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  • Quote: Originally posted by Stroszek Thanks for the help. What does the " -y" in "fsck -y" do? Please read the fscking man pages and stop asking silly questions.
    in fsck Comment by 123 May 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by papilio I'm curious what Apple is going to do with this.. There will be a "security update". Some traffic will be encrypted (the session id or a newly added challenge string for client authentication, maybe some p…
    in Anyone want to share their iTunes Libraries? Comment by 123 May 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Scott You wanna blow her away? Show her this. So what's the deal? Do you call this a graphical equation editor? Try lyx.
    in Science Geek Wife Switches to Mac Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Jeffx342 I am also wondering can I dellete Fink and all of its components b/c I am not going to be installing anymore packages no. Fink is the package manager, used to install, UPDATE, DELETE packages. If you'…
    in KDE 3.1 on OSX Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf In short, renicing iTunes will not change it's processor usage a whit unless your machine is heavily loaded constantly. You forgot to mention that in this case iTunes constantly skips which is why you don'…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah Proper Czech Budvar is a good pilsner (it is a Pilsner, right?) I think it's a lager.
    in German Beers Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by JLL Correct, the display uses a lot of power. By making the iTunes window so small that you can't see the display, it only uses half as much processor power. I don't know... still uses 9-12%, even in the dock.…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf Yep. It's combination of a higher quality but less optimized algorithm running on a slower clockspeed processor that only has one FPU vice two. Raw cycles are a HUGE difference here, not to mention getting to…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by thuh Freak i thought i had read that regular users could only increment their nice values one value at a time. You can't do that. renice +1 pid renice +1 pid renice +1 pid renice +1 pid renice +1 pid renice +…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mulattabianca This is the second time this has happened in a month. Mail.app gets some messages again and again and again ... I currently have about 6500 mails in my inbox. If I leave Mail open (checking for…
    in Mail gets the same messages again and again ... 29 500 messages unread ... Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by thuh Freak you can actually make a script for it (not necessarily a startup script). here's a version written in sh: Code: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/open /Applications/iTunes.app/ pid=`/bin/ps aux | /usr/bin/grep "iTunes…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by thuh Freak itunes, and all mac audio players, are processor hungry becuase macs don't use a separate sound card (like peecees do). so the encoding/decoding of the music files is done on the proc and that takes cycles.…
    in iTunes CPU usage Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Guartho It seems obvious to me that his iBox is not a massive attempt at fraud yes. I agree, it's a hoax, not fraud.
    in If only Apple thought this way Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by serrano How can you ask people to waste their time and money with such indignance? Have you seen the number of games Westlake is bringing to the mac? Yes, always a year or so behind. Have you ever played UT or Unre…
    in UT In OS X Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by markjo I'm hoping that one of you guys can refresh my memory on something. once the name Hitler (or some other Nazi reference) is invoked, "anti-american" has been added to that group recently.
    in Silly question about internet rules Comment by 123 April 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by rogue27 I am benchmarking the compiler itself as much as I am benchmarking certain system functions. However, since the OS is compiled with the compiler, it is a fair enough test. The compiler probably does some …
    in Benchmark Mac OS X Comment by 123 March 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by rogue27 I should be adding some filesystem performance tests within the next few weeks. [/B] Before you do that, think about your benchmarks. What are they supposed to tell us (if you don't know, you can't make me…
    in Benchmark Mac OS X Comment by 123 March 2003
  • [quote]Originally posted by niji: its really hard to accept a system administrator thinking that this wouldnt be serious. anyway. how many passwords do you have? do you think that people have a different password for each and every passworded si…
    in ai cookie showing clear password (and user name) Comment by 123 February 2003
  • 100% scam, I agree, what about this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3400072512&category=14 912 Seller feedback is here. Edit: Apparently, you'll have to "participate in the matrix", a pyramid scheme that w…
    in More ebay scams Comment by 123 February 2003
  • [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2: get
    in Best Kazza like program fore mac? Comment by 123 February 2003