Big Buck Bunny was released on May 30th. It’s great to see that not only operating systems can be open source. I really love the open source model. This movie is the result of a Blender Foundation initiative know as Project Peach. The movie is licensed under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0.
Download and see, hey it’s free. I was thinking of getting the half HD version, since my screen doesn’t do Full HD, but what the heck, live a little.
Don’t forget to buy the DVD if you want to show your appreciation.
Where can I gen some cool podcasts for my new Ipod ?
And the hits just keep on coming. This time, a gift from a “special someone”. An Ipod Nano Silver. It’s actually quite pretty, and I love it. It’s one of the best gifts ever. Somebody is nurturing my inner geek, and it feels so good.
As for the gadget itself, well, of course there were quirks. I managed to crash Rhythmbox a couple of times. After a lot of trouble trying out Virtualbox with USB support trying to get iTunes to work, I gave up and went to my sister’s which runs Windows natively, and managed to register the IPod there. So it seems, that you need to register it first. After the registration and firmware update, Rhythmbox worked flawlessly and I’m off listening to some tunes. I haven’t tried photos or videos, but all in due time, since I have to jugle this with a Playstation 3, and a newly borrowed F1 game.
I need some time of work to play with all of this. Dgeez…
This was a full weekend. I bought a new gadget, a Sony Playstation 3, which is actually not just another gadget but rather a full fledge media/computing/gaming rig. At least I hope so. I already have PS3 buddies, ps3 downloads, and what not. And all of this in between breaks of Grand Theft Auto IV. Ain’t it cool ?
The gaming experience exceeded what I was hoping for, but the SIXAXIS so far seems to kinda suck. I’m only playing it on a 22″ inch Half HD screen, which isn’t that bad. All around, I’m pretty happy with my new kickass setup. I’ll try to put some Ubuntu Linux magic running on it, but only when I get a break from GTA. I’m still deciding whether to plugin an external hard-drive or to stream from my Linux server, so I can watch some movies/tv-series. But all of this in later posts probably.
Most of us just subscribe away at services that either give us feature or fun. What we end up with is a huge amount of profiles, with different user names and passwords (maybe not), where we provide the same information, such as email, birthday, photo, etc. This poses many privacy threats that most users aren’t aware of, such as linking all of those profiles or accounts together, revealing that a Facebook user has a Flickr account and likes to listen to music on LastFM.
IdentiFight aims at raising user awareness towards how much privacy is being breeched right now, just by using common identifiers e.g. an email address, in different profiles at different websites. In their own words:
Given an email address, IdentiFight searches as many sites as possible and finds accounts that are linked to that email address. It then presents a bit of information about each account, plus details for how to change the privacy settings for each site. There are also links to each site’s privacy statement.
