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Journal Journal: Snow Leopard Upgrade part 2

Journal by Penguin Follower on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @10:36AM

So far I've only had an issue with one program (or rather, a couple versions of the same program) in Snow Leopard. I do 3D renders in DAZ 3D's Carrara Pro 7. The first time I launched it, I had no text in the application. And I mean everywhere. No text on the menus, tabs... you name it. I also had Carrara 6 still on my system, so I launched it - same deal. Appears to be a font issue. So I went searching the DAZ 3D forums for topics about this issue and found a workaround.

Journal Journal: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

Journal by Penguin Follower on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @01:26AM

Wow... honestly I can't believe the speed boost in everyday things that Snow Leopard gave to my 2.5 yr old Mac Pro today. Seriously, it feels like a new machine again. I bought the upgrade only because it was so cheap pre-ordering it for $29... I really wasn't expecting much of a difference. All of the re-written apps leap on screen the moment I've clicked on the dock I swear. Of course, they did not re-write iTunes, so it's still slow to load up (ok slow for this machine... not really that s

Comment Re:What terrible timing. (Score 1) 168

by Penguin Follower on Monday July 06, 2009 @01:50PM (#28596971) Attached to: Successful Test of Superconducting Plasma Rocket Engine

Tasteless yet hilarious. Two thumbs up! :D

Comment Re:Was the ISO good? (Score 1) 2

by Penguin Follower on Saturday June 20, 2009 @11:20AM (#28402065) Attached to: Fedora 11

I second that. It's happened to me before as well.

Comment Re:isn't it time for (Score 2, Interesting) 248

by Penguin Follower on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @10:03PM (#28118291) Attached to: SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices

For drives of equivalent spec, on SAS, on SATA, same spindle speed, I suspect that it is largely marketing fluff and a few firmware tweaks; but 15k RPM vs. slower is a nontrivial difference.

I agree completely. We've got two SANs at work... the older one is full of U320 10k RPM drives and the new SAN is all 15k RPM SAS drives. The new SAN leaves the old one in the dust (and has 20TB more space, too! :D).

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 75

by Penguin Follower on Thursday May 21, 2009 @08:15AM (#28037839) Attached to: <em>Terminator Salvation</em> Game Launched, PC Version Recalled

The Call of Duty series has plenty of players online using the PC versions. Just watch, when Diablo III is released, it will sell like hotcakes. :) PC gaming is still alive, but the # of titles worth playing has dropped to a handful, IMO. But when a worthy game is released it does sell well.

Side note: I don't buy anything published by Electronic Arts (that's both PC and console).

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 75

by Penguin Follower on Thursday May 21, 2009 @08:08AM (#28037797) Attached to: <em>Terminator Salvation</em> Game Launched, PC Version Recalled

Huh? The Call of Duty series on PC is alive and well. Plenty of players online for all of the versions currently sold in stores. I personally play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: World at War on a regular basis.

Comment Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score 2, Informative) 341

by Penguin Follower on Sunday May 17, 2009 @01:19PM (#27987369) Attached to: Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked

Microsoft had a program in Office 2000 (Premium Edition) called PhotoDraw. Apparently, it was not popular enough as Microsoft discontinued PhotoDraw.

Comment Re:go-oo.org (Score 1) 327

by Penguin Follower on Thursday May 07, 2009 @03:41PM (#27865395) Attached to: OpenOffice 3.1 Released

But they really need to pick a better name. :/

Comment Re:Javadot is much slower than Slashdot (Score 1) 821

by Penguin Follower on Thursday May 07, 2009 @01:32PM (#27863081) Attached to: Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista

This javescript loaded Slashdot is epic slow on IE8/Vista. Just saying....

It's god awful slow on Win7/IE8 as well.

Comment Re:A pretty good one, actually (Score 1) 821

by Penguin Follower on Thursday May 07, 2009 @12:38PM (#27862075) Attached to: Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista

Well it's about time Windows finally got around to having that ability. I've only been burning ISO's to disc with Disk Utility on Mac OS X 10.x for forever now.

Comment what about the front end (bumper) (Score 2, Interesting) 253

by Penguin Follower on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @05:42PM (#27851953) Attached to: External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians

But what about the front of the car that takes out your legs? Plus, the airbag at the windshield seems like it wouldn't help since it's barely above the hood across the center.

Comment Re:Why text messages instead of email? (Score 1) 504

by Penguin Follower on Monday May 04, 2009 @12:46PM (#27817327) Attached to: Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters

My ISP has SMTP authentication enabled. :) Earthlink.

Comment Re:Erm.....What the hell? (Score 1) 429

by Penguin Follower on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @06:33PM (#27765399) Attached to: Microsoft To Disable Autorun

Brilliant! :)

Comment Re:Screwed? (Score 1) 586

by Penguin Follower on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:31AM (#27571195) Attached to: What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"?

I mean, it's great to have someone available to handle that sort of thing, but can you really sustain a job with this as your only skill?

I personally know a guy that owns a web design service & consultancy with $100k/yr in revenue. Of course, he does much more than simple HTML pages. I know he has done things in ASP and PHP, maybe some other tech as well.

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