it used to be the bible that saved peoples lives.
Interdubs has a ftp gateway. If the quicktime creating program supports uploads after compression then you can have a pretty nice workflow. Even better: having a watchfolder and posting things to interdubs would be one drop.
Of course it was not that easy: It turns out that Sorenson Squeeze Version 4.3 can either do a watchfolder or an upload to ftp. But not both. If you try it, then it will log in to the ftp site, and just sit there, not uploading anything.
Luckily Sorenson Version 4.5 works as advertised. Posting is a one stop thing.
Thirteen years ago I worked for the first time on a SGI computer. “Super Computer” as it’s owners liked to call it whenever they could. They spent more than you would pay for mid sized house on it’s memory alone. It had 1GB RAM. Telling people casually about this machine back in the day I had to emphasize: No, not the hard drive, the RAM is one Gigabyte. There were a handful of computers of this size in Germany back in the day.
Yesterday I saw somebody beach-ball on a MacBook. She just uses it for the normal communication things you do these days, no ‘heavy’ applications. This computer had the same memory size: one Gigabyte. And it is not enough. The machine was swapping. Horribly slow.
Something is a bit odd here: Using one gigabyte you could store one million pages of text. Or one thousand books with a thousand pages each. Or you could fill the screen of the laptop with 350 layers of images. 349 of them being invisible.
Memory is cheap these days. But wasting a whole GB is something that might
lead to the wasting a whole 16GB in a few years. That memory one could use probably for real useful things as well.
Maybe there would be more DVD been sold when they would not be such a pain to be opened. Between those layers of plastic and the stupid mandatory copyright notice and some random preview, menu stuff it takes up to 3 minutes to get to what I want: Watch the thing. Time not well spend.
a quick out of the box article about the apple-TV set top box.
The nice thing is that interdubs already supports iTunes. So my clients can show their clients work in progress via Apple TV. Today.
With four seasons you would think that they are equally long.
Not so:
Winter
88.994 days
Spring
92.758 days
Summer
93.651 days
Autumn
89.842 days
Source: space.com
With a full mailbox mail might die with:
fseek: Invalid argument
panic: temporary file seek
Aborted
of course it’s all spam. That aside it seems that
mutt
can deal with these big mail boxes.
LA Times about 300, Zodiac Movie critics and audiences.
So far I love Callwave. It’s a service that will handles voice mail for cellphone accounts. For free. After a bit of set up that was almost instant for me and pretty well documented on their site they take over your cellphone voice mail. Which means that I get now an email when somebody leaves a message. Quicktime is a much nicer interface for voicemail than the phone.