Ooh, shiny…
We have a shiny new Mac mini running Tiger Server hosting the sties now, and aside from a really stupid mySQL change on Apple’s part, everything went remarkably smoothly. Yay!
Category: geek
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Gigabit Ethernet Connections
MoreYesterday, 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 […]
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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 on faster and easier. Wish I’d figured that out two days ago. 😛
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Macintosh on Intel
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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
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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 it with your AAC files from the iTMS).
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Screentfont.ca
All about fonts for captions and subtitles: Watching TV is bad enough. Reading TV shouldn’t be worse.
Mark Boszko
