Well, this turned out to be the most ridiculous take-apart I’ve done yet. To replace a broken optical drive in a 12″ Powerbook G4, you have to remove EVERYTHING. Unlike Apple’s other Aluminum notebooks which are very compartmentalized, the 12″ Powerbook is layered like a sandwich and the optical drive is on the bottom. The picture is from right before [...]
Read MoreI got a copy of “That’s It, That’s All” on blu-ray a few weeks back. I thought it would probably be a good idea to get a player so I could actually watch it. I was also reading about how Toast 10 could burn up to 30min of blu-ray video to DVD-R, and that places [...]
Read MoreI’ve been color correcting episodes of Destination Extreme for Wink Inc Productions, which will air on National Geographic in a few weeks. I just heard that the first 4 shows passed QC, which is awesome and takes a bit of the pressure off on the remaining episodes. For this series, I’m using Apple Color almost [...]
Read MoreYesterday my good friend Micah Black came in with his iBook looking for help. When his computer booted, there was no chime and it would just show a red screen, then a blue screen, then a green screen. I Googled pretty much those words and found out that something with the graphics card was loose, [...]
Read MoreAs I mentioned in a previous post, the second part of the VEoE installation at Wink Inc was to add a mobile server to the mix. We tested a Dual 2.7GHz G5 and based on those tests, we decided to use a Quad 2.5GHz G5 as the mobile server. The computer has 2 basic modes: [...]
Read MoreI spent the last week installing a Video Editing over Ethernet (VEoE) system at Wink Inc Productions in Jackson Hole. I’ve installed 2 Xsan systems here in Jackson, but they are expensive and have a fairly limited target market. Xsan’s greatest asset is its ability to deliver super high speed data to every connected system [...]
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