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Videoblogging Week 2007

It’s Videoblogging Week 2007! Yes, I am behind, but by the end of the week, I will have 7 videos at tinkernet.org

Videoblogging Week 2007

I haven’t gotten too many videos online in the past 6 months. I will cite two reasons. 1. Because I’ve been busy working on other projects. 2. Because it takes time to create the type of videos I really want to create. I’ve been videoblogging for close to two years now, and at first it was very exciting. I was just getting into video editing, and learning a lot. As time went on, it seemed to take more time to create videos, maybe because I wanted to push myself creatively. I also get meticulous about metadata, so that takes time as well, and I still use an old G4, so even compressing and uploading things takes time. I know, excuses, excuses. The good news is, I will be moving up to Final Cut Pro this year. Woohoo!

But dammit! I said 7 videos this week, and that’s what you will get! Stop by tinkernet.org and see what’s up.



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Linksys NSLU2 Update

We are still using the Linksys NSLU2 as our file server, and we still aren’t 100% happy with it. (See Small Business – Server & Backup and Linksys NSLU2 versus ???? for background.)

Some Macs in our office seem to be able to connect via browsing the network, while others require typing in the smb://192.168.0.xx address. At least one Mac seems to see it, and use it, but then not be able to use it, then when you try to dismount, and remount, it says it’s already there and requires some command line magic (or a reboot) to clean things up.

After a recent reboot of the NSLU2, we noticed a few days later the backups were not running anymore. Seems that after the reboot the 1st drive was recognized fine, but the 2nd was not. I was just about to reformat the 2nd drive but thought I should reboot one more time – that fixed it! The 2nd drive was recognized and I just had to re-setup the backup schedule.

I think if we continue to have issues, I may just take a weekend and install Unslung on it.

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Uninterruptable Power Supply

Last weekend one of my uninterruptable power supplies started beeping. It stopped after a few hours, but I wondered if maybe I needed to replace the battery or something. (One of them is just 2 years old, the other is 7+ years old!)

Well, we just lost power, and they both seemed to hold up well for the few minutes of blackout. Whew… The home linux server now says: uptime 211 days, 13 hours, 57 minutes

Of course Emma was playing Animal Crossing and lost some data. Hmmm, maybe we need a UPS for the GameCube.

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Free Loops

I’ve been playing around with Garageband quite a bit lately, and having a good time. I’ve started to look for other loops I can use, but the problem is, all the “free loops” I’m finding out there always say something like this:

All of our free Garageband loops are free for personal use.

And that’s it. I mean “Personal Use” doesn’t mean a lot to me. (I assume it means non-commercial, but is that just my assumption? Can I freely publish works I create with these “free” loops?) I want things laid out in terms I can easily understand, perhaps using the Creative Commons licenses. Is there a listing of Apple Loops somewhere that are available with CC licenses? So I can easily see what is attribution, or non-commercial, etc?

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Video card for a Mac Pro?

I’m looking for recommendations as to what video card to put into a new Mac Pro that will be used primarily for video editing.

So far I’m not finding any good info out there, but you know, maybe I’m looking in the wrong places. So if you do desktop video editing with a Mac, what video card do you use?