Playing with Radiohead

Thom’s Digitized HeadYou may of heard of Radiohead’s latest video House of Cards. Instead of using traditional cameras they used 3d plotters. In addition they released the raw data along with example code.

You can download the code from Google code. And there is a Radiohead YouTube group created especially for fan made videos.

I managed to get the examples running on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron. The jikes included with the package did not work, instead install jikes via the Synaptic Package Manager. Then rename your jikes to jikes.old and create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/bin/jikes jikes

Now you can run processing. To get the Radiohead data working follow the various README instructions.

And if you want to take it a step further, here is a list of links for everything I could find:

Automatic Login with Ubuntu

After a few days of playing with my Unbuntu installation I finally found the automatic login options: For Hardy Heron 8.04.1

System->Administration->Login Window
Local Tab — Changes look
Security Tab — Allows auto login

Nice, but when I rebooted I was just given an equally annoying prompt which asked for my keyring password. I found this answer in this forum post. You can just delete your unlock password entirely.

System > Preferences > Encryption and Keyrings
Under Password Keyrings click on “login Automatically unlocked when user logs in.”
Click “Change Unlock Password”
Enter your old password, but leave the new password blank.

And now you have a normal insecure auto-login.