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Thanks System76!
System76, which sells customized Ubuntu laptops allows you to write in an get a free set of “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers. Thanks for offering this service! It was annoying me that my computer said it was perfect for Windows Vista Basic, when it’s running Ubuntu! So, I now have my Ubuntu stickers.
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Vimeo Version 5
is out! The good news is that it looks slicker. That bad news is that I no have no idea where the heck anything is! Check my stuff out at: http://www.vimeo.com/djotaku/videos
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Yafray
I’ve heard about Yafray so much and I’ve seen that it can deliver VERY photorealistic shots. The Blender internal renderer is not bad – as a matter of fact, it’s awesome. However, for all the really realistic stuff people tend to use Yafray. I tried to use it before, but all I got was a…
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A brief respite from computer animation
I’ve spent a pretty good amount of my free time to try and finish Jose’s Dinner. Now that I’m done, I am taking a bit of a break from animation to do some of the other things I like to do, such as play civ4. The new expansion pack is coming out and I’m extremely…
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Jose’s Dinner is finally complete!!
Thanks to my wife, Danielle, and my brother, Danny, for providing voice talents for the film. What are you waiting for? Go see it here. And check back over the next few days, I have some stuff I’ll be adding there.
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Babalu Grill in Baltimore, MD is a horrible dance club
Their food may or may not be worth the price, I’ve never been there for dinner. However, I do know that their club is crap. I would have to say that tonight was definitely the worst experience I’ve ever had in terms of going out for a night of fun. First of all, I got…
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Dilbert Movie
Looks like, mentioned a couple of times in this post that there will be a Dilbert movie. This one seems to hint that it will be a live movie rather than a cartoon. I think that would be a horrible idea. Cartoon/newspaper comics make lousy movies – see The Flintstones movies and The Dennis the…
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Some pictures from The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
To see more shots, check out my flickr page – by clicking on any of the photos.
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flickr collection of the day
Collections on flickr are groups of sets. Today we look at my “Favorites” collection. Here is one photo from each of the sets inside. From Self-Portrait: From “1 A Day”: From “Famous” Pictures: From Most Talked About: From My Favorites: From Your Favorites: From my pictures from my “Favorites” collection, just click on the link…
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More Render farm metrics
I expected this to be an awesome triumph because I spent a good deal of the weekend trying to get blender installed on bulletbill. It finally got installed, but it doesn’t work. I had to do some editing here and there to try and get it to work and I think that’s part of the…
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Final Exam
I decided to give myself a little “final exam” and practice everything I had learned in Blender so far. So I combined soft bodies, the physics engine, and the fluid simulator. It wasn’t exactly trivial – for example – I had to tell the physics engine to consider the towel to be a ghost because…
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A new computer from Eric Mesa Computing
I got to engage in one of my favorite activities this week – building computers! My father-in-law’s Windows Vista laptop was going so slow, he often thought it was about to kernel panic. So I saw the computer he wanted at dell and spec’d it and found out I could do it for $400 cheaper…
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My latest shots
From my in-law’s 25th Anniversary:
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some more Fedora 7 [light] reportage
They finally got Epiphany-extensions up to the right level! So now the only thing I need to have everything working perfectly again is to finish up editing xorg.conf so that I can get compiz running again. I also submitted my hardware profile to the team via Smolt. Hopefully that means more support for my hardware.…
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Yay, Dual Screen is back!!
It turned out to be pretty easy. I used the nVidia tool to generate my xorg.conf and then just had to do a couple of tweaks. First off, since it was running as a non-privileged user, it wasn’t able to save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So I had to save it to my desktop. Then I had…