I run Einstein@Home, using both CPU cores & my GPU. Other than a few month period where Einstein@Home was issuing broken GPU work units, I’ve been successfully doing this for years, I think. Longer than I can really remember, in any case. It appears, however, that 10.12.2 has introduced some serious issues impacting those GPU… Read more
Result? Explode: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 “The folder “sigh.txt” doesn’t exist.” UserInfo={NSFilePath=~/Desktop/sigh.txt, NSUserStringVariant=Folder, NSUnderlyingError=0x1018110b0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 “No such file or directory”}} And since there’s no documentation on that write() method, and this is obviously a perfectly reasonable request that can’t sanely yield that bizarre error message, you could be forgiven for having no idea how… Read more
Alternate title: Apple’s file system engineers are sadly naive. I was quite disappointed to see that APFS isn’t even trying to provide data integrity. Data integrity is kind of step 0 of any file system, and checksums or use of ECC is pretty much standard in modern & leading-edge file systems. APFS doesn’t want to… Read more
I woke up this morning to find that my website – this one – had gone down only a few minutes earlier. The host’s website, Gandi.net, was acting flaky and not letting me log in either, so I figured it was a widespread issue on their end. A few hours later, Gandi.net was working again,… Read more
It’s been a bit over four years since I moved this blog off of the old statically-built site, by iBlog 2, to WordPress. Apparently it’s time for an updated theme. Actually, Suffusion was pissing me off as per usual, and I accidentally applied a new theme when intending only to install it (apparently ‘Activating’ a… Read more
I’m attempting to switch to Lightroom, from Aperture, given lack of better alternatives. I’ve attempted this switch a couple of times before, without success. I’m finding that it’s still kind of annoying. Here’s the start of my laundry list against it: It’s very slow. I am already so very tired of seeing that blasted “Loading…”… Read more
So, I spent all this time & effort evaluating Capture One for its editing capabilities – deeming them the best out there right now, at least amongst the popular candidates – and yet I’m sadly not going to start using it. Why? Well, because it’s not finished. Which I say with some sense of irony,… Read more