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South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade
Lam1969 writes "Computerworld reports that South Park producers are turning away from digital linear tape and direct-attached disk storage to a linear tape open setup complimented by Xserve RAID disk arrays. The show's creators never thought South Park would last nine seasons, so a storage hardware upgrade was necessary. J.J. Franzen, technology supervisor at South Park Studios in Los Angeles, says he chose Apple hardware based on a "gut" feeling. From the article: 'While South Park may appear technologically amateurish with its character cutouts, over the past nine seasons the cartoon series has added a great deal of storage-consuming detail, including backgrounds and crowd shots that can take up to 100MB of memory each.'"
Because its way better.
...Cartman roshamboed someone for it.
I'm pretty sure that their providers of DL Tape are probably saying "They took mah job!"
Sweeeeeeeet, but you get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
I don't know... I think that "gut feeling" was actually caused by a noise 92 cents below the lowest octave of E-flat.
Despite the terrible strain on the animator's wrists.
Bet they sure could save tons of HD space if they just had one clip of Kenny's death.
The sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
One word: Hellastorage
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
Just don't name your machine "kenny." It's not good to have it crash every episode - even if you can reboot it.
First time I saw the show, I figured it was PowerPoint.
If you think about it, maybe there are a few missing pieces to the rationale for choosing Apple hardware. But doesn't it feel like the right thing...right here in the gut? Because that's where the truth comes from, ladies and gentlemen...the gut.
Did you know that you have more nerve endings in your stomach than in your head? Look it up. Now, somebody's gonna say `I did look that up and its wrong'. Well, Mister, that's because you looked it up in a book. Next time, try looking it up in your gut. I did. And my gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.
Now I know some of you may not trust your gut...yet. But with my help you will. The "truthiness" is, anyone can make IT decisions. I promise to feel IT decisions!
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it kills kenny faster and more efficiently.
Only Apple servers will do the job when the South Park guys decide it's time to play "kick the server."
Why is 15TB of storage news?
Once they dupe the story 7 times they will be able to handle 200TB.
Are you kidding? The south park guys would love the Large Hardon Collider.
erm, what?
So the Xserve RAID disk arrays flatter the linear tape setup with words of admiration? (I think they meant to say "complemented").
If this wasn't South Park, nobody would care.
Yes, hence why it's on Slashdot... us nerds like the show and like to hear stuff about it. It's called entertainment, but if you'd prefer boring, humorless technology reports 24/7 might I recommend this site.
Why don't they just wait for it to come out on DVD like everybody else?
For those of us who are ignorant and don't see why someone would use Apple hardware over good commodity stuff, what's the advantage in going with Xserve stuff?
You plug it in and it works.
It's sort of like the underpants gnomes, except there is no step 3.
LaTeX + Beamer
I know this is off-topic, but most of the discussion so far has been pretty uninteresting, so I was wondering how other slashdotters feel about the "Blood Mary" episode of South Park being pulled off the air and basically being censored from TV or any other future reproductions because it offended a few religious conservatives.
Here's another news article on it featured in the North Korea Times.
I'm sure we'll see everyone with ipods, using itunes on ibooks, a new Apple tree infront of the school and a crooked Macintosh logo bumper sticker on the school bus.
:)
Nothing like trade
There, see? Sometimes it works.
God damn it, tape drive! Thats a BAD tape drive! That's MY SAN! Mom!
I need... to change... my pants...
I don't hate Apple at all, but I found this amusing anyway.
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Just go with your "gut feeling" and buy whatever your feelings tell you.
Are you sure it comes from your gut?
I think that special feeling might come from the cockles of our hearts, or maybe below the cockles, maybe in the sub-cockle area, maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys, maybe even in the colon. We don't know.
Don't jump to conclusions that these feelings come from the gut. My colon tells me you could be wrong.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Phase 1: Upgrade storage hardware.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
... insert obligitory 1, 2, 3, Profit! statement here.
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This is Slashdot, where people think Linux on a Xbox is a solution for something.
Many here will never understand why people buy stuff from actual companies, and things they just pull out of a box and turn on and go on with their life at that.
I'm sorry, you must not know the cardinal rule of /.
If you know all about something, you're not aloud to talk about it. Now, just relax, sit back, and let numerous uninformed teenagers with no experience give us their groundless opinions. Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts!
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