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xuming on January 7th, 2010

呃,目前还没有到电影院看过阿凡达,心向往啊!网上讨论的阿凡达,很多都是关于剧情啦,影响啦等等,嗯,充斥着无所不在的文艺青年。 一些阿凡达制作的背景资料:(信息来源:http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/avataruseslinux.shtml) * 阿凡达由一家位于新西兰惠灵顿的名为 WETA Digital 的公司渲染制作,这家公司同时制作过 Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, King Kong, and Avatar 等电影的动画特效; * 渲染服务器采用的是 RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Cluster,具体节点数未知,大概在数百台以上; * 服务器硬件采用的是 HP 的刀片服务器; * 使用的是 64 位基于 Linux 的 3D 建模和渲染软件。 相关: Linux in Hollywood:http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/video_linux_hollywood/

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xuming on December 23rd, 2009

It’s nearly Xmas now, and it’s time to look back and review all the things happend in the year 2009 related with open source world. According to the blog of EOS Direcctory, there are some clear trends and patterns that can be highlighted: Govenmental push and push back In the year 2009, US government pushing [...]

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xuming on August 30th, 2007

Linux、FreeBSD 下有形形色色的 terminal emulator,如:aterm, xterm, Eterm, rxvt, Konsole 等等等,到底如何选择呢?各自又有什么特性呢?哪个适合我?今天在网上看到一篇不错的文章,原文网址: http://ayaz.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/aterm-xterm-eterm-rxvt-konsole-oh-my/ 内容如下: aterm, xterm, Eterm, rxvt, Konsole, oh my! “Konsole” supports transparency, but it is slow (and most importantly for me, does not have the “fixed” fonts that xterm uses). “xterm” is cool, but I want transparency which it doesn’t have. “Eterm” is, again, slower than [...]

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