A quick update to the site – “Movie reviews” category was renamed to “Movies”. I have, at times, something to say that is related to movies, but is not exactly a movie review. I will post these bits to “Movies” now, instead of “General” as I used to.
Month: November 2004
Samuel L. Jackson
IMDB is a ultimate movie resource. Not only it provides with a quick information like ratings, casts, and production on most movies you will ever going to see, but it also has everything you want to see when following up a movie – soundtrack listings, photos from the set, quotes, discussions of other people who saw the movie, etc. One particular feature that got me interested recently is actor’s biographies. IMDB provides a nicely summed up short biography, with a list of interesting facts from the life of actor or actress, personal quotes, and much such.
I’ll use Samuel L. Jackson as an example to kind of information you can find out without searches, comparisons, and translations. Why him? I find him interesting. I have seen him in many movies and he always delivers good acting. It does automatically mean that the movie he plays in will be good, but at it assures that there will be at least some quality acting. I respect him for that. And I am interested in knowing a bit more about people that I respect.
Twisted
“Twisted” on DVD continued my rather prolonged day although it is just before 10:00 in the morning.
I think that this movie is seriously underrated at IMDB. It is a nice crime film with a wicked story, changing pace, good camera work, and a few celebrities in it. Pace deserves a special mentioning. It is kind of slow during the first half of the movie and story unfolds in a way that seems to be very obvious and predictable. Olga even started to get a bit nervous in a way that when all this mess is going to end. But don’t be tricked. There are few changes of perspective along the way. Really. Few. But all of them are tightly packed into the second half of the movie. In fact, now that I think of it, the first half was totally devoted to character development, and the second one – to the story itself. Yup, that is.
There was some good acting delivered by both Ashley Judd and Samuel L. Jackson (why am I still surprised?). Supporting people did a decent job too.
Because I liked the movie and because of the low rating at IMDB, I will give it a 7 out of 10. I think it is worth it.
Fun with Prime Numbers
Slashdot links to an excellent article today. If you ever will need to find a prime number or to find a way to find a prime number, than look no further. This article explains few algorithms on finding prime numbers, starting with a simple brute force and ending with one that can spit out more than a billion numbers within an hour no an acceble computer. Of course, there are even better algorithms out there, but you need a place to start, and this is definetely it.
P.S.: Although this should go into category “General”, I’ll put it in computers, because I will be looking for it there afterwards…
P.P.S.: And one of the first comments in the discussion mentions /usr/bin/factor and man factor
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is out there
If you, somehow missed it, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser has been released. Slashdot has an announcement too.
If you want to stay up-to-date with Mozilla news, visit often (read: subscribe to RSS at) these sites: Blogzilla, mozillaZine, and Spread Firefox.
If you are looking for Firefox 1.0 RPMs for Fedora Linux, you might want to check this link.
Congratulations and kudos to the developers and testing teams!