Bleeding edge..to far?

Hello all.
Came home tonight with a brand new Panasonic HDC-SD1 HiDef camcorder...i was/still am very excited by this awesome camera....but....it does not seem to play nice with my intel core duo imac, using imovie. The camcorder came with usb and has no firewire inputs...imovie doesn't even see the panasonic.
Any help would be great...I love this camera already
Please advise.
-scott

Scott,
Your camcorder records using the Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD) recording format which doesn't work with iMovie.
Hopefully someday iMovie will be upgraded to work with this format because manufacturers seem to be in love with it lately. Lots of camcorders coming out use it - mostly tapeless models that use hard drives or memory cards.

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Photoshop - layouts for business cards, bleed edge etc

Hey
I've been told by some printers that I need to put a bleed edge for them. I'm alright with that part....
But they asked for me to put bleed edge marks so I don't have to pay for the extra layout costs.
Any idea what they meant or how to do it?
Thanks very much

I'm sure the phone conversation took longer than it would for your printer to add bleed marks. Personally I always hated "bleed" marks added by the customer for a bunch of reasons, but to each their own.
 
 Make a file 1 inch bigger than your BC (typically a file 4.5 x 3). Then make guides at 0.375 and 0.5 inches from the top, bottom, left and right. If you set your rulers to inches and hold the shift key while you draw the guides (click on the ruler and drag into the image), you should have an easier time hitting 0.5. Make sure the info palette is visible so you can see the guide coordinates.
 
 Then use the pencil tool with 2 pixels width to paint (in black) the marks. Make sure to stay outside the 0.375 guides. This is your bleed and you don't want marks creeping into it. Use the marquee tool to check you got the size right: the inner box (trim) should be 3.5 x 2, and the outer box (bleed) should be 3.75 x 2.25.
 
 If I were to build a bleed BC, I would build it 3.75 x 2.25 and tell them it bleeds on all four sides. Their stance is a red flag as far as I'm concerned.
 
 
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The bleeding-edge & configs

Most of my linux experience has happened running Arch, and I've come to really enjoy the rolling release model, aur dev pkgbuilds and overall bleeding-edge aspect of the distro.
As a hacker at heart, I like to keep up with the latest versions of my favorite software, excrutiatingly configuring every bit to taste.
However, I've had a backlash lately, when my work got me administrating a couple of vps boxes running other linux distros.
What happened was that most of my dotfiles simply didn't work with the versions packaged on these distros, to a point that trying to find the culprit options ended up being too time consuming, so I just gave up and used the dreaded defaults for most things, from bash to tmux, which was rather frustrating.
Has anyone faced the same issues, and managed to find a way to stay on the bleeding while using arch, yet maintain the portability of their configs, or is it just too much work ?

to be honest, I'm a natural born slacker and don't bother about bleeding edge at work. I keep my own computer running on Arch with my very own, personal setup, but all the other machines I look after get the pre-installed-default-outofthebox-setup with only necessary tweaks to suit the working environment.
I did try running arch on a number of machines at our shop, but in the end it's too much work. Also, when I'm not there, nobody knows what to do to keep the machines up-to-date. Now everything Linux is running Debian and Linux-Mint and everybody is happy.
I however, will not give up my arch setup

Off the bleeding edge

After 10+ years I can't be arsed with this bleeding edge business any more. I'm getting to that point in life where one breakage is one too many. I blame the children.
Problem is I've never used any of the major distros other than Ubuntu (I was at college and needed the money) on a laptop so I'm interested in the opinion of the community when the time comes for a bit more "stability".
I'm considering Debian or Fedora. I guess they're solid choices?

dtw wrote:I'm getting to that point in life where one breakage is one too many.
What kind of breakage are you trying to avoid?
You will ALWAYS experience some form of breakage no matter which operating system you use, the reason being perfectly summed up in this 30 second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7JH1FT_yM
dtw wrote:I'm considering Debian or Fedora. I guess they're solid choices?
For what reasons would you consider using Fedora? The Wikipedia describes Fedora as "focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies" and having "a relatively short life cycle". ..."Having no breakage" is not on the list of features for Fedora.
Debian has a great history of very little breakage. ...But that also means you will be using old software. The current stable version of Debian ("wheezy") was released in May 2013. If you were to install it today you would get an incredible and stable operating system with available software packages in the tens of thousands. You would also be using Linux 3.2 (Does it support all the hardware you need?), LibreOffice 3.5 (Does it open the documents you need like the current version 4.3 does?), and Firefox 10 (I've been corrected. ). Of course these are just specific examples, but my point is that "stability" means "feature frozen", so if the operating system you choose does not have software with the features you need when you install it, then you're not getting those features until you install the next version. You COULD chose to install newer software from unofficial repositories, but you will have no guarantee that they won't break something, which is what you're trying to avoid.
The NEXT stable release of Debian is (probably) happening within the next few months. If you were to install and configure Debian today, you would be RE-installing and RE-configuring it in a few months. Is that something you are willing to do every two to three years?
Debian (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others, I'm sure) are VERY GOOD operating system, and are used extensively around the world, especially in situations where "no breakage" is a requirement. But they come with a trade off. Make sure you are willing to accept those trade offs before jumping in!
In recent years, there seems to be a trend in some Linux distributions of keeping the "operating system" packages stable and only upgrading the fast-paced "user software" packages. So the latest Firefox might crash but the operating system won't, that sort of thing. So that's another thing to consider.
Also, keep in mind that I've been using Arch Linux for the past five years, so I may be out of touch with the latest developments in Linux distributions.
Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-12-15 14:55:53)

Arch gets *really* bleeding-edge: releases KDE 4.2 before KDE does!

I know distro devs get KDE a full week or so earlier to begin testing with their distro, etc., and the essentially unchanged RC was here before, but KDE 4.2 stable is in Arch's main repos now - _before_ it's available on the KDE web site! I mean, I knew Arch was bleeding-edge, but come on!
http://www.archlinux.org/news/431/
(And, yes, the 4.2 ChangeLog link is broken, I suspect there will be such a page within 24hrs)
www.kde.org still says KDE 4.2 is to be released tomorrow, and I can't download the 4.2.0 source from the location specified in the KDE 4.2 PKGBUILDs. None of the KDE mirrors have it.
Not that I'm complaining...
Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-01-27 00:18:31)

that seems to be a small problem with upgrade:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (31): mysql-clients-5.0.75-2 mysql-5.0.75-3 akonadi-1.1.1-1 phonon-4.3.0-2 soprano-2.1.67-1 kdelibs-4.2.0-4 kdeaccessibility-4.2.0-1 kdebase-runtime-4.2.0-2 libical-0.43-1
kdepimlibs-4.2.0-1 kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-2 kdebindings-4.1.3-1 pycups-1.9.42-2 system-config-printer-1.1.1-2 kdeadmin-4.2.0-1 kdeartwork-4.2.0-1 kdebase-4.2.0-1
kdeedu-4.2.0-1 kdegames-4.2.0-1 kdegraphics-4.2.0-1 kdemultimedia-4.2.0-1 libmsn-4.0beta4-1 ortp-0.15.0-1 kdenetwork-4.2.0-2 libmal-0.44-1 kdepim-4.2.0-1
kdeplasma-addons-4.2.0-1 kdesdk-4.2.0-1 kdetoys-4.2.0-1 kdeutils-4.2.0-1 kdewebdev-4.2.0-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 773.78 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(31/31) checking for file conflicts [######################################################################################################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
/usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/applet.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings'
/usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/data_engine.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings'
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-applet.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings'
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-dataengine.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings'
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Last edited by zyghom (2009-01-27 05:22:22)

Arch User Magazine Issue 3 - The Bleeding Edge

Take a walk on the bleeding edge.
This month brings you the usual great stuff plus…
* Better Fonts for the Web
* Living at the Command Line: History Modifiers
* Lessons in VIM: The Basics
* and a special interview
Enjoy!
Check out our website at http://archuser.com
Direct download link for Issue 3 here

Very nice issue, and thanks for it!
Forgive me if this has been proposed before, but has merging the magazine and the newsletter been considered? I know the newsletter is more focused on Arch community happenings and the magazine seems more focused on general features, but I think it'd be awesome if we could get both in one.

How bleeding edge are we?

I was just browsing frugalware's repositories and was surprised that this distro is much more up to date than Arch! Not to mean that Arch is behind, as I would much prefer stability rather than jumping the gun on updates. hmmm, I was just surprised. Most distros I become curious about are pretty far behind in updates compared to Arch. Just how different is Frugals pacman-g2 from Arch's pacman?

cactus wrote:
detto wrote:Officialyl it's called pacman-g2, only the link 'pacman' exists that links to 'pacman-g2'
I guess you didn't get my point.
I was saying they should have called it something *different*. Like frugalpac or something.
Examples:
Xorg wasn't called XFree86-g2.
Ubuntu wasn't called Debian-g2
OpenBSD wasn't called NetBSD-g2
NeoOffice wasn't called OpenOffice-mac or OpenOffice-g2
NetHack wasn't called Rogue-g2
Joomla! wasn't called Mambo-g2
You get the idea....generally when forking, you rename the new project.
......and are you saying that they link to pacman.. but the link goes to their version? They aren't even giving attribution to the origin of their fork?
wow. I hope I just misinterpreted what you said..and that they aren't really doing that.
pacman-g2 (or if you like to call it frugalpac) is still pacman (and as of 3 not much different, still it is. but not much, hehe.) and because they forked the tree and changed things in it, it was renamed to sth more appropiate: pacman-g2. the link i talked about basically is just a simple "ln -s pacman-g2 pacman" and nothing else. so users can type "pacman" instead of "pacman-g2" (which is a bit longer). and yes, they give attribution to the origin work: http://frugalware.org/about so, yes: you misinterpreted that

Myself, my iMac, and the bleeding edge of technology.

Okie...
As a producer and a new Macintosh user, I just about wet myself when these hit the stores. I scrape up some jangle and head to the Mac store, surrender my savings account to the cashier, and run home to set it up in my studio. I hadnt been this excited since xmas of 88 when I opened my Nintendo.
After I set up, transfer all my crap from my peecee to my mac, and load Reason and my other audio apps, I get a message from Reason saying that my brand new mac is not fast enough to handle the same song i had been producing on my amd athlon 1.8ghz.
I then learn that rosetta mishandles the mac version of reason by only using the powerpc side of the dualcore processor. Luckly I found Reason 3.0.4 beta for intel macs.
I'm loving my Mac's ability to handle most everything I throw at it, but I am wondering how often I can expect to see issues like this, since my copy of ReCycle is in planning stages of beta development, and much of my other PC/Mac stuff is rendered trash because of the intel core.
Anyone out there having the same kinds of problems?

I'm sorry but someone has badly misinformed you about Rosetta and an Intel Core Duo chip!
There is no such thing as the Power PC side of the Core Duo. The Core Duo is basically two Intel Pentium M chips on one chip. Rosetta is software integrated into the Mac OS version that was specifically written for the Intel Chip that "translates" the software code written for the Power PC chip and sets up an environment that allows it to run on the Intel chip. It does this transparently and quite well for a lot of the Power PC software.
But Apple, Steve Jobs specifically, said that it was currently a work around for the transition to the new chip and would not work well for everything. They recommended that if you intended to use an iMac in a commercial situation that the Intel machines may not be the right choice until more 3rd party software was available. And until the software someone specifically needed was written to operate on the Intel platform.

Bleeding Edge or Emerging Technology?

I'm looking for opportunities to market my newly found expertise in building JClient forms and not having much success.
Oracle has exceeded my expectations with JDeveloper 10.1.3 and the JClient/ADF Swing technology. Being an expert at building Oracle Forms, I can now build JClient forms and design complex applications at the same pace. However, I'm now doubting the popularity/acceptance within companies to choose the JClient technology as their primary means for building transactional applications.
My thought for learning JClient was that companies would obsolete Oracle Forms and rebuild their applications using JClient thus providing new interesting consulting opportunities. Did I choose the wrong technology or is JClient getting lost in the flurry of other new emerging technologies?
More success stories/experiences in the best choice of JDeveloper technologies would be appreciated.

It's great that you're finding Oracle ADF and ADF Swing productive.
While it doesn't yet have any specific ADF Swing content, be sure to also check out the new ADF Developer's Guide for Forms/4GL Developers on the ADF Learning Center at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/learnadf.html
It has a lot of great content on ADF Business Components that is relevant for any front-end user interface technology.
We estimate that about 40% of our external customers use ADF Swing (sometime in parallel with also building web UI's using Struts/JSP and/or JSF now that that is supported in the 10.1.3 release). In addition, in the Java world at large, Swing is experinencing new wave of interest from Sun and Java developers at large. This comes at the same time the Web-style user interfaces are evolving to take advantage of Ajax-style (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques to make browser-based UI's more interactive as well.
If you need something with true Desktop fidelity, Swing is the thing. When combined with Java Web Start, you can simplify the deployment aspects of such an application as well. If you want something with the reach only a browser-based app can give, then go for JavaServer Faces (JSF) in our 10.1.3 release. It's already easy to create a fairly sophisticated web user interface that already offers some of the Ajax-style interactivity and we have plans to further expand the component set to deliver even more rich experience through the web as well.
To get an idea of what's possible today so you can compare with what you've learned in Swing, try the step-by-step ADF tutorial for Forms/4GL Developers at the ADF Learning Center mentioned above.

HDV Edge - bleeding

for those of you working on the bleeding edge of hdv, this article on smart splicing just appeared in one of my mailboxes. looks like help may be on the way for you hdv users.
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/hdvatwork_12112006/

for those of you working on the bleeding edge of hdv, this article on smart splicing just appeared in one of my mailboxes. looks like help may be on the way for you hdv users.
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/hdvatwork_12112006/

Laserjet CP2025 - Full Bleed Printing?

Hello,
I'm wondering if the color laserjet CP2025 can handle full bleed printing. I'm creating letterhead in InDesign and setting it for full bleed and it previews to the edge of the page, yet every time I print, I have a white border. I thought the printer could handle it but now I'm not so sure. Anyone know for sure if it can/can't?
Thanks in advance,
Kym

No - the CP2025 does not offer full bleed (edge to edge) printing.

My thoughts (and yours too!) about Arch (I'm in love already!)

Hello all! I suppose I would be called a newbie to Arch, but certainly not to Linux. I've been running Gentoo for five months. If I were running, say, Ubuntu for five months, I would probably still be considered a newbie, but five months of Gentoo has made me pretty proficient at Linux.
I (if you haven't guessed yet) am a Gentoo user , and it seems like there are a lot of Gentoo users who go to Arch. That's how I heard about it, through the Gentoo forums. I am currently looking for backups in case Gentoo comes crashing to the ground. I was perfectly content in my little bubble of happy compiling until I learned about the unrest inside of the Gentoo community. I never realized that things were in such bad shape... like a downward spiral. The result cannot be good. I feel like I'm on a sinking ship and am praying for my life here. I've seen a lot of threads at the forums lately like "If Drobbins fork Gentoo, will you follow him?" and "Will you stay with Gentoo if the Foundation is handed over to a 3rd party?" I find these a little unsettling! I understand that the Foundation is a terrible state right now, and the founder's attempt to get it back has failed, so now I don't things are going to head up. So I've started to face facts, that I better have some backup plans so that I'm not starting over from square 1 when this all burns to the ground (hopefully if, not when, because I like Gentoo and really don't want to have to give it up). Now I admit that I don't like EVERYTHING about Gentoo, but I like almost everything, and Arch seems to be like Gentoo in many respects.
Some of my personal desires in a distro:
1.Bleeding edge with rolling updates (and thus no need to ever reinstall the distribution)
2. A large repository for the package manager
3. Not a newbie distro... a distro for those who like the command line and to do things themselves
4. Good community
5. Customizable
6. The ability to choose between a stable and unstable package on a per-package basis
7. Install from source
Arch seems to satisfy 1,3, 4, and 5 correct? And pretty well satisfies 2, though I can see its package manager is not as big as Gentoo (though bigger than like Slackware).
I guess for the most part it doesn't satisfy 6 and 7 though, right? I realize that AUR is source-based, but on the whole, Arch is binary, so I'm referring to the overall tendency of the distribution.
Is there the ability to choose between stable and unstable packages though, to be as bleeding-edge as possible? (I'm thinking no but thought I'd ask)
Many other distributions such as Ubuntu probably wouldn't meet my needs at all. They seem to have a great repository and community, but I just don't want a GUI-based distro. The truth is, I want to feel like my computer needs me. It's my baby. XDDDD Okay, that's pretty sad, especially because it's a Pentium II (I can't WAIT to get my new laptop!!!!!!!!!!!), but I appreciate my Gentoo box way more than our Windows box upstairs, a lot of that having to do with the work I had to put into it to get it working correctly, and all that I had to learn. It makes me appreciate it a lot more, and it makes me a lot better at solving problems. (If it ain't broken, why not break it so you can fix it? XD)I don't want a distro that does everything for me; I won't feel needed anymore. Plus, I'm addicted to the command line. I have a window manager, sure (Thunar with Xfce), but I mostly still use the command line to view my files. Sometimes I don't even start up X (I never start it up by default) and am just as efficient as when I have it open. I insist on knowing how to do everything manually... when I wanted to make keyboard shortcuts for X, I chose to use xbindkeys rather than use the GUI with Xfce, so I could do it manually and still have it working if I ever switched desktop managers. I manually edit pretty much ALL my config files and, like I said, I am just as efficient without the GUI as I am with it. I can't go five minutes in GUI without having a virtual terminal open. So I think, in these respects, Arch would meed my needs quite well, just as Gentoo does now. I have deiced to try out Arch now anyway, regardless of the state of Gentoo, because you know, i might just like Arch better. I know a lot of Gentoo users have said they've gone to Arch. I'm trying to get my friend Evan to let me use his 8 gb hdd to try it on, because my current 6 gig drive for Gentoo is like... 99 percent full (I swear, I'm not kidding, I have 100 mg left, I REALLY have to prune XD), so once I get it, I'm going to install Arch (after unhooking my /home hard drive because I only have two slots for hard drives, and they're both already filled! I will probably end up moving the /home directory onto that 8 gig drive anyway. I realize it's hard to share things between distros, but I will at least be able to have a place to put files for both distros in the same place and would probably end up symlinking some same location to my desktop for both distros
Okay, now I'm just ranting. Back to point! I'm definitely going to try out Arch, and so far I like what I see. I even recommended it to a friend who is also thinking of leaving Gentoo (for Ubuntu, so he can support his amd64 processor). I pointed out Arch64 and he's considering it. I don't think he'd like Ubuntu any more than I. He originally used Slack and only switched to Gentoo because Slack really doesn't have a good package manager. I think he'd like Arch as well.
I've also done research on other distributions someone like me might like (especially coming from Gentoo).
This is my current list:
Arch Linux
Frugalware (based on Arch, right?)
Zen Walk
Vector Linux
CRUX (I'm leaning away from this one, as of now)
Lunar
Source Mage
Sorcerer
FreeBSD (but I've decided not to go with FreeBSD, as much as I like installing from source, because their philosophy of stability over currentness (like not having flash 9 because it's not "stable") just doesn't fly with me.. Linux is better for me, I think)
LFS.. okay, not really, but if I ever have a weekend when I'm REALLY bored.........
I've used Slack before but I would prefer to have a package manager, so I'm steering away from that direction, as much as I liked Slack.
Have I missed any other distros people in this sort of mindset like us might like? ^_^
My primary focus right now is Arch, and it's definitely my first preference as far as switching goes.
I think my biggest problem with Arch is that I REALLY like to compile everything from source (or at least, have Portage do it for me :-p), so I"d miss that. Especially USE flags. However, Source Mge/Lunar/Sorcerer don't sound as good as Arch, and FreeBSD just... isn't my thing. Their package manger seems great, it's their overall philosophy I disagree with.
This post really isn't asking for help with anything, but isn't that fine? This is just the Arch Linux General Forums, right? I just wanna talk about Arch as compared to other distros. I've wiki-ed it some, but I just think it's a fun thing to discuss.
So what things do you guys like better about Arch, and what things do you like better about Gentoo, or maybe about some other good distros?
I can't wait to try out Arch; I'm so excited! No Xubuntu for me! ^___________^ (Gnome and ESPECIALLY KDE would lag far too much for this computer)
-Megan M-

Well, I technically have 14 gigs... I have the 6 gig and a 4 gig which has /usr/portage (the portage tree probably takes up so much space it would outweigh any space saved through USE flags XD) and /var/tmp, since that can get huge while compiling and I don't have space on the 6 gig for the fluctuations in space... I had to install the binary for OpenOffice just because the temporary space required to compile it was bigger than the space I had on my hard drive!!!!and I actually have so little space left I am permanently using a ext3 formatted flash drive as my ~/Desktop (it's in my fstab and everything XD!) This gives me 4 extra gigs for all my stuff.
But anyway, just you people answering this thread so nicely confirms my feelings about the Arch community. I can easily see a thread like this simply being ignored on the Gentoo forums, or just merged with other threads. >.<
Actually, to be honest, most pakcages I am running unstable on Gentoo had to do with compile errors and such, or some feature not working correctly in the older version. The only ones that I just wanted to run unstable are.. lemme check my /etc/portage/package.keywords... Skype and Pidgin. And possibly Mplayer too, I was thinking of. Everything else was either because of problems or of it being in the Sunrise overlay (everything in there is masked as unstable since it's not an official part of the Portage tree).
How easy is it to get an older version of a package? I ask because I want Flash 9.0.48.0-r1, NOT 9.0.115.0. The newer one made my Firefox commit suicide and just close with an error when I viewed certain pages (youtube, etc. was fine, but even going to www.adobe.com made it crash *irony*). Gentoo forum users told me that then newer one was unmasked because of a security flaw found in the older one, but for me, I'd rather take my chances with the hole than have firefox crash every five minutes!!!! Is there any way to specify not to update a package either, for when you do a world update (or whatever they are called in Arch)? This also has to do with Flash... I'll give the newer one a try... maybe it was just a Gentoo issue... but if not, I'm DEFINITELY downgrading!
I like how easy it seems for Arch users to add packages to AUR so they are available to others... this is harder to do on Gentoo, despite that everything is source-based. It's most like there is a wall between the users and the developers that cannot be broken easily. This seems like a good way to let users have a little fun in the developer's world without *being* one.
One last question while I'm here.. my other friend who I sugested Arch to... I just want to confirm that Arch would support his CPU. He said to me:
"Oh, and my CPU arch is amd64 / x86-64 / emt64-t
thechnically its em64t since its an intel CPU but i am running a k8 optimized system (because I used to have a opteron)"
^_^
PS: Your forums may be smaller than those of Gentoo, but that is not necessarily a disadvantage. There is like a perfect size, I think. You can be too small OR too big... with bigger forums, it is so much easier for a thread to just get buried if no one can answer it right away, even though someone else might be able to but will never see it because it's already buried. This happened to me in the Ubuntu forums. I obviously do not run Ubuntu but posted a question there regarding mtpfs with a particular MP3 player, because I figured the forums were large enough that I'd get at least a few people with the same mp3 player and they could tell me their experiences with the program. HA! Instead, I just got 0 replies and it was simply buried. With forums, bigger isn't *always* better, imo.
PPS: What is your policy on patching the source code? For example, GTK+ recently deprecated a few features that TiLP(1 and 2) depends on. The source code will now not compile. I made a patch for it to fix it (I was supposed to submit that ebuild two days ago... grah, I really should do it tomorrow!), for otherwise it just gives errors. If it is TiLp2 you have in the repository, it is literally as simple as adding one line in the source code (and is the fix the developer himself recommended), but Gentoo did not even notice and kept the source code in the tree the same even though it would no longer compile! @_@ This kind of ticked me off, personally, which is why I have to submit that patch tomorrow! ha ha
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Pacman - his error messages - and clarity

first
[root@gateway ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
current [################] 100% 41K 12.7K/s 00:00:03
extra [################] 100% 164K 19.9K/s 00:00:08
Targets: abiword-2.0.12-1 dbh-1.0.20-1 doxygen-1.3.9.1-1 evolution-2.0.2-2
evolution-data-server-1.0.2-1 flac-1.1.1-1 gaim-1.0.1-1 gal-2.2.3-1
gdm-2.6.0.5-2 gimp-2.0.5-1 glib2-2.4.7-1 gmp-4.1.4-1
gnome-panel-2.8.1-1 heimdal-0.6.2-1 gnome-vfs-2.8.2-1 gqview-1.4.5-1
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.99.0-1 gst-plugins-0.8.5-1
gstreamer-0.8.7-1 gtk2-2.4.13-1 gtkhtml-3.2.3-1 imagemagick-6.1.1-1
imlib-1.9.15-1 iptables-1.2.11-3 libogg-1.1.2-1 libsoup-2.2.1-1
libtiff-3.6.1-4 libvorbis-1.1.0-1 man-pages-1.69-1 mozilla-1.7.3-1
mozilla-firefox-0.10.1-2 nautilus-2.8.1-1 perl-html-parser-3.36-1
reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-1
Total Package Size: 94.8 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
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error: the following file conflicts were found:
heimdal: /usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz: exists in filesystem
errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@gateway ~]# pacman -Ql /usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz
Package "/usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz" was not found.
[root@gateway ~]# pacman -Qo /usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz is owned by netkit-rsh 0.17-2
[root@gateway ~]# pacman --version
.--. Pacman v2.9.2
/ _.-' .-. .-. .-. Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Judd Vinet <[email protected]>
'--' This program may be freely redistributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License
[root@gateway ~]#
Little addon ... maybe pacman could say something about "overwriting" files...
if its intended to.. or should never ever happen... whatever.. maybe with msg's the pkg-distributer made himself (cuz at least he should know WHY of IF it should happen )
this could be achieved by putting info in the pgk that there will be files to overwrite... so the user still is able to say "oh no don't touch it!" if he doesn't want pac'y to do that...
like:
REWORKDESTINATION=" /usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz /foo/bar"
REWORKMESSAGE="1. just cuz im funny... <split> 2. heavy bugs fixed"
[root@gateway ~]# pacman -S heimdal
Targets: heimdal-0.6.2-1
Total Package Size: 1.3 MB
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checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
heimdal: /usr/man/man8/rshd.8.gz: exists in filesystem
reworkinfo: Just cuz im funny...
do you want to overwrite? (YES/no) :_
so you could also -f pac'y and he simply overwrites exept things on the HoldPkg ! (so you still feel save with some things )
secondly
it would be nice to make pacman capable to download/install pgk with given versions... but as far as i see there are a lot threats about that
thirdly
it would also be nice if a pkg you install could add things to the pacman.conf like NoUpgrade and HoldPkg. ... eg. updating cups ... it saves the configfiles.. yeah... but as .pacsave and cups is after restarting the deamons unuseable cuz it loads with the new ones ... the other way round would be nicer...
so if you install cups the first time the pkg it self writes into pacman.conf:
NoUpgrade /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/classes.conf /etc/cups/client.conf /etc/cups/mime.convs /etc/cups/mime.types /etc/cups/printes.conf
maybe with a update function like:
Syntax: update(file, method, string1, string2);
example:
update(pacman.conf,add,"NoUpdate NoUpgrade /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/classes.conf /etc/cups/client.conf /etc/cups/mime.convs /etc/cups/mime.types /etc/cups/printes.conf, )
and when you remove the pkg it does automatically:
update(pacman.conf, remove, "NoUpgrade /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/classes.conf /etc/cups/client.conf /etc/cups/mime.convs /etc/cups/mime.types /etc/cups/printes.conf", )
this could also work with a substitute-method so in pkg-updates you can also update pacman.
i think that would heavily increase the power of pacman - wich already is a realy mighty thing

I like 1 and 3.... very good ideas - especially number 1.. it'd be nice to have overwrite functionality in packages
about number 2 - this issue has been brought up ad nauseum.... Arch is considered by users and developers a "bleeding edge distro" - that is, Arch uses the newest packages, assuming they work. allowing users to manually grab a non-bleeding edge package, or even downgrade their packages is, for lack of a better phrase, against policy. If something is not functional in a given package, then Arch as a whole should be downgraded until the package is working. If a new version replaces the old with differing functionality, the packages should be installed side-by-side (as is the case with gtk1 & gtk2, imlib & imlib2, and many more).
In a bleeding edge distro, downgrading a package simply because a user "likes SomePackage 0.9 better than 1.0" is not worthwhile. Package management would become so much more difficult and require much more space.
If there is a problem with a package (i.e. "I upgraded to Blah 0.6.5 from 0.6.3 and it doesn't work now") then the problem is most likely on your system and should be fixed. Blame the developers, blame yourself, whatever... the fact of the matter is you need to expect this sort of thing with Arch...

Time capsule with external hard drive

My wife and I just recently became an all Mac family and I am looking into backing up our files. We have approximatly 1 TB of Photos and 1 TB of Music/Movies. We are photographers (well, my wife is, I just take blurry photos) and so we expect the size of our Photos to grow.
We both have Macbook Pros and a mac mini (1 TB of storage). Connected to our mini is a an 8 TB external hard drive currently set up as a Raid 10, so I have effectivly 4 TB storage with 4 TB of back up. My plan was to buy an Air Port Extreme to replace our 4 year old wireless router, and I see some of the Air Port Extreme's have time capsul storage built in.
My question is, our photos, music and movies will be kept on my EHD, which is mirrored and will make its own back up. Is it worth buying an Air Port Extreme with time capsule to back up everything? We will primarly be keeping programs word documents and home school stuff on the Mini and everything on our Macbook Pros will be files we take from the EHD.
Also, should I plug the EHD into the Air Port Extreme or the Mini?
I formated the EHD on the mini, so it is set up as journaled, not FAT32.

Connected to our mini is a an 8 TB external hard drive currently set up as a Raid 10, so I have effectivly 4 TB storage with 4 TB of back up.
I would quibble with you on the use of the word backup.. Mirror yes.. you have a mirror.. but that does not represent a backup. But you also suggest later that you have a separate backup as well .. if so you have not listed what exactly this is.
The issue is if you delete a file.. it is deleted from the array.. if you manage to corrupt a file.. it is corrupted in the array.. worse yet.. if you corrupt a library.. very real possibility with the way apple stores files.. and I do hope your are storing original RAW versions.. so the library will then be corrupted in both sections of the array.
How is this connected to the mini? I hope it is a recent mini and using thunderbolt??
The best backup imho is a 4TB drive plugged into the array by usb or whatever is the fastest port it has.. esata would be great.. expensive but thunderbolt even better. Does the software with the array have some inbuilt backup?? They are usually the best way to do it. I would even consider a second cheap USB stored offsite.. friends house. Thieves love those big disk arrays.. they are worth a lot of money.. and they collect your TC/AE along with the rest.
Now all this might be already part of what you are doing so please take it simply that you didn't list it.
My question is, our photos, music and movies will be kept on my EHD, which is mirrored and will make its own back up. Is it worth buying an Air Port Extreme with time capsule to back up everything? We will primarly be keeping programs word documents and home school stuff on the Mini and everything on our Macbook Pros will be files we take from the EHD.
Also, should I plug the EHD into the Air Port Extreme or the Mini?
I formated the EHD on the mini, so it is set up as journaled, not FAT32.
You can use Time Machine in the notebooks to do a backup of the current configuration of them. Without needing to do the backup of the EHD which is really too big to do effectively. TM is very good at keeping incremental backups.
A Time Capsule is good value considering the price of the hard disk now.. so you can buy an Extreme and run it with USB drive.. but the TC with inbuilt drive is a better option in that the drive speed of the internal far superior to the usb2 drive.
The new AC models are still somewhat buggy.. I think I would wait a bit for Apple to get their act together.. a few months probably. Of course I only see the people with issues here.. but the firmware is still immature.
I read a review recently by a guy I respect on our local forum.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2125865
Compared to the Asus N66U model.. the AE wasn't even in the same class. And that is not AC but just 900mbps (so called) N wireless. That the AE was totally outclassed is somewhat of a surprise.. they are basically identical.. the chipset both use is standard broadcom. That means Apple has tried to do funny stuff instead of sticking with the broadcom OEM linux firmware.. they have to rewrite it in NetBSD.. and this is going to take some time to debug.
For now you can use TM to network drive,, just as easily as to a TC.
See http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/
This is plainly opinionated.. and others might be in better position to post.. so go ahead and tear me to shreds.. but I would take great care.. before leaping at new edge technology.. unless you like the bleeding edge.

Where is the Wish list for Encore 2?

Hello
I have a few things that I would like to wish for in the next patch / version.
1. The ability to import power point slide shows into encore as a slide show. This would make it really handy to import some ones previously created slide show and turn it into a DVD slide show. It doesn't have to do all the fancy animations or transitions, just import the slide shows. Yes I know I can export from power point to jpgs. Have you really looked at the results? Crap is all I have to say. Of course I could recreate them in Photoshop or some other program that lets picture and titling be created. You know how much extra time that step costs?
2. Could you please put a tab in the project pane for a list of slide shows, play lists and assets? I actually like the tabs better than organizing by folders.
3. Could you make a project manager for encore that is similar to the one in premier? I would like to be able to trim the project and remove "temporary files". I especially hate the number of temporary menus that accumulate in the menus folder. I want to be able to back up the necessary files only, not all the junk. it would also be nice if it would grab the video(I) that make up the project and compile them in to the folder that I designate as the new project folder, just like premier does.
4. Can you make a key that would allow me to select multiple files when using the pick whip? Or could we just drag and drop files to a play list or to the box where the end action and such are? The pick whip looks cool, but it is so slow to get things done with it.
5. its not really to hard to now, but it would be nice if there was some method for telling encore that you are creating an Easter egg. Currently there are a few steps to doing it and it is all manual. It would be nice if you could designate a button as being an Easter egg and then tell encore which choice of ways you want it to handle it. For instance is it just a simple Easter egg where you go on the right direction on a button and viola, you found it. Or is it a button that you go to and it goes to a duplicate menu and then you need to hit the right button a couple of times and then viola, you found it. Any thing to make my DVD creation to have a few less steps.
6. Another thing that I think encore needs has to do with the flowchart. Give me some zoom on that baby. I like it, but it would be nice if I could zoom out to look at the overall structure.
7. The ability to normalize the audio across the entire DVD. My wife made a disc and some parts were loud and others were so quiet. It would be nice to not have to do this for each clip before in premier, but leave it till the final stage of DVD production so that it only has to be done once.
As time goes on and I think of more I will add to this list. If you have an idea put it here, maybe it will end up in the next patch / version.

> My wish is they get the bloody software to work properly in the first place. There are many inadequacies in the software that I would like to see added, but frankly, this is the WORST product I have ever seen Adobe relese. I cannot produce a single DVD project without it crashing, bugging out, and generally being a pain in the butt. If you see the forums on here, and across the net, you will see I am not the only person voicing this, and I have used $20 software that fares way better than this.
Hmmm.
I think I will probably be wasting my time here, but things are not as bad as you are making out by a long, long way.
I have personally created many hundred successful DVD projects with Encore, and whilst I have indeed experienced difficulties from time to time, I can assure you the first - and only - time I went across to the Dark Side and used DVDSP, things were considerably worse. Never has Encore taken my Audio files, and muxed them almost to the end & then replaced the audio with complete digital silence! So before you seriously go elsewhere, I would take a long hard look at all the complaints in the Apple forums as well.
As I have pointed out far too many times, the grass may look greener.....but in my experience it seldom - if ever - is. There ois no such thing as bug free software, it's impossible to achieve.
>but from what I can tell, Encore was a "bought in" product that they absorbed when taking over another company. It seems that maybe it wasn't such a good move after all.
It wasn't a move at all - EncoreDVD is
i licensed
from Sonic Solutions, and Adobe have not bought Sonic Solutions.
>My concern is that software companies should not release faulty software. With regard to my hardware, I am a professional graphic and video designer with two high end, quad core workstations that I rebuild with operating systems and upgrade new hardware regularly. They are not used for anything else besides professional software. All files are saved across to a server.
I can see one of the possible problems right away.
Quad core? AFAIK, these systems simply did not exist when Encore was coded. It's quite possible you have a hardware setup that is completely untested. I may be off the mark here though.
>I am well aware that people use hardware and situations that the developers never envisaged, but that is what Beta testing is all about.
Twaddle.
Beta testers simply have no chance of being able to test on every possible software/hardware combination. It's not reasonable to try & achieve this - the Beta cycles are (usually) all about making sure the software works properly on the largest number of systems that can be assembled. This is not going to stop people constantly attempting to install & run it on untested combinations though - and to be brutally blunt with you, no professional company would even consider being right on the bleeding edge of current technology without having an older system set up that actually conforms to the system requirements as laid out in the product documentation. For EncoreDVD 2, this is as follows:
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz for DV
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz or Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz for HDV
AMD must have SSE2 instruction sets.
There is no mention at all of Dual Core, or Quad Core CPU here - therefore this has to be considered as untested, and whilst it may work, it will not be guaranteed to work.
There is also NO mention of guaranteed functionality to a server. The specs actually say:
i Dedicated 7200 rpm drive for DV and HDV editing. Striped array (RAID 0) for HD
(This is my personal opinion, not official word from Adobe, I have to add. I do not work for Adobe in any way)

Bleeding edge..to far?

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