[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: borken iMac G5

Brian Morris cymraegish at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 02:29:35 UTC 2011


(Disclaimer : I am a generalist)


Video Editing G5 :

Depends on what rez and what editing means to you. You want to do cut and
paste, or do you want to do transitions and complex filters ? Working with
small clips (possibly reduced rez) and testing your ideas and then running
them in batch mode if you have the patience ? Is 480p good enough, 720, 1080
?

G5 could do some of this. Linux is definitely faster for some things at
least than MacOS, The more RAM the better. It don't think it would handle
the 1080, not sure about the 720.



If you want to do high end editing of hd video you need a new (twin) i7 (ie
quad core)  with an hd video card (or two) really.  The video cards really
do make a big difference.


Maybe Video Editing otherwise:

>From a cursory look it seemed to me that Quagga is a Frankenstein monster,
with an OK motherboard. If I am correct it could be refitted with a quad
core cpu and a decent video card and more ram and a RAID on the SATA (at
least two drives striped in addition to the boot drive = the set up I used
at home for a server), that would indeed be much more capable than the G5.

If we are really desparate now, why not try for both of these ? As it is now
they are probably about the same as Quagga really has  a weak video card but
better cpu, it is somewhat fixupable but takes $$ to do it.


The Rest:

Several of the older computers I know people use in Linux study group for
practice and training. The two that recently came in, this week I talked
with the guy who put them together from spare parts off the hacker shelves
(he said) -- he says he is studying networking in school and he wants to use
them to learn how to put a cluster together -- he may have trouble due to
the machines being unequal (unbalanced) but I feel that he should be welcome
to try. The old P3 all in one is my current baby, the other two ancient
iMacs I had some involvement with but as far as I am concerned they could be
gently deposited outside hopefully put on the Free Stuff Craigs List with a
time before hand they are going out, as they are attractive to some people
and not broken, one has a functioning custom light ubuntu install I sweated
over to get to be useable for basic stuff, and I would like if it were not
trashed but I realize it is of limited use except for maybe a small child a
granny or a few others (people terrified by computers)

Then there are the embedded systems, the robot stuff in particular, I don't
know much about that.

Altogether:

Don't see how a couple more systems for projects would hurt NB !

The computers take up a lot less space than the kitchen and the other shops
spaces. I sometimes feel like some of the people into those other things
don't like the computer stuff...

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, rachel lyra hospodar <rachelyra at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is that computer good enough to act as an actual, functional, video editing
> station? Because we do desperately need one of those.
>
> mediumreality.com
> On Jun 3, 2011 5:59 PM, "Shannon Lee" <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
> > It says it's broken right in the subject.
> >
> > My point was to make it clear that Noisebridge is really, really not the
> > first place you should think of when you think, "where should I take my
> > broken computer?" unless the rest of the sentence is "so I can fix it up
> and
> > then take it home again."
> >
> > We regularly spend money and volunteer effort on broken computers that
> > someone didn't want but didn't want to take responsibility for getting
> rid
> > of. A broken computer is not a gift you're bestowing, it's a
> responsibility
> > you're shirking.
> >
> > --S
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Apologize for not sending to the list first off. Gmail makes it awkward.
> >> 'borken' was careless BTW..
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] borken iMac G5
> >> To: Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> This offends me, feels unexcellent interpersonal relations. A G5 is not
> a
> >> useless crap computer. By comparison there is only one machine at NB
> that is
> >> stronger than a G5, the rest are a best half as good both in terms of
> speed
> >> and picture quality.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> There is not a shortage of computers for hacking at Noisebridge, there
> is
> >>> a ruthless and efficient crap mafia making sure that Noisebridge
> doesn't
> >>> fill up with useless broken hardware. Broken computers are not at all
> in
> >>> short supply, and seriously, nobody should consider bringing their
> broken
> >>> computer to Noisebridge unless there's a specific use for it.
> >>>
> >>> --S
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I vote yes. IMHO there is a shortage of computers for hacking at
> >>>> noisebridge.
> >>>> iMac has small footprint and is easily moved about with built-in
> monitor.
> >>>> If powersupply is bad, probably not too hard to fix that. Much better
> than
> >>>> the two old G4s that are unused (one a 400mhz).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tymm Twillman <tymmothy at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Friend just sent me an iMac G5 20/2.1 (FA064LL/A) that died on her,
> that
> >>>>> she'd like to go to a good cause. not sure the source of problem --
> and
> >>>>> don't have time to investigate -- but it's totally dead, no signs of
> power.
> >>>>> drive's been pulled but she said everything else should be there.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if someone wants to give it a go, i'd be happy to pass it on to
> >>>>> Noisebridge. would like receipt (just for something to help offset
> her
> >>>>> shipping costs). faster service if someone's able to pick it up at
> Cesar
> >>>>> Chavez & Pennsylvania, otherwise could be a week or 2 before i'm able
> to
> >>>>> drop off.
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> >>> Shannon Lee
> >>> (503) 539-3700
> >>>
> >>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
> >>>
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> >
> > "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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