I just bought a used Mac Pro yesterday, and the latch that releases the side panel opened just great when I was looking it over. However, this morning, when I gave it a go to pop in a video card, instead of the satisfying thunk of the latch’s usual opening, I heard scrunch, and the […]
The missus and I got to see Super 8 on Thursday morning at a sparsely-attended “secret sneak preview” that they had promoted only through Twitter. It’s the first time I think I’ve seen a 4K projection locally, and let me tell you — the entire thing was amazingly clean and detailed. But not in a […]
Drobo is running a contest to give away a number of Drobos, asking the question, “What would you do with 100 Drobos?”
I think the answer is not an easy one. Sure, anyone can say “I’d take all 100 and give them to charity!” or, “I’d store every movie ever!” These are good first thoughts, […]
When Organizing Isn’t Enough: SHED Your Stuff; Change Your Life by Julie Morgenstern
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Listened to the Audiobook. Ridiculous amounts of “stories” from four fictional archetypes going through different life changes bludgeon you over the head with the same points over and over, and there’s really nothing new here.
Organize […]
I am listening to the audiobook of When Organizing Isn’t Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life. It’s a lot of obvious fluff, but it included this (probably apocryphal) gem:
I’ve struggled for years with… well, I’m not sure that I’d call it hoarding. I take some small consolation that I’m not quite as […]
After I upgraded to After Effects CS5 recently, I found that my rendering was a lot more sluggish than it used to be. Thankfully, I found this FAQ item on Adobe’s forums, and following the suggestions there — especially those about recommended memory-per-core settings — really got me back on track.
For the record, I’m working on a MacBook Pro with a 2.66 GHz Core i7 processor (that means 4 virtual cores on top of 2 real cores, due to hyperthreading) and 8 GB of RAM. The best balance for me ended up being assigning 1.5 GB of RAM to other apps, and 1.5 GB of RAM per render core, with 3 cores available for multi-processing for renders. Lower than that, and I wasn’t getting very good performance; higher than that, and it was even worse, because AE started paging RAM out to disk and that was killing performance.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
At first I found the definition of Resistance (uppercase ‘R’) intriguing — a personification of the reasons you’re afraid to finish, why you procrastinate. As you progress through the book, though, the […]