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Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by stallmanite »

tecleandor wrote: post #29
episodeiv wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add to that, it's not just media production. In the medical field, almost all software for performing and analyzing EKGs, X-rays, MRIs etc. comes by default with some sort of dongle-based protection. Apparently, it's not enough that you need the biggest dongle in the world (i.e. the machine itself!) to use the software. Some vendors do offer alternatives if you fight them hard enough but the default still is a tri…

Ah, but they need to control that CD recording device on the workstation, just in case you're handing out CDs to your patients WITHOUT A CD RECORDING LICENSE. They have the weirdest licenses.

So there is software on a medical device concerned with users copying a Billy Joel CD?

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by holy_city »

theclaw wrote: post #194
ratww wrote: post #189

Someone on Reddit posted some more details. Apparently it's iLok removing the /var directory. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/d8nxhk/mysterious_av...

It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops. https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-... e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663

I can't wait for the post mortem, I wasn't expecting anything with Avid/PACE but if it's Google's problem then maybe we'll get info.

I work in this space (and am a casual user in the space) and I really want to know why /private/var was getting unlinked through a normal update and why Avid got pinged for it.

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by ratww »

holy_city wrote: post #202
theclaw wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops. https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-... e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663

I can't wait for the post mortem, I wasn't expecting anything with Avid/PACE but if it's Google's problem then maybe we'll get info. I work in this space (and am a casual user in the space) and I really want to know why /private/var was getting unlinked through a normal update and why Avid got pinged for it.

> why Avid got pinged for it

I think that was just because it was Avid users discovered it on the FB group[1].

I thought it was cool of their CEO to talk to the community, despite no evidence of it being their fault.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/mediacomposer/permalink/1015...

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by KaiserPro »

rock_artist wrote: post #45
KaiserPro wrote: post #31

rule 1 of hollywood tech support: Always take what the editor says with a massive pinch of salt. I spent ten years in the movie industry, and the people that were the most forthright, and almost universally wrong about technical things were editors. "The monitor is out of grade" No, you've set the background lights to red. "The sound is out of sync" No, you've turned off the amp and somehow managed to get the crappy…

Any non tech savvy would provide or will be treated by grain of salt. But, I have several reports from colleagues.

oh indeed, its a pinch of salt, not ignore entirely :)

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by Mindwipe »

cjaybo wrote: post #150
Mindwipe wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available workstations. Not really, when given the tendency of them to roll around when being transported in production environments, they tend to end up bolted within wooden boxes with little wheels on the bottom. There's a reason Apple listened and put wheels on the new one.

To be fair, the machine's tendency to roll around during transport is irrelevant to the claim that it looks better than its competitors.

I meant more that it doesn't look better if it's inside a plywood box.

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by tecleandor »

stallmanite wrote: post #201
tecleandor wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, but they need to control that CD recording device on the workstation, just in case you're handing out CDs to your patients WITHOUT A CD RECORDING LICENSE. They have the weirdest licenses.

So there is software on a medical device concerned with users copying a Billy Joel CD?

They sell every functionality as an aditional "license" or "plugin".

So, for example, it's not unusual that, by default, your half a million USD scanner, that includes a powerful workstation to control it (the one the technician uses behind the window) will only let you write CDs (for example, to give your patient a copy of his/her scan) if you pay an additional "CD Writing license"

Now, with PACS and centralization that have changed a bit, but still...

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by anigbrowl »

pdimitar wrote: post #179
anigbrowl wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda hard to be moving the goalposts when there was no prior comment of mine to move them from. I'm just disagreeing. When everyone is suddenly having the same problem the probability that they are all coincidentally falling victim to the same misjudgement asymptotically approaches zero.

What was claimed in your parent comment was that people do all sorts of idiosyncratic things with their machines but were convinced the problem was elsewhere. No?

You seem to have mistaken me for a man who likes to repeat himself.

Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

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Post by vokep »

cgriswald wrote: post #135
kiddico wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They meant "thinks-they're-technical", which might clear things up. Putting dashes between a bunch of words isn't really a correct way to do this, but it's a way to smash a bunch of words together and pretend it's one word. In this case an adjective describing the users.

It's perfectly cromulent to hyphenate words this way. Doing so causes them to become adjectives. For instance, you would say "fast-paced agenda," not "fast paced agenda," or "fast, paced agenda." The latter two have a different—and in this example, weird—meaning. In this case, I think it's a poor style choice, because there are two verbs and an adjective being combined, but there's nothing 'incorrect' about doing so.…

What you did there, it has been seen. :)
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