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Mac Server
Has Tightrope given any thought to making their system compatible to run on OSX, I am currently looking at new media servers to replace our ageing Vela. My board of directors are Mac happy and are pushing me to look in to a Mac based media server.
Randy Brewer
Station Manager
Natick Pegasus
Natick,MA
Randy Brewer
Station Manager
Natick Pegasus
Natick,MA
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Inappropriate?Hey Randy,
The media server itself can be Mac based, Linux based, Widows based ect. We will be storing most of our mpegs for air on a 14 TB raid array that also will act as a unified strage for all of our students and for web content that will stream from our website. But generally, Tightrope would prefer you buy all Tightrope branded products and not just because they like to make money. When you have a problem, they can handle it much quicker when it is all stuff they know from the ground up. I stopped using my Leightronix TCD/IP because neither Leightronix nor Tightrope could permanatly get it all to work together. There was always problems after a few weeks. That said, get yourself a maxed out XServe and run Virtual PC to run Tightrope stuff. Or just tell your bosses that certain stuff runs on certain stuff and they should buy a video ipod to watch yoru shows on and leave the IT stuff to the IT people. :)
BTW, what is Natick Pegasus? We are out of Fall River in MA... -
Inappropriate?quote:Originally posted by dubiousmike
Hey Randy,
The media server itself can be Mac based, Linux based, Widows based ect.
"Widows-Based?"
Haha, that made my day!
Chuck Hill
Itasca Community TV
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Inappropriate?you know, when i was home one weekend with no access into the high school and thus my tightrope equiptment, i saw a blue scrren of death - all weekend long. granted, that was the cablecast machine and not the video server...
but i DID feel like a widower, or at least that I might be quickly jobless, shunned by babies and that my friends might not return my calls.
and yes, this is not the right day for me to write or talk correctly. Perhaps its because i wasted time going to NAB East Plus yesterday and now my brain is going on strike. -
Inappropriate?I'd like to correct something that Mike said earlier. Specifically, that we'd like you to buy our stuff not because we like to make money, but because it's easier for us to support you.
Mike is incorrect and I’ll explain through written illustration:
When your organizations issue purchase orders for product that we in turn ship, those purchase orders turn into US currency. We at Tightrope use this currency in an exchange for goods and services. Some of these goods and services continue the going concern that is Tightrope. As I know as the truth in my case, some of the currency is used for things like formula and diapers.
So to politely correct Mike, we like you to buy our products because we like money.
To the overall point of the thread:
We don't develop on the Mac for a number of reasons:
First, in 1996 there was no Macintosh web server platform (apart from cute toys). There was no MPEG multi-channel solution for hardware decoding on the Mac. Making anything remotely resembling a web based application was impossible before OSX.
Time passed and now if you printed the entire body of source code that Tightrope has created, you would have a negative affect on the overall oxygen production of our ecosystem due to the destruction of trees. That is: it's waaaaay to late in the game to switch platforms now.
I think these discussions are fun because they lend an air of sportsmanship to computers, which traditionally lacks any element remotely near the topic of sports—accepting Madden 2006. It should be noted that 1/2 of all Tightrope employees use a Macintosh at home (2/3's own iPods). Tightrope owns and loves its Macintosh Mini. We’re Mac fans.
There are lots and lots of reasons that you won't see a Mac server from Tightrope. They have to do with the difficulty of OEM-ing such a product, lack of dedicated hardware, the follies of single sourcing your product's materials... It's all too boring to go in to. If you want to read something that is NOT boring, please check out this paper, written by head geek Neal Stephenson:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginnin...
It is, in my opinion, the final word on operating system holy wars.
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