I stumbled across and amazing free ebook recently- DroidMaker (the link takes you to the authors blog, where he’s release the PDFs). The story is an amazingly detailed history of the formation of Lucasfilm and the evolution of what became Pixar. I done some 3D modeling and rendering in the past (using Lightwave) and it’s…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancers – no paid AMIs?
I was setting up a load-balanced pair of Nodes on EC2 and ran into a snag: you can’t add paid AMIs (we sometimes use the real RedHat AMIs) with the elastic load balancers! So I kicked off some Centos 5.2 images from RightScale and moved everything over. This is going to cost RedHat, since now…
VLC 1.0!
It’s released: VLN for OSX…