Posted in News on Oct 6th, 2009 2 Comments »
When I’m writing, I mostly use my laptop. I use the desktop (faster, etc.) for any actual 3D work, and for editing so I can have Blender up in one monitor and the manuscript in another. Lately, the desktop box hasn’t been much use so I decided to install the beta of Ubuntu’s next release: [...]
Posted in News on Sep 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’d never updated my WordPress software since it’s installation a couple of years ago. Bad.
Bad bad bad.
Apparently, there’s now an active worm, er, worming its way around demolishing unpatched older versions. With a sense of urgency, I’ve just followed the “detailed upgrade” instructions from wordpress.com, which worked flawlessly for me. My old plugins and the [...]
Posted in News on May 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
Here’s a ripple effect I’m working on for a project:
It’s actually just an image filter! You render your water and objects from directly overhead into a sequence of images. Make the water shadeless white and the objects shadeless black. I’ve written a little image processing Python script that uses that image sequence as input and [...]
Posted in News on Mar 9th, 2009 3 Comments »
The hard drive of our main file server at work died last night around 2 a.m., sending about 80GB of precious work-in-process data into the ether.
Did I freak?
No. Because I keep backups. Twenty-one days worth, with a full backup every ten and incrementals in between. Yeah, it took several hours to acquire a new HD [...]