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LOTR Special Effects at OSCON

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-see dept.

gnat writes "The IT Director for Weta Digital, Peter Jackson's company doing the digital effects for the Lord of the Rings movies, is keynoting at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. They use a ton of Linux and Perl." FWIW I believe Hemos and I are speaking too, but I'm much more interested in seeing this LotR thing.

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  1. Translation for non geeks by sllort · · Score: 2, Funny

    FWIW I believe Hemos and I are speaking too

    FWIW is an abbrevation for "For What It's Worth" - just a little code-talk word that geeks use to communicate with each other. I looked it up on AOL. Hope this helps out all the normal people reading.

    1. Re:Translation for non geeks by Grape+Shasta · · Score: 2, Funny

      I didn't know that one, so I guessed and ended up reading it Elmer Fudd style: "Fwom what I Wemember" :) Cwazy Taco...

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  2. Perl? by Fastball · · Score: 5, Funny
    use LOTR::Ringwraith

    Get that module to CPAN stat! I want it! ;)

  3. I'm glad Taco & Hemos have made up... by schwatoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I didn't realise they weren't speaking.

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    I have trouble with passwords among other things.
  4. Gandolf did look a bit like RMS by JeffGB · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always thought that Gandolf looked a bit like Richard Stallman.
    Maybe it was just the beard.
    Lord of the Token Ring

  5. How are you gentlemen? by Smelly+Jeffrey · · Score: 1, Funny

    All your LOTR Graphics are belong to OSCON. Enough said.

  6. Re:O'Reilly conferences are laughably expensive by spaten-optimator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it was either charge $1024, or $512. Like true computer geeks, they can only think in powers of two. Methinks the organizers have read Snow Crash one too many times.

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    Disclaimer: The above statement probably includes half-truths, because real truth is too complicated.
  7. Check this out. by dingo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I came across this the other day and thought it was really funny, make sure you read it in order though.

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    The Borg assimilated my race & all I got was this lousy T-shirt
  8. Perl? What for? by prockcore · · Score: 3, Funny
    I wonder what they were using Perl for.

    Then it hit me, they must be using this to replay dvd versions of production tests under linux :)

  9. High end Linux use? by rgriff59 · · Score: 2, Funny
    They use a ton of Linux and Perl.

    Is this the same linux that isn't worth a Quicktime player? I thought that was just for those bottom-feeding free-as-in-beer types who never spend any money. Please pardon my seething sarcasm. Maybe more coffee will help. Sigh.