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August 09, 2002
Geeks behind the scene of Lord Of The Rings

Just discovered Bjørn Hansen's blogging from OSCON, the Friday 26th of July notes are really interesting: Open Source in VFX, its a short excerpt of the session held by Milton Ngan, the IT Manager for Peter Jackson's Weta Graphics.

I always liked the flashy machines from SGI (Although they have been falling behind for a long while now, IMHO), but its nice to see Linux taking over as the primary platform for the movie industry.

Posted by jarle at 06:59 PM
Missing in action: Flash player 6 for Linux

With the impressive work being put into making the Flash 6 player work better on Windows and Mac, I am still baffled by the fact that there is still no Flash 6 player for Linux.

Granted, the desktop market isn't huge on Linux (although its growing, faster now thanks to Lindows and cheap Linux powered PCs) - but Linux is the chosen system for many embedded systems. I would have thought Macromedia would want to make Flash 6 player available for those as fast as possible.

Would anyone be willing to give an estimate to when we will be seeing the player released for Linux? Mike?

Posted by jarle at 11:18 AM | Comments (9)
Mike Chambers has a posse

I think the posse was inspired by the "Flash Enabled Posse", and its gaining ground. I'll admit it, I am a Mike fan too! ;-)

BTW: Sean of Eat Orange got me to write this little posting, with his posting about a comment on my blog. Pretty funny huh? :-D

Posted by jarle at 12:16 AM | Comments (1)
Optimaze review

My friend and fellow Flash'er Jens over at Flashmagazine.com has written an indepth Review of Optimaze!

Well worth a read if you want to know Optimaze'es strengths and weaknesses.

Posted by jarle at 12:05 AM