[CoLoCo] [probably off topic] Linux beats mac - again

[David Overcash]

Me?  Mac fanboy?

I already blew away Leopard off my macbook.  I'm just gutsy and a wee bit of
windows for a math program I need for a class (minitab).

: P

-David

On Jan 31, 2008 12:18 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2008 11:25 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hah... funny you say that...
>
> Said what?
> >
> > Adobe premier hardly ever works right for my buddies for re-encoding
> videos,
> > I told him to use ffmpeg via command line in linux (easy to look up via
> > google) and not only did it encode faster, but it did it correctly
> without
> > any blips or messups.
>
> It's not premier. It's Final Cut - an Apple program I think. It works
> quite well. Our broadcast class uses it and I'm trying to learn it.
> It's for editing together video, not transcoding or re-encoding. So
> far, Kino looks like it does the same thing but I don't know how well
> as I've never used it and hardly know final cut.
>
> ffmpeg is cool. I've used a front end for it I think but the command
> line stuff is confusing. It's like programming.
>
> I think you are becoming a mac fanboy. I keep trying to like them but
> I can't. Time machine is really lame. It backs up every hour and if
> you want to use a network drive you have to, god forbid, use the
> terminal to set it up. Probably the reason for that is they don't want
> you to back up to a NAS as it's REALLY slow. However, who keeps an
> external drive connected to a laptop. It's a cool idea but not well
> thought out if you ask me. The only way time machine is cool is if you
> can use a NAS.
>
> Anyway, my humble opinion.
>
> -jim
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