You do that running as admin on OS X is totally different from running as root? Running as admin on OS X just puts you in the sudoers file so you can change system preferences and install files. You still have to enter your admin password when you install or change settings.
I thought about it some more. I know there's a miniturized version of the Apple II. How about a miniturized version of the Mac Classic that runs on a 6" Black and White LCD? It would portable and would work with ADB devices for input.
I happen to be an amateur broadcast engineer actually. Digital8 Camcorders uses the same DV Codec as MiniDV uses. All that is different is the medium.
At the studio I work at, we have mostly ZR60s (we are a small operation with a limited budget) for field production and they work fine provided there is proper lighthing. Otherwise in very poor lighting conditions, the camera overcompesates for the little light and produces very grain-filled images. I only notice though on the ZR60s though the other cameras we have that are 1-CCD don't do this for whatever reason.
I do stongly reccommend getting a 3-CCD camera. One of my co-workers just bought one of the mentioned Panasonic 3-CCD camcorders that are under $1000 and he loves it.
Also make sure the camera has a microphone input on it. Its better to have one because I can guarantee you will have at least one moment where a microphone is needed.
The Video Toaster I thought was the coolest thing. After I saw a demo of it once, I was totally amazed. As I recall, there was one famous video effect it did. That effect oddly was used by lots of those sucide cults, such as the famous Heaven's Gate in ther propaganda videos.
Take it a step further: A kiosk that lets you plug in your iPod via FireWire and transfer songs from the iPod to a CD and lets you get songs from the store's eletronic library on to your iPod.
I also remember the local video store chain here that was bought out by Blockbuster had these 3" or 4" inch thick books with every single motion picture thats been published to video tape or LaserDisc in them.
The gouging goes on at high school level too. At my school, there was a group of students who all had their pre-calc textbook stolen out their locker along with serveral other items. They could not find the theif, so the students had to pay. The school district said "The catalogs we have from the publisher say that book cost about $50" The students I know did pay the 50 dollars were told after the order went in that the price has changed and now is $80. The parents were furious and they managed to find the book online for $40 and actually at the price, the district was able to pay for the replacements.
I work on my schools television station. Anything big like recording the school plays we usually do FRS radios.
I've seen other setups use the unused 2-pairs of wire in the CAT5 network ports in the school as the local loop in a homebrew intercom system.
I work in television media. I know Canada also allows a corporation to own serveral types of media, but yet I don't see this ClearChannel effect going on up there (at least to my eye, I could be wrong though). Have us Americans become that greedy about money that we are cutting every corner to make the most money? No wonder were the laughing stock of the world, we have become jerks like England was to us in 1776!
The high school I go to was designed to the high tech school of the school district. 80% percent of the computers in the school are the original machines given to us by Intel coroporation back in 1997. They are Pentium 133-mhz machines with 64 MB of RAM running Windows NT 4. Because of this, teachers have intergrated their use into their teaching. Its great and for a long time these machines kept up fine as well as the network.
But once the district IT department wanted to move my school on to my giant Active Directory domain (we were on our own and had a private internet connection as well) and the school district cloud, thats when all hell broke loose. They forced the school IT people to put virus scanners on these old 133-Mhz machines, which slowed them down a hell of a lot. They also took away the school's computer purchasing power so they can get what each department needs. Now, any computer has to be a Dell OptiPlex. That hurts me where I work in the school's television station because for the same price as these Dells, an Apple eMac would do a better job. So my word of advice is, don't create a central IT department in a school district. It becomes a bureaucratic layer of crap that doesn't do anything.
I'm an engineering intern at a local TV station. Originally, I had no place in the building to call mine, so I was free to do any desk work anywhere in the building. It was a pain at first because I didn't have my own computer, so making wiring diagrams and stuff like that was a pain. I bought an iBook since I will need a laptop for school anyways and that made a differnce. I started to desk work up in a studio, which was OK for a while but got kind of dull because there was no one to talk to. One day , I noticed there was free cube by where my other boss works with a nice Power Mac G4 on it, so I asked him about it and he said "Sure, the Mac needs to tested anyways". I sit there now and I like it mich better because there's people around that I can talk to while I do to work. There's a TV in there too and actually I find it kind of nice because that way there isn't a constant humming noise in the air or any annoying music being played on the radio.
I love those Tek Phasers! It was well worth the wait to print from one of those. When my school got rid of them, and replaced them with a cheap HP injket, the picture didn't look right. I should of picked that one up that was on a donation pallet...
Thats what I'm talking about! Transmitters are the ones that would do anything, not receiving devices.
I do recall someone saying that the cancellization wave that the receiver sends out "may" do something, but thats really pushing it if you ask me.
If we get cell phones legalized on aircraft, that will be start of getting other devices to be allowed for use. Like Portable TVs, Walkmans, GPS Receivers, Wifi cards, satelite phones, radio scanners, etc.
Anyone else believe in the whole US/UK information blackout during commerical flights theory? I do.
Isn't also true that a certain ham radio license lets use a certain two-way radio on aircraft?
Wouldn't radiowaves from cell phone towers themselves be causing problems? They push more power out then the phone itself!
Why can't I use a portable TV, radio, GPS, on plane? They are all receivers!
I beleive in the cospiracy theory that the US as well as the allies have been wanting a personal communications blackout for all passengers on any airline-operated aircraft.
At the 3:00 NASA Briefing, an offical mentioned they were originally waiting to look at the film from the handheld movie camera the crew uses to record what goes on during launch, to see what happend with the piece of foam from the wing. Why does one of most advanced aircraft in the world still rely on motion picture film when infact they could use a digital video system to record the lanuch from the view of the crew and transmit it back to mission control much faster than waiting for film to be developed?
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You do that running as admin on OS X is totally different from running as root? Running as admin on OS X just puts you in the sudoers file so you can change system preferences and install files. You still have to enter your admin password when you install or change settings.
I thought about it some more. I know there's a miniturized version of the Apple II. How about a miniturized version of the Mac Classic that runs on a 6" Black and White LCD? It would portable and would work with ADB devices for input.
I suppose if Apple really wanted to, they could build a kitchen sink PDA based on Mac OS Classic.
I happen to be an amateur broadcast engineer actually. Digital8 Camcorders uses the same DV Codec as MiniDV uses. All that is different is the medium. At the studio I work at, we have mostly ZR60s (we are a small operation with a limited budget) for field production and they work fine provided there is proper lighthing. Otherwise in very poor lighting conditions, the camera overcompesates for the little light and produces very grain-filled images. I only notice though on the ZR60s though the other cameras we have that are 1-CCD don't do this for whatever reason. I do stongly reccommend getting a 3-CCD camera. One of my co-workers just bought one of the mentioned Panasonic 3-CCD camcorders that are under $1000 and he loves it. Also make sure the camera has a microphone input on it. Its better to have one because I can guarantee you will have at least one moment where a microphone is needed.
The Video Toaster I thought was the coolest thing. After I saw a demo of it once, I was totally amazed. As I recall, there was one famous video effect it did. That effect oddly was used by lots of those sucide cults, such as the famous Heaven's Gate in ther propaganda videos.
Take it a step further: A kiosk that lets you plug in your iPod via FireWire and transfer songs from the iPod to a CD and lets you get songs from the store's eletronic library on to your iPod.
I also remember the local video store chain here that was bought out by Blockbuster had these 3" or 4" inch thick books with every single motion picture thats been published to video tape or LaserDisc in them.
Yamhill is a street in Portland. It also is the name of a county in Oregon.
Require open mail relay operators to log each transaction, so they can be used trace spammers.
The gouging goes on at high school level too. At my school, there was a group of students who all had their pre-calc textbook stolen out their locker along with serveral other items. They could not find the theif, so the students had to pay. The school district said "The catalogs we have from the publisher say that book cost about $50" The students I know did pay the 50 dollars were told after the order went in that the price has changed and now is $80. The parents were furious and they managed to find the book online for $40 and actually at the price, the district was able to pay for the replacements.
I work on my schools television station. Anything big like recording the school plays we usually do FRS radios. I've seen other setups use the unused 2-pairs of wire in the CAT5 network ports in the school as the local loop in a homebrew intercom system.
I work in television media. I know Canada also allows a corporation to own serveral types of media, but yet I don't see this ClearChannel effect going on up there (at least to my eye, I could be wrong though). Have us Americans become that greedy about money that we are cutting every corner to make the most money? No wonder were the laughing stock of the world, we have become jerks like England was to us in 1776!
The high school I go to was designed to the high tech school of the school district. 80% percent of the computers in the school are the original machines given to us by Intel coroporation back in 1997. They are Pentium 133-mhz machines with 64 MB of RAM running Windows NT 4. Because of this, teachers have intergrated their use into their teaching. Its great and for a long time these machines kept up fine as well as the network. But once the district IT department wanted to move my school on to my giant Active Directory domain (we were on our own and had a private internet connection as well) and the school district cloud, thats when all hell broke loose. They forced the school IT people to put virus scanners on these old 133-Mhz machines, which slowed them down a hell of a lot. They also took away the school's computer purchasing power so they can get what each department needs. Now, any computer has to be a Dell OptiPlex. That hurts me where I work in the school's television station because for the same price as these Dells, an Apple eMac would do a better job. So my word of advice is, don't create a central IT department in a school district. It becomes a bureaucratic layer of crap that doesn't do anything.
I'm an engineering intern at a local TV station. Originally, I had no place in the building to call mine, so I was free to do any desk work anywhere in the building. It was a pain at first because I didn't have my own computer, so making wiring diagrams and stuff like that was a pain. I bought an iBook since I will need a laptop for school anyways and that made a differnce. I started to desk work up in a studio, which was OK for a while but got kind of dull because there was no one to talk to. One day , I noticed there was free cube by where my other boss works with a nice Power Mac G4 on it, so I asked him about it and he said "Sure, the Mac needs to tested anyways". I sit there now and I like it mich better because there's people around that I can talk to while I do to work. There's a TV in there too and actually I find it kind of nice because that way there isn't a constant humming noise in the air or any annoying music being played on the radio.
I love those Tek Phasers! It was well worth the wait to print from one of those. When my school got rid of them, and replaced them with a cheap HP injket, the picture didn't look right. I should of picked that one up that was on a donation pallet...
Thats what I'm talking about! Transmitters are the ones that would do anything, not receiving devices. I do recall someone saying that the cancellization wave that the receiver sends out "may" do something, but thats really pushing it if you ask me.
If we get cell phones legalized on aircraft, that will be start of getting other devices to be allowed for use. Like Portable TVs, Walkmans, GPS Receivers, Wifi cards, satelite phones, radio scanners, etc. Anyone else believe in the whole US/UK information blackout during commerical flights theory? I do. Isn't also true that a certain ham radio license lets use a certain two-way radio on aircraft?
Wouldn't radiowaves from cell phone towers themselves be causing problems? They push more power out then the phone itself! Why can't I use a portable TV, radio, GPS, on plane? They are all receivers! I beleive in the cospiracy theory that the US as well as the allies have been wanting a personal communications blackout for all passengers on any airline-operated aircraft.
I beleive CBS (Viacom) owns Telemundo?
At the 3:00 NASA Briefing, an offical mentioned they were originally waiting to look at the film from the handheld movie camera the crew uses to record what goes on during launch, to see what happend with the piece of foam from the wing. Why does one of most advanced aircraft in the world still rely on motion picture film when infact they could use a digital video system to record the lanuch from the view of the crew and transmit it back to mission control much faster than waiting for film to be developed?
My Father has one of these IBM laptops. Hasn't restricted anything nor has it done anything useful far as I know.