今日本の天気はやぱっりわかりずらくで！今週末を予定しておりましたNexus Creative campは悪天候の為、残念ながら中止にいたします。ご興味を持って頂いておりました方にはたいへん申し訳ありません。
すでにキャンプ場へご予約された方は今日中にキャンセルを入れて頂ければと思います。
また今週のPixarからのNexusスペシャルゲストのスタジオ視察を快く引き受けてくださいました皆さんにも感謝いたしております。
日本のCG及び映画産業を世界へ紹介し売り込んでいくと言うNexusのミッションはこれで第一歩を踏み出せたと思います。
皆さんの割いて頂いた時間はお金にも代えられない貴重なものです。
日本のCG産業の未来の発展を確信しているからこそこのようなプロモーションを進めて行きたいとおもっています。
日本の優秀なCGスタジオとの協力で過去数ヶ月の間にNexusへゲストをWeta　Digitalをはじめ, Sony pictures Imageworks,Pixarなど有名スタジオからのゲストに来て頂きました。
詳しくはブログをご覧ください。
Nexus creative campは友人関係を通してお互いに助け合い力と成っていくもう一つの方法です。
ですのでメールボックスのチェックをお願いいたします。

It's the time of year when the Japanese weather is hard to predict and unfortunately it looks like this weekend will be rained out so the Nexus Creative camp will have to be canceled. Thanks to all those who showed interest.
If you have made a booking at the camp site please give them a cancellation call by today.

Also thanks to those who opened their studios to this weeks special guest from Pixar, I hope it inspired you. The Nexus mission of promoting the Japanese CG and film industry around the world is now in full force. No profit is made from this promotion, I only do it because I have faith in the Japanese CG industry. Your time is greatly appreciated and is worth more than money.

Co-operating with the best Japanese CG studios, within the last few months we have had many guests over from famous studios including Weta Digital, Sony pictures Imageworks, and Pixar.

The Nexus creative camp is another way for us to join forces and help each other through friendship. I am planning the next camp right now so please keep an eye on your mailboxes.

Just finished giving Tony Apodaca a short tour of 3 large CG studios in Japan. As always he did not disappoint myself or his other Japanese fans. Later we went out with some of my research friends from Japan, France, and the US.
After dinner it was an even a greater honor having him around my office. Unfortunately I had a little too much vino by that time and the explanation may have been a little blurry. Not to worry too much as most people don't get what the hell I am ranting about most of the time anyway ;) Also somehow I doubt anything I would have shown could be in any way new to him.
Anyway we got him back to the hotel safe and sound, hope he can come again and inspire this city (and me) once more.
Thanks Tony.

Trick #1 update all lower dirs
I have a little trick from cygwin I go to my build dir (cd /c/olm)
for x in `ls`; do echo cd $x && svn update $x; done
this go into all dirs and updates them
you could just do:
for x in `foo bar foob`; do echo cd $x && svn update $x; done

Trick#2 Copy MS Subversion settings to posix
Oh if you want to use the keys and settings from lets say RapidSvn in cygwin do:
cp -a ~/.subversion/servers ~/.subversion/.servers.orig && cat /c/Documents\ and\ Settings//Application\ Data/Subversion/servers ~/.subversion/servers

Trick#3 add all new files
another trick is to add all my new files in a current dir (is there a better way?)
svn status|grep ? |gawk '{ print $2 }'|xargs.exe svn add

Finally got started on my new research project.
It took a couple of days to get my new subversion system working just
the way I wanted it..
Subversion itself was not hard to setup, about 20 mins from source.
However, because I am using multi repositories with ssl keys I came
across a nasty bug in apache.
Anyway its all fixed now, got the first pieces of code written today.
Uploaded it to my svn server.
Now each client has a single key for webdisks, subversion and private
pages. Making secure remote dalies, codesharing and realtime previews
possible.

I was over Jaist ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) today, to see Rob Cook's ( VP of Advanced Technology from Pixar) speech on Pixar's films. It was a great speech however I would have liked a little more technical info. Still any chance to see behind the scenes stuff from Pixar is always of great value.

Been preparing my laptop for the next project. Installed XP on an external usb using hardware encryption.
Currently the laptops internal disk carries Linux on a proprietary crypto system that I designed.
I made it company policy to have all clients data encrypted. Unfortunately XP does not have a satisfactory solution for this.
So here is my solution.
You see XP won't normally install on an external usb disk.
I wasn't given a recovery disk so what I did was copied the OEM i386 folder from the iso I made off the original hard disk.
Modified a few inf files.
Then made a new XP install disk from this collection.
Then installed the new system on the crypto external disk.

Works perfectly, Windows key , as recieved from the laptop maker.
So now I can carry my laptop round like normal and work on Linux. If a client requires me to demo/code on XP I can bring along the external and dual boot! All while keeping my privacy obligations.

Oh happy geekery.
I have a similar setup in my office, but using a separate partition. I also can boot the XP inside linux as a virtual machine using the disk as a raw image. However because I am in the graphics industry I sometimes need the raw Gpu power which a VM won't offer.