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Monthly Archives: February 2014

Accepted at Annual Juried Show – Arts Council Northumberland – Victoria Hall

My piece is entitled “Webs in the Mist” was accepted into the 2014 juried show at Victoria Hall – Cobourg ON.

It was quite an honour – I was told there were over 400 entries.

The shots were photographed in Oct 2013 at an Algonquin NPC (photo club) trip. Thanks to Allan Short for organizing this, I don’t think I would have been motivated to get out shooting on such a cold fall weekend otherwise.

The photograph is a ‘pano’ of about 6 shots printed on a Baryta paper 15″ x 48″ and mounted on a sheet of aluminum. My thanks to Warren McCarthy for taking these shots at the ACN:

Northumberland Photography Club

Power Consumption Mac Pro 2013 vs 2009

Using a “Kill a Watt” measuring device.

I plugged the UPS power cord into into the Kill A Watt and took measurements

		Computer Running Idle	Sleep	Pegasus R4	Pegasus R4 & Aerca	Mac Pro Net
	Just UPS	With 2 Drive Units Running	UPS fully charged	UPS Fully Charged	UPS Fully Charged	UPS Fully Charged
MAC Pro 2013	38 Watts	234 Watts	No possible at this time	80 Watts	108 Watts	126 Watts

		4 Internal Drives
Mac Pro 2009	20 Watts	181 Watts	107 Watts	na

Without sleep mode on the Mac Pro 213 I am burning through about 234 watts unnecesarily if I forget to shut down.

Thats not to mention that I still have the Mac Prol 2009 running – usually idle.

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Mac Pro Late 2013 6,1 – Thunderbolt Sleep/Wake Problems

On March 3, 2015 I finally got my Mac Pro late 2013 to sleep/wake reliably – more than 1.25 years after Apple released it.

The latest version of the Apple Thunderbolt firmware is required, Yosemite 10.10.2, and Areca 8050 Firmware & Boot Rom V1.52 2014-12-26.

As well I need the latest version of Promise Pegasus R4 Firmware: 5.04.0000.36 otherwise it reported that the disk was not ejected when waking up.

Here is a screen shot of my current Energy Saver settings: