From pete at nomadlogic.org Mon Oct 2 12:52:58 2006 From: pete at nomadlogic.org (Pete Wright) Date: Mon Oct 2 12:54:48 2006 Subject: [macosx-unix] Color Precision, LCD display In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061002165257.GB19505@sunset.nomadlogic.org> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:46:54AM -0400, Isaac Levy wrote: > Hey All, > > So I've been trying to track down a particular LaCie Blue CRT display > for a designer client of mine, and it seems they stopped making them > LONG ago. This client does precision color work, and are accustomed > to the quality of the older high-end CRT's. > > However, the market for high-end displays seems to have all gone to > LCD's- which freaks my client (and me) out- mostly with regard to > color fidelity. > > Does anyone have the low-down, or perhaps some URLS to toss me, on > this topic? Thanks! > hey ike, you really can't do color accurate work with LCD's...atleast that is general option in the film world. Having said that...there are several LCD's out there that attempt to fill this important niche. There are some important issues I have seen with LCD's at the moment: 1) burn in 2) calibration 3) displaying black's correctly (we are yet to find a LCD that can display true black). it's gotten so bad for us (Imageworks) that we have had to hire a full time engineer to repair our Sony CRT's (replacing capacitors, boards etc.) just to keep them alive. And we are a sony company! so, the current thinking in our world is that CRT's and Film are the only way we can make colour accurate decisions. In print, I really don't know what folks are using these day's.... I have heard from various people that this may be a good source on getting second hand Sony CRT's: http://www.accurateit.com/details.asp?iid=203 let me know if you have any questions... -p -- ~~oO00Oo~~ Peter Wright pete@nomadlogic.org www.nomadlogic.org/~pete 310.869.9459 From compustretch at gmail.com Wed Oct 4 15:40:27 2006 From: compustretch at gmail.com (forest ) Date: Wed Oct 4 15:42:17 2006 Subject: [macosx-unix] DRM Hazmat team at Apple Store Message-ID: Brian et al, Here's a link to pictures from Saturday's "Action" at the Apple Store. It was an event drawing attention to Apple's participation in the evil DRM digital rights management. http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeculturenyu/sets/72157594306442005/detail/ cheers, Forest -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://beth.easthouston.org/pipermail/macosx-unix/attachments/20061004/4072e9d9/attachment.html From antispam at brokenhill.net Tue Oct 10 15:36:54 2006 From: antispam at brokenhill.net (KLW) Date: Tue Oct 10 15:38:56 2006 Subject: [macosx-unix] grabbing volume info in single user mode without using diskutil Message-ID: Background: When booted into single user mode, diskutil doesn't work unless you've already started up a bunch of services--either through SystemStarter (Jaguar), /etc/mach_init.d (Panther), or launchd daemons (Tiger). I would like to devise a way to automatically scan all disk devices, find their volume info (label, UUID, and file system) so that I can mount all connected disks without having to launch a bunch of supporting services. The method would look something like this: for d in `ls /dev/disk*s* | grep -v disk0`;do dlabel=command_to_find_disk_label dfs=command_to_find_file_system_type (hfs, etc) echo "mounting $dlabel"; mkdir "/Volumes/$dlabel" if mount -vw -t hfs $dfs "/Volumes/$dlabel";then echo "successfully mounted at /Volumes/$dlabel" else echo "bah!" fi; done I am not finding a good method (via bash, which is where I would like to stay) of finding the disk label and file system type. Anyone have any clues? Thanks. Kristofer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Why should we limit computers to the lies people tell them through keyboards?" Bill Gospar, 1965, MIT From george at sddi.net Wed Oct 18 20:09:50 2006 From: george at sddi.net (George R.) Date: Wed Oct 18 20:11:49 2006 Subject: [macosx-unix] NYCBSDCon Message-ID: <4536C24E.3040509@sddi.net> Most people on this list are already aware. . . but. . . Early registration for NYCBSDCon 2006 ends on Saturday October 21st. That's in just a few short days, so we encourage you to move fast! This year's conference features a wide variety of speakers, including Wietse Venema, Bob Beck and Murray Stokely, with topics ranging from network appliances to the problem of package system dependencies. The weekend starts at the Amsterdam Cafe on Friday evening at 8 pm, October 27th, with an informal social gathering. For those in town, we strongly encourage you to join in. The Amsterdam Cafe is on 119th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The next morning, we are starting bright and early with check-in and registration at 8 am, with the kick-off commencing at 8:45 am. Don't forget that continental breakfast and lunch will be provided for both days. The reduced early registration rate of $95 jumps to $145 on October 22nd, and up to $195 for walk-ins at the conference. Big thanks to our sponsors including Google, New York Internet, Everest Broadband, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, not to mention our small business sponsors. And a huge thanks to Angelos D. Keromytis and Columbia University again. You can register online at http://www.nycbsdcon.org. Registering but not paying means you're not registered.