in the mood to explain it either. But the chances of anyone that I do not know personally reading this piece of crap are remote and unlikely.

In even more unrelated news, the latest score of the big championship fight tfk VS. The evil printer of doom is 0:3 for the printer. [tfk is one of the dudes in the office, for future reference]

So, about last nigh. I had some visitors, some old friends of mine. Their reason for visiting was painfully obvious from the start: they needed a place to crash for the night as they had been visiting nightclubs and the usual attractions that I've never even tried to enter. After that follows the nostalgia of the school days and that is, as usual, accompanied by drinking themselves silly. Of course, I couldn't let them just drink alone and joined in for an exponentially growing number of drinks.

While they were consuming amounts of alcohol that my pathetic excuse for a body could never tolerate I started thinking about octrees. Funny things those. After they had done some serious drinking and I mumbled by myself about trees and whatnot I tried to explain my brand-spanking-new theory to them. Obviously, that was an undertaking bound to fail, no matter the effort put into it. They just nodded. Now that I think about it, most people outside the office tend to act exactly like that. Conspiracy? Of course now I realize that the theory is not new or original at all. Maybe they had already heard such a theory? But I suspect that this was not the reason why they didn't show much interest in the idea. For now, let's just say that further studies are required.

Now that you have reached here, I have but one question to you: what the hell is wrong with you? At this point I think even watching grass grow is considered more productive than reading me go on about stuff that does not matter. I, on the other hand, have an excuse for writing the thing. My excuse is that I'm at work and about to implement close to impossible rendering sub-graph idea that came to me when I was slightly drunk last night and I'm trying to delay the implementation phase until people start leaving the office. Just so I could program in peace. Just kidding. Naturally the peace thing is only an excuse too. I just need talk to myself out loud. But doing it while others are around might give them the wrong idea about my.. well, sanity.

Zetsubou shita!
-n0nst0p

This is the second time i'm writing this post, and hopefully the last. Yesterday evening i lost a really well written post.. just, like, lost it. This blog editor was like MS W0rd on net and crack. It had lots of useless features that rarely did what they were meant to do. Publishing it was literally saving(ctrl-s). I pressed it and the blog was f*cking gone. "Lost in the voids of space".. literally. (I should stop whining about n0n, as he's providing me with lots and lots of different services(sometimes even sexual ;)).

So, aside from that painful and most obscure blog-eating incident, n0n was all excited a while ago as the pinu and uruchai servers automagically transformed into a Kuroneko Class rack server called.. you guessed it, Kuroneko! A neat event and all, but all the systems here were down almost for a week. Oh well, not like anyone reads our comic or phorums anyhoo.

Moving on, I'm not at home at the moment as i decided to explore the fully capable features of the greatest OS ever known to mankind- The Mighty Windows Vista.

Apart from it being a totally horrible experience, the OS also didn't have the features promised. Browsers crash when they are asked to play a video or flash for more than 20mins in a row. Playing music from a cd brings a decent laptop to its knees as even the very text i'm typing just lags like a crippled llama. I hope everyone's happy.

So, without further whining, i present to you, My Vista Experience:

It was fun, fun like being hammered in the *ss with a tank.
Just. F*ucking. Horrible.

Oh and Microsoft actually said that some of the failures are features

So, how is it to game on that awesome OS? Well, horrible. I'm currently using a spankin' new laptop (c2d beast with a decent amount of ram and even a graphics card) with Vista Home Basic pre-installed and, well, Vista has no trouble bringing it to its knees with the most basic of tasks. I have installed 3 different games on this girl, for testing of course ;). They are:
Fable - The Lost Chapters
Starcraft: Brood War
Age of Empires (the first one)

Also, i did the same experiment a while ago on a PC(c2d, 2gb ram, gf7800GS and so on..) that had Vista Home Ultimate pre-installed. Results were similar:
Fable constantly lost focus to the Vista tool- and sidebar and froze frames for no apparent reason. Frozen frames were solved by Alt-Esc'ing the game and refocusing. Some of the effects seemed weird too, but that could've been the game itself.
Starcraft only had 255 colors. It was fun and nothing helped. Wanna play it? Get an OS or wait for the second one.
Age of Empires It was lagging at times on both comps. Scary. But counters didn't show any abnormal cpu, ram or gpu loads... what the hell?
I didn't pay much attention when i was working with the Ultimate, but Basic basically didn't let you commit registry changes even with admin privileges. Why? i do not know.

But the main thing that annoyed me was the permission asking. I mean, i was installing iPod support and Vista managed to ask me permission to ask me permission to copy a file to the Program Files. Come on?! Also, it prompted me for almost every file (Yes to all didn't work).

In other words, if you think you know your way around computers, i suggest you think twice before helping a relative out with his/her new Vista.

Oh, almost forgot. There's the main and by far most important difference between Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Ultimate. Namely, Basic doesn't have the transparent theme! That was the only cool thing about Vista. Seriously.

When WWIII breaks out, i hope all geeks will unite under a single flag and take Microsoft down before they fuck up the cyberworld even more. Thank you.

-Steve

PS: There's a secret message in my text. Find it and post it to the discussion thread