Ron Lindeboom
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We’re glad you liked it, Del.
This new batch was not nearly as hot as the original, which was known to bring tears to Bessie’s big brown cow eyes. In fact, we’ve heard rumors that some people that got bottles of the original and didn’t eat it have seen the bottle’s glass etching from the inside as the heat begins to dissolve the bottle.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Yes, “site sucking” will get your IP blocked. Why? It is one of the common ways that sites like ours get attacked by malicious servers that try to take us offline.
Unfortunately, we have no idea which IP is yours, there are just far too many IPs that have attacked the COW over the years and are in the ISP blocker.
If you know the particular one which is yours and got blocked, please feel free to write Eric Bliss at eric@creativecow.net and he will help you.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Looks like the pirate software download error. It’s pretty common in cracked software.
If it were legitimate, Adobe has a record of all authorisations and even if a company went out of business, they could help you. But in these cases, probably better to lose the money, learn the lesson and buy a real copy.
Lastly, you didn’t need to tell a whole story, the error graphic was the giveaway — a common error in cases like these.
Please don’t keep reposting as we have turned this off about 20 times now. I don’t know how this one slipped through but…
Ron Lindeboom
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[RHewitt] “Red Hat provide that support for the OS but little else? Who would anyone turn to with problems with Adobe Apps? They can’t even support their exiting buyers for the Win platform”
Red Hat has basically spun off a Linux variant and sells it and offers support. It’s their product.
Likewise, Adobe also sells support. They have been doing it for a few years now. Yes, gone are the days when you just picked up the phone and called Adobe but you can buy service contracts and Adobe is and remains very aggressive with solving the issues of those on these contracts. (Am I saying that they write custom fixes for them? No, that is left to those who are on Linux, running their own custom apps developed and supported in-house. That is the main point of Linux in the film world, after all.)
But for those who do not want to pay for additional support, they just come to forums like these or use Google to find their answers. I can’t tell you the number of people who have signed up at the COW who tell us they were referred here by a manufacturer — it happens all the time.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Ron Moody] “I don’t care what OS I use…”
Then, using your own ‘chicken and egg’ argument, I would use one that has applications available — perhaps one like Windows or maybe a Mac?
[Ron Moody] “Animation and FX houses have already moved to Linux.”
Most of them write their own custom software and there are few here who are capable of this herculean feat.
Lastly, one of the biggest reasons that Adobe (and others) do not write for Linux, is that the one in which most Linux users use one of the variant versions — Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc. — and each of these requires considerable set-up on the part of the user. Few know how to do that. We have a guy here at the COW whose job is to do that and in years of working with him, are either Kathlyn or I ready to eschew our Macs and PCs to run Linux fulltime? No. Sure we’ve learned some things and we can scribble our way around in Linux, but let’s be kind and say that Linux is not for mortals. If God needed a computer to help create and render the universe, it would have been running under Linux.
The masses are not on Linux and likely never will be. Those who are the true power users on the Linux platform, often write their own tools and apps. It’s that Mount Olympus thingie, and Kathlyn and I jokingly call these kinds of users “The Children of Olympus.”
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[John Davidson] “my father was almost killed by a B3 Hammond that nearly fell off of a truck in the early 80’s. “
Please tell me that he or the EMTs (emergency musical technicians) saved the B3’s Leslie speaker cabinet???
Yes, any keyboard without a Leslie is indeed evil — no doubt about it. Earns an R.
Ron Lindeboom
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[John Davidson] said “Violence kills people. Bam. R.
John,
I have a couple issues in all this:
You say “Violence kills people.” Violence doesn’t kill people. It’s the organs failing that really kills them.
[John Davidson] said “Harry Potter = Magic = Not republican = R.”
Not republican = R ? I think you meant NR, didn’t you???
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Personally, I don’t disagree with any of it — especially when you see movies where the smoking is so gratuitous that it’s really a case of product placement and not at all done within the context of storytelling.
Your mileage may vary — and at today’s gas prices, should definitely be taken into consideration.
Ron Lindeboom
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There is an article in the VERY soon to ship Creative COW Magazine about how Film Roman (The Simpsons, etc.) uses the BitJazz SheerVideo codec to do just this very thing. They work cross-platform and online using FCP with their cell animations coming over the internet from Korea from artists working on PCs.
To keep everything lossless and accessible, they use the BitJazz SheerVideo codec that is supported by FCP.
Sign up for the magazine at https://www.creativecowmagazine.net — it’s free.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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