Osiblog

If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.

general apple, OSX

Xbench is a tool which benchmarks your Mac. It runs several tests like: harddisk, memory, cpu, graphics and more. The nice thing: it is free

Results after running xbench

Software apple, OSX

Quintin, a friend of mine, showed me a way to readout the sensors of my EEE Box in Ubuntu server.

The first step is to install the lm-sensors package

Then you need to load the w83627ehf kernel module using

In order to have your sensors detected launch the command below and follow the steps shown (basically you can just press [enter] to each question).

Now you can readout your sensors by using the command

Remember if you want to load the w83627ehf module every time the sysem reboots, you need to update your /etc/rc.local with the line:

readout of my sensors

Linux eee box, Linux, server, tutorial, Ubuntu, ubuntu server

Macperformanceguide.com posted a really interesting article about how to optimize your Adobe Lightroom performance. It turns out for example that when exporting 100 images, you can better export 50 images twice since Adobe Lightroom starts to process them in parallel. More tips can be found in the original article.

Optimization chart (image from macperformanceguide.com)

Photography, Software Adobe Lightroom