After getting the new Macbook Pro 13in, I quickly used up the 250gb of space that was on it. I then knew it was either I delete some files, or get a new hard drive. I opted to get a larger faster drive as I really hate deleting files. The install was a little more complicated then my previous Macbook…. Mainly just a few more screws to get the drive out. After the drive was replaced I booted off the OS X CD. I placed the old drive in an external case, towards the end of the install it allowed me to recover from another hard drive. I pointed the install to the external drive and it took about 2hrs but it restored all of my files.
I ran xBench before and after to see if there was any improvement going from a 5400RPM drive to a 7200RPM drive. Continue reading →
Over my birthday weekend Kat and I took a trip to San Francisco. While we were there we ended up playing with her sisters Macbook Pro. I had been feeling the bug to upgrade from my Macbook, but not having played with the Macbook Pro I couldn’t really justify it…. that was until after that weekend. After using it I knew that I needed to upgrade. So the day after we returned I decided it was birthday present time and I made a trip to the local apple store. Picked myself up a new Macbook Pro 13in (base model), and must say it was a good investment. Not to mention I gave my old Macbook to Kat so she can finally leave the Windows/Dell world she was accustom too.
So I am in the process of coding up a new site with MySQL/PHP … The site will be storing a large number of photos. I am wondering which method would be the best to store the data with. Currently the images are getting uploaded in a raw format, but are going to be resized and store a total of 3 version + a thumbnail. I am trying to plan ahead on the site and assume that it will draw a large bit of traffic and could eventually need to be balanced between a few machines (Yes I know I am thinking big here). But for performance purposes would storing the images as flat files or in a database be a better idea? Let me know what you think, and why. Thanks
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I have been a longtime fan/user of Mozilla Firefox, though over the last couple of years it has become more and more of memory hog. I have tried to use Safari, and tried Google Chrome a while back but they never had the plugin support I was looking for.
The other day with the purchase of a new MacBook Pro for my birthday I decided to give Google Chrome another try. I was glad to see that it has come a long way on the extension front that it once lacked. I was impressed enough with the available extensions that I even switched my work computer over to Chrome. I am hoping that I can stick with it and banish Firefox from all of my machines, I will try to revisit this post and give further pros and cons in the coming week.
