I love logging onto WiFi at Caribou Coffee as foo@bar.com. Always makes me smile.
Lightroom 2 in 64-bit Glory
Lightroom 2 was just released today and I immediately got the upgrade. After waiting a bit to get the serial number for the new version I installed it and upgraded my catalogs. Everything worked perfectly.
One of the first things I wanted to test was using Lightroom in 64-bit mode. My Mac Pro has 7 gig of RAM so enabling 64-bit would give Lightroom some room to stretch. Here is the 32-bit snapshot of memory usage after some extensive usage.
and here we are after unchecking the “32-bit” checkbox on Lightroom 2.app.
Note that at launch Lightroom loaded into it’s typical footprint. After I scanned through a few thousand photos though it had allocated itself out into some nice 64-bit space. And as a user, it’s very noticeable. I was able to flip around in my catalog so much faster than in 32-bit mode and I noticed that I seemed to be thrashing the hard disk a lot less.
Lightroom is the first application that I’ll use on a regular basis where 64-bit makes a big difference. Sure server applications benefit from 64-bit, but seeing Lightroom perform so much faster in 64-bit makes me really hope that most of my applications are there soon.
Congrats to the Lightroom team for getting this milestone in!
It’s odd that sometimes Finder initiated restart will hang forever, but /sbin/restart will work from a terminal launched via Quicksilver.
Just test drove a Toyota Prius. Pretty nice. A bit boring though.
Checking into Moon Dance B&B.
At Blue Moon in Red Wing having an espresso.
Off to Red Wing to celebrate our anniversary.
Rachmaninoff, Espresso, The Economist.
Overheard during haircut:
“My cellular phone is so old it doesn’t even have a camera!”
Lunch at Indio! Very promising. Mojito on the way!
Getting ready to fire up the Big Green Egg!
Just won eBay auction for a Bogen/Manfrotto background support system. Time to play with some studio photography.
Hanging at One+on+One before heading to lunch.
- MobileMe is really failing. Having constant problems with just sync functionality. Not happy.
- MobileMe now believes that my Family account that is 10 months old has expired its freel trial period. Huh?
- MobileMe = FAIL
Homemade pizza on Big Green Egg was awesome! Need to do better with the dough next time, and need another peel. Oh, and less of a mess next time.
Having people look at our garage and propose new cabinet and shelving systems for better organization. Hmmm…
Furnace technician says I have a faulty furnace board. Luckily under warranty.
Just made pizza dough for tomorrow nights Big Green Egg fun.
Firing up todays stage in the Tour de France. Trying to ignore TdF Blog for a couple of hours. 🙂