There’s only two official mac raid-5 cards: the Highpoint series (which are flaky) and the NetCell, which is too new to have had much use. So I’d sorta given up on RAID-5.

And then it was pointed out to me that the XServe has a BTO RAID-5 card. Digging deeper, found that it was a LSI MegaRAID card. There’s no official mac support, but going to the terminal and typing “man megaraid” reveals Apple’s custom built CLI frontend.

Gonna hit that terabyte mark one way or another. My theory is to take this old dual G4 with Gigabit Ethernet I’ve got and pull the zip/optical drive to have room for four extra drives internally. Throw in qmaster and I’ve got distributed FCP/DSP encoding.

6:25 pm

Yay.

4:23 pm

Sold my camera. Feels strange not to have one, even if I haven’t been using it lately.

I’ve got over sixty dv tapes in my closet. Assuming $100/roll for 16mm (neg+processing+print), that’s roughly $150,000 worth of practice. As much as I like it, I’ve never really viewed DV as anything other than a learning format. Never have understood A-list guys shooting features on it when they’ve got better things available.

But HD seems to have bridged the gap between film and digital. And every day brings it a little closer to my price range.

2:56 am

Man, I really wish I could go to NAB this year. It’s looking like Tiger might even ship. I have this dream of distributed network rendering agents for FCP and shake.

Update: And this. Hat tip: Mike Curtis.

And, as a random aside, a bobcat just walked by the window.

4:45 pm

My pismo is on its last legs. Been waiting for Apple to release a new one so that I can upgrade. Beginning to wonder if I shouldn’t have bought a 17″ last Christmas.

Ahh well. Gonna be running the brushhog again today. I’m so cool. At least I get paid.

10:24 am

8.30.02

I’m slowly approaching my quasi-perfect hardware config for the semester.

Unfortunately, I have a movie due monday, as well as a plan for my second project.  And so the grind begins.

9:42 pm

4.4.02

Well, they shipped my hard drive via ground. Bastards.

So, I was waiting for the new hard drive to properly resynch the JPS and do work, blah, blah blah. (insert usual excuses here)

For a change in pace, I got pissed and kicked out another cut of the JPS last night. Whee for me.

There’s only so far I think I’ll be able to take it, but whatever.

9:41 pm