Curtis Thompson
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hello…
not really, no – the scrolling affects the video replay because your computer has to adjust and redraw the video as the page scrolls and if it can’t then the movie will stop while it catches up… :-/
sorry to not have a better answer for you!
sitruc
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hello…
ya – the cgi in the first one was pretty grainy and had artifacts but the video was pretty good. the second was definitely cleaner, but it also had a lot less motion and the benefit of having the edges blurred, which always hides artifacts… :-/
safari, qt plugin 7.0.3
sitruc
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hello…
not a stupid question at all! 🙂
the best way to do this is with javascript – you have probably seen many rollover effects on the web, and this would be a lot like that, except you’ll tie the “rollover” effect to a click link for the thumbnail – so each thumbnail has a javascript onclick event, and when you click, it changes the big image to the desired image…
make sense? do you have any experience with javascript? if not, i could whip up a quick example for you…
sitruc
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hello…
this is nearly impossible to answer, unfortunately… :-/
unless there is a very obscure bug in the os, that’s an awful lot to just have disappear. what happens when you open a shell and run “df -h” (sans quotes)? does it jive with the missing space that the gui says is gone? and if so, i’d check to see if you have any rogue processes going on that are saving large chunks of data on a regular basis…
sitruc
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hello…
[Gunleik Groven] “I basically want to do whatever I can (including messing up… -;)) to my system.”
trust me – you don’t. 🙂
by that i just mean that you really don’t want to open the system up to that level for a variety of reasons, but one is basically your own protection. even a veteran unix sysad will tell you (or at least they should anyway) that running under root (the uber account) is not a Good Thing(tm) to do. you really risk doing very undoable damage to your box, and it’s just not worth it in the long run.
luckily, however, os x makes it pretty hard to get that kind of access. you can enable root via netinfo, but again – that will only help you in shells and it’s not a good idea unless you know what you’re doing.
otherwise, in the gui, your best bet is to run one account and make it an admin account. then you’ll have full access to all areas of the interface (apps, control panel, etc.) without needing to enter a password every time. however, if you have other accounts on the box, they still won’t be able to access each other’s files via the interface, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles, unfortunately…
what’s your current account setup and where do you keep running into permission woes? the latter really shouldn’t be happening too often in most typical usage models…
sitruc
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hello…
if you wanted to, you could change permissions on your home dir to a free-for-all, but i wouldn’t recommend it…even on a single box, should somebody someday release a virus for macs, that would be a bad thing potentially…
what i’m suggesting isn’t really a workaround as that would imply that the underlying system is broken somehow…not really the case here. this is just how a typical unix/os x permission system works, and this shows one of the primary reasons that unix and therefore os x is so secure…
sitruc
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hello…
well – the techie way to do it is:
1. enable root via netinfo
2. become root in a shell
3. cp (copy) the user files from acct. a to acct. b
4. chown (change ownership) of the files from a to b
5. disable root via netinfo (for safety/security)i don’t know if you’re command-line/unix friendly, but the above would be pretty straightfoward…however if you’re not comfortable with that way, then i think you could probably do something like:
1. log in as acct a. and note the privs for your home dir stuff
2. via the finder, copy all your desired files to a neutral area on your disk
3. recursively change the privs on those files to everybody
4. log out of acct a and into acct. b
5. copy all the files from the transfer area to the acct b. home dir
6. change the privs back to what they were for acct. a except owned by acct b. nowsitruc
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hello…
glad you are poking around – thanks for doing so! it’s not that i’m anti-question (trust me on that), but it’s a common topic here and it’s a rather hard one to pick one set of answers for…web programming and development often gets lumped into a few specific things and in reality it’s a lot more things, many of which are ridiculously complex, so a general search around to previous topics can sometimes really help out…
but again – please don’t hesitate to post again with any sort of specific question that you might have – nothing is too small!
sitruc
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hello…
your best bet is to search and browse this forum’s archives – we get this question quite a bit and there have been numerous opinions expressed over the ages…
if you have specific questions, though, please don’t hesitate to ask!
sitruc
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hello…
in some ways you’re sort of answering your own question – what you are looking for in a provider is what you have listed here…although stuff like this:
2. To have clients login to there accounts to upload / download QuickTime Clips (digital dailies)
3. To have my clients pay there bills onlineis not stuff you’ll necessarily look for in a plan, but more the features the plan offers. note that having clients log in to pay their bills is not a light-switch sort of thing – that’s ecommerce (be it a store of items or a store of bills to pay), and that comes with a huge set of it’s own issues – how to you process cc info, how do you store cc info, etc etc.
but outside of that, the basic things you should look for are bandwidth limits and disk space – think of bandwidth this way – if you have a 10mb movie on your site and 10 people download it a month, that’s 100mb of bandwidth. most providers offer up in the gb range, but you can do the math pretty easily on that…
hope that helps!
sitruc