Fedora 13

A very good piece of work. Fedora v13 runs fine in an Acer 5542, I has tested the KDE live CD and the Gnome Live CD, both of them works very well, they load the network drivers, graphics drivers and sound drivers. IMHO the Fedora’s custom SPINS are a good idea, but we need more…. [...]

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FIFA World-Cup 2010

The worst match was offered between Holland and Spain. The Final Game, was an ambush, karate kicks from Holland, an useless referee. A very bad winner attitude by the Spaniards. An horrendous show without goals. Spain is harvesting what was done from a decade ago. Players like Villa, Iniesta, Xavi and Casillas has been consolidated [...]

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Facebook

What is facebook? Perhaps there are many answers, but Facebook’s current settings looks like a primitive form of the society’s digital memories. A big digital memory about society’s activities his inhabitants and other potential interesting things. Resembling a digital collective human memory, can be a big step forward or not. The risks are that world [...]

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AI in the CGI World

As the applications of AI expands, some products and papers shows interesting things. Craft Animation Studio offers time-reduction on keyframing and rigging based on AI techniques. Another paper

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Softimage’s new rendering

Softimage|XSI (avid) was a powerful software fully integrated with mental-ray. Today, Softimage 2011 (autodesk) still renders old scenes from XSI. The following two are a sample. Softimage 2011 doesn’t rendering this old scene. It’s a simple model composed of several subcomponents, the rendertree/shaders are simple materials emulating gold, silver and other metals. This image was [...]

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