Re: [BLUG] Anyone here use Blender?

Cool. Would you be interested in just getting together sometime to
talk about Blender? Anyone else interested in this?

If you don't know, Blender is a high quality open source 3D modeling,
rendering and animation tool. It can also be used for things like video
and audio editing.

Mark

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:11:55PM GMT, adam [docpeppernuwer@yahoo.com] said the following:
>
> I would like to learn blender (and 3d work for that
> matter) and know several people who would like to
> switch.
>
>
> --- Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
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> >
> > Does anyone on the list use or know someone in
> > Bloomington that uses
> > the 3d software Blender?
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Re: [BLUG] OLPC

Here's an extensive evaluation of the OLPC XO-1. Some of the pics are
really detailed.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=218
>
>
> */Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com>/* wrote:
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> From: "Simón Ruiz" <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com>
> To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] OLPC
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:50:13 -0500
>
> The one from Red Hat hasn't been updates in over 6 months.
>
> A much more up-to-date one is available. There is an Xubuntu based one
> that works on all the hardware we've tested it on
> (which is neat because if you log out of the
> X session they log you into by default, you change the session and log
> directly into Sugar, otherwise you can run the emulator from the
> Applications menu from within XFCE).
>
> And there's a more recent one, based directly on the Red Hat builds it
> seems, which we HAVEN'T gotten to work on the hardware we've tested it
> on. It might work for you, though:
>
>
> Hope you have an awesome day!
>
> Simón
>
> On 12/11/07, adam wrote:
> > As for the One Laptop Per Child project, I hopefully will have
> scraped together enough for one (2 of course) by 12/31 (the
> deadline for the buy one get one deal) and should have recieved it
> in time for the february meeting. Also it runs is a lightweight,
> redhat engineered, linux based OS called Sugar; which is available
> as an ISO here:
>

http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/
> > That's all the news from Lake Wobegon,
> > Adam
> >
> >
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Re: [BLUG] Anyone here use Blender?

I would like to learn blender (and 3d work for that
matter) and know several people who would like to
switch.

--- Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

>
> Does anyone on the list use or know someone in
> Bloomington that uses
> the 3d software Blender?
>
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> http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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Re: [BLUG] Announcement

Scott,
Thanks for your work as prez. I haven't attended as many meetings as
I'd like, but have gotten a lot out of the ones I did attend. I hope
all works out well in Texas.
Chad Gillis

Quoting Scott Blaydes <sblaydes@sbce.org>:
> Dear fellow Linux geeks,
> My wife and I are moving back to Texas around Jan 1st due to her
> health. I won't be complaining about the warmer weather though.
> Mark Krenz has agreed to take over the role of President for the time
> being until a more permanent President/Dictator can be found.
>
> I would like to thank everyone for the great time I have had being
> involved in BLUG. While I will still be on the mailing lists, I will
> miss seeing everyone in person at the various events. My hope is to
> take some of the energy and ideas that I have gotten from BLUG
> members and use it to help grow the West Texas LUG in Abilene.
>
> Now, a round of applause for your new President Mark Krenz. <cue
> cheesy hail to the chief music>
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes

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[BLUG] Anyone here use Blender?

Does anyone on the list use or know someone in Bloomington that uses
the 3d software Blender?

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[BLUG] January get together

Well, there doesn't seem to be any interest in finding another
location to hold large meetings, so I thought instead we could have a
"get together" with a smaller group of people.

So whoever is interested, let's meet at 6:30pm on Thursday January
17th in Suso's conference room. There will be pizza and drinks and we
can talk about whatever. I was thinking that I could show you some of
the things I've been doing lately like setting up an Asterisk server
(VoIP), Postfix gateway, Xen, Apache, etc. It would be a good
oppurtunity for people to see how a web hosting provider runs. Or
whatever comes up, its up to the people who attend. This will not be a
sales pitch or anything like that. Its just a place to meet that won't
kick us out when they close.

Getting to the office is pretty easy. Go to the front entrance of
Fountain Square Mall where the green awning is. Go inside and back to
the security desk where the red payphone is (the Tardis). Instead of
traveling to another dimension, take a right and go down the stairs and
we are right there. I'll either be in the main office (008B) or the
room next door (008).

See you there,
Mark

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Re: [BLUG] Time for a discussion on time

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> I'm sorry but I have a problem with this:
>
> date +"date: %Y %m %d, Standard week number: %W of %Y, ISO week number %V of %G"
> date: 2007 12 31, Standard week number: 53 of 2007, ISO week number 01 of 2008
>
> IMHO, week numbers should only refer to the current year because
> that's really the only place they are useful, in dividing up the year.
> Obviously in human terms, this week is made up of two different years,
> but in computer terms, that is too confusing. If I run a command that
> returns 200801, that tells me that its already 2008, but its not.
>
> Thoughts?

The ISO week doesn't use months and has years that don't align completely
with the gregorian year. Look up "week dates" in relation to ISO 8601.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

Excerpted:

The system does not need the concept of month and is not well connected with
the Gregorian system of months: some months January and December are divided
over two ISO years.

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