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10 TB disk space
16 GB RAM
Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella mucida), at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Petworth, West Sussex England
The Milky Way taken at a rest point while driving into Australia's Golden Outback, Mundaring State Forest, near Flynn WA Australia
More from the Archives from our April 2015 holiday in Western Australia, day 17
Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at RSPB Chichester Peregrines 2016, Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex England
Sheathed Woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis), at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Petworth, West Sussex England
Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at Chichester Cathedral, RSPB Chichester Peregrines 2016, West Sussex England
A Haiku Note:
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My Apple Collage
the picture with the most views
it shows history
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www.flickr.com/photos/buddhadog/2741577902/
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A Did You Know History Fact?
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The oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
It was an Apple; but with extremely limited memory.
Just 2 bytes!
Then everything crashed.
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(adapted from Love Style's Facebook Page)
This is my side of our home office (best viewed - large).... Almost exactly five years ago I took another photo of what my desk looked like and what kinds of technology I was using at home. Well it's been five years and I just retired most of what I was using... now I'm an Apple convert and my home setup is much simpler (it's amazing the cabling that was pulled out, and how quiet things are... will be interesting to see if the power bill drops).
Click Here to see a close up version of what's on my desk.
Basically I have two computers, a desktop, laptop and a third machine functioning as a storage server. They are networked together by an HP ProCurve 8 port gigabit ethernet switch, with a Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato and functioning as a dedicated firewall and router and an Airport Extreme serving up wireless internet access.
This is just a fantastic setup for doing just about any photographic related computer task one could think of... It's wonderful to edit with this hardware and setup. Aside from the Mac Pro which is lighting fast, the real treat is seeing images on the amazingly accurate and sharp 30" NEC display, this monitor is quite a bit above and beyond the Apple Cinema Display (as well as the Dell and HP offerings).
On Switching to Mac: I've been a Microsoft user since MS-DOS 3.3 and have worked professionally as a server engineer and systems designer for Microsoft Servers for approx. 15 years, and Microsoft has come a long way... some of their newest offerings are darn impressive. But the reality is for me, at home... I want something that is simple, powerful and is best geared for photography. Additionally I wanted something that was simpler and doesn't result in me having to rebuild the system once a year or so because of something silly happening.
I've been half switched for a bit more than three months and so far it's been fantastic... there is a bit of a learning curve and somethings are kind of annoying, but overall it's been wonderful and the most enjoyable computing experience of my life. Besides, if I really need to run Windows I have Windows 7 Ultimate running in side a VMWare virtual machine.
Desktop:
Mac Pro Hex Core Xeon 3.33Ghz. CPU
12GB RAM (OWC Upgrade)
2x50GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE Solid State Drives (SSD)
4x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives
NEC 30" LCD3090WQXi-BK LCD Monitor & SpectraView Calibration Software
NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID Card
Vantec NexStar3 External Hard Drive Enclosure.
2 x Western Digital Studio Edition 500GB External Hard Drive
Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
Microsoft LaserMouse
Wacom intuos3 4x6" Tablet
Klipsch promedia 2.1 Speakers
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Notebook:
Apple 15" MacBook Pro
Core i5 2.4Ghz. CPU (not worth spending the $$ on the Core i7, especially when this won't be my primary editing machine and especially when $300 only buys me 10% more performance)
8GB of RAM (OWC Upgrade)
500GB 7200RPM Segate Momentus XT Hard Drive (this is a great drive that comes with a 4GB SSD cache)
High Res Screen (but not the Anti-Glare screen, clients love looking at images on the glossy screen)
G-Tech G Drive mini 500GB Hard Drive
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 1TB External Hard Drive
Apple Magic Mouse
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Storage Server:
AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 Dual Core
ASUS A8N-E 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Motherboard
2GB Corsair Memory
Cooler Master CMStacker Case (this thing can hold a LOT of hard drives)
Cooler Master Real Power RS-450-ACLX 450W Power Supply
Sony Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive
NEC DVD Burner Black ND-3540A
2 x 500GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
2 x 320GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
3 x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives (RAID5 Array)
Running FreeNAS
Networking:
HP ProCurve 10/100/1000Mbps Switch 1800-8G
Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato firmware (this is just functioning as a firewall and router)
Apple Airport Extreme Wireless Access Point
Misc:
Apple iPhone 3G
Blackberry Tour 9630
Calumet UDMA Firewire CF Reader
Canon MX7600 Mulit-Function Printer (out of frame)
Garmin eTrex Summit HC
NEC SpectraView - Color Calibrator (basically a customized X-Rite Eye One Display 2 colorimeter for the NEC monitor)
APC SmartUPS 1400 UPS Power Backup
HumanScale 4G Ergonomic Keyboard Tray (designed to fit the Microsoft Natural Keyboards)
Herman Miller Mirra Office Chair (out of frame)
What's Next:
Next year I plan to add a few more things to the mix... including
Data Expansion - Adding a OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 quad bay external drive array with four 3TB Hard Drives. Will be used for data backup.
Second Monitor - Will be adding either a 22" or 24" secondary NEC monitor, which will make layout and album design work a bit nicer.
Software: I want to point out that 100% of the software that is run on these systems has been paid for and is all legal like. This wasn't always the case but I do like knowing that it's all legit ... I think it's highly hypocritical for photographers or other content creators to complain about someone stealing their images or using images without their permission if they use pirated or not properly licensed software.
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Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea) photographed in Sussex England, 15 May 2015
Our second sighting (seen also in 2014) of this Sussex rarity at this same location
My study with new desk, new computer and new chair! Decided that since I'm working from home I should at least invest in something comfortable and ergonomic. Also nice to be back sitting at the window with a lovely view across the rooftops of Glasgow's south side.
The desk was built over two days by my father and I, made from Ikea solid wood worktop (it's all the same colour, the change in orientation and thus grain direction makes the left hand bit look lighter than the other bits). The units are also Ikea with the shelf made from an offcut of the worktop (thus making it heavy as hell when empty, hence the 3 brackets).
The wires are all strung along underneath on hooks so other than the power cords and a network cable spiralling up one of the leg supports you can't really see any wires (unless you choose to look underneath of course). The piece in at the window can be lifted out so cables can be tucked between it and the panelled side of the window (which leave just enough gap for USB cables and so forth)
The toys are all tagged in the photo!
Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) at the Arundel Wetland Centre, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust near Arundel, West Sussex England
A brief stop on our return from walking some local woodlands after we heard about some Firecrests were showing well.
After recent events, the Mac Pro is is stuck at Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite. I may be able to get Windows 7 on there, and probably update it to Windows 10. I do not believe the future Windows 11 will work, but who knows. I currently have Windows 10 running on a 2018 Mac Mini. It runs better on the Mac mini than it does on that HP thing at work. No surprise there.
Of course I cannot find my Windows 7 Pro serial number.
Apple Store Stanford
I took this shot with a D2X and a 10.5mm fisheye that I corrected to look like a rectilinear lens.
Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at RSPB Chichester Cathedral Peregrines. Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex England
Some of these Mac are in end of life, but working like new.
And they were dreams for many, reality for others.
Snowy Waxcap (Hygrocybe virginea var. virginea) at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve and SSSI, Sussex Wildlife Trust, West Sussex England
Scarlet Waxcap (Hygrocybe coccinea), taken on the first stop of our Fungi tour of Ancient Sussex Churches and their Graveyards
18 October 2015
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) at RSPB Dungeness, near Lydd, Kent England
This female Marsh Harrier was "fishing" for a Coot but missed on every attempt.
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) at El Dorado East Regional Park, Long Beach California USA, 23 November 2015
Our 3rd early morning exploring our favourite places during our holiday in Southern California
Slimy Waxcap (Hygrocybe irrigata), 3rd stop, on day two of our Fungi Tour of Ancient Sussex Churches and their Graveyards
19 October 2015
So my G5 arrived earlier today and its one stunning machine.
I only paid £49 for it plus free shipping so it was an awesome deal.
Specs
PowerPC G5 Dual 1.8
3GB RAM
500GB Seagate
320GB Hitachi
Nvidia FX5200 64mb vram
Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
Dung-loving Bird's Nest Fungi (Cyathus stercoreus) at Sutherlands Park, Huntingdale WA Australia
Day 2 of our holiday in OZ
Yellowleg Bonnet (Mycena epipterygia) with Spinellus fusiger parasitic pin mould, found during a Woodland Trust Fungi Foray at Hargate Forest near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at Chichester Cathedral, RSPB Chichester Peregrines 2016, West Sussex England