Mystery Animal Noises from my OS X?

blackbeard · August 4, 2006 2:15AM

Unless anyone happens to know offhand whats causing a catlike 'meow' every couple hours in my OS X, perhaps there is an app I can keep running to catch whatever is causing this bizarre quirk. For the record, here are the apps I'm regularly running are:

- firefox

- adium

- gmail

- vlc

- msn

Why is my computer meowing?!?

furious_ · August 4, 2006 3:37AM

is it a MacBook you are using?

if so it is a fan powering up and down

lundy · August 4, 2006 5:58AM

Also known as the "moo".

Check the Console log just in case something else is happening.

Applications/Utilities/Console.app

blackbeard · August 4, 2006 12:01PM

I have a 1st gen iMac G5, and its definitely a software-generated sound.

Applications/Utilities/Console.app seems like a good idea.

blackbeard · August 4, 2006 12:41PM

I caught the following oddity in the console log:

2006-08-04 03:58:30.754 SyndicationAgent[2370] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Fri 04 Aug 2006 00:12:01 -800'

thats repeated over and over many times.

s.metcalf · August 6, 2006 11:51PM

Are you sure it's not a default sound in one of your Instant Messenger programs. I know Adium has a default sound every time a message is sent or received. The first thing you'd do is restart and quit all running applications and see if the sound is present. Look in Utilties/Activity Monitor to see what applications are running and if anything looks suspicious.

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Originally Posted by blackbeard

I caught the following oddity in the console log:

2006-08-04 03:58:30.754 SyndicationAgent[2370] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Fri 04 Aug 2006 00:12:01 -800'

thats repeated over and over many times.

benzene · August 7, 2006 11:40AM

Could you maybe post a list of the all the processes you have running?

Mystery Animal Noises from my OS X?

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