I will miss Youtube. It’s as close I want to get to TV these days. BlogsNow is crawling back into existence. Slowly. It would only find two links worth mentioning right now. Bothsurrounding the Page meme. I wonder what the Republicans will come with. Maybee bomb North Korea?
Meandering through youTube’s suggestions I watched a bit of Daily Show (there is lots) and finally ended up with a video almost dedicated to Maf54.
Went and saw “flyboys”. Bad movie. Boring movie. Aces high I remember more vividly than the flick I endured yesterday. It has been more than twenty years ago since I Jack Gold’s ww1 movie.
The effects where mostly mixed. A couple of interesting yet subtle transitions. Comps were partially horrible. Smoke plumes comic like. The dog fight sequences, and there were lots, were executed alright from the fx side. Just that they did not work as a sequence, story or something that seemed worth following. No sense for dramatic guidance. They should have rented the original Star Wars movie. Or watched a couple of people play a video game for that matter.
Then I thought I transfer 2GB of memory from my glove box into one of my servers. I shut down the machine, put in the memory and turned it back on. Just that mysql decided that it’s tables were corrupted. Those had been growing over time. After 24 hours of constant fix attempts I gave up, and hit the reset button. Twenty million blogs down the drain. Again.
On top of that it turned out that it seems not to have been the disk that failed in the spanking new Nas server. In midst of a three Terrabyte transfer the unit became ‘DEGRADED’ again at the same position. A rebuild takes a couple of hours. Tomorrow morning I know better if it is the sled or the connection.
Summary: too much data, not enough content.
If you should run an exabyte 1×7 robot and get an error message like:
libTool V1.62 - (c) 2002-2004 Exabyte Corp.
/dev/sg0 - Device recognised as Exabyte Magnum 1x7
/dev/sg0 - Closing the door...Sense=04H [Hardware error], ASC/ASCQ=44H/00H
Internal target failure
Failed
when you try to load a LTO tape, then make sure, that the Barcode faces IN. The arrow on the cratridge might lure you into doing it the other way round and will result in this cryptic error message.
I remember people swearing and cursing getting bonding to work under linux. Things have changed. Following a decent and simple set of instructions for network bonding under linux (yes this is anchor text for google 😉 ) it only takes a few minutes. And even works.
Nice.
Aperture 1.5
Finally it can deal with images that it has NOT ingested into it’s own ‘vault’ system.
Took Discreet Autodesk Advanced Media Division years to figure that out for moving images.
Apple was faster, but started with the 1.0 Version in the wrong direction nevertheless. Apple is very very secretive with their product developement. Great if you want to fill the pockets of the world population with mp3 players. Not so great in the pro Application space: People making their living with and around a software will give you very very good quality feedback, information and direction. If you set up a couple of coders and mad scientists in a lab, and let them boil in their own juice for a while, you get something interesting. But also something that more often than not will not fit into the real world. Like Apertures file handling.
I have gone on the record with my skepticism regarding the ‘RED camera’ before. I actually was suprised that Jim Jannards company was able to show moving images a feeks ago at IBC in Amsterdam. This weekend was a busy one for the camera maker: They posted 2K jpegs on their site. And then reported that somebody had broken into their offices. Stealing development resources they said. “Red” has always been an interesting exercise in marketing. Or you could also say “hype generation”. Hence the title of this post. The internet plays an important role in this. It is mostly a couple of internet forums were people have ‘discussions’. Actually quiet heated ones by now. Not a pretty sight I must say.
This weeks it’s trying to blame 9/11 on Clinton. Last week it was the rejection of the Geneva Convention. What it is ? Voter mobilisation attempts for the hard right wing people. Nobody votes in America. So if you get a core group ralied up enough to move their overweight asses of the couch and go to the polls then you win.
Karl Rove knows how to get those asses moving. He did so in 2004 with the gay marriage issue. A couple hundred thousand people went to vote against Soddom and Gommorah, and the whole country get another four years of the most incompetent administration it ever had. And, yes, once upon a time a guy called ‘tricky Dick’ ran the greatest country on earth. Still, the current regime tops it all.
Back to Mr Rove. He actually likes it, if people start a discussion. About Torture for instance. If he can get those people of their couches, because they think otherwise all of Al-Quaida get’s a free Disney Cruise as punishment than he want. He knows all to well that there is no way of convincing that large part of the population that his written off this President and his gang of Clowns. As long Rove’s people get rallied up enough to vote he wins. That’s why they roll poor Mr. Clinton out: The right wing voter base hates him. Still does, and by trying to tag 9/11 on him they try to brush over the little Iraq debacle.
occasionally.
It’s gettting tricky. Flying I mean. I once spent a (paid) week on some obscure island, waiting for the laptop I had to check in to arrive. It was a compaq 286. Yes, I am that old. Since then I say good bye to whatever I check in. When looking for said laptop in Frankfurt they showed me the amount of lugage that got stuck in one week at the airport. Since it had been months since the thing found an interested owner it was kind of pointless. But fun too. Hours and hours among suitcases.
rant inspired by an interesting solution to the check-in problem
Watched Confessions of a dangerous Mind. Part of my catching up program. I need to fill up a couple of years of movie history. DVD’s are how people will judge a movie. It’s too bad if the movie falls technically apart on the media that it will be remembered from. There are lots of little gem’s in this show. It is very sad that the DI of the 40s flash back scenes falls entirely apart in it’s DVD rendering. Very likely much more a technical than a creative problem. It may even have looked interesting on film. The DVD however revealed a sole posterize orgy of 3 colors in those crucial scenes. A bit more care during post could have gone a long way here. This is especially sad since the attention to detail is so amazing in the rest of the movie. And it would have been pretty easy to avoid a mistake that takes you out of the movie for no good reason before it really gets started. Maybe Disney will go back to the original negative for the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD Version. Yeah, right.
If they can find it.