Another year. A bunch of cool stuff on the technology front:

1TB hard drives. Format a little shy, but whatever.

ZFS is coming in leopard, which has inspired me to abandon all my current storage plans and wait.

My brother got an intel machine w/ parallels, and I must say that coherence is damn sexy.

Maybe we’ll finally see Final Touch as part of Final Cut and the long rumored Phenomena at NAB.

1:09 pm

Dang.

Zapped Fedora and went to Feisty Fawn.

11:53 pm

Installed Fedora Core 6, played around with a pair of promising new technologies, Xgl (eye candy) and Xen (virtualization).

I’m still partial to apt, but it’s a pretty slick package.

1:13 am

Got a 160GB drive for my laptop. Get perpendicular!

2:41 am

I ask, they deliver.

6:33 pm

Here’s a sample of some of the footage I’ve shot with my HVX. Enjoy.

I still haven’t found a good system of dealing with the data in the field, though.

7:54 pm

Ganked a machine, finally did one of those projects I’ve been putting off, building a raid-5 setup on Linux. Performance locally capped out via bonnie around 49MB/sec. Iozone over the network via afp managed to hit 46MB/sec. In other words, sweet. There’s rumors of ZFS in Leopard, but if that doesn’t happen I’ve got another way to solve my storage needs.

1:39 am

Cutting the price to $499 == good. But end of lifeing shake == bad. They better get their in-house replacement out soon, or else a bunch of people are gonna go to Nuke or Fusion.

12:14 pm

Made my first HD-DVD, even though the only thing that can (sorta) play it is VLC.

More beginning to end proof of concept than anything else, although it’s nice to see that I haven’t forgotten everything.

7:19 pm

160GB was only six months ago, and now 200GB is on the way.

5:36 pm