New machines come with multicore processors. Mine has eight, ought to be plenty fast. Unless the apps only use one of them, of course. Since the number of cores go up pretty quickly with each generation, while the speed of each core remains more or less the same, and the workload of the apps goes [...]

Some stuff arrived today as expected. Other stuff did not. The stuff that did arrive was the Mac Pro itself with the displays. The stuff from OWC seems to be still in Indiana somewhere. According to Fedex tracking, it will be here next week tuesday. The post office truck arrived with three boxes. One big [...]

As I already told you about in my previous blogentry, I need to replace my iMac 2 Gb with something heftier. So the solution is to get a new Mac that allows me a lot more RAM and a number of internal fast diskchannels. If I can place the Parallels images on one or two [...]

Way back, I developed under Windows, starting from nothing (v 1.03) and going all the way up to XP. Then I drifted into OSX. Recently I drifted back, but not all the way. Currently I’m developing for Windows XP on my iMac, and this is how it looks: As you can see, I’m running two [...]

Audible.com is a great place for audio books. For some. That is, for residents of the USA. But for us others, it’s a real PITA and extremely irritating. My gripes are as follows. The selection of titles for subscribers in the USA and outside is totally different. There’s much less available to us, and the [...]

I’m often working as a GP in Sweden. The desktop computers we get are usually bog standard Dells, with all the excitement that goes with that…. not! (Think Borat.) All of them alike: boring but almost adequate. You can sit down at any one of them and start blindly typing away into the electronic patient [...]

I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but that’s here only. I’m spending most of my writing energy on a new blog over here that allows me to relieve myself of a lot of the frustrations I have about the rotten state of medical software. I’m one of the site’s “official bloggers”, whatever that means. If [...]

I’ve been using Windows since the ’80s. Programming for it, too. That’s been my main “thing” in IT all these years and still is, to some degree. But then, almost two years ago, I got myself a Mac, an iBook, and it’s been downhill ever since. Everything about Windows XP irritates me now. Let’s go [...]

This must be one of the most schizoid desktops I’ve ever seen. Here I’m running Parallels’ most recent release of their virtual machine, build 3186, in “coherence mode”. If you look real close, or click on the image for the full size version (so you don’t destroy your eyes in the process), you’ll find the [...]

I attended an Apple Tech talk about Leopard yesterday in Stockholm. It was interesting as such, but the most interesting thing was the lack of chairs. The first time I went to a tech talk was about a year ago and the room was half full. I then asked a couple of the people who [...]