Month: November 2005

xsan admin don’t bother with the GUI

Apple

in case you should consider to get an xsan I would recommend not to bother with the ‘Gui’ for the Xsan Admin utility.
While you still can break the thing make yourself familiar with ‘cvadmin’ in the terminal.
Once the thing is in use that so called ‘Gui’ will be just getting in the way. Much like the early OS X Server UI it is a bad hack that does not conform to the Apple UI guidelines. It will not give you any feedback if there will be an update or not on what you see. Managing terrabytes through a wacky interface is not even not fun, it is terrifying …

cvadmin is your friend. As much as Xsan can be your friend that is …

when OS X starts

Apple

this is what is going on.

Nice to know in general. But especially if things get weird.

free Avid

misc

Who would have thought that you would get free Avid software one day.

convert movie for a Motorola Razr under OS X 10.4

misc

You probably need Quicktime Pro.
You might want to try a shorter piece first.
Open the movie and select export.

3G parameters:

Video options:

{looks not so good}

Audio options:

{sounds even worse}

Not pretty, but it works. YMMV

Journalists like Seth Lubove

media misc technology

Forbes writes about Digital Domain

Yes, that’s the company that did the effects for Titanic. Last century.
Maybe the company is stuck there, I am not sure. The Author of the article certainly is:


Competition for assignments is cutthroat, and increasingly powerful off-the-shelf software from Autodesk, Microsoft, Apple and others lets anyone with a workstation concoct the same stunts as the big guys.

Microsoft? Maybe I am missing something here, but Microsofts involvement in the visual effects industry is as important as in lets say the poultry industry: Office, and that’s it.
Autodesk: yes. Apple: yes. But Microsoft? They sold Softimage to Avid in 1998. Have they bought it back? Or is the author just stuck in the last century like Cameron or DD?

genes and history

misc

This abstract drifts between fact and interpretation.

microsoft classifies Sony Audio CDs as malware

misc

The rather busy people over at the Microsoft Anti-Malware Technology Team have added the Sony DRM rootkit added to their list.

No matter how Sony got into this mess, they had weeks to get out of it better. Now I am afraid it’s just to late.

look

art internet misc

A random internet find

I like the look.

sony vs. 1 person

misc

Mark Russinovich not only discovered that Sony CDs install some malware on your PC, he is also doing an excellent job in chasing the half assed Sony responses.

The EFF has posted a list of ‘infected’ CDs and how you can identify them.

redmond vs. internet

misc

Bill Gates sent this email to his peeps at Microsoft I suppose.

It is interesting that he thinks that all his coders in their cubicle could even touch was has been brewing in so many heads.

So far nothing came close. Bill misses the point that what is happening on the internet is not building “the next Microsoft”.

It is replacing big entities with thousands and thousands of smaller ones and one point five behemoths: G & Y.