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Only legal way is to be a student or educator and get the EDU price.

I moved to Xoops from Drupel. Drupel is designed to be more programmer friendly, but has some bass ackwards ways of doing thing, like how you add new content to the menu. Joombla/Mamba has a lot more features and is designed for power hungry sites with a lot of users and content posters. I only deploy that CMS on large sites, however there are a lot of modules and templates for Joombla/Mamba.Personally I like Xoops. A lot of templates, most every module I need, easy to use and install new modules into the system. Xoops is not as powerful as Joombla, but it gets the job done nicely. http://www.transfigurationchurch.org/ is one site I created based on Xoops and they love it.

Sounds like human error to me too. I first had 20MB, but then when I started adding some video of my animations, people began watching and I needed the upgrade in bandwidth. Make sure you have the extra 10 credits if you need them to change and upgrade. Just in case. Not like they are charging money, just a little extra effort.

At one time ATI built a Mac specifc TV wonder card (internal)Let me know how well it works at capture. I'm looking into getting another capture device as this Cannapus box is getting a few years old now.

FCP 5 is out now in a universal format, but folks I've talked to have said there is a noticable performance hit when dealing with Rosetta, especially in capture and encoding. Which is what takes up the processor power. It looks like with my Job, I'll be able to seriously look at getting one of the $1000 iMacs by the end of the year. Still, I just snagged a single a Dual Core 2.5Ghz G5 tower on Ebay for like $350. Now to see if there was a reserve. That was sheer luck if it works out. Another 5Ghz to add to my grid or another computer to use while the other encodes a video project. Etherway, I make more money by saving time.

Resintall, then check for viruses, then call the company tech support. That would be my steps to solving this problem.

Python is another choice you should consider especially given how some other application are now using Python, such as Blender 3D.

For websites, MySQL is ideal. For some other applications, say an accounting system for a business, I'd go with PostgreSQL because of some of it's more advanced features. Plus there are a lot of tutorials for PHP/MySQL. It's become the defacto standard for such applications.

I work in video, but I did web programming before hand. There are a lot of folks in my business that have flash sites because they are "trendy" etc. I hate flash with a passion. I want my pages to load fast, whether the user has broadband or dial up. Recently I've been doing a lot of VHS to DVD transfers for people. (Pays my rent) and most don't have broadband yet. So my site needs to be quick. So I have simple images and text thanks to .Mac. Since I pay $100 a year for the account figured I might as well use it for something. And with iweb, it's easy to manage. So...Anyway, I used to always purchase my templates. Now I made sure they were created for GoLive, the editor I was using at the time, and rarely had any problems. To me, it was quicker to get the template and begin editing text then creating from scratch. I was charging around $500 per site at the time so, even if it cost me $50 for the template...eventually I signed on to a site with 3000 templates that charged a yearly $750 fee and you could download as many as you wanted and those were the templates I used.

Economics here: they are going to use the software legal or not. If illegal MS sees $0. $1>$0 therefore it's better than nothing. Where I goto Law school, the university has a deal with MS to where I can buy a copy for about $15 under their site licenses. I've known of folks that work for large companies being offered similar deals as well.

Back in my PC days, I used 1st page 2000 by Evrsoft. My understanding is that they've released a newer and better version in the past year. On Mac, I use NVU. It's not perfect, but does the job. And then if I need to code I use BBedit. But NVU is pretty user friendly and is free...

I use the Tomato client. Pretty basic, nothing fancy, but it gets the torrents I need. Granted I'm using the PPC version, but I believe they have a universal binary version.

You know, if you play with fire long enough....Wild animals are just that: wild. You never know what they are going to do and if you take enough chances, eventually your going to loose.

MS Office 2004 for MacSafariBlender 3DiMovieQuicktime ProFinal Cut proPhotoshop CSiTunesDVD Studio ProEffects Lab proiMovie is one of the handiest tools I have. That's my default DV capture application. Seems to read my capture box or any DV camera I plug into the firewire port. From there I can make basic edits, cut long scenes into clips and export to working formats in FCP. The funnest application to use is Effects Lab pro. It's a cheaper (and I think) easier to use DV FX application that does some really good work. Especially if your doing a lot of muzzle flashes or cannon animations.

I am doing pre planning for the blenderxgrid.com script. I was originally going to do this with PERL, but elected against it. Eventually I'll be moving the site off Xisto and replacing it with a website hosted on the same machine as the xgrid controller. I am setting up a test version on my latop using OSX's apache server, MySQL, and PHP on a localhost config. Here is my step list for the script:-------------------------------------Form: (within Xoops CMS, so user will have to be logged in)UsernamePassword[file upload] (where they can upload the .blend file)Start Frame: first frame of animationEnd Frame: last frame of animation-------------------------------------------Step 1: Check username & password against xoops databaseStep 2: ensure file is a .blend else die ("Sorry, not a blender file")Step 3: Upload file to /gridjobs/ & report successStep 4: $filePath = "/gridjobs/" . "$fileName";$blenderPath = "/blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b" . $filePath . "-s " . $startFrame . "-e " .$endFrame . "-a";system ('xgrid -h localhost -p password -job submit $blenderPath', $results);print $results;?>That's what I got so far. Any other ideas or corrects welcome. It's been a couple years since I last programed anything from scratch.

Whatever you do, get it in writing in some kind of signed contract. That is rule number 1 and something I learned the hard way. I'm now in video production and the client has to pay 1/2 upfront and the rest when they recieve a reduced quality "Rought cut". I make sure the final payment clears before releasing the final copy. How much is your time worth and how much would someone else do it for?I copy home movies from VHS to DVD (I use the professonal copy machines, not PC's) and I charge $25 per 120minute transfer. Competitors in the area are about $10 per copy more than what I charge. If someone has a large project (15+ tapes) I'll go as low as $15 per transfers. I charge a flat $7.50 per copy for duplicates. Again I use a duplication machine, not a computer, and it takes about 30 mintues to burn a copy. $1 for the Digital Movie DVD and I can do 4 per hour (2 machines). So that's $24 an hour when they are running.Now I charge more if they hire me to do editing. Usually it starts at $40 (up to 2 hours) (opening iMovie HD or FC Express DV) and $60 (up to 2 hours of my time) if I have to open Pro Tools for anything. Then it's $15/hr for basic editing after that and $25 for adanced (using final cut pro).Post production (FX, compositing, etc.) is $150 for the first 2 hours and $50 an hour after that. Basically because Apple shake costed $3000 when I bought it...now that's it $500...For editing, I'm a couple dollars cheaper than the others around, but I'm the only real post production expert around and there is not a lot of demand. So I charge when I get it. However...whatever you do, get the agreement in writing.

No, they are a welcome competitor in the marketplace with the collapse of Sun against Microsoft. I mean MS's only real compeitor as been Apple and they own 25% of that...

Updates with the secondary, primary, and bow batteries: Secondary battery: The other side: Primary turrets: Bow Turrents:

I still keep a wired network. However, I'm leeching off someone's open router right now. THe main reason why I have a wired network is I need the gigabyte speed for xgrid rendering.

I thought I had AO turned on, so this shot should have some more light on black. This is all done in Blender 3D btw... Here is a close up with the ship name added via UV map

Frontrow...a Mac Mini with a remote, wireless keyboard and mouse, and DVI to S-video adaptor + 1 65" HDTV = world's largest monitor. My Dad loves it. He's 66 and checks his stocks and emails a few people. Now he can play the world's largest Solitare game too. Actually it works really well. The picture isn't perfect, but good enough for him and words are easy to read with the letters being an inch tall. With Frontrow he could watch a DVD or view digital picture slide shows with iPhoto or even edit something with iMovie HD if he really wanted...or actually owned a camcorder. He kind of wishes 6 years later he got the next model up HDTV that had the VGA port..not sure if that would be any clearer or not...

Diddo, sounds like the battery is the likely cause. The other possible problem is that a fan isn't working or vents are clogged. I have seen that happen before. I know my Powerbook gets warm...although it's part of the Apple batttery recall for the same problem. However, mine never overheats to the point of locking up...or then again may it's just a mac

Depends on where you are in the world. Here is the site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ There you enter the battery's serial number. If it's from the bad lot, they just send you a new one. What sucks is that you can't go to an Apple store, if there is one near by, and just exchange the battery or anything else. That is one of my complaints with the retail store. I had a friend that had a keyboard go bad. She took it back to the store and had to wait three days for one to arrive in the mail. They wanted to give her a "refurbished" keyboard. You know things like that is going to happen, so why doesn't the Apple store stock five or ten at any given time since the same keyboard is used on all the desktop models. Also I had one of those nice snow white iBooks that went through 5 logic boards. But I did get more video ram, better CD burner, and OS 10.3 for free because of it. Mine was one of the computers affected (G4 TiBook) so I should get a new battery in a day or two. Works for me, as I was going to have to think about buying a new one in the next year. Now I don't have too.

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Apple is now recalling theirs too. I think this is a new recall, not only the older Powerbook 15" models.