Posting on behalf of John, as he appears to have broken the internet. Aperture 2.0 gets the JMac seal of approval.
- Chris
Decided to throw caution into the wind and attempt to pull the photos from the damaged hard drives and burn them to DVDs. I have about 22,000 transfered to my laptop now.
About 60GB or so, so going to try to cut it down a bit and sort and what not. I have 20 DVDs, but have had a lot of bad ones in this bunch.
Well, put some of the routers up on OLSR. I haven’t finalized numbering, as you can see, but 192.168.x are linksys and 10.0.x are metrix.
Well, I beat the road closures westbound I-90, and braved unplowed roads were only a handful of other cars were going. But, I have my copy of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
I’m playing with a Linksys WRTSL54GS, which I should link, but it’s a Linksys produced router with a 266Mhz mips processor, a 4 port switch connected to eth0, a single ethernet port on eth1, and an 802.11b/g adapter on eth2. 32MB onboard RAM, and 8MB of flash. I run OpenWRT on all of my broadcom based router equipment (mostly Linksys WRT54GLs).
What sets the SL54GS apart from other WRTs, aside from a few more Mhz, RAM, and Flash is that it has a USB port. That and this one has an asterisk PBX on it. So, I’m here thinking to myself that I’d love to enable a number of sound files on it, maybe even voicemail, but that could eat up space. And, being deployed 10 time zones away from me, something that could run the system out of it’s 8MB of storage space is unacceptable. Buying a bulky USB hard drive is unacceptable. I considered just leaving one of my camera’s 1GB CF cards with a USB connector to it, seems elegant enough.
A few minutes ago, yes, it’s 4am, I can’t sleep, I came up with an even more elegant solution. While waiting around in Best Buy for Ben, who was dropping off my now repaired laptop he picked up from Apple, I noticed that USB flash drives have gotten dirt cheap. So, tomorrow (today) it is off to Costco for a tiny little keychain, thumb, flash stick, or whatever else anyone calls them that will store all the files on my new micro-PBX.
A lot of people running OSX 10.4 don’t realize that Dashboard, that slick little icon over by the finder is always sitting their sucking down their RAM. Mine has a lot of tools in it that are nice, but that I rarely use. But, I always have terminal open so I wrote a quick script to turn dashboard on and off. (more…)
Well, it is multi-threaded because this morning its antics are causing the dock to take 5-10 seconds to appear (it’s on auto-hide).
But, I managed to get it give me a couple of seconds to poke at the menu (took 30 seconds to open) and unstack the photos. It’s back to running smooth again. Tip: do NOT use huge stacks, even accidently! It seems to just not be able to handle it. Probably in relation to it’s handling of large numbers of thumbnails.
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Had a day now to play with my new macbook, and I love it. I have the black 2.0Ghz one with a few other upgrades.
The magnetic latch is great. The magsafe power connector seems to work fine for me, most people have reported it disconnects too easily on the MacBook Pro. I have yet to experience that. Just now though it did disconnect because I walked away without disconnecting it (prompting this review) and it dropped without any issue.
The system is plenty fast for everything I’ve tried, I’m going to see about loading up WoW in OSX (if I can find the proper version) and also a BootCamp for some windows gaming.
Aperture on the other hand…. it’s very slick, it has all the features I want… but… well, I’ll echo everyone else, it’s performance sucks. Hands down, awful. I honestly have no idea what it’s doing at the moment, but it’s been doing it for an hour. It froze up when I accidently stacked a 5128 photo project. (Unfroze an hour later and to it’s credit it had stacked them). It has yet to be able to unstack them after several hours at it before I ran out of battery and shut it off. It may be still working on that.
It’s possible that it isn’t multi threaded? CoreDuoTemp is reporting 67C at 2000Mhz but only 54% CPU in use…. that 4% is probably me typing. So, that could be a bit of a performance hit too.
On to tmobile, I added the Tmobile-web or whatever it is plan for $5.99/mo and am pretty happy. With some bit of work and a 3g dialer script for motorola phones I can connect to the internet via a tmobile web proxy. I can check my webmail, even use iChat, type out blog entries, etc. I have no excuses now. Drains the laptop’s battery life pretty fast, but the phone seems to be able to do about 2x talk time that way (I was on for a few hours and it dropped 1/3).
Considering the $19.99 mo internet plan if they still offer it, so I wouldn’t have to use the proxy and could use things like SSH. I’ve seen some AJAX SSH clients though.
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