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2003/06/23
 02:34:18
Nothing too interesting today. Talked for a bit with the guy running the video stuff at church as we sat up by there today. I brought the projector and piles of cables back downstairs today and hooked that up, and then watched a few hours of junk that had been on TV recently. Multitasked and did video editing at the same time (usually a mix between clipping out music videos and other clips out of whatever I was actually watching at the time too). The one box was remultiplexing video, playing full-motion video, and serving two different clips for editing. The laptop was pulling those two clips in and doing editing on them both, along with playing the finished clips to verify. I managed to lock up sawfish once (sshed in and killed it so I didn't loose what I was doing, but still rather annoying). I've never been able to get that kind of performance out of OS X (way too much latency), or have the machine keep working under Windows (I worked a bunch with XP Pro this weekend, and it had weird lags and stability problems where a program could almost lock the system). OS X looks pretty good and I wouldn't mind switching to it. I could probably eventually even get past the one button thing (I like middle clicking a lot though), but the latency and general system response especially when doing even light multitasking is practically unusable (whenever I topped 3-4 programs actually trying to use the system at once). Oh well. For "testing the system" after reassembly (more because I just wanted something high quality and interesting) I watched Fight Club. That's a really odd movie - so good at brainwashing others he gets himself and doesn't even know it...