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development slowing down

Acropolis — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:45:02 +0000

since I’ve just moved from australia back to hong kong, I have a lot of things to settle.
so development will not be as frequent as before, as I have just setup my new computer and the broadband stuff, still have a lot of things to install…

but I’m still reading the blog very often, so do post your comment and bug reports.

self happiness

Acropolis — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:11:42 +0000

just so happy to tell everyone that I’m succeeded in extracting the HDCD decoder out from WMP, now I can play HDCD in foobar2000, as well as using the graphic equalizer and SRS Wow, so damn happy.

unfortunately I can’t share any of them

little utility for flashget users

Acropolis — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:35:45 +0000

FlashGet Database Generator

Current version is 1.00, and I believe it is matured.
this is a handy console mode utility that helps you a lot when you have a massive list of files to download and want to save them in different locations.

e.g. if you have a situation like:

“http://www.web.com/A/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/A/100.zip”
“http://www.web.com/B/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/B/100.zip”
..
..
“http://www.web.com/Z/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/Z/100.zip”

and want those files under A to be saved to “C:\A”, B to “C:\B”, and Z to “C:\Z”, then this utility is for you.

the usage is simple:

in console mode, type “type list.txt | fdb”, the file “out.jcd” will be created, you can then load it with flashget and start to download, and after you’ve finished the downloads, you can reload the default database for flashget.
also if you like, you can type “type list.txt | fdb name.jcd”, if you want to create a named output file.

as you can see, the utility takes its input from standard input, like any unix utiltities. type “fdb –help” if you forgot how to use it.

the content of “list.txt” is the actual urls and the locations to save,
e.g.

http://www.web.com/A/001.zip;C:\A

http://www.web.com/B/001.zip;C:\B

http://www.web.com/Z/001.zip;C:\Z

hope you enjoy it.

weather gadget problem in vista RTM

Acropolis — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:42:29 +0000

eventually have a chance to try the windows vista rtm 6.0.6000, but there’s a bug in the weather gadget of the sidebar, the problem is that it will keep showing “service not available” if your system locale is not English. read along if you are having this problem too.
after doing some searching on the net, I found some people change the code in weather.js, but I just don’t like this way, and I think patching the actual dll would take less time, so here we go.

file to be patched: “C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\wlsrvc.dll”
CRC32: 575ab95c
MD5: 31170caf2b2ff87be9a4d5f53444d166

before you do the patch, you must close the sidebar, take ownership and set the permission of the dll, make a search at google if you don’t know how. then change some bytes of it as:
offset old new
0×0141: 0×40 0x3c
0x76ab: 0×54 0×50

then you can run the sidebar again and should be able to see the weather forecast.

~ Welcome to my new page ~

Acropolis — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:11:27 +0000

Hello, I’m Acropolis.
I’m setting up a blog of my own.
The progress of some of my programs / foobar2000 components will also be mentioned here.
your comments are welcome.

你好, 我是Acropolis, 歡迎來到我的新網頁, 我正在建立一個blog.
我亦打算將我的一些程式/foobar2000的components開發進度在這裡發放
歡迎留言提供意見, 中(繁簡)英文皆可.