Plane lovers and others...

[kps]

It's about time you showed up!

You're right, the hardest part was to find the music and match it. Took a while.

You got it Jim, it's a Boing-Boing 727, that's all that flies up here for domestic service...no wide bodies.

I had to duck behind the loader, but still got a face full of dirt from the engines when he turned to leave the ramp.

[Xairbusdriver]

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I had to duck behind the loader, but still got a face full of dirt from the engines when he turned to leave the ramp.

What?! Haven't you guys paved the ramp, yet?! I know the permafrost makes that hard to do, but you really will have less FOD   after you get it paved!
 
Still, I would have thought that there would be more sunlight than you apparently have. You must be further North than I thought! Of course, the hardy Canadians don't let a little sub-zero temps keep them from wearing short-sleave shirts...

BTW, I almost mentioned your name to the poster who was asking about OS X books, I figured as long as you are around, you're better than any book!

Jim C.

[kps]

The ramp is concrete, but I think they ran out of vaccum cleaner bags.

But, chasing the moose off the runway...now that's the dangerous part. Forget your average, run of the mill FOD, you really have to duck when those moose droppings get airbourne thanks to the engine thrust...  



(just kidding folks...there ain't no moose here)

[Diana]

QUOTE(Epaminondas @ Oct 5 2003, 10:04 PM)

I couldn't get it up and running - not on Red Hat 8 (Linux), despite downloading quicktime4linux and quicktimelinux.  
 
Wasn't about to put out $35 to do a Crossover plug-in - that's a little rich for my blood.

 Hi Karl,

I like your movie, it played fine here on dialup. I actually played it the first day of your post, but didn't take the time to say so.

Now I have double reason...Thanks to you for the effort and willingness to share, and to tell Epaminondas about MPlayer for Linux. I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.2.2. and they have 1.0Pre2 ready now. You can get it here: (get the all-in-one codecs package, the font of your choice and a skin. I used the source but you might find the rpm sufficient.)

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html

and a plugin here:
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

It took me quite some time to get it all working cause the instructions leave out details.. but it was worth it.

Hope that helps.

see ya,

[RHPConsult]

FWIW, kps . . .

With 10.2.6 on my Pismo (iMovie 3.0.3 and QT 6.0.3), everything went swimmingly. but I know I would be hard put to duplicate the feat without a lot more "training", whatever the subject.

And, thank you.

[Epaminondas]

Diana,


Thank you for your guidance.

Much appreciated.


Prior to following your kind advice, I figured I would tidy up with some basic maintanance and do a Red Hat Network update.

Weird things just started happening following the Red Hat Network update of sane-backends-1.0.8-5  -->  1.0.8-5.2

This file is supposedly in:

/var/spool/up2date/sane-backends-1.0.8-5.2.i386.rpm

except when I look there, this file is not there.


Tell me - do you think that a string of a hundred or more "fatal errors" might be a bad thing?

Just - uh - just curious.

This is new.


These error messages now show when when I do an apt-get update followed by and apt-get upgrade fot Red Hat. Previously, this had worked flawlessly.

Shut down and turned the computer back on (my universal fix-it method).  No change.

Yet the compuer seems to be working fine.


I'm sitting down with fsck and "Running Linux, 4th Edition."  Been working with them for a little while, this evening - guess it is time to learn fsck - looks like this must be the Linux equivalent of Disk First Aid / DiskWarrior / Norton / TechTool.

Fsck is command line and it is all new to me and it is slow and ugly and nasty and it is non-intuitive and it is an Orc and I do not like it.  :-(

But it is free.

And I am beginning to learn how it works.

Maybe it is not too bad,  after all.  :-}


The Mac is easier.


Tell me - did you go from Mac to Linux (as I am doing - when the going is easy, anyway) or vice versa or did you start Wintel or what?

Going from the Mac to Linux is like dropping a music and entertainment major in college in order to switch over to a double major of physics/ pediatric dentisry.

It is a different mind-set.

But I always kinda liked physics.

The crying kids are a whole lot harder . . .


Guidance would be welcome.


Regards,

Epaminondas

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Imagine a hundred or two lines of this - looks like this might be the Linux equivalent of a Mac bomb symbol - except everything keeps working fine (scratches head):

<< error: db4 error(-30982) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

error: cannot open Sigmd5 index using bd3 - (-30982)

rpmbd: fatal region error detected; run recovery

repeats itself many times with small variations, then . . .

error:  db4 error(-30982) form dbenv-> close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

E: Sup-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1) >>


Uh - I think it wants me to run "database recovery."

Wazzat?

(using ext3 here, by the way).

[sandbox]

Hey KPS, very coool....... on QT 6.0.3
My first attempt on the small file opened fine, ran fast, never seen anything but a shadow of a plane. The tracking bar ran out started back around again then froze my Mac, haven’t had that happen in a while.
I look on the desktop to see about 6 open IE pages, could of had something to do with it? After a three finger salute I tried both, they worked without a hitch.

So what camera are you using? I noticed you mentioned iMovie had some restrictions?

It’s hard to determine where the zoom v edits are. At one point I said to myself, wooooowbuddy self, that’s a fast zoom, look like you were running backwards! Well then my gray matter kicked in and presented the question of edits?
Good tunes, did you change the video speed to match the beat as well find appropriate beats?  

[kps]

sandbox,

I'm using a Sony DCR-TRV17 miniDV, single chip.

iMovie is a very cool product, but v 3.0.3 has problems and in order to make it super easy Apple does not include better custom settings. I also can not afford a product such as "Cleaner" which is about $800 and is used by pro web developers to reduce the size of video but maintain high quality. I'm seriously considering FC Express.

But I can't complain, as I can still create a streaming .mov and have it streamed by .Mac.

The video was shot at night and the camera captured it quite well, but the conversion to a QT movie is much, much darker than the original footage, or the transfer to VHS tape.

There are two 1sec crossdisolves or overlaps that may have looked as a super fast zoom on the dark screen, but other than that no fast zooming, just "gentle" ones to expand the scene.

Most of the music in the 20min video is royalty free and from .Mac, but the track used at the end and for the time-lapse footage I got someplace on the internet a few years ago, might have been MP3.com. I 'm not a Trance fan, but that piece I liked. I actually shot the time-lapse portion of the video with that tune in mind.