Audio Bitrates

I recently found this table which lists different audio formats and the bitrates where you’d reach similar quality.

LightTPD

Include wildcard configuration files Lighty doesn’t allow wildcarded inclusions of configuration files, but you can do a little trick using the include_shell command:

DD-WRT

DD-WRT is an alternative firmware for several WLAN routers which offers a lot of more features than the default firmwares of most routers, such as repeater mode, printserver, fileserver, etc.. I use it on an ASUS WL-300g and a Linksys WRT54GL. Configure as non-WDS repeater After a lot of trial-and-error and studying the different HowTos,… Read More »

Microsoft Office OEM

Install Fujitsu-Siemens version If you want to install a Microsoft Office and you happen to only have an OEM version from Fujitsu-Siemens, you’ll notice that it refuses to install on any Non-FSC-PC. But after some peeking around on the CD, you’ll find a suspiciously large file Install\OFF_FSC.EXE with around 250 MiB. Taking a look at… Read More »

Favourite Wii Games

Here’s a list of my favorite Wii games: Game Genre Comment Red Steel FPS great soundtrack, nice story; hate the swordfights though Metroid Prime 3 FPS nice graphics Onslaught (WiiWare) FPS lots of fun playing this plain and straight forward shooter World of Goo (WiiWare) Puzzle very addictive Okami Adventure really great graphics, nice gameplay… Read More »

Favourite NDS Games

Here’s a list of my favorite games: Game Genre Comment Rittai Picross Puzzle very addictive Time Hollow Adventure great story, great soundtrack Another Code Adventure almost as great as Time Hollow Korg DS-10 Music Crosswords DS Puzzle Picross Puzzle

microsoft.com not working

If you have a router and Internet works with any application/site but you can’t connect to any microsoft.com site (e.g. WindowsUpdate, Windows Live Messenger [error code: 81000306], etc.) you might have your MTU set to a too high value. The default MTU for ethernet devices is 1500 but since the PPPoE header adds 8 Bytes… Read More »

Extract Sound from Nintendo DS ROMs

To extract sounds (or graphics) from a ROM, you’ll need the ndstool and ndssndext. First extract the game data from ROM: This will create a new directory data containing all the game data. In there you’ll most probably find a file *.sdat somewhere. This is a sound archive format. Now run this through the ndssndext… Read More »

ndstool

The ndstool can show header information of ROM files as well as extract the game logo or even the whole ROM contents. It also can recombine the extracted ROM contents to a working ROM again. Example output This is from the Linux binary (see above): This is from the Python version: