Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
Computing
The first part of my career was in academia, where I undertook postgraduate research in cognitive psychology for many years at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and worked in various research positions at UWA and Curtin University. Before that, I was part of the first generation of school students to start using microcomputers (at… Continue reading Keychron C3 Pro keyboard
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently upgraded one of my computers. It is based on AMD’s AM4 platform, which means that any CPU (Central Processing Unit) from the AM4 range is physically compatible with the CPU socket on the computer’s motherboard (the main internal component). The first AM4 CPUs were released in… Continue reading Final upgrades for the AM4 platform
Over the last six years, I have been using a Microsoft Windows 10-based computer as a secondary machine for my work. In terms of hardware, it uses AMD’s AM4 platform, and it is a custom-built machine that I assembled from parts. One of the remarkable things about this platform is that AMD has supported several… Continue reading Fixing access to Thunderbird user data after upgrading Microsoft Windows
While I have used the Apple Macintosh platform for photographic work for many years, I will very likely be moving to the Microsoft Windows platform in the future. To me, MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was the pinnacle of MacOS versions; a refinement and optimisation on MacOS 10.5 that was touted as having ‘zero new features’… Continue reading Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
Puget Systems is a specialty computer system-building company based in Seattle in the United States of America. It specialises in building microcomputer workstations for various applications, including photography and other artistic and scientific pursuits, but has also (unsurprisingly) developed a reputation as a key source of system configuration expertise. If you are interested in learning… Continue reading Puget Systems
The time is now here for customers of iiNet (and other TPG Telecom group entities) to either start paying for e-mail services from the Messaging Company or find alternative e-mail service providers. Ray Shaw at CyberShack wrote about this divestment of e-mail services and a useful guide to setting up your own e-mail domain in… Continue reading E-mail services
After many years, iiNet has announced that it is closing down its web hosting, domain name registration, and e-mail services. Those familiar with the Internet scene in Perth will know the iiNet name well. Things have changed, however, particularly within the last decade, which saw iiNet sold to a larger company. The reduction in scope… Continue reading A new web host
Some years ago, Intel was the only real choice for a consumer-level CPU for serious productivity work, such as RAW image processing. Over the past year or so, though, AMD has really come to the fore—not necessarily for raw computing power, but for sheer value-for-money combined with good multi-core performance. At this point, Intel CPUs… Continue reading Intel and AMD
For some time now, Lloyd Chambers has been pointing out some serious problems with Apple’s OS X operating system. Where it used to be the case that Apple produced excellent software, it now looks like the company places a higher priority on appearance than functionality. This is the main reason why I’ve stayed with an… Continue reading Dangerous software