So, I'm still getting set up and settled in with my new Mac, and thought I'd share one item I came across. I found that a smattering of web sites were very sluggish -- hanging when trying to resolve their names or fetch pages and such -- with both Firefox and Safari on the new Mac, while at the same time they were fine from my Windows box.

I'm not sure how I figured it out, but I found that in Firefox's about:config manual settings area, if I change network.dns.disableIPv6 from the default false to true, everything was fine in [...]
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Well, I finally got a new computer, though the process itself wasn't particularly smooth. Apple made it difficult for me to give them money, something that neither the consumer nor the Apple shareholder in me appreciates.

As I mentioned the other day, I'm finally going to ditch Windows, an operating system I've lamented having to use ever since, well, having used it. The new quad-core all-in-one iMac with a 27" screen announced recently seems to be an incredible value, both in terms of performance/price and of "tidiness" (since you need just one wire to it, the power cord). It was [...]
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I think my computer senses that I'm about to ditch it because we came back from a short trip and I loaded new photos, but the graphics-card hardware acceleration doesn't seem to work anymore, turning my use of Lightroom from a zippy-responsive experience to a painful, laggy frustration.

So, no new photos for a while... I ended up ordering a Mac Pro, and currently have 8TB of disk sitting in a box by my desk waiting for the Mac to arrive.

So, today I'll post about a new addition to my blog that I quietly added a week ago, highlighted [...]

I remember when Microsoft's first operating system came out, years before Microsoft® Windows™ appeared. My work at a medical school had me using DOS 1.0 on a first-run honest-to-goodness IBM PC. It was the beefier of the two initial configurations offered by IBM, with a full 64k of memory on the motherboard. I'm sure that my current desktop computer has more memory than all of those sold, ever, combined. The eventual DOS 1.1 update was a big deal: it introduced directories (now commonly called "folders"). Prior to that, all files where in one big flat area with no hierarchy. Except [...]
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Adobe today released a public beta sneak-peek version of Lightroom 3. It's intended to show where Lightroom is going, and to allow us to play with it so that we can provide feedback about how we want it to get there.

It's a Beta

The beta release is not intended for real, heavy, day-to-day work.

This is "beta" in the pre-Google sense, where it really means that things are rough, lots of things aren't as smooth as they could be, and some things don't work at all. For example, the image-render pipeline has gotten a bunch of new stuff, [...]