Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Disable Mac OS X Paging / Swap
I wondered why a Mac with a full 64Gb RAM was swapping even for simple surfing. I was seeing inexplicable beach-ball appearances. So did this:
Which switches the swap off and deletes the swap files.
My own process monitor confirms the machine runs slightly faster now, and have not seen the beach-ball since.
There is probably a down-side, but have yet to hit it.
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile*
Which switches the swap off and deletes the swap files.
My own process monitor confirms the machine runs slightly faster now, and have not seen the beach-ball since.
There is probably a down-side, but have yet to hit it.
Labels: Lion, Mac OS X, Mac Pro
Monday, August 01, 2011
Itsy bitsy spider: an analysis
Itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
and itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
An Analysis.
The Spider symbolises the proletariat and the ongoing struggle against the bourgeoisie.
The Spout is the myth of equality. The Spider continues to doggedly scale it's heights, only to be denied the fruits of his labours.
The Rain is the bourgeoisie, impeding the progress of the Spider, standing between him and his ultimate goal of true freedom and equality. The Rain also embodies man's inhumanity to man.
The Sun is the easing of difficult working and living conditions. It provides false hope for the Spider, prolonging his struggle.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
and itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
An Analysis.
The Spider symbolises the proletariat and the ongoing struggle against the bourgeoisie.
The Spout is the myth of equality. The Spider continues to doggedly scale it's heights, only to be denied the fruits of his labours.
The Rain is the bourgeoisie, impeding the progress of the Spider, standing between him and his ultimate goal of true freedom and equality. The Rain also embodies man's inhumanity to man.
The Sun is the easing of difficult working and living conditions. It provides false hope for the Spider, prolonging his struggle.
Labels: joke
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Itsy bitsy spider
Itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
and itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
An Analysis.
The Spider symbolises the proletariat and the ongoing struggle against the bourgeoisie.
The Spout is the myth of equality. The Spider continues to doggedly scale it's heights, only to be denied the fruits of his labours.
The Rain is the bourgeoisie, impeding the progress of the Spider, standing between him and his ultimate goal of true freedom and equality. The Rain also embodies man's inhumanity to man.
The Sun is the easing of difficult working and living conditions. It provides false hope for the Spider, prolonging his struggle.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
and itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
An Analysis.
The Spider symbolises the proletariat and the ongoing struggle against the bourgeoisie.
The Spout is the myth of equality. The Spider continues to doggedly scale it's heights, only to be denied the fruits of his labours.
The Rain is the bourgeoisie, impeding the progress of the Spider, standing between him and his ultimate goal of true freedom and equality. The Rain also embodies man's inhumanity to man.
The Sun is the easing of difficult working and living conditions. It provides false hope for the Spider, prolonging his struggle.
Labels: Itsy bitsy spider, joke
Monday, July 25, 2011
Mac Pro Wifi and Bluetooth reception problems?
On your Mac Pro do you have issues with your Wifi reception quality, and Bluetooth connectivity?
Does the Wifi seem very weak, even though the router is just across the room?
Does the Bluetooth need you to be right up close?
Bizarrely it might be that the Airport and Bluetooth modules inside the Mac Pro were connected to the wrong aerial leads at manufacture.
Well, take a look at this page, especially the note following Step Five.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Adding_Bluetooth_and_Wireless_to_a_Mac_Pro
Does the Wifi seem very weak, even though the router is just across the room?
Does the Bluetooth need you to be right up close?
Bizarrely it might be that the Airport and Bluetooth modules inside the Mac Pro were connected to the wrong aerial leads at manufacture.
Well, take a look at this page, especially the note following Step Five.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Adding_Bluetooth_and_Wireless_to_a_Mac_Pro
Labels: Airport, Mac Pro, Wifi
Friday, April 08, 2011
Google calendar gadget not showing events
I cleared my cookies and that fixed the problem.
Labels: computer tips
Friday, March 11, 2011
MacPorts Pallet asks for Tcl
You have to use the directory where macports1.0 was installed by MacPorts.
Try:
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl
Try:
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl
Labels: MacPorts
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Changing the origin of your git repository
What is is with some project managers and similar who want to move repositories about? I've never understood why this is necessary. Anyways the command is something like...
git config remote.origin.url «git@10.0.0.1:gitrepo/code.git»
You can check it by cating the file .git/config, looking for the remote origin section and in there will be the new url.
[remote "origin"]
url = git@10.0.0.1:gitrepo/code.git
git config remote.origin.url «git@10.0.0.1:gitrepo/code.git»
You can check it by cating the file .git/config, looking for the remote origin section and in there will be the new url.
[remote "origin"]
url = git@10.0.0.1:gitrepo/code.git
Labels: git
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