So let’s be clear: I think macOS is a pretty good operating system. But I’m not going to be a zealot about it.
My philosophy is that you use whichever tool is best for the job at any given moment. When I’m editing yearbook spreads, I prefer to use Adobe InDesign in macOS. If I were a gamer, I’d probably want to be running Steam in Windows. And when I’m messing around with a Raspberry Pi, I find it much easier to use Linux since it can natively read and write to the Ext4 filesystem.
Rather than choose which OS to install, I love the idea of choosing which OS to use. For this reason, I’ve created dual-boot and sometimes triple-boot setups on most machines that I’ve built or owned.
Getting this setup to work on my current Mac was a bit more challenging, so I’ve created this tutorial to help anyone else who might be interested. Please browse the parts below to get started.
- Materials
- Installing Windows 10 Externally
- Adding Linux to the Mix
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Turning off my noisy hard drive enclosure requires unmounting multiple volumes and then reaching below the desk to hold down a power button for several seconds. Wouldn’t it be cool if this could happen automatically as soon as I’m done using it?
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We adopted a dog named Tucker. He’s adorable, but downloading his photos from our dog walker’s website was a little too difficult.
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Who wouldn’t want to be responsible for dealing with hundreds of applications, planning an induction ceremony, and overseeing countless hours of service projects? It didn’t take long to discover that I had inherited an administrative nightmare.
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After the school district replaced all the desktop computers in the journalism lab with laptops, I needed to find a way to reproduce the ergonomics and efficiency of our old setup using more modern hardware.
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This is a three-part series. In the first post, I’ll discuss the equipment and other considerations necessary for converting old home movies into digital videos on a modern-day Mac computer. I’ll also share what I decided to buy for the project and why.
Part 2 will explain how to do the initial conversion using my particular setup. And Part 3 will walk you through the process I used to clean up the captured footage.
- Equipment and Considerations
- Doing the Video Conversion
- Cleaning Up the Captured Footage
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I’ve been a Mac user for nearly two decades. Say what you will about Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field. I’ve…
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Hint: It’s not about the journalism! If you’re a high school journalism teacher, you’ve probably faced a skeptic or two…
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The following essay was originally published in the November 2011 edition of the online magazine of the Curry School of…
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