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Phlebia uda, a basidiomycete rarely recorded in Britain, at Wepham Wood, Angmering, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England
This is a "short stack" of 10 images at f5.6
Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) and Witches Egg, at RSPB Pulborough Brooks, Wiggonholt, West Sussex England
Not bad… Connection is great.
Sound is low in volume and quality of the sound is nothing that impresses me, and not worth the price of 200 euros, there are a lot cheaper better sound alternatives, but these will stay in use.
My B&W C5 have a lot better sound quality and they are 50 euros less, but not wireless.
Will wait to see the apple new earbuds when they become available.
UPDATE: Playing with some rubber tips, the sound is not bad with the right rubber tips the sound is more proeminent on the bass, reception distance is very good.
Mac Pro 8 Core (the 24GHz beast)
9GB of RAM
4 x 750GB HD's
Mac Pro RAID Card
Dual 30 inchers
Panasonic BT-LH1700W broadcast monitor
AJA KONA LHe HD capture/putput card
Panasonic HVX200 camera
Color
Apple Xserve RAID @ 10.5 TB coming soon
South Florida Guerillas :-)
This is my "Early 2008 Mac Pro" with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3.2 ghz processors, 16gb Ram, 2.5 tb disk space (two 500gb disks striped for speed, 500gb boot disk, 1tb WD "green" disk for Time Machine backups), 30" cinema display, 24" and 20" dell monitors, dual NVidia GeForce 8800 GT video cards. The monitors and Mac Pro are plugged into a 1100watt UPS (which you can't see in the picture). I was asked for the picture, so here it is.
Also in the picture are my elderly 17" Mac Book Pro (1st generation intel), Xbox 360, and my Sony TV, where I've been watching the Olympics. Oh, and my iPhone (edge). :-)
Also, the picture on the wall behind the computer is a limited edition print signed by Kimi Räikkönen after he won the 2007 Formula 1 championship with Ferrari. I ordered this from Europe last year and paid way too much for it. :-P The print is called "Winner Take All" by the artist Nicholas Watts.
Anyway, this is my "Pixel Rig" and it's a real joy to work on. I do a lot of photography stuff (Lightroom and Photoshop, etc) and software development on it, so I pretty much use the crap out of it. :-)
More from our backlog, returning home from our 2014 Summer Holiday in Scotland
Spott Parish Church (Kirk), East Lothian Scotland, is one of a several areas within Scotland, where some of our ancestral families called home.
I've moved from my old digs, in the process gaining a lot of open, comfy space. The computers are now behind the wall there, so fan and drive noise is entirely gone (was actually very loud with my previous setup... those Dell machines may be fast, but they're loud); I can walk behind the wall and have direct access to the Macpro or either of the linux servers quite easily.
The desk goes 2 ft left at the inside corner there where the Yamaha stereo fits, and extends 6 feet to the right, 8 feet in total. From the corner, I have six more feet before it turns into Deb's desk — we each got 1/2 the space, which works really well.
The Macpro normally drives six monitors, but (I guess) I broke one when moving, it wouldn't power up -- so what you see here is five Macpro displays and one of the security monitors. That'll change after a while.
To the right of my desk is a 3 foot by 4 foot tall shelf, on top of which I have my camera bag; the shelf holds various things I like to have handy. Deb's arrangement is similar, but she has a six-foot shelf, and has also slid a filing cabinet under the desk. The only things under my desk are a guitar amp, which rolls out on wheels, and the 12" subwoofer for my Macpro/Yamaha audio system.
The west wall has the door to the room, and the freshwater through-wall fish tank. It's very pleasant having the fishies in the office! I've also hung up a couple of guitars so that I can jam out whenever I'm so motivated. I use Logic Pro and Flying Haggis on the Macpro, and there's a Fender Twin under the desk, too.
I expect this will change a bit over the next months, I'll re-post as it evolves.
-- shooting details
Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm Æ’/3.5-5.5 lens, tripod, ISO 400, available light (compact fluorescent lamp on left, monitor emissions), Æ’/7.1, 1/15th sec exposure, 2 sec shutter holdoff, lens at 18 mm, settings made in manual mode by using the camera's on-screen histogram to optimize the exposure; framed in live view. Minimal PP in Aperture 3.
Dog Stinkhorn Fungus (Mutinus caninus), at Wepham Wood, Angmering, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England
A brief trip back into this great ancient woodland, after being advised of the Dog Stinkhorn from two very kind and helpful friends, Thanks Natasha and Andrew, third times a charm ;-)
Mac Pro Early 2008
2x 2.8GHz Quad Core Xeon CPUs
14GB RAM
2.8TB Storage +4.5TB Time Machine backup array in a Drobo
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
Dell 30 inch display
Dell 24 inch display
Razer DeathAdder Mac
Everglide Titan mouse mat
Not bad… Connection is great.
Sound is low in volume and quality of the sound is nothing that impresses me, and not worth the price of 200 euros, there are a lot cheaper better sound alternatives, but these will stay in use.
My B&W C5 have a lot better sound quality and they are 50 euros less, but not wireless.
Will wait to see the apple new earbuds when they become available.
UPDATE: Playing with some rubber tips, the sound is not bad with the right rubber tips the sound is more proeminent on the bass, reception distance is very good.
Pestle Puffball (Lycoperdon excipuliforme), on the South Downs, South Downs National Park near Midhurst, West Sussex England
Violet Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis purpurata f. chlorophylla) with no anthocyanin in a ancient woodland along the North Downs Way, Kent England
Another set from our backlog, as we neared the end of our 2014 summer holiday in Scotland
at Bullers of Buchan near Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Smoked Oysterling (Resupinatus applicatus) taken during a Woodland Trust Fungi Foray guided walk at Hargate Forest, near Tunbridge Wells, East Sussex England
More from our backlog, returning home from our 2014 Summer Holiday in Scotland
Spott Parish Church (Kirk), East Lothian Scotland, is one of a several areas within Scotland, where some of our ancestral families called home.
Scarlet Waxcap Mushroom (Hygrocybe coccinea), on the green at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Petworth, West Sussex England
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) photographed while walking the South Downs National Park from Steyning Bowl to Cissbury Ring, near Findon, West Sussex England
Yes… it´s a cat,
And is a cat addicted to a mac!!!! By some reason, since my mac pro arrived, he stays on the secretary all day sleeping.
I cut the 1.20 x 0.60 VIKA AMON to 1.10 x 0.60 to fit the wall space, and have no regrets over that decision. I don't miss any of the area suntracted after cutting the desk, since I am using the extra shelf as a monitor stand and can hide the keyboard under it.
Scotland July 2014
From our extensive backlog of un-posted photos
Puffin (Fratercula arctica) taken while aboard Puffin Cruises, out of Macduff Harbour, Aberdeenshire Scotland
Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) at Sandwich Bay, SBBOT, Kent England
Very fortunate to find this location, where several of these magnificent and beautiful creatures spend a lot of time feeding and resting on the beach
4th and final day of our summer holiday in Kent, 09 July 2015
Scarlet Elfcup fungus (Sarcoscypha austriaca var. austriaca) at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, an SSSI location managed by Kent Wildlife Trust, near Sevenoaks, Kent England
A wonderful beginning to the 2015 Fungi/Mushroom/Slime Mould season. Still a few months away from the true start, but it was great to get out to Kent to get our first fungi of 2015
Frosty Bonnet (Mycena adscendens) at The Mens Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Petworth, West Sussex England
at Sutherlands Park, Huntingdale WA Australia
Another day in the park, on the 4th day of our holiday in OZ
Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) at RSPB Pulborough Brooks near Pulborough, West Sussex England
Day 5 of our Southern California Holiday
Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) at Joshua Tree National Park, US National Park Service, near 29 Palms California USA
Highlights from the first full day of our Southern California Holiday
California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, near Huntington Beach California USA