Silas Scarborough Music Studio - Computers
This is the first in a series of pictures in the studio. The object is to give you an idea of the devices that are used, how they interact with one another, and how they're set up for a show:
Computers: The computers are two Mac Desktop Pro machines with an iMac 24" in the middle. From left to right, the first Mac Desktop Pro is Yasgur's Farm, the iMac in the middle was Performer but now has a clever new name that I don't remember, and the Desktop Pro on the right is the Big Honker.
Big Honker: Apple Mac Desktop Pro with 2 quad-core 2.66 processors with 6 GB of RAM and 2 TB of disk space spread over four internal drives and 2 TB additional for back-up on one external drive.
The primary purpose of the Big Honker is video editing through the use of Apple's Final Cut Studio and Adobe's Photoshop. DVD authoring is accomplished with Apple's DVD Studio Pro.
No-one but Silas is allowed to use the Big Honker. It's a very hot machine and you have to know how to handle it.
Yasgur's Farm: Apple Mac Desktop Pro with 2 dual-core 2.66 processors with 4 GB of RAM and 1.5 TB of disk space spread over four internal drives.
Yasgur's Farm had been used to run Windows but there's relatively little point in using Windows for anything anymore and the machine has been retired from that task. It will now be applied to the business purposes of the Galactic Tour. Read that as I'm selling it to Scotland Yard so he can conduct whatever Tour business he thinks is necessary.
Performer: Apple 24" iMac with 1 dual-core 2.66 processor with 4 GB of RAM and one 320 GB internal drive.
The Performer is a general-purpose machine. If it's necessary to run Second Life then it will run on this system plus pretty much anything that doesn't really fit anywhere else. It's in-process of being partitioned so visitors can use it without risk to the existing contents.
Back-Up: The small silver box on the top of the Desktop Pro on the right is a Western Digital 2 TB disk drive. Time Machine on the Big Honker is constantly backing up to it any changes made to the primary internal disks. The Big Honker has four internal Western Digital drives, each of which has 500 GB capacity. Everything on the primary drives can be restored from the contents of the external Western Digital back-up drive.
Hope you enjoy the series. It's kind of a back-handed apology for my slowness in getting this set up correctly. It's important as you're going to see a whole lot more of a shift away from using the computers for anything but the mechanics of broadcast.