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SeeqSharp: Use SeeqPod from C#

siwu — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:38:08 +0000

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

siwu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:38:15 +0000

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

siwu — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:31:42 +0000

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.

When I was younger (roughly 5 years ago) I used to listen to them a lot and go to their concert, but when one of the singers (the lower tone one), Djag, left and was replaced with another guy with a more "conventional" metal voice, Arno, I didn't really like the new sound and kinda stopped following their news, but would still listen to the old albums.

Fast forward to November 2007, my best friend tells me that the new singer is leaving the group and that Djag will take on for a few concerts! W00T! Of course, we rushed to the concert, and boy, was it awesome. What energy they have! Simpy amazing. Added to the fact that it has been 5 years since I've been in a mosh pit

So you can imagine my joy when I knew they were performing nearby (Velizy, 78, France) last saturday! We got to the concert, the venue was quite big but there weren't many people, too bad! But it didn't stopped us from mosh pitting and slamming a few times

So now, my body is aching, but that was well worth it!

Of course I urge you to listen to a few songs I found on Seeqpod, after the jump!
And of course, a video with a crappy sound of an old live (2002):

Computer Outage - Not?

siwu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:48:16 +0000

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.

So yesterday, when I got back from work, I gave a try to boot the computer, and this time it started, but it did the same as it would do with it would boot: boot, but being INCREDIBLY slow on the BIOS screens. Anyway, it booted, sweet. But when I unplugged it to put it back in it's proper place, and plugged it in, it wouldn't boot anymore, with the dreaded "System fail CPU test" in a loop on the speakers.
For the story, there is a small LED light on the mobo, and when you turn the computer off, it should turn off too, but it wouldn't (the PSU was fully unplugged). Also, the reset CMOS procedure wasn't working (I would try to reset the CMOS, and when it would boot, the settings were the same as before). So what I tried was to left it unplugged without any juice whatsoever, removed the battery, and went to work. When I got back, the LED was still on, after a whole day without juice... Something was weird. I guess in a desperate move (and with some true magic), I unplugged my external hard drive. And bam, the computer booted! Without being slow in the BIOS! So my guess is a ground issue. The USB hard drive perhaps was supplying current to the mobo through the USB port. Anyway, it's alive now, and I'll try to keep it that way for a while

Fight censorship!

siwu — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:12:07 +0000

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...

Depuis quelques temps on voit apparaitre des nouveaux formats haute-definition: le Blu-Ray et le HD-DVD. Seulement, pour eviter la copie des films, les fabricant ont eu l'idee de crypter les donnees audio et video, afin d'en eviter la copie brute.
Ainsi, le lecteur HD-DVD ou Blu-Ray (qui possede la cle de decryptage en interne) peut lire le film, vous vous pouvez pas le copier! Ca s'appelle l'AACS (Advanced Access Content System). Rappellons d'ailleurs que le DVD possedait un systeme similaire, le CSS (Content Scrambling System), qui a ete casse il y a bien longtemps par le celebre Jon Lech Johansen (a.k.a. DVD Jon).

Et donc, le matin du 1er Mai, il se trouve que la cle qui permet de decrypter n'importe quel HD-DVD sorti jusqu'a present a ete trouvee, et diffusee. Jusque la bravo, mais la ou ca devient drole, c'est que lorsqu'un mec a juge bon de poster l'information sur le site comunautaire Digg.com, les editeurs l'ont banni, et ont supprime son post.

Du coup, il y a eu un tolle de protestation sur la censure sur internet (il se trouve que le site a recu de l'argent du groupe HD-DVD), et contre la notion meme de protection de copie (qui, il faut le reconnaitre, n'empeche pas la copie, et fait plus chier les honnettes gens que les pirates). Et au fur et a mesure que les posts de protestation apparaissaient, ils etaient supprimes et les membres bannis. Ce qui a declenche une mega-guerre sur la toile.
A tel point que la page principale de Digg est completement inondee de posts avec la cle, et que le but est de la rependre le plus possible.

Donc! Combattons la tyranie mes amis, les lobbys du cinema et d'internet! Pouvoir au peuple!

Moving the blog to a new server

siwu — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:30:59 +0000

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 ?

siwu — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:39:58 +0000

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