http://stephengentle.com/blog i like computers Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:59:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was quite appalled to go into Harvey Norman yesterday and to see that they are selling HDMI cables at anything from one hundred and fifty to six hundred dollars! The cables aren't even that long - they had four metre ones for about $400, with a 10 metre one ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/tech/expensive-hdmi-cables-are-a-scam/ As it is, people are having enough trouble doing post production with 4K digital video from the RED ONE. But RED Digital Cinema don't seem to care, announcing a slew of bigger and far better cameras just an hour ago. Now you can build a camera with a 3K, 5K, ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/digital-cinema/as-if-9k-was-not-enough-new-red-dsmc-scarlet-and-epic-system-announced/ Well, there's still about eight hours to go until the big announcement, but RED's Jim Jannard has posted some new pictures of both the RED Scarlet 3K camera, and the 5K RED Epic. Like all the images posted since the redesign, they are small, really close up, and probably just ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/news/new-red-scarlet-camera-pictures-released/ In less than 24 hours, on Thursday the 13th of November, RED Digital Cinema will release new information about their upcoming Scarlet and Epic cameras. These new cameras were announced at NAB 2008 to suit the higher and lower ends of the digital cinema market. Their existing camera, the RED ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/digital-cinema/new-red-scarlet-info-to-be-released-in-24-hours/ I recently made a new website for my operating system project, Symmetry. The old site I was using for it was basically just the default Wordpress theme with a slightly different header image. The new site is a completely custom theme that I made, and I think it is a ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/news/new-site-for-symmetry/ I recently bought a new graphics card for my computer. It's a Nvidia GeForce 9600GT with 512 MB of memory. Here's what it looks like: Now, seeing that this card was pretty recent, it wasn't supported by the graphics driver that shipped with Ubuntu 8.04. Now, I did try to update ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/linux/move-window/ I have been taking a look at Adobe's new Buzzword word processor. Basically, Buzzword is a flash based web application, and I have to say, it is very nice. As you can see from the screenshot above, the text rendering absolutely brilliant, with access to real typefaces like Myriad and ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/cool-stuff/adobes-buzzword-word-processor/ This is an interesting new feature coming soon to X.org and the Linux kernel - it's basically moving a video card's mode setting code (which makes the card change resolutions and so on) out of the user-mode video driver, and into the kernel. It probably doesn't sound exciting, but it ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/linux/kernel-based-modesetting-in-linux/ A render of Scarlet with the clip on version of RED's new mattebox Ever since RED Digital Cinema's new professional pocket camera was mentioned at last years NAB tradeshow, there has been wild speculation circulating around almost every camera and video forum and website around. Most people were expecting an HD ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/digital-cinema/scarlet-3k-camera-revealed-at-nab/ I have updated the blog to the newest version of Wordpress recently. In fact, I am running the bleeding edge version from the Subversion repository. So now when I need to upgrade, all that should be required is SSHing into the server and doing an svn up in the directory. You'll ... http://stephengentle.com/blog/news/updated-blog/