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got it. it is 'yes >/dev/null' Now... 493 Views / 1 Replies  
got it.

it is 'yes >/dev/null'

Now 100%.
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Feb 24, 2014 at 05:04 PM, in macOS
Terminal command to increase cpu load 493 Views / 1 Replies  
I'm looking for a terminal command to increase the load of my CPU in order to check my battery.
In the past I've used to type the command /dev/null into terminal a couple of times as a process, but...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Feb 24, 2014 at 04:59 PM, in macOS
awcopus, since I still do my daily work on a G4... 45,043 Views / 565 Replies  
awcopus, since I still do my daily work on a G4 Dual 533 MHz Mac, I'm thinking about upgrading as well. Do you think it would make sense to contact Mr.Jobs as well to make him understand the urgency...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Aug 17, 2007 at 02:36 AM, in Mac Desktops
Thats what I meant pendragon. One even doesn't... 800 Views / 10 Replies  
Thats what I meant pendragon. One even doesn't realize that it isn't workin. Try with Mozilla or Firefox....

There are no beards on the right, nor the picture appears after uploading...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 5, 2007 at 08:20 PM, in Applications
This is the reason why I sometimes hate Safari 800 Views / 10 Replies  
Just check this page: (ok - not too important)

http://www.pikipimp.com/

Simply doesn't work in Safari - and I was trying to figure out how the page works...and found myself trying in Mozilla...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 5, 2007 at 05:30 PM, in Applications
Stunning design... 725 Views / 4 Replies  
Just came across this here - stunning design..

http://www.chillblast.com/product.php?productid=17683&cat=222&page=1
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Dec 2, 2006 at 06:09 AM, in Mac Desktops
iLife '06 and iWork '06 availability 10,453 Views / 158 Replies  
Today, I wanted to order iLife '06 and iWork '06 through the Apple store here in Switzerland. Unfortunately the time until Apple will ship them from the store takes as long as 3 weeks (!) I question...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 13, 2006 at 04:19 PM, in Applications
iLife '06 and iWork '06 availability 393 Views / 0 Replies  
Today, I wanted to order iLife '06 and iWork '06 through the Apple store here in Switzerland. Unfortunately shipping for both programs takes as long as 3 weeks (!) here in Europe! Hence I question...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 13, 2006 at 03:55 PM, in Applications
This is what the system profiler shows me: ... 841 Views / 7 Replies  
This is what the system profiler shows me:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109:

Firmware Revision: 1.17
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2000 KB
...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jul 19, 2005 at 01:37 AM, in macOS
Thanks Ludovic. I should maybe add that she is... 1,597 Views / 2 Replies  
Thanks Ludovic.
I should maybe add that she is using a .Mac account with Mail supplied with 10.3.9. I guess mails with 13 attachment shouldn't be any problem, right?
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 21, 2005 at 12:52 PM, in Applications
-Mail error when trying to send- 1,597 Views / 2 Replies  
Hi,

My girlfriends iBook (OS 10.3.9) generates the following mail error, when she tried to send me 13 jpgs in one mail (2.5MB 640x480 for all pictures)

"5.7.1 Message contained too many MIME...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 20, 2005 at 06:54 PM, in Applications
Thanks for all suggestions. Apparantly, my... 1,050 Views / 16 Replies  
Thanks for all suggestions.
Apparantly, my setup was the problem: I have a Zyxel wireless ADSL modem where I connected Airport express via Ethernet, since I don't need Zyxels wireless capability...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 9, 2005 at 01:10 AM, in macOS
Thanks for your comments, especially to mAxximo,... 982 Views / 14 Replies  
Thanks for your comments, especially to mAxximo, TETENAL...;)

Maybe I should write more clear - sorry when I didn't write clear enough:

I was looking for the name "Robert" and I knew that this...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 9, 2005 at 01:01 AM, in macOS
Spotlight really has some bugs... 982 Views / 14 Replies  
Copied a folder with 100 Word *.doc files of our NT server network to my Powerbook G4 10.4.1 desktop (into a folder that had been created just before).
I immediately tried to find a certain content...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 8, 2005 at 05:25 PM, in macOS
thanks for your replies. Unfortunately - the... 1,050 Views / 16 Replies  
thanks for your replies.
Unfortunately - the stream doesn't even start playing for me. time remains at 00:00:00 and nothing else happens - (the blue dots move across the small QT Window from left...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 8, 2005 at 01:01 AM, in macOS
WWDC 2005 stream doesn't play 1,050 Views / 16 Replies  
Is it just me ? I have troubles playing this stream. Firewall is not on and all ports supposed to be open. Quicktime doesn't start with the playback...and tries to negotiate forever...

Any guess??
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 7, 2005 at 05:10 PM, in macOS
is this a bug? I'm looking for a folder called... 2,970 Views / 50 Replies  
is this a bug?
I'm looking for a folder called "Palancar". I entered the search term "car". Spotlight doesn't find it. If I enter "Pal" - the folder is found.
This works for all search terms:...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 26, 2005 at 06:19 PM, in macOS
I just tried to find any invisible items on my... 2,970 Views / 50 Replies  
I just tried to find any invisible items on my drive. Spotlight doesn't find anything at all. I assume this is wrong.
Any other user might try this?
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 26, 2005 at 05:58 PM, in macOS
Oh - I see. Thanks for clarification. :) 2,970 Views / 50 Replies  
Oh - I see. Thanks for clarification. :)
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 26, 2005 at 02:47 AM, in macOS
Well - this doesn't apply for me. Here is my... 2,970 Views / 50 Replies  
Well - this doesn't apply for me. Here is my tiger box. If you don't have any better answer - you better keep quiet.

http://www.johncoffee.com/tigerjpg.jpg
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 26, 2005 at 02:23 AM, in macOS
I think so too. Did a search yesterday on a file... 2,970 Views / 50 Replies  
I think so too. Did a search yesterday on a file name and spotlight found nothing. I was shocked and thought I had deleted all the files with that name by mistake. Luckily found them all sitting in...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 26, 2005 at 01:16 AM, in macOS
Mail attachments shown as question mark 465 Views / 0 Replies  
I recently received personal mails, where the attached jpg's where shown as question marks in the mail only. Slideshow didn't work either, the only way to view these pics was saving them to the disk....
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 20, 2005 at 01:07 AM, in Applications
Right Ben, thats what I would do as well. :) 1,651 Views / 27 Replies  
Right Ben, thats what I would do as well. :)
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 20, 2005 at 12:25 AM, in macOS
bump 602 Views / 2 Replies  
bump
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 17, 2005 at 01:02 PM, in macOS
iDisk mount problem 602 Views / 2 Replies  
My iDisk doesn't mount anymore - no way to access it. This is the error message Terminal gives me:

May 16 18:27:24 John-Coffees-Computer webdavd[625]: (result == 0 ) failed with 1; No such file or...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 16, 2005 at 12:48 PM, in macOS
Mac OS X 10.4 page faults.. 740 Views / 2 Replies  
As I write this, I do have 873,975 page faults since I booted 1 hour ago. Is this a bad or a good thing. Someone can enlighten me?

Thanks
John :confused:
Posted by JohnCoffee, on May 16, 2005 at 06:32 AM, in macOS
How long was your name when it didn't work and to... 991 Views / 11 Replies  
How long was your name when it didn't work and to what length did you shorten it?
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 30, 2005 at 01:53 PM, in macOS
Right - this is the hardware serial number.... 1,398 Views / 8 Replies  
Right - this is the hardware serial number. Checked it with System Profiler.

all clear now.
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 30, 2005 at 01:46 PM, in macOS
Tiger Serial number - what is it good for ? 1,398 Views / 8 Replies  
Just installed Tiger 10.4 last night. Retail price here in Switzerland :189 Swiss Francs for it (=159 US$, get this---!)

After clicking on "About this Mac" - I observed that there was a serial...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 30, 2005 at 01:29 PM, in macOS
Actually I'm a Mac OS X user. Therefore I don't... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
Actually I'm a Mac OS X user. Therefore I don't care too much what Windows XP does in this situation. Because this doesn't help me at all.

I just wanted to point out that Previews antialiasing...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 28, 2005 at 03:23 PM, in macOS
for Superchicken and everyone else to try by... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
for Superchicken and everyone else to try by themselve:

http://www.iuvsta.org/Sput%20Yield%201.pdf

compare this with Preview and Acrobat Reader 7. Especially deselect Antialias for line art....
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 28, 2005 at 12:56 AM, in macOS
Yo /Dino :) Well - I still have some... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
Yo /Dino :)

Well - I still have some concerns that the mentioned pdf will be really displayed fine in Preview with Tiger.
I will post the Link of the pdf's tomorrow for everyone to test.
...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 26, 2005 at 04:56 PM, in macOS
Superchicken....no one is happy. Doing as you... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
Superchicken....no one is happy. Doing as you suggested, as mentioned above already:

Leaving antialiasing unchecked in the preferences yields to this: ...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 26, 2005 at 01:55 AM, in macOS
The picture is at 100% size displayed for both... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
The picture is at 100% size displayed for both program. Leaving antialiasing unchecked in the preferences yields to this:
http://homepage.mac.com/dual533/.Public/Picture%201.png
I didn't use...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 26, 2005 at 12:42 AM, in macOS
Sure I tried that. This turned out. Bummer again... 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
Sure I tried that. This turned out. Bummer again for Preview:

http://homepage.mac.com/dual533/.Public/Picture%201.png

Any other suggestion?

John
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 25, 2005 at 06:02 PM, in macOS
I hate the Mac OS X antialiasing in Quartz again 2,411 Views / 23 Replies  
The first post was empty...so I had to post again...

Today I had another experience about this. I drives me mad. Really. All pictures in iphoto are blurred due to this antialiasing stuff. Also...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 25, 2005 at 05:37 PM, in macOS
Graphicconverter - sure. It lacks of speed... 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
Graphicconverter - sure. It lacks of speed compared to Docview. Way behind.
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 22, 2005 at 01:48 AM, in Applications
Don't want to over stress this...but finally... 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
Don't want to over stress this...but finally found the standalone app on the site:

http://www.acordex.com/productFacts/factPages/docview.html

It's called Docview and beats everything out there....
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 21, 2005 at 05:26 PM, in Applications
I just found this here: ... 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
I just found this here:
http://www.acordex.com/browseProd/VTplugin.html

its unbelievable fast - I'm gonna try it. The only cave at is that it's a browser plugin. but it opens my TIFFS almost...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 21, 2005 at 01:28 PM, in Applications
Tried jView - thanks for the suggestion. I tried... 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
Tried jView - thanks for the suggestion. I tried it - but again with a 10k x 10k Picture - the harddisk accesses data for about 3min. to change size from fit to screen to 200%. To say it again: on a...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:58 PM, in Applications
Nada - Preview isn't faster - with these large... 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
Nada - Preview isn't faster - with these large size TIFF's. Unfortunately.,,,,
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 21, 2005 at 01:19 AM, in Applications
All Mac OS X Tiff viewer worse than Windows viewer.. 1,968 Views / 14 Replies  
I'm looking for a fast TIFF viewer - just to view simple 400dpi TIFF files for OS X.....

When comparing to a application called "Kodak Image viewer" on 98 or XP - all OS X TIFF viewers look...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Apr 20, 2005 at 06:33 PM, in Applications
Re: Pages doesn't show thumbnails in Media window 508 Views / 1 Replies  
apparently I'm the only one with this problem.....:confused:
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 28, 2005 at 02:34 AM, in Applications
Pages doesn't show thumbnails in Media window 508 Views / 1 Replies  
I have a problem with Pages:

my iPhoto library has 10000 pictures and when opening the media window in Pages, I just
can see the tumbnails name - the thumbnails itself however remain blank. ...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 24, 2005 at 02:23 AM, in Applications
Thanks for testing ! 468 Views / 2 Replies  
Thanks for testing !
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 6, 2005 at 04:56 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Again: iBook 14" wake up problem 468 Views / 2 Replies  
My girl friends iBook 14" shows a strange phenomena:

Mac OS X 10.3.7 / 60GB HD

1. I have set the screen saver with a active corner at the bottom left side. The system is set to request the...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jan 4, 2005 at 07:22 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I decided to buy the Image Tank G2 with a 40GB... 622 Views / 5 Replies  
I decided to buy the Image Tank G2 with a 40GB Harddrive in it. Battery life is much longer than on the Belkin reader / iPod and transfer is very fast. Typically about 1-2 minutes for 512MB of Flash....
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Sep 20, 2004 at 01:42 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Thank you Microsoft - my data is lost now 1,546 Views / 23 Replies  
Thanks to Microsoft - I today lost all of my email and attachment of the last 3 years - due to a 2GB file size limitation of the so called *.pst file in Outlook 2001.

Tried to recover it by...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Sep 8, 2004 at 01:56 AM, in Applications
...and how high is your itunes play count??? 1,431 Views / 39 Replies  
dont know if this subject ever has been discussed (didn't fnd it when doin a search).

Just checked the 3 most played songs here in tunes and here is my result:


105 times for "Go Ahead...
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Jun 16, 2004 at 01:26 AM, in Applications
Awesome xi-hyperon :thumbsup: 9,201 Views / 162 Replies  
Awesome xi-hyperon :thumbsup:
Posted by JohnCoffee, on Feb 1, 2004 at 03:54 AM, in Applications
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