Appleosity

[serinde]

I have been steadily turning to the Candy-Colored Side since the beginning of my employ. (Including spending most of today frobbing new machines, including the 24" iWhack I was not actually supposed to get, whoopsie!.) Earlier this week I made the final test: I had Boot Camp put a Windows partition on the laptop, booted into it, installed CoH, and tried it out. Seems to work fine, modulo the annoyance of trying to play with a trackpad. (Ah. Mem.: try TeamSpeak.)

So the kool-aid is delicious and fruity, and it seems likely that the next time we need to upgrade something (which is probably soon), I will be switching to a Mac. Jury is still out between iMac and a Mac Pro. Obviously the Mac Pro would be much sweeter, but iMacs are considerably cheaper, and if they are butch enough to do what I need, I may restrain my greed as it is likely to be a generally expensive year.

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[sweh.livejournal.com]

By rip, I do mean exactly keeping the VIDEO_TS folder containing the VOBs from the DVD. For the main feature only (no extras, no menus etc). I didn't want to convert to mp4 format because the aim of the game here is to keep things at as good a quality as possible (hence the earlier moan about iTunes not supporting FLAC). I have 4*500gb disks in a RAID5 array, so I have approx 1.5Tbytes of usable space. I've got my movies ripped, but that's only 15% of my DVD collection. I need bigger disks!

And if the MPAA want to come and deal with me then they'll be on the losing side. I have paid for all the movies I'm talking about. I have them on the shelf in the next room, nicely ordered. The only reason I want them on a hard disk is for ease of use. I'm lazy :-)

As for controlling stuff from the command line... http://sweh.spuddy.org/rubbish/mac are my current scripts to control iTunes and DVD Player. The main "itunes" command was based on that article, but I've enhanced it a fair bit since then!

I don't any other Macs other than the mini under the TV. But I do have many other Unix machines (Linux, Solaris primarily. Occasionally a BSD install, or something else random for test purposes). No iTunes, other than on that machine. I'm an old-school Unix-type :-)