April 2008
15 posts
Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers... →
Interesting side effect that Google can be used as a tool for counting infected servers. [via daringfireball.net]
"Earthquake@Home" distributed seismic warning →
Using laptops’ accelerometer for a distributed seismic early warning network. [via EvilMadScientist.com]
TV-B-Gone →
Great: “[…] it only has a power button that allows you to switch a TV on or off”. I’ll get one the next time when I’m in San Francisco.
Björk in 3-D: The 'Wanderlust' Video →
Making of Björk’s Wanderlust video from the great “Volta” album (don’t be surprised that mushrooms have been involved in the creation of that video). A link to the full video is also provided (although in 2-D and low resolution) [nytimes.com].
The ARRI DI Companion →
ARRI’s “DI Companion” by Harald Brendel is a good in-depth reading, if you want to know more about the “digital intermediate” process.
Throwing bones in the air as "2001" turns 40 →
Review of the legendary, now 40 years old “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick [via daringfireball.net]. On a technical perspective it is interesting to mention, that the entire movie has been shot in Standard 65mm film. In contrary to today’s movies produced in the “digital intermediate process” (which is mostly filmed on 35mm film and scanned in 2048x1556...
Heathrow...
…remember that old Monty Python song?
Xsan Inode Fun
For the records: I don’t know exactly, if this falls into the category of genuine tweaking or wild frobnication, but extracting and using inode information from an Xsan metadata server’s inode catalogue using the cvfsdb command might come in handy in certain situations: An example of disaster recovery using the cvfsdb command in Xsan (longer article with more examples here).
April 1st →
Need some Rick Astley? Choose a video at the YouTube start page today and enjoy!
Bobby Darin: Beyond the sea →
As seen in the BIOSHOCK commercial: Bobby Darin: “Beyond the Sea” Stumbled across this song in my iTunes library and reminded me of that TV ad. A great fit, these two.
Productive black-out →
The motivation for this software is similar to “No Links Please!”: Less distraction for the weak mind.