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Darren Alcorn writes "Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up to bring you digital animatronics through the use of Red Hat Linux." I bet thats a fun system to see in operation.
The article is light on technical stuff, but discusses the computerized puppeteering system
a little.
How would Kermit look in a red hat?
By Larry Dignan
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 30, 2002, 7:20 AM PT
Miss Piggy and Kermit apparently like Linux.
Red Hat, the leading seller of the operating system, said Tuesday that Jim Henson's Creature Shop is using its version of Linux to power its design studio and other digital projects.
Specifically, Red Hat is powering the company's digital performance studio, which is developing the animatronic performance control system--a technology that will make a digital character perform just like a puppet.
A Red Hat representative said Henson's control system is being designed to use its version of Linux. The two companies have been working together since 1998 on various projects, but the studio is transitioning to use Red Hat Network, which provides management and control of Red Hat systems.
The deal is another milepost in what's becoming a growing trend--Linux gaining ground in digital entertainment. For its recent hit "Shrek," DreamWorks used Linux servers to create detailed images for the movie. DreamWorks is also using Hewlett-Packard's Linux machines for its film, "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron."
DreamWorks said it supplanted SGI computers for Linux-based servers running on Intel chips.
Terms of the deal between Red Hat and Jim Henson's Creature Shop, a unit of The Jim Henson Company, were not disclosed.
Aside from the Muppets, The Jim Henson Company has also created films such as "Cats and Dogs" and "Babe."
Slashdot, come for the goatse, stay for the trolls.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Fraggles!
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
The First post.
I just don't know.
Fuck ACS, in any case.
The
Fifth post?
kernel the frog
I can't believe it's not lard!
Bear with me for a second. You see.. Uh sorry, that will take more than one second. So bear with me for 10 or 20 seconds. Wait, did I just waste 10 seconds on this "bear with me" crap? Damn. Make it 30 seconds total will you? Even better: bear with me for a *moment*. There you go. Oh joy, I forgot what I was going to say. Well you got the idea.
Everyone knows they're talking about the Debian project leaders
RedHat has restored Jim Henson to life? I KNEW linux was miraculous ! !
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enough is too much
All right! The Muppets meet Linux! What could be cooler.
We're going to make information free Mr. Anderson, whether you like it, or not.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously /anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no /opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
FEEDBACK
Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.
Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'
One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'
And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.
However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)
In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???
If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
What the fuck?
Well bugger me!
Fuck right off!
IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.
Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.
Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?
Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.
ANUX -- A full Linux distribution... Up your ass!
Just like Linux?
So let's see the Hensen Creatureworks bring Tux to fully animated life!
www.eFax.com are spammers
As I recall Jim Henson is dead. Its quite the shame. Also I was under the impression that his company "Jim Henson Productions" had been sold off to the highest bidder. Do they even exist anymore?
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I love idealists not because I am one, but because they make life bearable for pragmatists such as myself.
I understand the main characters have been renamed to 'Kernel the Frog' and 'Miss SWIGgy'. ;-)
Ugh, such poor puns. But it's Linux, so it's OK.
I'm tired of waltzing for pancakes - Gwen Mezzrow
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
another example of the open sores pedophiles using children's entertainment in their quest for access to children.
Just help the league against narrow information on the internet.
We want information on the internet, specially on slashdot becomes broader and therefore more informative.
Just sign here.
"For its recent hit "Shrek," DreamWorks used Linux servers to create detailed images for the movie." - I thought that another report said that Linux boxes were just used for the rendering - not the actual creation.
Video Game cheats, hints a
Well, I warned you, but nooooOO...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Darren Alcorn writes "Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up to bring you digital animatronics through the use of Red Hat Linux." I bet thats a fun system to see in operation. The article is light on technical stuff, but discusses the computerized puppeteering system a little
There was Kermit, spokesfrog for Wilkins coffee.
The article is rather vague, so maybe I'm not getting this right (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). But it sounds to me like they're saying that they're actually doing the work on software running under Linux? I'm just sort of wondering.. where are they getting this software? Last I checked there's not a huge abundancy of high-end digital animation production software floating around for Linux. It took me awhile to find software that would suit my own purposes for audio recording. Even then, I can do everything and about 3 times more on a Mac with ProTool/Logic or on a PC with SoundForge/ProTools/Cakewalk...
I mean, not that I'm criticizing... it's major step forward for these companies to crank enough power out of RedHat servers to power a production studio. But the article is little more than a vague plug for Linux without some sort of specifics about what exactly is going on.
Sorry... can't resist... seeing as this fell right after the article on transformers... does this mean that the new transformers will run under RedHat? Will Kermit know how to use them? The world may soon know...
The Internet, one place where if you're not right, someone else will set you straight... maybe.
You may want to amend that to Jim Henson Studios. I'm not sure he'd approve of this deal anyway.
What? No more jokes about having a hand up the puppet's tuckus?
First it was viral...
"Crayons taste like purple!"
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one segfault ha ha ha
two segfaults ha ha ha
three segfaults ha ha ha
-- The Count
I might be out of the loop, but isn't Jim Henson Studios owned by Disney, or at least the intellectual rights to the muppets?
Isn't that a case of strange bedfellows -- Linux and Disney. Wonder what Hollings thinks about this anti drm OS handling such precious, marketable creations.
http://cincyboys.blogspot.com/ Everything Cincinnati. Including the word 'Finnih'
Don't people think before posting a headline? Obviously, read the story before posting... But, come on, that headline is pretty bad... Red Hat is contacting the dead?
I loved "The Dark Crystal" and the TV show "The Storyteller".
considering Jim Henson died a few years ago.. RedHat must have some crazy voodoo magick or something..
And Oscar the Grouch now lives in a core dump.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Shocking news reached us today - *BSD found DEAD!! City pathologist James Mulder will do the autopsy later today.
AMD!
How's that for underdog geekiness. When I was at SIGGRAPH last year, the AMD booth had a display booth with a dude using the the Henson "Muppet-tronics" platform running on a AMD-Powered Linux workstation. I think the control software said something like version 0.8. It was pretty neat.
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
The story posted at 1:33 and you posted at 1:34. What does your day consist of? Monitoring Slashdot?
neweresettleerr pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeesssseeeeeeee!
I like petting kittens.
The other day something awful had to remove a parody of Muppet movies, with funny things like "DAS BERT" instead of "DAS BOAT," etc. Kyanaka received a letter, which is shown here.
Needless to say I was shocked to see that someone who was making no money form parodying the Muppets, which are simply carpeting glued to wood, was asked to remove parody content.
I would be very careful if I was RedHat. Its funny how companies like the Church of Scientology (The cult I mean) have more lawyers after the leader dies, in the SOC case, Hubbar croaks, and people are marauding around using racketeering and extortion on "worshippers." Such is the case, to a smaller degree obviously, with Henson. Because the magician, the creator, the worthy one is dead they assemble a cabal of lawyers to viciously and rabidly attack anyone "using" the franchise because they now are charge with protecting against something that is non-Novel, replaceable, duplicateable, old. On another note, Tolkein's son, who tries to "continue" the LOTR franchise by printing his father's notes, was against the move LOTR. JRR's grandson was for it. Its time to let go, and let more creative people take a stab at things sometimes - we are all glad that JRR's son wasn't able to stop the movie. Excerpt - I think some stories are meant to be read, not to be seen. Before seeing this Oscar-nominated movie, Tolkien's son Christopher said, "My own position is that The Lord of the Rings is peculiarly unsuitable to transformation into visual dramatic form." Filmmakers disagree. Two sequels based on Tolkien's Rings characters, filmed at the same time as The Fellowship of the Ring, are scheduled for release in 2002 and 2003. Ah, yes. The franchise cometh.
I really hate when opportunists feed on the carcasses of things. This sort of activity as displayed by the Muppets franchise is so completely wrong. Its not as if Disney was slandering Henson, or parodying and making money off the parody. This company will go so far as to harass independent site owners on the web, they have lawyers trolling to make trouble. I cant say how upset I am at the Henson franchise.
My letter to Henson:
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
Mrs. Bob (Todd): Oh, thank you both so much for finally having us over to your new place.
...(?)... Mrs. Bob: That's awful, eating run-over muppet!
Steve (Mike S): Well, we are so happy you could be here.
Kerri: I'm going to the kitchen, would anybody like anything else?
Bob (Ken): Yeah, yeah. Could I get some more of this neon blue...I think it's meat?
Kerri: Sure Bob. Bob: What is it, it's terrific!
Steve: Isn't it? Bob: Yeah.
Steve: We never had any until we moved to the area, but now we are hooked!
Mrs. Bob: Is it fish? Kerri: No, it's muppet.
Bob: I'll be darned. I didn't know you could eat muppet.
Kerri: Well, yeah, it was Steve's idea. We backed over one our first night here. Bob: Huh?
Steve: Yeah, the little guy was learning his numbers off the licence plate, and it seemed like a waste to bury it, so I said, "Hey, let's fry it up!"
Bob: Waste, not want
Kerri: Oh, no. We didn't run over this one. Steve's become quite the hunter, haven't you sweetie?
Steve: Honey... Kerri: Why don't you show 'em?
Steve: All right. Bob: Come on Steve, (mumbles)
Steve: You're gonna love it, you're gonna love it.
(out the window) I sure could use some help counting to four.
Muppet: Well, we could start by counting the legs on our table. Wha-ooww! (As Steve breaks its neck)
Bob: Oh no. Now, I'll never know how many legs a table has.
All: (laugh) Bob: Hey, they got a lot of meat on there.
Kerri: Oh, but that's a green one. Try for a blue one, Steve. We only have red wine.
Bob: Oh, ooh! Can I try? Would that be okay? Steve: Sure, yeah.
Bob: I wanna give it a shot. Gee, the bus station is far. I wonder what's near.
Big Monster Muppet: Near. Steve: Show us...far.
Big Monster Muppet: Far.... Steve: Yikes! Bob: I was full anyway.
Kerri: Why don't you take one home as a pet?
Bob: That's a great idea.
Steve: The kids will love it! Boy, I sure do wish I knew how to tie my shoes...I may trip...I wonder what words start with the letter "O"...I wonder...
David: Well, let's sing the "O" song, then. And it's gonna help you tie your shoes, too. Did you know that I love that letter "O" Tie up my old shoe-
Mrs. Bob: (over David's singing) I'm not taking that home to my son, because I'll end up cleaning up after it.
David: Hey, let's sing a song about Oregon, Oh!
OH!!! (as Steve breaks his neck.)
Kerri: Stay for desert? Bob: Sure, always have room for that.
With all of these gaping holes that Red Hat's linux installs by default, will this allow me r00t Snuffleupagus? Should I make everyone's favorite wooly mammoth go on a muderous rampage down 123 Sesame St.?
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Way back when, I worked for a company that made (almost as a sideline) Animatronics! One of our clients (In fact, it may have been the only one) was Sesame Park. We made a couple of "Oscars" and "Cookies", and the muppeteers came in to program them - Our breakthrough was the teaching machine. Very cool.
The system was all analog, with the signal FSK recorded onto 30 minute carts. I spent a week each spring recording new carts from the masters. 20 hours of listening to Cookie, 20 hours listening to Oscar
-- 73 de KG2V For the Children - RKBA! "You are what you do when it counts" - the Masso
...that's causing the shift from SGI, it's the fact that Intel's chips have a better price/performance than SGI's platform for render farms.
Microsoft has been powering the puppets in D.C for ages.
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Im glad they are calling Linux by its proper name: The Operating System
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
they've been doing this for years - look at this
Says they chose Redhat due to the RHN software update feature... obviously they haven't used it recently
The two grumpy guys up in the balcony are now Ballmer and Gates.
The real article wasn't misleading, but the
slashdot synopsis is. Jim Henson Studios did not
"team up" with redhat. Redhat is just giddy over
the fact that JH's Studios bought a bunch of
copies. I like seeing linux advance as the rest
of us, but comon. Lets go with REAL advances.
If Mercedes Benz bought 2k copies of XP for their
existing servers, we woudln't say MB teams up with
MS.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
How come no one ever posts a topic with the heading... "Windows powers this or that".
I think you Linux freaks are just happy that it does anything useful!
Back in 1988, Graham Walters and I, at PDI, built a system in collaboration with Jim Henson and his creature shop, and with Kirk Thatcher (who since went on to greater things at Henson), to build the 'Waldo' character for The Jim Henson Hour. The idea was that this character would be controlled by a waldo, which would sense the position, orientation, and mouth angles, and display the character, blue-screen keyed onto the image on the screen in real time.
The beauty of this system is that Henson puppeteers always work by watching their images on TV monitors, so this kind of digital character wasn't even second-nature to them -- it was exactly how they'd been performing characters all along. Among the nice things about Waldo is that he didn't have to hang out at the bottom of the screen with all of the rest of the other puppets. This system was implemented and run on an old Power Series SGI borrowed from Sheridan College.
I saw Davey Goelz (Gonzo, and others) at Siggraph this year, at the Henson booth on the show floor. They're selling a somewhat improved version of the same waldo mechanism that we used 14 years ago. Davey got us out of a jam on the first Henson Hour show, as somehow we lost the mouth-opening information from the tracks that Henson recorded on the set. Davey lived right near us at PDI, and came down and laid those back in, mimicing Jim's style. I don't think that he ever found our, and it's tragically too late now.
Anyway, The Jim Henson Hour was too good, and perhaps a little too different, for American TV, and only 12 episodes were ever made.
thad
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
Does anyone else remember Waldo, the CG Muppet? Let's hope he doesn't make it into a patch of OpenOffice.
"It looks like you're writing a letter! Whoopeee!"
char sig[120] = "\0"
I said it before, and I'll say it again - we need some new moderation categories:
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I will arrange *BSD funerals in near future. You will be informed about the URL address later.
Is n't Yodi digital now...?
Kudos to redhat and all the production studios who are willing to buck the trend and push linux. Next up are all the T.V. production studios. It make take a while for it to all trickle down to the average desktop user, but rest assured linux has a bright a/v future.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
This just conjures up some unsavory images that I'd rather not think about....Those poor, poor muppets... :-)
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Great, perhaps Linux can help Miss Piggy stop crashing.
I think the muppets are great, let's just hope they can get the writing to where it once was.
And "Cats and Dogs" was mismarketed and not the good.
Shocking news reached us today - *BSD found DEAD with a BULLET in it's BRAINS!! City pathologist James Mulder will do the autopsy later today.
Come on.... I've been using Kermit in Unix for close to a decade now.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: America is decaying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered web community when recently IDC confirmed that America accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all server usage. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that America has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. America is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking usage test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict America's future. The hand writing is on the wall: America faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for America because America is decaying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, America continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Dot-coms are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
America leader George W. Bush states that there are 7000 users of America. How many users of other protocols are there? Let's see. The number of America versus other protocols posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 other protocols users. Web posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of other protocols posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of America. A recent article put America at about 80 percent of the HTTP market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 web users. This is consistent with the number of Usenet posts about America.
Due to the troubles of Congress, abysmal sales and so on, America went out of business and was taken over by Time-Warner who sell another troubled web service. Now Time-Warner is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that America has steadily declined in market share. America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If America is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dabblers. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, America is dead.
Fact: America is dead.
It's supposed to read:
He's dead Jim. I can't do anything for him.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer (as he ducks his two heads under one foreleg, and kicks Jim with his rear leg).
First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!
What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux!
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.
Hell, my daughter still cracks up over the post last month about Yoda facing the Count.
:)
"One, Two, Three. Three Jedi, ha ha ha."
Five year olds are so strange.
It's all coded in perl with the Mod::Ressurection package.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop is a company under The Jim Henson Company which is NOT owned by Disney, but rather a european media company.
As for Disney, if my history is correct, right before Jim Henson died, he was negotiating to sell the studio to Disney but, after his death, his sons nixed the deal.
Died from pnuemonia. snicker snicker
Green Frog Linux!
I can't believe it still shows the logo I did three years ago when I couldn't draw. *blushes of shame*
(FYI, http://www.webhost.cl/~lugonzal/ doesn't exist anymore. It's now http://www.lgm.cl/) :)
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
This stuff is really neat to see in person. Using HDPS, a trained puppeteer can create computer graphics facial animations in realtime that might take a team of animators several weeks. There are some images of our system in use available.
You can email me (dhelfman at la.creatureshop.henson.com) if you've got any questions.
Tux, the Linux mascot, lands a major role on Sesame Street.
"Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up"
They must be using the Johnathan Edwards API hack.
Jim's Dead Jim
Ever notice how if a /. story is about anything Linux related that the zealots come out en masse and mod down almost 50% of the comments? This thread is a good example.
The growing trend of censorship by the left (which Linux advocates certainly qualify for) is frightening. We rely on the Left to provide progressive and enlightened contributions to the betterment of society. Censorship, in any form, flies directly in the face of this.
What are the Linux zealots so afraid of? To read that someone thinks their OS sucks? This is ridiculous. Regardless of your choice of an OS, there are millions of geeks ready and chomping at the bit to inform you that your choice sucks, is miguided, ignorant, facsist, criminal, etc...
Linux is failing because the Linux community has been growing increasingly dysfunctional and childish. It was a compelling option for a desktop OS a few years ago but for some reason things have gotten seriously broken in the open source world.
I am advocate for open source and the philosophy behind it. We need to leverage our democratic right for the public to own its own property. But there needs to be a serious reality injection into the open source community. They need to understand the dynamics that make software appeal to the mass market. They have utterly and completely missed the ball on this one, imho.
mje0w!!!1!
I was lucky enough to see that particular feature before it was pulled. It wasn't the best Photoshop Phriday, but it was rather large and had a few gems. My favorite? A reworked Dirty Harry poster starring The Sweedish Chef. "Do yoo veel looki, POONK?!"
So anyone got a mirror? I hope I can't get sued for describing or asking for a "copyright-infringing image." I probably can.
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
I will now eat a rubber tire to the tune of "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio"
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
Maybe I've just had a long day, but the first line from the story: "Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up..." gave me quite a chuckle.
I mean no disrespect; Jim Henson was an amazing man and created some of the most memorable moments of my young (and older) life via The Muppet Show. When I went to college in the late 1988, me and my dorm buddies used to sit around and drink beer from 6:30 to 7:00 and watch reruns of The Muppet Show, then rush off to the dining hall to grab dinner before they closed at 7:30. Those are some of my fondest memories of college.
I also just recently re-watched "The Dark Crystal" on DVD, remastered, and it's even more beautiful seen as an adult.
Looks like the Simpsons foretells the future again...[#AABF20 "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]
... when I worked at Loki, I gave a talk at a LUG (San Gabriel was it? I lived in OC at the time so I didn't know the area at all) in the LA area that was modestly attended. At the end a fellow from Jim Henson's shop came up and chatted Scott and I up, and even invited us to come out to their studio and check things out. We never got around to it, but I wish I had, and of course this article doesn't surprise me as a result of meeting him.
m.
"Sebastian you're in a mess. They called you King of all the Hipsters, is it true or are you still the Queen?" -- B
Redhat also announce the new network called a Ouija board net /dev/belief must be full using GPrayer or the AfterLifeStep Window Manager
it allows users to talk to the dead in a similar manar to ethernet
howver in stead of the standard tools ifconfig
stiffconfig or ifcorpsfig must be used
it only works if the computer really believes so
It is believed the KDE team are already working on a KPrayer, but unlike GPrayer, which was built from scratch, KPrayer is really only a hack on top of WMAfterlife
a spoksmen said "we believe that this give linux and redhat the edge it has already allowed us to sigg this deal and we are talking to the funding farthers drying to get you must use linux as part of the constitution and moses to add the as the 11th commandment"
Bill Gates is Darth Vader :)
That's a neat trick considering that Jim Henson has been dead for a while. Is Linux animating him?
Ever notice how if a /. story is about anything Linux related that the zealots come out en masse and mod down almost 50% of the comments? This thread is a good example.
The growing trend of censorship by the left (which Linux advocates certainly qualify for) is frightening. We rely on the Left to provide progressive and enlightened contributions to the betterment of society. Censorship, in any form, flies directly in the face of this.
What are the Linux zealots so afraid of? To read that someone thinks their OS sucks? This is ridiculous. Regardless of your choice of an OS, there are millions of geeks ready and chomping at the bit to inform you that your choice sucks, is miguided, ignorant, facsist, criminal, etc...
Linux is failing because the Linux community has been growing increasingly dysfunctional and childish. It was a compelling option for a desktop OS a few years ago but for some reason things have gotten seriously broken in the open source world.
I am advocate for open source and the philosophy behind it. We need to leverage our democratic right for the public to own its own property. But there needs to be a serious reality injection into the open source community. They need to understand the dynamics that make software appeal to the mass market. They have utterly and completely missed the ball on this one, imho.
mje0w!!!1!
This is terrible!
When did Red Hat die?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I was at the first MuppetFest in December 2001. One of the best weekends of my life. I saw this technology in action for about a half hour. It was one of the highlights of the festival.
Dave Goelz (Gonzo) and Steve Whitmire (Kermit) were on the right side of the stage, standing in front of these really-big-college-refrigerator-sized boxes, each containing a computer, and topped off with a control system and video monitor. The control system was basically the metal exoskeleton of a puppet head. They also had access to a keyboard and some other control, but they weren't highlighted.
They were just improving with Kemit and Gonzo for a half hour straight, on this big screen. These guys are freaking hysterical with their characters. We were blessed with about six hours of live improvisation during the whole festival...the puppeteers sitting on the stage, with their characters in their lap, just talking with each other and with us. Watching them in video form was no less magical. As I said, it was one of the highlights of the festival.
As far I could see, and as we were told...
The control system, to the puppeteer, feels exactly the same as when they use a normal puppet. Probably 80% freedom of movement, compared to an actual puppet. Of course, it is ultimately attached to the computer, but it was designed from the beginning to be as expressive and comfortable as possible.
To move a character around in its environment requires extra programming. During the demonstration, you only saw Gonzo and Kermit standing side by side. Extra programming is also required to do more complicated things, like moving individual fingers in a realistic fashion.
(Steve Whitmire was showing how he could move Kermit's finger, flexing his pointer finger back and forth for, like, fifteen seconds. Everyone quickly realized that the finger was right over his crotch, and started laughing. Steve was quite embarrassed :' )
Even cooler still: This system can be hooked up to a piece of software (to control virtual muppets, as I described) or to an animtronic device. This was also demonstrated.
They brought out the cat from the movie Cats and Dogs. The cat was sitting on a table, with five (!) people underneath it, each controlling an appendage (everything but the head and neck). The actual puppeteer's performance was recorded. The main computer/control mechanism was not to be seen. The cat performed a song, which I guess was in the movie (but since I refuse to see the movie, I can't know this for sure).
It was really cool. The cat's head and neck was controlled by the "recorded" performance, and he was belting it out like a real broadway singer.
Then the curtain pulled even farther out, and you saw that the performer was there. Singing and puppeteering. During the whole last verse of the song you saw both him and the cat. One moment in particular, the performer was really into his singing, and was leaning back and squinting his face, and you saw the cat having the exact same expression. So amazing.
(Kermit and Gonzo looked just fine, as we were watching them live on screen. But we we told that the performance can be recorded (SAVED, right?) and then the images can be rendered to look even more realistic. I personally was surprised, cause they looked perfectly acceptable to my eyes. Not to mention the backgrounds and clothing that can be added... One other thing this system makes possible: Puppeteers could be spread across the country, but perform their characters on the same screen, in all/just one of those locations. Wow.)
To see a few pictures, go to MuppetCentral. Here's the specific page (get there by clicking on "Articles" in the left-hand toolbar and then "MuppetFest" towards the top right).
Click on "MuppetFest Photo Gallery", which pops up a new window. Choose "Day Two" from the drop down, and then go about fifteen pictures forward. The first picture of note is the cat on the table. The next four or five pictures show the animitronic cat and then the virtual Kermit and Gonzo.
Here's a search on Google that shows a bit more information: http://www.google.com/search?q=henson+virtual+pupp eteering&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0.
No longer deem fit for real work, *linux has been relegated to puppets. FreeBSD is going to take over the world. So much for *linux domination. Ha ha.
I used to be a big Linux advocate, unfortuantely it seems that Linux has been becoming more and more unstable. The hundreds of different distributions of Linux all have their pros and cons, but there is no centralised package or ports system. Want a package for Linux ? Ok, cool - DEB, RPM? RPM? That's the most popular. But don't try using a Mandrake RPM or a SuSE RPM on RedHat.
Linux has given up its usefulness for graphical installers and Windowesque gimmicks. The code bloat is unbelievable. Unless you roll out your own distribution or use a minimalist distribution like Slackware, the default installs for RedHat, Mandrake, etc are huge, Windows-like monstrosities.
So what?, I hear you say. Linux is stable and secure. Wrong again. The Lion worm proved that Linux is not as secure as one might believe. The fact that VMs get changed in the middle of a stable release branch (2.4.x) shows bad organization.
It took Linux years to overcome its awful filesystem problems, and now journalling filesystems are available. But speedwise, compared to the FreeBSD FFS, they are slow and cumbersome, and have yet to prove as reliable. FFS Softlinks are a few generations ahead of any journalling filesystem on the market.
FreeBSD is far better organized, the ports and packages collections are better synced and more reliable, the system is more stable and easier to understand. The firewall included with FreeBSD has been proven and has a far better track record than ipchains or iptables, the latter having security problems in its first week or release, the former having no stately inspection and being a complete mess due to its shell-script bound layout.
But Linux has more software than FreeBSD!, scream the Linux die-hards. What they fail to realize is that 99% of Linux software runs under FreeBSD. I haven't encountered a Linux program that didn't run under FreeBSD. Sure, I've heard reports by trolls that certain software doesn't work, but all the software I've tried works, in fact, even faster than the native Linux versions in most cases. To the VMWare troll: Yes, VMWare does work under FreeBSD.
FreeBSD vs Linux is a debate that won't ever be settled, but people who have used both generally prefer FreeBSD for mission-critical tasks. Those who claim that FreeBSD performs worse than Linux either haven't used FreeBSD or are trolls.
I won't say that FreeBSD is the best Unix variant on the market, but the best open source Unix variant? Yes. Solaris is still tops, but in terms of Free (Open Source) systems, FreeBSD is probably the best all-rounder. NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux all have their respective places, but overall, FreeBSD will probably take over most of the open source server market, at least in organizations with serious management.
Jim Henson is DEAD, you insensitive fucks!
Surprised by Unicide! (fuck this shit)
Linus sounds exactly like the Swedish Chef!
Unfortunatly, Bill Gates sounds exactly like Kermit.
What is a Muppet ???????