After several hours, the download had just about finished: Then Norton stepped in to see if the installation was on the up-and-up: Now it looks like we're finally there: Oops, I forgot the license: So now we're really going to install, … [Read more...]

I tried to wake up my OS 10.8.3 MacBook Pro Retina from a deep sleep and got the endlessly spinning beach ball. I hit the power button. I went to software updates, and it found Mavericks (I can’t see that name without thinking of Tina Fey’s 2008 Sarah Palin SNL bit). I logged in … [Read more...]

This morning I couldn't access the main file server from any workstation. The workstation OS complained thus: Well, it's nice that Windows gave me a clue as to what's wrong. I logged onto the NAS, went to the time synch section, hit "Update" and saw this: I looked … [Read more...]

I've complained before that Lightroom doesn't use all the cores in my dual hexcore workstation. I was exporting two large sequences today for stitching, and noticed that the mouse got jerky. I brought up the resource monitor, and this is what I saw: This is really good … [Read more...]