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The new 12 Core Mac Pro!!

After reading about the new Mac Pro 12 Cores, I have been trying to convince myself into the purchase of a Mac Pro. I decided that buying one brand new would be a very expensive solution. But when I started to look on eBay at second hand I should of "Not" be surprised out the cost of a second have one. After all Apple products sure do keep their value! So my end decision is who needs that much power!! No applications out there will take full use of that power. We maybe Final Cut but I am no final cut user. The most my processors and memory gets used by Parallels. Maybe I should stick with my trusty MacBook Pro! Never failed me and works like a treat.

I find the processor naming quite strange now a days. I remember when it was all about Pentium, 1, 2 , 3 now its lets add as many cores and name it pentium Quad Core. What do you name it when you hit 12 cores? Just a thought!


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My web server problems :(

Over the last week the EduMac web server has been down due to issues with our mac mini located in a data centre in london.
After loads of emails to our host we decided to replace our exisiting box. I had no idea the problems I would hit by moving from 10.5 web services to 10.6. Obviously PHP and MySQL has been updated so my previous install of wordpress was not happy with my plugins. So after 3 hours I was able to upgrade my database to the latest V3 of wordpress. But NO the problem still existed. But thanks to the joys of the internet I was able to find out that I was not alone!!. The problem came down to my Theme and plugins. So i decided to upgrade my theme and update my exisiting necessary plugins and happy days the site returned.

But that was not the problem completely solved....

I had to relearn Wordpress V3 and the new theme system. 2 Hours later I have finally managed to bring the website back online. So I am now playing with Apples Wiki and Blog services. What better way to show of a product by using it yourself.

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