It’s A Binary World 2.0

Eric Mesa | May 30, 2008

Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
Here’s the Blender Institute’s latest movie.  It’s much, much better than Elephants Dream.  Check it out!

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Eric Mesa | May 30, 2008

I’ve been reading a lot of reviews recently about the upcoming Banshee 1.0.  (Arstechnica and Linux Magazine, for example)  It looks like it’s going to be an awesome release, but I wanted to see where it is now and compare that to Rhythmbox.  As I mentioned here, I switched to Rhythmbox in May 2007 (a [...]

Category: Linux, Mono, Music | 2 Comments »
Tags: Banshee, Rhythmbox

Eric Mesa | May 29, 2008

This song is awesome and, best of all, it’s been released under a Creative Commons license, so I can share it with you all without fear of the RIAA breathing down my neck!
I first heard Code Monkey on a recent episode of Linux Outlaws. It’s a song about a code monkey who is having [...]

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Tags: Code Monkey, Creative Commons, Jonathan Coulton, Portal

Eric Mesa | May 25, 2008

On graduation from Cornell!
Although, since you’ve done a summer job every summer, like me, you probably won’t notice that you’ve graduated until winter comes around and you don’t get a winter break.

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Eric Mesa | May 23, 2008

I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that 5000 people have seen this one picture of mine.  It’s nuts!

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Eric Mesa | May 20, 2008

Blender 2.46 was released yesterday and it has a whole bunch of new features- mostly created to facilitate production of Big Buck Bunny.  What I’m looking forward to the most is hair/fur rendering, any tools that make armatures easier to skin (the bane of my animation hobby!), a cloth simulator, and the improved sequencer which [...]

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Tags: Blender 2.46, Blender release

Eric Mesa | May 17, 2008

[emesa@mario ~]$ uname -a
Linux mario.mushroomkingdom 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[emesa@mario ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
176 ls
172 eog
81 ./makeSpiral.pl
80 cd
61 ./makefibonaccicollage.pl
58 mplayer
51 ./makePolar.pl
36 mv
28 flickr_views.py
24 exit
and root:
[root@mario ~]# history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” [...]

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Tags: bash, history, History Meme, meme

Eric Mesa | May 15, 2008

As I mentioned here, Micro$oft has provided yet another example of why digital restrictions management does nothing but hurt legitimate consumers.  To remind you, this is when Microsoft turned off the servers for its ironically named “playsforsure” DRM system.  These songs, which consumers would told, would play for sure on any digital media player containing [...]

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Tags: Dive Into Mark, EFF

Eric Mesa | May 14, 2008

I’ve used Damn Small Linux (DSL) quite a bit in the past. Before getting my laptop I used to use it to be able to get a Linux desktop at my in-laws’ house. I decided I wanted to try out some of these other lightweight Linux distros that everyone is always talking about. [...]

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Tags: Damn Small Linux, DSL, Feather, Feather Linux, Joe's Window Manager, JWM, LiveCD, Puppy Linux

Eric Mesa | May 13, 2008

Fedora usually has a wacky little story to go along with each release.  Here’s the one for Fedora 9:
An ancient text prophesised this day would come, detailing the fate of
all who are willing to accept what is offered to them:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/index.html
And that day has come: the Computer said “I will convert these
unbelievers, and now that I [...]

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Eric Mesa | May 13, 2008

If all goes well, then as this post appears at 1000, Sulfur will be released to the mirrors and available for download!  Enjoy!  If you download from scratch, be sure to use bit torrent so you can share the bandwidth.

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Eric Mesa | May 13, 2008

Yesterday, to my surprise, when I went to LinuxToday, I found that I had been aggregated!

For those (like my wife) who don’t know what this means, it’s more or less the equivalent of a garage band being discovered and being invited to play at The Apollo.  I’ve wanted to have my Linux-related blog posts aggregated [...]

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Tags: gNewSense, LinuxToday

Eric Mesa | May 12, 2008

Penguin Pete has started a very interesting view of what drives people to use certain operating systems. You may find part one a little heavy, especially if you don’t know the history behind it. Basically, Pete has been slammed quite a few times for his blasphemous viewpoint that Ubuntu is a watered down [...]

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Tags: Penguin Pete, Sociology

Eric Mesa | May 11, 2008

Flickr has a secret algorithm for producing a list of the most interesting pictures. So here are what Flickr thinks are my 10 most interesting pictures. Do you agree?

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Tags: flickr, Interesting, Top 10 Interesting

Eric Mesa | May 10, 2008

I’ve been reading so much about all these Linux distros and I’ve been curious what they’re all about. In particular, Mandriva’s been calling to me a lot because I think that, had Ubuntu not been around, I probably would have installed it on my laptop. I’ve certainly had a bit of interest in [...]

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Tags: ForeSight Linux, gOS, Mandriva, openSuSe