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Comment on How to get fsaclctl off your Leopard install DVD by Henry Story

Henry Story — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:00:36 +0000

It’s no longer in Snow Leopard now… Really annoying.

Comment on What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:10:56 +0000

Thank you! Totally worked! Thought I was going to have to reformat my whole drive after uninstalling reFIt and not being able to upgrade to SL.

Comment on Why is there no process viewer in Firefox? by Max E

Max E — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:15:40 +0000

A nice discussion with the point well made by the original poster. I too would very much like to see a Chrome-like tab monitor for Firefox

Comment on How to get fsaclctl off your Leopard install DVD by Evan

Evan — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:56:39 +0000

damn helpful

Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by All My Stupid Man Pages Are Out Of Date « Porkrind Dot Org Missives

All My Stupid Man Pages Are Out Of Date « Porkrind Dot Org Missives — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:09:02 +0000

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Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by David

David — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:57:53 +0000

Two years later I’ve finally figured out why my man page isn’t right!

Comment on Why is there no process viewer in Firefox? by Jeremy Botto

Jeremy Botto — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:36:54 +0000

Well, I am here because I am looking for the same thing. I haven’t found it, but I’ve found something that will let you file down the list of possibilities, a lot.
It’s a typical method for programmers and hardware techs: ‘Turn it off/unplug it. If it works without it, you’ve found your problem.’

“Adblock Plus’ for FireFox won’t give you the detailed readouts we’re fiending for, but it will allow you to switch off SPECIFIC items on page. You can turn off .js files that you think are unnecessary, like urchin.js for google analytics (if you don’t feel the need to be counted), or some stupid image to vote for a site as number 1 at Animegames.com or where ever.

It starts simply. You click “block” on all the repetitive flash ads for Warcraft and other crap. You’ve seen them a hundred times, slowing down your PC, wasting your resources. You’re never going to buy, primarily because they don’t just use a text ad.

Then, you get more advanced. CTRL+Shift+V opens the ‘blockable items’ pane, which you use to start cutting out little blinking animated gif files—How cute!—and image ads for wedding planning services that you don’t want your girlfriend to see (probably still hoping she’ll settle for a second hand dress and lots of glitter).

Finally, you end up admitting that you never had too much of a problem with any of them, in the first place. Right back to where we started: just plain interested in what the heck is going on!

Comment on CentOS (RHEL) 5.4 kernel source by George Murdocca

George Murdocca — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:51:53 +0000

I can’t possibly thank you enough for your work here in making the non-googl-able googl-able. Worked like a charm.

Comment on What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook by Jukka

Jukka — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:31:59 +0000

This worked, thanks!

Comment on What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook by Slick

Slick — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:57:51 +0000

THANKYOU SO MUCH! (:
I found this site through goodgle, and I followed your instructions. IT WORKED! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Comment on What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook by MrYingster

MrYingster — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:02:16 +0000

My stupid install had the exact same issue, except I couldn’t just simply resize the partition. I had to defrag my disk cause I had a file written at the end of the partition, and that kept the partition from being resizable. Lame!

Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by David

David — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:51:13 +0000

Odd. It isn’t in my man page:

$ man chmod | grep -- -N
$

Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:08:41 +0000

the -N flag is in the man page, in the section about manipulating ACLs.

Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by David

David — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:48:18 +0000

Hmm… ‘-N’ isn’t listed in the man page or the chmod usage. How is one supposed to know it’s there?

Comment on Leopard Permissions Going Crazy by Nathan Gray

Nathan Gray — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:22:59 +0000

chmod -N

You’re welcome.

Comment on “Kharma” by anon

anon — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:20:17 +0000

all the dharma Sheila could have made by returning the phone and not expecting anything in return was lost the minute she expected compensation.

Comment on “Kharma” by anon

anon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:20:34 +0000

So your sister spent her kharma getting the phone back, but got her kharma back by giving her brother and all his readers epic lols.

Comment on “Kharma” by Obbop

Obbop — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:43:35 +0000

Sheila needs to be indoctrinated into the Females as Property Movement ™.

Doing so will assist in saving our society and Sheila from her vapid self-centered emotion-laden uncivil self.

Comment on “Kharma” by FunkieChicken

FunkieChicken — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:32:11 +0000

Send the phone back to Sheila and with a note, “Sorry to have bothered you. Here is the phone back, nevermind.”

Comment on Polling is always wrong by Jeff Connelly

Jeff Connelly — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:07 +0000

Agree with your general point, but in some situations polling can work better than only using interrupts — for example, FreeBSD has polling support in some network device drivers. From http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/ :
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“Device polling” (polling for brevity) refers to a technique for handling devices which does not rely on the latter to generate interrupts when they need attention, but rather lets the CPU poll devices to service their needs. This might seem inefficient and counterintuitive, but when done properly, polling gives more control to the operating system on when and how to handle devices, with a number of advantages in terms of system responsivity and performance, as described below.
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Although, technically this is a mix of polling and interrupting, since the clock interrupt is used to control when polling occurs. Nonetheless, polling actually uses less CPU under heavy load, primarily because of less overhead (context switches can be eliminated in most cases).