Platinum v0.3.0.0 is around the corner. The new version now supports true multithreading. No more round-robin man-made time sliced threading scheduler crap! While it was cool to have a pure pull system, it had a terrible throughput. Streaming files was terribly slow because I was only checking socket availability/status every 10ms (which means more like 100ms on Windows). So throughput was always capped to a ratio buffersize / sleep time. Anyway, this is all fixed. The Web server is screaming fast now (faster than the Intel Tools!)
More exciting features and bug fixes too!
Yep, once again, PSP latest firmware has been hacked. On top of that, you don’t even need an eloader anymore to launch homebrews AND it supports kernel mode calls. Brilliant.
I was looking for something on the web and found this really cool service that let’s you track your baby’s habits (sleeping, feeding, pooping, etc..). I don’t know if we’d use it (it aren’t free) but it’s very neat. If you got a newborn (Eugene, Adam, Nick & soon to be Alex) and you love aggregated data (that would be Nick ;-)), check it out!
Update: On a side note, check out the dad’s blog, it’s hilarious (and scary too for me as a new father).
Just found reading rob’s blog about a cool new concept. The idea behind BookMooch is pretty simple, yet quite powerful:
- You list the books you want to give away on BookMooch.
- When someone wants a book of yours, you send it to them and get credit for doing so.
- Take your earned credits and request books you want from others.
Pretty neat.
Found this really cool idea of tagging portions of a video to easily jump to. It’s a matter of time before YouTube supports it. You’ll be able to search for Video Deep tagging and jump right where you want. Neat!
Check it out.
Engadget recently wrote an interesting piece: An Open Letter to Microsoft – Why you shouldn’t kill FairUse4WM – Engadget.
While the tone is pretty candid, I have to say they have a point:
“Does the fact that we could quit and “keep” the music that we’ve been “renting” a problem? Theoretically, but what’s going to keep consumers paying those monthly fees isn’t the threat of losing access to their collection (though that’s part of it); what keeps them paying is the continuing access to a large, frequently updated catalog of new releases and older tunes.”
What if they were right?
On the fun side, what I love about the article is the last sentence:
“FairUse4WM means that all our PlaysForSure tracks will actually play for sure, so please don’t go and spoil it.”
