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SeeqSharp: Use SeeqPod from C#

August 27, 2008 on 8:38 am | In Stuff | No Comments

Hey folks! Long time no see!

Disclaimer: I do not condone piracy and/or stealing. Use at your own risks. Also continue to use the real SeeqPod service, as they are doing a great job.

Just a quick post to let you guys know about a small library I did yesterday. With this library it is possible to make searches on SeeqPod right from C#. I did this library because there was none available, and more specifically none that was compatible with the SeeqPod cache. You see, the mp3 locations you see sometimes are invalid, but happen to work in the SeeqPod flash player. That's because SeeqPod caches the mp3 it crawls (it seems). So here it is, Seeqsharp
The project is hosted on Google Code. And you can also download the demo application.
Here is a screenshot of the demo application:

And a quick code sample:

Playlist results = Playlist.Search("nine inch nails");
Console.WriteLine("Found " + results.TrackList.Count.ToString() + " items.");
foreach (Track track in results.TrackList)
Console.WriteLine("Title: " + track.Creator + " - " + track.Title + " - Location: " + track.Location);

Computer outage 2: the PSU strikes back

February 20, 2008 on 8:38 pm | In Stuff | 1 Comment

I know you folks pretty much don't give a damn about my computer problems, BUT I feel like I need to say it anyway. Since yesterday I started having problems again with my computer. It would not restart in a loop, but this time, just freeze, usually after 10-15 mins. After looking everywhere, I stopped to look at the voltage levels, and... oh crap.

Vcore: 1.48v to 1.608v (set a 1.6v)
+3.3v: 2.7v to 3.08v
+5v: 4.3v to 4.7v
+12v: 11.3v to 11.5v

Holy shit! Look at that +3.3v! Something was definitely wrong with the PSU or the Mobo. I immediately tried with another PSU (a 220w from my HTPC, pretty weak compared to my actual 350w), and bam, levels back to normal.
So I guess all my problems came from the PSU after all...
UPDATE: Well, I was wrong again. My computer just crashed with the temporary PSU. Perhaps I'll try a more powerful one.

Meh body be hurtin

February 18, 2008 on 11:31 am | In Stuff | No Comments

So saturday night some friends and I went to see Black Bomb A, a french metalcore band, in concert. How was it? Well, I almost broke my nose (I took some guy's head in the face), my thumb is hurting, my arms/neck/back muscles are soared, and I slept 13 hours straight the night after. To put it shortly, awesome.
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Computer Outage - Not?

February 11, 2008 on 7:48 am | In DWMaxx, Stuff | 5 Comments

There may be a stall in the development of DWMaxx for the next two weeks, because I think my motherboard is dying (Asus P4P800 Deluxe). I spent the whole weekend trying to revive it, it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.... Well, after 3 days and nights and 100€ on a new hard drive, it seems I'll have to let it go... After all, it's been on 24h/24 for the last 5 years... And because everything has evolved, I can't just buy a new mobo, I'll need a complete upgrade (from the CPU to the GPU). And I'll do it when I have the money, that is probably at the end of the month!
In the mean time, I'm still trying to make it work again, because I'm not as coffy on the laptop
UPDATE 12/02/2008: It's alive! True magic involved here. Read on for the whole story.
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Fight censorship!

May 1, 2007 on 11:12 pm | In NYC, Stuff | No Comments

Fight censorship and DRMs! Here is the HD-DVD decryption key: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

Combattons la censure et les DRMs! Voici la cle de decryptage HD-DVD: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

Que representent ces chiffres etranges? Je veux bien vous expliquer...
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Moving the blog to a new server

April 5, 2007 on 1:30 am | In Stuff | 1 Comment

It started out when I wanted to configure url rewrites for my blog, but I ended up finding that my free webspace (free.fr), wasn't supporting mod_rewrite. Even worse, the Apache server started to screw up a lot ! So I moved the blog to my 1and1 space, which does support mod_rewrite.
Also I can now fully enjoy my beloved siwu.info

Not much eh ?

March 19, 2007 on 4:39 pm | In Stuff | No Comments

Yeah yeah I know, it's been a while since I last posted on this blog. Actually right now I'm quite busy with real life stuff since I'm getting a new job
But for those of you waiting, here is a tease of the articles I'll be posting:

Finishing the WinXP Window Manager reverse engineering
Reversing the Vista DWM

Have fun

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