This is admittedly last-minute, but if you’re in New York City looking for something to do tonight we suggest you stop by the SOHO Apple store (103 Prince Street; corner Prince and Greene) for a multimedia presentation by Seattle-based commercial photographer Chase Jarvis.
Part of a free lecture series presented by Apple and ASMP.
The bad news: Your network is overloaded and slowing to a crawl. You team is producing larger files, but your server can’t handle it. And you’d rather not admit it, but your studio’s archiving and backup strategies are held together with duct tape and WD-40.
The good news: For a lot of companies, it’s budget planning time, and you might get a chance to fund some solutions to your server woes in 2007.
As a service for Seattle-area creative teams, we are offering a complimentary server strategy session with Creativetechs’ lead consultant Craig Swanson. Take this opportunity to map out your creative team’s server strategy for the coming year.
We’ve set aside 4 days through December, and have 16 open slots. If you manage a creative team, we encourage you to call and schedule a session. We’ll make sure it is a valuable use of your time.
We get occasional calls from Mac-based corporate creative teams, asking about strange files their Windows-based co-workers are seeing on shared file servers. The files have familiar names, but all start with a “._” prefix.
Here is the explanation of where those oddly named files come from, and why they are important to the Mac-based creative team.
A couple years ago I was checking to see if CraigSwanson.com was still available. It was not. In fact to drive that point home, I found this blog entry by another Craig Swanson commenting on being one of thousands of people with the exact same name:
“‘Craig Swanson'” is quite possibly the ‘John Smith’ of the late 20th century.”
Somewhat sobering to be just one in thousands of Craig Swanson’s out there. Too bad I wasn’t the first one to register the domain. If your name is still available, grab it.
