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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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Installed VMWare Fusion and Windows XP today so that I could run Microsoft's Streets & Trips software. This software works with my Novatel U727 EVDO card which has a built in GPS receiver. I can now get turn by turn GPS route directions with audio directions. It also has construction updates too. I'm still getting used to the software will post some more updates once I find out all the good features.
What's really neat is being able to get a read out of the number of GPS satellites signals that the card is receiving. I was also able to update the firmware of the card. The firmware update is PC based.
I recently started a new project at Improving that will have me splitting time at the office and on-site with a new client so I decided to bring my 30" Cinema Display home for safe keeping. My Dell 2408 sits nicely beside the ACD in portrait mode providing 1920 pixels of vertical resolution.
From left to right:
- Plain-old-multichanel-radio
- Cellphone/Wallet
- Tascam US-144 audio interface
- LG Flatron 17" 16:9 (w/ Linux over Fusion)
- iPod 5G + iTalk as backup recorder
- External Firewire disk 250GB
- iMac 2.4GHz 20"
- XML 990 condenser mic.
- Sony MDR-Z500 headphones
- Lacie rugged 80GB (w/ Megatron and Optimus Prime over it)
- Notebook (for the young ones: that's paper!)
Ich will nicht, dass du da hinschaust. Deine Unschuld ist in Gefahr! *)
*) Mini soll in einer guten Welt mit Mac OS X und ohne Windows aufwachsen. ^^
I don't want you to look at this. Your innocence is endangered! *)
*) Mini should grow up in a good world with Mac OS X and without Windows. ^^
It's turtles all the way down.
Damn Small Linux running under VMWare ESXi, running under VMWare Fusion; managed by the VMWare Infrastructure Client, itself running in Windows XP under another VMWare Fusion virtual machine, all on a system running OS X.
Preparing for a virtualization course next week. Running:
* Windows inside Virtual Iron
* Windows inside XenSource XenServer
* Windows inside VMware Fusion
* Linux inside VMware ESX
* Windows inside VMware ESX
at the same time. (On different servers, of course)
I wanted to see how efficiently each of these three ran together. The Core 2 Duo (1.5 year old MacBook Pro) is running Snow Leopard which runs mostly in 64-bit, with some apps running in 32-bit mode (including VMware Fusion here). If Windows is indexing, it goes up to 50% CPU utilization. This shows everything running basically at idle.
VMware Fusion v2.0.5 running XP Pro on top of Snow Leopard balances the load on both cores very well. Real world, the performance of XP run this way is just fine for most office software. A bit slower, but what the heck, it's virtualized and running side by side! The Mac barely notices.
The same Windows partition can run as the boot partition -- becoming a high-end Wintel PC. Sometimes that is the best way to go. But we (she) now prefers to work with Win XP running as a virtual machine along with Mac software, side by side.
Some day I will upgrade to VMware Fusion 3.0.1. And Windows 7.
Running five virtual machines at once on a Mac Mini under VMWare Fusion:
32-Bit Windows XP Pro
Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit
FreeBSD 7
NetBSD 4.0
OpenBSD 4.3
din running in ubuntu studio 10.10 running in vmware fusion running in os x. check out the cdm write-up on din.
The VMware Fusion for Mac team celebrates the successful launch of the first public beta. Congratulations to the team, and here's looking forward to the next release!
And yes, that is the ever faithful Canadian intern down there celebrating along with us via Skype video chat. Isn't the Internet wonderful?
That's right, I currently have two versions of Windows running on my Mac at the same time... All while running OSX. Talk about confusion... Stupid school...
Oh, and I haven't given up on my :365 project. I'm still snapping photos daily, I've just been so busy with life that I haven't got a chance to upload them. Not like anyone cares, really... I'm pretty sure I'm talking to my self. While I'm at it, don't forget to get eggs... We are out of eggs.
I'm such a geek, but I just love being able to sync my pedometer with tracking software on my computer via USB. The software is PC-only so it's running in a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion, which has been a great application for me because I can use Windows as though it's just another Mac application - and it's fast, too! The Omron software lets me see my walking activity at several levels of granularity, down to hour of the day, and shows everything in both aerobic and total steps.
A BlackBerry Bold (not connected) using BlackBerry Desktop Manager on Windows XP under a VMware Fusion emulation layer on my MacBook Pro. If that doesn't scream blasphemy, then I don't know what does.
Hurry up and deliver us our OSX-native DM already, RIM! Pocket Mac is a joke.
You may also be wondering why, being a hardcore Apple Mac user, I'm using a BlackBerry and not the iPhone given how tightly the iPhone can be integrated. Simple answer: too many people nowaday have an iPhone. It's the new RAZR, ffs.
Plus, I hate touch screens.
I just had to. It's not very fast and so far it's crashed soon after it finishes booting, but still, you have to agree that that's pretty cool.
Jolicloud vs ChromeOS dashboards, still just apps, desktop paradigm. can't we put it in the cloud and join it all up?
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Tracy's apartment isn't the most conducive to working...but with a little jiggering, it can be workable.
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Pat Lee shows off VMware Fusion running five virtual machines: Mac OS X Server, Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows 2000.
Using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X Leopard to run Windows Vista Media Centre. Currently running in Unity mode with WMC on the built-in display and Mac OS X on the external display.
Next up: can VMware Fusion handle a 1080i signal via a USB DVB-T device?
This mandril was drawn as a tracing image over a photo I found on the Internet. I used Paint.net in Windows 7 beta, running in VWware Fusion on Mac OS X, using a Wacom Intuos 3 graphic tablet as a mouse cursor.
The problem is that the cursor movement isn't very well behaving. It keeps jumping to unpredictable places while you traverse the user interface of the Paint.net program.
The images was cropped and the lettering was adding in Mac OS X, using the Gimp.
I always find it funny to see the number of updates needed for Windows XP. But after all those updates, the OS isn't bad at all. This was taken when we installed XP onto Camille MacBook earlier today.
If the virtual machine seems slow, check if VMware Tools is installed. Installation is only a mouse-click away under the Virtual Machine drop-down.
Created with Skitch from plasq - http://plasq.com
Got the idea from Matt Brett, don't know why I didn't think of it.
This is only one virtual machine running differet snapshots.
Each snapshot has a different version of IE installed as default. I just click the snapshot for the browser I want to test. Easy peasy!
I'm also running multiple versions of Firefox.
I think this will be a much better way of testing than using standalone versions of IE. We shall see.
The VMware booth at Macworld 2008 was twice the size of last year's, and it was really well put-together. It was full of people all day, but we managed to give off a lot of great demos!
VMWare has shown is not compatible with a 64 bit kernel. I guess this is why Apple defaulted the kernel to 32 bit to allow earlier intel macs that are 32 bit to run Snow Leopard and also to allow developers to catch up with their apps. I'll leave my system in a 64 bit kernel mode and wait for the developers to catch up. To make the change permanent you have to edit a file or download an app that switches it.
After the first day of Macworld 2008, the VMware Fusion team held a cocktail party in San Francisco. The DJ spun some great mashups of 80s tunes, and I gave him a demo copy of Fusion to run on his MacBook Pro.
VMware Fusion and its Unity-Mode simply rocks: Command-Tab between OS X and Windows applications, minimize to Dock (with usual OS X animation), keep Windows applications in Dock, and: best of all: common OS X keyboard shortcuts for Windows applications: e. g. command + C instead of control + C.
(mind the missing apple-key)
btw: I use the Bootcamp partion as virtual machine. Unfortunately it cannot be set into hibernate or sleep mode by VMWare.
See the "Do You Use VMWare Fusion?" video
go.tagjag.com/vmwarefusion - twitter.com/chrispirillo - VMWare Fusion 3.0 is finally here, and is the best way to run Windows on your Mac. Using a Mac doesnt mean abandoning your Windows applications and devices. Ditch your PC and safely run your favorite Windows programs alongside Mac applications, while continuing to use your Windows-only devices on your Mac. Instantly launch your favorite Windows applications directly from your Dock or the Apple menu bar at any time. Easily switch between apps and minimize them to your Dockjust like you would with Mac apps! This video was recorded by Kevin during Macworld 2010. Would you like to cover conferences, trade shows, and events in exchange for promotion in our YouTube channel and social media networks? Email me to facilitate the process at chris@pirillo.com This video was originally shared on blip.tv by l0ckergn0me with a No license (All rights reserved) license.
With these local network settings in Hostmanager OpenStep can see the network at last.
Running VMWare Fusion 2.0.4 with OpenStep 4.2
Decided to try running Windows 2008 R2 Beta and Windows 7 Beta on VMWare Fusion 2. It runs smoothly, much better than Vista (not as fast as XP, though).
Pete does his best "I do marketing for a Mac virtualization product" pose: parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/