Advanced Camp was the ACN and PSP training event held by Apple in Lake Tahoe this year. Advanced Camp was well organized and had what seemed to me to be the highest caliber of training that I’ve seen from Apple in one event thus far. The team who organized the event was probably the best put together to be able to deliver the training and even the worse of the events had plenty of great technical information. Additionally, the attendees were some of the friendliest, most professional Apple gurus I’ve had a chance to hang with in a long time. Congrats to everyone involved for holding such a well…
-
-
Encoding.com
The cloud just got even more useful for every day video environments. Encoding.com offers a SaaS cloud solution that will encode videos on a cluster for you, so you don’t have to have a render farm if you haven’t grown into that, or if you just don’t want to support it. you can use the web portal to upload files and they will be encoded on the fly. Also, download API documentation to integrate Final Cut Server, Podcast Producer and other solutions with their the XML encoding API.
-
Mac OS X Server: Installing the OS
I have talked about many of the features of Mac OS X Server for years now and now I have had a third request (from Windows guys funny enough) to walk through the basic installation of the operating system in one week. So, here we go. This is going to be a bit of a long one as there are a number of screens involved in the installation. Additionally, all of the screens are going to show the VMware console as I’m installing a fresh copy of Mac OS X Server while flying home from Advanced Camp. So for starters, we’re going to boot to our nifty Mac OS X…
-
Georgia Falls to Florida (again)
Beating the University of Florida seems to be something that the Bulldogs can do rarely. This weekend was one of the more difficult losses to look at, with the Gators piling up 49 points on the Bulldogs. I won’t sleep well…
-
Mac OS X: Easy Find
Using the find command is a little weird to people who are used to using locate. However, it is far more powerful and doesn’t come with the indexing requirements that locate does. So, if you’ve been using locate try and get familiar with using something like this instead (looking for slapd.conf – you can change that as needed): find / -name “slapd.conf” -print