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Nov 24
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
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- Begin by installing MobileTerminal via Cydia (alternately, you can login via SSH from Terminal.app or a Cygwin-equipped Windows PC).
- Type “login”, you will be asked for a login name which should be “root” then a password which should be “alpine”.
- Type “passwd” then tap return, you will be asked to type the new password. Tap return and type the new password again.
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“ Religion, is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
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Wish I had a little religion sometimes.
Earlier this year, Side Effects Software announced HQueue, a Python-based job manager which can distribute Houdini jobs and Mantra renderings to local render farms. The same HQueue technology is used by Houdini to give artists easy access to the Amazon EC2 Compute Cloud. To get started, artists simply add an HQueue node into their Houdini scene then point it to the Cloud. The scene files are then organized and uploaded to the Amazon network where HQueue is preloaded and ready to render shots and run simulations.
When using the cloud, artists can choose from several configurations based on memory and processing power. A 32-bit machine with 1.7 GB of RAM is only 50¢ per machine per hour while a 64-bit machine with 7.5 GB of RAM is only $1.99 per machine per hour. These rates include the base Amazon costs and licensing fees for the Houdini software tools. Other configurations with even more memory are also available. In addition to per hour rates, there are minimal costs for uploading and downloading the files at around 10¢ to 17¢ per GB.
Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
Nov 23
golden retrievers explain atoms
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DeLorean (Back to the Future) MOD for CRYSIS (via Tiridio)
Rumors about Apple’s still-unannounced but wildly anticipated tablet are flying like crazy at the moment, in a fashion not unfamiliar to the last few months before we finally got to see the iPhone. And, as Ed told you last week, content providers are making pronouncements about getting their stuff on the device, believed to be optimized for reading newspaper and magazines.
Conde-Nast and our old friends at Wired, in particular, are announcing that they’ll be on the Apple Tablet and have already developed a special multi-touch magazine format just dying to be present at launch. They’re so confident about this, in fact, that the holidays-only Wired Store in Manhattan features a concept mock-up of the tablet and its interface, which you can watch in the above video.
Some things to note:
- The design concept is…a big iPhone, more or less.
- The interface actually looks quite nice, and I could imagine reading it.
- There is no way that anyone at Conde has handled an Apple Tablet. They couldn’t possibly be this publicity-seeking or bold about their pronouncements if they had been brought behind the Steve curtain.
- Also, the fact that Wired worked with Adobe to create the new format is a clear sign that they’ve had no contact with Apple. Anything based on AIR or Flash is unlikely to be compatible with the Tablet, for all the reasons there is no Flash or AIR on the iPhone
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New tumblr iPhone app features:
Search across tumblr, your acct, or per blog
geotag mobile posts
built-in web browser: no more losing your place.
full advanced options (draft, queueing, tags, etc.)
Nov 20
Journalists Cover Microsoft, Using Macs
It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire” at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think they’d have a more sympathetic crowd.
If this pic posted by Jason Dunn over at Windows Phone Talk is any indication, most journalists, even the best and brightest from sites like Engadget and Slash Gear are Macs, at a non-scientific ratio of five to three.
New evidence has come to light that the vast, ice-encrusted oceans of Europa may be harboring Earth-like life that lives on the oxygen-rich waters. Time to plan your extraterrestrial fishing trip? Maybe.
