Surf’s Up DVD #1
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Surf's Up was the #1 seller on DVD in the first week of it's release making $8.1 million.
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18 Oct ’07
Handy Linux Shortcuts
Copy files with tar, this preserves time/date stamps and permissions nicely. tar cf - * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -) Backup and a restore a mySql database: mysqldump…
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17 Oct ’07
Surf’s Up on DVD
Surf’s Up is out on DVD (Widescreen Special Edition) this week (also available on Blu-ray). The DVD has a lot of special features and I’ve noticed a lot of great reviews: (more…)
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13 Oct ’07
Boring
Over the past few years, I've done many interviews (sometimes, literally throughout world). After the travel and jet lag, sitting in a room interviewing one person every 25 minutes for…
25 Sep ’07
Run Synergy Automatically during login on a Mac
Synergy is a great program that let’s you share one keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. I’m using it to connect a mac to a PC.
I wanted the synergy server to be running on my mac automatically every time I login. This feature is a button-click in the gui version on the PC but there are some more involved instructions on the official site for accomplishing this on a mac but it required using a login hook (which I didn’t want to do). After some experimentation, here’s an alternative that uses a shell script, and an automator script to get the job done.
19 Aug ’07
Wrangling Waves
J.P. Beeghly: Hey Rob, can you get down to Dana Point within 3 hours? Rob Bredow: Uh, yea. It moved up? J.P. Beeghly: Yup, Sean thinks the swell is coming…
17 Aug ’07
FxGuide features Surf’s Up at Siggraph
John Montgomery from FxGuide.com caught up with me at Siggraph to shoot an interview. It makes for a nice summary of some of the wave techniques we presented at the…
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9 Aug ’07
Surf’s Up Course at Siggraph
On Monday, August 6th, the Surf's Up team will be presenting a half day course detailing The Making of the Animated Documentary. If you can't make the course, you can…
3 Aug ’07