2009

GPYOW: Inverted Halo Edition. Because I’ve always wanted to do a GPYOW.

GPYOW: Inverted Halo Edition. Because I’ve always wanted to do a GPYOW.
Skrev just ett argt brev till Radiotjänst, efter mina försök att säga upp tv-innehav.
Ni har en online-tjänst, men det går inte att avanmäla tv-innehav därinne. Ni har en telefontjänst (med det sämsta meny-system jag varit med om). Telefonkön specifikt för att säga upp tv-innehav var *38 väntande lång*. Hur många skattefinansierade anställda har ni egentligen på att ta emot avanmälningar? Hur många hundratusentals skattekronor går till detta, bara för att ni saknar en enda liten knapp inne på webbtjänsten?
Det gör mig riktigt förbannad. Vänligen åtgärda och sluta slösa pengar.
Inte nog med detta slöseri, de har också börjat ignorera mail från informationsfrihet.se — jag försökte avanmäla via deras formulär, men fick ingen respons från radiotjänst.

The write-compile-test cycle is very very tedious when doing iPhone development on the device, because the “compile” step needs to include “install on device”, which can be very, very slow. It can take up to a minute, depending on how many apps you have installed and the current cycle of the moon. Imagine, then, doing tiny interface changes and you want to see how that tiny fix changes the UI (which sometimes you really need to do on the device to get a feel for it) — ten tries changing an animation delay could mean ten minutes of just waiting for installation. If you’re jailbroken, there is an easier faster way.
export DEVICE_NAME=Mishimazu.local
rsync -avz "${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${PROJECT}.app" root@${DEVICE_NAME}:/Applications/
ssh root@${DEVICE_NAME} ldid -s "/Applications/${PROJECT}.app/${PROJECT}"
A few notes though.
In short, only use this deployment method for simple things, and install as usual when you need to really make sure things still work as they should, before a beta or appstore deploy. Of course, if you’re targeting the Cydia store or similar, that doesn’t apply.
This is your new friend when you have sub-projects in Xcode that build frameworks that the parent project needs to link to and find headers for:
FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATHS = "$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/$(FRAMEWORKS_FOLDER_PATH)"
This is much better than the old framework search path of [name of other project]/build/${CONFIGURATION}/ (since that depended on the subproject building into ‘build’ folder (which isn’t happening when you e g have a system-wide build folder)
Pdaparts.com has a video showing how to replace the glass on an iPhone 3G. These instructions are INVALID and will risk destroying your LCD. Please look at leewaterman’s HD video instead.
Specifically, what Pdaparts do wrong is they try to remove the LCD from the frame by loosening it from the bottom, breaking it free from the frame. However, the latches holding the LCD in place are placed along the edges. If you pry too hard along the bottom, you will break the crystals in your LCD! This will look like slightly colorful ink or oil blots where and near where you applied too much pressure.
The correct procedure is to unhinge the latches along the edges. leewaterman’s video shows exactly how this is done.
Jag kommer rösta Pirat om ett år. Det är det enda partiet som förstår, och förstår konsekvenserna av, att kostnaden av en digital kopia är *noll*. Inte “billigt”, *noll*.
Tänk er innan telefonen fanns. Det gick nog väldigt bra för Posten; enda sättet att kommunicera på distans var att skicka brev. Så plötsligt kom då telefonen. Postens roll minskar plötsligt till att skicka paket och kanske en tiondel så många brev. Posten blir väldigt arg på denna nya teknologi — hur ska Posten nu överleva?! Det enda sättet för Posten att överleva är att lobbya för att illegalisera telefonen, eller hur? De stackars Posten-arbetarna sliter ju hårt; de förtjänar sin lön och en stabil jobbsituation.
När en digital kopia är gratis och omöjlig att skilja från originalet, kan en lag säga att det är förbjudet att kopiera information?
Det är dags för musiklobbyn att bli jäkligt bra på att skicka paket, istället för att försöka illegalisera telefoner.
Or so it seems, anyway; and I can’t say I’m surprised. I bought a Diablo II: Lords of Destruction key from them. The key added fine to my battle.net account, so it seemed legit. However, now that I try to log in a month later, the key is in use by someone else; I assume they resold it.
Apparently there’s some sort of taboo to publish a ROM file with a hack applied. This becomes very aggravating when you can’t find the same / similar enough ROM file that the hack maker used.
Me, Amanda and my brother Bengan played Secret of Mana together (paid for it and all, Virtual Arcade rocks). It’s an amazingly good game; there are so few cooperative RPG games, especially >2 players. After finishing it, we felt we had to have more, and SD3 is the obvious candidate. But, the game was never released in the west! There’s no way that I know of to get it in English and pay for it, so I installed Homebrew Channel and Snes9X. After playing for an hour or two, after finally picking up the third player (me, of course), I pressed start to activate my control. Nothing happened. Turns out they removed the three player option from SD3. Just can’t understand why…
Anyways, I hunted hacks all over the Internet, but the one everyone linked to was 404’d, and the second one I found seemed broken; I couldn’t apply it, anyhow. Finally, I found FantasyAnime.com and their SD3 page, and to my great joy they listed the ROM - next to the patch! The patch applied cleanly; tomorrow we play!
The link above is to the ROM file with the hack applied, if anyone else goes googling for it.