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Since the new Airport Extreme has come out, there have been all sorts of numbers flying about in different speed tests. As you almost certainly know, what Macworld or some random Joe may get in his tests are all but completely irrelevant to most other users simply because of ISP/bandwidth differences at different locales. It’s nice to see what Macworld has to say, but I would like to run my own tests once mine arrives so that I can accurately gauge any speed differences. I know how to go about doing an internet speed test (my favorite test is www.speakeasy.net/speedtest), but that too is right up there near useless when one considers that my download speeds are already maxed out at 10Mb/sec. What I want to do is have an accurate test so that I can gauge the speed increases (if any are to be had) with transfers across my LAN, without having to rely on the very untrusty “stopwatch” method. Is there a quick Applescript (or some other such code wizardry) that can be whipped up which will record transfer rates across my LAN? I have a DP 1.25 MDD PowermacG4, fresh install of tiger and fully updated. It WILL boot into safe mode every time. It WONT boot any other way, period, it gets through the white screen with the dark grey apple logo and the spinning thing under and then it goes straight to a solid blue screen and hangs. I have tried all the Open Firmware reset-all, PMU reset, all the resets I could find but to no avail. Also have run the hardware test and it comes up clean. The only thing I can think of that it might be would be I just upgraded to firmware version 4.4.8f2. Sometimes, when using the erase free space function of Disk Utility, the process will be interrupted by a crash, hang, power outage, or small mammal urinating on the power supply. Should this happen, you’ll find that your disk has suddenly lost the majority of its free space and nothing you do in the GUI will show you where it is. No amount of checking the disk will bring it back, because it’s not a catalog problem. Disk Utility accomplishes the erase feature by creating large sparse image files in a preset directory. It then deletes them with the Alright, I know this is a low level request, but in the Finder’s contextual menu, when you ctrl+click (read: right click) on something, there is an “Open with …” menu item. Sometimes, for a reason I don’t completely understand, this becomes full of the same program several times. How can I manually edit this list to make sure “Camino” doesn’t appear 4 times? Thanks in adv.
I recorded a tv show on a DVD recorder at my hi-fi system. It is beautiful there. It plays well there. I took the CD to my Mac. It shows up as a read only folder called Sonata_volume, and there is nothing in the folder. Getting info on it shows that it is formatted UDF, with 4.3 GB used. sony rdr-vx500 is the recorder. I finalized the disc. It plays just fine in my sony recorders and players. But not on the Mac. I tried to see it with toast, but that did not work either. It just shows up as a locked folder named Sonata_volume VLC sees the same SONATA_VOLUME, but again there is nothing in it, and it does not play. I tried handbrake. One time it was able to see the video, and I tried to downlaod a small part it of it just to see if it worked. It did, but when I tried it the next time, it did not see the video. How can I get this to play on my computer? For a variety of reasons, the Boot Camp Assistant sometimes fails to let you do the things you want to do. It doesn’t work, for instance, if your drive is already partitioned. Many early adopters partitioned their drives before Boot Camp, hoping for an eventual dual boot solution either from Apple or elsewhere. In my case, I used Boot Camp to repartition my hard drive, then used that partition to install another copy of OS X for a test. Unfortunately, Boot Camp Assistant refused to reclaim that partition when I was done. That’s 20GB down the drain! GPT Mangling for DummiesApple includes a utility called On my OS X.4.7 Server the mail destined for the postmaster has suddenly started to disappear. The log shows: Sep 25 14:32:12 postfix/local13838: 53E04AD1E8: to= The mail is getting through my Barracuda without any problem and this is only affecting the postmaster account. I have deleted and re-created the account and it has not solved the problem. Why is the mail being redirected to root and then to file: /dev/null ? Our company has a ‘clever’ DNS setup. Outside the firewall anything.ourdomain.com resolves to www.ourdomain.com inside the firewall wiki.ourdomain.com resolves to a Confluence running on a server inside the firewall. The windows machines handle this fine. My MacBook Pro running Tiger gets confused. When I move from outside the firewall to inside the firewall (either by moving physically or connecting to the VPN) it still picks up the old DNS record. I guess OS X is caching the DNS server entries between DHCP session. Any way to flush this cache or change the behaviour? Rog Sometimes my computer grinds to a halt like it’s processing something, but my CPU meters show almost no activity. What else could it be? Having trouble with various mp3 players and files copied from mac osx 10.3, |
