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My Left Arm and the Royal Wedding

Submitted by root on

Everything old is new again. My left arm has been in the wars since 1980. It has taught me a lot and I still need it. It’s hard to know where to start this story or where it ends. Basically in 1980 I was an average eight year old kid attending primary school in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide. My parents split up a few years earlier and my father took up a job in North Africa teaching the nomadic farmers around Ksar Chellala in Algeria about modern farming practices of raising livestock such as inoculation against disease and the like.

Let's have a thought about Net Neutrality and you.....

Submitted by root on

OK so the FCC has decided and net neutrality is dead

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/14/16776154/fcc-net-neutrality-vote-re…

But for the most part it had no effect on your life, facebook still works, netflix still works, what is the problem.

The problem is that the internet is supposed to be free, not just for some but for everybody.

The robots are coming to take your jobs... welcome to last century.

Submitted by root on

There has been a lot of hype in the press about the advent of artificial intelligence being able to automate away jobs.
The thing is that if I was in the job of being a bullock driver delivering sacks of wheat, or a schooner sailor doing the same. I really ought to think about my career options.
In my own careers I have seen and even been responsible for automation reducing the labour force.

The refound lost artform of Slack

Submitted by root on

I was just thinking back over my career as a digital artist in the Multimedia and Film Visual effects industry.

Back in 1999 we were short in modelling resources on a project so we hired a bloke who will go by the code name Chappy.

Chappy was a nice enough bloke, but had basically been long term unemployed and was overjoyed at the possibility of having fulltime employment.

MtoA OpenEXR Meta Data via Python Scripting Arnold and Maya EXR

Submitted by root on

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Basically this post is a call for help, and once I have it solved it will become a reference for anybody else trying to do the same thing in the future.

In the Maya Arnold Render Globals there are some fields to Add MetaData with a "Name", "Type" and "Value" field available.

Replacing Capacitors in a Cisco 877

Submitted by root on

Just when you think you have reached the level of maximum geekiness, you step it up a notch.

I work making visual effects for Hollywood movies, that is pretty geeky.

I am a mature aged student studying Computer Science, reading pure math on a Sunday, that is pretty geeky.

I have participated in a Community Wireless Networking group Air-Stream in fact I designed their logo, that is pretty geeky.

As a result I happened upon having a DSL router, that is made by Cisco that brings the internet into my home.

I bought it second hand off ebay in November 2014.

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