October, 2003

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Oct 03

Panther and Partition Fun

After what seemed like a fraught and annoying early Panther (alright, OSX 10.3) experience running the gold master since early October I finally had to bite the bullet and do a complete reinstall. What prompted this was the erie death of *all* my Adobe applications after the seemingly innocent quicktime mpeg update. After a few days working on site for a client, in OS9, I realised as soon as I had the time it had to be fixed.

Before that catastrophe however i had been running into frequent out of disk space errors, caused by panthers much more aggresive VM swapfile usage. This combined with my slightly faulty install of popshop always using the startup volume for scratch caused me to lose all my user prefs all the time (a side effect of running out of disk space for VM it seems – very annoying).

Before starting from scratch I decided to do some reading around as I quite fancied the idea of putting my Users, Apps and Swap on separate partitions. Not too hard to do really, just a little command line and its done.

Instructions from www.macosxhints.com.

I’m still keeping a very careful eye on memory usage – i threw in a GB partition for Swap – but right now it seems pretty robust. I’ve done a few stress tests without it complaining too much, but the real challenge comes when using it in anger, so should get up to some new motion graphic stuff this weekend. Reports will follow.

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Oct 03

Motion Grafico

Just some nice little motion graphic ideas popping into my head today:

1 ) Seems the net is a little ablaze over the tube map and alternatives. Again. Might be awfully pretty example to do in After Effects layered 3D info-porn.

update: here’s one done by someone else, if a bit on the chunky side

2 ) Another thing I need to try out is the physics engine in Carrara (or other 3D app i may have handy). Why? Ah, just had the lovely image of a few hundred loose leaf pages from Preacher or The Invisibles floating down in the wind…

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Oct 03

Future Headlines

Just a quick note about doing a series of news stories from the future, with spoofing a newspaper or web site look and feel. The first would be a great little idea I had about Burning Man 2004, which i am definitely going too, most likely from Australia. Theres been a recent discussion on the spiraloasis list about the rise of californian-influenced hippy spirituality increasingly being a factor in the festival – which is incredibly annoying as the reality is, it’s a great party in the desert – if you get something more from it, than great, but that’s pretty much what it is.

The future headiline idea was basically reporting on a pitched battle between the hippies vs the er… other hippies. Heh…

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