Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
Microsoft Windows
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
It’s been a little over a year since I started this weblog, and visitor traffic has reached 10,000 hits. Quite a few of the hits in the first few days would have been webcrawlers and other non-human visitors, but overall there should be a fairly low proportion of those in the cumulative statistics by now. In any… Continue reading Ten thousand hits
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