Theo Verelst Local Diary Page 58
I've ditched the usual header for the
moment, I think it doesn't help much anyhow.
This page is copyrighted by me, and may be read and transfered by any
means only as a whole and including the references to me. I
guess thats normal, the writer can chose that of course, maybe
I´ll make some creative commons stuff one day, of course I have
made Free and Open Source software and even hardware designs available!
This
page is under contruction, so check back later, too.
Mon Nov 20 9:20, 2008
"This page is best viewed on a full HD
screen!" Probably true...
I started this page while watching 'Grease' on a HD screen connected to
the server machine this page is on, with my big audio system doing the
TV (Cable via the good quality pinnacle deluxe usb box) amplification,
to listen to the songs, production and TV audio tracks and transmission
quality.
This statue is where the fair used to be or lets say where the
gouvernement buildings are close in my city of birth (picture from the wikipedia).
I think I knew the place as a 4 year old already because I'd be taken
to the fair with dodge cars and spun sugar and not to forget major
voice and music blasting speakers and amps.
The song to this statue:
In Den Haag daar woont een graaf
In Den Haag daar woont een graaf
En zijn zoon heet Jantje.
Als je vraagt: Waar woont je pa?
Dan wijst hij met zijn handje.
Met zijn vingertje en zijn duim,
Op zijn hoed draagt hij een pluim,
Aan zijn arm een mandje.
Dag, mijn lieve Jantje!
Alternatively:
- In Den Haag, daar woont een graaf,
- en zijn zoon hiet Jantje,
- als je vraagt: waar woont je pa?
- Dan wijst hij met zijn handje,
- Eerst met zijn vinger en dan met zijn duim;
- Hij heeft een jagersmutsje op
- Met een huzarenpluim.
To start of.
(All frames from a HD recording I just made , really, as I've written
repeatedly lately, these are frames from playing the movies I recorded
in HD, without processing in this case)
(Click for a processed version)
Cuda
The little supercomputer inside the latest NVidia graphics cards (I
think a GTX 260, which is quite hefty, is about 300 euros now) is quite
powerfull having 200 processors with I think 300 or more gigaflops, so
I thought I'd try wether I could run the NVidia compiler for the
parallel threads for such a graphics card machine on the Fedora 8/64
Server.
It appears to work for the cuda software, I after some fiddling with
the obvious paths and adjusting some include files (I use the too new
gcc 4.3.0 or so compiler) got cuda C to compile, except I can't compile
the Xwindows programs, because I'd need X header and library files
which would at the moment be hard to find (some obscure verion, and the
system disc is pretty full), so only the shell interface only cudas
work.
It'd be great to run synthesis software on the cuda processors provided
the audio path can work, probably that could give stable and powerfull
sound synthesis algorithms to work, but I can't try it out, I only
tried the compiler, no graphics card I normally have access to has
cuda. There are cheap ones for 50 euros that do, though. It is a pitty
the quadro card in the powefull notebook is just one or two versions
before he quadro cards with cuda.
There is open source software for the Cudas, and also commercial, like
this:
Antenna
Modeling Design System
A dwarf palm in weird flashlight:
This I'm reading about
This, too (eehh, yeah I can read and understand and explain both the
physics and the parallel computing part):
HD DVDs (little red logo on top) for sale ("voor wènag" oh nee,
"voah wenug"):
And I got "The Graduate" with the world famous Simon and Garfunkel
tracks in quite different (good) rendering on good quality sound track
for 4 euro (I mean the official thing, not some lame copy, so this lets
the artists, and Universal (..), live). Which I can make work like in
cinema, really, also the soundtrack, except the HD player I use can
only use a stereo audio output, so no surround.
For the Bluray deartment, I'm looking for 7.1 discs, because mostly 5.1
is used, which is great though:
The stage with Marcus Miller on bass, Eric Clapton on guitar, David
Sanborn on saxophone, Joe Sample on piano and Steve Gad on drums. Not
perfect images ? Nah, more pro too, because they aren't smoothified.
A model hanger, Theo? Well, they fly! And cost like 30 euro per two, so
that's cool.
Still page 1 of Negele and Orlands' Quantum Many Particle Physics which
I want to write an explanation about for lets say univerity people with
not much theorectical physics knowledge, and to show how these higher
(Infinite number of Hilbert Spaces) mathematics work in principle.
You see those YM21280 and 90 chips on the left? Those are the real
computation engines for the world famous Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer which
I also had long ago which make the great and for the time quite
complicated and hard to compute 6 operator FM sounds. Very Large Scale
Integration chips that motivated me to work in such area (around
'84/'85).
I should be able to run this on a good PC, or more fun on an FPGA but
the exact algorithms and chip workings are patented, and not available.
Imitations there are.
I found this with a creative commons licence on wikipedia, San
Francisco in 1851. In some parts of America you could buy land for the
current day equivalent of 50 dollar or so per acre.
I think I want to fit this on a 3D image from googleearth. Even better
on a terrein image for gelato.
