It
would've been a busy month anyway, what with being in the midst of a
large programming project, but infrastructure made it even more fun.
On the 16th, my long-awaited Power Mac arrived
from Elk Grove. This represented a huge boost in processing power for
the programming project and other computationally intensive work, but of
course there was some time involved in getting it set up, transferring
the project over to it, and so on.
Then, on the 24th, Apple released the latest version of their operating system, Mac OS X 10.3
"Panther." To maximize the amount of optimization for the new Power
Mac, I upgraded to that, of course. There went another little chunk of
time.
Now I'm into "crunch" mode, working on wrapping up the primary
development phase of the project before getting ready to spend a couple
months testing and tweaking!
Oh, what, you want my thoughts on the Power Mac? Okay, here they are.
It's shiny! And fast. Put it this way - on a number of processors times
number of megahertz basis, all the other computers I use regularly,
combined, total up to only seventy-five percent of this one.
In other news, excerpts from the two chapters I wrote for John Levine's
2000 IDG book, "Internet Secrets 2nd Edition" are now available here.
Sunday, October 26, 2003
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