Maximise your browser window and take a look at this animation of a famous scene from The Matrix. Be warned that the animation is 4MB in size so it might be wiser to wget it first!
Author Archives: Donncha
Linux Plays Starring Role in 'Sinbad'
Nice! According to this article, While Linux graphics played a role in the animated movie “Shrek,” “Sinbad” is the first movie the studio has made entirely using Linux.
Back in Cork
Yes, I’m back at home. Sorry Mark, can’t review LXG for you!
Going Home
I’m going home tomorrow night for 2 weeks. I’ve been in Chicago for almost 6 weeks now and just got used to looking for cars on the wrong side of the road, and American lifestyle in general. I’ll be back though and staying until the end of August!
Here’s the view from my desk here. That’s The John Hancock Center where Martina and I had dinner a few weeks ago. From the 95th floor we looked down on the fireworks at Navy Pier!
Perfect solution to spam: a reply
The Register has a reply from Mark McCarron, the author of the “perfect solution to spam” mentioned here a few days ago.
I’m gobsmacked reading through it. He boasts of software piracy and damaging school and public computers! He says that he tortured his computer teacher. He says that his GIEIS servers won’t use TCP/IP, but will be “connected to the rest of the Internet via a bridge (gateway)”.
Conclusion
I am right, everyone else is wrong. Told you I was arrogant.
T3 – in a word…
crap.
I wasn’t expecting much after seeing blog headlines from other sites but I was really disappointed by the film. The first half hour is great, that car chase is exciting at first but it goes on too long. After that I wondered where the story was. Sure, there was one or two scenes with dialog but I never felt for the characters like I did in T2.
Save yer money and go to Legally Blonde 2. heh.
Rainbow Cocktails
This is a great photograph and description of how it was done. Cool!
The state of just about everything at OScon
This article is a good summary of keynotes at OScon.
Many 2.5/2.6 changes were put to the test recently when Linus Torvalds announced his move to the Open Source Development Network and the OSDN site was slashdotted. Thanks to improved efficiency in the kernel (especially the virtual memory management system), the system running their Web site stayed up through the onslaught…
But there is no doubt that Apple computers play a critical role at this conference. In fact, it’s loaded with Apple lovers. I haven’t tried to do an official count, but the silver laptops are gleaming out all over the place.
Tab Cleanup
I really wish Moz FB had session support.. Here’s a few pages I’ll be reading tomorrow morning:
- Daring Fireball: Independent Days
- Act Your Age
- Build an XML-Based Content Management System with PHP
- We’ve found the perfect solution to spam – Justin Mason is out of business. hehe.
- Business models of news Web sites
- Mozex – an extension which allows the user to use external programs for things like “view source”, “downloading”, etc.
Developing your Images
This simple tutorial is a good introduction to the workflow involved when editing images. I like the author’s idea of adding more sky!