It was on a 10BT hybrid network. Massivly congested, using crappy DOS Drivers... it pbly took about 45 Minutes, which is still slow, especially when it takes like 15 minutes to do a 1 GIG SCSI image. SCSI, Fast, Simple, Reliable. Thats why its been around so long, plus they could afford it.
At the company I used to work for we had about 10 different configurations of machines.
When we need to GEN up a box from a disk image we would slap in the appropriate network-able boot disk and then load the image off the private tech network. (Two networks one for testing, one for the accountants to use) Took about 2 hours to load an average disk image.
Now most of the accountants that we support have gotten laptops, so we got two 18GB SCSI drives and two PCMCIA SCSI adaptors. Now to gen up a laptop we just boot off the floppy with PCMCIA SCSI support and GEN up from an image in 15-20 minutes... saves us time and we don't have to lug the box 1/4 mile to our new office. Go with SCSI you will be much happier. A good PCI SCSI card (Adaptec) is pretty in expensive, takes minutes to install and is wayyyyy faster and more comptible than friggin USB.
I have a "um" "cough" "cough" Packard Bell "cringe" wireless remote control that plugs into a serial port (came with a TV card) that a friend and I hacked to work with my dedicated MP3 box. I am not sure where the thing actually came from except it was with an exceptionally crappy TV card.
All I can say is I hate Verizon Wireless. I live in a smaller metropolitan area (150,000 people) in the midwest. I travel quite a bit for work purposes and used to get decent coverage and limited roaming prior to the Verizon merger (I was w/ Airtouch). Now that Airtouch is Verizon they suck big time.
I broke my phone (do not leave phone on top of car while driving) and had to put down a $250 deposit for a CRAPPY loaner phone (a single band AudioVox that was statick-y as hell) and it took them 3 weeks to give me a replacement phone. They had my exact model in a box new in the store, um trade me.
My other huge complaint is getting violated on roaming charges. Yah I live in the midwest, but I occasionally have to travel to the coasts and such. Please don't rape me when I'm there. Last time I traveled to San Francisco I rented a pre-paid phone and used it. Saved me like $200 in a week of calls.
My last complaint is their damn rude customer service people. My damn check got lost in the mail, was like two weeks late in getting there (stamps make envelope delivery faster) and they were majorly rude about it. I stopped payment on the lost check gave them a new one and THEY RAN THE STOPPED CHECK EVEN AFTER THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT thus costing me like $125 in bank and Verizon charges, and adding the first black spot to my credit report. The Customer Service Reps were all very unhelpful and blatantly rude, accusing me of not wanting to pay. Airtouch service had always been great before Verizon got to them.
I hate Verizon and am switching to the other guy at the end of this billing cycle!
One of my customers (A video Production company) just recently purchased one of these drives. They run it both on their Linux File Server.... (Think Huge Video RAID storage) and on both of thier WINNT Maya 3D Machines. The drive is almost as fast as advertised and definitly works well. Media cost however is an issue, especially as cheap as these people are
THis is my suggestion for bang for buck in tape solutions. We were useing an Onstream Tape drive...a and my biggest complaint w/ that was speed. Too Damn Slow!
I have a friend who worked for Cisco. He was telling us (we work for a VERY small e-commer company) about a sh!t hot developer at Cisco that could only work when listening to the loudest heavy metal possibly bearable to a human being. So Cisco made her a sound proof room. Also note that a shower was definitly not a personal preference on her part. (Yes she smelled)
Our office consists of a 20 x 30 room with a dartboard, my stereo blasting SKA, or Everclear, or other appropriate music, a beer fridge, and my desk is two keyboard carrols (I got sick of the Server keyboard in my lap all day.... broke a kick ass IBM keyboard by dropping it)with two 19" monitors on it, and a 24" wide table that is 5 feet long next to it. I thought about getting a return for my desk but this small table works much better. The beer fridge is right under it, very accesible, and the white board is right above it. So the perfect working environment....
The first question when you look at digital video editiing is what are you editing? I.e. what is your video source. If you use SVHS or Betacam then there is a big difference as to what you want to use then if you are grabbing footage from Digi-Beta or a 1394 complaint device.
BTW: I specialize in Video systems and NLE boxes (NLE=Non-linear editing).
If you are just grabbing the footage a analog source and splicing it together to make simple videa... you don't nedd fancy effects just cuts and such, the best system is by FAST multimedia. Its called VM Studio. Raging good system and will run on skanky hardware (486 66 will work).
If you are getting crazy call or e-mail a professional. This will save you LOTS of time and Money!
When I'm road-warrioring I use a backpack created by Kelty to keep both my laptop and my carry-on stuff. Its huge and yet small enought to be within the ever-shrinking carry-on limits. It also carry's all the other stuff I need for work and school besides my trusty new IBM workpad z50. Here's the specs to the backpack. I got mine from a local sporting goods store, but I'll bet someone can find it online.
I sysadmin at a decent Engineering School with a crappy IT infrastructure (read no money and PHB's in charge of budget). We do some net-monning and if you do port scans Napster chugs bandwidth worse than anything else people use. We don't care to much about non-educational usage, but serious bandwidth hogging is a no-no. Napster is an obnoxious littl program, I remeber back in the days of ftp leach..... these kids now-a-days.
I explain now, Have you ever tried to open 7 or 8 Netscape windows under MacOS? Well unless you have hell-crazy resolution then its a real biatch to flip between windows.... and to have Photoshop, a text editor, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and a filemanager open all at once is a multitasking nightmare.... all this transparent crap annoys the heck out me.... get a real OS... Like hmm lwt me think, yah Linux?
Over-zealous users that have no clue. A friend of mine who is a Mac-O-Phile askes me if using smaller Icons saved disk space. After he left I nearly pissed myself laughing..... and he argues about OS issues w/ me. These are typical MAC Users... remove head from @ss before using computer. Sigh MACOS is still a joke, and this X-crap is finally running a real kernel, but whose wants all that eye candy. Give me a damn machine with 2 years of uptime, no memory leaks that I can do my work on and then Quake like a Mo-Fo...
There is an ISP where I live that offers up to 1.3MB wireless internet access using this technology..... they hack the antenna and use some cool repeater technology to get this accomplished.... we are talking cheap high speed and when faced with dealing with U.S. Waste or Linux geeks with a cool idea..... yah thats why my office is connectied via wireless... and with the kick ass caching server they just put in I get slashdot cached at 11MB.
Isn't technology great... P.S. they use Aeronet cards for this......
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It was on a 10BT hybrid network. Massivly congested, using crappy DOS Drivers... it pbly took about 45 Minutes, which is still slow, especially when it takes like 15 minutes to do a 1 GIG SCSI image. SCSI, Fast, Simple, Reliable. Thats why its been around so long, plus they could afford it.
At the company I used to work for we had about 10 different configurations of machines.
When we need to GEN up a box from a disk image we would slap in the appropriate network-able boot disk and then load the image off the private tech network. (Two networks one for testing, one for the accountants to use) Took about 2 hours to load an average disk image.
Now most of the accountants that we support have gotten laptops, so we got two 18GB SCSI drives and two PCMCIA SCSI adaptors. Now to gen up a laptop we just boot off the floppy with PCMCIA SCSI support and GEN up from an image in 15-20 minutes... saves us time and we don't have to lug the box 1/4 mile to our new office. Go with SCSI you will be much happier. A good PCI SCSI card (Adaptec) is pretty in expensive, takes minutes to install and is wayyyyy faster and more comptible than friggin USB.
I have a "um" "cough" "cough" Packard Bell "cringe" wireless remote control that plugs into a serial port (came with a TV card) that a friend and I hacked to work with my dedicated MP3 box. I am not sure where the thing actually came from except it was with an exceptionally crappy TV card.
All I can say is I hate Verizon Wireless. I live in a smaller metropolitan area (150,000 people) in the midwest. I travel quite a bit for work purposes and used to get decent coverage and limited roaming prior to the Verizon merger (I was w/ Airtouch).
Now that Airtouch is Verizon they suck big time.
I broke my phone (do not leave phone on top of car while driving) and had to put down a $250 deposit for a CRAPPY loaner phone (a single band AudioVox that was statick-y as hell) and it took them 3 weeks to give me a replacement phone. They had my exact model in a box new in the store, um trade me.
My other huge complaint is getting violated on roaming charges. Yah I live in the midwest, but I occasionally have to travel to the coasts and such. Please don't rape me when I'm there. Last time I traveled to San Francisco I rented a pre-paid phone and used it. Saved me like $200 in a week of calls.
My last complaint is their damn rude customer service people. My damn check got lost in the mail, was like two weeks late in getting there (stamps make envelope delivery faster) and they were majorly rude about it. I stopped payment on the lost check gave them a new one and THEY RAN THE STOPPED CHECK EVEN AFTER THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT thus costing me like $125 in bank and Verizon charges, and adding the first black spot to my credit report. The Customer Service Reps were all very unhelpful and blatantly rude, accusing me of not wanting to pay. Airtouch service had always been great before Verizon got to them.
I hate Verizon and am switching to the other guy at the end of this billing cycle!
VERIZON SUCKS!
One of my customers (A video Production company) just recently purchased one of these drives. They run it both on their Linux File Server.... (Think Huge Video RAID storage) and on both of thier WINNT Maya 3D Machines. The drive is almost as fast as advertised and definitly works well. Media cost however is an issue, especially as cheap as these people are
THis is my suggestion for bang for buck in tape solutions. We were useing an Onstream Tape drive...a and my biggest complaint w/ that was speed. Too Damn Slow!
I have a friend who worked for Cisco. He was telling us (we work for a VERY small e-commer company) about a sh!t hot developer at Cisco that could only work when listening to the loudest heavy metal possibly bearable to a human being. So Cisco made her a sound proof room. Also note that a shower was definitly not a personal preference on her part. (Yes she smelled)
Our office consists of a 20 x 30 room with a dartboard, my stereo blasting SKA, or Everclear, or other appropriate music, a beer fridge, and my desk is two keyboard carrols (I got sick of the Server keyboard in my lap all day.... broke a kick ass IBM keyboard by dropping it)with two 19" monitors on it, and a 24" wide table that is 5 feet long next to it. I thought about getting a return for my desk but this small table works much better. The beer fridge is right under it, very accesible, and the white board is right above it. So the perfect working environment....
The first question when you look at digital video editiing is what are you editing? I.e. what is your video source. If you use SVHS or Betacam then there is a big difference as to what you want to use then if you are grabbing footage from Digi-Beta or a 1394 complaint device.
BTW: I specialize in Video systems and NLE boxes (NLE=Non-linear editing).
If you are just grabbing the footage a analog source and splicing it together to make simple videa... you don't nedd fancy effects just cuts and such, the best system is by FAST multimedia. Its called VM Studio. Raging good system and will run on skanky hardware (486 66 will work).
If you are getting crazy call or e-mail a professional. This will save you LOTS of time and Money!
My thoughts
I use a 21" Viesonic. I have a 64 Meg Promedia video Card. This is a great combination at a reasonable price.
When I'm road-warrioring I use a backpack created by Kelty to keep both my laptop and my carry-on stuff.
Its huge and yet small enought to be within the ever-shrinking carry-on limits. It also carry's all the other stuff I need for work and school besides my trusty new IBM workpad z50. Here's the specs to the backpack. I got mine from a local sporting goods store, but I'll bet someone can find it online.
I sysadmin at a decent Engineering School with a crappy IT infrastructure (read no money and PHB's in charge of budget). We do some net-monning and if you do port scans Napster chugs bandwidth worse than anything else people use. We don't care to much about non-educational usage, but serious bandwidth hogging is a no-no. Napster is an obnoxious littl program, I remeber back in the days of ftp leach..... these kids now-a-days.
-just my $.03
LLAMA
I explain now, Have you ever tried to open 7 or 8 Netscape windows under MacOS? Well unless you have hell-crazy resolution then its a real biatch to flip between windows.... and to have Photoshop, a text editor, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and a filemanager open all at once is a multitasking nightmare.... all this transparent crap annoys the heck out me.... get a real OS... Like hmm lwt me think, yah Linux?
Over-zealous users that have no clue. A friend of mine who is a Mac-O-Phile askes me if using smaller Icons saved disk space. After he left I nearly pissed myself laughing..... and he argues about OS issues w/ me. These are typical MAC Users... remove head from @ss before using computer. Sigh MACOS is still a joke, and this X-crap is finally running a real kernel, but whose wants all that eye candy. Give me a damn machine with 2 years of uptime, no memory leaks that I can do my work on and then Quake like a Mo-Fo...
LLAMA
There is an ISP where I live that offers up to 1.3MB wireless internet access using this technology..... they hack the antenna and use some cool repeater technology to get this accomplished.... we are talking cheap high speed and when faced with dealing with U.S. Waste or Linux geeks with a cool idea..... yah thats why my office is connectied via wireless... and with the kick ass caching server they just put in I get slashdot cached at 11MB.
Isn't technology great... P.S. they use Aeronet cards for this......
Isn'tattracting Geeks a good thing? We make good money and are atleast not dumb....
Already Slashdotted... hahaha ahaha
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