Yesterday, we had quite a scare. We had run CAT5e cable throughout the ceilings and walls of the office, but when we plugged them into the gigabit Ethernet switch, none of the link lights lit up. We were dumbfounded. All of this cable had tested fine. We tried shorter cable, different cable, none of it…
Category: geek
Twisted Pair Ethernet Connectors
I’m doing an expansion of the editing systems where I work, including setting up and entire new separate LAN for the metadata traffic for the new Xsan. I just figured out, if you cut the vinyl sheathing on twisted-pair ethernet cable (like, say, CAT5e) shorter, it actually leads to less twist-wrangling, and the connectors go…
Macintosh on Intel
Holy crap, the rumors are actually true. Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
Tip for Successful On-Lining
Article: Simplifying Your On-Lining Lots of good tips on using Final Cut Pro to online your video project without all that pesky wailing and gnashing of teeth
Jewelcase
Optical Alchemy has a wicked keen iTunes visualizer— Jewelcase, which displays a 3D rendered spinning jewelbox of whatever album your currently playing song is from, complete with tracks listing and cover art. Of course, it uses your cover art in iTunes, so it works best if you’ve loaded in all your cover art (or got…
Screentfont.ca
All about fonts for captions and subtitles: Watching TV is bad enough. Reading TV shouldn’t be worse.
SpamSieve
I’ve tested a few spam filters for my email over the last year, including the built-in one in Apple Mail, SpamFire and SpamSieve, and decided on the latter of the three as my final solution. SpamSieve does a great job, using Bayesian filtering to detect the probability of a message being spam, and it integrates…