Makario Lewis » Tech http://makariolewis.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:55:56 +0000 en hourly 1 Ubuntu 11.10 is out now! http://makariolewis.com/2011/10/13/ubuntu-11-10-is-out-now/ http://makariolewis.com/2011/10/13/ubuntu-11-10-is-out-now/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:23:11 +0000 makario http://makariolewis.com/?p=971

The new version of my favorite operating system has been released, and it’s better than ever. Get it while it’s hot.

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My life for the past two weeks. This is my final project for my Media Device Architecture class at Georgia Tech. In this class we learned low level programming in C, how memory works, and what it’s like to program for limited hardware.

I’m glad to finally be done with it; I learned a lot in the process, and while there are a lot of things I could go back and fix or tweak, I’m pretty proud of this. Hire me, Nintendo?

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I won this a couple of weeks ago when I took part in Amped. I need programs like Photoshop and Illustrator for a lot of my courses here (I’m majoring in computational media at Georgia Tech), but didn’t feel like shelling out a few hundred bucks to buy them. (And I don’t steal pirate software.) I’ve been making do with GIMP and Inkscape at home–and yes, they’ve been a great help, and I don’t let their limitations limit my creativity, thank you very much–and going to the computer labs when I absolutely Adobe’s programs (which isn’t as often as you might think), but now I can use the apps at my own convenience. Can’t wait to try them out!

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Hooray! The Blender Foundation released their third movie made with the open source 3D modeling software Blender. Sintel, in my opinion, is the best of their movies yet, with a better plot than Elephant’s Dream and a more serious, kick-butt feel than Big Buck Bunny. And it’s about dragons! : D

Watching this film makes me want to delve back into Blender and look at 3D animation more seriously. I’ve always wanted to be good at this kind of stuff. A few years ago, I spent a few months learning how to use Blender and how 3D modeling worked, and I ended up creating some pretty satisfying results. I’ve forgotten all that information now; maybe I’ll start messing around with it again in my spare time.

Anyway, you can download the movie for free from their website, or you can watch it online here.

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