Archive for October, 2007

OS X Leopard

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Mangojr
on October 30, 2007
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So, I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard over the weekend. It took about 45 minutes. I didn’t run in to any problems. I have a 2.66 GHz. Quad-Core Mac Pro with three internal hard drives. One contains Leopard, the second, Windows Vista Ultimate, and the third is a shared drive containing music, photos and other stuff that is accessible from both OS X and Vista. I’m running Boot Camp and VMware Fusion, and both upgraded just fine.

I haven’t had a lot of time to spend playing with it yet, but I really like the new Quick Look feature. I can preview all kinds of files, such as PDFs, images, movies, and Microsoft Word and Excel files, without actually launching the applications. It’s going to save a ton of time searching for something in all my family history files!

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The Last Supper Scan

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Mangojr
on October 28, 2007
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Leonardo DaVinci’s mural painting, The Last Supper, can now be viewed up-close by anyone on the Internet. The Italian imaging firm HAL9000 has posted a 16 billion pixel digital scan of the famous work on their website www.haltadefinizione.com. You’re able to zoom in on specific areas of the image as if you were standing right in front of it.

The original mural measures 15 ft. × 29 ft. and can be found on a wall of the refectory (dining hall) in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. DaVinci began working on it in 1495, and finished The Last Supper in 1498. He was a known procrastinator and did not work on the mural continuously during that period.

It’s amazing to analyze.