[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:22:55PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:16:01PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I have one blade 1K, with a single 900Mhz US-III CPU, and 1G RAM.  It
> > actually hasnt been powered up in about a month.  
> How sad.

Why pay for electricity if I dont have a *need* for that much power 
right now?

> I know it is possible, but it seems unrealistic trying to do DV editing
> on a SS20 or U1.  Not that I wouldn't love to try.  I know there was a
> SDI sbus card made once upon a time.  And if one could get their hands
> on one of those, they probably could easily buy a DV<->SDI bridge.  Of
> course, getting enough disk bandwidth in the Sun would be problematic
> since while DV is compressed, SDI aint.  In the SDI world, the solution
> would have been a frame acurate VCR, so you only grab frames as fast as
> you can store them, but that ain't going to work with DV.  Aah, the fun
> one could have if they could easily make unobtainium parts appear out of
> thin air.

I do DV editing about 5% of the time I use my Mac.  I havent done any in
about a month...  99% of the time, its Mozilla and a SSH client.

bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas