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DIY Render Farm - 186GigaFlops

May 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I did this post up on the GGP blog a few minutes ago, but I wanted to pass it along to everyone here too in case (gasp!) you’re not a GGP subscriber [rss].  A guy put together a six-node render farm using nothing but raw components and a special diy case using… wait for it… [...]

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CityTV Breaches Creative Commons

May 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This week CityTV was cited by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for failing to uphold the copyright of a man who published photos on Flickr under a Creative Commons license.  Though the ruling doesn’t actually compel CityTV to atone for their actions by crediting the photographer (Joel Charlebois, aka uwajedi).
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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · News

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