Robert Vojta
Highly irregular posts here only ;-)
September 2011
Hummer
I was thinking how did I come to my hobby = off road cars. And finally found it in my Aperture library! Hummer present ;-)
UPS for Mac Pro
I was looking for some good UPS for my Mac Pro, because I was worried about my RAID array, data on it, etc. Tried to find some power consumption figures, but wasn’t able to find some real numbers. After some research, I gave a try to APC Smart-UPS 3000VA LCD 230V. Here are some numbers, so, you can get a clue what do you really need.
Power Consumption Figures
Following numbers were read from UPS LCD panel. 24” LCD Dell U2410 consumes about 80 W, 27” LCD Dell U2711 consumes about 90 W and finally Mac Pro consumes about 160 W.
It’s not enough to say Mac Pro, you also need to know what’s inside. Here’s the short list - Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 16 GB of RAM, 4x HDD, ATI Radeon HD 4870 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120.
Power Outage
When I disconnect UPS from power, it says it can feed my Mac Pro and all accessories for almost 2 (yes, two) hours. Never tried it, but I assume it will be for 90 minutes. It’s nice and not expected.
Average UPS load is 11 %.
Mac OS X Integration
No need to worry. It’s enough to connect UPS via USB cable to your Mac and that’s all. Then you can visit System Preferences - Energy Saver and play with UPS settings.
Hope that helps to someone to make a right decision about UPS. This on is pretty solid and have lot of power.
AppCode
I’ve been developing for Mac OS X and iOS for a long time and I can’t say that I’m really happy with Xcode 4. It’s like ambivalent love. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I really hate it. I always do remember my experience with other IDEs from Borland, Microsoft, Eclipse Foundation, … and I tend to cry. I feel that Apple tries to add as many as possible features to make it more comfortable for nowadays developers and I’m not sure it’s a good direction.
But I’m quite happy now, because I found AppCode. It’s an Objective-C IDE, which is based on really great IDE named IntelliJ IDEA. And do you know what’s really great too? It’s Czech company. Okay, owned by two people from Russia, but who cares, me not.
It’s written in Java, but I don’t see a difference in speed. Sometimes it’s much more faster compared to Xcode with beach ball.
No final verdict yet, but I like it very much. I feel I do use real IDE where I have more control. Try it yourself and you’ll see. It’s currently in Beta stage and you can also subscribe for 50 % discount to get it for less than 45 € later.
P.S. I look forward for how long they survive, because I never thought it has sense to develop something like AppCode. Good luck guys, I’ll buy one license for sure.
