World: r3wp

Console:   0:00:01.422 - 356 KC/S
Processor: 0:00:00.611 - 1414 RHz (REBOL-Hertz)
Memory:    0:00:01.452 - 32 MB/S
Disk/File: 0:00:00.271 - 112 MB/S

This si the P7010D

(I was playing music in the BG, I would assume that would effect 
it)

Console:   0:00:01.282 - 394 KC/S
Processor: 0:00:00.731 - 1181 RHz (REBOL-Hertz)
Memory:    0:00:01.412 - 33 MB/S
Disk/File: 0:00:00.24 - 127 MB/S

With music turned off.

That is a fast hard drive.

Console for my desktop is 588 however, and it is not a very fast 
desktop.

But my hard drive speed is only 4.

Must be a Seagate Snail.

Are flat panel displays slower than the old style monitors?

Speeds for the laptop I've been considering are:

Console: 450
Processor: 2128
Memory: 53
Disk: 85

Is that fast enough to edit video?

Even a slow computer can edit video just fine.  It depends on what 
medium you work on.  For example, if work in Raw, everything is really 
fast.  When you finally move to a format (AVI, .MOV, .MPG, etc.) 
that is when stuff takes a LONG time.  You need lots of video space.

I don't understand your display question.  Do you mean refresh rates?

In speed.r what is Console measuring? Whatever it is that is what 
I'm comparing.

I just shot some High Def out on the ocean the other day, and brought 
it into this laptop and edited it just fine.  I'm working on 1 gig 
files on average.

My guess on KC/S would be kilo characters output to the Console per 
second...I suggest looking at the code though.

Yup...............he times output to the console, then devides by 
1024.  It should read Kibichars though (SI standard).

What camcorder did you use?

I don't know, it was housed inside a special case for underwater 
use, so I did not catch the model.

The lense alone was $3K though.

Everything high def is expensive. Can you tell much difference in 
the picture quality?

Oh...........yeah.............

It is a NICE lens....

It has a special coating so that water repels.  We would dunk it 
in and out of the water, not a single drop in frame.

I'm looking at this:


http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=385368&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

I will find out what he uses.  He is the lead video guy on Maui.

unfortunatly, probabaly not rebol related.

I want to try to use two (usb) optical mice as DIY motion encoders.
my first questions are: 

When you have three mice plugged in, how to get the os to ignore 
two of them?

How to get data from the two you have gotten the os to ignore into 
a program?

Anyone know of a reasonable (and cheap) USB KVM switch, just for 
Keyboard and Mouse?

Or, is Synergy a reliable substitute?

I use synergy here all the time, in fact I use it to type in AltME 
right now :-)

What OS's are your primary/clients?

Primary is MacOSX, Client is XP.

Any slowdown on either, say when using a gfx package?

it does have some slowdown and choppyness, so I don't recommend using 
it intensively for mouse precision work. For keyboard work, it's 
fine.

I use synergy between win/win, win/linux from time to time, and find 
it very reliable. I didn't need reliable mouse positioning, though 
...

I'd say, just try it out, and you'll see whether it fills the bill 
for you.

H: which method did you use to install the server on OS X?  I have 
the test working successfully...

I suppose you could use launchd, but I just start it manually every 
time I reboot.

chris, I had issues with repeat key events in some apps... from win 
to linux... in maya, it just goes wild when you use the space bar 
to open the menues.... and starts switching the panes instead like 
a mad man (usually, if you just tap the space key it switches the 
current view to full view)

(and in maya, holding the space will reveal a contextual menu)

If Vista has the capability to use flash drives for faster virtual 
memory, will new systems come with an internal/built in flash drive 
so one doesn't need a tick-like creature hanging out the back of 
one's PC to improve performance?

lamprey?

I've got a little 2gb sd card that I have slotted into my laptop. 
 When I access it, the whole system slows down.

btw, a friend told me that most flash memory has a finite amount 
of erase cycles, which is not very high... this is not an issue for 
using photos, as we usually erase them seldomly, but for things like 
using them for RAM... it could burn them out.  I don't know if usb 
sticks and sd like cards use the same sillicon inside though.

I've been thinking about getting a CF card to IDE adaptor and buy 
a 2 or 4 GB CF card, put it in my laptop and find a small Linux distro 
that doesn't use swap.

Does anybody know how I can find out if a network card is removable 
(like PCMCIA, USB (does this exist?))?

you mean - by some system query?

yes

hmm, dunno ... you can get list of devices somehow, but if there 
are any parameters, I don't know. Generally, you can check with free 
products as Everest, they pretty much disclose all possible hw info 
and categorise it. Cool app. If Everest or othere such sw does not 
disclose such info, then I am not sure it si possible.

but maybe some Win32API guru will tell us more.