Posts by Neruda

Quote: Originally Posted by talksense101 Why do you want to use "now"? You should give users some time to log off and save their work. The computers are in an open area and I turn them off before I leave everyday. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "We buy hundreds of copies of OS X legally, from retailers like Amazon and Apple itself," Psystar said. "We're probably one of Apple's biggest customers." This is where...

Quote: Originally Posted by Neruda Both of the following do not work. Any ideas? I could not GTFA. 30 16 * * * sudo -u root shutdown -h now 30 16 * * * shutdown -h now Got it. 30 16 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

I tried making a crontab as root to have all of the computers in our labs shutdown at 4:30 everyday. I first tried doing this through the command line as root, but the shutdown -h now command is not being executed for some reason. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffharris There are simply NO words to describe the pure and utter creative bankruptcy that Microsoft represents. Seriously. Microsoft simply has no shame. Apple=Microsoft's R&D department.

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Color looks to be very powerful from the demonstrations I've seen, but it's still blindsided by poor UI. My look at it is from the previous version, it looks like Apple may have improved it for the...

Quote: Originally Posted by wally007 Who in their right mind is gonna invest their hard earned dollar in Apple video software anymore ? Hyperbole. Quote: People complain about Adobe not being Cocoa and 64bit yet Apple is even...

Quote: Originally Posted by brainfragment You don't need DVDSP 4. It is all handled by FCP 7 now. The burning can be done in FCP 7, but I doubt that this would include all of the functionality of dvd authoring that is available...

Wow Apple. DVDSP 4? And what the hell ever happened to the successor to Shake? Does the new version of Color support multi-cam sequences?

1. HTML5's <video> tag is so freaking simple and already supported by both Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4. The only downside so far is that full-screen playback has not been implemented yet. That said, I am planning to use the JW Player...