Merry Christmas to Everyonwe!

Have a Nice 2008
and Merry Christmas to Everyone!


Lord Hol Napult

A BitTorrent Story

Some times ago I decided to throw myself inside the big P2P (Peer-to-Peer) sea that represents one of the many ways to download from the big net the programs, movies, music and videogames.
I've choosen , for curiosity of fame, BitTorrent.
The place from witch I've downloaded the software was obviously the homepage: http://www.bittorrent.com/

During installation you obtain 2 programs upon your computer, the P2P Client called bittorrent.exe, and another called dna.exe; the firs question I asked to myself was: why should I obtain 2 software if I require just one ?

Inside the homepage DNA offers more efficency, more streaming performances, blablablabla-I-m-not-interested!
So I quickly removed DNA from the Windows start register (this was not an options! Use, for example, CCleaner and search the DNA.exe Runkey between "StartWindowsRun/Registry", inside the tools...) and destroyed the installation forlder. :)

Let's return to BitTorrent.

I was remembering to have found , around the net, the famous "torrents", that are files apparently unuseful, but that became foundamental when you have installed the software in object. Those files said: download the movies, download the game, download download but there wasn't a notice that let me know that I was downloading a torrent, not the movie itself.

Bittorrent uses this files as follow:

1. Look for a site that hosts the torrents (look at the small list at the bottom)
2. Run Bittorrent.exe
3. DoubleClick upon the downloaded Torrent
   
4. Bittorrent assume the files and, if there are some peer, starts the download.
5. The logic behind the condivision process is the following (peer connect also one another):

And so I started my download. I haven't a poweful PC.. it's definitely old, and pherhaps this influenced the Drama that happened: after half hour of download my computer crashed, so I had to reset. At the boot I saw some bad lines appearing on the monitor.
My computer didn't started regularly. Nothing happened upon the main screen.

Hacker attack ? Backdoors ? Or a system crash of high and formal priority? Pherhaps mu firewall went to do shopping ?

I don't know, I only know that I reinstalled the Windows upon the Crashed Windows, and everything, for my biiiiig lucky, returned to works.
Anyway many programs had to be reinstalled again, because the DLL's was corrupted/damaged/lost.


"Faith Mysteries" ? Maybe.
A week after all of this I decided to run again BitTorrent (ok, I know, I'm an Unconscious one), but now everything works perfectly. The Test of the Fire has been passed!

When the next one... ?
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Here some good site for Elemental Aphrodisiac Torrenting :

• Il Corsaro Nero (Italians Torrent)
• The Pirate Bay (Internationals Torrent)
  

Lord Hol Napult

The Fall of the Italian Magazines

"Ciao, buy this, that, and the other... You need just a click above!!"

There was a time, many years ago, where the italian videogame magazines was very amusing, home-bred, true! I remember that time with a sort of homesickness, and , maybe, with some remorse.

Today everything changed.


Advertising exists from the beginning, this is not a news. Unfortunately there wasn't the high-speed internet connections in that time, and it's there the main rule of a magazine, foundamental for the society.
This could be applied also to different areas from the videogames one, but the main sadness I feel is caused by the way that magazines followed : Marketing.

A respectable informatic magazine have 3 essential things:
- The paper magazine
- A CD/DVD full of prorams , games and demo .
- An advanced Homepage.

1. Times ago, till 2000 a.d. , the paper version of the magazine was bought relatively for the reviews, interviews, and depending on the number and the quality of the interesting contents...
2. Times ago, the CDs were full of trakers for digital music passionates, thousands of images, some videos, many demos and , the more advances magazines, some direct interviews of the developers. Thes special areas were cured inside HTML pages, very pleasant to read...
3. Times ago, an homepage where the internet surfers found the possibility to regroup themselves (i.e. Forum, amatorial mods links, chat) and of course there were a lot of interesting functions that the paper versione cannot assolve.
   

But now, how the world changed now in 2007 ?

1. The Paper version isn't readed such as before: there is Internet. A review today, is bought only if the ENCLOSED VIDEOGAME is good, otherwise there is no hope for a paper magazine. This forced a progressive destruction of the magazine areas, and a general razionalization of the pages. Anyway the paper content is secondary to the GAME of the review... and the price defend this theory (about 7 euro for every magazine).
2. CD have now an ".exe" interface that introduce you to the content. I've never appreciated the abort of interfaces that the magazines gives : they are really bad coded (probably because they change every 2 months and they generally are in flash format). The contents are DEMO, trailers, some utilities, and see ya! The game, instead, is very accurated in the presentation and you can also recreate the shop box of the game rotating the 2-side printed paper... but if you don't like the game, there isn't a cheap version with magazine plus demo.
3. The Magazines Homepages are apparently very good... but: advertising everywhere. You read 2 lines and you load 3. If you open a news you are interrupted by advertising middle pages. If you think to clik a line and Tac!, a pop-up cames from behind and get the click, so you lose your 2-minutes-to-load page of the magazine for a uninteresting page... and so on. It's like to be inside a mined field.
   

To conclude , the world change but it's not sure that this is a good representation of the progress.
There could be also a REGRESSION !!

Amen,
now I don't buy any magazines, but enclosed videogames.

Ah, if you need and italian link that montly suggest the magazine and the relative game, take a look down here:
VIDEOGAMES ALLEGATI ALLE RIVISTE
At least this link is useful... and ironic to me.

Lord Hol Napult

Winter (Inverno)

Silente e vegliardo scruto la notte d'inverno,
Silent and vigilant I watch the winter night,
e nel luccichio delle stelle, e nel pallore della luna,
and in the bright of the stars, in the whiteness of the moon,
scopro che essa mi conosce
I discover that she knows to me
molto meglio di quanto non mi conosca io.
much better than I know myself.


Lord Hol Napult

VCast.it - Videorecording Easy

Hi guys,
today we speak about a very funny way to use the WEB: Videoregistration Online!
You know, the net offers a various range of services that reach sometimes high quality.

It's what concern VCast.it, easy-to-use homepage but very very powerful, because it allows you to watch (and download to your PC or Ipod) many films so you can take a look at them when you have the time.
The site offers the RSS inscriptions , i.e. the internet standard to keep update without having to visit every site, and thanks to that mechanism you will know when a new video is ready for your download (of course only about the choosen Rss inscriptions) .

But this is only the beginning.

In fact , VCast.it is capable to turn your account into a Digital Videorecorder :in simple words you can register the transmission of the Italian locals networks (such as RAI 1,2,3, La7) and then download the generate file upon your computer!!!
Do you think this isn't enough .... to me it is! From my computer the movie obtained in ".avi" format can be easyly archieved upon a CD and watched from a .... oh well, you already know how a videorecorder works.

So!? What are you waiting for? Run to register yourself... it's FREE!
:)

Edit: Related Links:
1). TV Programs -tv.zam.it- a guide to the main tv that you can register
2). TV Programs -zapster- filters and searches what you like (movies, sport..)
3). MEGA CODEC PACK - To view any videos in any format(download full version..) .
4). Video Player - (This is only suggested, you can of course use another..) - BSPlayer

Lord Hol Napult

Ps: recently MEDIASET requested to be excluded from the channel list :( , but you know:
Mediaset = Berlusconi = noMoney/noParty

Simpsonize Yourself !!!

Hi everyone! Today we speak about a funny site that some friends noticed to me a couple of days ago... The site is simpsonizeme.com

This is very very funny place where you can put your photo , loading to the site through the wizard, and your face will be magically transformed into a Simpsons guy!

Incredible, I've tried with me and my girlfriend photo and the results is ... far away from the screens that you are watching.. :

Sorry, the Parsing Engine that elaborate the photo is not so powerful and after the first generated face, you must lurk between the options to better customize you SimpsonFACE.

I've tried to recreate myself customizing the noose, the hairs, the eyes, the color of my skin, the age... there are a lot of parameters. I don't know how many they are and if they really influence the aspect, but the results is quite good.

After only an half hour you can view yourself inside a cartoon.

Of course all this funny has been done for a commercial purpose; if you wish, but not necessarily, you can order a cup with your face, or the one of your family components. Otherwise you can download the image and save it upon the computer.

About that I've found a silly bug that didn't let me saves the "file extension" of the image created. A quick binary analisys and I've discovered that the image are in PNG format, so, if you encounter the problem, simply rename the files as : "yourname.PNG".

Then with a good graphic editor (Photoshop or PaintShopPro...) you can handle the images to create some presentations card or birthday invitations, or whatever you want.

Now try, and remember to give a first person image of you! Not your ass! hehehe.
Good luck Simpsonizers!

Lord Hol Napult

Obscuring Sites - The New Italian Comedy

The New Era gives us a special way to speak and say what we think... a new way to show us as we are, a new way to demonstrate that democracy flows also between a google searching session...
This New Era gaves the opportunity to every people to decide and organize with others people in every group they would.
This New Era, again, shows us that Internet is our mouth, our photo container, our videocamera to the world, and OUR way to BE.

At the top of this Post, you can see that something is not right for us, only because we are Italian. The Top image is a screen taken from a site that ISN't visible ONLY for italians, but perfectly visible to the rest of the world.

I should not discuss why or where this screen has been taken, It' doesn't matter. I don't discuss about the italian journals and italian freedom of speach... It's a sad task to speak about (and we live a non-journalism and non-freedom epoch).

I will speak how to hack this kind of fuc**d restrictions : http://www.opendns.com/

With this site you can freely register and say to your Italian Providers that you came from Burundi (or elsewhere) and you can , SO, watch every Italian locked site.
Probably there are better site that discuss the HOW-TO about that, but this is the beginning for every damned tyranny that try to break your breath, and silent you voice.

Take a Look at that,
and See YA!

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16/08/2008 - Edit:
Italy has just locked in these days the ability to open the Pirate Bay Homepage and listings.
It's always the same story, sad story, where there is a Rich, the Villains, and the Istruments of power. Well, now, as many time before, there also is the "secrets tunnel to enter and exit from the town without paying the passing tax"... heheheh.
Just Configure (no install/no download) your TCP/IP for OpenDNS and you will see the Pirate Bay for first, and for second you....will Fuck the Italian Regime! Damn it!
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Lord Hol Napult

Windows Me conflict : Erase and Destroy

All has begun with a failed connection to Internet... the rest is history.

I've just reinstalled my Windows version due to a failed connection to internet. Reading some reviews I've also tryed to install 2 Operative System upon the same machine, partitioning the Hard Drive.
Follow me! Do not try to install Win XP with Win ME on the same HD! It's impossible, because ME is too stupid to understand this, and the formatting process is to old (FAT32) to recognize the other system.

This are the last words of my last "nightmare" month . I've become a scientist trying to find a good resolution for my internet purposes. Win Me, is not very good for networks processing (it sucks very very much.); we can speak about network from windows 2000 or more...

Now every program must be reinstalled and configured... you cannot imagine what a game creator can install upon his machine... this will be my next nightmare... but I'm also happy to be here writings this lines upon the Net.
And while I'm writing (my first 20 minutes on the web) my Firewall has just blocked ...1231 intrusions.

I feel like a red point inside a black paper!
And I must buy a new computer if I want to change the operating system and gaining new coding experiences.

That's all, (and enough for me...)

We all are robots that must repair their problems.
See Ya!

Lord Hol Napult

Informatic without Logistics

There are many things I don't understand (no jokes please :) ), and one of these is the word LOGISTIC.

If I'm listening a discuss with some distraction, the word "logistic" let me think that they are speaking about logic / computers / networks, or something else about coding...
Do not think I'm a fool, but logistic could easily be an informatic terminology, don't you think ?

So I've always felt a bit gelous about this word: L-O-G-I-S-T-I-C.

Is someone tell me that he works as "operator in Logistic networks" , I say:"Wow, what a job!"
Is someone tell to me what is my job :"I'm a coder/programmmer for an agency..." ; mmm, not so futuristic, it isn't ?


The irony proceed when I go by car at job...I see the names of the logistic companies and they are like the following : "Logistic systems", "Logistic NET", "Logistic Future".... Aah, this is too much!
This terminology should be changed or returned to the coders that lurks everyday inside the virtuality of their jobs, using logic, sintax and creating virtual and complicated procedures, and not for a Tir driver that isn't yet able to use a satellitar system and lock the traffic to ask for informations !!! I want a revolution! Corders, let's ROCK!

Ciao

Lord Hol Napult

Il Silenzio (music video)

"Il Silenzio" (The Silence) is a classic military music from the Italian archive, performed with my Harmonica in G (sol).

In Background some Clouds moving like a breath of life that flows away...
Video and Music by Lord Hol Napult