Miscellaneous Ramblings of an Apple, Linux, Photography and sports geek
With the new iMac 6 weeks from being delivered, I’m thinking about the software I’ll install. So here goes: Aperture 3 Photoshop CS5 iLife ’11 iWork ’09 (unless ’11 comes out by then) Chrome Firefox 4 Final Cut Pro X (Currently have Final Cut Studio, but think I’ll sell it and buy it from the [...]
Just ordered my new iMac this past weekend. Upromise was having a 10% sale for Apple so my wife gave me the green light. Here’s what I ordered: 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 27″ 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x2GB 2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5 [...]
Since getting my iPad in April, I’ve become a fan of eBooks. I took advantage of some coupon codes on O’Reilly last month and purchased electronic copies of many of my books. Here is a list of what I currently have on my iPad: ePub format Agile Web Development with Rails 4th Edition Rails Recipes [...]
This is a followup to my previous post, Is it time to switch to Windows? I’ve decided to go with the 4-core Mac Pro. I still don’t know why Apple gives it only four memory slots when the DDR3 memory is triple channel. Would it have been too much for Apple to give it six [...]
I’ve had my PowerMac G5 since summer of 2004 and I’m ready to replace it. Its served me well but when my Mac mini can run circles around it, I know it needs to go. Especially when I’ve got a big project ahead. I’ve got about 10,000 feet of 8mm film that I will need [...]
Another year gone by. Good riddance, 2008. I lost my grandmother and father within a week of each other in October. When all the older members of your family are gone, you get a new perspective on life. I don’t have parents to lean on for advice anymore. With the losses in my family the [...]
This time, its been six months since I last blogged. I keep thinking that I’m going to write my own blog using Django, but with 5 year old twins, there isn’t a lot of time to do this. So I’ll stick with WordPress for now. What have I been doing this year? Well, I went [...]
The University of Virginia has been conducting a survey of incoming freshmen since 1997 regarding their use of computers. In 1997, 2437 students were surveyed and 1803 of them owned their own computers. In 2006, 3092 students were surveyed and all but 4 owned their own computers. Also, in 2006 laptops ruled. Out of 3088 [...]
