matt’s

Feels like I am on a losing streak: my hardware got broken, my ordered processor got cancelled by AMD so there’s a serious supply shortage at the moment (delivery date got postponed three times to 6/9 to 6/23 to 6/30), and finally my DSL line died, too, yesterday, and my highly praised ISP did not [...]

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I just had a case where I wanted to make sure that a C++ template parameter was of a certain type. The template should be used for pointers to instances of class “Base” and its derivates so that I could call a method of Base on the object provided to the template class.
template< class T [...]

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Tonight, I added the batch processing. On the left image, you can see a set of six input images on the left, and three output images on the right (all images at 50% zoom, another feature I added).

The packing is not optimal in a mathematical sense, but it’s effective anyway, as the shot on [...]

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This is my guess for the first day of the soccer world cup (the actual results are updated as the games end):

Guess
Actual

Germany
:
Costa Rica
2:1
4:2

Poland
:
Ecuador
2:1
0:2

England
:
Paraguay
3:0
1:0

Trinidad and Tobago
:
Sweden
0:2
0:0

Argentinia
:
Côte d’Ivoire
2:0
2:1

Serbia and Montenegro
:
Netherlands
0:1
0:1

Mexico
:
Iran
1:2
3:1

Angola
:
Portugal
1:2
0:1

But I have no clue about sports in general so bear with me.
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Tonight, I enhanced the tool (codenamed TexTorture, hehe) with a little rectangle packing algorithm. Taking an unsorted list of sprites (i.e. rectangles), the outcome is already quite lovely. Next, I will try how presorting of the rectangles by width, heigth or area will affect the result. Finally, I want to be able to merge n [...]

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I just wrote a quick and dirty Java/Swing tool. It loads and autodetects DVW sprites from a texture file and allows to reorganize them. This is useful for stupid programmers like me who don’t want to mess around with mspaint.exe or The GIMP but feel the urge to move sprites around for whatever reason. I [...]

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I’m going to order new hardware soon (I can’t wait because the old board has occasional dropouts…). This is my current list:

AMD Athlon X2 4000+ processor
Seasonic S12 430 power supply unit
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe AM2 mainboard
Crucial 2GB DDR2-800 Kit
250GB Samsung SP2405C SATAII harddisk
Asus EN7600GT Silent 256MB graphics card

I’ll take the rest (like more harddisks, case etc.) [...]

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