Best uses of 5G's

I would love to see how early Video iPod owners are using their units.
ie..playback video onto LCD tv screens in their car....

My uses are as follows.
1.) To play music (plan to later get a device so that I can use it in the car, but need to check with LandRover whether I can connect it to six CD stacker under seat, or if I need an iTrip or something)
2.) To watch some video when away from home, and also to demonstrate a video produced by my wifes charity to interested parties. This gets a great reaction, especially whilst the concept is still new, as customers are amazed.
3.) To backup my 7,500 photos (5 Megapixel), and be able to use it a virtual photo album with friends & family. The photos are also on a 250Gb Lacie external disk, but this gives piece of mind in case one set corrupts.
Cheers,
Simon

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This is actually a multiple question post.
My aim is to try and cut down some time on Photoshop, mainly when using big files (over 2 or 3Gb) not only when reading and saving but most importantly applying adjustments or modifying image.
Almost every other day my daily working files go to 2 or 3Gb each and its painfully slowing me down the time it takes to sometimes apply some transformations let alone the process of saving as safeguard with regularly over the day.
Today was working on a 10Gb file and it would take Photoshop close to 15min just to open the file...flattening the image would take around that too and saving a little over 25min.
I know on Mac's its a pain in the back to move the system swap files to another disk (although theres an app that supposedly does that for you (Xupport).
I just find it hard to find out what best use I could make for a SSD I would add to my existing configuration that could speed up Photoshop on Mac:
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Other pertinent data:
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Ty in advance for any help.

You have plenty of system to throw at Photoshop. The application ought not to slow down to the point of un-usability but I'm certainly not working with images at that size.
Here are the techniques I have used to make almost all applications faster:
Add more RAM. That way, any application you use won't have to be swapped out to disk if you are running lots of applications.
Move OS X's swap drive to something faster.
In the case of Photoshop, move Photoshop's swap drive to something faster with lots of space
Get a hotter graphics card that your applications will take advantage of.
With respect to #1, Adobe's Photoshop is a 32-bit application. Photoshop will benefit from your Mac not using its swapfile as additional RAM but Photoshop will not see any more than 4GB of RAM and will probably see a lot less than that (most 32-bit applications use something like 2GB).
With respect to #2, here's how to do this:
Edit the file com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist, located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Replace the/var/vm path with the full path to your swap partition. In my case, the entire plist ends up looking like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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</dict>
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Save and reboot, then check your new swap location is being used with this command:
ps -wax | grep dynamic_pager -m1
Finally, you probably want to clear out any old swapfiles from /var/vm:
sudo rm -rf /var/vm/swapfile*
If you have two SSDs, use one for OS X, the other for Photoshop. And remember, for an 8 GB file, Photoshop will want a lot more than 8GB as its pagefile.
You will want to experiment to see what methods work best for you.
Good luck.

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Hi-
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Geek Patrol (very good discussion after the benchmarks).
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Sad as it may be, (Sorry, Quad owners!), the Quad is old technology, out-dated, obsolete.
But, as long as the system starts up, the Quad is a remarkable, still viable machine. *It is the undisputed "Best Used Mac" in the PPC series.* Intel is a different Apple.....
It's the G5 I've always wanted.....and the only G5 I've wanted.....(for whatever that's worth!)

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I am trying to find Leone who had a great post May 2014 to Diane. I posted tho same message as a 'Reply' to the Leone/Diane posts but then was worried it would not show up since that was some time ago so I decided I should post it as new. Apologies if it comes through twice. I am having trouble as indicated below:
I found this response to the question about Aperture and external hard drives from last May. I bought a WD My Book 4TB and need to back up photos I have in Aperture (many!) to free up space. I am a photographer and need to be able to plug the external drive in as needed, pull a photo out from the WD and back into Aperture to work on it if needed.
I read your directions to Diane and have the external drive formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I read the two ways you suggest to move part or all of my library to an external drive and still be able to use it in Aperture with all the metadata saved, as I need to continue to work with the images. I am not completely clear about the advantage of the 'referenced' method but decided to go with the Split Library because it sounded like the Referenced method would still keep originals (and take space) in Aperture. I'm not sure about this, but that was what I chose.
I have backed up my computer, formatted the drive then went to Aperture to begin. I do the 'Export' and it shows the external drive it will go to but when I click 'OK', it says "EXPORT LIBRARY FAILED - Library could not be create because the file system of the destination volume is not supported." I doubled checked to be sure the drive was Journaled which it was. I did call WD and talk to them but they told me this was outside their area.
Also, in Aperture, I have my photos in Projects by yymmdd. Is it possible to transfer Projects into the ext. drive without having to break them out of the Projects?
Any direction anyone might give would be greatly appreciated, Sandy

Hi Sandy,
I suggest taking a week or two to get to know Aperture better before proceeding. Aperture can do many things, and can do what you want. It's important to be specific about what you want, however. From what you've said, it appears that you don't yet know.
bybeeler wrote:
[1] I found this response to the question about Aperture and external hard drives from last May. I bought a WD My Book 4TB and need to back up photos I have in Aperture (many!) to free up space.
[2] I am a photographer and need to be able to plug the external drive in as needed, pull a photo out from the WD and back into Aperture to work on it if needed.
[1] A back-up is a copy of digital files stores on a separate device. A back-up is recommended because drives fail, and humans make mistakes. A back-up is not used to free up storage space.
[2] Aperture can be set up in many equally-usable ways. The program files reside (almost always) on your system drive. The data files can be anywhere you want them, as long as they are on locally-mounted drive(s). The main data file is your Library. The best place for it is on the drive that has the fastest throughput to your logic board. This is, in nearly 100% of machines, the system drive. But Aperture functions well with Libraries of secondary drives — internal or external — with sufficient throughput. USB-3 and Thunderbolt I (& II) provide sufficient throughput for using an Aperture Library on a secondary drive.
Nearly all photographers will fill whatever storage space is available (making data is what photographers do). The question is: what do you do when your Library no longer fits on your system drive? (And remember, you should leave at least 10% (I recommend 20% for heavy users of Aperture) of your system drive free.) The answer depends, primarily, on whether your computer is portable or fixed in location.
If fixed, just buy a more-than-large-enough secondary drive of USB-3 or faster throughput, mount it permanently, and move (using Finder) your Library to it.
If your computer is portable (and you can't increase the on-board storage), you have to select the best from several confusing alternatives:
• Put your Library on an external drive with throughput at least as fast as USB-3
— Pros: Easy to maintain and back-up.
— Cons: Must have drive with you in order to use your Library.
• Leave your Library on your system drive, but relocate your Images' Originals to an external drive.
— Pros: You can work on your Library without having the external drive available.
— Cons: You can't export (except Previews), Print, or make adjustments until your external drive is mounted. Significantly more difficult to administer, especially importing and backing-up.
• Leave your Library and and _some_ of your Images' Originals on your system drive, and relocate most of your Image's Originals to an external drive.
— Pros: You can do any work on those Images whose Originals are stored in the Library regardless of where the external drive is.
— Cons: Yet another level more difficult to administer.
If you are comfortable with the administrative overhead, the third set-up will be the most rewarding. Keep all _current_ Images Originals inside your Library, and routinely relocate the Originals of Images no longer current to the external drive.
In no case is it recommended that you at any time remove from your Library an Image (not the Original — the Image in Aperture) that you expect to ever use again.
HTH,
—Kirby.

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8gb SGA.
New boss wants to update system to the max to get best performance possible Money is a concern of course but budget is pretty high, Our use case is 12-16 users at same time, running reports some small others very large (return single row or 10000s or rows). reports take 5 sec to 5 minutes, Our job is get the fastest system possible, We have total of 8 licenses available so we can have 16 cores. We are also getting a 6tb all flash SSD array for database. we can get any CPU we want but we cant use parallel query server due to all kinds of issues we have experienced (too many slaves, RAC interconnect saturation etc, whack-a-mole). sparc has too many threads and without PS oracle runs query in single thread.
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Are we doing a massive overkill here? the budget for this was way less than what our boss expected. will that big an sga be wasted will say a 256gb be fine. or will oracle take advantage of it and be able to keep most blocks in there.
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Current System:
===========
a. Version : 11.2.0.3
b. Unix Sun
c. CPU - 8 cpus with 4 threads => 32 logical cpus or cores
d. database 4TB
e. SAN - 10k speed disk drives
f. 8gb SGA
g. 1.2 gb ??
h. Users --> 12-16 concurrent and run reports varying size
i. reports elasped time 5 sec to 5 mins
j. cpu license -->8
Target System
===========
a. Version: 11.2.0.3
b. HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 8 SFF server
c. RAM --> 768 GB
d. 2 HP 300GB 6G SAS 15K drives for database software
e. large keep pool -->90 gb to hold all dimension tables.
f. SSD to just data from fact tables
g. SGA -->256gb
Reassessment of the performance issues of current system appears to be required.Good performance tuning expert is required to look into tuning issues of current application by analyzing awr performance metrics . If 8GB SGA is not enough,then reason behind so is that queries running in the system are not having good access path to select lesser data to avoid flushing out of recent buffers from different tables involved in the query. Until those issues are identified , wherever you go, performance issue wont be going away as table size increase in future , problem will reappear.Even if the queries are running with more FULL Scan , then re-platforming to Exadata might be right decision as Exadata has smart scan , cell offloading feature which works faster and might be right direction for best performance and best investment for future.Compression (compress for OLTP) could be one of the other feature to exploit to improve further efficiency while reading the lesser block in lesser read time.
Investment in infrastructure will solve a few issue in short term but long term issue will again arise.
Investment in identifying the performance issues of current system would be best investment in current scenario.

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From: | | |
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ModelLocator.
The ModelLocator class in cairngorm framework is a singleton class so in how many files you have a model variable it will actually refer or return only single static instance of the ModelLocator class.
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So how many times you have a variable by using the above style of decalring you will only get a single static reference to the instance of ModelLocator class. No ne instances are created. Its like you get a pointer to the model variable.
Hope it is clear now.
Thanks,
Bhasker

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