Aggravated Media

Data Wrangling

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:34:39 +0000

Maggie is planning a series of drive tests soon which will benefit not only her day job, but also others who have heavy data wrangling needs. The basic premise is 3 to 4 SATAII drives in RAID0 in an ‘everyman’ edit/capture station.

I am planning on doing some disk testing in July testing sustained transfer (read and write) specifically geared towards prosumer video capture/editing and file serving. My intentions are to take a standardized platform (a Mac Pro - for file serving use it will be easy to extrapolate from here) and keep it WWJAD (What Would Joe Average Do). This means keeping cost in mind as well as ease-of-use/installation.

The short list of drives she’ll be testing (so far) are:
Samsung Spinpoint F1 7200RPM 32MB (HD103UJ)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 7200RPM 32MB (SEAST31000340AS)
Hitachi 7K1000 7200RPM 32MB (HIT0A35155)
Western Digital RE2-GP 5400/4700RPM 16MB (WDGWD10FYPS)

For more info see her blog entry at . If you’d like suggest any additions or changes, feel free to drop us a line here and we’ll pass it along. We’ll post the results as soon as they come in (mid to late July).

May Boston Skeptics in the Pub video

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:13:39 +0000

Boston Skeptics in the Pub took place again, but this time at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square (click ‘more’ to read about the hurdles). The speaker was Patty Pieniadz. Click the link above for more info.

View the May Boston Skeptics in the Pub

Maggie will be at WWDC next week. If you see her, say hello.

* This was the first time the event has been held at Doyle’s and there was no shortage of small issues we had to overcome. One of them was that the speaker had to be moved up front and, unfortunately, away from the otherwise ample house lights. So, apologies for the grain from low light. We did the best we could under the circumstances. Also, the projector did not want to work for the presentation, so that was inserted in post. And, finally, our backup audio was spotty, so everything is taken off the speaker’s mic. OK, excuses sorted! *grin*

Boston Skeptics in the Pub

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:52:20 +0000

Boston Skeptics in the Pub will happen again on Monday 5/26 at 7pm. The event has moved to Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. This month’s speaker will be Patty Pieniadz. Click the link above for more info.

We’ll be there filming again, and if you missed last month’s speaker be sure to check out the video in our archive or click the link below.

Boston Skeptics in the Pub 4/21/08 Marc Abrahams

Boston FCPUG 5/21 - Alex Lindsay & Peter McAuley

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:01:35 +0000

http://www.bosfcpug.org/

Join the BOSFCPUG for our Wednesday, May 21st meeting. Special guest Alex Lindsay of Pixelcorps will join us for an evening on Final Cut Studio tips and tricks, podcasting update, and greenscreen workflow. Also joining us will be Peter McAuley of Boris FX for a closer look at the newly released Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Studio 2.

MAY BOSFCPUG MEETING
When: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Where: Rehearsal Hall
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA 02472