Friday, November 13, 2009

"As in what, you hapless techno-weenie?"

I've been working on a new project I created called Chimera. It's an IA64 (Itanium2) instruction set disassembler. One day I'll hopefully transmute the disassembler into a binary or system emulator. I did look into adding the IA64 support into QEMU a few days ago. Lets just say, that project may have to wait until hell freezes over.

DJ Tiesto came out with a new sic album titled Kaleidoscope. It's been sparking a lot of controversy amongst the technophiles in that it has a more "pop" feel to it. This is due to the US and Canada not taking well to the "normal" techno/trance that's been coming from Europe since... ever. So, this musical mastermind decided to "persuade" the less electronica-inclined regions by mixing the hard beats with some more familiar sounds. I don't care what either side says really, I think it's a great album and a few songs such as "I Will Be Here" and "Century" have made my personal top 10.

The Pedigree project (an operating system mentioned in a previous post) is expected to make a release soon called Foster. I've been keeping an eye on the project on IRC and they have been working extremely hard to get the release deployed on time and to ensure all known bugs (of reasonable importance) are exterminated beforehand. I will be testing the binary release in the next few days and will certainly give feedback.

If I wasn't as tired I'd love to go on a very long rant about how much WINE (WINdows Emulator for Linux) has annoyed me today and how many hoops need to be jumped through to get half-baked game functionality... but as I said, I'm far too tired. ;)

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