Some statistics

Uncategorized | Posted by Dr. J
Apr 16 2008

I know I haven’t been posting a lot and that while I really want to post more… There is simply so many things that have more priority than bloggin, but anyway, I have some time on my hands now, so I thougth that I’d post something about my website stats.

Against all my expectations, the number of visitors keeps growing even when I don’t post in weeks. Allthough the numbers aren’t shocking by any means, ther is a positive line visible in the number of unique visitors that come to my website eacht month:

stats

When looking at march this year, I can conclude that monday, tuesday and wednesday and the most busy days as where saturday and sunday fall behind. The average number of visitors each day was around 63 which isn’t all too bad for just a personal blog site:

Other stats aren’t really surprising, like most visits originate from the USA and the most used operating system is Windows, followed by MAC OS which is then followed by the various Linux distributions and even FreeBSD pops into the list. Fedora is the most used Linux distribution to visit my site, followed by unkown distributions (that means, distributions that aren’t recognized by the statistics software) and the last distribution that lifts itself above 0.1% is Ubuntu Linux with 0.2%. Debian Linux is also in the list, but with 0% because the software rounds of at 1 decimal and it doesn’t reach 0.1%.

Also the used browsers don’t surprise me, first place is Microsoft Internet Explorer with 52.9%, second is Mozilla Firefox with 34.7, third is Opera with 6.9% and fourth is Safari (MAC browser) with 4%. 0.6% of the used browsers isn’t recognized. Netscape is being used by 0.3% of my visitors and Mozilla is the last one with a usage above 0.1%. Some other browsers that people were using, but not even reached 0.1% are Galeon, Konqueror, OmniWeb, LibWWW and K-Meleon. I believe all of these are Linux browsers.

Now when I get the time to post more often, I hope to see the upward curve continue in the future.

Powerspawning babies!

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Feb 12 2008

Ok, so this post has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the blog, who cares? A friend mailed me a little while back with these pictures. Apperently the originate from webpark.ru, but finding pictures there is pretty tough when you don’t read Russian. Anyway, I think they’re pretty funny and I also think that you should view them, so here they are.

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No more hotlinking!

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Feb 08 2008

I was browsing my site stats yesterday and found out that the greatest part of the bandwidth this site uses up is due to hotlinking. Hotlinking without permission is bandwidth theft and therefore forbidden. Unfortunatly I can’t find the website anymore that had it all explained how you can even take legal action against hotlinkers and scrapers because I flushed my cache to test the hotlink protection I installed and ofcourse I forgot to bookmark the page. Anyway, anyone who tries to hotlink now will get this image:

no hotlinking! NOT ANYMORE!

This way other people will be able to see where the original picture that was supposed to be there came from and the other webmaster is being called a cheap son of a pig and he might be offended. Ofcourse I don’t give a shit about him/her being offended, because that’s the point of the little text.

Celebrate Carnival

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Feb 07 2008

First off, for anyone who doesn’t know what Carnival is, check this page. I directly linked it to the part where the Dutch form of Carnival (called Carnaval here) is discussed which is obviously the most important section of the page for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I’ve been celebrating Carnival and I (as well as my mom and a female friend, yes, female) have taken a few pictures. Not a lot, just a few and I decided to post them here for the entire world to enjoy. There’s nothing shocking to be seen in these pictures, but I think they are all well worth a look.

First off with the pictures that I have taken and seriously, this is all of them, not nearly as many as I had planned to take.
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It’s just a shame that I don’t have the pictures that my mom has taken yet… But I’ll post those as soon as I get my hands on them, but for now, here are the pics that Leonie has taken (her being the girl in pic number 13 above).

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And that’s it for now.

S40 based Über Zombie Nokia Theme

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Feb 07 2008

You might remember Über Zombie

If you don’t remember, I suggest you download and play it before you read on.

Anyway, About half a year ago I got this pretty new little phone. A Nokia 6300 and I think it’s pretty cool. The only downside being the dull default theme. So after all this time I found out how I can create my own theme and I created an Über Zombie theme. Here are some shots taken from the theme editor.

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Ofcourse everyone who has ever played Über Zombie loves it, so those people will probably also love this theme, so I’ve been so kind to put it up for you all to download. Just click here to download it. It should work on any Symbian S40 based Nokia cell phone. On www.nokia.com you can pbobably find whether you phone is S40 based or not.

MyMiniCity

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Dec 16 2007

Pingwing now has it’s own little town on the internet called Pingwing and it currently has a population of 1. This can be increased if anyone clicks the following link.

link

This is going to be the best city on the net!

X-Rotor series Gyrotor

Other | Posted by Dr. J
Nov 28 2007

Well… What about that? A post? No way!

Well, this is the deal for today: I got myself a Gyrotor. The full name of the contraption is X-Rotor series Gyrotor and was made by Silverlit Electronics. As you can see in the image below, the Gyrotor is a helicopter. A radio controlled helicopter to be exact, which is really fun to play around with.

Gyrotor

As you can see it looks pretty cool, this is the exact model that I had (yes… had). I haven’t taken any pictures of it myself, but this gives you quite an impression of what it looks like. Besides looking cool it flies pretty well. The controls are responsive and it’s not too hard to keep it floating around, but that’s all it does, fload around. Because you don’t really have an option to make it fly forward or backward, you don’t have very precise control of it’s actions. The only options you have are up/down (throttle) and left/right (turning), but you don’t have a forward/backward control. This means that you can only make it fly forward or backward by increasing or decreasing the throttle while turning, which makes it pretty tough to fly it in tight spaces allthough the Gyrotor is primarily designed to fly indoors.

There is however still one cool little feature left: the nose light. It has a blue and a red led in it’s nose which both blink while the Gyrotor is being operated, but all in all that’s about the best feature this helicopter has…

The box said that the flying time of one charge was about 5 minutes, but in fact it was about 10 minutes, which is good. But the charging time was also considerably longer than stated on the box which was about 40 to 45 minutes instead of 25.

But the worst of it all was that after 2 days and a little flying the thing broke. The rotor someone got detached from the engine. So I returned it and got a new one, but also this one broke after very little time as well… This time the rotor got severely unalligned causing the helicopter to dramatically fly to left and crash badly and then it wouldn’t fly properly anymore.

All in all, this product is pretty crappy and you shouldn’t buy one. It’s pretty fragile for it’s price and claim to be very durable, this product sucks. Only the remote seems quite durable and functions really well and it has cool leds on it, but that’s it, stay away from these things (and probably any other mini helicopters like it) and spend a little more on a better quality helicopter with better control options and have fun with one of those. The Gyrotor was a funny gadget for the little time that it lasted, but I think I’m going to save up some money to get a helicopter that won’t just fall apart.

Site partially broken

Uncategorized | Posted by Dr. J
Nov 13 2007

I have a few updates planned for the near future and I’m actually planning on posting a little more often in the future. But as before, I do need stuff to write about if I’m going to post anything and that stuff to write about appears lacking to say the least. Anyway, that’s not what this short post is about.

Ever since I moved to the .eu domain from the .us domain, the site has been partially broken. It was untill about 2 weeks ago that I noticed that something was wrong. Images on older posts were not showing up and I noticed that the links to them were wrong. They were referring to directories that didn’t exist or the relative links were broken.

I have now fixed all those broken links and all should be ok now. Except for 4 posts. 4 posts still contain pictures that aren’t showing up, but that’s because they are simply missing. I should have them around somewher, probably on SlashDev, but I currently have access only to Centurion.

Which brings to even another points… I still have to make a page for Centurion and edit the pages for SlashDev and Tiger…

Xinput Driver for Microsoft Common Controller

PC, PC gaming | Posted by Dr. J
Sep 19 2007

This is just a quick note for anyone who is trying to get his/her xbox 360 (or compatible) controller to work on Windows XP SP1 or SP2. It doesn’t matter whether you have Home or Professional edition, or 32 or 64 bit for that matter. The driver that you can download from Microsoft.com does not work. Whatever you do, it keeps giving you a message that only says “the installation did not complete”.

There is, however, a solution for this problem. There are two of them to be exact that don’t involve any hacking or cracking or anything nearly that hard to do.

  1. Download a driver package from Microsoft Hardware
    Just choose the kind of hardware, which is “controllers” in this case, then choose the kind of controller, then your operating system (Windows, Windows, Windows or Windows) and last you choose the language of your operating system and there you go, you get a download that is considerably larger than the one you get from Microsoft.com when using a search and I guess that that has a reason.
  2. Use Windows Update to get the driver, worked for me.

I haven’t actually tried option 1, but various forums informed me that this works, but simply using Windows Update is still the easiest way to aquire Microsoft drivers.

Anyway, I hope this helps anyone who might stumble across my blog while searching for a solution to get his/her xbox 360 controller to work on Windows XP.

I’m not sure why you can also download a Vista driver from the list on Microsoft Hardware, because Vista has native support for these controllers, beit wired or wireless.

FOJ Community Mod video

PC, PC gaming | Posted by Dr. J
Sep 02 2007

My friend Michiel “NecroDOME” Gijbels (the same guy as I made Über Zombie with, together with even another one) and I have been fooling around with the Flatout Joint (FOJ) Community Mod for Flatout 2 and all this jumping, crashing and flying around resulted in the following video which I uploaded on Youtube for you all to watch:

FOJ Community Mod video

The video is a bit long, but it contains some pretty neat crazy jumps and crashes. All footage is from 2 player sessions. I was using “DooM” as my ingame nickname and Michiel was using “1337 z0r” as his nickname.