3D Vision pass-through for your AV receiver
My home theater is setup consists of a Acer H5360, an Onkyo TX-308 AV receiver and a NVIDIA 3D Vision kit with glasses. Unfortunately 3D Vision broke when I routed the PC's HDMI output through the receiver. Instead of my Acer NVIDIA 3D Vision recognized the Onkyo as a 'generic CRT display'.
This effectively disabled 3D Vision which was a bit of a let down to say the least. I was forced to connect the Acer directly to the PC and use an S/PDIF cable to carry the audio to the receiver. This unfortunately disabled HD audio (such as DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD) and multi-channel audio for my games.
Well, it took me half a year to figure it out, but I finally found a solution 
Huawei K3765 and Vodafone on Arch Linux
Recently I got myself a 3G subscription as a fallback for when the ADSL is down. Since I use a Linux server to manage things at home it became the logical choice to maintain this connection. Although Vodafone is quite ahead with supporting Linux that came with all sorts of dependencies (python, GUI) I didn't like.
The ingredients: Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.33 (and pppd), Huawei K3765 and Vodafone Mobile Connect.
It has been a while…
Okay, so my previous posting was on October 14th. I've been busy with a lot of things, exciting and fun times. See the new category on the right?
On my TODO list for the coming months:
- Blogging about the Dingoo A320 portable gaming console. At about $80/€60 this is an absolute steal. 360mhz MIPS32 processor with SIMD extensions, 32 MB DDR RAM and 4GB of NAND flash storage. It has a true-color 320x240 TFT display and a rechargeable battery via USB. It emulates all kinds of hardware (GBA, Neo Geo, etc) and it can run Linux (imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!). Mysterious Chinese origins but has a complete toolchain and SDK available. Starting to see why I am interested?
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone. Some Objective-C, Cocoa, the Cores and UIKit.
- Publishing my work-in-progress software 3D engine (ah, the good old days).
- Incorporating AngelScript in said engine.
- Getting my hands dirty with OpenGL ES 2.0, which rocks because of programmable shader support.
So much to do, so little time Stay tuned!
H.264 encoding tutorial
I've added a page to the tutorials section with information about encoding H.264 video for websites. Check out the page, you can find it on the right.
The Rackspace Cloud
'Cloud' hosting is gaining momentum in the server lease market. It pretty much allows you to (automatically/using an API) instance as many servers as you want, when you want it. You only pay for what you use. That's pretty flexible.
I moved this blog from my own server to the Rackspace Cloud. It's a great service. I noticed the load on my server was getting too high; three clicks and 5 minutes later this server was upgraded. Excellent. Give them a try.