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We're doing it and we're not feeling like we're on top of each other (yet). It's weird that we're sitting next to one another on our own respective computers but we like it. Dorky moments do occur when we video chat with each other and we're sitting right there. Yeah, we're dorks but we're doing it together. Before I'd be on the computer in the office and he'd be on another lap top in the living room...
This was our kitchen table (we inherited). Wobbly legged and not practical in any aesthetic point of view. I took it apart and brought it into the office/guest room, put it together and found that it no longer wobbled. My husband had put the legs on wrong 2 years ago when we moved into this apt and we never realized until now. Wobbly table, no more! We're planning on getting a glass sheet to put on top to kind of dress up the drab table top and maybe do some fun paper mache of photos to decorate the desk a bit.
We will be adding shelving with some kind of integrated light. The mirror will disappear, have yet to find a place for it. If you remember my make shift vanity was here before and in the reflection of the mirror you can see that we put the futon in the place of where the old, weirdly shaped desk we had before.
Check out the new layout.
this is why I like Apple, it's not about phones but all about computers.
read about the unboxing at www.macnotes.de/2010/06/16/unboxing-mac-mini-unibody-24ghz/
Nerve centre of my setup.
NetGear ReadyNAS, 2x 3TB drive, setup on RAID1
D-Link 5-port gigabit switch - all wired up with Cat6 cables
AirPort Express for wireless music streaming
MacMini (2.7GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 2x 256GB SSD on RAID0)
1.5TB USB2 hard drive, used purely as a Time Machine drive for the MacMini
The mac mini is 6.5" x 6.5" x 2".
It is the one sitting on top of the 12" ibook and next to the standard iPod. they are there only for size referance.
Unjailbroken. These are my webapps. I keep them all in a separate screen for the sake of organization. I wish there was a webapp for Google Adsense and a better Flickr mobile version just for the iPhone.
this is the sequel to this image
i am trying to invent new ways to staying awake all day so i can good nights sleep to night. later i will dropping on julia and then neil's work places hope there not to busy because they will get fuck all done once i am around!
well i did not lose my pass port as hag though i would. in fact i gained quite a lot of stuff including dog tags, a mac, time mag, mac format mag, T-shirts, vests, shorts, a holga book and a color splash
i would like to thank dlemieux & her gizza for letting me stay at there place and using it as a storage facility as i couch served around the city! + for driving to cony island 2x.
big up to sgoralnick for putting me up for the last weekend and showing me the Über cool side of brooklyn. the roof parties n shit
big up to heather and the rest of the flcikr yahoo crew who put on a wicked party and putting me a hotel that was well to posh for me, a cardboard box on the river front would of done me
big up michaelkuhle for a wicked night of karaoke and letting nose around the lomo office in brooklyn. i think you should have a little tidy up
Hillel (no flickr account! the man is still on dial up) for taking me to see bridge and tunnel people and the blue not for beat root. both wicked nights
awfulsara for pointing out that that candy that is left in the hotel room is not free but is actual quite expensive. and for letting me stay in her room one night, brave girl! also for coming the uss intrepid with me
and of course the blink of an eye winners because the hole reason why we there in the first and was the catalyst for meeting all these lovely new people.
if you want to see the madness that i got up to just do a little search for the tag lomokev
thanks hag & juey to for looking after my flat and stuff while i was away
it was also very cool bumping in to barhamand in the village wish we had spent more time with him as i think i fancy you quite a bit, its just that you are so cool
and to all the other masive i met out the big up your selfs
i actual got back a day later than i tough so if you want to enter the caption competition there is still time and there will be real prizes. the winner will receive a 18" x 12" real photographic print (urn framed) of there chose from my photo stream + 2 runners up will get 10" x 8" print
good to home the weather is really nice i have my window open and there is a nice cool braze comming though it not a hot sticky one!
My collection of Apple computers. I used to have many many more vintage models, but I sadly had to send them to recycling to free up some storage. :(
My desk in my room. 27" Core i7 iMac, with a 24" Dell monitor connected (left). Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with a 24" Samsung monitor connected (right), 2.6ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, and a 1.42ghz G4 Mac Mini (centre), sadly purposeless for the time being.
Another shot of my home office. Features:
custom built quad core workstation with dual 22" widescreens
24" iMac
Mac Mini
Custom built 10foot desk
oversize reading chair
Stopped by the Apple Store in Ginza this evening after work to pick up the new OS.
Was lucky in that I was just late enough to miss the initial crowd that wanted to be the first batch in, yet early enough to miss the even larger throng that came just as I got in.
Got a free t-shirt on the way through the door; was handed an OS box and quickly pointed to a register.
All done very professionally and in a timely manner given the large crowd. Was in and out in less than 5 minutes.
That was the good news. Bad news it took me well over 2 hours to get it to work, and even then on a backup external boot drive that I keep for emergencies. Perhaps because my Mac Mini is customized with a faster cpu and hard drive (per an upgrade I performed on it shortly after I bought it last year).
Anyway all up now, but as you can see no apps (didn't get the chance to photoshop this) as I had to do a clean install on the external bootable drive.
Will be spending a large chunk of the weekend reinstalling all my apps and settings...ugh.
Still better this than Vista ;-)
Non-HDR shot of my screen showing that the US still has a few more hours before its sold in stores there.
Video experiment, inspired with Sherlock Holmes end credit style.
Music: The Blossoming Lilies by The Orchestral Movement of 1932 opsound.org/artist/theorchestralmovementof1932
Credit to creatogether.com/ink-and-paper for the trick & some materials.
Hardware: Canon 500D, MacPro, MacMini, Wacom Bamboo
Software: AfterEffects, Painter XI
December 2016 - My 2011 MBP died, so I have replaced it with a Mac Mini (not pictured) from my workshop. I got the Samdi keyboard stand for Christmas
Or rather, what was on my hand luggage today, excluding my K750i (took photo with), and keys (with vpn and 2 GB memory stick and Logic Pro dongle attached to it).
Somehow I think it is not that common to fly with a desktop computer in hand luggage...
(this was the first time I fly with a portable and a DESKTOP computer in my hand luggage. I've flown a few times with 2 portables before but not with a MacBook and a Mac mini)
(This is a summary from my Mac Mini SSD RAID-0 Project, see the set for more photos and a video.)
[ General disclaimer: These are my findings posted for the curious; do this at your own risk, don't blame me if stuff breaks etc. ]
Holy crap, I don't want to ever have to do that again. Hopefully, it still works when reassembled with 8 GB of RAM and dual SSDs. In theory, it just might work. (Update: I now feel comfortable with this after tearing down and rebuilding a few times - and two weeks of running time later, no problems.)
Yes, this whole operation is somewhat frivolous. The stock dual 7200-RPM 500-GB 2.5" drives will themselves be configured as SPAN and in an external enclosure, driven via Firewire 800.
Not in the frame: Mainboard.
Tools used: Torx T6 and T8 screwdrivers (and, I think, a Philips #00) and a Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA.
Resources
I referenced a teardown guide from ifixit for the "steps" and post-it notes, so I could remember what went where when reassembling. (Note: not all steps apply, you don't need to disconnect the bluetooth module etc.)
For the hard drive removal / upgrade process, this OWC video was handy and has rather hilarious background muzak. Note that there are different videos for server vs. non-server models.
General tips
Don't bother with the crappy $5 screwdriver "kits" (eg. the blue and green ones by the RAM in this photo) - go to your local hardware store (or online) and pay the $6 or whatever it might cost per tool for quality Torx T6, T8, and (if needed) Philips #00 screwdrivers. One of the cheap ones, in one case, didn't fit one fan screw I was trying to remove. However, the so-called plastic "spudger" tool did come in handy for pulling up cables and nudging other things where fingers wouldn't reach, and where metal was not a good choice to use.
Removing the "mainboard"
The OWC video suggested you should put screwdrivers into holes on the mainboard, and pull back; this seems like a great way to break or snap the PCB and/or accidentally ruin traces along the way. I tried pulling several times, but it seemed that no amount of careful force would budge the thing.
Instead, I turned the mini around and carefully pushed the heat sink / vent outward using my thumbs, and with a little pressure, was able to pop the board out. The heatsink is just behind where the screw holes are shown in the video, toward the connector plate. It is pretty tight as the plate (where all the USB + power connectors etc. are) has snaps/clips on either end holding it in, but it does eventually give.
Once you get the mainboard, the rest is easy. Don't pull the board fully out until any attached power cables etc. have been disconnected - and once the board is out, you can take out the power supply and HD chassis.
I also recommend booting the computer upside-down and with the bottom cover off once after reassembling, just to make sure the fan starts up; I noticed that mine didn't at first(!), because the tiny fan power connector was not fully-seated on the mainboard when I put it back in. No fan would've meant a toasted CPU at some point, so make sure you check that. Use a flat plastic tool or something to push the connector flush with the board, to ensure it's seated nicely.
Also, there's a bit of a trick with the wireless module / antenna / grill assembly when popping it out and in - I think it slides underneath into place, so keep that in mind. Similar moves apply to the black plastic cowling at the bottom left near the fan. Sometimes things need a little jiggling to get into place.
Re-installing Lion: ⌘-R / Internet Recovery FTW
On mid-2011(?) Mac hardware, push and hold Apple-R (⌘-R) during boot to kickstart the Lion Recovery mode, with wifi or an ethernet cable connected. It'll attempt to boot from a Lion recovery partition normally installed, and when that fails, it will magically go out on the Internets, and download and install and boot the recovery partition. That will run and after disk set-up and partitioning etc., another download of up to 7 GB (at least, according to my router's traffic for that day) will happen, Lion will install, reboot, and voila.
Partitioning the SSDs, overprovisioning and stripe block size
From what I read online, it was recommended to leave up to 20% "unpartitioned" empty space for "overprovisioning" with an SSD to help with performance (garbage collection) and reliability. I got two OCZ Vertex III 60 GB SSDs, and using the disk utility built into the Lion installer, set them up with two partitions: [ 48 GB ext3 / 12 GB empty space ]. As for stripe block size, I had heard 64 KB or 128 KB as general recommendations, so I used 128.
Performance results
With SATA 3.0 (up to 6 gbps) and SandForce 2xxx controllers on the OCZ SSDs pushing up to 550 MB/sec read rates, I was able to get 1000+ MB/sec on larger files in benchmarks.
RAID-0 pros/cons: Worth it, or is one SSD enough?
Upside:
- Wow, up to 1000 MB/sec. That is a shiny number.
Downsides:
- If one drive goes south, you lose everything.
- In most cases, 1000 MB/sec is a theoretical maximum you'll hit only in benchmarks. Small bursts may be more realistic, and in most cases with less-compressible data, numbers will be much lower (albeit, 250+ MB/sec or whatever is still nothing to sneeze at.)
If you're a tinkerer / overclocking fan and don't fear the risk of data loss (i.e., you make time machine or image backups), RAID-0 is worth trying just for the fun of it. Otherwise, I think one SSD alone makes a huge difference in responsiveness given near-zero seek times etc., and with theoretical maximums of 500 MB/sec, that's plenty of I/O for just about anybody.
My temporary setup for my Mac Mini until some new "furniture" comes in. I'll be sure to upload a new pic ASAP once I have one. Either way, right now my Mac Mini is sitting on top of a laptop fan which I have placed on my Xbox. All in all, the setup is still far smaller then the Xbox. You can also see the Apple Remote, my 3G iPod, and my iPod Shuffle.
La nueva configuración de mi mesa de trabajo con el Mac mini, la pantalla apple Cinema Display de 20", el ratón Apple Mighty mouse bluetooth y los nuevos altavoces Altec Lansing VS2620.
My working place new setup with the Mac mini, the Apple Cinema Display 20", the bluetooth Apple Mighty mouse and the brand new Altec Lansing VS2620 speakers.
www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple...
www.alteclansing.com/index.php?file=north_product_detail&...
After months of saving up for a new Mac and a extra desk here is the end result. Im pretty happy.
What do you reckon?
My setup includes...
Samsung S27D590 27" Monitor
Mac Mini - 1TB
Mackie CR3's - creative reference speakers
Costa cup pen holder
Kodak Duaflex vintage camera
Space Grey Iphone 6
Custom Mouse mat
Microsoft Desktop 800 - wireless keyboard and mouse
Ipad Mini 2
Steel Series Nimbus Controller
2 x Ikea Desk combination (120cm x 60cm)
#apple #desk #mac
Here is my first Flickr video. It's just taken using my Nikon Coolpix P2 so it's not very professional! Here you can see Molly in action doing one of the things she enjoys in my office..... cleaning my keyboard! Yes it's quite nasty, I also have photo evidence, but actually it's quite handy too!!
Yes, I know the wires are out of control, but it's a lovely system and the hub of a super-fast home network with all the bells and whistles. The Mac Mini is the workhorse of this network. I would happily buy an upgrade to a faster CPU with more interfaces.
On the screen is the web interface for my Denon receiver. Now it should make sense why I want every device on my entertainment network to have a web interface. I originally thought I would use the web interface from my MacBook laptop, but now I'm almost exclusively using it from the Sony big screen.
More on today's Scripting News.
thanks for the sound;
Too Quiet, -Not Enough Noise- (soundprank's bitmix)
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ccmixter.org/files/soundprank/23030
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