It’s A Binary World 2.0

Eric Mesa | June 30, 2007

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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Eric Mesa | June 27, 2007

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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Eric Mesa | June 26, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 25, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 23, 2007

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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Eric Mesa | June 22, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 22, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 19, 2007

To see more shots, check out my flickr page – by clicking on any of the photos.

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Eric Mesa | June 17, 2007

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 in this sentence.

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Eric Mesa | June 10, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 10, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 9, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 6, 2007

From my in-law’s 25th Anniversary:

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Eric Mesa | June 6, 2007

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 [...]

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Eric Mesa | June 5, 2007

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. [...]

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