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Interview w/ South Park Sysadmins

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the interesting-stuff dept.

Darkfell wrote in to send us a great interview over at Ars with the South Park Sysadmins. Its pretty long, but its actually an excellent piece with lots of nuggets about the shows production, the hardware and software that gets used, and the video games they play. A quite excellent interview... highly recommended.

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  1. Marina del Rey by daviddennis · · Score: 2

    If you work for an Internet company in the Marina, you probably work in this building complex - the same one I do. Periodic blackouts/brownouts, erratic elevators, no air conditioning on weekends, etc. Click the link for my gripe page. :-(

    However, it should be noted that South Park's folks don't work here - I'm about an inch from the beach (but on the other side, so no ocean view :-( ).

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  2. Hardware and Software used???????!!!!!!????????? by grappler · · Score: 2

    Will somebody please tell me why anybody would care what hardware/software was used to make South Park??????

    I could do that kind of animation on my old 386. South park is not about computer effects, nor should it be.

    It is modern shakespeare:
    * very simple, non-flashy presentation
    * all kinds of dirty, lowbrow humor for the 'groundlings' to sit and drool all over themselves about
    * biting social commentary that more intelligent people will appreciate and laugh about

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  3. Render Wrangler (was Re:Good interview, but...) by Jeff+Ballard · · Score: 2

    I work on a project called Condor that many people use to queue up things like renders.

    Its an oppertunistic batch queueing system. Meaning that it will run jobs on your machine when you are not there. In the lab I work in, I'll easially be able to get a month of CPU time out of the machines on people's desks that would otherwise go unused...

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  4. Re:Good interview, but... by lost_packet · · Score: 2

    Ars is one of the better sites (IMHO) when it comes to online content, especially among the hardware/gaming news/reviews sites. Sharky Extreme is horrendous when it comes to the "go to the next page to read more" nonsense. You're lucky if you get three paragraphs to a page. I believe that the reason for this is the operating model of these type of sites: advertising. They generate revenue from advertisers. To make more money, they split up the articles so you have to load a new page - and a new ad - to keep reading. If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate the correction.

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  5. SGI O2000, I GOT TO get me ONE of these by Bud^- · · Score: 2

    For the admin machines, Linux is the system of choice as we need something very reliable for running the critical software like DNS, postgres SQL, mail, and so on. We use Apache for our intraweb server, although we run it on Jesus, our O2000 file server.

    What is the deal with this people don't they know the Jesus O4000 file server gives BETTER performance in tcp/ip applications like apache than the outdated Jesus O2000 file server?

    And didn't they know the Jesus O2000 file server shuts down and refuses at boot every sunday? due to a bug hard coded into the CPU.

    I will say one good thing about the Jesus O2000 file server, it can change C code into binary in no time flat using gcc and the open source extentions 'water2wine.so'