New hardware for CS5

Hey guys, currently my old CRT monitor decided to venture into his last breathing days. The monitor keeps flickering lowering its brightness and contrast (like if I would switch from full color to almost grayscale). So is time for a change. I can purchase a new monitor, probably an LCD / flat screen, or I could push it a bit and get a laptop.
My indecision comes from the following: I currently own a Q6600, quad core, 2.4 GHz intel, 4 gb ram, GeForce 8600 - 256 ram, hdd 450 gb. My option for a laptop currently would be an offer with pay now 1 euro, and for 12 months 35.17 euros (from Orange). Here are the laptop specifications:
Procesor
Intel® Pentium® P6100
Frecventa procesor (GHz)
2 Ghz
Dimensiune Cache procesor (KB)
3 MB L3 cache
Memorie de lucru (GB, RAM)
3 GB DDR3
Frecventa memorie (MHz)
1066 MHz
Numar module memorie
un modul
Memorie maxima suportata
2 module, 4 GB
Capacitate de stocare (GB)
320 GB
Tip unitate de stocare
SATA, 7200 RPM
Greutate totala, cu baterie (Kg)
2,6 kg
Dimensiuni (W x D x H mm)
381 x 253 x 25 / 34 mm
Sistem de operare instalat
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Baterie inclusa in pachet
6 celule
Incarcator inclus in pachet
Autonomie aproximativa
up to 3.5 hours autonomy
Audio
stereo
Tehnologie ecran
HD Acer CineCrystal LED LCD
Diagonala ecran (inch)
15.6"
Rezolutia optima (pixeli)
1366x768 px
Capacitate memorie video (MB)
partajata, pana la 128 MB
Tip de memorie video
Intel HD Graphics
Camera video
Integrata, 1,3 MP
Unitate optica
Modem
nu
Wireless
Acer Nplify 02.11b/g/n
Porturi
3 x USB 2.0, RJ-45 (NIC), 1 x VGA, 1 x RJ45, 2-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader, 1 x HDMI
Retea
Ethernet 10/100 Mbps LAN
I have CS5. Would this run as smooth on the laptop or I would see a decrease in performance (and if possible how severe that would be). I am tempted to get the laptop as I allready need one for when I am on the move and meet clients, and after that geting a screener for my old rig would not be a big problem. Am sorry that the info is not in english, but most of the datas should be easily readed.
Many many thanks, can't wait for your replies / advices.

Hey Scott, my friend uses this laptop for his work, and had no problems at all - performance related, but he also uses CS4 edition not CS5. I am not sure if there is a big difference between the products related to hardware requirements / performance. The laptop above runs very smooth otherwise, no noise, no heat, lovely display.

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I have just read about the Premier Pro requirement for 64 bit only operating system for CS5. I have CS2 and they tell me that CS5 will be the last time that I can get an upgrade price for new software. I will obviously need to get a new 64 bit ready computer for this change. Only certain graphics cards are listed as supported for the new rendering engine in Premier CS5. I just need a basic new computer that will run CS5 decently for the entire suite (going master this time). Like many lone graphical enthusiasts, I am trying to do it all myself with the adobe suite (web, print, photos, videos, flash) for my future customers.
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Richard

I know that Adobe has not released an official hardware recommendation list. However, they have unofficially released many hardware specific recommendations. This is just one article that mentions some:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/12/14/adobes-mercury-playback-engine-for-cs5-is- cuda-only!.aspx
In this article, it states a very specific hardware necessities for this mercury engine.
http://cs5.org/?p=594
I am not looking for Adobe to give me a specific hardware recommendation for CS5 and I thank you for telling me enough information to know that I definitely needed a new computer. But, now I'm kind of left in a limbo area of knowing that I need a new comp without knowing what to get. Obviously I have a lot of research to do. Judging by the huge list of widows issues over apple issues with the suite, it makes me think that Apple is the way to go. But I would rather not go that route as it really does not provide a “better” computer, just a more stable platform from what it seems.
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Hi
we have 10.2.0.4 on Redhat 64bit
we need to upgrade to 11.2.0.3 new hardware 64 bit
we can afford 12 hours downtime , 600G DB , the DB have a physical standby
my steps are:-
1- leave the primary 10R2 running
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3- start my outage , shutdown the primary (or swichover to the 11g standby)
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Hello;
A hole in your plan does not jump out at me. But I will give you another idea as food for thought
1. Stop apply and shutdown the current standby.
2. Upgrade the current primary to 11gr2
3. Duplicate ( active ) the primary to the new server ( might create a lock user script so only SYS and SYSTEM can connect )
4. Unlock accounts and end outage
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If I did this I would upgrade first. I used SQL to create the SCP scripts
Will post example. ( shown ) The I replace server_name: or change the SQL to the correct one.
set heading off
set feedback off
set pagesize 80
set linesize 120
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Hi- I am getting a new system built specifically to work with Production Premium CS5.5.
I'm afraid I know next to nothing about hardware!
These are some specs that the guys in the shop said would work?
Do you have any comments- will it work? Any better suggestions?
Many thanks
scott
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Budget Range: ($1000-$1500)
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Country of Origin: (USA)
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Dear Forum;
I need to upgrade the hardware for the IPCC solution we have without changing the versions, the following servers need to have the new hardware:
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3) About the Central Controller: there are the Logger DB, will this DB has some missing as there is not method to recover this for the last moments (before moving live)?
If you do it correctly using SQL backup/restore you will not lose data. If you have to keep the contact center running on side B while you do side A, things will be a bit more complicated - read the Upgrade Guide to see how logger synchronization solves this.
As I said, if you can have a 12 hour maintenance window for the migration of the CC and bring the whole contact center down to migrate, life will be easier.
As I see the most critical part in this upgrade is not loosing the configuration and it is not the need to build every thing manual (as the moving for registry is easy, and the restore for the database is easy) but the system to become up and running is also easy, but the hard part is the avoid loosing the data. Correct? All the need to have the training is to be around how to avoid loosing the data? But no worry that service will be up and running by having the restore for the database and moving the registry.
I don't follow that paragraph. Backup and restore and import of the registry solves this. Nothing will be lost. Read the Upgrade Guide again.
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Geoff

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Hi,
is there any good documentation source where I can find information about hardware which is good to use for oracle database.
I need to select new hardware for single instance OLTP database with ~ 150 users. Db size is not big. < 50 gb. OS - Linux Red Hat.
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Ideally you should get some benchmarking regarding your requirements and then you can choose on the Hardware. The budget also matters here.
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I need some help figuring out the best hardware configuration for a new laptop. I’m a student at a design school and I will be using the laptop to mainly run After Effects and to a lesser extent Photoshop and Illustrator. I don’t need to worry about 3D rendering software or Premier Pro. I am primarily interested in getting the best performance during editing. I am not looking for the best performance for final output. I would prefer to sacrifice final output times for better editing/interface performance.
I will be working with standard definition content and perhaps HD up to 720p on occasion. I do not need to operate in resolutions higher than 720p. My projects are generally animation and use many sources and many layers.
I’ve been reading up on optimal hardware configurations for CS5 but my understanding is still a little foggy and I would like to use this thread to figure out how to build the best machine for my budget. The budget is about $1400 to $1600 CANADIAN after tax.
I DON’T need help finding the laptop. I will search for it on my own. I just need to understand the best hardware to purchase within my budget.
I realize that it is probably impossible to buy the laptop I want with the hardware configuration I need “off the shelf”. Instead I will be looking for a good base model (~$900-$1100) and I will purchase the necessary hardware upgrades separately. I will not be purchasing a Mac.
Right now I’m thinking of a machine built something like this:
- 15”-16” screen (17” models are too big/heavy)
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- 8GB RAM (I would go to 12GB, but it’s hard to find a 15”-16” laptop with 3 memory slots)
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1b) Is this option even necessary to enable on 64bit systems? (As far as I understand it was used to solve a problem where 32bit systems/software would only recognize 4GB of RAM per instance of AE).
1c) If I turn this option on to help with RAM previews, would I be hindering general editing performance in any way? Or does this option have basically zero drawbacks?
2) How come “Actual CPUs that will be used” will read 0 even if the sum total of RAM assigned to the CPUs plus the RAM reserved for other applications is less than the total available system RAM (on a 64bit system)? For example, I currently have 4GB RAM and 2 installed CPUs. I have 1.5GB reserved for other programs and when I set 0.75GB per CPU both CPUs are used. However when I set 1GB per CPU then 0 CPUs are used, even though the total RAM adds up to only 3.5GB.
CPU
3.) Considering the fact that I am more concerned with smooth performance while editing rather than final output speeds, would it be better to get a dual core i5 clocked around 2.5 or a quad core i7 clocked around 1.8?
4.) What is the difference between an i3 and an i5 processor even if they are clocked at the same speed? How does an i5 460M compare on the grand scheme of things?
RAM
6.) Should the quantity of RAM that I get (8GB vs 12GB) be based on the number of cores in my CPU? If so, how should I be calculating optimal RAM based on # of cores. Should I also be counting threads, or just actual physical cores?
STORAGE/SWAP
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8.) What performance benchmarks are most important when considering an SSD for After Effects? (4k writes? IOs per second? Max read/write?)
9.) I can afford the OCZ Vertex2 120GB SSD. Would this be a good choice if an SSD is recommended?
10.) Would it be better to have 8GB of RAM and an SSD, or 12GB of RAM and an HDD? Explain why.
GPU
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11.) What hardware specs are most important when considering a GPU for editing performance in AE? (Memory size? # of Pixel shaders? Core speed? Shader speed?)
Thanks so much for any answers you can offer to these questions.

Please make sure that you've read through this page and what it points to.
> 1) Does the “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” option
enhance general editing performance (applying filters, scrubbing through
the timeline, reverting history states)? Or does it ONLY help speed up
RAM previews and final output? Does it reduce the length of RAM
previews?
It only increases rendering speed for RAM previews and rendering for final output. In After Effects CS5, it doesn't decrease the length of RAM previews. (In CS4, it does.)
1b) Is this option even necessary to enable on 64bit
systems? (As far as I understand it was used to solve a problem where
32bit systems/software would only recognize 4GB of RAM per instance of
AE).
You misunderstood. Yes, it's still relevant on 64-bit computers. Moreso, in a way. (I'd rather not spend my entire Sunday writing out detailed answers to satisfy idle curiosity, so I'm not going to give all the technical detail to that answer.)
> 1c) If I turn this option on to help with RAM previews,
would I be hindering general editing performance in any way? Or does
this option have basically zero drawbacks?
It takes a small but nonzero time for the background processes to start up when they need to be used and shut down when they're done. And as they sit waiting, they take up a little bit of memory. So, it's not exactly correct to say that there are no downsides to leaving it on. But it's close. I leave it on.
> 2) How come “Actual CPUs that will be used” will read 0 even
if the sum total of RAM assigned to the CPUs plus the RAM reserved for
other applications is less than the total available system RAM (on a
64bit system)? For example, I currently have 4GB RAM and 2 installed
CPUs. I have 1.5GB reserved for other programs and when I set 0.75GB per
CPU both CPUs are used. However when I set 1GB per CPU then 0 CPUs are
used, even though the total RAM adds up to only 3.5GB.
4GB - 1.5GB for other software leaves 2.5 GB for After Effects.
If you have 1GB assigned per background CPU, then the foreground takes 1.2x that = 1.2GB. That leaves 1.3GB for background processes, which is enough for one background process. There's no point in starting only one background process to do rendering, so it doesn't bother. (Note: When background processes are rendering, the foreground process isn't rendering.)
> 3.) Considering the fact that I am more concerned with
smooth performance while editing rather than final output speeds, would
it be better to get a dual core i5 clocked around 2.5 or a quad core i7
clocked around 1.8?
Get the quad-core. That gives you a greater total number of cycles. And After Effects works very well with mutliple processors, even beyond Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing. An entirely unrelated sort of multiprocessing (multithreading) spreads work out to multiple processors.
> 6.) Should the quantity of RAM that I get (8GB vs 12GB) be based on the number of cores in my CPU? If
so, how should I be calculating optimal RAM based on # of cores. Should
I also be counting threads, or just actual physical cores?
The optimum amount is the amount that you can cram into the computer. I'm not kidding. Spend your budget on RAM until you have 4GB installed per processor (and I'm counting the virtual processors due to hyperthreading). If you have a quad-core, that's 8 CPUs with hyperthreading, so the optimum amount of RAM installed is 32GB. You can work with less, but you did ask about optimum. For HD work (i.e., 1920 pixels across), you're OK with more like 3GB installed per CPU. That's what I have at home: 24GB in a quad-core. You're going to assign 2/3 or so of the RAM to After Effects, so 3GB installed per CPU is 2GB per core for HD work in After Effects.
> 10.) Would it be better to have 8GB of RAM and an SSD, or 12GB of RAM and an HDD? Explain why.
12GB of RAM. Because After Effects likes RAM. (If you're thinking of deliberatly using virtual memory to swap memory to the hard disk, don't. That's a performance killer.)
> 10.) After Effects utilizes OpenGL to enhance editing performance.
Not really. If you're on a limited budget, don't even think about the GPU until you've already got the most RAM, the fastest CPUs, the largest number of CPUs, two fast hard disks, and a couple of good monitors. Then, and only then, should you even consider getting soemthing beyond a non-stock graphics card. Yes, OpenGL can be used to accelerate some things, but that's only for the low-fidelity preview renderer. (Pardon the bluntness, but I want to make sure that you heed this.)

New PC Build for CS5 Master Suite

Hi,
I'm building a new PC to use with the CS5 Master Suite of programs (amongst others) and am looking for a little advice.
I've already read through lots of posts here and got some valuable advice, however there are so many different options available that I still have some questions. I hope you can help.
System will be used for web design, graphic design, photo editing and video (inc HD).
Here is the component list I've put together so far:
1. Motherboard
Asus P6X58D Premium Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-379-AS
£243.00
2. CPU
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-318-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat= 1272
£222.00
3. Memory
Corsair Dominator Tri Channel 6GB (3x2GB) PC3 - 12800 1600MHz DDR3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-269-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat= 1389
£190.00
4.System HD
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-236-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat =167
£135.00
5a.Storage HD's
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat =1279
£57.00
5b.OR
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-336-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat =1279
£77.00
6a. Quiet Case
Coolermaster Sileo 500 Silent Case - Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-164-CM
£63.00
6b. OR
Antec Solo Quiet Mini Tower Case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-058-AN&tool=3
£73.00
6c. OR
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-073-AN&tool=3
£105.00
7a. CPU Fan/Cooling
Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-011-NC
£67.00
7b. OR
Corsair H50 CPU Watercooling
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-002-CS
£67.00
8a. Graphics Card
Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1526MB
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=46710
£435.00
8b. OR
nVidia GeForce GTX 470 PCI-Expres VGA Card 1280MB
Eclipse Computers
£312.00
8c. OR
PNY Quadro FX 1800 768MB
£266.00
9a. Quiet Power Supply
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-018-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subca t=1084
£130.00
9b. OR
Corsair HX 1000W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subca t=1084
£195.00
10. Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit - OEM
Overclockers
£120.00
1. Has been recommended on these forums. Good to have USB3.0.
2. CPU is affordable and fast, with the ability to overclock it if I feel the need for a bit more speed in the future.
3. Would love 12GB, but will start with 6GB and perhaps add more later.
4. Started looking at Solid State Drives as I love the comments about how fast they load programs, etc., however as they are still really expensive felt that going with a fast standard drive would be best. As I plan on having a dual boot system, I would get two of these. One would have OS, CS5 and all my other software installed and the other one would have the minimum for CS5 installed and the OS tweaked for performance with video editing.
5. Both seem like great drives. Anyone any preference? Would plan on getting two and use one to store video rushes and the other for previews and the page file. Would getting a HD with a 6GB/s interface be worth it?
6. I want a quiet case and one that's no higher than 45cm. I already own the Antec Solo and I like the elastic HD mounting. Anyone any preference?
7. Noctua comes recommended on these forums, however am concerned with it's size. Love the idea of water cooling an the H50 system make it easier and less fuss being a closed system. Final choice must be quiet and I've read differing reviews on both.
8. Can't wait to use the MPE, so want a decent card. Torn between getting a cheaper card and upgrading later or spending the money now on a GTX480 and doing the software hack until fully supported.
9. With a GTX480 would a 750w PSU be enough?
GRAPHICS CARD
I've read reports of the GTX480 not being faster than the 2XX version card, however am I not correct in saying that the 2XX cards are no longer being sold? Should I be looking for a card from a particular manufacturer, i.e. Asus, Gainward, Point of View, Gigabyte? Or even Nvidia themselves?
I am worried about the heat generated by the GTX480 and the associated fan noise to cool it. Any thoughts?
Love the water cooling solution, perhaps some day. http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-480-liquid-cooling-danger-den-review/1
HD SET-UP
C:
WD VelociRaptor 150GB
Main System
C:
WD VelociRaptor 150GB
Video System
D:
DVD Burner
E:
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
Video rushes
F:
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
Video previews / Page File
G:
1.5TB
Other storage
H:
1.5TB
Other storage
DUAL BOOT
For my dual boot, has anyone had experience of using a HD caddy like this one? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172727
I read a review which said that there was no real speed difference as there is no interface card, just a cable to the motherboard. It would make my dual boot less complicated to set-up as I wouldn't need to use Win 7 to dual boot or use 3rd party software like Acronis OS Selector. It would also free up space for a further internal HD.
PREMIERE OUTPUT TO A HDMI SCREEN
I've been going back and forward on the best solution to get a proper output of my timeline in Premiere to an external monitor. I was set to go with the Matrox MX02 Mini, however some here have said they're unstable (to a degree). Although with the CS5 drivers not out yet, perhaps it's too early to say.
Although none of my video work has been for broadcast (so far), I see a great benefit from being able to preview my timeline on a TV screen as opposed to a PC monitor. I will be running two screens so I need both outputs from the graphics card.
I look forward to receiving your collective wisdom.

Here are the components I plan to buy this week:
Description
Inc VAT
1000W Corsair CMPSU-1000HXUK, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, Modular Power Supply, UK Version, 5 Year Warranty
£184.11
300GB Western Digital WD3000HLFS VelociRaptor, SATA 3Gb/s, 10000rpm, 16MB Cache, 4.2 ms
£154.78
Coolermaster ATCS 840 Classic Full Tower Aluminum Case, Black w/o PSU
£143.31
1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ, OEM
(2x) £96.30
Sony AD-5240S-0B 24x DVDR 12xDVDDL DVDRW x8/-RWx6 SATA Black
£14.99
12GB (6x2GB) Corsair Dominator, DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), CAS 8-8-8-24, DHX, XMP, DF, 1.65V
£357.34
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit, Single, - OEM
£110.53
Intel Core i7 930 D0 SLBKP Bloomfield 45nm, 2.8 GHz, QPI 4.8GT/s, 8MB Cache, 20x Ratio, 130W, Retail
£236.37
1280MB Asus GTX 470, 40nm, 3348MHz GDDR5, GPU 607MHz, Shader 1215MHz, 448 Cores, 2xDVI,mini HDMI
£293.13
Asus P6X58D-E, Intel X58, S1366, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1333/1600/2000, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, ATX
£168.22
Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM2)
£66.99
Noctua NF-P12 Vortex-Control 120mm Quiet Case Fan - 3 Pin
£17.61
Noctua NF-S12B ULN Ultra Low Noise 120mm Cooling Fan, 500/700 RPM
£16.99
Plus a couple of PSU to motherboard extension cables and Windows 7 Pro. It was mentioned by someone that the CPU thermal paste you get with the HN-D14 is fine, so no need to buy anything else.
One extra fan (NF-S12B) to cool hard drives and the other for somewhere else in the case. Perhaps I don't need these.
I presume that I should try and get an OEM CPU as I'll not need the heatsink and fan that'll be in the retail version?
I'm just waiting for Scan to get the case back in stock. Should be today. All priced at Scan, except last three items which are from Overclockers.
Anyone any final thoughts or tips?

Trying to load a Dreamweaver CS5 extension called Image Show Pro to mac operating system 10.9.2. Trial version worked fine, but when I try to load full version, Adobe Extension Manager crashes. I have downloaded new Extension Manager for CS5. and still c

Trying to load a Dreamweaver CS5 extension called Image Show Pro to mac operating system 10.9.2. Trial version worked fine, but when I try to load full version, Adobe Extension Manager crashes. I have downloaded new Extension Manager for CS5. and still crashes. Anybody else experience this? email:[email protected]

Hi bigd_bud,
Can you see if the solutions in this post help?
Re: Adobe Extension Manager crashes on mac 10.8
Thanks,
Preran

How do I get camera raw plugin for cs5.1 extented for new olympus omd e-m1 camera?

how do you get camera raw plugin for cs5.1 extented for new olympus omd e-m1 camera?

Native support requires ACR version 8.3, which will only run under CS6 or CC.
Use the free DNG converter to make DNGs readable in older ACR versions. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates.html

Methods for migrating existing servers to new hardware

I have 10 Solaris 8 and 9 boxes (SF4800 and V480). We are moving these to new hardware (V490 and V440).
All have mirrored boot disks, some using VxVM and some using SDS. All are connected to SAN storage (Sun 3900 and EMC).
I am looking for the easiest, simplest and least risky method to migrate.
Possible methods:
1) Pull boot disk from existing server, move to new server. Issues: drive compatibility between old and new servers.
2) Flasharchive to NFS server, install new servers from flash image. Issues: SDS/VxVM encapsulation?, old server Solaris versions do not support new server hardware.
3) Break boot disk mirrors, Live upgrade to latest Solaris 9 on this disk, then Flasharchive this image to NFS server. Issues: none that I can think of.
Any input/ideas are appreciated.

Hi,
I am not an expert in Portal Migrations but I would suggest you to do a homogenous system copy, then restore it on SLES10 32-bit and then migrate it to 64 bit. But you need to do a fair amount of homework before you carry out this exercise.
Even if you are not touching the database, I would suggest going for a homogenous system copy. The reason being, there are some database related files stored on Portal server and whenever you restart the Portal server, it's gonna check the timestamps there with the ones available on DB. We ran with a problem once doing the same. We were using Oracle then.
Secondly, before taking a decision to move over to 64-bit, I would suggest you to check the PAM and have a look whether all the portal components are supported or not. We had a problem with HP-IA64 bit because we finally found out that it doesn't support Adobe Document Services. So things like these need to be thought over and confirmed before stepping forward.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Sunil
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I lost my disk for cs5 creative suite 5.5 design premium but I have product code and a new computer I want to reinstall. What can I do?

I lost my disk for cs5 creative suite 5.5 design premium but I have product code and a new computer I want to reinstall. What can I do?

You can download the software from the website and then type in your old serial number to activate it... that is, IF the installer database will work with your operating system. I am having problems reinstalling CS4 with a new computer running on Win 8.1. When I called customer support, they told me a whole lot of nothing for 45 minutes and then directed me to a chat session. After about 30 minutes on chat, I was basically told they don't offer support for older products. The website says "no known issues" for installation... but that very well may be because they are unwilling to record the issues when someone calls to report them! Good luck with your install. I wish I had CS5 at this point, as it appears there is still support available for it... but you are on the bubble timewise for that to continue. Other downloads

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