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300 Mhz B & W G3 ATI Rage 128 1152x870x16 Score... 8,428 Views / 81 Replies  
300 Mhz B & W G3 ATI Rage 128 1152x870x16
Score 93
:)
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 10, 2007 at 12:13 AM, in Applications
The huge font thing is caused by setting a style... 9,345 Views / 110 Replies  
The huge font thing is caused by setting a style sheet in the Advanced preferences. (In my case it was the ad blocking style sheet mentioned on slashdot a couple of days ago.)

There IS a bug in...
Posted by selkirk, on Apr 15, 2003 at 08:12 PM, in Applications
One Database to rule them all, One Database to... 1,211 Views / 16 Replies  
One Database to rule them all, One Database to find them,
One Database to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 10, 2003 at 10:05 AM, in macOS
I bet scary veiny willow uses windows. :) 2,249 Views / 40 Replies  
I bet scary veiny willow uses windows. :)
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 16, 2002 at 04:08 PM, in macOS
Apple gave Watson a lot of publicity on their... 8,130 Views / 182 Replies  
Apple gave Watson a lot of publicity on their downloads page and with the award they gave it. They did not have to do that. Publicity = Money for a software product.

Watson was inspired by...
Posted by selkirk, on Aug 26, 2002 at 08:02 PM, in macOS
The price of apple's stock today has nothing to... 1,306 Views / 53 Replies  
The price of apple's stock today has nothing to do with charging for .mac or 10.2 and everything to do with not having any new hardware to drive sales. Apple makes most of their money selling...
Posted by selkirk, on Jul 18, 2002 at 12:09 AM, in macOS
My God! This guy's stuff is good. I do respect... 2,093 Views / 91 Replies  
My God! This guy's stuff is good. I do respect an artist.

zerologic, your pages are good. MacOSR and zazou, too. I liked some of the other sites, too.

Some general principles:

Frames...
Posted by selkirk, on May 2, 2002 at 07:16 PM, in macOS
Damn Real Player. 1,032 Views / 51 Replies  
Damn Real Player.
Posted by selkirk, on Apr 9, 2002 at 02:03 PM, in macOS
Page faults are a normal thing, neither good nor... 591 Views / 12 Replies  
Page faults are a normal thing, neither good nor bad.

If you want to lower the number of pageouts, buy more RAM.

If you don't want to do that, then use less RAM. Don't start classic if you...
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 13, 2002 at 12:14 PM, in macOS
No. Defragging has no effect on pre-binding. 1,207 Views / 60 Replies  
No. Defragging has no effect on pre-binding.
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 7, 2002 at 07:58 PM, in macOS
It was installing the 40GB hard drive that... 603 Views / 9 Replies  
It was installing the 40GB hard drive that cleared up your fragmentation problem, not moving your swapfile partition. Your new drive is probably also faster. congratulations.
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 7, 2002 at 03:01 AM, in macOS
A PAGEIN indicates a memory page READ from disk,... 603 Views / 9 Replies  
A PAGEIN indicates a memory page READ from disk, a PAGEOUT occurs when a memory page WRITTEN to the disk.
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 7, 2002 at 02:32 AM, in macOS
Here is why... 603 Views / 9 Replies  
Here is why (http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=4410915743&r=2630995743)
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 7, 2002 at 02:24 AM, in macOS
I attempted to replicate results of the... 603 Views / 9 Replies  
I attempted to replicate results of the benchmarks at that site and could not. In my tests, the location of the swap file had no effect on application launch times. I corresponded with the author...
Posted by selkirk, on Feb 7, 2002 at 02:16 AM, in macOS
Apple on NPR's Talk of the Nation 505 Views / 1 Replies  
Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation:

how two companies -- Apple and Ford -- have handled trouble in their industries. http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 17, 2002 at 04:10 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Oops. Sorry. Wrong forum. 460 Views / 2 Replies  
Oops. Sorry. Wrong forum.
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 17, 2002 at 04:07 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Oops. Sorry. Wrong forum. 463 Views / 2 Replies  
Oops. Sorry. Wrong forum.
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 17, 2002 at 04:07 PM, in macOS
Apple on NPR's Talk of the Nation 460 Views / 2 Replies  
Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation:

how two companies -- Apple and Ford -- have handled trouble in their industries.
http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 17, 2002 at 04:06 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Apple on NPR's Talk of the Nation 463 Views / 2 Replies  
Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation:

how two companies -- Apple and Ford -- have handled trouble in their industries.
http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/
Posted by selkirk, on Jan 17, 2002 at 04:06 PM, in macOS
Its not up to Apple to organize such an effort. ... 419 Views / 2 Replies  
Its not up to Apple to organize such an effort. Its up to you.
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 21, 2001 at 03:05 PM, in macOS
Skywalker, the difference between the list that... 1,198 Views / 51 Replies  
Skywalker, the difference between the list that you posted and the previous list on this thread:

new in 10.1.2(SP28) (http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=001439)
...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 13, 2001 at 05:38 PM, in macOS
A pageout occurs for only 1 reason: 1.) There... 458 Views / 9 Replies  
A pageout occurs for only 1 reason:
1.) There is not enough physcial RAM, so some of the contents of RAM are written to the swap file on disk to make more physical RAM available.

A pagein occurs...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 13, 2001 at 05:14 PM, in macOS
Don't bother on an iBook. Do buy as much RAM as... 469 Views / 7 Replies  
Don't bother on an iBook. Do buy as much RAM as you can afford.
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 12, 2001 at 12:16 PM, in macOS
I have seen this, but I haven't paid much... 781 Views / 28 Replies  
I have seen this, but I haven't paid much attention to the exact behavior, and I don't recall exactly what happens. (On my other VM advice, I am sure. I have spent significant time benchmarking,...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 12, 2001 at 12:07 PM, in macOS
Put the scratch files and vm in different... 428 Views / 1 Replies  
Put the scratch files and vm in different directories on your partition. use the following commands in the terminal.

sudo chmod 755 /Volumes/VolumeName/VmDirectory
sudo chown root:wheel...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 12, 2001 at 11:50 AM, in macOS
Gartner always qualifies statements like this... 528 Views / 5 Replies  
Gartner always qualifies statements like this with a probability, so they are never wrong. What it probably said was something like:

Apple will go broke [80%].

Thus if their prediction does...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 12, 2001 at 11:31 AM, in macOS
I do not recommend creating a separate partition... 781 Views / 28 Replies  
I do not recommend creating a separate partition for swapfiles on Mac OS X to prevent the swap files from eating up your disk space. If OSX cannot create a new swapfile, it will force quit all...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 11, 2001 at 11:28 AM, in macOS
During startup, OS X automatically deletes all of... 781 Views / 28 Replies  
During startup, OS X automatically deletes all of the old swap files in the swap directory before starting up the virtual memory system. If you are worried about the amount of space taken up by swap...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 11, 2001 at 11:11 AM, in macOS
When an open file is deleted on a unix system,... 781 Views / 28 Replies  
When an open file is deleted on a unix system, the programs that have the file open will retain access to that file, even if you cannot access it through the file system. When the file is closed,...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 10, 2001 at 11:42 AM, in macOS
If you use the command newfs_hfs to create your... 1,862 Views / 81 Replies  
If you use the command newfs_hfs to create your hfs+ partition, you can tune some of the file system parameters when you create the partition.

The default block size is 4096. Increasing this...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 4, 2001 at 08:35 PM, in macOS
Ok, I mentioned before that one side of your disk... 1,862 Views / 81 Replies  
Ok, I mentioned before that one side of your disk drive is faster than the other. This means that on a drive with multiple partitions, some of the partitions are inherently faster than others.
...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 4, 2001 at 07:44 PM, in macOS
Ok, I've put a compiled version of the... 1,862 Views / 81 Replies  
Ok, I've put a compiled version of the fragmentation checker on my iDisk. You can download it from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/jeffmoore/

Copy the showfrag file to your /usr/local/bin...
Posted by selkirk, on Dec 4, 2001 at 07:16 PM, in macOS
It does attempt to allocate contiguous space for... 1,862 Views / 81 Replies  
It does attempt to allocate contiguous space for the swapfile. I traced this through in the darwin source code. Its been awhile since I did this, but If I remember correctly, if there is a...
Posted by selkirk, on Nov 30, 2001 at 06:13 PM, in macOS
If you had clicked on the second link, you would... 515 Views / 4 Replies  
If you had clicked on the second link, you would see that Bochs is an open source Intel x86 emulator.

What I am looking for is the combination of the two (3?).
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 23, 2001 at 08:01 AM, in macOS
DirectX Games on the Mac? 515 Views / 4 Replies  
http://winehq.com/

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winex/

It seems like someone should be able to put all this open source unix stuff together to make a...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 23, 2001 at 05:14 AM, in macOS
Here is some real information on this topic: ... 455 Views / 7 Replies  
Here is some real information on this topic:

High Performance Data Transfers (http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html)

and

Cable Modem / DSL Tuning Guide...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 22, 2001 at 05:21 PM, in macOS
Its the tragedy of the commons all over again. 503 Views / 8 Replies  
Its the tragedy of the commons all over again.
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 19, 2001 at 05:57 AM, in Applications
You are correct about needing to be in wheel to... 524 Views / 11 Replies  
You are correct about needing to be in wheel to su root. However, the admin checkbox makes you a member of both wheel and admin.
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 18, 2001 at 06:05 AM, in macOS
Exactly what is faster in 10.1 451 Views / 1 Replies  
Here is a list of some of the exact performance changes in 10.1. This may not be all of them. (From 10.1 Release notes (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2029.html))

A number of Mach...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 18, 2001 at 01:48 AM, in macOS
What exactly did you do to make a "user that has... 524 Views / 11 Replies  
What exactly did you do to make a "user that has a UID and GID that I've changed to make a super user?"

I'm confused.
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 17, 2001 at 11:42 PM, in macOS
You can't su root if the user you currently are... 524 Views / 11 Replies  
You can't su root if the user you currently are isn't marked as an administrator in the users preferences panel.

I don't mark myself as admin, so if I want to su root on the command line, I first...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 17, 2001 at 11:37 PM, in macOS
Its not the disk spinning up. 2,515 Views / 172 Replies  
Its not the disk spinning up.
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 12, 2001 at 02:14 PM, in macOS
Well, like many things, this optimization may... 2,515 Views / 172 Replies  
Well, like many things, this optimization may involve some tradeoffs.

Since I started using the compression, I've noticed that sometimes the finder can take 30-40 seconds to open a new window. ...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 11, 2001 at 11:53 PM, in macOS
5) Windows Media Player works. 6) Real Player... 594 Views / 12 Replies  
5) Windows Media Player works.
6) Real Player works.
7) Baldur's Gate works. (In 10.0.4 There is a small video glitch when swapping CDs)
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 2, 2001 at 01:05 AM, in macOS
5) Windows Media Player works. 6) Real Player... 594 Views / 12 Replies  
5) Windows Media Player works.
6) Real Player works.
7) Baldur's Gate works. (In 10.0.4 There is a small video glitch when swapping CDs)
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 2, 2001 at 01:03 AM, in macOS
The only reasons that I boot into 9 now are for... 1,802 Views / 76 Replies  
The only reasons that I boot into 9 now are for games and scanning. The other 9 apps that I use are annoying but usable under classic. It seems that this is the consensus on this thread along with...
Posted by selkirk, on Oct 1, 2001 at 05:46 AM, in macOS
I am Curious. Which 6 scanners are sold at the... 445 Views / 6 Replies  
I am Curious. Which 6 scanners are sold at the Apple Stores? Can you go in and try scanning a photo there? What software do they use to scan into 10?
Posted by selkirk, on Sep 26, 2001 at 01:08 AM, in macOS
I agree. I have an Epson Perfection 1200S. ... 445 Views / 6 Replies  
I agree.

I have an Epson Perfection 1200S. I like the scanner, but the software that came with it was pretty crappy. It was last updated in 1998. I don't ever expect it to be updated to OS X.
...
Posted by selkirk, on Sep 26, 2001 at 01:02 AM, in macOS
Who knows what this is worth, but next week would... 554 Views / 13 Replies  
Who knows what this is worth, but next week would be fine with me...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/21784.html
Posted by selkirk, on Sep 20, 2001 at 03:49 PM, in macOS
OS X 5H1 ROCKS! Forget 5G48, this one is so good,... 783 Views / 19 Replies  
OS X 5H1 ROCKS! Forget 5G48, this one is so good, I'm using it 24/7! The dock now has Aroma Therapy, and the Finder is full bodied with a hint of banana and clove!!!!

I hear that 5H3 has healing...
Posted by selkirk, on Sep 16, 2001 at 06:22 PM, in macOS
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