Zane Barker
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[Michael Hancock] “I just believe that you should keep your edit systems offline.”
Just your opinion, I will stick to mine that as long stick to mine.
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[Michael Hancock] “One of the best reasons to isolate any edit system from the internet, PC or Mac, is to avoid unwanted updates to software. If you forget to uncheck even one Automatically Check for Updates box and your machine updates, it can break something critical. “
Good point but a better way to do that is by having administrator accounts and standard accounts. The editors get standard accounts that do not have authority to run updates, and the person that maintains the machines has the access to the administrator account, he then updates all the machines at the same time when he deems that the update is good.
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[Aaron Duprey] “When a QT ref is dropped into any of our watch folders, Squeeze doesn’t like it, and says that it can’t see the media.”
What codec is used by these files?
This is KEY because if you are giving the PC a file that uses a codec that it does NOT have then the PC an do nothing with it.
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[Ricky Janzen] “Finally, how do I do a complete format/rebuild of a system when I no longer have the original system discs (75% of the lab is with older eMacs that were purchased before I was put in charge)? “
You purchase new ones.
[Ricky Janzen] “If it helps, I have 3 types of systems running in the lab. 2.4GHz Intel iMacs with 10.4, 2.66GHz iMacs with 10.5, and some older eMacs with 10.4 running at various speeds.”
First make it easy on yourself and get ALL the computers running the same OS. Preferably 10.5
To make things easier on your self create a MASTER image that you can then simply clone onto all the machines. If you move all the machines to 10.5 you can have one as 10.5 is a universal binary and will one version will allow you to boot from both a Intel Mac and a PPC Mac. If you keep some on 10.4 you will need a 10.4 Intel version and a 10.4 PPC version.
Several of your issues that you listed above come from the students changing things on the machines when they use them. Now you cant stop them from changing all of them but you can make it easy on your self to set them all back. Look into a program called Deep Freeze. https://www.faronics.com/html/dfmac.asp
With Deep Freeze when ever the computer is restarted the machine reverts to the way it was when Deep Freeze was enabled. So set the master image to restart at a designated time (at night when nobody is there is the best) and it clears every thing out and reverts to your settings. Keep in mind that it will also delete any files that were saved so remind all students to save there files onto a flash drive or external drive, and take it with them.
Another thing about having a mister image is that if a computer goes down, you fix it or replace it and just image the new machine and it is then exactly like all the others in one step.
And keep in mind that you will have to disable Deep Freeze before any updates are run on the machines because once they are restarted the machine is back to the way it was before.
Also probably the most important thing is have two separate user accounts on the master image that you put on to all the machines. One account that is an administrator and one account that is NOT. The one that is not is the ONLY account that you give the students access to. This prevents them from being able to change any thing important.
Hope this helps.
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You are in more danger of geting hit by a car on your way to work then you are of getting a virus on your mac.
Yet you are still going to go to work.
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It will be FINE to put it on the internet, as long as you stay away from those porn sites, and all that the DNS changer will do is make your inter net go slow.
The way the OS is built you must enter your password to install things.
And one could easily make the argument that not being connected to the internet would actually hinder productivity. Having to go to move files from machine to machine when you need to email something to a client or when they send you something that you need to incorporate into a production.
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[Curtis Thompson] “ooh – i gotta disagree here…there are (albeit extremely rare) viruses for macs out there, and there is always more risk for a variety of things even outside of viruses when a box is connected to a public network… “
The closest thing you will find to a virus on a mac is a DNS Changer, and to get that you have to go to some janky porn site and it will ask if you want to install a video codec. And even then you must type in your password to install it.
My good fried works as a genius in one of the Apple Stores and the DNS Changer is the closest thing they have ever seen to a virus.
As far as public networks go he NEVER said that it was public. Honestly you have a higher chance of someone accessing your files via the network then you do getting a virus on the mac, and they will only be able to access your files if they have your user name and password.
Your productivity point may be true, but in my opinion any boss that micromanages so much as to not allow internet in the place has got more issues then we want to go into.
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First off the original post here was a year and a half old you should have made an entirely NEW post.
[Jim Goodin] “I would like to go Mac portable either refurb Macbook Pro or new Macbook but realize the problems or limitations installing FCP on the Macbook which has integrated video card. Is it possible to install parts of FCP on a Macbook?”
A even BIGGER limitation on the new MacBook is that they have NO firewire on them.
[Jim Goodin] “My fear in getting Intel machine right now was wondering if v4 (I have) will run on the Macbook 13.3 which I couldn’t find a consistent answer on”
If you get a intel Mac you will need FCP 5.1 or newer because anything older is NOT intel compatible.
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[Steve Cohen] “Do I need to use a crossover cable? “
No the computer itself can handle the cross over.
They should just see each other. But tell your boss that there is absolutely NO reason that a editing machine needs be be kept off of the internet. There is not a safety risk of viruses on Macs ac Macs do NOT get viruses.
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[Bill Hamilton] “It works under the admin, but the user keeps getting an error: the application is already open.”
You MUST close the application in the first user account first. Two different accounts cannot use the same application at the same time. Ether close the application or log out of the other account.
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