Open Source

How to: Scaling WordPress Servers & Deploys from Mark Jaquith

By marco on August 20, 2011

Ever wanted to learn how Auttomatic is handling & scaling the massive WordPress.com installation of 25 Million+ blogs? And, how they deploy code updates and fixes across 3 data centers and 1000s of servers?
Check out the video below from WordCamp San Francisco (WordCampSF) 2011 and watch the talk of Mark Jaquith (WordPress core developer).

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Open Source Film Making: Star Wreck Studios – Wreck-a-Movie – Sauna & Iron Sky

By marco on August 30, 2008

Great post over on Venture Beat about a collaborative film making project using a community to help making a full feature movie without the big budget available in Hollywood, called Star Wreck Studios builds permanent community for collaborative movie making:

If you’ve heard of the movie Star Wreck, then you’re already familiar with Star Wreck Studio’s operating [...]

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MacFUSE: Mount remote server dirs over SSH protocol on MacOS X

By marco on July 19, 2008

I just installed a program and kernel extension which allows me to mount a remote server over SSH as a “normal drive” under MacOS X. Nothing brand new, but I did some research and thought I share what I found out to speed up other people who might need this.
Here is a description of the [...]

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The first open source movie: elephants dream

By marco on May 19, 2006

It is out! The first professional movie rendered with the open source 3D renderer Blender. You can download it here. It is also distributed as a Torrent. I have downloaded the 425 MB version in about 2 h. The HD version with 5.1 Surround Sound took a bit more than 4 h. The original [...]

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