Link - http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins
When we compare strictly common, everyday, basic user tasks between the Mac Plus and the AMD we find remarkable similarities in overall speed, thus it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity.And that’s just plain crazy.
No wonder I don’t seem to be getting anything done.
I was working in Photoshop a few days back and I tried to open a file, and I got a really odd error. I assumed I had a corrupt file, so I didn’t think much of it, but I was sad that I couldn’t open the file anymore. (Today I found that the file opens wonderfully in the GIMP, yay!)
But my problems didn’t end there. I opened a new document and clicked on the text tool. I then clicked on the document to add text and instead of getting a text insertion cursor to appear, I got a helpful little comandline box which looked like this:
But that wasn’t all. I looked at my menu bar, to discover that it looked entirely out of whack:
Clicking on the Blank area gave me a cute but useless box:
Clicking on Photoshop gave me an interesting view of what was happening:
I had never heard of SOIUX, so my first instinct was to find out what it was, choosing About SIOUX gave me this:
When attempting to quit Photoshop, I was presented with a quaint little dialogue box asking me if I wanted to save my error message:
After I quit, Photoshop gave me an “Unexpected Quit” message. I was rather expecting it to quit, but aparently my system wasn’t.
The oddest thing about this error, is that I have only found one other document case of this happening It’s found in the Adobe Forums and repeated in Google Groups.This question, though, is an unresolved issue from November of 2006.
Seeing as it came from a text issue error, and remembering a message about a font not being correct at one point in time, I decided to check out my fonts to see if there were any corrupt files. I found a corrupt font, and trashed it, but the problem still exists. What baffles me is that it happens to a blank document. The best I can tell is that it is some sort of C or C++ error resulting from either a corrupt file or bad preference of some sort.
I did a search for both “Berardino E. Baratta” and “Metrowerks Corporation” but I didn’t find anything helpful in the results. I also searched for Simple Input/Output User Exchange, and got virtually nothing from Google. Recently I have become very good at searching for things Google is not able to help me with.
I think my best bet is to try out a clean install of Photoshop. Or revert to a backed copy of my hard drive. I was able to boot from my clone today and use Photoshop for my needs almost perfectly.
Remember kids, always, ALWAYS, back up important files.
Since I have a week or so of free time before I start up my glamorous summer job of putting electrical tape in boxes, I thought I would take a good look at my store sales and find out what the most popular shirts are. I also decided that it would be fun to see where my shirts are being sent off too. The first graph I came up with was a graph of the different shirts that we sell. For this graph I did not differentiate between the different colors of shirt or styles of shirt, but simply by the name/artwork of the shirt.
As expected, our “i 8 Sum Pi” Shirt was the most popular shirt we sell. I’m happy for this, because I think that is one of our better shirts. It is also the first shirt we came up with and decided to sell. It makes up about a 3rd of our shirt sales. I was happily supprised to find that our “Dante’s Hell Tour” shirt was the second fastest selling shirt. I was hoping this shirt would do well because it’s a really neat concept. I was quite surprised to find the “FrodoLives.org” ware being the third most popular product sold. Frodolives.org is a rapidly failing concept site that I don’t have the time or resources to take care of. I haven’t given up onit completely, but the whole Lord of the Rings Movie fad is wearing off and any fan site needs a new angle. I’m pretty sure I haven’t found the angle yet. Next on the list is the Element Wall Clock, which is a sweet little chemistry based clock. And in the fifth place comes my “Vectors on a Plane” shirt. I haven’t sold many of these, but at least I sold some. I still have a few vector shirts I want to make, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Soon though, I might get a chance.
The next thing I took a look at was the location of where all my shirts were headed off too. The first thing I noticed was that I actually had a few shirts that had been sent to Canada. This made my day, I’m fully international now! Minnesota came up as the number one location of purchasing, but seeing we are located in Minnesota, that’s not surprising. California is a fairly close second on the list of locations, followed by Ohio and Flordia. I only hope that the people buying the shirts keep spreading the word.
Right now, I am looking ahead to the next few summer months. My plan right now is to add more shirts to the store, and fix a few of the shirts that I have. I have a number of small tweaks to the inventory, a few shirt styles will probably be dropped, simply to keep the line of shirts a bit more standardized. We also have a list of new shirts that we have to make.
Over the next month, I also plan on setting up a bunch of new Photography products, from greeting cards, to Panoramic Photos in a new section of my online store. Hopefully this will pan out as expected and these products should start to become availible near the beginning of July. I hesitate to announce this in fear that it won’t get done, but giving myself a public deadline is a great motivator.
There are a lot of new things happening, so be sure to stay tuned.
Take it easy!
Well, I got all my sites upgraded to the newest WordPress. At least, I think I have all my sites updated. I’m currently on a crusade against my room, and it’s actually looking pretty good right now. Granted, I still have a third of it sitting outside my door, but for two days of work, I’m sitting pretty good.
In my breaks from cleaning I’m working on some website details, so I will have my sites updated within the next week. Doing some bug fixing, interface tweaks, and if all goes well, I’ll have a few more products to sell from my store.
Stay tuned for more!
Hi all!
Greets again from Canada. Tonight will be our last night in Canada for choir tour. Tomorrow we travel to Detroit for our next concert and then move on our path home. Wednesday will be a driving day all day long, and we will get back to Minnesota. Thursday we will record the concert in the morning and hold our home coming concert that night at 7:00pm.
That means Friday is my fist big day home, and I have a lot I am looking forward to doing. I have taken over 3000 photos over the last few days, and I have many panoramics to paste together. I have many photo to look through, I have several websites that I am in the process of redesigning, and a whole lot more!
So stay tuned, it’s going to be exciting.
Hey!
*Yawn* I’m tired. Got up at 6:30 this morning (After attempting to go to bed at midnight, but not actually getting to sleep until a quarter after 2…) to traipse around Niagra Falls and cross the border back into the US. Spent a few hours on that side and went back to the Canadian side to grab some coffee and head back to our hotel in time to pack up and leave.
I guess were in Toronto now, I have 45 minutes to killl before we need to be back on the bus, so I’m relaxing and resting. I slept on the bus today, but I’m still tired and I’m getting really hungry. Food should be good tonight though, or at least thats the rumor.
Our hotel doesn’t have wireless, but I brought along my Airport Express, so we have a nice little network set up, it’s working rather well, so I’m happy.
I took almost 800 photos yesterday, they will take me awhile to go through and correct, but I think I got some good ones. Should have a few (many) panormaics of the falls, and also a bunch of awesome night shots. You’ll have to stay tuned to my Photo Blog over the next few months to check out some of my best pics.
Anyway, catch you all laters!
I’m having iPod troubles. No, my iPod isn’t changing the volume at random, it’s not failing to connect to my computer, and it’s not skipping songs by Michael Jackson (but I wish it would.)
No, my iPod problems are not with the software acting up, it’s with the hardware acting down. The problem I am currently having with my iPod is that it’s too darn small. I have/had an iPod Nano. After my original 10 Gig iPod died on me I borrowed my Dad’s nano for awhile, until my Dad got a new MacBook, and with it, a free iPod Nano. He had “WELS” ingraved on the back, and he gave it to me.
I was excited, and this was great. I didn’t always listen to my iPod daily, but it always saved me on my long car rides, because I would listen to TWiT or Security Now to pass the time. Well a few weeks ago, I no longer knew where my iPod was. I only used it once or twice a week, if even that, so it didn’t strike me as odd, because usually when it’s not on my desk, it’s in my backpack or something. Well, it took me awhile to actually getting around to checking my backpack back to front and discover that my iPod wasn’t there. By now, it’s been about three or so weeks, maybe more, since I last saw my iPod.
I kept figuring it would show up somewhere, but it hasn’t. I cleaned out my dorm room for the summer, and there has been no sign of it. Which means, it’s either lost in some bag or pile of books, it fell out of my backpack and someone took it, or it somehow got thrown away with some old papers.
I’m still hoping it might turn up, but it’s looking all the more doubtful. And while this may give me opportunity to get a new iPod, perhaps even a full size one, it’s still a very sad occurance. I never lose things. I take great care, great pride in my things, and I am very protective of my stuff. To lose an iPod, is simply somthing I would never expect myself to do. But things have been busy, and life has been hectic, so if I was ever going to lose an iPod, I can only assume that it happened at the right time. I do hope though, that it wasn’t thrown away. And if it was thrown away, I hope someone finds it before it’s completely destroyed, and I hope they give it a nice home. It was a good little guy.
I don’t know if this is a very big problem for people, losing iPods that is. I think that Apple should consider making their iPods larger. I think that a microwave sized iPod would be a great addition to the iPod lineup. It could hold a good terrabyte of songs, have a 17 inch screen, cook dinner for you, and you would never lose it. Granted, you could only listen too it while you warmed up your vegitables, but that’s the price I am willing to pay.
This can just be the beginning. After the iPod Microwave, can come the iPod Fridge, or the iPod Sofa. Now is the time to take action! Write to Apple today! Tell your congressmen! Only you can prevent forest fires!
I don’t know if this is a common problem, but often times when listening to music over AirTunes, (that’s my AirPort Express that is connected to my speaker system and playing my iTunes via WiFi…) I get songs the keep cutting out, like they need to keep being rebuffered. It drives me absolutely batty, and I can’t seem to come up with a consistent reason for the problem.
I recently, though, discovered a solution. If I start having my music cut out on me ever 30 seconds or so, I simply change my speaker settings so that it plays from multiple speakers, in my case it’s my stereo and my laptop. As soon as I do this, the music stops cutting out. It plays perfectly.
I don’t fully understand what the difference is in these two settings. I would need to do more research on the subject, but it appears that more precedence is given to iTunes if it need to play music from the computer speakers, so it keeps on top of the streaming in this mode, whereas when only broadcasting to remote speakers, the streaming takes a back seat to other processes. Somehow this doesn’t seem to jive, because often I will have “few” processes running on my machine and have trouble, while other times I will have tons of applications running and have no issues at all.
Not sure why this happens, but… it does.
