Default windows directory in NSIS is referred by “$WINDIR”.

-Fixed Patches to install hosts file in $WINDIR, not a hard path.

Looks like the Pyro works with either HD or Optical Drive on a Mac w/o the drive mode selector (which I friggin lost). We gotz the 10.4 Server DVD ready to go… and by some miracle the dead G4 now works…

Waiting for all the data to copy. The Personnel data is going now - it’s 72.78Gb and reporting 2 hours left.. although the finder seems to do this wierd “speed up” thing always - it starts out slow and then speeds up.

And so I embark once again - with my David kit, a machine and $5 in change for the meters. Hopefully I’ll keep up on documentation this time.

Going to test some stuff out with Spongebob episodes because they compress well and they are very short. Looks like aspect ratio w/ xvid works well, at least with my setup (ffdshow/wmp). I did a 720×480 out as 1:1 and set aspect ratio in xvid settings to 4:3 and it looks real nice. Interlaced frame show up nasty, gonna look into playback methods before I decide on deinterlacing them permanently. Still looking for a container, apparently avi is junk.

Where the hell are any of my firewire cables? How am I supposed to use this 120 I finally remembered to bring home?

So I’m completely redoing the server and clients. There is one workgroup server (Xserve G4, one 250Gb Drive) and a bunch of G4s/G5s.

My most time consuming problem is that there is no high speed machines or networks to use for backing up the system. My normal procedure for a setup like this would be to either mirror the hard disk or use a new hard disk, keeping the old one in tact (just in case). Secondly, they have about 200Gb of data, and all the workstations are 60 or 80Gb. No firewire enclosure to spare either (here or at my house)

What to do…