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This refers to the degree to which running... 1,023 Views / 3 Replies  
This refers to the degree to which running processes will yield CPU cycles when necessary. If your system is under heavy load and you see a lot of blue (% Nice) in Activity Monitor, that's generally...
Posted by pinlo, on Jul 21, 2006 at 08:28 PM, in Applications
Yes, quite true. Others should realize this as... 1,807 Views / 15 Replies  
Yes, quite true. Others should realize this as well. Shareware authors don't release software to become rich, but it takes a lot of time and energy, and if people aren't registering, then the...
Posted by pinlo, on Apr 3, 2004 at 01:46 PM, in Applications
"Which book?", asked the author of one of these.... 819 Views / 9 Replies  
"Which book?", asked the author of one of these. :)
Posted by pinlo, on Nov 19, 2003 at 02:43 AM, in macOS
Re: How to clone drive, but omit iTunes library? 729 Views / 8 Replies  
The way to handle this with D�j� Vu is to move your iTunes library to another partition (if possible) and place an alias to it in your Music folder. This works because psync doesn't follow aliases.
...
Posted by pinlo, on Nov 3, 2003 at 06:47 PM, in Applications
Re: Need mac image viewer to fit my requirements 1,287 Views / 14 Replies  
You might give this a try:

http://outlaw.sourceforge.net/

(I don't think it works with the scroll wheel, though.)
Posted by pinlo, on Oct 22, 2003 at 12:34 PM, in Applications
Re: easy backup solution?? 584 Views / 2 Replies  
Give D�j� Vu a try:

http://propagandaprod.com/
Posted by pinlo, on Oct 6, 2003 at 12:30 PM, in Applications
Re: Backup Software / FireWire Drive combo 672 Views / 5 Replies  
Give D�j� Vu a try:

http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 22, 2003 at 12:15 PM, in Applications
By that logic, you should be running Linux rather... 960 Views / 13 Replies  
By that logic, you should be running Linux rather than OS X. "It does it just as good" isn't good enough for most Mac users. ;)
Posted by pinlo, on Jun 29, 2003 at 10:34 AM, in macOS
Re: Scripting help 564 Views / 4 Replies  
do script with command "telnet 127.0.0.1"
Posted by pinlo, on Jun 28, 2003 at 04:32 PM, in macOS
Re: backup program 960 Views / 13 Replies  
You should give D�j� Vu (http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html) a try. It's almost free.
Posted by pinlo, on Jun 28, 2003 at 10:23 AM, in macOS
Poll: What type of problem were you having? Email me if... 627 Views / 6 Replies  
What type of problem were you having? Email me if you'd like.

[email protected]
Posted by pinlo, on Jan 29, 2003 at 12:39 AM, in Applications
Re: OSX Version of CopyAgent? 628 Views / 3 Replies  
If you haven't already, you should give Deja Vu a try:

http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html
Posted by pinlo, on Jan 22, 2003 at 04:19 PM, in Applications
Re: A question re: Simon's reply 2,130 Views / 24 Replies  
Yes, the 'periodic' command was first included with 10.2. It's also the mechanism used by Deja Vu (http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html) for running backup scripts.
Posted by pinlo, on Jan 4, 2003 at 02:14 PM, in macOS
Re: Retrospect + 10.2.3 = Crash! 495 Views / 2 Replies  
You might want to give Deja Vu a try:

http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html
Posted by pinlo, on Dec 30, 2002 at 12:13 AM, in Applications
[ANN] D�j� Vu 2.0 588 Views / 2 Replies  
Anyone who's looking for a decent backup solution might want to check out D�j� Vu 2.0, which was just released today:

http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html
Posted by pinlo, on Dec 2, 2002 at 08:21 PM, in Applications
Re: Paswword required to CLOSE System Prefs... ? 658 Views / 2 Replies  
Deja Vu modifies your system crontab when you quit System Preferences. When you enter the Admin password to unlock the DV pane, that authentication session will expire after 5 minutes. So if you have...
Posted by pinlo, on Oct 8, 2002 at 04:05 AM, in macOS
Re: How do you backup? 1,122 Views / 21 Replies  
You might try D�j� Vu:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/16206

It's great for easy, unattended backups. (It's also quite capable of making a bootable copy of your system.) I use it...
Posted by pinlo, on Oct 1, 2002 at 02:52 PM, in macOS
You can grab the latest version here: ... 716 Views / 5 Replies  
You can grab the latest version here:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16206

-pinlo (the author)
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 25, 2002 at 06:46 PM, in Applications
Yes, it does make a difference (in that it... 664 Views / 5 Replies  
Yes, it does make a difference (in that it probably won't work). Sorry, I should think before I type. :(
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 17, 2002 at 11:01 PM, in Applications
You might also give Deja Vu a try: ... 664 Views / 5 Replies  
You might also give Deja Vu a try:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16206

It supports both ditto and psync.
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 17, 2002 at 10:25 PM, in Applications
Well, it should at least be able to do what it... 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
Well, it should at least be able to do what it claims (i.e., "backup your entire system"), right? ;)

Thanks. New version posted on VersionTracker.
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 13, 2002 at 05:10 PM, in Applications
I'm looking into it. I see the problem, but I'm... 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
I'm looking into it. I see the problem, but I'm not sure of the solution yet.


Thank you, that's great! :)
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 12, 2002 at 11:37 PM, in Applications
Yes, it uses a few Cocoa calls which are new in... 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
Yes, it uses a few Cocoa calls which are new in 10.2, and more significantly, it generates scripts which are run by Ruby (a nifty scripting language newly available in 10.2).

But hey, I don't...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 12, 2002 at 10:07 PM, in Applications
Thanks for the kind words, karmaworld. :) ... 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
Thanks for the kind words, karmaworld. :)

Anyone who thinks D�j� Vu is worth something should contribute whatever they feel is a fair amount to their favorite charity. It's up to you.

I will add...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 12, 2002 at 09:58 PM, in Applications
I will consider it. 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
I will consider it.
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 12, 2002 at 09:12 PM, in Applications
I just finished D�j� Vu 1.0. It's a preference pane... 1,093 Views / 10 Replies  
I just finished D�j� Vu 1.0. It's a preference pane which allows you to schedule backups of important folders, or even your entire system. It should allow you to backup to any storage device which is...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 12, 2002 at 04:27 PM, in Applications
OK, brachiator and anyone else who may have... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
OK, brachiator and anyone else who may have downloaded D�j� Vu, please go download the new version which should now properly handle paths with spaces in them.
...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 09:31 PM, in macOS
OK, here's the scoop: I'm an idiot. As careful as... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
OK, here's the scoop: I'm an idiot. As careful as I thought I was about dealing with spaces within paths, apparently I wasn't careful enough...

I won't release DV until this is fixed, but in the...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 08:09 PM, in macOS
Pretty close. If you look at your system crontab... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
Pretty close. If you look at your system crontab (/etc/crontab), you'll see it has three entries that run:

periodic daily
periodic weekly
periodic monthly

So more accurately, I believe...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 06:55 PM, in macOS
I pretty much agree with you. That's part of the... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
I pretty much agree with you. That's part of the reason I wrote D�j� Vu. (The other part is that I booted into OS 9 one day and it crashed at the desktop, so I was forced to do a hard reboot. After...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 03:23 PM, in macOS
No, it's even cooler than that. :) It doesn't... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
No, it's even cooler than that. :) It doesn't touch any crontab file. The key to how D�j� Vu works is the 'periodic' command (see 'man periodic'), which is the new command that the system crontab uses...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 02:17 AM, in macOS
I'll look into this for a future release. Right... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
I'll look into this for a future release. Right now, it's just a matter of screen real estate. In the meantime, you can sometimes work around the limitation by choosing the parent folder (i.e.,...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 11, 2002 at 12:50 AM, in macOS
I just finished writing a preference pane called... 1,386 Views / 33 Replies  
I just finished writing a preference pane called D�j� Vu which allows you to schedule automated backups. I plan on releasing it very soon, hopefully before Friday. I'm not sure it will do everything...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 10, 2002 at 07:44 PM, in macOS
Thanks, Mactoid. I ended up just parsing... 1,002 Views / 2 Replies  
Thanks, Mactoid.

I ended up just parsing 'df' output.

I'm also playing around with Ruby a bit, and I really like it so far. (Not that it's related to anything in this thread.)
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 8, 2002 at 04:29 AM, in macOS
Python question 1,002 Views / 2 Replies  
Well, it didn't take me long to hit a wall with Python. I'm trying to get available disk space:

Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09)
[GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin
Type "help",...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 7, 2002 at 04:30 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Re: Is your 'daily.out' getting huge? 3,669 Views / 6 Replies  
Thanks for chiming in, Gary! Better late than never, as they say.

This clears things up a bit for me, and makes me feel (slightly) less crazy. I will consider your solution, but it's less urgent...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 7, 2002 at 03:37 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: Is your 'daily.out' getting huge? 3,669 Views / 6 Replies  
This is the part I'm not seeing happen on my machine. So, everyone else reading this who looks at /var/log/daily.out only sees the output from the last run? Mine is being appended, not replaced.

...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 6, 2002 at 03:09 PM, in macOS
It seems a bit faster for me too. Could just be... 701 Views / 4 Replies  
It seems a bit faster for me too. Could just be my imagination, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for making Simple Aqua. I'm not normally into themes, but this one is exactly what I was looking for, and...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 6, 2002 at 12:16 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: Is your 'daily.out' getting huge? 3,669 Views / 6 Replies  
Hmm... Does it really matter what these files are filling up with? Will this really prevent them from being deleted? The point is that I haven't touched anything related to cron or periodic and my...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 5, 2002 at 02:25 PM, in macOS
Is your 'daily.out' getting huge? 3,669 Views / 6 Replies  
I'm looking at the files in /var/log, and it seems that the cron output jobs (daily.out, weekly.out, and monthly.out) never get deleted or rotated along with the other logs, but instead grow...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 5, 2002 at 02:28 AM, in macOS
Re: 10.2: /var/vm/app_profile? 1,122 Views / 3 Replies  
From the recently released 10.2 Technote:

# In order to reduce application launch times, the kernel now maintains information about the working set of an application between launches (in...
Posted by pinlo, on Sep 1, 2002 at 02:06 AM, in macOS
Thanks for this tip. Works great! :) Not... 697 Views / 6 Replies  
Thanks for this tip. Works great! :)


Not so for me:

- I open a compose or view window
- I close it
- I open another compose or view window
- It has shifted down and to the right
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 30, 2002 at 03:46 PM, in macOS
Right, I suspected as much. %B and %b it is... 577 Views / 4 Replies  
Right, I suspected as much.

%B and %b it is then!
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 30, 2002 at 03:10 PM, in macOS
Just discovered SimpleAqua. Installed it and... 1,534 Views / 40 Replies  
Just discovered SimpleAqua. Installed it and loving every minute of it. :)
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 30, 2002 at 03:31 AM, in macOS
Hmm... I think TinkerTool has an option something... 543 Views / 5 Replies  
Hmm... I think TinkerTool has an option something like "Don't show files on the desktop", but that doesn't sound quite like the problem you're having.

Anyone else have any ideas?
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 09:10 PM, in macOS
Not quite. My mistake. Try again: cd... 543 Views / 5 Replies  
Not quite. My mistake. Try again:

cd ~/Desktop
rm -rf .*

Make sure you are in the Desktop directory and move your other files somewhere else first.

(Still no guarantees it will help though.)
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 08:46 PM, in macOS
Re: My wierd finder problem ... 543 Views / 5 Replies  
If you can, move any files/folders you may have on your desktop somewhere else temporarily. Then open the Terminal and type (at your own risk):

cd Desktop
rm .*

(Hit return after each line)
...
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 08:26 PM, in macOS
Feedback sent. ... 697 Views / 6 Replies  
Feedback sent.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 08:15 PM, in macOS
Window positions are not being saved(!) 697 Views / 6 Replies  
Why aren't my window positions being saved consistently? I'm not even talking just about Finder windows here. I want my Terminal window to always open in the same location. It refuses to cooperate....
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 06:30 PM, in macOS
Where can I get the color of the cursor? 577 Views / 4 Replies  
In the Terminal, I have my cursor set to a certain color. I would like to use that same color for the hostname within my prompt. Is there an escape sequence or something to get that color?

Any...
Posted by pinlo, on Aug 29, 2002 at 02:02 PM, in macOS
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