Is it possible to request free hardware/software if i prove need & desire?

My name is Christopher Kelly... I'm a severely handicapped individual - im wheelchair bound and only have the use of one arm.. I type with three fingers on one hand, and have wanted to be a freelance writer / novelist my entire life.. Unfortunately, due to my circumstances I'm not ablke to adequately provide for myself (I made $8,000 last year - as a result I'm basically stuck with living at home with my parents until something amazing happens - like I sell a novel or something..) Anyway - to cut directly to the bottom line - one of the few things that I've wanted is to buy a nice mac laptop and a 30inch cinema display.. unfortunately, due to the fact that I make so little, and my expenses are so high (my manual wheelchair alone cost $15,000), the odds of me ever meetiung that goal under my own power is as close to totally impossible as it could possibly be.. I was just wondering if Apple ever donates hardware and software to those who can prove a need, and the desire to use whatever is donated to make a difference. I've recently started a blog that i intend to use to help connect other disabled folks with reliable information pertaining to the ADA, and am in the process of petitioning every member of congress to consider completely rewriting the Americand With Disabilities Act with a piece of legislation thats actually constitutional and actually provides protection against job descrimination... I'm one of the few disabled people in America that actually attempts to work and provide for myself - but its not easy because... fighting social stigma is a lot harder than you might think.. regardless of the fact that I'm A+ certified and am undeniably intelligent, local businesses simply refuse to give me a fair chance at a real job making real money.. Anyway - I dont believe in asking for charity simply because I think the world owes me something... I'd just - really like to achieve one of my lifes biggest dreams and use the hardware and software provided to make a difdference in the disabled community. Many disabled folks dont even bother trying to work or educate themselves... 90% dojnt have part or full time jobs, and more than 80% just sit at home and collect SSI benefits. Anyway - I was just wondering if any of you knew of somebody within apple that i could talk to, or an organisation that specializes in providing either grants or direct access to Apple Hardware and software if I can prove that I have a legitimate need and an honorable intention and purpose for the equipment provided to me... If any of you have any information whatsoever, or even a word of encouragement, my email address is [email protected] -- my blog is located at christopher-ryan.net
Thanks from the bottom of my heart, just for reading through this post.
Most Sincerely,
CRK
Boca Raton FL. -- USA
P.S. I know that a fully loaded macbookpro and a 30" cinema display is a lot to ask for, but i figure... if I'm going to petition congress, find a way to digitally unite an entire demographic of peopel through the power of the internet, and aspire to writing a pulitzer prize winning novel, why not do it with as much style as is humanly possible... Theres simply no bigger statement of style, eloquence, and finesse than a tricked out macbook pro and a 30 inch cinema display.. ...and lets face it - I'd rather use Linux on my old computer than petition ANYBODY for a new computer running Windows... even though Im a geek living below the poverty line -- I've got to have some self respect and standards... neither of which i would compromisse for a chance to run windows..

The problem here is that you're asking for something for nothing without proving what you can or have done. Saying 'make a difference' is an empty statement, and a web-site with one blog entry doesn't cut it. Write a plan like it's a business plan, and then act on it. It will be a lot more credible when you present articles from your local paper about how you did this task, or set-up that group, and how it benefited those around you.
Try not to be to grandiose, the more ambitious projects you start the more you dilute your resources.
You might want to start by focusing your energy into making your new web-site the place to be. There you can collect donations, collate ideas, garner a community of like-minded individuals and, crucially, make your presence known. If you think you've got a knack for making money, prove it here.
Finally set your sites a little lower - beggars can't be choosers. A 30" screen? Most people don't have TV's that big, and you sit a heck of a lot further back from a TV than your computer monitor. For novel writing you can get two pages side-by-side at over 130% on 1680x1050, and that's luxury; there are PhD students on G3 iBooks producing work worthy of Nature or Science. You can 'make a difference' on an eMac - otherwise where is the line drawn?
Matt

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It sounds like you have verified there to be adequate throughput off the disk to play the file at 25 fps but it's hard to imagine that a ~0.6 GBytes per second data stream isn't going to bottleneck somewhere on the G5. That's like 10x the data rate of FW800 if I am reading your post correctly. Maybe you meant 604 Mbps? That's just inside the (theoretical) envelope of FW800, but still a lot of data to be streaming real time without interruption. But where is the pinch point? That is the question. I'm guessing that it is disk related inspite of what the AJA whack test says. Are you using a raid by any chance? That should improve the AJA score and make for more headroom, especially if run off a SATA card.
Personally, I rarely use anything more powerful than Apple's Activity Monitor as a system monitoring tool. But I doubt that it has enough diagnostic power for this application. If you are running Leopard, DTrace might be helpful, but I have no experience with it personally. Just trying to find the bottleneck could turn into a whole project of its own. Again I refer you to the AVScience forum as a possible shortcut to the answers you seek. Good luck with your project.

Delegate specific domain user to do add/remove hardware&software, join to domain feature only.

Dear team;
I want to Delegate specific domain user to do two things add/remove hardware/software, join to domain feature only without give him Local admin
Best regards
LAshkham

Hi,
Please understand that if you want make some specific domain users add/remove hardware/software on domain computers, you should grant these users the local admin right. We could grant the local
admin right using Restricted Groups Policy Settings or Local Users and Groups GPP setting. For details, please refer to the following articles.
Restricted Groups Policy Settings
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756802(v=ws.10).aspx
How to use Group Policy Preferences to Secure Local Administrator Groups
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/01/how-to-use-group-policy-preferences-to-secure-local-administrator-groups/
You also mentioned that you want to delegate the
Join a computer to a domain task to these specific users. Regarding the request, we could delegate the task via Delegation of Control Wizard. For details, please refer to the following article.
Delegation of Control Wizard
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145344.aspx
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Free animation software from Toon Boom Animation

Hi Everyone
Hope this is not considered spamming the forum but wanted to share some exciting news with everyone.
Toon Boom Animation is at the CES show in Las Vegas and we are giving away free animation software to anyone who goes to http://www.toonboom.com/doodle/ This is a great way for anyone starting out in animation drawing and wants to try out their creative skills and all parents who would like to get your kids involved in an interesting activity that keeps them busy while teaching them creativity that they can use later on in their life.
There is no catch and you never have to purchase anything. This is simply our way of giving back and the license for Flip Boom Doodle animation software never expires.
Download the free animation software at http://www.toonboom.com/doodle/ and you can be on your way to create fun animated videos using Flip Boom’s drawing tools and easy-to-use templates. Once you are done with your animation creation, it can be uploaded directly to a Facebook profile page directly from within Flip Boom Doodle to be shared with your friends .

Hi X, sorry for the delay.
If I drop a 30fps ProRes HQ quicktime into a 1030p ProRes HQ sequence, I get the preview-like quality I wrote about earlier.
However if I change the sequence compressor to regular ProRes and render, it displays sharp as it should but still has the bad interlacing. The plasma I'm monitoring with can't display 108030p though so I'm judging this from an apple cinema display.
Exporting from this timeline to 108060i ProRes has the same problem.
Do you think it's possible the characters in the cartoon move too great a distance between frames that it's causing this issue?
Thanks

I wish to download (and use of course) Creative Cloud on my NAS to be able to have access from various locations using my laptop PC and tablet. Does anybody know whether this is possible? So the programm software at the NAS and operate it from there.

I wish to download (and use of course) Creative Cloud on my NAS to be able to have access from various locations using my laptop PC and tablet. Does anybody know whether this is possible? So the programm software on the NAS and operate it from there.

OK, thanks
but EULA ?? what does it stand for? I am pretty new to all this so good to learn something.
ps. backgroud of my request is, that I purchased LR in a box in 2013. The computer where this is on, is at the end of its life and I have no LR box with License or any reference nr's anymore.
Copied to my new Laptop, which maybe is not allowed if I understand you correct, it didn't work.
Pitty, because afterall it is still my legally relatively recent purchased LR version.
I thought to overcome this problem in future by putting it on my NAS. Safe for many years to come.
again any knowlegeable feedback is welcome to me.
Jos

Webtools 2007 Hardware/Software requirements

Hi - is there a minimum and recommended hardware/software requirements document for the server setup of Webtools 2007?
Thanks!

> Minimal / around 10,000 SKUs / 10,000 unique visitors
> a week / 500 orders a day
> 1x Machine (both Web and Database Server)
> 2GHz processor
> 2GB RAM / 20GB RAID1
> Windows XP/2000/2003 Server with IIS & SMTP
> SQL2000 Processor license, Std edition
> MDAC 2.8 and .NET Framework 1.1
> SAP Business-One DI-API Runtime*
> 512Kb (up & down) Frame Relay or DSL
>
> Firewall with Ports 80 & 443 open to internet
>
>
>
> Medium / around 100,000 SKUs / 100,000 unique
> visitors a week / 1000 orders a day
> 2x Machine (1 Web Server / 1 Database Server)
> 2GHz Dual Processor
> 2GB RAM / 40 GB RAID5 Array
> Windows XP/2000/2003 Server with IIS & SMTP
> SQL2000 Processor license, Std edition
> MDAC 2.8 and .NET Framework 1.1
> SAP Business-One DI-API Runtime*
> Dedicated T1 Frame Relay
> Possible Co-Located Facility
>
> Firewall with Ports 80 & 443 open to internet
> Trusted SQL Connection between servers
>
>
> Web Farm / around half million SKUs / million unique
> visitors a week / 10,000 orders a day
> 4x Machine (2 Web Servers / 2 Database Servers)
> 2GHz Dual Processor
> 2GB RAM / 80 GB RAID5 Array
> Fiber Channel SAN
> Windows XP/2000/2003 Server with IIS & SMTP
> SQL2000 Processor license, Enterprise ed.
> MDAC 2.8 and .NET Framework 1.1
> SAP Business-One DI-API Runtime*
> Co-Located Facility
> With Tier One Infrastructure
>
> Firewall with Ports 80 & 443 open to internet
> Trusted SQL Connection between servers
>
> Load Balancer
Can 2007 be configured to use MS Load Balancing or MS Cluster services? Is there a document or whitepaper that outlines the 2007 installation components etc.
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