I remembe an old FAILED korg project called OASIS.. it was usual korg's many thousand dollars costing crap, just like zilog80-based trinity (slow&glitchy) tritons and the like things. All KORG stuff sounds features and looks are based to make good first impression. It failed due to the high price and th fact that it sounded good only when heavily tweaked. In fact, there was no way to tweak it (everything hidden and proprietary), and only "tweaks" were the DEMO sounds (formant-synthesis-based "arabian singer" one of the best of them). Sadly, most of the sound resembled simple wavetable stuff with some radical filtering or ringing applyed to them. KURZWEILs was having such sounds for many years at that time. (bonus point to them - they use their own ASICs and ideas as well es DIGITECH effects processors inside)
Korgs are mostly based on off-the-shelves texas instruments DSPs + from zilog80 to hitachi conroller, as well as other low-performance components. Also funny is their joint-venture with YAMAHA, another fantastic-sound-just-with-a-perss-of-a-single-butt on (for YAMAHAS these buttons are oftenly colored yellow!) music equipent manufacturer. Sometimes when you open a KORG you see (c)YAMAHA parts, and sometimes when you see YAMAHA keyboard you hear KORG's arranger patterns and timbres.
I expect this OASYS to be another failure, because it's just a PC with Linux and simplified old hardware OASIS card, and a hardware dongle for the software.
welcome to world where blackmarket printers will be better than bought-in-the-shiny-shop as they will bear sticker REGION FREE, just like we are aving DVD players right now.
Not only Amiga and Atari had multiple-mode-at-the-same-time capabilities.
I've got an Apple][plus for a pretty long time and still like to tinker around it from time to time. It also allows mixing graphics and text modes at the same time, however at fixed transition place. But it's handy (and looks great) when you have scrolling text mode where you work (sort-of) and over it you have hi-res or lo-res graphics.:)
Hey, You can still use (as i do) Free Pascal for software development on even PalmOS, not to mention all the major stuff around. And easily port around anything. Except for windows - there the dummies are dominant with visual basic and other crap.
I am sure that using VHDL for designing CPU/DSP hardware, then FreePascal to simulate and debug, and to write cpu/dsp specific assembler, then coding the bridge to assemble from free pascal programs to that cpu, is the easiest and most efficient way i could work.
As well as just for a PC - use can use Asm+Pascal very efficiently for high performance software. However who cares about performance nowdays?:)
As a maniac, heavily involved in FPGAware and ASIC development (+radio frequency realtime digital signal processing) i will try to present as much as possible help to guys working on cracking these stupid SVPs and crap like that.
No need to do brute force atack. There are very many other ways of cracking those protections. For example doing autocorellations with progressive ciphering in realtime, as you get into the SVP-equipped box with a good FPGA. This helps in cracking running codes of many thousand bits in length in notime.
Yes, it was a name for sega's technology, and i think was registered trademark already.
Back in the days, it was a cheap, but high performance DSP with onboard ram. Idea behind it was having an additional 3dspace-to-screen coordinate conversion and polygon drawing chip installed on Genesis carts.
The chip was a sore joke about what chips sega had in their arcade machines (like Daytona). SVP Technology could have survived, if it wouldn't be that crappy.
Technology behind Secure Video Processor: imho, it doesn't differ from satellite receiver boxes too much. Interception and faking the codes will be piece of cake, as anyways -- You have that piece of hardware at home, where you can peak inside it.
Are those Explorer Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar running at the same time?
Wooo guys it's getting scary - it's getting to be some kind of serious alternative to C64!
Beware... This XP Starver Edition seems to be many levels below Windows 2.0, Deksmate and Workbench...
Also - what about if one programm calls external programs all the time (and many at the same time - like various cpld/fpga hardware development systems java-ui-over-commandline-tools)? Most likely most of the programs will not work at all. Note that, for example, [open] [save as] windows are run as separate programs, so sometimes those will not work, too.
Image Geometric/Signal Linearity Predistortion is used since DSPs like dsp56000 in early 80ties came in. Now this technology is widely used for angled projections for business graphs and stuff like that.
It's a matter of how good, precise and heavy you can calibrate it (not a piece of cake).
You can make such things wih photoshop/corel/your own soft, your 486sx pc and videoprojector.
And YES - it looks even worse when you watch the projection from angle (OR DISTANCE! - due to perspective distortions) different from which you calibrated it.
1. get compatible, 2. get most of users by ads and rumours 3. get less compatible, causing problems around 4. get everyone on their proprietary crap, by the magic for FUD 5. get uncompatible with everybody else, so everybody will use ms stuff, to be able to interact and exchange with programs and data with others.
c'mon -- it worked on everything, including os2 file formats, C, JAVA, Basic, HTML, RTF, Dos, e.t.c (and even text DOCs). Why shouldn't it work on OS like linux? creating mess in opensource will create demand for preoprietary, but unified and all-compatible-with-everyone solutions.
All those around You are droids. They do what ads in magazines tells them to.
i am in a close to eesti neighborhood country - LV..
Of course they are on to track my ass everywhere i go. As most paying and stuff where you nee to show Your identity will now be able to log times and other stuff in one bis log.
Remember that it's not paranoid to be aware of technology used against You. Be Sure - It Will. For example: if you have something bad to say about crap like EU or pretty regular fraud done by government officials - Those "good guys" will be instantly able to dig up everyhing they need to discredit You and stuff like that.
even if it had 320x200 or some xmode with only filled polys in dazzling 256color palette...
if it had a plot. whatever plot. not monsters and guns again.
and not a nvidia-sponsored-ati-glitching demo again.
boring*boring*boring.
Dear Carmack and friends,
Have You ever seen demo scene? You know - all those are for free. So ppl don't get mad if they download crappy thing - they just delete it. (And in most cases 90ties tech demos with software graphics do impress more than anb ordinary x/z y/z vector space visualizer). And the concept is - Engine wins, not the marketing hype impressing thundreds of dorks sleeping at game stores waiting for being among the first ones getting "The Another Legend".
We all could wait till they figure out how to put RFID tags on every spermatozoid or eggcells, so everybody could track where and what goes on, even before kid has born.
And the kid then will have the RFID without any action from parents so there is no way of getting a mistrust from kid, when he realises that his balls are makeing interference to the tv.
Nobody to blame - "we all are having and it's for our goos sake and To Make World A Better Place".
Only bad thing is that kidnapper will have to cut Your sunnys balls off, to get rid of the tags. Or even worse - when kid get's to know about TV interference, he could try to remove (cut) tag unit off himself.
Or put his balls into microwave to disable all tronics in them.
So, today, RFID tag insertion surgeries are going on, and all people seem to be more than happy to inject this innovation into their everyday... in Japan.
> it looking at a considerable fine and possibly being forced to open up Windows.
how boring
i remember there was many cases with such an end
microsoft doesn't fear paying pesso - this is also a great way to "overpay" and give bribes along with fine. we also know they woldn't open the sources,or if they to this oficially - we know all the important stuff will be hidden in pre-compiled libraries or their proprietary compiler itself.
as you see - there are nothing about cutting out mediaplayer, nor explorer. we all know for sure that windows will not function without them anyways, so they can just remove icons from start menu, and call it EuroWindows or something.
boring boring boring
it is all about bribes being too low for european commision oldfarts. microsoft will learn on their mistakes and will never underestimate eurofarts.::chipsets::
They have patented soldering chips one on another? Funny, i've soldered ram, rom and even logic dips and ssops this way from early childhood when i ever came around chips for the firs time.:)
Meybe somebody could patent sitting on toilet, so we will have to sit on them reversely or for example stand on it....Until somebody will patent these things too...
There was a time when people constructed modems theirselves (like using tape interfaces of Apple][, and later ZX to connect to other zx or apple).
But then 150bods were astonishing speed. It still is faster then dictating HEX over phone vocally.
I think in future p2p will have to use illegal (modded or underground-made) modems and net interfaces to access another "Underground" layer of a network, or just access p2p (like direct phone connections in times of BBS and Maximus5:)
I seeUnderGround Network realisation strategy fair simple (on the basic idea and principles). By using multi layers in pacjkets and using various "reserved" fields and padding in everything around. Hard point is to create all that network layer specs. And creating them safe from getting scanned or spyed.
actually got some concepts on that and will try to figure out where and when to publish them to oss people for trying out.
Wake me when there will be some new Linux or DOS virus. The real one. Weighting about 700-1k bytes and with polymorphic and stealth abilities at least.
Funny is that todays antivirus programs are extremely similar to simple string-search programs, if not the same. Old ones, like drweb or avpro were able to analyze code and rate it to be safe of not. so it was also able to find ANY morphing or self-hiding codes, so didn't need updates to function well on new real viruses too. Update just gave it ability to correctly name it, or tell for sure about infection.
I am waiting for the cheerful moment when such a good piece of code will spred around for win3.11 new guis like winXP, NT or any of so called "win32".
Just a tip for new viruswriters - windows has a great thing that anything what it will decide as an "update" will be allowed to replace system files, and later anything else will not be allowed to change these files. So virus can get a good protection against ANY anivirus software. Only formatting will help for sure. However if we combine it with BIOS update (at first reboot after infection) and stealth thingys, like it detects when antivirus program or something is aggresively scanning memory and hiding in other parts of it (for example in data arrays of antivirus program itself). memory segment protection will not take place if virus has gained trusty access to flat memory like antivirus progs or windows sys trash have.
nokia handsets have any vulnerabilities?? What a surprise! Wake me when Motorolas will have any.
For all the history all of Nokia hardware, both wireless radiolinks and consumer electronics, was ultracrappy and vulnerable to anything, even failing when not in use:)
Just avoid buying crappy things, and will be in safety.
To those who want to argue - buy ms windows, get on ms.NET, use outlook and explorer and acess your Nokia and pocket pc trough ms briefcase-synchronise-alike tools. All of the mentioned things have proven to be 100% unreliable, vulnerable, clumsy and sometimes dangerous to business of safety/health.
1.) will they create some realdolls from that rubber? 2.) there is a crappy movie called A.I. whee all the robots (machas or cyborgs or androids or anything you wana call them) are looking pretty intelligence-impaired and disgusting. 3.) will they create flubber ever? disney invented it, so it's jus up to create one:)
Well, i don't much see any use of having sources for accessing proprietary hardware on very old (however pretty nice) computer, rather then to make a prot to SEGA MegaDrive, for example, because of arhitectural similarities. Besides general RAM upgrade and such stuff, if would also require getting VideoToaster unit wich seems harder then creating new one. Because of Intel's architectures alltime weaknesses (dynamic crap - no 0Hz operational ability) Toaster hw can only be used by some other vendor processors. Using FPGA to interface a Toaster to PCI is harder then to create a new home-brew "toaster".
well - it's dependant on what movies or games Your boygeek likes. If it's something Starwars-alike: a voice transformation gadget to make him talk like darth wader could be awesome (check Viscount Voice Systems HP3). He most likely has lightsabre and wader's helmet already for sure. if it's Starship troopers - get him one more DVD with it so he'd have a backup copy of that great full-of-geek-exciting-nude shower-room scene he likes some much (despite denying). If it's Back To The Future: as time machines, as well as flying delorans are not yet sold so widely, hooverboard could do the job if You can find one around. If not, You could get a roller-based one and paint it like antigravitational. If he has all the walls covered with posters of StarTrek (any of 72/73 episodes), then some alien-guy dress or something could be cool, as well as another lot of posters or stolen thing from a StarTrek gadget and model museum. Or a original script ("the one and only, signed by director"), if he doesn't own one already (You can find such things on eBay easily). If it's 9 and a half weeks then he's certainly not a real geek. If it is something of 196x scifi, like The Angry Red Planet - get some dress in style of Those Times and some weird things (from used trash market), what looks like those martians in movie. If it's Alien then just be Ripley, and get an Alien Tissue in You:)
--- cheers and all the best and luck to You geek-wide-world, in those not an easy times - The Valentine day...
Sure, most of the advanced communication equipments are having "undocumented console access port" on pcb, for both product development and servicing/diagnostics purposes. And these ports do allow to upload any firmware to any chip onboard or change any settings in eeprom or nvram.
i , myself, am that bad guy developing basband dsp signal processing equipment/modems and creating various speed limiting things inside them.
For example, if you are (technically) on network access through V.35 wirless transfer (may it be anything at Your end - a DSL, ADSL, dialup, cable or anything), in most cases all streams from 64kbit to 2Mbit are transferred through same 2mbit time-slot on wirless system, it's just a matter of stting on the port modules. So by taking 64kbit cable net access, You have already paid for 2Mbit bandwidth. And only the limit set in NVRAM is what cuts down Your speed.
Korg Oasis, being expensive&abandoned crap, was still capable of realy synthesizing singing (crappy but far better then this one).
Vocaloid is crippled PSOLA+WaveTable, with inability to use free vocal signal basis (Vocaloid uses proprietary studio-recorded vocal libraries, instead of any real synthesis).
Synthesing allows more variaton and naturality to voice then using prerecorded "snippets", as well as giving You the freedom to use any voice as a base, if any.
I see that Vocaloid could be some stuff for Thoz Ya Rule Coz Ya Nov Wa'z Supa Reppaz:) Along with few-kilogram gold chains, frerraris and NEKO64 this Vocaloid could be a part of some new Supa Hypa Gangsta Reppaz video.:)
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I remembe an old FAILED korg project called OASIS.. it was usual korg's many thousand dollars costing crap, just like zilog80-based trinity (slow&glitchy) tritons and the like things. All KORG stuff sounds features and looks are based to make good first impression. It failed due to the high price and th fact that it sounded good only when heavily tweaked. In fact, there was no way to tweak it (everything hidden and proprietary), and only "tweaks" were the DEMO sounds (formant-synthesis-based "arabian singer" one of the best of them). Sadly, most of the sound resembled simple wavetable stuff with some radical filtering or ringing applyed to them. KURZWEILs was having such sounds for many years at that time. (bonus point to them - they use their own ASICs and ideas as well es DIGITECH effects processors inside)
t on (for YAMAHAS these buttons are oftenly colored yellow!) music equipent manufacturer. Sometimes when you open a KORG you see (c)YAMAHA parts, and sometimes when you see YAMAHA keyboard you hear KORG's arranger patterns and timbres.
Korgs are mostly based on off-the-shelves texas instruments DSPs + from zilog80 to hitachi conroller, as well as other low-performance components. Also funny is their joint-venture with YAMAHA, another fantastic-sound-just-with-a-perss-of-a-single-but
I expect this OASYS to be another failure, because it's just a PC with Linux and simplified old hardware OASIS card, and a hardware dongle for the software.
Benny Benassi & Panjabi Mc form an excellent and obvious examples of HSS-better-score modded and tweaked "songs" if this trash can be called so.
:)
strange that Average Joe's brain complys with this HSS technology. Or he just follows anything this Stylish Radio Guy tells!
Sounds familiar... =)
welcome to world where blackmarket printers will be better than bought-in-the-shiny-shop as they will bear sticker REGION FREE, just like we are aving DVD players right now.
Not only Amiga and Atari had multiple-mode-at-the-same-time capabilities.
:)
I've got an Apple][plus for a pretty long time and still like to tinker around it from time to time. It also allows mixing graphics and text modes at the same time, however at fixed transition place. But it's handy (and looks great) when you have scrolling text mode where you work (sort-of) and over it you have hi-res or lo-res graphics.
Hey, You can still use (as i do) Free Pascal for software development on even PalmOS, not to mention all the major stuff around. And easily port around anything. Except for windows - there the dummies are dominant with visual basic and other crap.
:)
I am sure that using VHDL for designing CPU/DSP hardware, then FreePascal to simulate and debug, and to write cpu/dsp specific assembler, then coding the bridge to assemble from free pascal programs to that cpu, is the easiest and most efficient way i could work.
As well as just for a PC - use can use Asm+Pascal very efficiently for high performance software. However who cares about performance nowdays?
As a maniac, heavily involved in FPGAware and ASIC development (+radio frequency realtime digital signal processing) i will try to present as much as possible help to guys working on cracking these stupid SVPs and crap like that.
No need to do brute force atack. There are very many other ways of cracking those protections. For example doing autocorellations with progressive ciphering in realtime, as you get into the SVP-equipped box with a good FPGA. This helps in cracking running codes of many thousand bits in length in notime.
Yes, it was a name for sega's technology, and i think was registered trademark already.
:
Back in the days, it was a cheap, but high performance DSP with onboard ram. Idea behind it was having an additional 3dspace-to-screen coordinate conversion and polygon drawing chip installed on Genesis carts.
The chip was a sore joke about what chips sega had in their arcade machines (like Daytona). SVP Technology could have survived, if it wouldn't be that crappy.
Technology behind Secure Video Processor
imho, it doesn't differ from satellite receiver boxes too much. Interception and faking the codes will be piece of cake, as anyways -- You have that piece of hardware at home, where you can peak inside it.
Sure it's much safer! :) Talk was about multitasking capabilities.
ok, as a fan of SID, i take that back. =)
Are those Explorer Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar running at the same time?
Wooo guys it's getting scary - it's getting to be some kind of serious alternative to C64!
Beware... This XP Starver Edition seems to be many levels below Windows 2.0, Deksmate and Workbench...
Also - what about if one programm calls external programs all the time (and many at the same time - like various cpld/fpga hardware development systems java-ui-over-commandline-tools)? Most likely most of the programs will not work at all. Note that, for example, [open] [save as] windows are run as separate programs, so sometimes those will not work, too.
Image Geometric/Signal Linearity Predistortion is used since DSPs like dsp56000 in early 80ties came in. Now this technology is widely used for angled projections for business graphs and stuff like that.
It's a matter of how good, precise and heavy you can calibrate it (not a piece of cake).
You can make such things wih photoshop/corel/your own soft, your 486sx pc and videoprojector.
And YES - it looks even worse when you watch the projection from angle (OR DISTANCE! - due to perspective distortions) different from which you calibrated it.
Standard/classic microsoft strategy:
1. get compatible,
2. get most of users by ads and rumours
3. get less compatible, causing problems around
4. get everyone on their proprietary crap, by the magic for FUD
5. get uncompatible with everybody else, so everybody will use ms stuff, to be able to interact and exchange with programs and data with others.
c'mon -- it worked on everything, including os2 file formats, C, JAVA, Basic, HTML, RTF, Dos, e.t.c (and even text DOCs). Why shouldn't it work on OS like linux? creating mess in opensource will create demand for preoprietary, but unified and all-compatible-with-everyone solutions.
All those around You are droids. They do what ads in magazines tells them to.
i am in a close to eesti neighborhood country - LV..
Of course they are on to track my ass everywhere i go. As most paying and stuff where you nee to show Your identity will now be able to log times and other stuff in one bis log.
Remember that it's not paranoid to be aware of technology used against You.
Be Sure - It Will. For example: if you have something bad to say about crap like EU or pretty regular fraud done by government officials - Those "good guys" will be instantly able to dig up everyhing they need to discredit You and stuff like that.
if
even if it had 320x200 or some xmode with only filled polys in dazzling 256color palette...
if it had a plot. whatever plot. not monsters and guns again.
and not a nvidia-sponsored-ati-glitching demo again.
boring*boring*boring.
Dear Carmack and friends,
Have You ever seen demo scene? You know - all those are for free. So ppl don't get mad if they download crappy thing - they just delete it. (And in most cases 90ties tech demos with software graphics do impress more than anb ordinary x/z y/z vector space visualizer). And the concept is - Engine wins, not the marketing hype impressing thundreds of dorks sleeping at game stores waiting for being among the first ones getting "The Another Legend".
*sigh*
We could download or order ringtones for our plants. Most interesting could be ringtones for cactus-type stuff:)
:)
for example cactus vibrating by ice-t track. Or rammstein. it goes better than Celine Dion "my hear will go on".
On the other hand, could playing fast and harsh dnb on plants be harmful to them?
We all could wait till they figure out how to put RFID tags on every spermatozoid or eggcells, so everybody could track where and what goes on, even before kid has born. And the kid then will have the RFID without any action from parents so there is no way of getting a mistrust from kid, when he realises that his balls are makeing interference to the tv. Nobody to blame - "we all are having and it's for our goos sake and To Make World A Better Place". Only bad thing is that kidnapper will have to cut Your sunnys balls off, to get rid of the tags. Or even worse - when kid get's to know about TV interference, he could try to remove (cut) tag unit off himself. Or put his balls into microwave to disable all tronics in them. So, today, RFID tag insertion surgeries are going on, and all people seem to be more than happy to inject this innovation into their everyday... in Japan.
> it looking at a considerable fine and possibly being forced to open up Windows. how boring i remember there was many cases with such an end microsoft doesn't fear paying pesso - this is also a great way to "overpay" and give bribes along with fine. we also know they woldn't open the sources,or if they to this oficially - we know all the important stuff will be hidden in pre-compiled libraries or their proprietary compiler itself. as you see - there are nothing about cutting out mediaplayer, nor explorer. we all know for sure that windows will not function without them anyways, so they can just remove icons from start menu, and call it EuroWindows or something. boring boring boring it is all about bribes being too low for european commision oldfarts. microsoft will learn on their mistakes and will never underestimate eurofarts. ::chipsets::
They have patented soldering chips one on another? Funny, i've soldered ram, rom and even logic dips and ssops this way from early childhood when i ever came around chips for the firs time. :)
...Until somebody will patent these things too...
Meybe somebody could patent sitting on toilet, so we will have to sit on them reversely or for example stand on it.
There was a time when people constructed modems theirselves (like using tape interfaces of Apple][, and later ZX to connect to other zx or apple).
:)
But then 150bods were astonishing speed. It still is faster then dictating HEX over phone vocally.
I think in future p2p will have to use illegal (modded or underground-made) modems and net interfaces to access another "Underground" layer of a network, or just access p2p (like direct phone connections in times of BBS and Maximus5
I seeUnderGround Network realisation strategy fair simple (on the basic idea and principles). By using multi layers in pacjkets and using various "reserved" fields and padding in everything around. Hard point is to create all that network layer specs. And creating them safe from getting scanned or spyed.
actually got some concepts on that and will try to figure out where and when to publish them to oss people for trying out.
Wake me when there will be some new Linux or DOS virus. The real one. Weighting about 700-1k bytes and with polymorphic and stealth abilities at least.
Funny is that todays antivirus programs are extremely similar to simple string-search programs, if not the same. Old ones, like drweb or avpro were able to analyze code and rate it to be safe of not. so it was also able to find ANY morphing or self-hiding codes, so didn't need updates to function well on new real viruses too. Update just gave it ability to correctly name it, or tell for sure about infection.
I am waiting for the cheerful moment when such a good piece of code will spred around for win3.11 new guis like winXP, NT or any of so called "win32".
Just a tip for new viruswriters - windows has a great thing that anything what it will decide as an "update" will be allowed to replace system files, and later anything else will not be allowed to change these files. So virus can get a good protection against ANY anivirus software. Only formatting will help for sure. However if we combine it with BIOS update (at first reboot after infection) and stealth thingys, like it detects when antivirus program or something is aggresively scanning memory and hiding in other parts of it (for example in data arrays of antivirus program itself). memory segment protection will not take place if virus has gained trusty access to flat memory like antivirus progs or windows sys trash have.
nokia handsets have any vulnerabilities?? What a surprise! Wake me when Motorolas will have any.
:)
.NET, use outlook and explorer and acess your Nokia and pocket pc trough ms briefcase-synchronise-alike tools. All of the mentioned things have proven to be 100% unreliable, vulnerable, clumsy and sometimes dangerous to business of safety/health.
For all the history all of Nokia hardware, both wireless radiolinks and consumer electronics, was ultracrappy and vulnerable to anything, even failing when not in use
Just avoid buying crappy things, and will be in safety.
To those who want to argue - buy ms windows, get on ms
1.) will they create some realdolls from that rubber? :)
2.) there is a crappy movie called A.I. whee all the robots (machas or cyborgs or androids or anything you wana call them) are looking pretty intelligence-impaired and disgusting.
3.) will they create flubber ever? disney invented it, so it's jus up to create one
Well, i don't much see any use of having sources for accessing proprietary hardware on very old (however pretty nice) computer, rather then to make a prot to SEGA MegaDrive, for example, because of arhitectural similarities. Besides general RAM upgrade and such stuff, if would also require getting VideoToaster unit wich seems harder then creating new one.
Because of Intel's architectures alltime weaknesses (dynamic crap - no 0Hz operational ability) Toaster hw can only be used by some other vendor processors.
Using FPGA to interface a Toaster to PCI is harder then to create a new home-brew "toaster".
well - it's dependant on what movies or games Your boygeek likes. :)
If it's something Starwars-alike: a voice transformation gadget to make him talk like darth wader could be awesome (check Viscount Voice Systems HP3). He most likely has lightsabre and wader's helmet already for sure.
if it's Starship troopers - get him one more DVD with it so he'd have a backup copy of that great full-of-geek-exciting-nude shower-room scene he likes some much (despite denying).
If it's Back To The Future: as time machines, as well as flying delorans are not yet sold so widely, hooverboard could do the job if You can find one around. If not, You could get a roller-based one and paint it like antigravitational.
If he has all the walls covered with posters of StarTrek (any of 72/73 episodes), then some alien-guy dress or something could be cool, as well as another lot of posters or stolen thing from a StarTrek gadget and model museum. Or a original script ("the one and only, signed by director"), if he doesn't own one already (You can find such things on eBay easily).
If it's 9 and a half weeks then he's certainly not a real geek.
If it is something of 196x scifi, like The Angry Red Planet - get some dress in style of Those Times and some weird things (from used trash market), what looks like those martians in movie.
If it's Alien then just be Ripley, and get an Alien Tissue in You
---
cheers and all the best and luck to You geek-wide-world, in those not an easy times - The Valentine day...
Sure, most of the advanced communication equipments are having "undocumented console access port" on pcb, for both product development and servicing/diagnostics purposes. And these ports do allow to upload any firmware to any chip onboard or change any settings in eeprom or nvram.
i , myself, am that bad guy developing basband dsp signal processing equipment/modems and creating various speed limiting things inside them.
For example, if you are (technically) on network access through V.35 wirless transfer (may it be anything at Your end - a DSL, ADSL, dialup, cable or anything), in most cases all streams from 64kbit to 2Mbit are transferred through same 2mbit time-slot on wirless system, it's just a matter of stting on the port modules. So by taking 64kbit cable net access, You have already paid for 2Mbit bandwidth. And only the limit set in NVRAM is what cuts down Your speed.
Korg Oasis, being expensive&abandoned crap, was still capable of realy synthesizing singing (crappy but far better then this one).
Vocaloid is crippled PSOLA+WaveTable, with inability to use free vocal signal basis (Vocaloid uses proprietary studio-recorded vocal libraries, instead of any real synthesis).
Synthesing allows more variaton and naturality to voice then using prerecorded "snippets", as well as giving You the freedom to use any voice as a base, if any.
I see that Vocaloid could be some stuff for Thoz Ya Rule Coz Ya Nov Wa'z Supa Reppaz